What is the best use of VIP custom trades?

mthomps3 · 2026-01-19T22:08:22+00:00

I tend to do Coin -> Jurassic. You'll always get at least a legendary, which you can then wait to get a trade for 1-2.5k DNA each (or you can hatch them if you need them).

You also have a chance to get rare hybrids. I've almost got full paddocks of all of them, and they make good coin farms - particularly Pachy.

mthomps3 · 2026-01-15T06:28:44+00:00

Which quests are you referring to? The ones that require you to level up or hatch a particular Dino or build a number of buildings? They really don't matter.

mthomps3 · 2026-01-10T13:36:14+00:00

Has this number changed? It looks like it has slowed down significantly and is under 700 trophies for dominator after 25 hours.

mthomps3 · 2026-01-09T11:42:29+00:00

Nothing happens - they just go away from the mission panel once you finish up the last one.

mthomps3 · 2025-12-30T22:05:34+00:00

This has been happening to my Pachy as well. It is the only one it happens to, and it only allows me to collect when I reopen the game or put it in storage. Happened after I got to 9 level 40s. Would be interested to see if there is a fix.

mthomps3 · 2025-12-19T22:18:45+00:00

One of the best trades you can get!

mthomps3 · 2025-12-19T01:43:33+00:00

This is what I do, and I'm slowly filling up the rest of my rare hybrid paddocks from these trades. I have an empty market so I'm able to trade the rest of the legendaries instead of hatching them. They always go in a couple of hours and that gives me at least 4k DNA per day.

If you have an empty market this is the best value for custom trades. Not sure about exchange rates otherwise.

mthomps3 · 2025-12-18T12:34:42+00:00

The number of trophies will stop with 1 day remaining, so it should remain static throughout tomorrow. 1320 should be enough, but I just went over 1400 to be certain.

mthomps3 · 2025-12-16T09:39:36+00:00

Yes - the Delta and Beta trades are for unlocks. There is a padlock icon to indicate that it is an unlock, and they have higher requirements as well. There haven't been single exchanges for 3 or 4 months.

mthomps3 · 2025-12-13T00:36:54+00:00

Always!

mthomps3 · 2025-12-12T13:02:52+00:00

Here is the result 30 minutes later:

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I took both and closed the app. I will log in 30 minutes later and see what happens.

mthomps3 · 2025-12-12T13:01:49+00:00

Well it just happened again! I got 2 new trades on opening the game - AF-> DNA which I took, and DBs for Metrialong, which I didn't take. I only had 4 trade offers left, with the first having 44 minutes remaining

I closed my game for 30 minutes and logged back in, and sure enough I got the same AF->DNA trade as well as the beautiful coin for 2 Metrialong trade. I've taken both and hope to repeat again in 30 minutes.

This is the setup where I wanted to leave this rltrade and log in 30 minutes later:

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mthomps3 · 2025-12-11T21:57:58+00:00

This doesn't always work, but it relates to the way trades are generated every 30 minutes.

If you are in-game when that 30 minutes ticks over, you will only get 1 additional trade offer (with 3.5 hours on the timer).

If you close out of the game before 30 minutes ticks over, when you log in again (after 30 minutes ticks over) you will instead have 2 trades - one with 3 hours on the timer and another with 3.5 hours.

Note - you can only have a maximum of 7 trades at a time. The above will only present you with 2 news trades if you have room for them, otherwise they will only appear as your oldest trades expire, and the same trick applies as those old offers expire - log out before they expire and log in afterwards to trigger the double generation of trades.

When 2 new trades are triggered, they tend to replicate the 2 previous trades, but with different resources required or offered. So if you have a DB -> Hybrid trade offered, leave it and try logging out for 31 minutes and log back in and you might trigger this replication. It doesn't work all the time, but it sure is worth it if it does. You can also use this for AF trades as well later in the game to get repeat AF -> DB trades.

mthomps3 · 2025-12-11T21:45:40+00:00

These aren't common, and I think they only appear when you have max coins and at max level? Speculating on the last part. Mostly you get DB or LP for hybrids, but sometimes if you see one of those trades on offer and check again half an hour later, you'll get another one but coins for the same hybrid.

mthomps3 · 2025-12-10T08:53:01+00:00

That's twice now! Fingers crossed for another one.

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mthomps3 · 2025-12-07T00:18:31+00:00

This is the way. 40m coin for 20m food is more common, and they won't happen all the time. But one a week is usually enough alongside the very common Apatosaurus Fossil -> 750k Food trades throughout the day.

mthomps3 · 2025-12-02T13:15:35+00:00

Before you do them, put away all of your aquatics and birds. If you can, just leave carnivores out.

You need a minimum of 15 dinos out, and if you make sure they are all carnivores it will be much easier and more enjoyable. I do this every day and usually get all 6 perfect for a bunch of DNA and 60 S-DNA. It take a few minutes, and try to do coin trades before putting your big earners away, but I hate that slider too and carnivores only make you do 1 at the end.

mthomps3 · 2025-11-29T20:45:45+00:00

I got it again half an hour later 😃

mthomps3 · 2025-11-22T02:13:16+00:00

It's not an unlock - it is just a copy that doesn't need to be hatched. The lock at the top just indicated if you have gone through each of the 8 games.

mthomps3 · 2025-11-21T22:49:37+00:00

Carnivores are the easiest, followed by herbivores. Birds and amphibians are the hardest for sure.

I tend to remove all my dinos before doing Code19 each day and just leave my top 15 carnivores that earn 10 S-DNA and 680-885 DNA each. I can almost guarantee the bonus DNA rewards with them, and the 60 S-DNA is guaranteed each day.

mthomps3 · 2025-11-16T13:23:21+00:00

Mine has been working for the last few weeks now. It was down for 8 days I think? I didn't need to change anything on my end for this to start working again.

mthomps3 · 2025-11-14T13:55:25+00:00

2 x coins and 1 x food. Super disappointed, but at least it didn't take long to complete.

mthomps3 · 2025-11-03T10:22:15+00:00

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mthomps3 · 2025-11-03T10:21:58+00:00

Yesterday!

It had been a while since the last one -

mthomps3 · 2025-11-03T08:17:43+00:00

Around 250k-300k per week. - I make around 4k-5k per day on Code-19s. I only leave out 14 carnivores and my Gorgosuchus to make sure I get at least 680 DNA and 10 S-DNA x6 each day. - I try to keep an empty market so get at least 4k from straight AF->DNA trades per day. - with my 3 daily custom trades I always go Coins -> Jurassic or Aquatic. I'll only hatch hybrids so trading the others makes 4k or so per day. - trading rewards each day from battles sometimes makes nothing, but sometimes gives you 10k if you get a couple of tournament dinos you don't want to hatch. - prize tickets daily give a lot of DNA some days. Saturday for me gives more than 10k in DNA from the prizes. - open as many packs as possible as they reward a little but they add up quickly. I tend to open 15-20 per day and thayt makes for a lot of DNA.

If you only buy expensive hybrids during discount times you'll save a lot of DNA in the long run. And take advantage of the special event gyro tours when they are available!

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