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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.

#yeahhh thats exactly why im disappointed #like. i would Really Enjoy dusthides a hell of a lot more if they were moderns instead

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Design of my veilspun Ametrine!! I thought it would be cool to do something a bit funkier for the designs of my ancient dragons. I have quite a lot, but I really want to draw some more. I’ve already sketched a drawing for a gaoler that I think would be super fun hehe

I’d like to maybe change the clothing and add more chains/butterflies to better match the skin.

#OOH OOH OOOHHHH I LIKE THIS DESIGN…. #i do anthro/regular dragons when i draw them but if i did gijinka(-adjacent) designs i would totally do smth like this #also god your COLORS. yummy tasty. #art #insp

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Did you know that centipedes sometimes curl up into cute little donuts? No? Now you do!

This cutie can be all yours for 600g! And Heres the link to get him!

#the animale ….. #art

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off my shit with these floral umas

#starts coughing and sputtering like a sickly victorian child #im so poor but oh my god these are so gorgeous. i made the mistake of looking at your shop thread and i’m ILL #the bishounen black rose is so perfect for a dragon of mine eeugh UEEGHGH (starts hacking and wheezing #art

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it begin's

#SENSHI!!!!!!!!!

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look!! THE ADMIRAL!! his title means nothing by the way. he’s my biggest and most aether of all my aethers. yes his name is just admiral. i don’t think he understands the difference between titles and names. hes also a sailor scout. i don’t think he understands gender, either. that shits over his head. he just wants to play battleship and yell out commands. just all around one of my best guys ever

#THE SILLY #MAN i love this guy #art #insp

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flight rising tundra opinion

#REAL. BASED. TRUE

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You suddenly find yourself in the world of Sornieth! Thanks to magic, you can turn yourself into any dragon breed you want. Assume the gender/colors/element are what you want. This isn’t necessarily about your favorite breed, but which breed YOU would be most comfortable being!

(A lot of these dragons overlap in category but I had to condense)

#i wanna be fuzzy but like . im so spiralcoded

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i think we as a community don't roast how bad capsule on gaolers looks enough.

like

hello?? i know its hard to work with but what was the thought process here...

#i love capsule so much and i love gaolers a lot. but i think we cpuld maybe have just let gaolers not have that gene. #like i think it would have been ok for them to simply not have it.

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when you see how your custom skin looks when you size size it down to 350x350 for the game

#LITERALLY CRUEL.

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#half and half i guess ? if i have more than like 100kt or 1kg onhand i put some in vault #just withdraw for specific purchases really

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Tutorial on bonding fast with your familiars for NotN

This might be the quickest way to get chests and event materials, but only on a computer. Be sure to take all your available familiars out of the vault and Hibernal den so you have more to work with.

First, open 2 tabs in a new window, one is your dragon, the second is your dragon’s familiar page

Set the filters on the familiar page to ‘Not Bonded Today’

Next, make your window size smaller so you can fit the bond button on the screen without scrolling down. 

Once you hit bond on your dragon’s page, use the short cut to switch tabs. On Windows this will be Ctrl + Tab. Do not move your cursor.

On the familiar page, your cursor should be hovering above the next familiar you haven’t bonded yet. Click it and switch tabs again using Ctrl + Tab.

You will be back on your dragon’s page, so refresh (Ctrl + R) to get the next familar. Switch tabs again to pick another one then switch back to your dragon.

Repeat until you finish bonding with all your familiars.

This should take at least an hour to finish depending on how much you own. Watching a video will make this process less boring.

Don’t forget to take breaks and stretch in between bonding. Happy farming!

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chat is this anything

#last one that shit is a tropical fishg

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alternate reality where i don't hate arlo so so much

#PLEAS E

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Autumn Apiarist // #2377321

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Grove Steward // #2377306

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