Flight Rising Discussion

its almost 3 am and im kinda tired but like why

how do you look at that dragon and be like "off to the deities you go"

i just dont understand

i mean yeah pretty dragon for cheap but what if it got exalted before you could buy it

how many dragons do you have that wouldve been exalted if you didnt buy them first
especially if you impulse buy from "lowest price to highest"

no offence to anyone who exalts this kind of fodder but i just dont understand

I think it happens when people are trying to breed for a specific coloration
so like if they get an xxy when they wanted an xxx and dont want to wait around for someone to buy An Expensive Derg they just sell it :(

But yeah, I found an amazing filigree Coatl baby girl for fodder price just yesterday -- couldnt believe anyone would sell her for so low.

Within the past few weeks I found 10 dragons for fodder price that I picked up and chose to keep
They’re just all so pretty...

[url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=45881203] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/458813/45881203_350.png[/img] [/url] he's a fodder rescue from last night... cute fodder is great

all of you are valid but no one has really disagreed

My first dragon that was at fodder in the AH was this guy [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=21115495] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/211155/21115495_350.png[/img] [/url] I just saw him and though "Why would someone sell a pretty like him for fodder?" So I rescued him and gave him a little bit of Lore^^

Because there are too many pretty dragons. They can't all find homes there aren't enough lair spaces on FR :D
Who says the deities don't appreciate pretty dragons anyway? :D Maybe they love them and treat them better than users ever could and they can't understand why you'd look at a dragon and go "yeah, i'm going to keep that rather than send them off to be with god".

I mean, the technical answer is space.

Even if you max out your lair space completely (save I suppose in this instance a few spaces for hatchlings to populate before being auctioned, etc) then you have to sorta choose.

Am I going to keep this pretty fodder? If yes then which perma is going? etc etc

That and... while I guess it's just easy for me personally to ignore it, I don't really care too much if a dragon is 'pretty' or not unless I'm actively looking for them. I've got a few projects going for dragons that would 100% qualify as fodder in their current state (pre genes/breed since right now I'm just breeding for colors) and have been sold as such. While they might not qualify as beautiful rescue worthy fodder or anything as they are now, with the right genes I'm sure they could. They aren't what I want though so I just toss them out.

The end result will be pretty (to me) but anything that becomes fodder on the way might as well be exalted for 0 treasure for all it's worth to my project lol.

Not to mention just HOW many dragons are on site. You'll see people complaining about the dragon economy all over the place. And that has to do with something that sort of ties into this question.

So there are thousands of users on site. Each breeding their dragons. So besides really rare combos it's not like it's hard to find dragons. Any dragons pretty, ugly, a mixture, etc. The more people there are the more dragons their are. The more dragons there are the LESS they are worth overall.

Some users might remember way back at the beginning of the site (i wasn't there but I've seen plenty of stories about it) when XXX dragons were the literal cream of the crop.

Anyone remember the triple Purble or w/e that dragons name was?

But anyway, back in the day Triples were the most expensive things on the site. They'd go for thousands. You add circuit or iri or shim? Good lord you'd be a millionaire if you had a decent color XXX pair.

Now you can get good XXX dragons for literal pennies. Because there are JUST. SO. MANY of them. Sure you can try to sell dragons for more than fodder and actually succeed in doing it. But like. When you're competing with thousands of other users, most of which are putting their dragons up for fodder prices? All I have to say to that is good luck lol.