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The future permababy skins have me REAL excited!! I finally have a reason to make more permababies...

#Flight Rising #fr

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The most important part of nicknaming familiars on Flight Rising is jokes that are ONLY funny to you

#oh my fuckin god #Flight Rising #fr #That's a lil bit of a deep cut innit

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I'm curious,

Mod-bods: Modern bodied (1 head, 4 legs, 2 wings, 1 tail)

Odd-bods: "Non standard" dragon body layout (More than 1 head, more or less than 4 legs, more or less than 2 wings, more or less than 1 tail)

#Flight Rising #fr

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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.

#A sane take on the Dusthide debate THANK YOU #Flight Rising #fr

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Neopets Users: Half of the website is bungled and sitting on top of 90's spaghetti code that is circumvented by having about 50% of the pages to load in the old website format, we can't change our Usernames since they act as our User IDs that are inexorably tied to our accounts, and the only way we can get some apparel is through a loot box that costs real money, sometimes upwards of 10 bucks for a 25% chance of getting what we want. That's ok tho, my favorite neopet has a custom outfit that looks really nice :] Sucks when the clothing that costs realass money doesn't show up on my pet though. I hope they fix that soon

Flight Rising Users: If the staff releases one more dragon breed with 4 legs and 2 wings we're going to file a class action lawsuit and scream forever

#Flight Rising #fr #Are Neopets users ok #You guys deserve better you're the Ur-Petsite of the internet #I say as a casual Neopets player #Neopets

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Me: I love these funky lil bald dragons! And Spore might be my new favorite Ancient gene! I wonder what other people are doing with their Dusthides. SURELY Everyone is being normal with their critiques and not attacking other people personally or hailing the end of the website as we know it!

88% of the fr tag: Completely normal. Some like it, some don't, for various reasons. Average amount of grump

12% of the fr tag:

#THE BALD DRAGON IS THE HARBINGER OF THE END TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!! #THE DEVS ARE TURNING TO PILLARS OF SALT AND DUSTING AWAY IN GOD'S WRATHFUL GAZE #Meanwhile the Dusthides: :3 #Flight Rising #fr

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Someone in a discord I'm in said they thought everyone hated the new ancient so here, poll time

For the sake of my sodium intake, please keep salt to a minimum! This is just for fun and curiosity.

#I was surprised to see them have a pretty standard body plan but I think their Ancient genes makes up for that. IN LOVE with Spore tbh #Flight Rising #fr #TO CLARIFY: I like them lots but I think they should've been a Modern #But it gave us Spore as a gene so I'll take it #slappin their baldy heads

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everyone talking about isopods, armadillos, or those small lizards are wrong

consider:

#Same size too hopefully #Flight Rising #fr #give me the choking hazard dragon

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By Talos this can't be happening

Today is a marvellous day, I get to go have lunch with my grandmother and then when I get back I get rolly-polly Earth Ancients

I'm hoping their either Flat Fucks like a pillbug or woodlouse or something similar, or the fattest rolliest lil pudgy bastards ever

GODSPEED TO EVERYONE WAITING THROUGH THE MAINTENANCE, I'M WITH YOU IN SPIRIT

#SO MY PLANS HAVE. CHANGED. #I AM NOW WITH YOU ALL FOR THE RELEASE #Flight Rising #fr

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Today is a marvellous day, I get to go have lunch with my grandmother and then when I get back I get rolly-polly Earth Ancients

I'm hoping their either Flat Fucks like a pillbug or woodlouse or something similar, or the fattest rolliest lil pudgy bastards ever

GODSPEED TO EVERYONE WAITING THROUGH THE MAINTENANCE, I'M WITH YOU IN SPIRIT

#Flight Rising #fr

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

#omg #Flight Rising #fr

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⚠️ Scheduled Maintenance ⚠️

There will be a scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 starting at 09:00 server time. This is an open-ended 'curtains down' maintenance to launch the next ancient breed. The Flight Rising website will be unavailable during this time.

We also have a status update for our players on Flight Rising lore and Ancient Auraboriculture Observations.

#Flight Rising #fr #OOO New breed!! I'm down for it :]

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Got an eclipse today in my area that's gonna cover 90% of the sun! I'm quite excited about it. I, of course, want to make an Eclipse dragon as a result.

#Flight Rising #fr #the last one was in 1994 #and there won't be one again until I'm in my 50's!!

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I’m Cryin.

So I commissioned someone who is NOT on Fr and don’t knows the site to draw Kain a while ago. Yesterday while I wasn’t pying attention they accepted. Took the ref and finished today.

And i come to my Inbox to find a picture of HD april fools Kain drawn for me.  THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANTED.

At the same time I can’t blame the person at all because they thought this was his legitimate fucking ref I’m weeping. Its such bad timing it’s hilarious. 

#love u HD Kain #Flight Rising #fr

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Debating on if I should nest this pair or not. They've got a gargantuan range but some of their babies are hella pretty

#Flight Rising #FR

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YEEEESSSSSS

THEY ACTUALLY LISTENED AAAAAHHHHHHHHH

#flight rising #fr #pog

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#Flight Rising #fr #LOOOOVE how it grows aaaa #its so cute