Flight Rising Discussion

Old one. It reminded me of the Shade and I thought that was pretty cool. [img]http://www.flightrising.com/images/wiki/firstage/image_03.jpg[/img] But I don't like either all that much because I don't like the face markings. Would have only used it on Shade dragons anyway; now I have no reason to use it at all.

For some reason Jupiter looks better, but Saturn is worse. I don't really like where this thread is going, you're probably making the admins upset that they made a choose like that

@McAlli I wasn't saying everyone thought the mentioned genes were lazy, just that some people do, because artistic complexity is different in every person's eye. I apologize for not dictating that clearly.

One of the points I was trying to make in my earlier post (albeit vaguely) is that Jupiter/Saturn wasn't an unfinished gene. It was inconsistent, yes, but the markings were complete on every breed, sex, and age. Somehow, female Mirrors ended up with a template dissimilar to that of all the other breeds, and that went unnoticed until the gene was completed and uploaded. So instead of just tweaking some brushstrokes to "fix" the gene on the other breeds, the artists now have to completely redo seventy-six different templates in as little time as possible. The staff did not deliberately upload an incomplete gene just to redo it within hours. (I'm not saying that you said they did that, of course; it was just something I was trying to say in general.) The inconsistency was unintentional.

(As a general note, that's probably why Thylacine was never edited. Although some of its attributes are controversial, they're still consistent on all breeds, while Jupiter and Saturn were not.)

I can see your point about complicated genes being difficult to work with, but I also think that's part of what Contour was designed to address. There was a lot of demand for a simple tertiary that covered up few of a dragon's prim/sec markings while still showing off the tert color, and, in my opinion, Contour has (mostly) achieved that. To me, it's on the same complexity level as Underbelly, which I actually consider less effort-intensive than Contour because it uses a very similar template to the basic primary, just with different color samplings. Not everyone likes the idea of Contour, however, and that's okay, and I do hope other simple tertiaries (and prim/secs) are released in the future.

I'm glad to know that inconsistency in the genes was the reason they were changed, though. I can understand the reasoning of that choice better now, and I can agree with it. Again, I apologize for the misinformation in my earlier post.

I preferred the old one, since I had a plan to re-gene a couple of triples I want/hope to breed in the near future with them. With one of them, the old pattern actually made it look like water camouflage (triple ultramarine imp). The new one blends into the colors too much to be of use now though, especially with the triple sapphire, it's almost invisible.

Man, I'm kind of really sad...I bought multiple copies of Jupiter and Saturn to use for some of my gene projects but now I don't like how the new changes look. I was hoping they wouldn't change it on Skydancers....