Options (Settings) Menu
From Dragon Mania Legends (DML) Wiki
The Options Menu is where various game settings are found. The menu is accessed by pressing the options button in the top-right corner of the main screen.
More Games!
More Games! – Lists other games developed by Gameloft that can be downloaded and installed.
Customer Care
Customer Care – Opens (in-game on some platforms) Gameloft's Customer Care while automatically conveying Trainer information such as age, gender, client ID, language, country, platform, game version, and firmware among others.
News
News – Lists past and current news announcements related to the game with timestamp (excluding the year), a representative image, and one or more tags (such as News, New Content, Event, Tips, Community, Contests, Preview, Sale, and Video). As suggested, the news is usually about upcoming Game Updates, sweepstakes, large events, Dragon of the Week, Dragon of the Month, and other topics.
Whenever unread news is available, a red notification circle displays the number of new articles in the top-right corner of the button. Additionally, in the bottom-right of the screen, the Trainer can access a collection of various videos.
Community
Community – Lists 5 different links related to the game using the Go button next to each option.
- – Opens the DML Discord server either in-browser or in the Discord app if already installed on the device.
- – Opens the official Facebook page of the game.
- – Opens the official Instagram page of the game.
- – Opens the official YouTube channel of the game.
- – Opens the Main Page of the Dragon Mania Legends Wiki.
Select Language
Select Language – Allows choice between multiple different languages for their game (sometimes depending on their region), including (but perhaps not limited to): American English, French, Standard German, Dutch, Italian, Peninsular Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Standard Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Modern Standard Arabic, Thai, Indonesian, and Traditional Chinese.
Settings
Settings – Allows control the game settings.
Notifications
Notifications – Allows notifications to individually be toggled on or off (all are enabled by default). These are:
- Enable/disable all (notifications).
- Breeding (finished breeding).
- Building and Upgrade (completion).
- Farms (Food ready to be harvested).
- Gold collecting (when most Habitats have reached gold capacity).
- Ruin and Chronos (ruin exploration complete, or Chronos power ready to be used).
- Clan (Clan Event started, recipe finished, Clan Siege Sprites ready etc.).
- Campaign & Arena (Battle Energy replenished, Campaign Map or Dragon League energy).
- Enchantment System (enchantment-related items/energy refilled/usable/doable).
- Whale-Mart is available.
- Daily Rewards can be collected.
- VIP Status is about to expire or has expired.
- Weekly Dragon Pieces are available.
- Event notifications.
- Background download (Wi-Fi) notification.
For new Trainers, a screen with Arya pops up, asking the Trainer whether to enable their notifications or not. Regardless of the answer chosen, notifications remain active by default and must be manually disabled. Notifications mat be depicted by an exclamation mark, or by a number with a count (that tallies either the number of items/tasks that can be completed, or the number of notifications received).
The game may occasionally send a different type of notification that cannot be found under this menu, such as new bundles or events. Disabling these notifications can only be done from the app settings of the device the game is being played on.
Sound Settings
Sound Settings – Allows sound and music volume to be controlled, enabled, or disabled by pressing the button.
The volume of advertisement videos is not affected by in-game sound settings, even if the audio is completely disabled. The audio sound of advertisements can only be disabled from within the settings of the device the game is being played on.
Scroll Speed
Scroll Speed – Allows for adjustment of scrolling speed. The difference is most significant when navigating through large areas of the game, such as the islands or the Campaign Map.
Select Nickname
Select Nickname – Allows selection or change of the player's nickname, which is visible to all players. Setting the nickname for the first time is free, while subsequent changes cost 5 Gems each. Confirming the nickname is done by pressing either the Done button or the Done 5 button, respectively. The Trainer can also have the game suggest a random name by pressing the Random Name button.
A nickname is limited to 24 characters, and spaces are removed before or after the nickname.
Graphics
Android and Windows Trainers have the possibility of lowering or increasing the quality of their game's graphics to increase performance. This option is not available on the iOS platform. Android Trainers can do change graphics quality by pressing the GFX Quality Settings button, while Windows Trainers can by pressing the Graphics Settings button. From here, Trainers can choose between low, medium, and high. The game previews the changes live, by providing a sample image, as the graphics are adjusted. Once the desired value is selected and the Apply button is pressed, a game restart prompt appears for the new settings to take effect.
Controls
Controls – Available only when the device is connected to a keyboard; pressing this button opens a menu for toggling on or off the display of Key Hints, or shortcut keys over buttons (see Keyboard). Key Hints provide keyboard shortcut keys for opening interfaces, opening menus, or other game actions.
The keys for Codex, Clan, and Enchantment can also be changed by selecting the existing shortcuts displayed in the menu, then pressing a new keyboard button to replace the existing one.
Connect To Social Network
Connect To Social Network – Allows connections to various social platforms to store game progress or earn rewards. There is always at least one connection option (for some platforms, more options may also be available). Connection happens by choosing an option, then pressing the Connect button.
If an account already exists on a device and the Trainer wishes to connect to another account, a conflict screen appears after connecting to the second account. The screen prompts to either Keep This to keep the current account, or Switch To This to switch to the other.
Log Into Facebook
Log Into Facebook – Allows connection to Facebook to save data, and is available to all platforms and Trainers; pressing it opens a prompt requesting log in to Facebook account to connect it to the game. First connection to Facebook rewards 10 Gems and the Prairie Dragon.
Log Into Secondary Network
Android users (except for FireOS users who have no secondary network option) can connect their game to their Microsoft account by pressing the Microsoft button; Windows users can also connect by pressing the same button.
Apple ID can be used for iOS users as a secondary option for saved games to be retrieved.
Privacy Settings
Privacy Settings – Allows one of the following choices for player privacy regarding other Trainers visiting, viewing Player Profile, seeing Last Online status, and sending invites or friend requests:
- Public: No restrictions for other players. But only Friends and Clan mates can see the Trainer's "Last Online" status.
- Private: Only Friends and Clan mates can visit the Trainer's island or check their profile.
- Friends Only: No one besides Friends can visit the Trainer's island, check their profile and clan, invite them to a clan, and see their "Last Online" status. Friend requests from Clan mates can be received.
- Lone Dragon: No one can visit the Trainer's island, check their profile and clan, invite them to a clan, send friend requests, or see their "Last Online" status.
Info
Info – Provides general information about the game, as well as Gameloft's policies.
About
About – Provides vital game information, such as current version, Gameloft Player ID (or Customer or Trainer ID) and server. Additional information such as credits (the team behind the game), software license, disclaimers, copyrights and other information appears. Unlike other menus, this one automatically scrolls.
Privacy Policy
Gameloft Privacy Policy – Opens the privacy policy of Gameloft, the collection, usage, and disclosure of personal and non-personal information, advertising information, security, and user rights.
Cookies Policy
Cookies Policy – Opens Gameloft's Cookie policy provides information about their use of cookies.
Terms Of Use
Terms Of Use – Opens Gameloft's terms of use provides information about rules that must be followed to make use of Gameloft's services, information about accounts, purchases, payments, refunds, virtual items, online conduct, content, warranties and more.
Help
Help & Options – Provides information including general gameplay and new updates, etc. FireOS users can access this same menu by pressing the Help button.
What's New?
What's New? – Displays several informative panels related to the current update; some may have a Take me there! button that can be used to access that new feature directly.
Dragon Care
Dragon Care – Opens the in-game help, where information about feeding and leveling Dragons is found.
Archipelago
Archipelago – Open the in-game help, where information about the islands is found.
Battles
Battles – Opens the in-game help, where general information about battles is presented.
Keyboard
Keyboard – Available only when the device is connected to a keyboard; selecting it displays pages with several keyboard shortcuts for opening interfaces or menus, or undertaking game actions. These are:
- Page 1 – Main User Interface
- B – Dragon Codex.
- E – Limited-Time Events menu.
- C – Clan interface.
- F – Social System menu.
- G – Sigil System menu.
- H – Battle (System) menu.
- I – Inventory.
- L – Enchantment System menu.
- M – To-Do-List.
- P – Options Menu.
- S – Main Shop.
- Page 2 – Inside a Habitat
- F – Dragon Feeding.
- I – Dragon's own Codex Entry.
- T – Dragon Training.
- Page 3 – Battles.
- A – Auto-Battle.
- D (Dragon Fury not ready for use) – The Trainer is given the option to refill the Dragon Fury bar through Gems or Dragon Fury Essence.
- D (Dragon Fury ready for use) – Dragon Fury is activated.
- I – Element Strengths and Weaknesses.
- P – Options Menu.
- S – Battle Speed.
- Page 4 – Main User Interface
- Mouse Click (any) – A prolonged click and then a release allows the Trainer to pick up their Habitats and move them around without having to hold the button down. Clicking again in the decided viable spot allows the Habitat to be relocated to that space.
See Dragon Runner for keyboard controls related to that event.
Parent Info
Parent Info – Provides information about microtransactions, refunds, and Gameloft's registered office, among others.
Account Deletion
Account Deletion – Opens an external Gameloft web page inside the game, with options to request account deletion.
Enable Recording
Enable Recording – Allows a video recording of the gameplay to be created. When the button is pressed, the button appears in the upper-right corner of the screen, the Trainer must press it to give recording permission to the game. The first button then changes to the Disable Recording button while the second changes to the button and pressing either will stop the recording.
Recording can also be done by pressing the button, wherever this is available.
This option is not available on the Windows platform, as the Windows OS has its own software for recording game clips.
Downloadable Content
Downloadable Content – Checks for downloadable content. In some cases, due to faulty internet connection, caching problems, or an incomplete update, the game might be missing partial content. When missing content, Dragons and Buildings can appear as silhouettes with question marks on them (see below), instead of normal features. After pressing the Downloadable Content button, the amount of megabytes shown on the left indicates the size of the downloadable content the game can currently retrieve, while the amount on the right indicates the total size of content the game should normally have. The Download All button can be pressed to download the missing parts, after confirming by pressing the Yes button, or cancelling using the No button. Downloading content, when in progress, is cancelled by pressing the Cancel button. When the entire content is present in the game, the button appears grayed out. Below the button, all the update packs are displayed in the form of a list.
History
- Update 7.7: Added keyboard shortcuts E (Limited-Time Events menu), F (Social System menu), G (Sigil System menu), H (Battle (System) menu), I (Inventory).
- Added additional, context-specific keyboard shortcuts that only work while in battle (some that override other keys used elsewhere): A (Auto-Battle), I (Element Strengths and Weaknesses), S (Battle Speed).
- Update 7.6: Renamed "Key Hints" to "Controls" and added the ability to change the shortcut keys for the Codex, Clans, the Enchantment interfaces.
- Renamed the Default profile to Public in privacy settings.
- Changed/Renamed the Private privacy setting to no longer be private, rather this option appears to represent a "Clan Members-Only" setting rather than "Private". For a fully "Private" privacy setting, see the Lone Dragon setting instead.
- Added the Friends Only profile option, allowing only friends to visit and check profile.
- Moved the former Private privacy options to the Lone Dragon setting, which is fully "private", where no one can view profile or clan, send invites or requests, or see Last Online status.
- Update 7.2: Added a Key Hints overlay option that displays keyboard shortcut keys over relevant buttons when toggled on.
- Update 6.2: Replaced the Community DML link with a link to the DML Discord server.
- Update 5.7: Replaced Xbox Live account login with Microsoft login for saving data.
- Update 4.7: Reintroduced the Connect to your Xbox Live account option.
- Update 4.5: Introduced privacy settings.
- Update 4.3: Added option to cancel ongoing downloading of game content.
- Update 4.1: Dropped support for MSN accounts.
- Discontinued the Link a Device option for Windows platform.
- Update 3.7: Introduced the Select Nickname option.
- Replaced the II button with the button.
- Added a notification option for Whale-Mart.
- Added the current language flag on the Select Language button.
- The Forum options was replaced by the Community option, allowing access to other relevant sites.
- Added ability to preview the impact of graphics setting changes.
- Added ability to create a custom nickname.
- Update 3.6: Added the Scroll Speed option.
- Update 3.5: Introduced the GFX Quality Settings and Graphics Settings buttons for Android and Windows, respectively.
- Update 3.4: Introduced a More Games button and changed some button locations for Android users.
- Update 3.0: Introduced the option to enable or disable all notifications at once.
- Merged Battle Energy and Dragon League notifications into one.
- Merged all Enchantment notifications.
- Merged all Clan notifications.
- Merged Ruins and Chronos notifications.
- Update 2.8: Added notifications for potions, Gift Chest, and Weekly Dragon Pieces.
- Update 2.6: Added notifications for Clan Events and Clan Dragons.
- Update 2.1: Added notifications for Chronos, Arena Energy, and VIP Status.
- Update 2.0: Discontinued the Link a Device option for iOS.
- Update 1.9: Introduced the record screen and Link a Device options.