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Hello all,

I am sorry for the frustrating lag! We had a failure of one of our internal services last night at approximately 23:15 Server Time. As a result, many actions on the site that relied on that service were timing out before eventually following the fallback path. That particular issue should be corrected now, so please let me know if things seem better. We will be monitoring throughout the day to ensure it does not return.

Hello all,

I am sorry for the frustrating lag! We had a failure of one of our internal services last night at approximately 23:15 Server Time. As a result, many actions on the site that relied on that service were timing out before eventually following the fallback path. That particular issue should be corrected now, so please let me know if things seem better. We will be monitoring throughout the day to ensure it does not return.

Hello everyone. The thunderbird skin has been renamed to turbulence at the request of the artist. Thank you. It may take a while for the site's internal cache to catch up to the change.

Hey everyone! I'm going to have to ask that the callouts and arguments surrounding the skin stop now please.

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The thread has received a clean-up. Affected parties can contact us through contact us if they have questions or wish to appeal.

Thank you for your understanding. Happy Thundercrack!

We had to replace one of the entries due to it utilizing (albeit with permission and no ill intent) another IP. Thank you for your patience, and for everyone who submitted skins this year!

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We're looking into it now!

Just treasure marketplace, haha. My apologies, I edited poorly. We will slot a different gene into baldwin in the future~~~~

A new modern gene for your dragons to flaunt!

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Flaunt & Flare
A riot of color, Flaunt and Flare are new primary and secondary genes! These genes can be purchased in the treasure marketplace.

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Obelisk Encyclopedia Entry

The entry for the Obelisk breed has been added to the encyclopedia. It took a few weeks for the other dragons to get a good picture of what their new kin were like, but they now have a better understanding of some of the more common behaviors!

We are going to get an obelisk encyclopedia entry very soon. Apologies on the delay. We're looking at next update!

Festive grapes and robes are here for the dragons to revel in!

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Harvest Celebration
Robes and finery celebrating a bountiful harvest are now appearing in the treasure marketplace. These items will stock randomly throughout the day, so you never know when a piece of apparel or a bundle will appear!


The new vermilion harvest finery has a chance to drop from enemies in the Waterway venue in the coliseum.
The hazel harvest finery may be bartered for from Swipp and his clan. Just one trade will yield two pieces of random apparel from the set!

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Thundercrack Carnivale Skin & Accent Contest

The ninth annual Thundercrack Carnivale will begin July 25th, and we're running a skin and accent contest in celebration! Click here for more information!

Taking some time to breathe, back-end work, that sort of thing. The first six months of this year were quite busy for us!

@FallenAngel

And how's your Monday? Any big pixel dragon plans for this week?

RNG can be brutal sometimes.

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Hi everyone, take a deep breath—the image is fake.

Please don't troll your fellow players by posting images manipulated with editing software, of exalted dragons with traits the community holds in high value, and in a manner that suggest or implies the image is real.

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Hi @HaloJones! I'm sorry to hear you've had this experience! If you're being served an ad that's negatively impacting your Flight Rising experience, please report it in the Advertising Report Thread 2.0. From there our advertising partner, @hiveworks, can investigate the issue.

Next non-holiday update should have some encyclopedia updates. :)

Thanks for the report. The additional padding was not intended on nesting screens. The bug should now be fixed.

The padding on the gathering screen is intended. It keeps the buttons from jumping around due to randomly dropped bonus items during sitewide campaigns, micro holidays, and other special events.

If you have suggestions to improve the gathering page, please post that in the suggestions forum.

Your suggestions will be particularly helpful as we continue the sitewide redesign that has already revamped Dragon Profiles, Hoard, the Marketplace, and more!

These are our staff accounts and our dragons are often used for testing.

We're fine, folks! The first chunk of this year was really busy for our team, so we're doin' a little work/life balance here and there now that we're on the other side of the anniversary and newest modern breed.

Also I just had a baby three weeks ago, lol

wow this is very cool

The herds are on the move and their numbers are exploding. Novice and expert hunters alike will have an easy time scoring game if they stick to tall grasses and rocky outcrops.

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Sunparched Prowl, one of Flight Rising's quarterly "micro-holidays", is in full swing! From Thursday, June 17th (06:00 Server Time) to Monday, June 21st (06:00 Server Time), all players will experience a couple of boosts!


Bountiful Battles

For the duration of Sunparched Prowl, all all Coliseum enemies will have the chance to drop meat food items in addition to their normal loot. Other site activities such as gathering, breeding, bonding, brewing, and visiting some of the trading post dragons will also yield a chance at meat! Dragon clans everywhere are taking this time to stock up on shanks, flanks, ribs, haunches, steaks, and more to keep them satisfied until the autumn.


Battle EXP Boost

During the event, all battles will yield 50% additional EXP, so now is a perfect time for dragons to train. Grab your newest team and head out into battle!


Take Care in the Tall Grass

Dragonkind are not the only ones taking advantage of the burgeoning herds and expanding flocks. As the savannas, forests, and tundras play host to many more hooves than usual, calculating cats join the prowl. A couple species of wildcat use their expert eyes and noses to track small and large game alike. For the duration of Sunparched Prowl, these clever familiars will drop fairly commonly in the Coliseum and rarely during Hunting. Once the herds numbers have been responsibly culled, they'll go back into hiding, but there's always a chance you may run into one or two while Hunting.

This year we have a new scene that has a chance to drop in the coliseum and many other site-related activities.

Sounds about right



@AlmightyAmu

e.e

The bounty of the Sunparched Prowl is no longer limited to the Coliseum! @Sunstreak

Hello @Fenny2 @Almondgames,

It looks like this is an unintended consequence of the fact the Dormant Obelisk Statue creates adult Obelisk dragons. Normally dragons scale up in size as their initial breeding cooldown elapses (25 days in the case of Obelisks.) However, if they have no breeding cooldown active they are always shown at their final size. So they would have shown up as full size and then "shrunk" after breeding.

We will look into whether there is anything particular we can do here to fix this bug, but in the mean time, don't worry, your dragons will eventually end up the correct size!

It didn't go up today, but it will be going up in the near future. Our apologies for the inconvenience! :(

Yup.

I'm making an exception to policy and confirming this, as this was a paragraph splice/edit fail on my part. My apologies for any confusion!