Flight Rising Discussion

Been here a decade, never leveled up a dragon from level 1.

I eventually bought some level 25s and used them to level up a level 17, but I mostly use dragons to level up fodder dragons for exalting so they can get more treasure from the Plaguebringer.

(Be careful in collecting that, though, because I hear she blows her nose on the exalting treasure you get)

In other words, I'm fine with it, but I don't use it as much as some people do.

I spend a lot of time on Coli, but that's because it is the thing to do continuously for long periods of time, without daily limits or timegates. Coli is a style of game that is an artifact of 2010s facebook gaming. This kind of game is the first personal project my friend made, who was a comp-eng freshman with an interest in game development, 5 years ago. It would be great to have more options to sink unlimited time into Flight Rising.

Oh I'mma ramble about this! @Hihamburger

I'm used to grindfest type games (like the Disgaea series) so the monotony doesn't really bother me as I tend to entertain myself as I play by zooming off into my head or listening to someone rant about awful books.

That said, I do see the issues with the Coli, despite me living there most of the time. It's two fold really - there's such an issue with Dominant Strategy (you need Eliminate) to progress fast, ignoring most other stats than the usual strength and quickness.

Alongside the fact that the EXP curve isn't great - most games equalize their experience (either you get 1 exp for killing that slime, always or you get 50 exp till you're over a certain level and then you don't get any). The issue happens when the latter overtakes the very time/cost to kill those slimes, so to speak. Why bother going to the Forbidden Portal when a group of enemies take x2 as long as the Mire? It's not time efficient, it's worse for joints because more clicking is needed too.

Honestly if they took the EXP limit (for only allowing equal-levelled enemies to give dragons experience) I imagine most people would love the coli on the basis they could go grind for EXP in any venue rather than the normal four that pop up. Those who do not have money to afford Eliminate can stay at lower venues and over level a bit.

But sadly that even doesn't fix stuff because of the stats and the available attacks/abilities available to us. If dragons do not have eliminate, they are slower, experience is minimal and the experience of actually playing in the coli is one-dimensional clickfests with no real deviation.

Placing the 'elemental spells' as higher damagers (even without the element advantage) could give some leeway in making more diverse teams, since everything is either a glass cannon made only to survive till fodder levels up or a healer - because there's not really much else for spellcasters to do - they take too long to get going, they tend to do less damage overall.

Honestly I'm not surprised - it's a tough thing to make a RPG game where stats are meaningful and dominant strategy isn't immediately min-maxed for everything. I personally wise we got more stats to play around in. Let's make a dodging dragon who hits with high critical, or an actual tank based dragon that aggros the enemies, or a skill that allows breath to be transferred between dragons. Or have our healers have 'holy'-esque type damaging spell (more damage the more the heal that round?) Let's have a portion of stats pass onto another generation so warrior lineages actually mean something.

There's lots of possibilities but sadly it'd be so much work to rebuild it or try and fix it as is. D:

/ramblingover!

My first three level 25's I got up together by myself while following a few guides, and I spend a lot of time in the coliseum trying to make money and get hibden slots unlocked. While I like it I think it could use improvements. One thing that was disappointing was the "controller" option not actually allowing me to use a gamepad to make it easier on my hands.