Flight Rising Discussion

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[quote]Is the Arena a big fight zone where Longnecks and dragons willingly show up to battle?[/quote] The Longneck Beastclan and their allies hold this territory as a matter of honor and a way to test their mettle against dragon clans who accept their invitation to engage in combat. Of course, a few uninvited guests arrive from time to time! [br][br] [quote]How is time seen in Sornieth? Is one Sornieth-day and year equal to Earth time? How many decades/centuries/millennia have passed since the Third Age?[/quote] For purposes of gameplay, Sornieth days and years are about on par with Earth time, as this makes them more relatable to players. However, dragons grow from a hatchling to an adult in a matter of weeks, so while the calendar year is taken into account with [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=wiki&article=13][b]Flight Holidays[/b][/url] and the like, lorewise, many measurements are considerably longer. [br][br] [quote]Has the Arcanist ever considered literally ascending into space to observe it directly?[/quote] He's tried a time or two, but after the whole [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=wiki&article=12][b]Pillar[/b][/url]-shattering situation and the eyes of his followers upon him, he's been playing it a bit more safely by observing and augmenting his telescopes. [br][br] [quote]Are Emperors well-known to the Beastclans?[/quote] Emperors are a fright to Beastclans and dragonkind alike. Though it is more likely to encounter an Emperor in a battle between dragons, the Beastclans know to avoid gatherings of war-ready Imperials. However, it should be noted that the creation of an Emperor is a relatively rare event. Most Beastclans know of them only through cautionary tales and not through first-hand experience. [br][br] [quote]If dragons from different Flights can Gather around Sornieth, are there no strictly maintained borders, and dragons just go by "where this deity's magical influece ends and this one's begins"?[/quote] That's a valid way of thinking about it! The zones themselves are very influenced by the magical element of the reigning Deity and their protected shard of the Pillar; the changes in both magical fields and the landscape itself are dead giveaways that one is approaching a "border". [br][br] [quote]I think it's great that you included the disclaimer! It would be awesome if that opened up more possibilities for player submitted content. In any case it's going to be helpful to have for sure. Also, I've recently wondered why some of the items in our hoards stack, but not others. Food, Materials, Battle and Other have stacking items, but Familiars, Apparel and Skins don't. Why not? Is there a particular reason for that?[/quote] We opted to not stack items that have higher inherent value. Because food and trinkets generally have very low value when compared to everything else, and are generally consumed or sold in mass quantities, we made the decision to have them stack so that you didn't have a hundred tabs of food after a few days of gathering. On the other hand: things like skins, apparel, and familiars, which players generally have fewer of, and that have a little more value (or are used by our equipment system) were made to not stack so that players could be more careful and conscious with how they were handled. We kinda took a note from games that we as developers have played over the years and used that as a baseline. We thought that it made sense to use a standard if it worked, as it would help the majority of our players adjust to [i]Flight Rising[/i]'s inventory system easier. Good question! [br][br] [quote]There's currently three coliseum monsters (that I'm aware of) that don't drop their own familiars: Wandering Surge Priest, Fan Scorpion and Fallen Streak. Is there a reason for these three to be an exception to the possibility of collecting a familiar of them, lore-wise, or is this eventually going to be addressed so they get familiars someday? Thanks![/quote] It's possible that one day we may implement familiar drops for these enemies, but there aren't any current plans for it. Those monsters were created in the early days of [i]Flight Rising[/i] and were a hue shift on our animated sprite rather than a completely new animation for the second color variant. We simply didn't choose to at the time, and haven't made the decision to change that. [br][br] [quote]Is there a plan to make bonding with familiars slightly less tedious? I know a majority of the site often has problems cycling through their familiars everytime to give them a little love and the internet is sometimes a bother for us to go through all of them. Not suggesting an all-bond button but maybe perhaps including the bondings in the beastiary for easier access? Also perhaps is there any plan to include how many of said familiars we have in the beastiary itself? I find that it would be much easier than going through pages amongst pages ((For those of us that have so many familiars from coli grinding))[/quote] At this time, there aren't any plans to make alterations to the Familiar Bonding system. The philosophy is that earning rewards from familiars is a optional activity, and we'd like there to be a reward for making the time to spend with them. There's certainly room for the activity to be a little more interesting, and it's something I can pass along. We probably wouldn't implement a counter for familiar duplicates in the Bestiary itself (it exists in the [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=market][b]Marketplace[/b][/url] for reference) for performance reasons, but I can't comment either way as it's something that hasn't really been discussed. [br][br]