Flight Rising Discussion

[quote=lehiishe]How do you plan your dragon breeding pairs out? Write it down in a notebook, dedicate a Word doc to outlining possible pair matches and track the results? Have a spreadsheet set up? Dedicate a blog to your progress?[/quote] I use dragon bios! I have my random progen's page dedicated to tracking my breeding pairs (so I know who to breed when I go to the dropdown list), and while I rarely track project progress, my goal for a specific breeding project usually goes in the bio of one of the parents. I've been toying with the idea of being more organized, but… eh. [quote=lehiishe]What about finding out your overall den aesthetic? How did you go about it? Was it trial and error, randomly picking dragons to breed and see what happened? Or was it meticulous, going through the AH and finding colours that grab your eye or dragons that stand out? Did you already have a plan in mind before investing in your lair?[/quote] I think my ultimate approach to dragons is see an expensive dragon that someone has who has a gene in a color I like, going to look at the AH, not being quite satisfied with the look/price of any of the dragons there, and buying three cheap exalt fodder dragons that I find inexplicably way more beautiful instead. [emoji=ridgeback laughing size=1] Maybe turn them into gene projects, maybe keep them as-is. One person's fodder is… most of my lair! [quote=lehiishe]How do you figure out what dragons to keep once you've gotten to this point? How do you know what ones to sell on AH, and what ones are better as exault fodder? Or really, how do you let go of the dragons you've had from the start to make room for the new possibilities that await you? (I get attached to things, shh) [/quote] With the Hibernal Den, I have a lot more room to impulse buy dragons while I decide how I feel about them. Other than that, if the thought of a dragon being gone from my lair entirely and permanently makes me sad… well, they're staying, even if I can't understand why! I've had this one boy for four years. He was intended to be exalt fodder (I breed my own, which goes well with breeding projects because my failure rate is so high), and I think I only kept him because he was XYY which was rarer at the time. I got rid of his parents ages ago! He doesn't have particularly interesting colors or genes, I have little to no lore for him, I didn't train him up to be a fighter in Coli like some of my other I-bred-this-dragon-to-be-exalt-fodder-but-I-like-them-too-much-to-actually-exalt. He's just… there. But the thought of getting rid of him makes me sad, so he stays. At least he finally got an accent that works really well with him, so he can look pretty while he sits around doing nothing. :D Getting rid of dragons is… a complicated process, but basically I make a list and if I'm still okay with them being on the list after a certain period of time, they're gone. It… doesn't happen [i]too[/i] often (except for my fodder breeding pairs, which I cycle through with some regularity because I want new exciting offspring to hatch!); it's generally just when I'm closing in on "all my space to do the things I want is gone, okay, I have to do some trimming," which is further away now that the Hibernal Den exists.

Eyyy, first off, glad to hear you’re having a good time with the FR :D Best of luck with your future plans, wherever they take you!

Breeding isn’t really my thing so I’ll defer to other peoples’ answers there, but word of (maybe too obvious) advice: if you’re breeding for a project and have multiple generations, please, for the love of all that is organized and not inbred, please DO keep track of this somehow somewhere. When you have pages of unnamed adults and adult offspring and more nests incoming and no one seems compatible, you will thank yourself for this, no matter how tedious it seems.

I also don’t have a lair theme! I’ve entertained the idea here and there, but I’d always be tempted by new shiny and/or colorful things to really commit. Also, I’m sentimental, and my early dragons are not aesthetically coherent whatsoever. Having said that, I’d imagine lair tabs and the hibernal den also make it easier to set up nice-looking groups without feeling like you Must get rid of outliers! At the end of the day, you just gotta ask yourself what dragons make you happy.

And for keeping/exalting/reselling, well, my lair right now is roughly (not counting) 10% actual keepers and 90% dragons I will kick out someday but they have breeding and/or leveling to do first. New lizards coming into my possession nowadays are almost exclusively fodder, and it helps that I buy them exclusively for that. Anyone too pretty to dunk into the Wyrmwound just gets relsited; after a few weeks just above fodder floor, they usually sell! (Maybe a tad slow for the breeding/market side of the game, but it works.)

So, er, yeah. Other than that first note on breeding project tracking I have no real advice here, just echoing that you can do whatever the heck you want, whether that’s keeping meticulous plans or completely winging it. Whatever keeps it fun—and if it’s not, breaks are fine! You can always come back with fresh eyes, maybe different dragon preferences maybe not, and jump in.