How to Advanced
Now we’re playing hardball. You’ve figured out what you like to do, you’ve been around for a minute, you want to get more involved. Heck yeah! We’re all for it! But where do you even start? How does everyone know where everything is? Where does it get posted? What the heck is a Profit Push?! Deep breath, we’ll start simple...
Art Sales
If you’re an artist, or like messing around in MS Paint, making gifs, coding - really, anything - then your art is probably wanted. Perusing the Discord servers for different types of art, as well as the Art Forums, can really get you started on how to get started making your art more accessible - and maybe even making a new source of income! Kotomi’s
Guide to the Art Forums is a great read, going over how to present your art in an appealing manner, as well as how to price your art!
Breeding Projects
Now, this is a little deep even for me - but Breeding Projects are one of Flight Rising’s most popular Things to Do™ - there are a few different ways to do Breeding Projects, though the best way to figure out how to get your perfect dragon through breeding would be
Ganodorf’s Breeding Guide, which shows you step-by-step how to do things like the Pyramid method or the Line method, and figuring out costs and resources that you can choose from!
Hatcheries
Perhaps you have two really lovely dragons - or many, if you’ve been collecting XXY’s of the same variety, or certain genes - and you keep getting requests for “if these two have a baby, can I have one?” Then you’re already at step one of making a hatchery!
So You Want to Start a Hatchery 2 by SaltWizard gets to the nitty gritty and asks the hard questions - are you willing to stick to a strict breeding regiment? Talk to a bunch of people? Code a whole thread? This is a huge responsibility, but if you think you’re up for it, there are many different resources in this thread to help you along!
Baldwin's Bubbling Brew
Ahh, Baldwin. Our Pearlcatcher-turned-Bogsneak friend. Your potions and methods are so strange, and so confusing - but fear not, there are many tips and tricks for you, dear newbie, to learn to help you understand Baldwin’s Bubbling Brew!
A Poor Man’s Guide to Baldwin’s by Arcticfox98 can help you level up the most efficient way possible to get to those higher level brews, as well as teach you the fundamentals of Baldwin RNG. If you don’t have the level high enough, but have all the materials necessary for certain brews, there are lots of different people who have level 25 (and higher!) cauldrons that would probably love to lend a claw.
Coliseum (Hard Mode)
Finally, you’ve made it to a point where your Scratches and your Meditates just don’t do enough to help you get through your fights. Your dragons don’t have enough energy to move onto the next level, they’re gobbling up your food faster than you can make it, and you don’t know what to do. This is where Battle Stones and Coli Builds come in.
A Newbie's BASIC INTRO to the Coli! By EeveeDream can help when you don’t have that sweet 500kt for an Eliminate - there’s lots of information on the basics like understanding Stats, Venues, and Builds, and are also resources for borrowing level 25 dragons to help you get your own level 25’s.
Of course, no Coli recommendations would be complete without
How to Train your Dragon by Culex. Culex’s guide goes into extreme detail of how to fight each creature in every venue, what builds you should be looking for, and how to most efficiently fly your way through each venue. And if you’re still not satisfied with these two guides, or they’re just not working for you, K0L0’s
Comprehensive Coli Builds List has every build that has been brought to light thus far packed away in one thread. Happy Coli-ing!
Festivals (Part Two)
Along with the apparel, skins, and festival items, there’s a whole other level to the Elemental Holidays, one that I didn’t know about until just recently, honestly! To make the holidays even more fun, each Flight will have user-run events the week before the Holiday begins.
You can participate in the Out-of-Flight Raffles if you’re not included in the Festival’s Flight, where you can buy tickets (or give dragons for exalting purposes) at chances to win fabulous prizes, participate in different types of forum games such as scavenger hunts, puzzles, word games, coliseum hunts, and more! Each festival is different, with new themes, fresh art, and the opportunity to win or get user-made badges. In-Flight Raffles also exist, and oftentimes have other, exclusive prizes that you wouldn’t get otherwise.
Get notified by adding yourself to the
Dom Watch pinglist, for a place where you can find all of the events happening that week!
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Note: You’ll notice at Alisette’s Dominance Tracker that during the Flight’s Elemental Holiday (marked with an F), they are the ones who had won the Dominance the week prior to the holiday, gaining all of the bonuses (more gathering turns, discounts, and more) of winning 1st place during the week of their namesake holiday - this was something that was agreed upon between the flights near the very beginning of the game back in 2013 for fairness sake.
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Dominance
Now, for the competitive part of the game. Dominance. The fight for bonuses, money, and a name on a board. Dominance is integral to Flight Rising’s gameplay, and it adds a whole new level of enjoyment if you have a competitive streak like I do!
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A reminder: Despite being part of the game, you do NOT have to participate in anything that you don't want to.
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If you want to participate, give
Dominance, Flights, and You by Argante a look-over to understand the basics: what’s the difference between placing and participating? What’s the difference between Profit Pushing and a Conquest? All of these questions and more will be answered in that thread!
Some people find the idea of exalting their dragons - sending them to serve your Flight’s deity - appalling, and as close to death as you can get here on Flight Rising.
Exalting and You: a PSA by Cynictis is an important read. It fills you in on the lore of exalting your dragons, why it can be important, and how it can be useful to you and your Flight.
But of course, the best way to figure out more about your Dominance experience is by going to the Forums and heading into Your Flight Dominance forum and take a read at the pinned posts there. There will be a lot of words that you do not understand, but asking questions about your Flight’s dominance, participating in conversations, and trying to understand will open up whole new doors to your Flight Rising experience, and make you new friends in the process.
That about sums it up.
