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Hello @13thmaiden! This is working as intended. You can re-use the currency next year, or if you don't want it in your Hoard at all, trade it with another player or sell it on the Auction House.

Hello everyone! I know the question keeps coming up and I wanted to throw a sticky up with the link to the low effects Shock Switch. You can find it here! Please feel free to share the link or the link to this post with all your friends. Thank you!

@gyngercookie, moved this to Flight Rising Discussion :)

@votgs, we did not. :)

@EMT, our apologies for the delayed response; send @Undel a private message about the Kickstarter rewards. Thank you!

Just to kill two birds with one stone - this is clarified in our Encyclopedia entry for Elemental Holidays in this passage:

• "All holiday merchandise offered will be retired and replaced each year, with the exception of the elemental emblems (runes that appear near your dragons' foreheads), which will be available every year, forever!"

Glad you guys are likin' the bows! :D

Oh.

Uh... that was not the intent. Going to reword those tooltips, methinks! In North America it just means butt.

Buttbows.

As spring reaches its end, bows are doing the same! Pretty bows and ribbons are now available for your dragons' tails! Pick one up in the marketplace today.




Gathering Updates:
As clans continue to become more skilled at their gathering trades, new items are being caught, harvested, and unearthed.



Coliseum Updates:
Additional Loot Changes to Coliseum



Encyclopedia Updates:
We've added in a new item directory to track items that have retired or cycled out of the game.

• Unavailable Item Directory

Additional Updates & Changes:

• The artwork for the Wildclaw Male version of the Red and Gold Flair Scarf has been corrected.

Having seen both genes, (I'm working on Bar and Daub, I promise) if you want my honest opinion, I think bar and daub are harder to work with for a breeder. They're uh... "loud" and don't mix-and-match well with a lot. The ripple gene Fable made is a lot more subtle (on most colors) and that lends it to play-well with other genes. :)

Of course, if you want loud eye-burner dragons, bar and daub might not be so bad.

Nah, not wizards, but they're risking losing their apparel by bypassing the system. URL shenanigans.

You guys are slipping. Those took an entire 7 minutes to be found. ;-)

Actually, it is built to be light on dark. The colored bits are the areas where you see patches of light, and the lines are erased into. :) @Fable did a great job on this. :)

No gene is going to be for everyone, but I think that some of the subtle colors on this fill a nice gap for folks who are looking for a gentle texture. Of course, some belly colors like black and violet and lemon are like POW - so the ripple is pretty vibrant there. But overall I like this gene a lot because of how subtle it is on the majority of the colors.

Also loving the water, bark, magma, and plagued dragons that are finding elemental uses for this gene. It's pretty neat to see!

How contrasty ripple gets is based upon what the belly color WOULD have been. (though ripple is always a lighter value than what it rests on... so colors that have darker bellies naturally end up having some musical chairs with what color swatch gets used where.)

@Merlin it's already in. It's under primary. :)

Thank you! I'll pass your compliments onto @Fable. She did the shaping on this gene. :)

Bar and Daub are also happening. Many new genes being worked on. :)

Ripple Gene
A new gene is stocking in the treasure marketplace. Ripple is a gene that will apply a subtle ripple pattern to the primary area of your dragon, the effect much like sunlight through water. Ripple's pattern is rather unique, in that it carries the pattern into the belly of your dragon; this feature is sure to make for some strikingly handsome dragons!

@marquiseMindfang, none that I am aware of. If that is a function you would like to see, feel free to post it in Suggestions.

@Azophel, that is not information I can share. :)

Hey everyone! We haven't forgotten about these other breeds. There wasn't any real specific reason for why Coatl lore came out before them, it's just how it worked out. We're still fleshing out a lot of lore as time goes on (some taking us a bit longer to envision/build), so these breeds will receive their background treatment just like all the rest. Don't worry - they're not being ignored!

@Basshead, Forum Search is currently off while we work on optimizing the site. Our apologies for the inconvenience, I know it's frustrating. :(

@Ilium, the message from Amalythia is the link.

If Flights don't have a mod and would like to request a sticky, please message me. :)

For the curious:

• Wildclaws are nature.
• Imperials are Light.
• Skydancers are wind.

There is no limit to 1 species per elemental origin. Icewarden in particular was disappointed in Tundras. (Poor Tundras - daddy no love.)

In the future you can expect to see additional breeds that herald from all over the world. We have 2-3 breeds being worked on at any given time, as there is a ton of gene and apparel backlog to cover. Shadow flight can rest assured that one or more of the in-production breeds are going to originate from Tangled Wood. :)

Don't make Mama Rasa unhappy! ;)

On a serious note, major thanks to @Amalythia for all that she does. ♥


*returns to Tidal Trouble*
I may or may not see TT bubbles when I close my eyes...

@Weenyah, we review the win/loss ratio of the puzzles and that determines if a puzzle needs to be removed. :) I'm going over that today.

What an exciting couple of months! Gather round, dragons, we have words to share!






We are sorry for April going by without a Words on the Wind. The influx of 20,000 new users demanded my attention, I turned around twice and suddenly it was May! Words on the Wind is back on for once monthly installments.






Senior Moderator, @Amalythia, has written up a reminder for our players, old and new, about the forums. We strongly recommend you read through it as the post covers forum expectations and thread placement.

If you have any questions or reports of on-going harassment, please send them through Contact Us. While we encourage players to privately message the moderators or myself of a thread that requires active moderation, all other reports need to go through Contact Us so that we may properly track everything.

On weekends, if you need help sooner rather than later, please message the moderators before messaging me as I most likely will not see your messages until Monday. While the Administrative team is never very far from the site, we all try to take our weekends. In the event of something urgent, the mod squad is able to quickly reach us if it is required.

If your forum is without a moderator, please PM me for sticky requests.




Current skin and accent approval times have been a bit on the longer side. To address this, we have brought on a new staff member, @suburbansamurai, who will be helping with skin/accent approvals so that you can turn your creativity into in-game equippables that much swifter!

If your skin or accent has an error or was uploaded incorrectly, it is helpful for players to continue to utilize the skin/accent tracking thread so that all the skin queue staff can coordinate to address issues as they come up. It's harder to miss a reported problem when they're all consolidated in one place rather than all over the forums.






Oh sweet Arcanist, nothing could have prepared us for that registration window! It was incredible!

We've gained 20,144 new community members and we've also gathered quite a bit of valuable data. The entire team was working behind the scenes. Our developers had a finger on the pulse of the site the entire time, information was flying back and forth, we were determined to give you the smoothest, most enjoyable experience we could. There were hiccups, yes, but those hiccups were very informative and we have several leads on how to improve the site so we can throw the registration doors open permanently.






We are slowly rolling out additions to our Encyclopedia. Here are a pair of new entries for you to enjoy:

• Coatl Dragons
• Swipp's Swap Stand - information and swap list.

We are very happy to see the site remain stable under the weight of our new userbase and use of Coliseum! We know some of you are struggling with your Coliseum connection and we are continuing to investigate what is going on. Our apologies for the frustration, we want everyone playing our games!

We are continuing to balance the coliseum loot tables to provide a rewarding loot curve as you level. Here are a few of the recent additions you may find in your skirmishes:




Tidal Trouble: Oh my! For awhile there, we had 2000 puzzles pending approval at any given time! We are happy to say that that is no longer the case! The queue is at a much more manageable level now and you shouldn't have to wait too long going forward to find out if your puzzle is approved.

Unfortunately, we are rejecting more than we approve so here's some good rules of thumb to help you when submitting your puzzles! These guidelines help to ensure that puzzles are enjoyable, challenging, but not unsolvable.

• Puzzles with 9-11 bubble colors will not be accepted.

• Puzzles with 8 bubble colors must have a low bubble/row count or they become impossible to solve. 3 nearly full rows or 4 partial rows.

• Puzzles with more than 5 bubble colors may not go more than halfway down the screen.

• Puzzles with multiple 5+ consecutive chains in the puzzle. This becomes a judgement call, but if there's a chain of 15 bubbles in the puzzle we're going to be looking hard at it.

• Barrier elements are discouraged. Barrier elements with high bubble variety counts are very discouraged and will most likely be rejected immediately.

• Puzzles should take at least 6 shots to solve.

• Connecting to the top in more than one location is good. Consecutive chains count as one connection. If the majority of a puzzle is connected to the top by one chain, that counts as one connection.

• Puzzles should not create logos from other companies, this is a copyright violation.

• Puzzles should not use trademarked terminology in their titles, also a copyright violation.

• Puzzles should not use foul language, reference sexual acts, reference drugs, reference real life religions, reference real life tragedies, reference nations/nationality, or call out specific players. Titles should also be words, not random letters.

We've heard your concerns about the difficulties of puzzles. To address this we, daily, review the data collected on the win/loss ratio of each puzzle and remove them as needed.

@Fara Adding an item to the coliseum does not affect the drop rate of other items or chance of them appearing. It's a stand-alone system. Adding a food item does not affect battlestone drop rates.

@Juba And balloon bellies are the cutest of all. You have to see them in a tank. If its possible for a fish to waddle, they do.

Good catch. It looks like I uploaded it at 375x375. Whoops! It should be fixed now.

@SpectralDragon Tundra with fae skin is someone purposefully messing with skins and breed changes at the same time in multiple tabs. It's not something you would ever encounter through normal gameplay.

Balloon Belly mollies. :) I just got some for my aquarium. They are so cute! @Suburbansamurai art again.

Me: I estimate they will find it in 17 minutes.
@Suburbansamurai: I estimate within 8 minutes.

You found it within 4 minutes of implementation >>; (Suburbansamurai made this item, and we were chatting as I implemented it. Bets were made.)