Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5131007-20140217183953/@comment-24145588-20140219151652

Interesting. Okay, a fifth Ethereal element, so it'll probably be a single-element bred on earth (hopefully Quarrister and Clamble, since that's all I have there right now).

Which brings up some questions.

Are they going to put all five Ethereal elements on the one Ethereal Island? That would mean a lot of varieties of monster on the one island, and probably (as others have pointed out) require more beds in the castle.

Or will there now be whole chain of Ethereal Islands, one themed for a different element, each excluding one element, as there are for the naturals? And if so, here's the kicker: Would all single-element Ethereal monsters still need to be chance-bred on the natural islands? That could be very trying.

Tangential: On the question of beds on the Ethereal Island, has anyone else wondered why it isn't a straight five-to-one ratio compared to the Natural Islands? Ethereal monsters require five times as many beds as their Natural counterparts, and the Basic Castle has five times as many beds on Ethereal as it does on the Natural Islands. But by the time you fully upgrade to the Extravagant Castle, you only have 265 beds, instead of the 300 that you should have. Maybe that'll be corrected now.