Flight Rising

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The Auction House revamp cannot come soon enough.

(This is about 19.5 hours of buildup. The “Auction Expired” messages have been deleted and are not counted here.)

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#I’ve been getting more into arbitrage lately #it’s working out great in most respects but dear *Boss* do I long for a ”Collect All” button #(hey Boss if I had a Collect All button I could work a lot more efficiently) #other people got hyped over the colour expansion #I’m hyped about the Auction House improvements #Flight Rising #oh look an original post

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Now, ain’t that a beautiful sight.

Lightning Dom - Emphasis on Discount

Especially that bit.

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#god I love dominance flipping *so much* #I’m up early because I was too excited to wait any longer #(at first I was up early because I couldn’t stand not knowing whether we’d won) #(yeah we’d been in the lead most of the week but so was Nature during Lightning vs Nature) #(I ended up having to get my smartphone off the bedside table and pull up the dominance page on mobile) #(I was so happy to see this) #okay can’t talk any longer time to go tend to my stock #Flight Rising #oh look an original post

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So, um, I…I…

(oh god, how do I even word this, it is too exciting for words)

Let’s go with this:

I am now the proud owner of the second-rarest familiar in the game.

(I am no longer the owner of a Red-Footed Akirbeak, Earth Sprite, Plague Sprite, Arcane Sprite, Ice Sprite, or Golden Bantam Fangar, but those are all easy to replace in comparison.)

(I also no longer own a Boneyard Tatters, Archivists Spellscroll, Sunguard Chest, four Frigid Sashes, or a pile of 110k gems, but owning those was always instrumental, a path toward the goal of this.)

(oh my god, it’s finally here, it’s mine, today’s the day)

(eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)

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#JT might be my only follower who speaks Flight Rising jargon well enough to understand what’s going on here #the rest of you will have to take my word for it that this is a very big deal #also I left the currency part of the page intact so you can see how much I have left afterward #the only reason I have that many gems is because two unhatched eggs sold right after I bought the Cog Frog #so I guess I’ve already taken the first step towards getting those other familiars back #(completely worth it) #Flight Rising #oh look an original post

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Although, thinking about the timing of that 60kg period for Light Sprites, I suppose it’s possible it was because of Brightshine? I wouldn’t want to bet on it, but I can’t rule it out.

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#oh look an update #oh look an original post #Flight Rising #not adding it as a postscript on the previous post because JT already read it

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justice-turtle:

so assuming the person ahead of me takes the light sprite because they’d be an idiot not to, and assuming I’m not missing something more valuable in the prizes list, I’m going to be the proud(?) new owner of a set of sunchaser jewelry

which frankly I find fucking ugly but hey it’s 40k gems worth of ugly ;-)

idk if I should hang onto it until mid-june for a better price or whether the prices up there in the stratosphere even fluctuate the way normal under-a-million holiday skin prices do

As someone whose goals re: Kickstarter familiars require her to learn some proverbial ropes up here in the stratosphere (I’ve almost reached 90kg pure, and I’m currently trying to sell off several pieces of first-year apparel), first-year Festive Favors stuff hardly seems to fluctuate at all. Or rather, it’ll go up and down by relatively small (objectively rather large*) amounts according to how many people happen to be selling at the moment and how desperate they are, but I haven’t noticed any trends. When I bought my Light Sprite in…*checks* late May, it was for 40kg right before the price shot up to 60kg. When I looked at prices again a couple months later, it was back to 40 – 45kg. Around…maybe October, I don’t think I have a record for this and I’m bad at dating my memories…they were 30kg, and I bought a second one hoping to flip it. Shortly thereafter, they were back up to 40 – 45kg, and I spent the next few months** trying to sell it off, finally succeeding a few days ago.

Note that last sentence. It’s important to understand just how low the demand is for stratospherically-priced items. You’ve seen a lot of people say stuff like “Light Sprites are so expensive, I’ve given up on ever affording one”, right? Those people are never going to buy a 40kg item from you: you’re limited to selling to the fairly small number of people who both didn’t give up on one day having that much money and are currently being successful at actually having that much money. Buyers aren’t that easy to come by.

Relatedly, it’s pretty hard to sell items that expensive via the AH. Even people who have that much worth tend not to have it in liquid currency. Mixed payment is almost always the only practical way to sell something like Sunchaser. I spent several weeks with a Light Sprite on the AH to no avail, except for a few PMs from people offering mixed payment for it that didn’t pan out or whose value was way too low. When I made a forum thread offering it for sale? Got a decent offer within a few hours. I mean, I might have especially lucky with that thread, but still.

(Said decent offer was almost entirely that retired apparel I’m currently trying to sell off. I figured I’d have a better shot at liquidating several things worth a few thousand gems each that trying to find someone with 40kg in currency. Even with the smaller stuff, sometimes you still have to do mixed payment: that’s how I got rid of the Frigid Fugitive Shackles the Light Sprite buyer gave me. I may open another thread for whatever apparel remains in a couple weeks, but I am not touching the Items For Sale forum in these final days of trust-trading.)

tl;dr items that high in value fluctuate constantly by thousands of gems, but not with predictable direction or timing afaict (not even an overall upward trend over a one-year span); selling super-expensive stuff is hard because it’s hard to find a buyer who can afford it; be prepared for the process of turning a single 40kg item into usable funds to be long and multi-part.

*This is the primary reason why nearly all of my KS fund is in gems, and I’m working on getting even more of it into gems. You know where you stand with gems.

**Sort of: I took December and the first couple weeks of January off from FR, so they don’t really count.

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#part of the payment for that Light Sprite was a few Water and Nature Sprites #Water Sprites cost exactly the same as they did when I bought one for my collection like a year ago #do not trust inflation out here in the stratosphere #I hate dealing with fluctuating markets but I like the idea of owning KS familiars more #reply via reblog #Flight Rising

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justice-turtle:

SHADOW VENUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUE

I’m trying not to screech out loud here bc my aunt’s asleep but GOD IM SO EXCITE :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

My first reaction was fear–

“The Mire is now a level 24 venue (changed from 23-24).”

–but then I checked Culex’s thread and only the 115 STR Mire build is nerfed by this: the 117 is unaffected. I’ll have to tincture the secondary Mire trainer I reserve for renting out to people, but otherwise it’s fine.

(This was especially worrying because a while back I saw somebody making a Newbie’s Guide to the Coliseum, and one of their tips was to use Chrome, and yesterday I figured I’d give it a shot and oh my god it’s so much faster than Firefox sweet glory hallelujah. I’ve tried three times so far, and all trials have been as lag-free as Firefox at its best (and Firefox coli is rarely at its best). Don’t know what difference would cause it, and I’m not entirely convinced that I didn’t just happen to be extremely lucky with those three trials, but I’m hopeful. Point being (the point other than “try Chrome if you’re having any lag troubles”), the Mire suddenly became much less frustrating to me yesterday and I was worried that that lack of frustration was going to be very short-lived.)

(…you know what, I’m going to go test out Chrome on my smartphone. I’m curious to see if that makes phone-coli bearable.

…my god. Setting up the coli page, navigating the non-mobile-optimised website on that tiny screen, is slow. Once you get there, though, it’s vastly better than mobile-Firefox and about on par with PC-Firefox.)

Anyway, time to go read all the item descriptions, add the familiars to my spreadsheet, perform the traditional new-venue ritual of farming it until I get one of the new familiars, all that good stuff.

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#Flight Rising #reply via reblog #oh Chrome where have you been all my life

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Okay, fodder finally sold (I had to drop most of them to 29k and wait an additional half-hour, but eventually they went), spent all my treasure on gene scrolls, time to go to bed.

I think tomorrow I might go through my alert history, auction listings, and hoard and count up how many genes I’ll have flipped by the time I’m done. I haven’t directly kept track of scroll-flipping profits because it’d slow me down too much, so number-of-scrolls is the best I can do.

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#Flight Rising #oh look an update #this concludes your dragon-capitalism liveblogging for tonight #oh look an original post

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There’s roughly two pages of adults before mine. The treasure marketplace resets its stock in fifteen minutes, which means the gene pickings are slim for a while afterward. Usual computer-shutting-off time is only twenty minutes later.

*fidgets*

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#Flight Rising #oh look an update #I may end up staying up a little late wrapping everything up #oh look an original post #(I’m *pretty* sure it’s in fifteen minutes?) #(I have trouble keeping straight whether ‘odd-numbered hours’ is FR time or mine) #(pretty sure it’s mine)

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Okay, here goes. 66 adult fodder, 29,995 treasure each. (There are so few dragons between 29,500 and 30,000 that selling them for a non-round number looks like it’ll actually be practical.) Pre-named, for your convenience!

For combo bonus points, I intend to immediately re-invest all the money into gene scrolls while Lightning still has dominance.

(I don’t especially enjoy participating in heated dom battles, but standing aside and selling popcorn while other people duke it out is great.)

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#Flight Rising #I made a spreadsheet #(because of course I did) #to calculate the profits of various types of gene scroll #there’s columns for both absolute profit and profit as a percentage of the cost of the scroll #I’ve been working with absolute profit throughout the week because I had enough seed money to afford to do that #but now I’m putting all my treasure into stockpiling the higher-percentage scrolls #oh look an original post

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