Tips for Playing Birdland Paradise

I am going to post the information about Birdland Paradise here as it is another Frismos breeding game that features birds instead of sea creatures.  Shadowfish and I have a new Club in Birdland Paradise named Freyashawk, not because I am an egomanic but because I thought new players might recognise the name from other Frismos games and join.

To be honest, Shadowfish is much more experienced than I with respect to Birdland Paradise as she has played consistently for many months, where I basically installed the game, discovered I was spending far too much money on it and avoided it afterwards until she asked me if I would be interested in playing again.

Of all the Frismos games that I play, Birdland Paradise is the most dangerous in my opinion in the temptation to spend real money.   You will not be forced to do so, but breeding appears to be so random that the weak-willed may indeed, like me, be induced to spend money to move forward faster where various Goals are concerned.

The basis of all these games is breeding.  You make money by visiting Friends and by opening gifts that your friends send to you as well as from the sale of creatures that you have bred yourself.  The other important aspect of the game and one which will allow you to advance in level and in the acquisition of coins and premium cash is the Goal List.  When you achieve any Goal, you will receive valuable rewards consisting of Experience Points, Coins and/or Premium Cash.  In Birdland Paradise, the Premium Cash takes the form of Feathers.  In Fish Adventure Seasons, it is Seastars.

Unlike Age of Pyramids and Creatures of Olympus, where the breeding combinations achieve specific results that will be different creatures from the parent creatures for the most part, Fish Adventure Seasons and Birdland Paradise are all about colours.  You will not obtain a different specie when you breed but rather may obtain a new colour or new colour combinations.

In Fish Adventure Seasons, colour is created partly by the colours of the parent fish and partly by the use of Elixirs.  There are no Elixirs in Birdland Paradise, more's the pity.

How then do you obtain new colours in Birdland Paradise through breeding?  Basically, the only method by which to breed your Birds is by spinning a Wheel.  The results are partly random but can be determined partly as well by the place where the spinner lands.

Now, it is here that I need to make an important point about the connection between Breeding Goals and the Birds that you choose to purchase in the Market.  I made a colossal mistake in my first game because I bought Birds in colours that I liked, using the valuable Feathers from a special promotion rather than using Coins.  For example, I bought a Purple Cockatiel for 35 Feathers.  There is a Purple Cockatiel, a Blue Cockatiel and a Green Cockatiel, each for 35 Feathers.  Then there is the plain Cockatiel, a multi-coloured bird, for 1200 Coins.

You will find two early Goals ask you to create a Fiery Cockatiel in Red and Yellow and another one to create a Grey and White Cockatiel.  Well, unless you have a male and female Cockatiel that has those colours (the 'plain' Cockatiel in fact), you will be hard-pressed to create a bird that contains only Red and Yellow or Grey and White.

Of course, I was able to breed beautiful birds using my Purple Cockatiel and one always can sell them but I was unable to achieve the two Cockatiel Goals until I had two of the 'plain' multi-coloured Cockatiels!

Spinning the Wheel
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In order to breed your birds, you must have an Adult Male and an Adult Female and neither can be hungry.  Hungry Birds will refuse to breed.

Note here that Breeding Goals tend to be based on the birds in the Market that are Coin purchases. Early Goals are breeding Budgies, Love Birds, Cockatiels and Macaws. To achieve the colours that the Goals require, you should buy a pair of Birds that can be purchased for Coins.  The exotics that require Feathers are NOT featured in these early Goals.

Now, to actually Breed the birds, do the following:

Tap on the Heart at the bottom of the screen to see all the available Birds that can be bred.  When you choose a Male, all Females of the same species that are available for breeding will be shown.  Choose one and tap 'Start Breed'.

The Wheel will spin.  There are different types of results where the spinner can land.  The largest part of the Wheel usually is the plain yellow with a speckled yellow Egg Icon in the middle.  If your spinner lands there, you will not achieve a new colour combination.  Instead, the Egg you obtain will hatch into a bird that is identical either to the Father or the Mother.

The second largest section will be green with a multi-coloured Egg Icon in the centre.  This part of the Wheel gives a Club Bonus as well.  The percentage of the Club Bonus is determined by the number of times that all members have used the Wheel.  The more active members that your Club has, the better the results in terms of new colour combinations.

Finally, there is a small portion of the Wheel with the label 'Special'.  This is the Rainbow outcome.  If your spinner lands in the Special Section, it will activate a time-limited Rainbow option in a new Wheel.  This is the Wheel that is most likely to give you NEW colours.  When you spin the Rainbow Wheel, the largest section will give you a colourful Egg that may contain a variety of colours of both parents or a completely different colour.  The smaller portion of the Wheel will give you a colour change Bird that will flash beautifully with all colours.  The colour change Bird will NOT be breedable, however!  It is strictly ornamental.

Many of the Goals in the game are colour-related.  You may be asked to produce a bird of a specific solid colour or a bird of two colours.   As previously indicated, the colour or colour required by the Goal is one or more that are included in the Birds that can be purchased for Coins.   Once you have a Male and Female that contain the required colour or colours,  you need to breed them by spinning the Wheel.  The only way to achieve the Goal is by spinning the Wheel until you obtain an Egg that hatches into a Bird of the designated colour or colours.  Your best chance always is if you activate the Rainbow Wheel.

Note that there always will be an option to respin the Wheel.  The price for doing so is always premium cash.  It will begin with 1 Feather but will increase if you continue to respin.  You do need to respin the Wheel occasionally to achieve specific Goals in the game but I personally find that it usually will not result in a better position on the Wheel.  You can spend up to 5 Feathers, respinning the Wheel multiple times if you landed on the speckled plain egg section the first time only to land in the same section again and again.

Gaining Experience
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In all of these games, new options are unlocked by increasing your 'Level' which is based on the total number of Experience Points you have earned.  In Birdland Paradise, higher levels mean new birds in the Market, new Themes and Decorations.

Our group in Birdland Paradise is Freyashawk and one of our members, Viola's Birds has a great tip for players.  Instead of performing your visits by going from friend to friend, go home each time and access the Club list from your home.  You will find that your own feeders will need refilling and you will be able therefore to earn extra experience each time you perform this action.  It is more time-consuming, but Viola's Birds earned 10,000 Exp in one day by doing this!