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Hi, newbie here, and I really mean newbie. Last night I got myself my first egg as I was just too curious about this whole egg thingy and I had seen loads of lovely dragons on personal LJs, so I thought I'd give it a try.

trystan830 pointed me into the direction of this comm (thank you *huggles*) and well... here I am :)

I'd be very thankful for any hints or advice on how to make my egg happy. ~~As I've read in the profile of this comm that a cut might be useful for eggs on their first day, I've put mine behind the cut.~~ Got a very helpful hint by

sazandra, thank you :))

for views only today (no clicks), thx :)

Current Mood: curious

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From:

sazandra.livejournal.com

My 'technique' is on an egg's first day is only to post the image (to gain some views and unique views to give is a good start) - the part of the html that starts (ignoring the extra spaces here to stop it working) < i m g and ends with the piece about the border-width being zero then adding a > after 0" and try to remember to add a note like for views only today (no clicks) otherwise some people think something is wrong with the html - well it is on purpose! The only time one of my eggs got soft shell was before I'd taken up doing this, since then (touch wood) no soft shell and if I'm worried an egg is getting too much attention it gets hidden.

From:

uliamos.livejournal.com

Thank you so much. I've changed my entry now so that the egg is only viewable.
Erm... I've read through some FAQs on the Dragon Cave but I couldn't find out the difference between clicks and views, can you enlighten me here?

From:

ahavah

Welcome to the group! Clicks are when people actually click the egg or dragon to go to its page. Views are where they're posted here (or another site) to look at. Every time the page loads, you get another view. Unique count once for each person. So I'll come here and refresh the page several times per day to up the views (clicking really doesn't affect them, to be honest), but my unique view only counts once from this computer.

I hope that makes sense!

From:

uliamos.livejournal.com

Thank you :)))

Yes, it does make sense and I thought this might be the difference, but what exactly are the views and clicks for? I mean, if dragons can hatch without a single click... it's gotta have some purpose, right? And why are too many views not good for an egg? Sorry if that is explained somewhere in the forum's FAQs, but I haven't found it :(

From:

ahavah

Well, it seems to me (and these are just my opinions), but it seemed like my eggs would hatch faster when I got more clicks before the *first* server switch. After that, it seemed to take a week no matter what. Now we've switched hosts, so I don't know if any of that matters. Still, someone did a 'no click' experiment where they posted for views without allowing any clicks at all, and their eggs still hatched. So clicks don't seem to be necessary.

Too many views (maybe clicks too, who knows?) will give an egg softshell or make a hatchling sick. All you have to do is fog them for a while to hide them from view.

From:

uliamos.livejournal.com

Thank you so much for your help. It really helps a lot :) So would it be a good decision to repost my egg in this comm, and this time clicks are allowed?

From:

ahavah

My pleasure! I personally post them as soon as I get them. (We can only do one post a day, but I'll edit my post with the codes right away). I don't post all over, though. Only here,

dragonspam3 (which is still REALLY slow), and sometimes on my journal if I'm trying to hurry things up. I've only gotten softshell a couple of times, and people have pointed it out to me right away if I missed it. I'm not overly concerned about it, but then I'm a stay at home mom who can peek in on them all day, too. :)

From:

uliamos.livejournal.com

During my studies I used to be at home quite a lot, but I've started work last Wednesday, so it probably wasn't exactly the best timing to now start hatching eggs *lol* but I like it... coming home and checking whether my little eggy is still fine :)

Well, I've posted my egg here two days ago, so I think I'm gonna repost it now, especially as my flist isn't that big and I would like to increase the clicks and views now.

Is that you with your kiddo in your icon? :)