Talk:Get The Dino You Want/@comment-5051663-20120914114939

When planning fusions, consider more than *one* dino you want. Sometimes it can work better to consider a second choice. Also, take into account any spare "fusion fodder" you have available. Example: I want a Giant Turtle. I also could use a Homalocephale. (Tier 2, Forest and Desert, respectively). Later on, I don't have Forest and Desert Tier 3 dinos, either. I have a few common dinos to work with, nothing higher.

For Forest and Desert dinos, there are no 100% recipes, it's at best a 50-50 shot. You need a dino of the same biome and a lesser tier, and that goes back to the previous tier also. To get a Tier 1 Desert dino by fusion from "scratch", you need on average 2 Ankylosauruses. For a Tier 2 Desert dino, you need on average 4 Ankylosauruses. For a Tier 3 Desert dino, you need on average 8 Ankylosauruses. What you'd like to do is arrange a "heads, you win, tails, you still win" situation.

Here, keep fusing Ankylosaurus (Tier 0, Desert) + Stegosaurus (Tier 0, Forest) until you get both a Dimetrodon (Tier 1, Desert) and Brontosaurus (Tier 1, Forest). That might take only 2 fusions, possibly more. Now fuse those two together. It's 50% you get the Giant Turtle and 50% you get the Homalocephale. Either way, you get a dino you want. Any extra Dimes or Brontos might be used to get the other dino you want.