#thrage

[kaijudragon567]

I've been playing Flight Rising for some time now, and I though the Stormcatcher needed a slight redesign. Though I will admit the artwork for the gods is amazing.

[thrage]

[quoperegrinatur]

[00:57:28] N: Hnn they just have Salsita Software credited for the programming of artifracture, whereas Shock Switch directly has Thrage credited for programming (and Xhaztol for something else) [00:58:02] N: Only mildly paying attention but ye Thrage isn't in the credits of the new game at all [01:01:24] quo: Interesting [01:01:34] quo: So they finally hired an outside source [01:02:02] quo: well that makes sense, I think [01:02:26] quo: back when the thrage thing first happened, people were saying "I know some programming, lots of people can do his job, fire him immediately" [01:02:32] quo: and, true, Thrage's job is...rather expendable [01:02:38] quo: but [01:03:03] quo: with larger coding projects, there's a certain point where the code becomes unreadable to anyone except the guy who wrote it [01:03:15] quo: only the guy who wrote it knows it in full, knows all the variables and what every line is supposed to do [01:03:28] quo: so it's easier to have that one guy finish it, than to have another team pick up after him [01:03:35] quo: so that's why Thrage finished shock switch [01:03:48] quo: after that, when starting a new project, they probably just outsourced it

[cocorobo]

in RE: to the FR incident with Thrage

If you want to play FR but want to minimize the amount of profit they may gain  (since the staff aren’t removing Thrage entirely just moving him to back end programming) You can enable adblock and they won’t get money for those visits.  And you can also not buy gems with real money anymore. 

[flightrisingstaffsaid]

Flight Rising Staff Said: Gathering Edition

"Gathering Players will be able to gather items for their clan, and all items gathered will be deposited into the Hoard. Each used turn will contribute to a clan's experience in that type of gathering. For launch, players will be able to progress each type of gathering type to Level 20, with new items entering the yields at level 10. There will be six types of gathering:

Hunting - Produces Food Items (Meat)

Fishing - Produces Food Items (Seafood)

Insect Catching - Produces Food Items (Insects)

Foraging - Produces Food Items (Plants)

Digging - Produces Materials / Battle Stones

Scavenging - Produces Trinkets/Junk/Dragon Eggs

Players will be granted 10 Gathering turns a day (15 if they have kept their clan well fed for 3 consecutive days), and will have the option to repeat the last gathering attempt they executed. Gathering in specific elemental zones will affect what items are yielded. During holidays, a special type of currency will appear in the gathering yields for the element that is being celebrated that week." (Thrage 2/3/13)

"When you gather it decides which tier of item to pull (1-6), then from within that tier it selects a random item. It then does a random chance to gather again, and the same thing happens. This is why you can sometimes pull up 4-5 stacks of items with a single pull. So the 1-star items only compete with other 1 start items when new ones are added to the table, and the ones that we add as you level up are worth more food/sell value. :-)" (Undel 10/8/13)

[flightrisingstaffsaid]

Flight Rising Staff Said: Adventure Edition

"Adventure is not far enough along to have a well formed opinion about, though I'm excited for when I can play it." (Aequorin)

"Due to the immense size and scale of this feature, it will not be available for launch (or even several months after launch), but we have already begun content creation and have many backend systems in place for our adventure/questing mode. In a content update some time after launch, players will be able to take a party of dragons into a few subregions of the world map, select quests to embark on, and earn treasure/loot for completing them. The player will be able to move their party of dragons around a visual environment, explore, and battle their way through random and scripted encounters. This feature will expand over time, encompassing more and more areas of the Flight Rising realm for players to explore." (Thrage)

"Adventure has been pushed back, but we are working on pre-production elements for it. We think you'll like it. :)" (Xhaztol)

"These mysterious messages aren't part of Adventure, but you're uncovering some very interesting stuff here... ...proceed." (Xhaztol) [In relation to the scraps of paper items and their cipher]