Let’s talk about the Flight Rising economy. A new player’s perspective.

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Flight Rising currently has 18 dragon breeds; 15 modern and 3 ancient. There are four Plentiful Breeds that are available at the start of the game, four Common Breeds, three Uncommon Breeds, two Limited Breeds, two Rare Breeds, and three Ancient Breeds. Each dragon breed has a hatchling form that possesses the same genes and colors as the adult it will turn into. All breeds grow up into adults.

Now I’m not new to browser games. I played neopets when I was 12 like everyone else on the Internet and I’ve been playing it off and on since then. (when I was 12 is now 13 years ago *soft weeping*)

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I’ve made some good money on there through hard work and careful saving and gotten my pets painted. It’s been a satisfying experience I keep coming back to when I need my browser game fix.

I also have played The Dragon Cave a bunch. I’ve done my share of breeding pixel dragons. At one point before they started tracking lineages on that site I made a MyHeritage account to keep track of my dragon breeding records and I sometimes get emails from MyHeritage earnestly urging me to update my “dragonry”.

Flight Rising seems to have – in potential – the best of both worlds from these sites. The biggest issue right now is the gameplay difficulty curb is broken. I know most people will say “the economy is broken” but it runs deeper than that. When a game starts out it’s supposed to be easy and then get more difficult as you get deeper in to it. I’m sure anyone who games is familiar with the concept.

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There are a few things that have really, really broken FR. I’ll talk about them behind the cut.

1. The price of basic dragonlets is good! The price jump up to the next ‘tier’ of dragons is not.

The 'bargain bin’ dragons as I like to think about them are important. They allow new players an entry level into the breeding game even if their progenitor’s color combos are icky. With a little bit of forethought a talented breeder can pick out a couple of otherwise unwanted dragonlets on the cheap and coax a good clutch out of them and make a profit off of the babies.

The problem is right now the profit isn’t enough.

There should be a smooth transition to work up to from 'basic’ dragons to 'gened’ dragons. Right now good color combos are NOT bridging the distance. They sell for more than 'unfortunate’ basics but not enough more. There needs to be a better curb up.

There are a few ways they could smooth the curb some:

1) Give a chance at genes randomly popping up when you breed basics.

2) At a certain milestone in the game give everyone a random gene. That is your one gene. You get it some time after your first clutch hatches.

3) Lower the base marketplace prices of some of the genes.

4) Give one of your progenitors a random gene from a 'pool’ of 'common’ genes. By only giving it to one progenitor that would keep it from becoming TOO common while still giving newbies some access to money-via-breeding.

5) Allow more control over color when breeding 'basic’ dragons to give 'basic’ pairings more worth.

6) Reduce cooldowns on breeding across the board except for the 'top tiers’ of dragon species.

2. You really need more than two dragons starting out

It’s important that new players have access to dragons. The game gives you two. Ideally, within 24 hours of playing, one ought to be able to obtain a third dragon. Ideally this would be another adult dragon obtained through some sort of set of initiation procedures – more difficult to get than your progenitors but basically guaranteed if you put in the work. There are a couple of reasons for this A) it lets new players know that obtaining a dragon is not out of their reach B) it allows new players fair access to the coliseum and C) it encourages new players to start participating in the game even more to acquire a mate for their 3rd dragon.

I didn’t have any particular trouble getting basic dragons, but I know other people have. I was fortunate enough to have a sister who gave me one of her first clutch so I wouldn’t have to wait 10 days (!?!?!?!) to get a third adult dragon so I could use the coliseum as intended.

3. There really need to be more ways to make money

In online virtual pet sites and MMOs there are two ways to make money 'passive’ ways to make money – that require almost no input from the user – and 'active’ ways to make money. A good strategy for virtual pet sites that I’ve seen is to put in a baseline of 'passive’ ways to make money that encourage daily logging on and clicking of a button (similar to that 'gathering’ that you can do in game already) and then put in a myriad of 'active’ ways to make money that appeal to various playstyles.

Right now the ways of passively generating money are A) bonuses from keeping your dragons well fed for three days, B) gathering (I’m gonna count it) and C) dominance.

I understand that flight rising is struggling big time right now. I get that the dude programing a bunch of the games was a giant creepnugget on another site and is now on leave for it.

But if they are going to have games be their primary means for actively generating money then they really, really, need to give them a priority.

Some solutions

1) Take all the flash based games down temporarily. In their place put up 2-3 browser/javascript based games similar to higher-or-lower. Solitare, puzzle games, crosswords, chess, checkers – they don’t have to be flashy. Just basic, rudimentarily entertaining games. This is intended to be a band-aid. Something to get them through the buggy first few months. Flash games are great. Games that work are better.

2) Create another way of actively earning money. Grinding the lowest level of the coliseum hoping for rare drops is obviously not the way the game was intended to be played but that’s what things have come to – particularly for players with less than three dragons.

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Find some ways to crowdsource work that needs to be done on the site. Pay players in treasure for doing it. Two birds. One stone.

3) Toss in some more passive treasure generating things. Buttons clicked once that make 200 treasure a day pop up. Something small that adds up. Give players ways to up the passive treasure generation that are NOT dominance and/or make sure there is some way to contribute to dominance BESIDES exalting dragons (For instance: allow familiars to be exalted for a lesser contribution/ allow players to contribute materials (skulls, leather, etc) and food to their flight’s efforts/ have victories in rated coliseum matches contribute towards dominance and losses detract FROM dominance).

4) This idea for passive generation gets its own entry: Give dragons

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