Flight Rising Discussion

@Laluzi Yeah, I get what you're saying. Especially the aeqwe part. Wonder if any repair stores around here take gems as payment...

I hope the staff do take notes and learn from this event and people's reactions. The way I see it, expressing dissatisfaction here is kinder than just thanking them because they tried. Even the people expressing their feelings most strongly about how this weekend went do it because they want to have fun with FR in the long run.

I like the randomness, too! It adds an element of surprise to otherwise fairly predictable nests.

I just wish these new eyes weren't exclusively random. We'll be getting a "revert to Common" vial in time, and we have the Glowing vial, but we're completely out of luck on the other natural eye types. :'V Since eyes aren't passed on by breeding, having some sort of reliable way to get an older dragon with Uncommon, Unusual, Rare, Faceted, Multi-Gaze, or Primal eyes would be great.

Even just, idk, bumping the Scattersight rates to 1:6 instead of heavily skewed percentages. Not a concrete way to guarantee certain eyes, but 1:6 on Primal is a much better chance than 0.7%.

The vials are retired consumables that will eventually dry up, and eyes can't be guaranteed through breeding, so it's not like the value of Primal, Faceted, or Multi-Gaze babies would crash too hard. Plus most people want the new eyes for their old permas, not fodder or sale dragons, so it's not like we'd have billions of rare-eyed dragons flooding the AH in an instant. :P

Heh. There's probably some witty, ironic comment I could make about time and money and investment, but it's just not coming to me right now.

Oh, yes. Constructive criticism is always more useful than a simple 'Awesome! I loved it!' It's a little painful when you receive more criticism than praise for something you produce, and I usually try to include mentions of what I liked alongside criticism to avoid discouragement (...except when I real mad), but thoughtful replies trump quick ones and focused replies trump vague ones.

@Ningyo The unfortunate problem with altering the scattersights now is that it's a middle finger to everyone who used them when the percentages were terrible - especially people that bought gems to do it. People would get what they wanted now, but that's actually benefitting the people who hoarded their scatters much more than it is benefitting the people who used them - who suffered from the poor ratios and presumably do not have any left.

i like the randomness too

it makes breeding more exciting

like i can breed for more than just a few genes now

eyeburner shadow primals are going to be funny

also i think the staff maybe wanted a way for new dragons to be almost as valuable as really old ones since the most valuable dergs b4 the update are almost all really old ones

also good for the ppl who dont like the low dragon floors, if they hatch a weird eyes derg they will make lots of money

i hope they make an eyeburner eye type that is a natural type

i also wonder if they will make really trippy vial-exclusive eye types like multigaze scattered around the body

i would like some eldritch baldwin vials

eye types i want to happen:

-giant eyes
-super primal (probably baldwin exclusive)
-omnigaze (eyes scattered all over body)
-human eyes
-anime eyes
-emoji eyes
-laser eyes
-spider eyes
-eye halo

still unsatisfied, but i do like the idea of colliseum drops similar to how rare eliminate is for the specific, already released eye types - not mentioned by a mod but by an oldie user in the first 20 pages ish - (esp primal. I cant afford to drop 100+ dollars on this game especially because the chances of some of the most desirable things were insanely low - the kind of low you put for things that are STAYING IN THE GAME, or put 40+ hours within three days to brew nonstop because i have work, if this game is gonna end up being veiled classism with the tiniest chance but "enough of a chance" (ew), i'm not gonna drop money on this and i won't support this site.))

[quote name="Jackabug" date="2018-06-12 15:54:03" ] Some players are being made physically ill by seeing Multi-eye and some of the Primal eyes. They don't just dislike them, they experience visceral reactions on seeing them. A toggle for seeing these eye types is not a 'maybe later' but an 'ASAP' -- and I say that despite having no problem viewing any of the new eye types. This is an accessibility issue.[/quote] I'm not sure a toggle is a practical solution, especially when we already know that we'll get a scroll to restore a dragon to Common eyes. There's already a simple solution in the works, and I hope it comes out quickly for those who are genuinely bothered by this. [quote name="Jackabug" date="2018-06-12 15:54:03" ] In this case, however, I have a solution to propose: Create another eye type, perhaps called Legacy, that restores the pre-update look of all eyes across all breeds, genders and ages... and, as a counterpoint to the 'natural' eye types, make it only activatable on dragons born before eye types were introduced! [/quote] I do like this idea, though as I scroll through my dragons who have intentionally matching eyes, I don't see any that have been harmed by the Common eye update. Sclera's seem to depend on the breed, which I had noticed before. But maybe I didn't pay enough attention to who had it and who didn't before. In fact, something I really like about the base eye update is that most flights' eyes feel like they have more depth and dimension now. @Laluzi In all honesty, I feel like just adding more tints or subtle patterns to the current natural eye pool might be overkill since some of the differences are hardly distinguishable on certain adults (RIP Skydancers). I still stand by these things: 1. You can't please everyone. 2. People tend to speak up to complain/criticize more than praise, which skews the problem. 3. It's a game.