Flight Rising Discussion

@InkyPetrel

Boil down all 2pt value foods into mats for Baldwin, brew soylent of your needed type.

Soylent turns 2pt food into 8pt food and you get 5 each for the time, better value in the long run, doesn't require as much effort as coli.

I do agree that it makes no sense for dragons to bring back 1 item even if the gathering type is at max level, and I also agree that more gathering turns for bigger lairs is a bad idea. It would be really nice if the higher a gathering type gets, the higher the minimal outcome would become.

I also agree with the higher your Gathering level, the higher amount of items your dragons should bring back. That only seems fair. But as other users have said, definitely use the Coliseum! Even if you don't plan on using it a lot otherwise, it is very rewarding to level up at least one team (use guides to find out what stats you should use for them and what battle stones) and then you can use those for easy food in the lower venues! It's fast, and coli gives you a small chance of rare item drops as well.

Yeah, large lairs definitely have to rely on the coli to get all the food they need. After I started grinding regularly, I never had to gather for food. Now I'm sitting at a steady 3k for every food item with stores upon stores of extra.

In a very old Q&A Undel said we'd get larger animals as gathering levels were added. So the problem right now is that the max gathering levels don't reflect how big our lairs can get. On top of that, we really do need to fix the issue of gathering turns bringing back such low rations. 1 and 2 point food items should not be the only thing returned on a single gathering turn with current max levels.

Given that lair size and gather level are pretty divorced from each other, I don't think there's anything active that the admins can really do. Yes, I do agree that the higher level you are, the more items you should be gathering, because it doesn't make sense to be bringing back one maggot. Maybe a base level per 10 levels of how many items, like 1, then 2, then 3, etc.

Like others, I suggest the coli. Food is actually decently cheap on the AH, especially plants, so shove as many of those down your dragon's throats as possible.

That is why I always wanted the gathering reworked to include more than just 'new items' at higher levels - like higher chances of more drops.

Gathering emphatically needs to be fixed so that the higher level you are, the more worth the items you bring back are. There's no reason a 40-level gatherer should bring back a single 1-star item on a turn. That needs to be fixed.

That said, as it is now, your best bet is Coli. I think keeping dragons fed is supposed to function like a soft cap to lair size, as it were.

I haven't run into the issue of food yet... But seeing as my lair expanding, and there IS a gathering level cap, coli grinding and converting mire food drops into food has been working out for me. Also, food isn't too expensive on the AH. It'd be really helpful if higher levels always brought a minimum amount of items. As I worry that some swipp items will stop dropping if we have an increasing baseline value for drops as we level up. Side note: THIS DUDE'S LOOKS AND EVEN SOUNDS LIKE A WAR VET. WOW [s]A pro coli fighter.[/s] [quote name="kenjirou" date="2018-08-13 05:24:11" ] i never gather food. i always scavenge, my food comes from the coli [/quote]

There ARE issues with the gathering function on FR, as some people have already explained. I wish there would be a minimum number of items that you get from each turn. I'm at lvl 20 for scavenging and sometimes I still get a single trash item from one turn.

Since I started grinding in the coli, I don't really use gathering turns in the food areas. Maybe you could try leveling fodder so you can get food drops and also earn extra money on the side.