#flight of the ancient

[palushiemalis-fr]

new species upon ye

#fr #flight rising #new ancient

[jacks-archive]

Storm Upon the Sea

Midnight/Peacock/Eldritch

#flight rising #scrying workshop #midnight #peacock #eldritch #varnish #coil #wavecrest #primal #dusthide #ancient

[dire-vulture]

please everyone send energy with me that the new ancient will be Fat..

#i still feel they are releasing them too fast and the. no lore thing definitely is another point toward that dfgsfd #but at least if i can have a new canon fat dragon thatll be something #pheel talk #text post #flight rising #honestly i kind of hope it isnt wind fgsdf i really want them to put in the time for the wind ancient to be great

[flightrising]

The ancient tenders of the Behemoth had everything they thought they would ever need: the Gladekeeper, the Tree and the Loop. But after the events of the Bounty of the Elements, the newest generation of Auraboa finds that it wants to learn of the outside world, and connect with those outside their ancestral homeland and unique bond!

#Flight Rising #FlightRising #Dragons #Dragon #Content Update #Virtual Pet Site #Indie Game Dev #Digital Art #Ancient Breeds #FR

[volcross]

New Breed Strike Hype!

Inspired by: here

#flight rising #flightrising #flight rising memes #flight rising: new breed #flight rising ancient

[root-dweller]

would you still love me if i was a huge arthropod

#flight rising #nature ancient #fr auraboa #scrying workshop

[tsunami-gem-guardian]

Holy shit.

#Thomas real #staff really said fine you want a Thomas earth ancient well give you one #flight rising

[rara-avis-fr]

my hottest FR lore take is that filigree, opal, and gembond are all the exact same condition at different levels of severity

#flight rising #ignore that some ancient breeds only have a few of these. on moderns theyre all the same disease #i will elaborate on this if asked

[nevadawolfe]

The baby… I am gonna be so broke send help 😭😍

I got luckier than I thought I would be on one of my clanbound eggs and she will (eventually) be the result

Colors: Dirt - Saffron - Cerulean

Genes: Petrified - Marlin - Blossom

Wind common eyes

#fr #flight rising #fr dusthide #I will be saving for her genes for the next 192947283 years #blossom alone for ancients was 8k gems last I checked

[mothable]

the new ancient has a GECKO TAIL. i REPEAT, THE NEW ANCIENT HAS A GECKO TAIL

#flight rising #dusthide #flight rising dusthide #flight rising art #fr dusthide #fr #fr ancients #flight rising ancients #my art #idk the tags i just busted this out in ten minutes in my excitement bro #also look at my toothless-lookin RNG hatchling and be jealous

[mousetrappa-fr]

NO FUCKING WAY. GUYS I DESIGNED AN ARMADILLO BASED EARTH ANCIENT BACK IN NOVEMBER.

#flight rising #fake ancient #fr fake ancient #earth ancient #well half armadillo half ankylosaur #oh I’m soooo excited even if I’m annoyed at how soon this ancient is after the last one #I was waiting to have more work done on them before showing but well… #I thought I’d have more time

[lichennthrope-fr]

Just finished this lil sunset beaste

#love this dragon. the admiration #first permababyyy #obsessed with this beaste... #flight rising #flight rising dragons #flight rising dragon sales #flight rising dragon share #dragon share #fr dragon share #fr dragon showoff #abberation #fr abberation #fr permababy #fr ancient #flight rising ancient

[little-eye-guy]

conversation after a long week

#eye guy art #drawings #ocs #flight rising #frfanart #eye guy plays fr #penumbra would have been my only ancient.... in the end though my obelisk loving heart is happy

[xeneric-shrooms]

I am once again asking for double terts for ancients u_u

#LISTEN THE SECOND TERT WILL ONLY BE GENES #NO FOURTH COLOUR #pleaes some of the terts are so small can we please have two on ancients #flight rising #xen.speaks.fr

[roukabi]

I feel like when it comes to the Dusthide debate, a lot of people seem to misinterpret the main point of Ancients as both a game element and a product.

A big part of Flight Rising is dress-up. While users can argue on what the sole draw of FR is (dragons themselves, breeding, the Dominance system, etc), it's generally agreed that the dress-up aspect is one with a lot of care and resources put into it, and is therefore very important to site gameplay. Dress-up keeps getting updated with new apparel, and if there is to be a new dragon breed, it needs every piece of apparel re-drawn on it. This takes time. A lot of time. Gaps between dragons (now known as Moderns) stretch for years at a time.

Ancients were initially created as a way to fill in these time gaps between Moderns, and the easiest way to do that was to release dragons without apparel. However, this is a game that puts a lot of emphasis on dragon dress-up. Imagine if Obelisks were released without any coded apparel. You'd just have a naked dragon missing a huge element of the game, and for most players, there's no fun in that.

This is where the second point of Ancients comes in: because the appeal of clothing is gone, there has to be some kind of compromise. So... if Ancients can't wear apparel, then they are no longer restrained by the requirements for apparel (1 head/4 legs/2 wings)...

which means that they can break the modern mold freely! You can have a dragon with no legs, or six. Or with two heads, or no head. And now that you don't have to worry about apparel clipping, the tertiary genes can go wild! There is room for customization that apparel can't fulfill - you could give it extra wings, or a jellyfish head, or giant tree horns, or you could give it nothing at all as tertiary genes are optional, and it wouldn't matter because there's no apparel to be drawn around it!

Ancients are supposed to be a trade-off. There's no selling point to a dragon without clothing on the Dragons With Clothing Game, but there is a selling point to a dragon with, say, 13 legs, no wings and no tail. It doesn't wear apparel, because it physically can't, and it makes use of this function in creative ways. The inability to wear apparel is justified by the Ancient's unique proportions.

And this is where the criticisms for Dusthides and other 'basic' Ancients stems from: if your Ancient dragon is just the 1 head/4 legs/2 wings setup, then is it really an Ancient or a Modern you can't dress up? You could have the wildest, gaudiest, 15-limb tertiary gene on a Dusthide and it wouldn't matter, because tertiaries are optional and aren't a permanent part of the dragon that would inhibit the usage of apparel.

If a dragon doesn't have a justifiable reason to not wear apparel, then there's no reason for it being an Ancient.

No amount of linebreaking tertiaries will be able to hide the fact that some dragons seem to be created only for the first, initial purpose: just to tide people over until a better, 'real' dragon is created.

And that's just disappointing.

#lots of discussion going on in the flight rising tag so i'm adding my two cents #well. more like seven cents #i'll admit i don't care for dusthides and i didn't care for auraboas either #i just... don't know where staff is going with this. why all these ancients now? why make them (for lack of a better word) boring? #what's the end goal here? who is this for? #that's my biggest question. Who Is This For? #dusthides aren't for people who like moderns because they're not getting any #they're not really for people who like the mould-breaking of ancients because. well. they aren't #they're not for people who like ancients for lore because they didn't drop with lore #i guess they're for people who like linebreaking genes? but idk what makes those stand out apart from. yknow. apparel. #flight rising #fr #dusthides #fr ancients #rook roars!

[root-dweller]

look how hard my newest sandsurge FUCKS

#flight rising #sandsurge #lightning ancient