Everything should be right and consistent now. If you find anything that I may have overlooked or that you feel should be included, please let me know (either here or better: PM me at the DC forums under the same username as here). :-)

The new program I wrote is really helpful with updates, so I'm confident that I'll manage to include new breeds within 2 weeks of TJ's adults growing up. (I'm not doing it right away on purpose because there are often slight changes in spelling, sprites or biomes within the first days. Also, I can't say anything about breeding behaviour before there are adults around which have actually bred. :) )
If someone needs the info quicker, there's always the wiki. :-)

Tell me what you think about all this!

That means that more than half of the breeds need to be updated. So since I'm doing that anyway, I have decided to give the breed-guide a little makeover. Notes will now no longer be plain text, but bulletpoint-like, which will hopefully make it easier to find the information one is looking for. And while I'm at it, I'm also including information about the biomes the dragons can be found in, and a link to the respective page at the DC wiki.

I don't really see this guide as competition to the wiki. They have far more information, and are updated much faster and by more people. But I still see value in this page, because (if it's updated) it has all the vital information on one page, which can be really helpful, e.g. when cavehunting.
To me, this page works best as complementing the wiki, not competing with it, which is why I'm adding the links.

(This is still a work in progress, I'll complete it as I find the time.)

If anyone is still reading here: tell me what you think about the changes! All thoughts and opinions are greatly appreciated! :-)

Unfortunately many of the graphics that are not on my photobucket account but on alya's are gone now, so I'll need to update these, which will take a bit.

Up to this point, older versions of sprites have always been included where possible. (See "Waters", "Blacks", "Mints" etc.) With these masses of sprite changes, though, that would make things really really crowded!
Now, what to do?

I personally feel that having a well-structured arrangement of the current sprites is more important than the history aspect, so I deleted any older sprites from the guide.

However, I have saved the old sprites to my computer before replacing them. I'm not aware of any other DC site that features them, so I kinda feel like we shouldn't let them disappear completely.
Right now I can think of two things:

(a) putting them in a folder of the Photobucket account I use to store all newer sprites, and putting a link somewhere on the Breed Guide, saying "For older sprite versions, please look HERE".

(b) for all breeds that had sprite changes, put a line with "old sprites: …" below the table where their current sprites are arranged.

What do you guys think? Opinions? Other suggestions?

(This also means, the Breed Guide is for now Up to Date. Yay!)

I plan to update all the sprites to their current form, too, but it will take a bit of time. (Practically all egg sprites are outdated, and all the new gender dimorphism needs to be added, too. The latter of which is actually a lot more work. But I'll get to it eventually.)

What I didn't do is come up with colour codes for the new species. I have never used them so am not sure whether they're actually needed. If anyone wants them and would like to make a suggestion, please do. (Remember, max. 2 colours per species, to stay in keeping with the already established codes. Also, 3 colours means more formatting work. ;-) )

My main focus, though, is the breed guide, because I think it's awesome and needed, and there is no other DC breed-guide that holds so much information so well-structured. So I really want to keep it alive and running. :-)

Bright Breasted Wyvern (659634, fe6a50, 2fd7b5)
Hellfire Female (63423d, 4d457a, bcefe4)
((Apparently I didn't make one for the male hellfire. which is odd considering I have a pair O.o))
Sunsong (fdfb44, d58c4b, ae29cc, 8800e0)
Nebula Female (3c3c3c, 0e3c7a, 328997, cbedf1)
Nebula Male (404040, 0b107d, 8007cf, da48da, ffb6ff)
SweetLing (f4dfe3, df3754)

If anyone is having trouble loading some of the images in the breed guide let me know. I was using another server to host the images, but it may no longer be working, so if anyone else is having issues I'd appreciate knowing so I can upload the images to photobucket when I get a chance.

I hope this helps everyone.

Happy Breeding!

Bluna
Canopy
Electric
Nocturne

Ice
Magma
Thunder

What do you think of it?

It is Gold (FFD700) and DarkBlue (00008B).

I also tryed:
Ice Dragons (0000FF Blue and 00BFFF DeepSkyBlue)
Magma Dragons (2F4F4F DarkSlateGray, FF4500 OrangeRed and FFD700 Gold)

You want to seek out another shade or color that can be readily seen.