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Hello. I went through and blocked several of the malfunctioning ads, as well as as many of the skimpy-lady video game advertisements as I could find on the first 50 pages of ad-review.

Thank you for your reports. :-) It certainly helps to have the extra set of eyes on this!

Sand creeper has been around since alpha. :-) Not a new item, just a new coliseum drop.

Enemies are under the same constraints as dragons, and must user energy builders before they can use their bigger attacks. We do have some differing abilities for enemies. As an example, "Pollen" is the energy builder for Luna Mith. :-)

MND reduces the amount of magical damage magic attacks do against you.
DEF reduces the amount of damage physical attacks do against you.

If you use them,. you lose less health, meaning you need less vitality and don't need to heal as frequently if you use a healer to keep your victory chain going.

Agility is for crits and dodges.

They should be fixed. Sorry for the blip!

Greatshells:
Greatshells have appeared! These giants are lurking in the Sandswept Delta and the Waterway.



New Items:
Several new items are now being awarded for battling in the coliseum.
Skin Contest Deadline
The coliseum skin contest is ending soon. Artists, remember to get your entries in before 23:59 on December 30th! We hope to start off the new year with your creativity gracing our coliseum as new drops!

Mirrors are called mirrors because they initially had a lot more duplicate body parts (in their initial sketch they had two sets of eyes, two tails, two sets of wings, and two sets of front legs.) Since so many body parts were duplicated/mirrored, they were called mirror dragons. The name stuck even after we opted not to have them have all the extras. :)

Enemies can get additional turns against you if they have a high quickness statistic vs your dragon's quickness, so that may be why they had multiple turns in a row. It is also possible for your dragon to get two turns in a row against an enemy if it has a greater quickness rating.

I'll admit that I wish it were easier to change a breed, as I'd make some art tweaks to just about all of them if I had the chance to go back and do so. (Alas, all the genes, plus the apparel, plus the user created skins are reliant on having the images remain in the same pixel locations.)

In a way it might be for the best; if I could go back and change things, I might spend all my time constantly redoing, then redoing again all our existing breeds and not focus on making new ones.

It would be up to the person who gets it to decide announce that they have it or not. :-)

New breeds are not going to be any artwork featured in my previous dragonart books (the same illustrations, that is, though certain features may make it into new breeds.) All breeds currently being worked on feature brand-new illustrations, and yes, we'd like to release them more than once a year. :-)

I'm so happy to see such curiosity about our mysterious visitors!

All I can say now is that we'll learn more about the shade when the adventure feature releases. (this is still quite a ways away, and a massive undertaking, plus we have to get some more headway with debugging and expanding current site features.)

It has to do with marketplace, which chests drop what, and what rarity they can be gathered at (for gatherable familiars.)

Akiribeaks were given out to every player after a long downtime and then retired. No more will be added to the game, so they have a finite amount available. :-)

The artists do have the ability to tweak the loot as the programmers have made some tools for us. :-)

Re: Lootless battles - Loot is a flat percentage, and a lootless battle has always been a possibility and is not a bug. Each item in the monster's loot table has its own percentage chance to drop. So it's possible not to hit any of those chances at all, thus a lootless battle. It's also possible to hit all of them, so that's why you sometimes get loot-rich battles. The odds are in your favor though about getting loot, so you'll generally see some, especially with multi-monster battles. :-)

Fixing battlestones is something that's on our programmer's to-do list. We want to get those working again as quickly as possible, and are excited at the prospect of adding new and different battlestones.

Hello Mineral,

With the holidays many of our mods have been enjoying the season with their families. They are volunteers who are helping Flight Rising in their free time, which is much appreciated! 5 mods is a very small team to moderate forums as large and active as FRs are. We do intend to add more moderators given time. :)

Twitchy is correct in that the artist of the shop should contact them for the thread removal, as this is the way that we wish to have move-requests done. This is because if they don't have the author request it and anyone may request the removal, they may get 10 or more messages about the same forum topic from various concerned parties. A mod may go through the forums on their own and move topics, and that does happen fairly frequently. We want to prevent them from having an inbox full of nothing but move requests so that they can enjoy the game too!

Fixed those now, at least as far as hoard tooltips go. Sometimes the coliseum treats apostrophes and quotes in a strange manner. Hopefully they're fixed there as well!

Imaginary friend. >.>

I'm sorry that happened to you! This is not an issue with your dragon, so much as the coliseum's connection to the server. Thrage has some back-end rewrites that he's working on that should help improve coliseum performance. They're currently being worked on. Please feel free to continue to add to the coliseum tracking thread.

You do get a preview. :)

Buying/reselling will inflate that amount by a lot.

Like, if I purchased an tiger scroll for 135K and resold it for 140K. I'd show 140K earnings. I could then do it again, and I'd show another 140K earnings in total treasure earned (despite the fact that I'd only be up 10K for two resales.)

It's interesting to see how much money has been earned or passed through in everyone's time here.

Weekly would be a bit much, as a lot of small questions and tidbits can be answered by us as they come up in our normal updates and on the forums.

Words on the Wind is a once in a while, fairly large column. We do have one in progress on the admin forums, but we're trying to have it be a little bit longer than 3 topics/questions so there's some meat to it. We're gonna get another one out fairly soon. :)

Thanks for the reports, guys, we're looking into why those aren't firing.

For those that are having issues with the item collection achievements, can you try logging out, then back in, then visiting your hoard?

Achievements have been re-enabled. We have spent some time optimizing how achievements work, and are excited to bring them back to everyone. Due to the varied nature of how this system works, we are unfortunately not able to retroactively grant them all, but we will be doing our best to roll out as many as we can. Please see the list below for a comprehensive breakdown of what achievements are going to be automatically triggered on your account, and those that will need to be earned going forward:



Retroactive Achievements
These achievements will be awarded to you automatically, based on database information. Please keep in mind that some of these achievements are on on set timers of 12-24 hours to keep site load low, so they may not be awarded right away.

• Mighty Lair
• Venerable Lair
• Ancient Lair]
• Level 10 Hunting
• Level 20 Hunting
• Level 10 Fishing
• Level 20 Fishing
• Level 10 Insect Catching
• Level 20 Insect Catching
• Level 10 Foraging
• Level 20 Foraging
• Level 10 Digging
• Level 20 Digging
• Level 10 Scavenging
• Level 20 Scavenging
• Embracing Diversity
• Familiar Friends
• Quite the Collection
• Getting a Little Cramped
• Totally Not a Hoarder
• 10,000 Treasure
• 20,000 Treasure
• 50,000 Treasure
• 100,000 Treasure
• 200,000 Treasure
• 500,000 Treasure
• I'm Just Getting Started
• Founder
• Honorable
• Superior
• Astral

Non-Retroactive Achievements
These achievements (because most have to do with circumstantial events or item possession) will need to be re-earned normally now that the system is functioning again. Please keep in mind that some of these achievements are on on set timers of 12-24 hours to keep site load low, so they may not be awarded right away.

• Arcane Egg
• Earth Egg
• Fire Egg
• Ice Egg
• Light Egg
• Lightning Egg
• Nature Egg
• Plague Egg
• Shadow Egg
• Water Egg
• Wind Egg
• Congrats on Quintuplets!
• Does Not Compute
• One Big, Happy Family
• Worth Something Someday
• Checkmate!
• Grr, Baby, Grr...
• Speed Lines
• Glossy Finish
• Lustrous Sheen
• Think You're Funny?
• Eye-Catching!
• Sun-Flecked
• Dappled
• Circuit Breaker

In addition to re-enabling the current achievements, we are adding several more to celebrate the return of this system! If you meet the exact criteria of any of these achievements, they will be granted automatically. Check them out below:

New Achievements

• Guardfeathers
  Hatch a dragon that exhibits the Seraph secondary gene.
• Crystal Clear
  Hatch a dragon that exhibits the Gembond tertiary gene.
• Bellyflop
  Hatch a dragon that exhibits the Underbelly tertiary gene.
• Get Crackin!
  Hatch a dragon that exhibits the Crackle tertiary gene.
• In Tune with the Runes
  Possess all eleven elemental runestones in your Hoard.

Bee Familiars
After a lengthy hibernation, the Bumble and the Coral Carpenter have awoken and are now ready to battle and befriend your dragons. These new familiars are available as drops in the coliseum and will appear occasionally in chests.



New Coliseum Opponents & Drops
Bumbles and Coral Carpenters are now appearing in The Training Fields venue of the coliseum. Qiriqs are appearing in the Scorched Forest and Bamboo Falls. They are dropping new rewards for brave dragons.



New Skins
Fancy a new coat of paint for your tundra dragsons? Kingfisher and Mother of Pearl tundra skins are now stocking in the gem marketplace.



Additional Updates & Changes

• Skydancer sprites no longer turn into guardians when they are defeated in the coliseum.
• Skydancer female portraits in the coliseum now correctly display the head, rather than the wing.
• Several food and familiar items have had typo and grammar corrections.

If you were not awarded an egg or item collection achievement, please hold onto them a little bit longer. Item possession achievements fire off on a 12 hour timer, and cannot be awarded retroactively.

If the achievement in question has already been awarded, you don't have to worry. They don't go away.

There are six legs. Middle one is hiding behind the fuzzies. :-) Look closely!

The upper levels are getting better items. I said we would be getting Boreal Wood and Harpy's roost more in line with Mire before we do nerfs. :-) We're doing buffs first so that you have several good locations to go before we nerf delta.

We're aiming to have a more logical, planned loot curve with more coliseum-specific items. In general, the items you get in the first zone will be slightly inferior to those you find in the second, which will be slightly inferior to those you find in the third and so on. Greater risk should equal greater rewards, so we'd like for the leveling and loot curves to get more in line with eachother.

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Sheba, could you use the contact form for this? We can try and look up your missing PMs in question to see what's gone wrong, or perhaps they were never sent, but it's something best handled through e-mail rather than on the forums.

For those wondering if Delta is going to see some drop value nerfs - probably. But we're going to be bringing Boreal Wood and Harpy's roost in line with Mire before we do so.

It is not particularly logical that the low level venues are offering better loot than some of the higher ones. This happened because many of the low level arenas used preexisting items from the gathering system rather than drops customized to the monsters, so the pricing on them was not set with the coliseum in mind.