Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-11654911-20150117170105/@comment-24942747-20150307062833

EthanPlays wrote: Hey, I just wanted to show my islands

Do you just light up torches like crazy whenever a rare is available? No offense, friend, but I just find it perplexing that someone who's played this for three years can have only 14 diamonds, while I, a player of almost three months, can have 189 at the moment. It's not like I'm hoarding them either. Plant, ice, air, and water castles are at paradise level, and earth and Shugabush castles are at extravagant level. All breeders and nurseries on said islands are upgraded too. Could have ethereal island's breeder and nursery upgraded too I guess, but I'm one of those "use only as needed" types. Would be pointless to do so since the only monster on my ethereal island is a lone ghazt. Could transfer my one grumpyre, but I'm putting that off until I can breed a couple more of them.

I'm getting off point though. Just what do you use all your diamonds on?

Also, given my experience with the rares over the last month I think lighting torches to improve your odds of getting one is pointless. For the rare shrub and rare oaktopus I immediately got two in a row on water island, but only managed to get one of each on plant island with all ten torches lit. Speaking of, got rare reeling on water island...again, first try, no torches.

I'm beginning to suspect that A) torches don't affect for odds of getting a rare monster, only the odds of the breeding successfully combining elements and producing ethereal/seasonal/legendary monsters, and B) there's a glitch on the breeding odds for rares on water island that I hope they never fix.

...I really wish BBB would just outright tell us how much those torches affect breeding odds already.