Flight Rising Discussion

Oh yeah, some thoughts on dragon pricing:

Old dragons can be quite valuable. Dragons with 7-digit ID numbers (e.g. #1234567) typically sell for 400g+. Dragons that aren't quite that old, but still several years old, are often recommended to sell for 10kt/g per year of age. For example, a 7-year-old dragon would be 70g.

As for pricing new dragons:

- Exalting a dragon at level 7 gets you ~11kt, plus achievement credit (there's an achievement for exalting 5k dragons), plus (maybe) fest currency if there's a fest going on. So that's the baseline.

- Based on this, my "basic" price for dragons is 15g. I charge this amount for hatchlings from my variety pairs that turn out unexpectedly nice and I think "hey, someone may want this." If they don't sell for that price, I exalt them myself and get about that much value.

- For hatchlings from my "nice" pairs, I typically charge 30-50g. "A decent amount, but not too expensive" is my general thought.

- People who run hatcheries often charge more (50-150g). Often they breed for rare color combos and gene up their dragons from scratch, so their price reflects that. Also they advertise a lot and have fancy topics and breeding cards which definitely helps with getting a following.

- When a new gene/breed is released, dragons with that gene/breed will often be expensive. For example, the day after sandsurges were released, I gened up a pair, booned a nest, and sold the hatchlings for 650g each. Of course, that was a while ago. By now, sandsurges are quite common and it got so the hatchlings wouldn't even sell for 30g, so I retired that pair from active breeding duty. For stuff like this, the Auction House is your best guide - you just have to see what prices other people are selling for and follow the crowd.

Hi and welcome back to FR! I would hate to info dump and overwhelm you, so if you'd like please feel free to PM me :D I used to be part of a little new member helper program where I would mentor new players until they felt knowledgeable enough to move on. I really enjoyed it and I'd be happy to do the same for a returning player if you'd find that helpful. For now, the answer to the questions you've posed so far: [quote]Stuff like how to price dragons and what the dominance pushes are about[/quote] [b]How to price dragons:[/b] You'll find that the market is much more saturated than it was when you were active, so pricing dragons can get complicated. Now we have special eye types, genes that fluctuate in popularity (since new ones are releasing so often), ancients, special IDs, old dragons, lineages, etc.. I could go on and on. I used to run a hatchery and I would price my dragons by just looking at what the similar ones for selling for. The auction house (AH) has a ton of filter options now that make it easier to see what similar dragons are selling for. Since your dragons are so old, I would definitely post in dragon share and check with [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/drs/1162110#post_1162110]these guys[/url]. [b]Dominance pushes:[/b] There's a lot of different types of pushes and flights will choose one that suits their current schedule usually. I follow [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/frd/3404115/1#post_3404115]Dom Watch[/url], I find it's the best way to know what's going on with dominance that's not just within my own flight. [quote]XXY/XYX/YXX ??? is this referring to a dragon's color, genes, both, what do the X and Y mean, similar or the same gene/color? I'm lost.[/quote] This is their color pattern! XXX: Primary, secondary, and tertiary are all the same color. (ex; white/white/white) XXY: P and S are the same color, T is a different color. (ex; white/white/obsidian) XYX: P and T are the same color, S is a different color. (ex; white/obsidian/white) XYY: S and T are the same color, P is a different color. (ex; white/obsidian/obsidian) XYZ: All 3 colors are different. (ex; white/obsidian/rose) [quote]Dom pushes. I notice the ice ones when they come up but have no idea what it means other than it's a good time to exalt extra/"fodder" dragons. (I hate that term, ugh it makes me sad!) but I get overwhelmed with all the extra stuff about "banks" and donations, none of it makes sense to me. maybe it isn't supposed to make sense?[/quote] To add onto what I mentioned earlier, exalting is a fantastic way to make money. Banks and donations are entirely optional and flight specific unless you want to donate your treasure to a push. I personally don't because I would rather exalt for my own flight and support our own pushes. And like I mentioned previously, pushes vary each week and you can check those out on the Dom Watch board. Happy to answer any extra questions you may have there also! I was pretty into dominance for a while. [quote]the extra details/ending that forum posts have, and the background colors. I'm curious how one goes about attaining one of the "banners"(?) because I think they're neat and I can't find anything on how to get one, just that everyone else seems to have it set up T-T[/quote] I'm [i]pretty sure [/i]you're talking about signatures here? If you're talking about the images/gifs/links that people have under the line of their forum posts, that's their signature! You can edit yours to have whatever you want in it in your account settings. Hopefully that helped a little, please don't hesitate to reach out if you have more questions! I really enjoy info searching and compiling helpful links so I would be overjoyed to show you around :)

[quote=Avengerous] - XXY/XYX/YXX ??? is this referring to a dragon's color, genes, both, what do the X and Y mean, similar or the same gene/color? I'm lost. [/quote] It refers to colour patterns! For example, a dragon with the colours Shadow, Grapefruit, Shadow would be an XYX dragon. An XYY dragon is something like Shadow/Grapefruit/Grapefruit, and it goes in order of body colour / wing colour / tertiary colour! [quote=Avengerous] - Dom pushes. I notice the ice ones when they come up but have no idea what it means other than it's a good time to exalt extra/"fodder" dragons. (I hate that term, ugh it makes me sad!) but I get overwhelmed with all the extra stuff about "banks" and donations, none of it makes sense to me. maybe it isn't supposed to make sense?[/quote] Dominance is a site-wide competition between flights. Effectively, each flight gets 'points' per level of dragon exalted - so a level 7 dragon gives 7 'points'. At the end of each week, the three flights with the most 'points' will get bonuses for the following week - this is discounts on the treasure marketplace and any treasure-based items from site shops, bonus gathering turns, and even bonus treasure and gems for logging in. I agree the term fodder is a bit rough, but there's not much I can think of that's a snappier way to say it. I don't tend to participate too much in dominance, but the 'banks' are player-run funds used to feed dragons that need to be fed during pushes and buy dragons off the AH. I promise it makes sense! Just start by dipping your toes in. Trade in a few dragons in the out-of-flight dom push threads, maybe exalt a few when it comes around to your flight's pushes. And if you'd rather not, don't feel like you have to! Dom is a way for a lot of players to have long-term interest in the site, but it's definitely not necessary. I've ignored it for most of my playtime, since constant exaltation isn't really my thing. [quote=Avengerous] - the extra details/ending that forum posts have, and the background colors. I'm curious how one goes about attaining one of the "banners"(?) because I think they're neat and I can't find anything on how to get one, just that everyone else seems to have it set up T-T[/quote] You might be refering to forum signatures! Yours can be accessed from your account settings, which can be found from the drop-down menu next to your username in the top right corner. 'Forum Signatures' are added automatically to the end of posts you make in the forums. They're great places to keep shops you run or things you're interested in. People will also put in pictures or text that they like to keep handy. Mine has links to my shops, my glimmer & gloom guides, and a thread where I buy art for my dragon evangeline is linked to the gif! Most of what you see on the forums are art pieces commissioned from the adoptables or art sales forums. Others are free-to-use signatures which are often shared in the Creative Corner. If you mean the location shown in your clan profile, you can change to any location within your flight with the little gear icon (once you've reached ancient lair!).