Gems are an alternate currency in Flight Rising. They are "used for purchasing special items, expanding certain site features, obtaining rare dragon breeds, and upgrading your account."[1]
Unlike Treasure, gems cannot be earned through playing Fairgrounds games; instead, they may be purchased with real-world currency (at a rate of $1 per 100-115 gems, depending on how many are purchased at once) or traded for in-game items or dragons with other players in the Auction House or Crossroads. Using the Crossroads, players can also securely trade each other gems for treasure if they wish.
Earning Gems[]
It is possible to earn gems at a very slow rate through the game; if you keep your dragons' Energy over 80% for three full days, you will begin to earn 1 gem per day that you continue to keep your dragons' energy high. If your dragons' energy falls below 80%, you will stop accumulating gems, but will not lose the gems you have already accumulated.
Gems can also rarely be received by Exalting Dragons and can be found in some chests or container items, albeit at a much lower quantity than treasure.
Chests that contain gems in addition to treasure and (depending on the chest) other items:
- Iron Treasure Chest: 1-5 gems
- Gilded Decorative Chest: 10-20 gems
- Many Coliseum skin crates: 1-2 gems
- All elemental holiday chests: 1 gem
- Broadleaf Pack: 1 gem
- Canvas Sack: 1 gem
- Feather Pouch: 1 gem
- Glimmerscale Basket: 1 gem
- Longneck Pack: 1 gem
- Pearly Shell: 1 gem
Purchasing Gems[]
Gems can be purchased from Flight Rising with a Paypal account or credit card. Originally Paypal was the only option for payment, though the admins have since added the ability to pay via credit card.
Paypal[]
When you select the gem package you want to purchase, you will be taken from the Flight Rising website to Paypal. Once there, you can complete the transaction, and will be redirected back to Flight Rising.
The purchase and billing of gems happens entirely through Paypal. When the transaction is completed, Paypal will send staff a message that your account made a successful payment for gems and the gems will be credited to your account automatically.[2] If you named another player as a referrer when you joined Flight Rising, that player will get a bonus amount of gems when you purchase gems, equal to 1% of your purchase amount.
Credit Card[]
Selecting your desired gem package causes a window on the site to open displaying fields in which to enter your card information.
Spending Gems[]
There are several uses for gems on the site (though many players prefer to save their gems for user-made skins/accents, which typically sell exclusively for gems). These include:
- The gem Marketplace
- Buying Skin Blueprints and Accent Blueprints
- Flight changes (after one free change)
- Username changes (after one free change)
- 14 extra apparel slots for dragons
- 100 Hibernal Den slots
Trivia[]
- Pearl, one of the site's Courier Dragons, used to appear on the page for purchasing gems. She can still be seen in the tutorial screen by clicking ? in the upper-right corner.
- The gem-to-treasure ratio is entirely dependent on the userbase and even individual user preference. In the early days of the site, the ratio was sometimes as low as 150 treasure to 1 gem.