i have always sympathized with players wanting imperials, because they're a really cool breed. i am also completely understanding of the fact that the people who could make gen1 imperials were kickstarter backers - investors of a project - without whom we might not have flight rising at all. i used to fit into the first category and only JUST NARROWLY missed the kickstarter's closing period by two days, but i moved on because at least there was a petsite being made that didn't seem likely to go on life support after a year. post 2010, petsites old and new were in a really awful spot, and nothing gets funding for a petsite rolling quite like exclusive species.
but to feel this specific way - that an entire flight (which i belong to, but don't speak for the entirety of its population) and playerbase is being cheated out of some experience we have been promised by staff eventually, because staff have a game design surrounding the flights and a promise to early investors they want to stick to - is an impatience i can't sympathize with. at the most base of it, we still have two breeds to our flight, and had two since the site began; a HUGE anomaly back then that only light had, and a month later wind got their second dragon. multiple flights didn't even have one (fire waited half a year for coatls, shadow had to wait a year and a half for nocturnes). bogsneaks only received no flight 3 years after the site started because they were invented artificially via mutagen and therefore can't belong to a flight as they weren't created from a deity.
staff wanted to address giving flights with one breed an ancient before starting to tackle giving ancients to flights that had two, and we just hit that milestone when auraboas released.
relax. if fathom dragons are a new modern, that means it's taking them way less time to get a new modern out, but i don't think your comment is about having to wait for light to get another dragon.
Re: 11th Anniversary Update
but to feel this specific way - that an entire flight (which i belong to, but don't speak for the entirety of its population) and playerbase is being cheated out of some experience we have been promised by staff eventually, because staff have a game design surrounding the flights and a promise to early investors they want to stick to - is an impatience i can't sympathize with. at the most base of it, we still have two breeds to our flight, and had two since the site began; a HUGE anomaly back then that only light had, and a month later wind got their second dragon. multiple flights didn't even have one (fire waited half a year for coatls, shadow had to wait a year and a half for nocturnes). bogsneaks only received no flight 3 years after the site started because they were invented artificially via mutagen and therefore can't belong to a flight as they weren't created from a deity.
staff wanted to address giving flights with one breed an ancient before starting to tackle giving ancients to flights that had two, and we just hit that milestone when auraboas released.
relax. if fathom dragons are a new modern, that means it's taking them way less time to get a new modern out, but i don't think your comment is about having to wait for light to get another dragon.