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This is such an amazing update but it does kind of feel like it takes away from the specialty of some of my projects. I spent a year and a half breeding for a multigaze from 20 pairs and now it feels kind of pointless.. ah well. There's more good than bad for sure! I'm very sorry for the negativity.

This will at least help with future projects, as I'm working on a few primal ones.
Regardless, this is a very good update, and I'm also in love with the pastel eyes! I've struggled with breeding for the lighter light eyes before and now it's time to do away with that >:D

As someone who has a G1 primal with matching colors, that I spent over 10kg on

I'm (mostly) happy with this update, some y'all need to take a chill ****

I get being upset, I'm a little upset too about my G1 losing value over night

But all of that is overridden by knowing a lot more people are happy about their projects, and get to have a fun time too

Dragon Socialism > Dragon Capitalism, everyone deserves to have fun and I'm really happy other people are happy!

Based

Despite some scatterscroll grievances I'm happy this happened
I can FINALLY get the eye types I want on my dragons, particularly g1s with non-matching eye colours

OH MY GOD I'M SCREAMING


THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER.

STAFF, THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I'm gonna go sob away my previous anxieties so that my eyes will be born anew looking towards the future.

Man I am really torn on this update!

On the one hand, I love it. Great treasure sink and I can finish my primal projects, which is awesome. But more importantly I can now guilt-free CHANGE other eye types! I have a dragon that I was breeding for before eye types happened, and ended up hatching after they'd been released. Common eyes are more in-line with what I'd wanted, but they hatched with 'better' eyes and I always felt too guilty taking away something I could never put back. Now I can make them how I want! I have another dragon that I would have loved to have rare eyes on, but trying for 'just' rare felt like such a waste of a scattervial. Now I can do that! And I have another dragon I've been holding onto because they hatched with faceted eyes, and beat a bunch of other gene/breed rng as well. I kind of wanted to exalt them and just keep a link, so they'd always stay exactly as they hatched. But it felt wrong to exalt the special eyes! What if this is someone's dream dragon?? Now I can send her off to the deities without any guilt. It overall makes the system much more exciting to actively engage with, and I do think it's an overall good change.

But on the other hand, I really liked having something you couldn't change easily. Something that made breeding tricky and rewarding. I like the breeding aspect more than the dressup aspect, and I actually really liked the overall setup of the eye system, even though I think some things could have been done a little better. I also won't lie that the price hit on scattervials and the price cap on primals hurts a little. Every primal I've hatched has sold for waaaay more than they priced the primal vials at. I think staff made them way too cheap honestly. It was always super exciting to hatch a primal, and while they'll still be worth a nice little something now, it's not quite as fun anymore. I think passive engagement with the system took a hit.

I think if I had done this update, I would have made the tints all individual vials, and then put the special eyes in a 500kt randomized vial. I then would have gone back and tweaked the original scattervial's odds, so that they were more likely to give you primal than the treasure version. Scattervials still would have taken a price hit, but not as much since you'd in theory need fewer of them to get primal than you would of the treasure version. So they'd be the 'better' option, and the price would probably stabilize a little higher than treasure cost, making them roughly equivalent (spend a little more per item and use fewer, or spend a little less per item and use more). This way special eyes wouldn't have a 'cap' hard built into their price, since rng is still involved. They'd potentially be costly to work around, preserving some of the value and passive fun of the eye feature. But having them be a treasure item and always readily accessible for those who want to try, along with having tints be easily accessible, would still make the system more fun to actively engage with and would (I feel) keep the sentiment behind what this update was trying for.

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This update makes me a bit sad too actually... and normally I'm very supportive of the things devs release.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that FR is happier for the update. But as someone who grinded super hard for my scattersights it feels a bit unfair to me. I'm not rich, by any means at all. But I've kept a small stock of scattersights to sell for occasions when I really need the currency. They've saved me many times before and with this update they're essentially useless. All the hard work, the careful rationing, the chance to finish projects. Gone, and after all this time too when the price was at the point where I considered selling the rest off. I just think that although this mechanic is a welcome change for many it is also really harmful and punishing for the economy and players who had taken the message 'we will not be changing the eye system' to heart. People who were saving scattersights or who sell rare-eyes gen 1 will be feeling the sting.

Again I'm supportive of the devs, I understand where they were coming from. And that I'm in the minority. I'm just expressing my sorrow that an exciting update has a bitter taste for me personally.

Either way, I hope the new system will make people happier and bring more special eyed dragons to FR for everyone to enjoy.

Really liking this update! I've dremt of having primal gen1 flight reps for a long time now, and this makes me think I can actually achieve that dream. Which makes me really happy.
Even tough I'm crying on the inside because I've got 22 scattersights sitting in my vault that just lost all their value ;_;