the Dalaverse

I'm just going to cut and paste directly from the info someone else compiled over on the BPAL.org forum:
DEVELOPMENT:
Progression: egg-->cracks in egg-->hole in egg-->hatchling-->winged/developed hatchling-->adult

Growth: The earliest that eggs can hatch is with 3.5 days remaining. A hatchling generally starts to mature around the next 4 day mark and reaches adulthood with 3.5 days remaining as long as the hatchling has enough views and clicks. Dragons from bred eggs will develop slightly more quickly than dragons from stolen eggs.

Time: The following is a formula from SultryWolf for converting Dragon Cave time into our time: 0.01 days x 24hrs/day x 60min/hr = 14.4 minutes. Thus, every 0.01 days in Dragon Cave time is 14.4 minutes of our time.

Gender: Dragons can be male or female except for the dinosaurs which are always male and the chickens, pink dragons, and purple dragons which are always female. The only dragons which look different based on their sex are the silver dragons (blue accents versus pink accents) and the two-headed dragons (dark blue versus light blue). You will not know the sex of your dragon until it reaches the winged hatchling stage of its development.

Views, Unique Views, & Clicks: Every time the Dragon Cave server gets a request for the image of your dragon, it counts it as a view. The Dragon Cave site tracks the IP addresses of requests to indicate unique or repeat views. You only get clicks if someone clicks on your egg to view it directly. If you place your eggs in your signature, whenever anyone loads a page of the forum with a post by you, it counts as a view of your dragons. Checking on your own dragons does not give them clicks or unique views except the first time you view them and only gives the dragon views once or twice per day.

To prevent anyone refreshing someone’s eggs to death, the site creator installed a mechanism whereby dragons with over 15 times more views than unique views will no longer receive views until the ratio decreases. Unique views and clicks will increment normally.

ACTION MENU:
Hiding and Soft Shell/Sickness: If your egg develops soft shell or your hatchling becomes sick, a message to that effect will appear on that dragon’s viewing page. A healthy dragon should have less than 10% of their views as clicks. It is important that dragons don't get too many views too quickly, especially for the first day as an egg and the first day as a hatchling.

The following conditions can lead to soft shell and/or sickness:
1. The egg got too many views/unique views too fast.
2. The egg got too many views compared to unique views.
3. The egg got too many clicks compared to views.

If 1 is true then just hide the egg until soft shell is gone.
If 2 is true then get more unique views.
If 3 is true then post the image instead of the link to get more unique views compared to clicks.

I'm not sure the # of clicks it needs, but they never hatch before 3.5 days remaining. Hit dragonspam and post it there if your time gets too low. Just read the instructions first.

Or I can post it when I post mine if you don't want to go around the crazies there. ;)