Suggestions

@WonderianAJ

I think this belongs to Suggestions forum! since you're suggesting ideas. it might be fien even in fr discussions. not help center. Help center is for questions c:

@WonderianAJ Moved to the Suggestions Forum!

You already can exchange gems and treasure with other players on Items for Sale forum, there are lots of offers! :D

No support for making a new dragon, but I do support being able to change the progen (for a fee, maybe - similar to scatterscroll but it allows to recreate the progen's look, like at registering) - it can't be sold so I see no downsides in allowing people to tweak it from time to time as they see fit.

No to any animations unless they can be turned off in individual settings (for all site, not just for your lair, ofc), in which case I don't mind.

-Treasure for Gems Exchange
-Gems for Treasure Exchange

A common suggestion is to have gem/treasure listings possible in the AH. Anything else is likely to be damaging to the economy in the long run, if not the short run too

-Games to get Gems

FR is already extremely generous with its premium currency compared to other pet sites. It's easy enough to make gems/make treasure and trade for gems that I don't think it'd be worth cutting into the revenue that keeps this site running.

-Make your Own Dragon ONCE every 4 months

This is a breeding site. I'm not saying that this is a bad idea generally, but it'd need to be on a site that's set up around that playstyle... and FR isn't. It'd completely crash the G1 and egg markets, and you'd still have people cranky that Imperials weren't included.

-Maybe dragon animations??

This would be an impossible amount of work. Every colour, every piece of apparel, every skin? There's a very good reason why familiars, with their single sprites, get much more detailed animation than dragons do at the moment.


And because it's become increasingly common for people to take criticism of their suggestions personally...
It's good to suggest things. It's even better if you use the search functions first, but suggesting is still good even if people don't like the ideas. Criticism of an idea is not 'hate' and is not a comment on you as a person - the only impression I get from your post is that you're relatively new to FR, and that's hardly negative.

The problem with adding a site exchange from treasure to gems, or ways to get large numbers of gems out of the site, is that gems are a premium currency - they keep Flight Rising running by getting users to pay real money for them. That's why it's so important that treasure-to-gem trades take place between two players and not the site; one generates gems from nothing, the other ensures the gems mostly came from a real-world transaction. When you can get enough gems out of the site itself, most people stop buying gems, because they don't feel like they're getting their money's worth out of the transaction.

At that point, FR either has to brutally ramp up ad displays, add new pay-to-play features, or add a third kind of premium currency that takes the place of what gems used to be, just in order to keep functioning.

The current ratio of gems is rather high, and makes gem purchases extremely difficult for players that don't have large incomes or keep to themselves, but the best way to solve that is to find more ways for treasure to leave the economy (or more reasons for players to buy gems, though that's a more dangerous and not necessarily possible suggestion - most people who can and will buy gems already do.) And I'll always support a gems-to-treasure trade on the auction house so that people don't have to use the Items For Sale forum - just not one that removes treasure from the game and generates gems in their place.

I do like the idea of being able to redesign your progen for a fee, but not so for creating more progens. With the number of dragons available, it's easier than ever to grab some dragons off the AH and start a breeding project for the dragon you want.

No thank you for either of these. I don't want the site setting a gem to treasure ratio.
I think both of these would have a very negative impact of the financial strength of the site.
Why would people buy gems if they can play games for them?
Flight Rising is a breeding game. Not a scrying game.
This would make the wait for new breeds even longer. I am also unsure how it would work with skins/accents and apparel?

Buying gems with treasure would ruin FR as it would sink FR's revenue that keeps the site afloat. Same with games for gems.

Hand-creating your own dragon beyond your one custom progen is ridiculously OP in any form.

Flat no support.