I'm sensing a little disappointment, and that's super okay.

If it helps: generally we like to maintain some modicum of mystery to our anniversary releases because it's a special day for the site. So, while some of the other stuff people have mentioned (and are excited about) in this thread are still in active development and we really love being transparent about them, as a team we still like to have a few surprises.

Hey everyone -

Just a few things:

• No hints planned for our Monday release.
• The release itself has not been a feature we've talked about previously (i.e. it's not a breed, and it's not the world map update)

Thank you. Ah yes, for a time, the site didn't like the & symbol in "minerals & ores". These are now corrected.



I've passed this on to @mutron to look over.


Thank you. This has been corrected.

Thank you. This has been corrected.


Thank you. I passed this on to @Kaepora.




Thank you. All of the rogue belts should now show as being body items, though it may take a bit for the site's cache to catch up!



Thank you. THis has been corrected.



Thank you. We can't have two items named the same thing or tooltips won't work when you use the item tag in the forums or bios. There's already a Clown Hippocampus Crate, so the second crate with the different skin is called "ClownHippocampus Crate" to help it show up!




Thank you. This has been corrected. It may take a bit for the site's tooltip cache to catch up and reflect the change.

Thank you. This has been corrected. It may take a bit for the site's tooltip cache to catch up and reflect the change.

Thank you for the reports everyone. There was a misplaced decimal there...

THank you all for the reports everyone. These have been forwarded onto the ad team at hiveworks. Hopefully we can get some of these... er... interesting ads removed?

If you have any comments, questions, or feedback please send us a message using your registered email address through Contact Us. We do not allow discussion of our team members on the website as this is our virtual workspace. Thank you for understanding.

Let’s start with this: Black lives matter.

Five years ago I made a private personal post on social media because I was angry and grieving the loss of 4 Black officers who were murdered while serving their community and country. I understand that the wording of my statements without knowing me or the rest of the conversation would cause worry, especially given the history of institutional racism and policing. I realize these words were careless and when taken in context with my profession and position, harmful. I apologize for the pain my carelessness caused.

When these posts were brought up previously, I was unable to make any statement about it as I was not the spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office and the post was now in the public. I no longer work for the Sheriff’s Office so I am free to address this matter now with my own words as a private citizen. I’m grateful for this opportunity to address these statements and to hopefully relieve the Flight Rising community of any doubts or concerns on this issue. Going forward, I will continue standing with every Black American in the fight against racism, and keep Flight Rising an environment where equality is not only expected - it’s required.

I want to take this moment to reassure you and tell you unequivocally where I stand and why I entered law enforcement.

I despise bullies. I despise bullies no matter who is doing it to who. But there is one type of bully that is much more egregious than others. That bully is the person who was entrusted with the responsibility of protecting their community with government force who turns that power against the community. It is the most despicable and disgusting betrayal. I became a Deputy Sheriff to protect people and save lives. I believe someone must be willing to stand between evil and those who cannot protect themselves. It hurts me to see people die who stood up to protect the defenseless. But, it hurts me even more to see those same people turn on the community or be deaf to their cries for help. I watched as a thug wearing a badge pinned a dying man on the ground and ignored his pleas for help. George Floyd died on that street, his life seized by government power wielded by a man who broke his oath. We can do better and we MUST do better. But, as you know, talk is cheap. I want to personally effect change; so here’s the receipts:



Campaign Zero is a project focused on reducing use of force by police in the United States. They focus on the scientific data involved in the application of police use of force and use it to lobby for effective reform. One of their goals is to change the terms in police union contracts that protect officers who have broken their oath and no longer serve the community. They also aim to change use of force standards for United States Police to match international standards. Another important goal of theirs is to have asset forfeiture require a criminal conviction so funds are not being seized on the assumption of a crime.
https://www.joincampaignzero.org/

Thank you! These should be corrected, but the site's internal tooltip cache may take up to an hour to catch up.

Well, I guess we all discovered our game database is bad at hiding enemies that are being prepped. O_O;

A shattered landscape holds ancient terrors that have been reawakened by the foolish. Journey to the Forbidden Portal to battle eldritch foes and shut down the gateway!


New Coliseum Stage: The Forbidden Portal

Tonight we launch our newest Coliseum stage, the Forbidden Portal. This level 25 venue is continuing challenge for your clan's veteran fighters.

An ancient portal from a forgotten age has been reinscribed with draconic symbols, unleashing creatures from beyond into Sornieth. Send your bravest warriors to The Forbidden Portal to contain the threat! This new venue introduces a variety of new items for your dragons to consume, barter or hoard. Finding each of these resources and relics can be a challenge.






Brightshine Jubilee Skin & Accent Contest

The eighth annual Brightshine Jubilee will begin June 21, 2020, and we're running a skin and accent contest in celebration! Click here for more information!




Additional Updates
Auction House icons in the Lair now include additional tooltip details:

• Auction price
• Flight (when available in a flight auction)

This update also fixes a bug where these icons would show up when a dragon was offered in a flight auction that is not your own.

Hi everyone. First, we're not removing the thread. We are leaving it locked. Not because of politics—Black Lives Matter is a human rights movement—but because this topic and discussion is one we're simply not equipped to moderate. We're a video game website and forum.

A couple things I want to note going forward:

1. "All Lives Matter" and "Blue Lives Matter" were created in an attempt to politicize, dismiss, and ultimately erase the human rights movement of Black Lives Matter. Any content posted on our website pertaining to these statements will be removed, either under politics or harassment based on context, severity, and intent as we recognize not everyone knows or is aware of this fact.

2. We respectfully request that players refrain from posting the more inflammatory statements and rhetoric associated with current events on our site. We are still a game website and forum.

3. If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback, please feel free to send us a message through Contact Us. Even if we're unable to provide you with a personalized reply, it will be read and documented by the Flight Rising team.

Quick note: Like we said in the first paragraph, we're still having our 7th Anniversary event. It's just not going to be hyped up the way it has in the past. Apologies for any confusion!

Okay. Thread's cleaned up, thread's unlocked.

1. "All lives matter" was created as a way to dismiss and erase the Black Lives Matter movement.

2. If you are struggling with this point, think of it like this: Black Lives Matter too.

3. Stay on topic. "All lives matter-ing" the thread is off-topic, leads to arguments, and is antithetical to the statement we just made.

Thank you.

Locking to finish cleaning up. The thread will be unlocked shortly.

This thread has been locked. Please see my post here for more information.

This thread has been locked. Please see my post here for more information.

This thread has been locked. Please see my post here for more information.

It is for the correct gender now, but sadly the tooltip cache is taking a bit to catch up. When items are created the site caches tooltip information about them to help keep things speedy. So there was a mistake when it was created, but it is now corrected (just explaining why things aren't matching up!) thank you for the report!

They should be in alignment now. Digging is correct!

Rabbit warrens are a system of burrows ;-)

haha. Yeah. This was corrected shortly before going live, but sadly the tooltip cache has not yet caught up. In the next hour or so it should self-correct.

A bounty (or infestation) of tiny friends awaits!

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What to do with all these critters!?
New friends have invaded dragon lairs! Can you collect them all?

The chinchilla's softness has infiltrated the treasure marketplace. These 'lil friends have a chance to stock among the other apparel!
Colonies of mice and dumbo rats have begun appearing in the gem marketplace.
Burrowing its way into your heart (and territory), the Bun-Bun Burrow can rarely be found by diggers level 25 and above through digging in earth, plague, wind, water, fire, and nature territories.
Swipp and his daughters have gotten their claws on a shipment of live ferrets! These curious creatures can be traded in exchange for 30 weasels and 50 Avian Gemstaff.
Baldwin's lab has been invaded by guinea pigs and hamsters! Alchemists level 25 and above may be able to extract them!

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New Emojis

A set of new wildclaw emojis are available in the "smiley" section of the emoji selection menu!

There are no items for kickstarter vistas. The chests are unique code from when the game opened. The act of opening the chest assigned the vista, as this was pre-vistas-as-items in the time that it was around!

Correct, the tagging is done by user ID, since names can change, and have already for many users. Currently descriptions for skins are typed in by hand, so you'll need to put in a request in the skins forum for @suburbansamurai to change the name for you in the description.

In the future, we would like to have tooltips be generated automagically for skins rather than being typed by hand. That way it'll always have the freshest user information!

Thank you for the report. This has been corrected!

We're glad everyone's enjoying it! To be fair, the credit for this goes to our skin team, particularly @madsniper, who's been working diligently on tagging our back catalogue since the game database released!

This is intended. Site skins are a different category than user-submitted skins and are tagged as being such rather than tagged as belonging to a user. Apologies!

Hello everyone! I hope your weekend went well.

I'm locking this thread, but not removing it. This thread and its direction is an example of why we don't allow discussion of forum moderation within our forums. It's not a constructive discussion but a rehashing of disagreements, targeted comments, and bad feelings.

Regarding the announcement thread, I'm including our reason for locking the thread and our statement on what happened with Tertiary Gene: Glowtail below:

Unfortunately there's a percentage of our community who chose corvid as a way to get around our name ban of covid. It quickly became clear that they planned to use this word liberally in order to create dragons to troll our community. For now and the immediate future, we've made the decision to ban the word 'corvid' temporarily as a name.

We understand this may upset some who want to name dragons after the bird, but this was a necessary measure given the circumstances and we ask for your understanding. It's not going to be on the ban list for forever, only during this crisis when so much is uncertain. Not when players come here to find respite from current events.



While changes to policy take player feedback into consideration, they're also based on data, what we see behind the scenes, and the overall impact on players and our team members.

When we can reduce opacity behind some of our decisions, we will. As always, our community is welcome to submit feedback to us through Contact Us. You may not receive a personalized reply depending on the issue, but all feedback is documented and reviewed by the Flight Rising team.

Hello everyone!

This thread is now locked. Targeted comments that are not constructive at all or comments that are disrespectful to someone for having an opinion or criticism you disagree with are not something we welcome. Unfortunately this thread has moved towards the latter, and despite pruning and reminders it’s not getting back on track.

We hear your concerns that the issues with this release means Stormlight is not adhering to our anti-crunch philosophy and stance. We remain committed to supporting our team members. When projects require more time, when a team member communicates that they need additional support, etc. we move releases back or launch other content that is ready.

What happened with Glowtail: The short color transition was a design choice and it was clearly the wrong one. We opted for a shorter color transition as the shadow layer that created the plated scale effect doesn’t play nice with our generator technology. It’s not capable of multiplying down or creating layer effects on top of non-tertiary components, so would end up gray if it was on top of the primary layer. A short transition allowed us to minimize this problem. After the player feedback came in that a longer transition was vastly preferred, @suburbansamurai made a great mock-up that extended the plate line art and the tertiary colors, but not the plate shadows to see if it provided an acceptable compromise. We liked the effect, felt it would address your feedback, and made the change—and the gene is better for it.

There were always be more genes in the future. Our design goals include providing a variety of genes and looks, and we understand that not every gene is going to land with everyone. That being said, we do want our genes to land with the majority. Constructive criticism and reporting bugs or errors is important to the continued development of the game and are always welcome.

Thank you again for your feedback and passion for our game. While we're locking this thread, if you would like to contact us with feedback about this or any other topic, you are always welcome to do so by using Contact Us.

Hi everyone!

Thank you for your patience while we worked to address the feedback from yesterday. The artwork for Glowtail has been updated on the website (though you may need to clear your browser cache to see it) and the gene is now once again stocking in the Gem Marketplace. As always, we appreciate the constructive discussions surrounding our content and are glad our community feels comfortable in voicing those thoughts.

The updated genes with longer fade and reduced glow for objects that pass in front of the glowing tail are in. It may take the site's cache up to an hour to catch up. We'll be evaluating re-releasing the gene to the marketplace soon. Thank you for your patience!