blue/brown ridgie girl is interesting to me (id look at the guardian if it werent for basic 8( ) tempted to buy her @littlemissCodeless ? Not for sure if I want to or not, can I see her hatch ID # so I can stick it in scrying? I noticed FR has a tendency to have REALLY NICE BABIES that look entirely different when grown up. Like my eternally youth'd imp boy: All nice ad pretty in the grey-blue-purple range right? Wrong.
@Rose Here´s her link And turns out I´m keeping guardian bby to breed for a friend, so that´s perfectly ok.
@littlemissCodeless running her through scrying made me like butterfly and shimmer on her, but as far as "cheap" options go I think she'd look best in stripes. Does 20k sound fair?
nrrrrrrgh trying to resist signing up for FR >:I I prefer just lurking; I worry it'll become like Neopets where it'll become just one big obligation and timesink that I REALLY don't need, but I also don't like not being able to see people's scryed dragons when I browse the forums and whatnot X) but. so tempted. damn this longer-than-usual registration window. :F
Oh sure, neither did Neopets, but I have a terrible time with guilt, even over inanimate pixel objects. >_O
TBH because of HOW LONG FR has kept itself in closed beta and continues to do so, the economy has sunk so low that you can get your "dream dragon" in a matter of hours with the right grinding habits. If it weren't for the fact I have the worst internet on the planet I don't doubt I'd have literal billions on that site; I've had it before. I manage to make at least 20k from casual clickplay gathering, and if you wait long enough for gene/color hype to die you can get really nice gened dragons. [OLD MAN VOICE] BACK IN MY DAY A TRIPLE OBSIDIAN BASIC IMPERIAL WAS 500 MILLION TREASURE, AND THATS HOW WE LIKED IT.
God, back in the day I spent real actual money to get gems for an iri/shim guardian and now you can't GIVE those fuckers away. sigh.
I got two speckle/freckle/basic guardians for 30k each and they had the ugliest colors but their babies sold for 100k each once I breed changed them. /WIZENED OLD MAN VOICE CONTINUES
so i am playing this dragon game now, and i'm immensely disappointed you can't breed for height/weight/length but otherwise i'm having fun. and advice for the newest of newbies?
There's a festival around the last week of each month. If you can, you may want to play with the coliseum and try to get a few levels into a team of dragons before the next festival begins; it will make it easier to get things in the festival. Festival stuff tends to appreciate pretty well, so it can be worth hanging onto your spares for a year or so until it's Super Expensive. If you can, it's worthwhile to upgrade Baldwin to high levels; you can make neat clothes, and Poison/Toxin genes are worth a lot. TAKE ALL OF OUR DRAGONS WE ALL HAVE TOO MANY SO MANY AUGH.
The guides forum is kind of a mess to try to find anything in, but it has a lot of good guides for things like how genes breed against each other and where to find what items through gathering, and what you'll need to brew items through alchemy; it's worth looking through. The Coliseum is basically jRPG-style battle of a not particularly interesting kind, but it's a good way to get food, items, and festival currency. Here's a great guide for how to allocate stats to dragons you're training - the game doesn't autolevel them for you, you have to allocate stats for them and purchase skills yourself. It's way, way WAY cheaper to buy dragons with genes you like than to gene them up yourself. Projects can be fun, but you'll save yourself a lot of money in the long run if you buy already gened dragons and make breeding projects to get the ones you want. Breed what you like best. Some people will say only certain kinds of dragons will sell, but that's not true. Right now, the site has a major dearth of interesting color combinations - it seems like most dragons are doubles (two colors the same) or near-doubles - and if you come up with a good one, it might sell for a lot. If you can't sell hatchlings, wait until they grow up, train them in the coliseum, and exalt them. Exalting is a mechanic that removes dragons from the game; lore-wise, they're going off to serve the flight's god. They leave money behind when they're exalted, and how much they leave depends on how high a level they are. I've found getting them to level 6 or 7 is the best use of my time for the money I get. If you can't be bothered to level them, they'll still leave a couple of thousand gold. The exception: Your progenitors (the two dragons you begin with). If you exalt them they give no money, and they're gone forever. Even if you think they're ugly, hold on to them! They'll form the core of your first coliseum team, if you choose to have one, and they may well grow on you.
what a coincidence! that's my favorite combination and i already have one of those coatl dragon thingies with those but it was really cheap??? maybe i got lucky.
what's the tldr on the different element things, btw? i'd read all the lore or forum stuff, but. there's a lot.
The dragons themselves can run from expensive to cheap, but it's the gene scrolls that sell for a lot! They can't be bought through the Marketplace, only made via alchemy.
Sadly, it's the gene ITEMS that are expensive; dragons with those genes are cheap. Everybody wants to gene their own! Coatls are adorable though. :D (Poison/toxin gene items are worth around 250k - 300k treasure each, which is decent money. They're just tedious to make because it's a lot of cauldron grinding.)
Whoops, ninja'd! About elements: For practical purposes, they determine the color of your dragon babies' eyes, give you access to the in-flight forum, and flights compete with each other for ULTIMATE VICTORY. If you don't like competing, it's just eye-color. The lore is... longer. Which flight are you?
