Flight Rising Discussion

[quote]Dragon breeds come with set coliseum abilities: either scratch and shred, or meditate and contuse. Those battle stones can be changed, so this seems to imply that I could make my Guardian a mage, and my Skydancer a front-line warrior. Is this a breed-wide preference, or is it a breed-wide set guideline? I.e. Do certain breeds, Guardians for example, have a harder time learning magic than magic oriented breeds, and vice versa for mage breeds?[/quote] All breeds have the capacity to learn both magical and melee abilities, though the individual dragon will need to make the decision in how they train. Some breeds are naturally inclined to gravitate towards a certain ability style so their population's skillset is skewed. In terms of gameplay, we wanted to spread out the starting abilities. [br][br][quote]Why is it, even though two breeds are the same rarity, their availability differ? What I mean is, Imperial's are retired, but Nocturne who are the same rarity cycle in on December. Wildclaw Cycle in every so often while Coatl are always available. Shouldn't they be equal if they are the same rarity? Why are Imperial so special that we can't even get their scrolls? is it like this because of lore reasons? Economy?[/quote] Imperial dragons were a special reward for supporters of the Flight Rising Kickstarter campaign before we launched in June 2013. They are considered Limited because they meet the criteria of Limited breed (only available during a certain time period) on our [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=wiki&article=17][b]Breed Rarity encyclopedia page[/b][/url]. While we agree that there is some variance in the availability of breeds in the same category, it's not realistic for us to continue categorizing breeds differently based on the ebb and flow of how available they are, because that is likely to change over time anyway. A breed's category is more of a descriptor of where they fit into the game mechanically in the breeding system, and not how prevalent/in style they may be at any given point. [br][br][quote]What is the reasoning behind the color wheel order since it does't actually seem to follow roygbiv exactly?[/quote] We wanted for the artwork in Flight Rising to be "clear/clean" colors with matching shadows and colored line art rather than a true mixing of both colors (which can result in many washed-out or muddy values in a hex-based-system). The wheel helped to simplify hue, value, and color saturation into one ordered set. We decided that a wheel that allows for narrowing down a range or widening it for randomness and assigning a set number of available colors would be a good compromise for specific/chaotic goals within a pre-selected color range, which is what we wanted for our game. [br][br][quote]Until recently, inactive accounts that had not chosen a flight were sent by default to Earth after a while (Flight #1) Is it still working this way, or was it changed over the last year?[/quote] Unassigned lairs were causing problems in some of our site features in the past. When this occurred the first time, we assigned all of these accounts element 1, earth, to correct the issue. In subsequent windows, we randomized where these unclaimed lairs were assigned to be evenly among the 11 elements. Unassigned lairs on incomplete accounts no longer cause the problems they did, so we have not reassigned any of these dead accounts to an element recently. Please note: the incomplete/abandoned lairs assigned to earth in the first wave do not affect earth's dominance/flight pushes; the dominance system only factors in accounts that have been active recently. [br][br][quote]How is Maren pronounced? Like Mah-ren or like Mair-en?[/quote] Mair-en.