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EDIT: Thought of another one--Is the staff planning on fixing the item gathering discrepancies any time soon? I have a ton of friends who joined in recent registration windows that have found more rare items with lower gathering levels (namely familiars such as the Manticore, Dappled Dunhoof, etc) within their first few months of being here than some of my other friends and I have in our soon-to-be two years on this site. I haven't been able to scavenge more than one egg since i hit level 20. Many people have raised concerns about how the current gathering system locks players with higher gathering levels out of being able to get these rare items, when logically it should be the other way around. Shouldn't higher gathering levels improve a player's chance at finding these rare items rather than accidentally punish them for using these gathering disciplines?
As per our last
Words on the Wind, we are reviewing the Gathering system as it pertains to higher level gatherers.
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Is the Shade a wandering, sentient being or some kind of black hole, magic-eating thing?
Shade is a roving, mostly-disembodied force of darkness that collectively feeds on magical energy. It is said that the only remnants of the
Shade in the current age are millions of fragmented wisps and tendrils that have very minor influence over the flora and fauna of
Sornieth. Dragons are still not entirely sure just what the Shade is or what its goals are beyond feeding on magical energy, but it is agreed there's a sort of intelligence, even if it's not fully understood.
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Will we ever be able to fight an Emperor in the coliseum? I don't see it dropping as a familiar or anything, but it could drop some pretty sweet loot.
There aren't any current plans to introduce Emperor dragons as enemies in the
Coliseum, but we're aware that it's a very popular idea.
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Another question, will there be any decisions whether or not our familiars that we get will stay in our beastiary, even when we get them out of our lair/sell them off? Perhaps if they were awakened so that way retired familiars can start flowing a little more frequently?
The familiars of
Flight Rising are intended to be a collectible item, and in order to have a higher/more complete Bestiary, it will be necessary for players to have them in their inventory.
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How are the servers doing?
It has been a few months since last new members joined flight rising, but is there an estimated date when the doors will be held open instead of just brief, fleeting join days?
I mean, its cool being in dragon club, but I really do hope that it becomes more of a plaza than a clubhouse so we can just have new people.
In our latest
Community Update, we provided some details regarding our current workload of rebuilding the site piece-by-piece to accommodate growth and expansion. This includes a goal of open registration.
Because this is an immense amount of work, we still plan on having periodic registration windows so that
Flight Rising's userbase can continue to enjoy and welcome new players.
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Will there be more coloring contests like the cat-familiar-coloring contest? I was not on the site back then, but I heard of it and it seems pretty cool to me.
We loved the coloring contest, and I have no doubt that we'll explore running this kind of thing again some day in the future.
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will we see official art of tundras with non-summer coats? asking for a friend
(ed to add--i just read through all the answers on this thread and they're all super interesting and helpful and i appreciate it a lot. thanks!)
It likely depends on the workload and resources of the art team. At the moment, there's quite a bit in development, so I wouldn't count on it any time soon. I'm sure it's a side of Tundras we're all a bit curious about, though!
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Are there any plans for more vistas aside from the MVP vista? ATM the percentage of the population of the site with vistas isn't keeping up with the population growth of the site at all, so an automated site vista for say, exalting, could help match the population growth so that vistas are avalible to people who don't have the treasure and items for one of the KS ones or the skills for the art/writing ones.
We think there is a lot of room for growth as it pertains to the Vista system. MVP and contest vistas will always be awarded awarded by the staff as a special means of recognition.
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Why are many enemy-specific items in the Coli colored the same as the creature they drop from? Items that are directly related to the enemy make sense, like elk ears and wolf pelts, and some items explain it away like the Greyback Sparrow...
But why does this plant look like a Gale Wolf? This fish a Shalebuck?
We actually think that giving loot a bit of visual correlation to the enemies that drop it is part of the charm; this is likely something you'll see continued in the future. It also provides players with an easier visual reference when buying items via the
Auction House, or knowing what to hunt if an item comes up as a trade deal for either
Swipp or
Crim.
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My password has been the same eight letters since I joined.
Today, when I tried to log on, it told me several times my password was incorrect! I had to reset it, and I couldn't change it back to the original password because now they have to be 10-something letters. It's something new now, but I'm upset, as I nearly got locked out and it makes no sense.
Why did this happen?
(I was told to post this here)
There have been no changes made to password requirements since our
global password reset over a year ago, but they do include requiring 10 characters. These new requirements were implemented as a means to help users create more complex passwords and thus safeguard their accounts.
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Will sound effects/background music ever be added to the Coli?
We would like for there to be!
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Is the forum search still a feature that you plan on implementing? If so, can you provide any kind of ETA?
We don't have an ETA, but it is something we'd like to reintroduce. The forums themselves are undergoing a huge rehaul as we work to refactor the code of the site, so once those conversions are in place, we'll be in a better position to see how and when we can re-implement Forum Search.
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Also, I know the staff has said that they didn't anticipate the userbase deciding to give each flight dominance for their festival, but that has now been a very long-held, undisturbed practice. Is there a possibility for this to become canon lore as well, that dragons have such a tradition of setting aside rivalries for the sake of elemental festivals?
"Giving"
Dominance to a Flight probably won't become canonical, just based on the definition of the concept itself and the philosophy behind it as a gameplay element. We think it's a charming and generous gesture on the behalf the community, though.
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