Flight Rising Discussion

I assume that Guardians are so popular because as the most "traditional" dragon of the starter breeds, they are most commonly chosen. Then when a new player loses interest, the dragon stays a Guardian forever instead of being breedchanged to something else.

yeah, now that the novelty is wearing off, bogs aren't a terribly popular breed. which i think is a shame, but ah well.

[quote name="RadiantStar" date=2017-09-25 19:16:52] [quote name="vihuff" date=2017-09-25 17:50:39] See, I knew ridgebacks, mirrors, tundras, nocturnes and snappers were unpopular. I'm really surprised to find pearlcatchers and wildclaws down there though. Bogs are low because they're so new. Super proud Imps are the highest. I love imps. [/quote] i don't think bogs are gonna be all that popular either. not as regal as an imp, skydancer, coatl, or fae [/quote] Aw, but they're like big monitor lizards!

at some point tonight or tomorrow i will probably end up putting together a written analysis of this junk. at least of the parts i find interesting.

That's pretty cool that people actually went through all the effort to make this. I'm a bit surprised that Guardians are the most popular breed overall yet there are more unexalted imperials than unexalted guardians.

@Maithax
someone i was talking to in an offsite chat mentioned this, which i found noteworthy: given that imperial breedchange scrolls are so rare that they might as well be nonexistent, if you want a certain imperial, you're gonna need to breed for it. that would go a ways toward explaining the relatively high population of imperials.

there are more unexalted imperials than unexalted guardians on the site. the big red bars are exalted; there have been far more guardians exalted than imperials.

@Maithax

In part, the guardian mismatch is probably because guardians have a very short breeding cooldown. Imperials have one twice that length. Guardians also have easily obtained breed change scrolls, where Imperials are limited, and their breed change scrolls are possibly the rarest items onsite.

So people might be more inclined to 'save' an imperial they'd otherwise exalt because they may not be able to get it again later. Also breeding projects. And that's before counting in the general popularity of the species.


Unrelated fun fact: There have been enough imperials created onsite to make 364,313 emperors.

[quote name="kyonshi" date=2017-09-25 20:36:05] Unrelated fun fact: There have been enough imperials created onsite to make 364,313 emperors. [/quote] thanks for that image, @kyonshi.