Suggestions

I've been on Flight Rising for a little over a year and with the 3 year anniversary reinvigorating my love for the site, I've decided to share some ideas that I've been sitting on. Since I didn't see any rule against posting more than one suggestion in a thread, that's exactly what I'll be doing here. Below, I've listed a series of add-ons that I feel FR could benefit from, followed by a simplistic idea of how the add-ons could be implemented or used.

• Fertility scrolls: When applied to a dragon, this scroll guarantees that said dragon will lay 4 to 5 eggs next time he or she breeds. This effect goes away after the dragon has laid a nest.
  
• Cooldown scrolls: When applied to an adult dragon who is still on cooldown and who is NOT tending to a nest, this scroll will immediately make said dragon ready to breed. Cooldown time returns as it normally would after the dragon has laid a nest.
  
• Genderswap scrolls: When applied to a dragon, this scroll will change the gender of said dragon, allowing him to become a her and breed with female dragons (and vice versa). This effect will remain unless the player uses another genderswap scroll to return a dragon to his or her original gender.
  
• Exalt reclaim: Many players I know have either exalted a dragon by accident or ended up regretting their decision after the fact. By implementing a button on a dragon's exalt page - which would allow the dragon to be reclaimed by the exalter up to 48 hours after the dragon's exalting for a fee - FR could prevent a lot of heartache.
  
• Two color search: Before we got an increased color wheel, I had a small problem with the fact that I could only search one color at a time in the auction house. With the doubled number of colors available, it has been become almost painful finding an idle dragon. Implementing a "choose two" color system at the auction house would allow a player to pick two colors - a starting and ending point. Any dragon that falls between (or falls on) the two colors would appear in the search results. I've already come across a thread which discusses this, but I decided to add it here as well.
  
• Message locks: If there was an option to "lock" a message so that it could not be deleted until the player "unlocked" it, then players would not have to worry about accidentally deleting a message that he or she intended to save.
  
• Dominance brew times: When a flight is dominating (first place in Dominance), then all players who belong to said flight will have their Baldwin's Bubbling Brew times cut in half. All transmutations would take 15 minutes instead of 30 and creating items such as the Rosetail would only take 2 hours instead of 4.

Support for the fertility scroll and a infertility one (1 egg).

No support for the other scrolls - they are overpowered and gamebreaking (plus the sex change one is even sitebreaking since the whole dragons coding would not work with it)

Exalting is a feature that needs to be final. Its so very easy to make it failsave and even if you don't have these absolute failsaves (which is hard to NOT have) then there is still a confirmation button you need to press. Plus you can get one recent accidental exalt back when pleading with the admins. Also no dragon is irreplaceable - you can always breed that exact same dragon again.
Introducing a 'back out' will seriously mess with dominace too. So no support for that either.

Support for ranges on searchfeatures - as always when this comes up.

Undecided on the last one. Would the automatic deletion still affect the messages?

[quote name="Taya" date=2016-06-11 12:02:34]Fertility scrolls: When applied to a dragon, this scroll guarantees that said dragon will lay 4 to 5 eggs next time he or she breeds. This effect goes away after the dragon has laid a nest.[/quote] There are enough players that complain about the 'dragon economy' that I really don't see the need for an item to increase nest sizes. In addition if this item was a gem item, it could be considered pay to win, when combined with a boon of fertility and parent dragons with new breeds/genes [quote name="Taya" date=2016-06-11 12:02:34]Cooldown scrolls: When applied to an adult dragon who is still on cooldown and who is NOT tending to a nest, this scroll will immediately make said dragon ready to breed. Cooldown time returns as it normally would after the dragon has laid a nest.[/quote] Once you are established, the length of cooldown is not the limiting factor when it comes to breeding; it’s the number of nests a player has. I have went a year hatching a nest a day and never in that time did I run out of RTB dragons. There's also a very big negative for such an item--if it was used in conjunction with boons of fertility it would crash any new breeds/genes very quickly. This would happen as rich players will cash in on the hype of new genes and breeds (it's already quite common for players to slap new genes/breed change scrolls on RTB dragons and boon the nest. They can easily make back their initial investment) [quote name="Taya" date=2016-06-11 12:02:34]Genderswap scrolls: When applied to a dragon, this scroll will change the gender of said dragon, allowing him to become a her and breed with female dragons (and vice versa). This effect will remain unless the player uses another genderswap scroll to return a dragon to his or her original gender.[/quote] This is a rather divided topic within the suggestion forum. I personally do not want to see a sex change scroll that would allow you to change the sex and then be able to breed according to the newly assigned sex (IE You have two males, you change one of them to a female and then you would be able to breed the male to the female). I'd rather not see this for a couple of reasons: First of all, it could probably involve having to recode a fair amount of the breeding/display system which I think could be better spent adding new features rather than recoding a system that works perfectly fine the way it is. The reason I say it could involve a fair amount of recoding is depending on how the lineage is stored in the database the system could have a fit over trying to figure out how to display the parents when one of them has been sex changed so they are now the same sex since there is no longer a male and a female parent to display first and second. The second reason I don't like this is because it would remove some of the challenge involved in breeding since sex is the only thing you can't change and something should remain static. You can change color by using a scatter scroll and you can ensure the hatchlings are of a particular element by breeding it in the appropriate nest I'd personally prefer to see a cosmetic change (changes the image to the opposite sex, so your male dragon displays a female dragon image, but he is still a male dragon so he still can only breed with females so the breeding pool for him doesn't change). Alternatively if there wouldn't be a coding issue like mentioned above (or there were additional restrictions like must never have been bred to avoid the entire potential coding issue) and it actually changes the sex then that individual becomes unbreedable. [quote name="Taya" date=2016-06-11 12:02:34]Many players I know have either exalted a dragon by accident or ended up regretting their decision after the fact. By implementing a button on a dragon's exalt page - which would allow the dragon to be reclaimed by the exalter up to 48 hours after the dragon's exalting for a fee - FR could prevent a lot of heartache.[/quote] Personally I don't see how you can accidentally exalt a dragon as you've get a pop up asking if your certain. If you just click through them without reading, its not really an accident. Lore wise it doesn't really make sense to be able to 'reverse' an exalting considering its a big honor. The biggest issue is it could run into trouble when it comes to dominance. IE: Exalt a bunch of level25s, reclaim them, rinse and repeat. [quote name="Taya" date=2016-06-11 12:02:34]Two color search: Before we got an increased color wheel, I had a small problem with the fact that I could only search one color at a time in the auction house. With the doubled number of colors available, it has been become almost painful finding an idle dragon. Implementing a "choose two" color system at the auction house would allow a player to pick two colors - a starting and ending point. Any dragon that falls between (or falls on) the two colors would appear in the search results. I've already come across a thread which discusses this, but I decided to add it here as well.[/quote] More search options are always nice [quote name="Taya" date=2016-06-11 12:02:34]Message locks: If there was an option to "lock" a message so that it could not be deleted until the player "unlocked" it, then players would not have to worry about accidentally deleting a message that he or she intended to save. [/quote]This could be useful

[quote name="Ismaiel" date=2016-06-11 12:10:33] Support for the fertility scroll and a infertility one (1 egg). No support for the other scrolls - they are overpowered and gamebreaking (plus the sex change one is even sitebreaking since the whole dragons coding would not work with it) Exalting is a feature that needs to be final. Its so very easy to make it failsave and even if you don't have these absolute failsaves (which is hard to NOT have) then there is still a confirmation button you need to press. Plus you can get one recent accidental exalt back when pleading with the admins. Also no dragon is irreplaceable - you can always breed that exact same dragon again. Introducing a 'back out' will seriously mess with dominace too. So no support for that either. Support for ranges on searchfeatures - as always when this comes up. Undecided on the last one. Would the automatic deletion still affect the messages? [/quote] Same here for the most part. I am iffy on the fertility scrolls. especially one that guarantees a higher number of eggs. The other scrolls, no support at all. Breeding is the main point of the game, and there should be some challenge to breeding. Changing the sex of the dragon and having it so that your dragon can breed after five days negate not only the lore behind the site, but also the coding of the site. Sex and Cooldowns were put in place for a reason and we don't really have a good enough reason to get rid of them. Exalt reclaims I would ONLY support for progens. All other dragons are ultimately replaceable, even gen 1s, and there fore don't need such a feature. I am a bit iffy on the baldwins. While I think it would be nice to have baldwin affected, considering the low percentages of the other items that the top three get, I think cutting everything in half is taking it a bit too far. Make that a percentage as well that is comparable to the discounts and I would support it. Basically it would be barely noticable on the short timer items, but it would really help for those very long brewing times. Support for the searches, with the new colors I think that the search needs an advanced area where you can choose from basic ranges (blue, red, green, yellow, orange, brown, pink, black, purple, white) and can choose to either exclude certain ranges as well, as well as choosing multiple ranges. Perhaps even a step further and be able to chooose or exclude certain colors within those ranges.

I support all the last three things for reasons already mentioned. Also as mentioned before, 50% is WAY too much for a Dom buff, but it would be nice to get a little shorter brew time. OR a cost discount like in the MP.
I like the message idea not because it's easy to accidentally delete stuff, but because I never delete messages and then can't find the ones of actual importance. If I could lock the ones that have possibly important information in them, I could at the very least mark which messages I want, and maybe it would get me to actually DELETE my 70 pages of messages.
Two-color search has been suggested many many times. I like it.

No support for the first four suggestions, again for reasons already stated. Most of these have been suggested before and they're always HUGE cans of worms.

Fertility scrolls: Support, but only if there were also scrolls to guarantee a 1 egg nest since this is often used for lore purposes. Price should be high enough to cancel out any "advantage" the scroll would bring. The dragon market was never met to be lucrative in terms of selling so I don't see an issue with this.

Cooldown scrolls: No support. While I don't think it's necessary to keep dragons worth much treasure/gems, I also don't want to see them dropping to the point where they're not even worth 1 gem. We're probably already heading there but this would make it happen even fast.

Genderswap scrolls: For the same reasons as the cooldown scroll, with the added face that the game is not coded for this to be possible.

Exalt reclaim: Support since you added the 48hr limit. I think progens shouldn't have a limit though and should be reclaimable at any point.

Two color search: FULL SUPPORT!! They're crazy if they don't include this feature in the AH revamp.

Message locks: Folders would be a better option for saving messages and allow more organization.

Dominance brew times: Support as well! I think it should match Market discounts though in terms of shortened times.