Flight Rising Discussion

@Aequorin Will there be any chance of adding different art for the jigsaw puzzles? I have migraines so runestones/shock switch is a little difficult to play, but the puzzles are great. I just was wondering if there will be added art, say coatl's or familiars.

@Vhyxalas it is quite possible to buy gem genes, apparel and familiars without ever spending real life money. I have bought dozens of gem scrolls, several scatter scrolls and several boons with gems. I've only ever bought gems off another player once because I was too impatient to wait a couple of days to gather the last fifty gems. Generally I get my gems through the well fed bonus, chests and selling items on the AH for gems (for examples treasure scrolls for gems, dragons for gems, familiars for gems). I generally sell items on the AH for gems while my treasure comes from chests, exalting, Crim, and the like.

[quote name="Snapdragon" date="2014-01-31 10:18:53"]I talked about it on my Tumblr a bit, but I figured it was worth an ask, in light of the impromptu interest survey in [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=mb&board=frd&id=1031849]the other thread[/url]. I admit, I am kinda curious as to what the staff expects the average player experience to be. I’m wondering if the staff expectations and the things the survey are turning up match or not! [LIST] [*] Do you guys expect players to use the fairgrounds? To max their lucky streak daily? [*] The high cost of lair expansions/scrolls/most apparel being in the 10-20K range makes me think this is expected to be the sort of game where you can turn over treasure fairly rapidly. Is that what was planned? Or is it meant to be the kind of game where a purchase like a gene should be a prize you spend a month working toward, etc.? [*] What did you guys intend the general average player’s main sources of income to be? I know dragon breeding was never meant to be especially profitable, but what was meant to be? [*] How much time per day do you expect most players should/would spend on FR? Are the multiple hours/day for coli grinding/maxing lucky streak what you intended? [*] What kind of rough general range would you expect to be the average amount of treasure for a player to have? At what point is a player considered to have low treasure and at what point is someone the FR Uncle Moneybags? [/LIST][/quote] @Draven, I asked that two weeks ago (in a pretty hefty long-winded question), so I'd love to know about that too! I'm assuming the admins have been busy with all the site hiccups popping up. (Darn those baby Snappers and their appetites!)

@Aequorin Ack! Sorry, the ping for that didn't seem to show up in my alerts. I should have read the thread more carefully! Thanks for answering my question! It is neat to know those sort of stats on the average players.

I do sort of agree with @Draven that it doesn't address what the expected income sources are supposed to be. You're very right that everyone is going to play differently, according to what they like doing, but it is still something I'm curious about. c:

Dragon selling wasn't meant to be a cash cow, and it seems like the Fairgrounds aren't used by much of the playerbase because of the time vs. payout commitment. Is the coli expected to be the big moneymaker, through grinding/selling level 25 dragons/leveling services/leveling and exalting dragons? Is there no real income source that most players would be expected to use outside of gathering and bonding with familiars?