There are other ways to earn tickets besides outright buying them! As a reminder, anyone and everyone is welcome to play these games--they aren't limited to ODCA members! :D
Family Connections
For this game, we want to see how various users' dragons are connected! They must be related in some visible way, so you can't say "this dragon is the adopted son of this dragon"--we need to be able to see their linked names together somewhere. Sibling, parent, grandparent, etc. are the kinds of relationships we're looking for!.
In other words, someone needs to be able to get from one dragon to the other just by following links in their lineage. Mates don't count because they're technically not blood-related to one another.
If both of the dragons in question are in your lair, you get +3 tickets for posting their names here along with an explanation of how they're related! If one dragon is in your lair and one is in another user's lair, you get +4 tickets! And if the other user posts here and confirms the connection, they also get +4 tickets! (You don't have to ping the other person if you don't want to bother them or think they won't be interested, though. As long as you post about it, you'll still get the +4 tickets yourself.)
The other person must be an active user, however, meaning that their dragons' energy is at 40/50 or above
or the user has posted on the forums in the past three days.
tl;dr - Post dragons that are blood-related (must be able to get from one to the other following lineage links) with an explanation for tickets. Intra-lair relations earn +3, cross-lair relations between active users get +4, and the other user can also gain tickets by posting and confirming the relationship.
A cross-lair example: my dragon
Flair is the mother of BotanyBlack's dragon
Ivalice.
An intra-lair example: yumehisakawa's dragon
Captain is the father of her other dragon
Mnemosyne.
Ideas and Conversation
We are constantly seeking to improve the ODCA and make it a more useful, dynamic, and fun organization for everybody! If you have any suggestions to improve the ODCA and its resources, you can post it in the thread and earn +2 tickets!
Don't have any suggestions but just want to gush about old dragons? Post anything about oldies in the thread whether it be your favorite thing about collecting, an interesting fact, or something else and receive +1 tickets! (You can earn up to 5 tickets in this manner.)