I have played this game for several years, 4 or 5 years as of now. I remember the years of people committing suicide over this game, all the role play, constant posts
(1 post every minute or two or 30 seconds), and perverts, and cussing all over the place. Even after all these years the game hasn’t changed much🤷🏽♀️
When you start the game it runs you through the basic dog care procedures- give your dog food, water, and wash it. Where to buy clothing and catch small critters at the park. Run around the neighborhood even though there’s no point because there’s only Mastiffs in gentlemen suits out there and abandoned houses, etc.
That’s all well and good, but there’s SO MUCH content that the game doesn’t run you through. There’s no Q&A page either so you’re left figuring it out yourself or asking the public. Most young children playing this will not understand how to do everything in this app. Even if you’re above 12 you won’t know how everything works. There’s not much of a public presence so you may not even get a response to your questions. There ARE ways to find out info like marrying dogs. If you tap the Mate tab in your dog’s info it will tell you how to get your dog married (in broken English). But nobody does that🤦🏽♀️ Even I figured that out when I first started.
There’s a star and generation system for dogs too that no child will figure out. You can raise your dog’s star level with the random cards you get from the check-in board. Raising a dog’s generation is super expensive so it’s best to wait til your lvl 39+ because you’ll be able to buy super expensive furniture to easier afford the 11K you’ll spend on puppies + raising the generation.
I remember after each update you’d get 10 diamonds (For patience I guess). After a while we didn’t get diamonds anymore. I remember once that dogs had black bocks on their body and Tattoos made it look worse. I thought it was kind of funny.
Before all the reviews got cleaned out (suspicious🤔) there were lots of people asking for new breeds and color options. We eventually got SOME of those breeds, but still no Australian Shepherd, (Cardigan) Welsh Corgi, Xoloitzcuintly (Mexican hairless dog), Grayhound, a REAL fox (since it’s a canine), Lhasa Apso, German Pointer, Brittany, Basset Hound, I could go on and on. We DID however get the color variety but not the way we wanted it. It’s not part of adopting a new dog where you can pick a color/pattern with the gender like in other games. You only pick the gender and get what you see. The other colors are VIP/Clan exclusive breeds. You can pay any amount of money to be VIP (but $5 gives you an extra 150). If you’re a member you’ll get a chest every once in a while that has a 7% chance of getting a dog or a medal. If you get 5 of each medal then you’ll get a chest with a random VIP dog in it. Clan dogs you get from feeding the dog god but I’ve never gotten a clan dog this way yet. I know a few people that have though. Since people have difference connections it’s not impossible to get these dogs. Just ask nicely (maybe in Chinese) and be able to afford it. Many players have left the game though so you’ll see the same few on public chat. Them including me are your best bet in getting these dogs.
Fighting dogs is a 50/50 situation. You fight dogs in the order they were brought into the game or by using the collect list as a reference. So all the common breeds are out of order. There are rare dogs in the mixed order where they shouldn’t be and the white Mastiff will halt ALL your progress. They are very hard to find, but even when you find one it’s in a house with gen50 Mastiffs so why even bother? You can pay a crap ton of gems to skip it though.
Last thing to discuss I THINK is the servers. When you get to the title screen there’s a little “Global” sign in the upper left. It lets you change from the World server to the China server. My first problem- Who actually KNEW you could tap it? I certainly didn’t until 1-2 years ago. Many Chinese players are on the Global server probably because they didn’t know they could change it or they didn’t care. The worse part is that changing servers doesn’t keep your account information and you have to start over. Chinese players are ALWAYS on the active list. Visit them and maybe they’ll give you an apple (1% of the time) or they’ll visit you and steal your purse. There are a few players known infamously just your stealing, but luckily aren’t smart enough to know how to find you unless you play at the same time. Chinese players can’t see English posts and we can’t see Chinese posts because of language settings, which I am happy for. But if it’s ever possible for China to be separated from the US with no account problems I pray that it can done. Even though they have all the clan dogs we want😑
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