Brief Flight Rising registration opening!

[alias_sqbr]

The game that's filled my Glitch emptiness the best has been the dragon breeding game Flight Rising. I haven't posted about it here because registrations were closed, but they are open today/tomorrow for a few hours: Tuesday, September 3rd from 5:00AM to 8:00AM PST. They plan to try opening registrations again after that once they see how the servers handle the load, so if you miss out subscribe to the tumblr etc and you should be able to get in eventually.

It's not inherently social, but is a lot of fun if you play with friends and swap dragons and go "LOOK HOW PRETTY THIS ONE IS" etc. And the treasure grinding games are fun.

If any of you are already playing I'm sqbr there (lookit my pretty dragons!)

EDIT: some useful advice for creating an account

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[elf]

Thanks! (I figured you were probably Jokes. Or Jokes was you. Or however that works.)

Progenitors bred. Breeding. Whatever. There are eggs.

I could... buy familiars at the market/auction thing? I don't have much treasure yet; is it good to get a familiar, any familiar, right away, or should I wait for the ability to get a "good" one? (What's a good one?)

I have no idea what kind of Stuff is valuable; sorting out the market will take me a while. Does it have a Glitchy approach to acquisition of Stuff? (I.e. "collect everything that's free; you'll use it all eventually; don't pay for anything until you figure out whether you have a use for it?")

Is there any reason not to immediately open chests and find out what's inside? Is there a limit on how big a hoard can get?

...you don't have to answer (or don't have to answer these questions) if that's troublesome. Mainly looking for answers to "ok, I'm here... now what?"

[lienne]

"Good" familiars are just more rare and expensive. There is not anything inherently different about how they work in the game, except that you can only have one of each kind of familiar in your lair - if one of your dragons has a Luna Mith, you have no use for a second Luna Mith because a second dragon can't take it. I always go for the cheapest familiar I can find, in the auction house or the marketplace, when I have more dragons than familiars. (Sometimes I have more familiars than dragons, and then I end up swapping out a bunch of familiars onto one dragon to bond with them all - you can do that and it won't lose you anything.)

"collect everything that's free; you'll use it all eventually; don't pay for anything until you figure out whether you have a use for it?" is definitely my strategy when it comes to Stuff. I especially like having as much of as much stuff as possible because Crim the Collector asks for random objects at twice the price you'll get for using the 'sell' option in your hoard, and the more random objects I've got, the likelier I will have whatever she wants at any given time. (Sometimes she asks way less than something is actually worth - I usually don't sell battle stones to her, and you definitely shouldn't sell scrolls to her; it is almost never worth it.)

I love love love opening treasure chests, so I open all the ones I get. Other people might prefer to collect and/or sell them. Selling them might be more profitable, but to me at least, opening them is much more fun.

There is not a limit on how big a hoard can get, as far as I know.

I am happy to help! :D

[alias_sqbr]

Just popping in to say this is all very good advice which I may link to instead of having to articulate any of it myself :D

Some other things I have learned that may not be relevant to you for a while: -it is much cheaper to buy a new dragon than try and change a dragon you already have via scrolls. So if you want to get new breeds or genes (like shininess or stripes) see how much such dragons cost at the AH (auction house) and save up for them or find someone willing to swap for something you already have. Dragon prices tend to drop over time. -Usually the best way to search the AH is to put 0 to 1000000 in the treasure boxes and "price ascending". -When you gather, different regions have different animals etc, try and gather a bit from all the different regions so you have a range of stuff to sell to Crim. -it is a pain to find someone from just their username, always give your lair number as well (or a link). -exalting is a quick way to make money from unwanted dragons, but you can usually make more money by selling them and it is a BAD IDEA to exalt your progenitors. -different breeds have different colliseum fighting styles (eg faes tend towards magic, guardians towards physical damage) and it's often easier to get a new dragon than respec one you already have. You need at least 3 named adult dragons to fight, the rewards are usually pretty small but sometimes you get familiars/chests etc.

And I also have way too much fun opening chests to sell them :)

[elf]

Good to know I can just open chests. I was worried that there might be better times to open them or something like that, not whether it was better to open or sell as mysteries. (Anything with variable contents is going to have a market; I'm not going to be interested in that market anytime soon.)