Heard you were talking shit

Not gonna lie, this is pretty much a venting blog about Flight Rising now. Sarcasm and ire within.

[lameforger-deactivated20161002]

CLARIFICATION ON THE PLAGUE DOM DRAMA

Today, a plague user agreed with me that some plague members were conquest pushing while denying it. They sent me a PM afterwards, adding this screenshot of the plague forums. Three different plaguelings have confirmed with me that this is real, all with no relation to each other/knowledge that other people had confirmed this too.

There is nothing wrong with conquest pushing. However, viciously denying it and pulling the “everyone hates plague flight!” card is unacceptable. Plague flight’s dom organizers clearly saw an easy chance at dom and took it. Please spread this so it becomes clear that what they’re doing is not ok.

Plague flight dom organizers and people who support them, please. I love you, and I 100% think you’re a cool flight. But this is in terrible tastes.

[penguinrising]

Hey guys, either I’m totally out of the loop with our Dom co-ordinators, or things are being strewn the wrong way?

"Act like we are profit pushing" is not act like it as in, cover it up because it’s secretly a conquest - it’s "act" like it as in, consider this some sort of profit push, or do what you would do during a profit push?

It’s a mini-push, its seeing what we can do without putting in TOO much effort and actually trying hard to get in first, or in other words a strong profit push of sorts?

bioluminous-fr isn’t stupid, they know people look in the forums and things get leaked all the time, we have no reason to cover up if we are conquesting or not :’T But they can feel free to correct me if *I’m* wrong.

I think we are being opportunistic, we don’t have some weird crazy vendetta against Arcane or anything. It’s a “hey we’re doing good, I wonder if we can do better?” situation.

edit: To be honest if for some reason we ARE being weird and sneaky about this..im going to be somewhat upset without our dom coordinators myself :U

[sincefrfuckedup]

Show of hands, who thought this was an actually implemented feature and not just a preview?

[frej-fr]

Sounds helpful for people who are epileptic or otherwise seizure-prone!

[arcane-gembond]

It sure would be, if it was properly implemented and not just a mock-up

[dramarising]

to all the hatcheries that sell irishim dragons with decent colours for 150k or higher:

holy shit your dragons are not worth that much I could buy a prettier crystal/facet dragon with that much treasure

[arcane-gembond]

So buy one of those. What concern is it of yours if their dragons don't sell? If someone wants that color combination badly enough, they'll pay for it.

[dramarising]

I honestly have this great idea how to reintroduce the sprites, especially for newer players that won’t make them ‘too common’. Thought about posting this in the suggestion place but, eh, I don’t want 10 million ‘but that will never happen’ shit attached to a thread with me as the OP so here I am.

Anyway, it would involve exalting and dragon elements. Sprites are canon to being the herald of the gods, so this would kinda make sense canon wise that they would be a reward for this. Anyway the gist is that after exalting 100 or so of X element dragon, you get that sprite. And only once, so there is no way to farm them for massive sale. Current exalt status wouldn’t count, I have no idea if those kind of tabs are kept, but to start it off everyone would be at 0% across all the elements to be fair. And at 100 or so exalts you get a little popup of all ‘XDeity attention as been gotten. They reward your honor of them with XSprite’ or someshit like that. Maybe even a cancel if they don’t want the sprite that makes it so they have to reach the number of exalts again to get if it was a accident. But after you get that particular sprite, you get no more.

'But what about those that don't coli!!!' Well they don't have too. Level 1 dragon fresh from the AH counts just as much as a level 25 for this. It's about purely exalting. Although, personally I would like to see lvl 7 and up only count for this since it would limit the number of people going after this but then that wouldn't be fair to those that cannot use the coli at all in the end.

'But if they do that they will make a loss!' No one says the dragons have to be too expensive or do it all at once.

'But I will get my element easier cuz all I have to do is breed and exalt' Yeah and everyone else can too. Hey maybe you could find someone to trade with if you don't want your sprite but another.

'But they would just be sold on the AH for stupid prices' Yeah you could buy them or work for them yourself whatever you want to do.

'But I don't want iiiit' Then keep hitting cancel. Should take you a bit to get back up to that number anyway little grasshopper.

'But exalting still gives you money and eventually you will get a lot' And I will take that right over to the MP where I will buy genes and stupid pixel clothing for stupid pixel dragons and be happy.

'But I already have a stupid amount of money and nothing is nice out that I want' Then why are you here complaining I wish I had that. No one is forcing you to do anything with your money.

'I'd just sell them after bonding' Good for you, do what you want with the damn things.

It’s not perfect, and I know that allowing this to happen potentially gives all site members a free chance to get a sprite or a whole set for cheaper than the AH. But the problem with the market is, well, the fact that a shitton of dragons are born every day and not enough clicking that exalt button. That is about the only bad market I see on FR; we don’t need no more treasure sinks than expanding lairs and improving dragons  or dressing dragons up. Throwing coin at each other doesn’t do much than give another player more coin than they know what to do with (looking at you 12 mil Light Sprite).

Plus, you know, there would be some people that would never intentionally get to that number of exalts on purpose. So there would still be a market for those. Maybe cheaper, but at least not a stupid high price. And then maybe some that would never exalt. So market still.

[arcane-gembond]

That would set the max price of a sprite at 400k because you can easily get 100 hatchlings at exalt price. Do you realize how badly that would piss people off?

[dramarising]

People freaking out about the bears coming back next year amuse me. 

Guys! The admins made it so that you cannot horde sell them.

Do you understand what this means?

It means they don’t want you dwindling the amount on site BECAUSE they will be retired. 

I mean, think logically for a second, the only familiars that cannot be hoard sold are gem familiars, KS familiars, and wait for it… RETIRED familiars.

Just give them until Dec. 2015 for them to retire. I know it is a long wait, but all this nonsense about a revote accomplishes the same thing.

Except, the staff already have it covered.

[arcane-gembond]

I would be more willing to believe this if the staff hadn't already shown a precedent of reusing code in situations when they reaaaaally shouldn't (as well as not reusing code when they really should).

[dramarising]

I think the funniest thing about people is when they site how much a business makes and then wonders why they’re not putting all that money into the business. They didn’t design this website so that all you special deviantart snowflakes could muck around and make trashy dragons out of the kindness of their heart.

FR was designed to make as much profit as possible. If they can get by with their current servers and code, why the fuck would they replace it? And the beauty of the situation? Even if the current lot of users gets displeased and leaves, all they have to do is open another registration period. More people will rush in, intrigued by the site being closed for even a little bit to new players, and the cycle begins anew.

[arcane-gembond]

That's why the best way to send a message is to use adblock and not buy gems. Don't free up the server space you're using for someone else, just stop supporting the site til they straighten everything with fuck out. (Especially those constant redirecting ads, wtf)

[cassowarhea-deactivated20190517]

Clocks and TwilightFlower 4 FR President

[arcane-gembond]

What's with you? "Would you consider making for X breed?" "No go make your own!" Like, overreacting much? If anything, it's a compliment. "Your accents are so good I think I'll ask you to make one for X breed."

First off, I don’t make accents, I just know enough artists who are sick and tired of people going “Oh, you draw? Draw this for me!” The fact of the matter is, there’s plenty of accent makers who do custom ones; you’d be much better off commissioning one from them than bothering artists who never asked what you thought.

[dramarising]

I’m so fucking sick of the artists on FR who are just like “Make your own accents if you want it for X breed!”

Like 1. Not everyone has access to computer art tools like a tablet or a decent paint program. That’s classist as fuck. And I know that you (say that you) don’t need a fancy program to...

[arcane-gembond]

You could always commission one. Artists do tend to get annoyed when randoms ask for shit without offering compensation.

[cassowarhea-deactivated20190517]

Support this now.

[futuresolightigottawearshades]

You mean- You mean Neo Nazis aren’t instantly b&? The fuck?

[cassowarhea-deactivated20190517]

You totes deserve chances after naming dragons DiversityIs WhiteGenocide, bruh.

[dramarising]

(To the admin(s?) of this site, I am SO. SO. SOrry for the length of this post. I can’t seem to preview/change to html/or put in a read more after my first paragraph. Wanna know what website is also poorly programmed? I’ll give you 3 guesses and the first 2 don’t count!)

   THIS JUST IN     angry fuckheads complain about coding while knowing nothing about coding. Angry fuckheads expect a site to be perfect after a year when NEWSFLASH neopets has been around for more than 10 and they still have lag problems. Don’t even get me started on subeta’s shitty lag. gooooooo fuck yourselves and while you’re at it study coding so you can actually know what you are talking about.

As a person with a 4 year degree in computer science and plenty of experience in PHP and working at a company that has to write things to interact with people’s real life important things such that fucking up tiny things could literally ruin this persons life as well as having everything be up to code and not violate any federal laws regarding what to do with people’s data, oh and also this stuff has to be able to be used effectively by many different front end systems and handle all the usual programming bullshit because computers are fucking dumb (Oh and I work a jack of all trades position where I’m supposed to be able understand and debug everything from write Java, to XML, to MYSQL where literally hundreds of people could have touched the code before me) …. *takes a deep breath* The fucking code is terrible, and just because other websites are worse means fucking nothing. I want to say “The programmer(s) are terrible” but really its that the programmer(s) in question are short sighted, which unfortunately makes for bad programmers. For example, Scalability is HARD. Is really fucking hard to make a code scale appropriately. Thats not what makes FR’s coding practices annoying, its that they don’t even know what parts of their code are not scalable (the inability to pinpoint WHY they were experiencing slow down[1] Is DUMB AS HELL YO!~ ). But sure okay “scalability is hard you can’t BLAME THEM *cry*” is going to be your response so lets go on to how whoever wrote the code for the coli is fucking trash and needs to be kneecapped. So the coli has that bug where you lose your first turn in the coli. Weird? How did you lose your first turn????? I would bet millions of dollars that its literally just someone piled combatant turns into a list and then started going through the list from the 1st index (instead of the 0th index). I would bet everything. This problem irks me because even if this problem isn’t causing that much heartache this is a defect of your code. A. You fix defects (things that were intended to work, but are found to not be working) before making enhancements (adding new features[2]). Always. B. Give me the fucking code I could fucking fix it right now, give it to me. I’ll do it. for fucking free. because that shit is dumb fucking christ. Its a re-creatable bug, it should have died the moment it was found jesus. Also here is just a tidbit that annoys me. Dude bro, dude. Dude, dude seriously….. you didn’t need to put all the PHP/HTML5, all like 40000 lines of it INTO THE COLI PAGE and then pay for some encrypting service to hide your code. PHP and html5 can both call scripts that are on your server and do not need your page source to be 40000 lines long[3]. Jesus christ youre full enough of yourself to hid your garbage code that can’t handle anything and is full of spaghetti logic (lol i checked) but just couldn’t manage to put it in another file? This is also true for a bunch of code about coli games, but to a lesser degree????

Also why is your site weak to URL manipulation? Stop letting people dress up baby dragons omg lol 1: FYI: huge motherfucking hint, your fucking fucked fuck hoard REFRESHES THE ENTIRE PAGE EVERYTIME A CHEST IS OPENED. WHY. NO. BAD PROGRAMMER. FUCKING BAD. YOU LITERALLY HAVE THE CODE ALREADY, IT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CHANGE FROM food->materials->etc. FucK. (And if they can’t easily make that change the their code is written poorly because re-usability is the fucking bread and butter of programming fucCCKK. god damn.)

2 “But they would lose money if they didn’t roll out new features all the time!!!”, my response “fuck off, you are wrong. so fucking wrong. shut up. shut up shut up. shut up.”

3: “But anon”, You’ll say. “Anon I went to the coli page and it is only 23,413 lines long thats NOT 40000 you’re just exaggerating!!” And I’ll turn to you and tell that the encyrpting code actually folds a bunch of code into one long long long LONG line (its a legit method of Obfuscation of code) which is not understandable by a human (not easily anyway, lol). Unfolding those lines will bring you to a beautiful huge number that I can’t recall, but in either case 23,413 lines is a fucking mess because you can google like “html5 bullshit free game” and find a game in a page that only requires 51 lines of stuff on the page source because it IS PROGRAMED CORRECTLY.

[dramarising]

Hello yes I would like to interest you in the concept of breeding where someone selects two dragons of varying breeds and opposite genders and puts them on a nest, generating more dragons.

I realize this is a strange concept. Take your time. But while your brain assimilates this completely new information:

Stop saying you’re never going to acquire a nocturne because the festival isn’t working for you.

[hexaethylene]

I have a dragon who has been named that for a YEAR and now it’s banned?

[clocks-rising]

*slow clap for da adminz*

[hexaethylene]

Hilariously, Ponyslayer, the other year old hilarious random name generator find that came to the fore at the same time, is still free for use.

[clocks-rising]

wait wait. actually, my favorite part about this is at some point (could have been this past week or two, could have been earlier, I’m not sure) they had time to ban kittencruncher (a name in the name generator they themselves put in at some point, and that was brought to their attention numerous times) but they don’t have time to put chests into a separate loot pull like w/holiday currency lol ok.

[hexaethylene]

Priorities, Clocks. Priorities.

Can’t have people mildly upset by fictional references to eating kittens. Despite the cute goat, squid, baby owl, and metal puppy food items on the site.

[jessrising]

Sources: 1 2 3 4 5

So I’m taking a look around and unless I missed something (please inform me if I did), these are the only things the administrators have said about problems people have been posting about regarding this event. Nothing about gathering, nothing addressing why this event is entirely RNG based, no response to criticism, nothing.

[dramarising]

I might get hate for this, but, It’s so disheartening to realize that the admins of a site like Flight Rising are as ignorant as the SJWs. Someone just got banned over having the image of a dragon holding a flag with the Iron Cross on it. They don’t know that that symbol represents the Teutonic Order Knights. I had ancestors who were knights and I read quite a lot of history. Very brave, respectable people.

http://www.imperialteutonicorder.com/id54.html

I thought the image with that dragon was really cute. Maybe user A was RPing knights. After all, this site has a battle feature. :/ What’s wrong with that? Someone got butthurt over a symbol? It wasn’t even a svastika, ffs! Some user fetishizes domestic abuse and another glorifies slavery and that’s not offensive enough to warrant a ban. Those users are still around.

Some people state on their profile that don’t talk to Christians. This isn’t ban-worthy either… They can still play just fine.

Someone has a cross on their profile and they get banned! This is seriously fucked up. Not even sure I want to stay on this site any longer. I might get banned for no reason or for offending someone with… I don’t know what, a dragon with certain colors?

I’m very disappointed in the admin’s poor decisions as of lately. This, and releasing an event so shortly after a registration window, literally killing the site.

[arcane-gembond]

Okay, on the off chance you're not groovie: she's a loud and proud racist who was definitely using it for the nazi connotations, given that the dragon edit in question also had a nazi eagle symbol on it. Please sit down.

[sincefrfuckedup]

Hey y’all, I want to make a complete list of extant, long term glitches, so we can see what needs fixing. Hit me, what about this site pisses you off?

[dramarising]

Lag solution: Just ban half of FR randomly. Or, even better, ban everyone but me.

[arcane-gembond]

You laugh, but there was that time...