Flight Rising General Thread [Registration: 8/15 - 8/20]

[LethalLulu]

I want to breed dragons and sell the babies, but I don't know what kind of dragons go for the most. I have had one sale for 50k though O:
But what makes a dragon worth, say, 400k?

 

[Xanarcah]

I want to breed dragons and sell the babies, but I don't know what kind of dragons go for the most. I have had one sale for 50k though O:
But what makes a dragon worth, say, 400k?

400k is a pretty high benchmark. To sell a newly hatched dragon for that much, it would most likely have to have genes that were newly released, likely within the last... week of the hatching, I'd hazard. Some gene release hypes crashed very quickly (Hypnotic), while others can last for weeks on end (Crystal). It depends on the popularity of the gene. This goes for breeds too, in case they release a new breed in the near future.

Or it could be a G1 with great colors. XXY, XYX, XYY, or popular color combos can sell for a lot of money. It's a big gamble, though, because all the colors are random and eggs are far from cheap right now.

You miiiight also be able to sell a very pretty (popular breed/color combo) fully stoned level 25 for 400k. 400k is pretty steep for one, but it's possible with enough marketing.

If you're very lucky, you could try aiming to hatch a milestone ID number. I think I heard dragon 18mil hatched today. o: I'm not sure if cool IDs are all the rage anymore, but in the past some of the really nice ones were going for 30kg+



Other dragons that can sell for 400k+ include old dragons (dragons with very low ID numbers), but that has nothing to do with breeding to sell.

 

[LethalLulu]

400k is a pretty high benchmark. To sell a newly hatched dragon for that much, it would most likely have to have genes that were newly released, likely within the last... week of the hatching, I'd hazard. Some gene release hypes crashed very quickly (Hypnotic), while others can last for weeks on end (Crystal). It depends on the popularity of the gene. This goes for breeds too, in case they release a new breed in the near future.

Or it could be a G1 with great colors. XXY, XYX, XYY, or popular color combos can sell for a lot of money. It's a big gamble, though, because all the colors are random and eggs are far from cheap right now.

You miiiight also be able to sell a very pretty (popular breed/color combo) fully stoned level 25 for 400k. 400k is pretty steep for one, but it's possible with enough marketing.

If you're very lucky, you could try aiming to hatch a milestone ID number. I think I heard dragon 18mil hatched today. o: I'm not sure if cool IDs are all the rage anymore, but in the past some of the really nice ones were going for 30kg+



Other dragons that can sell for 400k+ include old dragons (dragons with very low ID numbers), but that has nothing to do with breeding to sell.

400k was a super random number I threw out haha. I've seen dragons go for 800k, and I'm just thinking "Whaaat, how??" It really baffles me.

I figured, with the new genes and all. If I come across eggs, I always sell them immediately haha. I should hatch one one day.

What does that mean? The xxy, etc. I never found an explanation for it.

What do you mean milestone ID number? Like 1,000,000?

 

[Xanarcah]

400k was a super random number I threw out haha. I've seen dragons go for 800k, and I'm just thinking "Whaaat, how??" It really baffles me.

I figured, with the new genes and all. If I come across eggs, I always sell them immediately haha. I should hatch one one day.

What does that mean? The xxy, etc. I never found an explanation for it.

What do you mean milestone ID number? Like 1,000,000?

The most I've ever paid for a dragon was around 14mil, so yeaahh. xD; People are totally willing to shell out a lot (lots more than that in some cases) for a new pixel pet.

I've only ever hatched one egg because I am terrible at gambling. I'd rather have the money for sure in my pocket than get an ugly hatchling and be disappointed.

XXY and the others are just a way of communicating color patterns. X is one color and Y is another. So an XXY has the primary and secondary the same and the tert is different. Like White/White/Obsidian. XYX would be like White/Obsidian/White. An XYZ is a dragon with all three colors that are different.

Exactly about the milestone numbers. Some people really like impressive ID numbered dragons. Imagine owning ID 7777777. Seven sevens? Or 6660666. Even just repeating numbers like 21212121 can garner interest from people.

 

[Peisinoe]

Yes. Breeds like imps/coatls/wcs sell well because higher cool down. I say just breed what looks good and you like. Don't worry too much about money.

People aren't spending much because of
Color wheel coming

 

[LethalLulu]

The most I've ever paid for a dragon was around 14mil, so yeaahh. xD; People are totally willing to shell out a lot (lots more than that in some cases) for a new pixel pet.

I've only ever hatched one egg because I am terrible at gambling. I'd rather have the money for sure in my pocket than get an ugly hatchling and be disappointed.

XXY and the others are just a way of communicating color patterns. X is one color and Y is another. So an XXY has the primary and secondary the same and the tert is different. Like White/White/Obsidian. XYX would be like White/Obsidian/White. An XYZ is a dragon with all three colors that are different.

Exactly about the milestone numbers. Some people really like impressive ID numbered dragons. Imagine owning ID 7777777. Seven sevens? Or 6660666. Even just repeating numbers like 21212121 can garner interest from people.

FOURTEEN MILL!??!? How even oAo
I love gambling though heehee

Oooooh, that makes sense! Thanks for clarifying that for me!
I wonder if I have any crazy numbered dragons haha.

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Yes. Breeds like imps/coatls/wcs sell well because higher cool down. I say just breed what looks good and you like. Don't worry too much about money.

People aren't spending much because of
Color wheel coming

Yah, that makes sense. I have only been selling some pretties for 50k. I will try to get XXX colored dragons maybe. Or XXY, etc.

 

[Xanarcah]

People aren't spending much because of
Color wheel coming

This is also true. I've heard people complaining that dragons sales are slower right now because a lot of people are holding off on buying new dragons until the new colors are released. Also, there hasn't been a reg window for a while, so people might be full up on dragons at the moment.

 

[LethalLulu]

But these are the dragons I've been selling, and I am taking offers on them. I just thought since they looked cool someone may want some, but I am wrong apparently haha

http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/1620876/1

 

[Xanarcah]

FOURTEEN MILL!??!? How even oAo
I love gambling though heehee

Oooooh, that makes sense! Thanks for clarifying that for me!
I wonder if I have any crazy numbered dragons haha.

I thought it was a good deal. xD; Most of it was in items, though. This is the one I bought:




His ID is 9544. His ID is 4 digits long, making him what's known as a 4 digit dragon. He hatched within the first 10,000 dragons on the entire site. The 18th million dragon hatched earlier today, so that makes him really really old.

I just found a 5 digit dragon in the AH for 50k today, too, those tend to go for more around the 400k+ range.


More than just going for XXY or XXX dragons, you might try finding out which color and gene combos are popular right now and breeding those. Like IriShimGlim or PoiTox on eyeburners. I'm assuming pastels are still popular, not sure about goth pastels.

Christmas is also coming up, if you get a move on putting together a Christmas pair or two, you can market the babies right around the start of December for maximum money.

 

[LethalLulu]

I thought it was a good deal. xD; Most of it was in items, though. This is the one I bought:




His ID is 9544. His ID is 4 digits long, making him what's known as a 4 digit dragon. He hatched within the first 10,000 dragons on the entire site. The 18th million dragon hatched earlier today, so that makes him really really old.

I just found a 5 digit dragon in the AH for 50k today, too, those tend to go for more around the 400k+ range.


More than just going for XXY or XXX dragons, you might try finding out which color and gene combos are popular right now and breeding those. Like IriShimGlim or PoiTox on eyeburners. I'm assuming pastels are still popular, not sure about goth pastels.

Christmas is also coming up, if you get a move on putting together a Christmas pair or two, you can market the babies right around the start of December for maximum money.

Oh woooow that's impressive!

Wow, nice find! Are you reselling that one?

That's what I am trying to to honestly. If the dragons I have don't sell in 2 weeks, I will just exalt them.

Oooh I will definitely try and do that! Christmas dragus!

 

[Xanarcah]

But these are the dragons I've been selling, and I am taking offers on them. I just thought since they looked cool someone may want some, but I am wrong apparently haha

http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/baz/1620876/1

I'd chalk lack of offers up to unpopular genes and being only double gened instead of triple gened. The majority of people (but not all!) tend to hate on Speckle, Freckle, Tiger, and anything basic.

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Oh woooow that's impressive!

Wow, nice find! Are you reselling that one?

That's what I am trying to to honestly. If the dragons I have don't sell in 2 weeks, I will just exalt them.

Oooh I will definitely try and do that! Christmas dragus!

The 5 digit I found? I might. I have a lot of them by now and I want to focus more on quality over quantity. I might keep her and cut someone else out though~

Exalting for profit can be pretty good too. : D Especially if there's a big Dom battle going on. I hear there's supposed to be a battle the second week of November? So you could level a bunch of adult fodder and save it to sell to the battling flights at a high price.

 

[LethalLulu]

I'd chalk lack of offers up to unpopular genes and being only double gened instead of triple gened. The majority of people (but not all!) tend to hate on Speckle, Freckle, Tiger, and anything basic

The 5 digit I found? I might. I have a lot of them by now and I want to focus more on quality over quantity. I might keep her and cut someone else out though~

Exalting for profit can be pretty good too. : D Especially if there's a big Dom battle going on. I hear there's supposed to be a battle the second week of November? So you could level a bunch of adult fodder and save it to sell to the battling flights at a high price.

Really? Wow I didn't know that! I will probably exalt them in that case. I will give them some more time, of course, but I will get rid of them for newer dragons when the time comes.
Understandable c:

How exactly does that work? I know so little about flight rising haha. Be my mentor, Xan B)

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

OK, so now I am SUPER conflicted on what to do with my poison and toxin... I was going to use them both on one member of one of my pairs of eyeburners, because the toxin looks amazing and matches the body colors perfectly, but with both... it's kind of overkill. So I was going to do toxin on one of the pair and poison on the other of the pair, so I'd have a combo of babies with and without the genes. BUT now that I got my POISON gene brewed I was trying it on all of my dragons just cause, and found out that the poison looks amazing on my cotton candy pair but not the toxin... so now I might just use one gene on one member of each pair but I don't know... would people be interested in offspring with just one of the genes and not two of them? Cause like look, both of these are perfect color combos!

 

[Xanarcah]

Really? Wow I didn't know that! I will probably exalt them in that case. I will give them some more time, of course, but I will get rid of them for newer dragons when the time comes.
Understandable c:

How exactly does that work? I know so little about flight rising haha. Be my mentor, Xan B)

I somehow became most peoples' mentor here. xD; So it's cool.

Dominance is rather a long and complicated explanation, but it mostly boils down to two (or more) flights deciding to go all out in a battle on certain weeks. The flight that exalts the most dragons wins. Leveled dragons are "worth" more points than unleveled/level 1 dragons, so flights will offer payouts that are higher than what you'd normally get for exalting the dragon on your own. For instance, you get around... 8k for exalting a level 5. In a battle, a buying thread might offer up 10k or 11k for that same level 5. You put in the same work and get back 3k more than normal for your efforts.


Feel free to ask more questions! Anything that comes to mind. It's been a while since I had an excuse to Wall of Text at someone.

I'm going to bed now (work in the morning boooo), but either I or someone else will be glad to answer at some point. : D Someone who's more acquainted with the current color/gene trends in dragons than I am could probably address that too.

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OK, so now I am SUPER conflicted on what to do with my poison and toxin... I was going to use them both on one member of one of my pairs of eyeburners, because the toxin looks amazing and matches the body colors perfectly, but with both... it's kind of overkill. So I was going to do toxin on one of the pair and poison on the other of the pair, so I'd have a combo of babies with and without the genes. BUT now that I got my POISON gene brewed I was trying it on all of my dragons just cause, and found out that the poison looks amazing on my cotton candy pair but not the toxin... so now I might just use one gene on one member of each pair but I don't know... would people be interested in offspring with just one of the genes and not two of them? Cause like look, both of these are perfect color combos!
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I agree about having both genes being overkill, actually. Sometimes it looks good with both, but more is not always better. I only gave my DDR eyeburner pair Toxin for this reason.

Both scrys look fantastic! Especially loving that Coatl. o:

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Quick note related to PoiTox and breeding rarity in general

http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/gde/1584487

Updated guide here.

 

[LethalLulu]

I somehow became most peoples' mentor here. xD; So it's cool.

Dominance is rather a long and complicated explanation, but it mostly boils down to two (or more) flights deciding to go all out in a battle on certain weeks. The flight that exalts the most dragons wins. Leveled dragons are "worth" more points than unleveled/level 1 dragons, so flights will offer payouts that are higher than what you'd normally get for exalting the dragon on your own. For instance, you get around... 8k for exalting a level 5. In a battle, a buying thread might offer up 10k or 11k for that same level 5. You put in the same work and get back 3k more than normal for your efforts.


Feel free to ask more questions! Anything that comes to mind. It's been a while since I had an excuse to Wall of Text at someone.

I'm going to bed now (work in the morning boooo), but either I or someone else will be glad to answer at some point. : D Someone who's more acquainted with the current color/gene trends in dragons than I am could probably address that too.

Haha awesome!
Ohhh, but that's such a small difference that I'd be too lazy to do anyway haha. I usually level them to 10 to exalt anyway.
I might have a shop that sells them for more. I can always open it and see how business is.

HAHA nice. I will be sure to bug you if need be c:

Thanks and goodnight!

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

I agree about having both genes being overkill, actually. Sometimes it looks good with both, but more is not always better. I only gave my DDR eyeburner pair Toxin for this reason.

Both scrys look fantastic! Especially loving that Coatl. o:

Updated guide here.

Yeah, I think I'll just do them how I scryed and then eventually get their significant others the matching genes because they're close enough in color, but even so they'll breed against nicely since the others in the pairs have iri/shim cry/face genes, but it'd be better to have them at 100% probability for them to come through. I need to just work on my own brewing so I can make them myself, even though the lovely cheezyfries is making them for me this time.

 

[Peisinoe]

Haha awesome!
Ohhh, but that's such a small difference that I'd be too lazy to do anyway haha. I usually level them to 10 to exalt anyway.
I might have a shop that sells them for more. I can always open it and see how business is.

HAHA nice. I will be sure to bug you if need be c:

Thanks and goodnight!

It's actually a big difference. Leveling to 5 versus leveling to 7 takes a minute longer depending if you don't get dodges.

During that time you could have leveled 3-4 more level 5s.

So if I got for example 15 dragons to level 7 and it takes me 3-4 minutes per dragon. Let's say 4 because of dodges and bosses that's 1 hr.

But leveling to 5s take 1-2 minutes. So that's 30 minutes for 15 dragons. If someone is buying them at 11k for 5s and 13k for 7s. And I bought them at 8k each.

Math:
Level 5
2 mins x 15 = 30 mins x 2 = 1 hr.
8kx 30 150k.
11k x 30=330k

330-150= 180k profit


Level 7s
15 per hour
13k - 8k =5k per dragon
5x 15 =75k

So for level 5s you profit at 180k and 7s at 75k. Time makes a huge difference in making money in dom. Especially using buying threads. It's called the exalt sweet spot. You can exalt faster at level 5s. Which means you can double your profit since you move dragons out faster.

For me selling level 5s during a dom fued. I can make 1-2 mill easy.

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A lot of people think leveling higher is better. It all depends on the buying prices and how fast you can level. Since the venues have tons of bosses. It's more time consuming now.

You always want to maximize your profit margins during someone else's dom. Make dat cash money! Ayyyy

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This is my wall of text help since Xan isn't here lol.

 

[LethalLulu]

@peisinoe
huh, that's super interesting, I didn't think of that! So I am in the shadow flight I (I think), when would I want to sell?

 

[brutalitea]

I got a Contaminated Chest from Digging! And a Berserker from Pinkerton!

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

So far my loot this go around has been alright, I have:
-47 Shrooms leftover (for now)
-10 of the festival skins(All 6 accents and 2 of the skins thanks to Xan)
-2 skins that weren't accepted for RoR (getting at least 2 more of them, waiting on printing...)
-6 Cursed Watcher Chests
-3 Contaminated Chests
-1 Cradle of Goo Chest
-2 Crowns
-4 Skeletal Chimes
-5 Deadland Disciples

Not as good as I would like but I am going to try to do some more grinding during my weekend if I have time...