darkSpyro

Why do dark houses and dragon houses cost so much more than other houses? Higher payout? Is it worth it?

They have (I think) the same payout table as a Giant, Alter Ego or Swap Force house - they can produce up to 6 gems at a time - but they collect every two hours. So if you're checking in regularly they are the fastest gem producers in the game.

That said I would never consider buying one at full price, they are regularly on sale for half price and even 66% off.

Thanks, and yeah I wasn't thinking of buying one day. I've just been wondering for awhile.

They have lower payouts than the Giant, Alter Ego and Legendary houses. They are on par with the Swap Force houses. They also kick out only very few gems if at all. I'm not a fan...

I think you're confused, midas. Dark and Dragon houses payout more than the other houses. I typically get 3-8 gems where the other houses or more like 2-5. Getting to collect more often helps, and it may be a fluke, but I seem to get gems more often, though that could be me collecting them more often. Now, granted, you may have to balance that out with the extra cost and it may not be worth it depending on how often you play and such. But when you can get them half off, I don't think they're a bad deal at all. I've been picking up a couple of dragon lairs every time they go on sale since I have so many dragons (many of which aren't being used elsewhere).

I think Midas is talking about its lack of use if you are only visiting your islands once or twice a day.

You score if you click every two hours only

Thanks DF. That probably is right. I broke my Dragon House out of storage and am going to run it for a while and see what I think. Maybe they fixed the payouts since I first bought it.

When I was playing multiple times a day and collecting from my Dark and Dragon houses every 2 hours, I absolutely loved them. Chance of getting gems each time seems to me the same as chance of getting gems from other houses, but since you can collect so many more times, the chance per day goes up to almost a guarantee of gems at least once. I usually get 3-6 gems from them - I've only seen 8 from Hot Head's house.

Now that I'm playing 2 or 3 times in a day, they're just like any other house, but at this point they don't owe me anything. No regrets here ever from maxing out on both Dark and Dragon houses.

Who can go in Dragon houses? Spyro and all his variants, Cynder and who else?

A whole bunch: Whirlwind, Bash, Flashwing, Blades, Camo, Sunburn, Fire Kraken, Zap, Drobot, and their variants. I may have missed some.

I don't think you did miss anyone. Funny bone went in the first couple of days after they intro'd him, but now he's not able to.

But I have an interesting interesting nugget: Fright Rider can go in bird houses

Fright Rider goes into Bird Houses because he's riding an ostrich.

Well if we must be technical on that point . Fright the Skeleton Ostrich Skylander is allowed into the Bird House.

Rider the Elf blurs the rules because both He and Fright are only strong enough together to pass off as one Skylander. POWER OF TEAMWORK YAY !!!


<gold star please >

Fright Rider's skeleton ostrich is named Ozzy, Dark fhoenix :U

I understand it, it is the very notion of the teamwork (i.e. one assumes Rider is the main skylander) that makes me just like it!

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Fright Rider's skeleton ostrich is named Ozzy, Dark fhoenix :U

Not so, my friend. It may be true for the console games...but if you read his little Lost Islands Portal story: "...and his magnificent ostrich Fright..."

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Quote: Bifrost

Fright Rider's skeleton ostrich is named Ozzy, Dark fhoenix :U

Not so, my friend. It may be true for the console games...but if you read his little Lost Islands Portal story: "...and his magnificent ostrich Fright..."

Canon is canon, in Giants Rider mentions that Ozzy might not like their new nickname. In most recent books he also has that name, though some of the older ones still use Fright. Go look it up in the wiki if you doubt me.

Not to mention some LI lore is outright wrong,altered, or in some parts mistyped(Yeah,Cynder, your quest is to defeat Malfor's minions - and it's mentioned three times like that). I wouldn't take this game for canon over any console one.