#fr ancients

[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

[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!

[olessan-lokenosse]

#SMOL... but the ancient is probably not a little bean #it's an armadillo lizard #but actually it looks more like a roly poly/pillbug so it may be a buggy dragon similar to the aether lol #flight rising #flightrising #fr #fr ancients #fr news #fr official #another insect themed dragon is definitely not my first preference but eager to see em anyway!

[sovereignfives]

concept: the earth ancient is just a striped hyena with a big ass mane

#flight rising #fr ancients

[chaotic-minds-think-alike]

Not a fan of the new ancient breed so here’s my take

#myart #dragon #design #flight rising #fr ancients #earth flight #flight rising fanart #flight rising fandragon

[smug-aura]

God I hope this year's Minstral Jamboree reveals the wind ancient. And I know it probably isn't going to be what I think it is, but in my mind I am manifesting a pterodactyl dragon.

#flight rising #fr ancients #minstral jamboree

[aberration-abbey]

Aethers: Haha, yeah, we lost contact with the planet when we accidentally knocked ourselves into low orbit. What about you guys?

Sandsurges: We turned away from the surface world in search of independence.

Gaolers: Our duty required us to be sealed away from modern life to protect the world from unspeakable horrors.

Undertides: Our god replaced us, so we abandoned him in turn.

Aberrations: Our god tried to kill us! Didn't work, though.

Banescales: We were extinct.

Veilspun: …Yeah we've just been hanging out.

#flight rising #fr ancients #it will never not be funny to me that veilspun don't have any dramatic tragic backstory they're just really good at shadow flight things #which happen to include hiding

[theannoyingquestionsblog]

I had a dream where flight rising came out w/ a new breed called like donkers or something and it was straight up just a donkey with wings. Everyone loved it

#flight rising #dragons #fr ancients

[dragonpoundcake]

im back from the dead

college has been kicking my ass but on the bright side i finally got medication for adhd YIPPEE!!!

#flight rising #fr ancients #fr aether #fr auraboa #fr abberation #fr banescale #fr gaoler #fr sandsurge #fr undertide #fr veilspun

[ack-cough]

*SCREAMS FROM THE VOID*

I found a cutie!!

#oc #ask me anything #flight rising #flight rising headcanon #flight rising oc #fr art #flight rising aether #fr aether #fr fan art #fr fandragon #fr ice #fr ancients #flight rising ancient

[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

Garchomp and Toxtricity Amped scries!

(Blue/Ultramarine/Blue and Nightshade/Banana/Yellow)

#Flight Rising #Sandsurge #FR Sandsurge #Sandsurge Dragon #Dragons #FR Dragons #Flight Rising Ancient #FR Ancients #Lightning Ancient #Ancient Breed #Fandragons #FR Fandragon #Flight Rising Scry #Scrying Workshop #Pokémon #Pokemon #Garchomp #Toxtricity #Amped Toxtricity #Straight From the Dragon's Mouth #They're not called Thunderheads unfortunately 😔 #But they'll always be that in my heart

[hor-wod-flir]

I hatched a total of 92 Hatchlings for Leap Day today. These and their siblings and more are still for sale, tho I can't promise for how long.

Head over to my Hatchery Thread and grab them there. Whats left tomorrow will be put on the AH. Find my Hatchery Thread in the replies and reblogs.

@fr-dragon-sales @fr-boosts

#flight rising #dragon share #fr dragons #flight rising dragons #fr #fr hatchery #my dragons #fr ancients #dragons for sale #fr leap day #leap yeap

[anoradraws]

So, Flight Rising has released a new Ancient Dragon earlier today, and I thought I'd share some ideas of what I'm gonna turn at least three of my dragons into!

The medusa and scuttle tertiary traits are so cool, and as you can already tell I absolutely LOVE the primary mochlus and the secondary riopa genes!

#Dragons #Flight Rising #Feather Serpents #FR #FR Dragon Share #Auraboa #Dragon Share #Scrying Workshop #Medusa #Nature #Ancient Nature #FR Ancients #FR Dragons #Ancient Dragons #Nature Flight

[nemalifowl]

Nature ancient!!! 👀

So excited for snake dragons

#dragon art #dragons #frfanart #flight rising #fr art #fr dragons #artwork #fr fanart #fr ancients #fr ancient #nature ancient

[aempest-fr]

ok so the last two ancient designs better be weird as fuck, I don’t want staff to play it safe with another four limbed one pair winged dragon. I want a dragon that simply CANNOT fit in with moderns. These two ancients have to look like freaks please no more typical dragon qualities please

#flight rising #fr #fr ancients

[sagesilentfire]

looked back in time on the announcements page...

yeah... it definitely didn't start with the ancients.

#flight rising #my posts #ancient breeds fr #fr ancients #dusthide #literally the only difference is that ancients have a lot of genes release at once. that's it. #queue queue