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Can I ask why we keep cycling out items from the gem marketplace at random and for no purpose? Especially when we rarely get that much new stuff in said marketplace outside bundle recolors. I use an unfunny amount of daredevil covers and now I’m either going to have to pay hilariously uncharged AH prices or wait for staff to remember said items exist maybe two years from now to panic and grab as many as I can. This is maybe the one thing on this site I genuinely don’t understand and kinda ticks me off, it’s bad enough that wildclaw scrolls and night sky silks have been on this bizarre pattern, im not sure I get the point of continuing to remove items with little warning.

Aww man not the birds too! It was bad enough when the silver sylvan set got cycled out. Surely there’s a better way than this.

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[quote name="Gwythaint" date="2022-11-28 06:12:13" ] Kind of disappointed the daredevil covers are being cycled. They're very useful apparel and one of the few gem mp apparel items I buy pretty regularly. I just wish we got some kind of communication or heads up when stuff is going to be cycled in or when currently available items will be cycled out. Repeating what other people have said, it'd be nice if things cycled in more than once a year. Even twice would be good, especially considering how popular wildclaw scrolls are. [/quote]

I was ready for scrolls! Been sitting on savings.
But then i needed some covers xD
Need a 25% extra next time ;p

I need two daredevil covers but can only afford one sobs guess I'll be waiting a whole year...

As a player who returned from a 2 year hiatus just a few months ago...seeing WC scrolls and other such items cycle in so scarcely is a poor move. It makes us inconsistent players lose even more interest in a game based on customization. If there are restrictions to customization, as large as an entire breed (that also happens to be super popular), by restricting an item's availability, it's a factor that ultimately hurts more casual/infrequent players and dissuades us from staying. If we can't customize dragons whenever and however we'd like what's the point in staying? Especially when many of us already willing to spend time and money on the site, too. It's easier to be bored/frustrated and leave the game once more, particularly when certain important items cycle once per year or even less.

From my point of view, cycling is tolerable, but allowing items to cycle in once per year or less utlimately hurts the userbase as a whole.

I can't imagine how year-round players feel too, it must be pretty exasperating to wait so long to be able to get a coveted item needed for many projects at a decent price.

[quote name="Deramadus" date="2022-11-28 06:12:54" ] Sorry, really don't like that we're cycling more items out. I understand it may help the site produce more revenue, as people will be scrambling to get the items before they disappear for another year, but this doesn't feel...good. It feels a bit underhanded to suddenly be cycling out items that have been available all year round for years, with zero warning. The other cycled items are already pretty bad, but at least users know to expect that they will show up one day and leave shortly after, so they can plan their projects and spending around that. Having more items suddenly in scarcity will not do anything to help the situation, and will only lead to more frustration. Cycled items aren't bad. But cycled items that only show up once a year for one week are. I hope staff considers player feedback going forward. [/quote] Popping in again just to do the Flight Rising equivalent of upvoting this comment. Hard agree with everything here. I'm okay with cycling stuff, but once-a-year cycling [i]this much[/i] stuff outside of holiday items just feels... Bad. Especially, again, considering the sheer amount of marketplace items cycling in just for this week out of the whole year- likely with more to be added to the pool, if the trend continues! With other once-a-year holidays there's usually, what, 2 or 3 gem marketplace bundles for sale? Maybe a scene or two? A vista and a stray familiar? With this we now have a highly sought after breed change scroll, four familiars, two vistas, fifteen (15!!!) apparel bundles, and four standalone apparel pieces not in bundles. All of this only available for one week out of the entire year. That's [i]insane[/i]. If you wanted to buy [i]just one[/i] of everything right now, that would total up to 13,463 gems (assuming you get bundle discounts). That equates to over $100 in gems even with the cyber monday bonus. For casual players that earn gems, or people that can't afford to drop that kind of money on a pixel dragon game, it's kinda a slap in the face to have all of these items available exclusively around the holidays when money is tight and a lot of people are too busy to earn gems the hard way to try and afford even some of this stuff before it's gone again without paying real money. I'm not a fan of cycling items, but I understand why they exist. I feel like if the cycle was at least like... Every six months instead, or maybe broken up so specific items cycle in an out at the start of each month instead of all at once for one week in November, it would be a lot nicer. This is just frustrating. (Really glad to hear that more speciality/breed change/gene stuff won't be cycling at least. That's a huge relief.)

Finally breedchanged my gen 1 into a Wildclaw for the first time <3 [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/57862061][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/578621/57862061_350.png[/img][/url]

Yeah I do not see why adding even more unnecessary items to the cycle pool is gonna be any flavor of helpful. No announcement, no heads up, nothing. Y’all aren’t communicating stuff at all and it’d be real nice if you did for once