DoctorClaw, Dragon Supervillain

[flightrising]

A Letter To Our Community

On our upcoming 7th Anniversary Celebration and recent events in the wake of George Floyd’s murder: https://flightrising.com/main.php?p=wiki&article=20200603

[acornrising]

You seem to know a lot so I was wondering who Naomi is? I tried searching the forums but was confused :0

Ah yes, iirc talk about her was kind of banned onsite because we ‘aren’t supposed to discuss glitches’ like that or something. I don’t think they’re as militant about it as they were, but basically, psssssh, a while back, I’m blanking on the exact date, about two years ago, the whole site glitched. I don’t know how new you are to the site, but until fairly recently, all items bought off the AH were delivered to your inbox first, by one of the three delivery dragons (Pearl, Edgar, or Spitfire)

Except when the site glitched, AH deliveries started to be delivered by a fae named “Naomi” (Well, it was delivered by USER Naomi, but their avatar dragon was also named Naomi, so they got conflated.). When players searched Naomi out, they discovered that her clan had an impossible number of dragons in it- somewhere in the several millions, and it was roughly determined that she had the tally of all the dragons that had ever been exalted onsite.

So of course, we all collectively lost our shit. Lore was made, theories were bandied, only made more intense by the sudden ban on discussing her onsite. Folks started talking about her as if she were a forbidden god, secret cult stuff, you know how it is. It was probably one of the most exciting accidents we’ve ever had as a community.

She has exactly one active daughter, who sold for an absurd amount of money, who in turn had thirteen kids. I believe there’s a thread somewhere tracking her bloodline. 

Anyway:

there she be

[lionsongfr]

Rules to those who wish to travel to the Spiral Keep

Don’t speak, don’t make a sound, for in the deep it travels around.

Never take your eyes off the deepsea bulb of the guide.

Blue is safe, red is bad, yellow is cautious, but if it is pink you are dead.  

Don’t look to your side or ever look back, stare only at the guide’s bulb in the black.

If someone becomes separated, leave them be and do not grieve

If you become lost or lose the light, scream not, for though you may die- hopefully the others will not. 

Don’t speak, don’t make a sound, for in the deep it travels around.

If you hear a sound, be it scream or song-swim away till it is gone.

Eat only from your pack and follow not the fish shape lure or else your fate shall be assured.

Rest at the rest stops, sleep when you can, for the way is long and filled with dread.

When you see the Spiral Keep, don’t speak, don’t make a sound, not even a peep. For even in the glow of the mighty lair’s hearth, the danger is not asleep.

Wait and hold. Hold and wait. Speak not till your claws touch the Keep and the bulb of your guide turns blue like the deep. 

[roombadragons]

Holy shit look what my friend snap chatted my sister

[doctorclawfr]

There's more...

https://denverelectroniccigarettes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/vapedaugz-convicted-dragon-1.jpg

This is a company called Vape Shop Aurora and Denver Electronic Cigarettes.

Besides the Fae and Imperial, there also looks to be a Pearlcatcher. Some products use non-fr dragons.

[fr-dutchdragon]

I’m looking at my Vault to see the chests I have saved up for my birthday and I noticed I have a box of Goldslab Regalia and three boxes of Ornate Platinum Armor that I’m not using and since they’ve both been cycled out for a long time maybe someone is looking for them?

I’d like 400 Gems for the Ornate box if you’re interested.

And there are only two boxes of Goldslab on the AH both by DoctorClaw at 2700 Gems and 2,6 million treasure, so I’m ignoring that price. I don’t know, make me an offer? Gems only please, I need gene scrolls ;)

EDIT: Holds and/or payment plans are no problem for me!

[sherokutakari]

Neutral Review

DoctorClaw

Nothing positive or negative, just I see you, and I lovingly think “ahh, my old nemesis” whenever your name pops up in the AH

[dramarising]

i don’t mind doctorclaw. i do what i can, but i can’t coli that much ‘cause of rsi and rl, so i earn money really slowly. sooooooooo the cheaper things get, the happier i am. it’s not often you get to play on a site where you can actually buy almost everything you want without selling both your kidneys! i’d say i feel sorry for the other sellers, but that’d be a total lie, lol. i’ll take artificial deflation over artificial inflation any day of the week~ (don’t lie to me, guys. you KNOW that light sprite ain’t worth 45 million t or even 36000 gems.)

[dramarising]

Go eat a dick.

[charlie-fr-deactivated20160627]

Okay yeah, I normally am all for “its not their fault that they’re happy with 50 gems less” but this is an asshole move.

[immortalismortem-deactivated201]

DoctorClaw singlehandedly intentionally drops the economy. It’s a sick joke to them. When they get undercut at any point they’ll pull their items and undercut the cutter. It’s some massive joke to them and they’re an enormous douchebag. They have nearly everything you can buy in the AH, not limited to skins, scrolls and apparel. They dropped the sprite prices by almost half in 3 days. not all that long ago. They are a HUGE douche. And it’s all intentional because they don’t actually sell anything. They drop prices and then pull their junk for when prices climb again. I’ve watched them for months now. It’s a vicious cycle they never quit.

[doctorclawfr]

I did?  I do?  It is?  Dang.

I actually didn’t realize I was so funny, but I’m glad you caught on to the joke.  I know it makes a joke less funny when you have to explain it, but I’d really like if you would break it down for me.

Like, how do I know when someone’s undercutting me?  I mean, obviously, besides being right there at the time and looking at the price.  I guess there are pinglists or something to let people know when a certain item has been posted, but last I checked I wasn’t on any pinglists, and certainly not on enough lists to cover all the items that you can buy on the AH, or even the ones I typically list.  Of course, since every auction is listed for either 1, 3, or 7 days, it would be pretty easy to look at the timer on any given auction and figure out roughly when it was posted.

But all kidding aside, I actually do have a thing that tells me when it’s time to post a new auction.  When one of my auctions sells, the site sends me a message.  It’s pretty great, except when two items have the same name.  I wish they’d list an item number or a dragon i.d. (especially for unnamed dragons).

Okay, back to the kidding.  So, the Sprite price thing, yeah, I’ll own up to that.  It was supposed to be a secret... kind of a nice, charitable thing to do for all those new users who might not have enough gems or treasure saved up to pay full price.  Now, obviously I’m not gonna give the Sprites away, since they cost some serious currency in the first place, but I figure a 50% discount, first-come-first-served, is a good way to generate some goodwill in the community without making a big deal about it.  And I suppose, hypothetically if there was some predatory re-seller out there who bought my low-price item and then put it up higher to make a profit, I can’t really complain.  I mean, I’d absolutely know if they bought my Sprite, since I put a tracking tag on each of them.  Those bunny ears they’ve got are great for that.  But if a player wants, when they buy a Sprite from me they can also message me to buy the tracking tag remover, and I only charge like 20% of the price for that, or even less if I’m feeling generous, so they still come out ahead.  As for the 3 days thing, that was sort of a mistake.  You see, I wanted to get them all up Friday, but then the sun set so I wasn’t sure if it counted as the next day yet, so I tried to finagle it by posting at exactly 12:00 a.m. server time, only that’s when rollover happens and I got booted out, and then the next day there was a huge dominance battle so I wasn’t even paying attention to the Sprites except when they sold, and then after that it was Sunday and I found out that was the day I wasn’t supposed to post them, because everyone’s busy at church or watching football.  So I finally got the last batch up on Monday, and that’s why it took three days.  Believe me, I’m as sorry about it as anyone.  I already tried to make penance to the Moon Goddess, but when I got to the Lunar Sea Spire it was full of crystal shrimp and I hadn’t brought any bagel sandwiches.

[dramarising]

Go eat a dick.

[meelo-malware]

Looks like bottling tbh “Post what you have at a lesser increment than the lowest listing”.

Why the hell else would you undercut so much?

[flightsinking-blog]

i almost agree- plus its the EXACT same undercut pattern- on their own shit? does seem… questionable, especially since its EVERYWHERE

[wilddog]

Apparently DoctorClaw is a big time flipper(nothing wrong with that, though it is aggregating at times), but I will agree that this amount of under cutting is weird o.o

[flightsinking-blog]

i think part of the issue is that… its just as easy to say “Just a big time Flipper!” as it is “Thats just my sister’s account!” it wouldnt surprise me…. an AH bot would probably be hard to track then a coli-based one

(its really the repeated pattern covering literally /everything/ without fail that gets me)

[doctorclawfr]

Okay... truth time.

[heaves a dramatic sigh, lights a pipe and paces by the fireplace, occasionally glancing into the flames as if into a past fondly remembered but never to be grasped again]

The terrible truth is, I do use an external program to aid in my Flight Rising Auction House activities.  It’s called... [tense pause] ...Notepad.  I know, many of you have probably never heard of Notepad, since it’s a very new software and not widely available, so I’ll explain what it does.  You see, every time I sell something on the Auction House, I... [sniffles] ...I’m sorry, it’s just so hard to admit... [bites knuckle to regain composure] ...I open my Notepad and I write it down.

[hides face in shame]

Oh, but that wasn’t the worst of it.  If only!  If only I was able to control these urges that creep into my very soul!  [raises face toward the ceiling, mouth and eyes widened in manic desperation] (whispering)  I wrote down the prices, too.  Not just one, no.  Not just a hundred or a thousand.  I wrote them all down.  One by one, I compiled my list, so I could know how much each and every item had sold for, so I could be on the lookout.  So that one day, when another unsuspecting item happened by, I could simply reach out and snap it up.  And then... and then there were no more items.  I had written down all of them... everywhere.

Kinda like Kevin Uxbridge from Star Trek.

[dramarising]

Go eat a dick.

[meelo-malware]

Looks like bottling tbh “Post what you have at a lesser increment than the lowest listing”.

Why the hell else would you undercut so much?

[flightsinking-blog]

i almost agree- plus its the EXACT same undercut pattern- on their own shit? does seem… questionable, especially since its EVERYWHERE

[kleinufr]

This doctorclaw person shows up everywhere on the ah. Has anyone actually talked to them?

[orkraken]

Never. I’ve never seen them around.

I just know that I’d rather pull out my own teeth than buy from them. They’re literally No.1 on my own personal Do Not Buy From list.

[clocks-rising]

Haha, yowza.

I don’t really care who I buy from but I will admit DoctorClaw is just… so ubiquitous that it’s kind of… obnoxious? Don’t they also usually have a gems buying thread that’s like 100t above everyone else’s? That’s really the worst imo.

[doctorclawfr]

I think it’s pretty awful too.  Like, the worst times twelve.  When people are making threads to tell people they have gems and treasure they want to exchange, they really need to keep their prices right in line with what the official exchange rate is, as published by the site admins in their four-times-daily financial briefing, Gem-tleman’s Quarterly.  I mean, gems and treasure are already available in infinite quantities, so it’s not like people have any reason to fluctuate their prices depending on which one they want more of at a given time.  They can just go over to the Treasure Tree and pick some.  Me, I’m too lazy to pick currency off the Treasure Tree, so I just wait until it ripens and then falls into my open mouth.  Some times, a strong enough wind blows that it actually knocks a bunch right on top of me, and then I’m like rolling around trying to get out from under it, but also really enjoying how I can just roll in treasure like Scrooge McDuck.

[doctorclawfr]

OH MY GOD YOU'RE THE ONE MY MOM REPORTED. I feel like I should apologize in her stead since I'm sure she'd feel super bad if she knew she'd reported you for being a bot when you are not actually a bot. So, uh, I'm sorry! hmu on FR at spectraldragon if you need me to throw money at you in a grandiose apology? Enjoy being the CEO of Evil Co? How do I end conversations it is a mystery.

:)  Thanks for coming out to apologize for her.  No monetary contributions needed.  I like to think the admins are aware enough of my activities on the site that they’ve satisfied themselves I’m not a bot.

As for how to end conversations?  I never seem to have that problem.  I have a little red button on my desk that opens a trapdoor in the floor, and conversations seem to end pretty naturally once I press that.

[dramarising]

Go eat a dick.

[meelo-malware]

Looks like bottling tbh “Post what you have at a lesser increment than the lowest listing”.

Why the hell else would you undercut so much?

[flightsinking-blog]

i almost agree- plus its the EXACT same undercut pattern- on their own shit? does seem… questionable, especially since its EVERYWHERE

[kleinufr]

This doctorclaw person shows up everywhere on the ah. Has anyone actually talked to them?

[orkraken]

Never. I’ve never seen them around.

I just know that I’d rather pull out my own teeth than buy from them. They’re literally No.1 on my own personal Do Not Buy From list.

[doctorclawfr]

Yeah, I never see them around either.  Their clan profile says they have over a thousand forum posts, but that’s probably a glitch.

Speaking of teeth, one time I put some Chimera Fangs up on the AH, and then DoctorClaw came in and bought them all, and then immediately posted them for 50 treasure less, one after another.  How did I know it was DoctorClaw who bought them?  Good old dye packets, of course, like the banks put in with the money during a robbery.  It’s the same way conservationists dye rhino horns pink to discourage poaching.  Anywho, I was so mad at them I went ahead and bought up all the ones they listed, and I pocketed the difference.  And then, just out of spite, I bought some more of their auctions and listed them at an even lower price, just to force them to undercut themselves by even more.  The brilliant thing is how well it works, because no one ever legitimately wants to buy what DoctorClaw is selling, and everyone agrees that their prices are completely unreasonable.

Also, I totally agree that DoctorClaw is No.1, and I think that we as a community ought to call them out by saying so in our forum signatures.  I realize the original phrasing is a little long, and it’s impolite to take up a lot of space for a signature, but I think if we just shorten it do “DoctorClaw is No.1 on my list” then it’ll get the message across.  And I think when other users see that and go to check out DoctorClaw’s auctions, they’ll start agreeing and this whole movement will really pick up steam.

[dramarising]

Go eat a dick.

[meelo-malware]

Looks like bottling tbh “Post what you have at a lesser increment than the lowest listing”.

Why the hell else would you undercut so much?

[flightsinking-blog]

i almost agree- plus its the EXACT same undercut pattern- on their own shit? does seem… questionable, especially since its EVERYWHERE

[kleinufr]

This doctorclaw person shows up everywhere on the ah. Has anyone actually talked to them?

[doctorclawfr]

To be honest I think DoctorClaw is just a figment of our collective imagination, or as I prefer to call it, “The Invisible Hand of the Market.”

[dramarising]

Go eat a dick.

[derpgonns]

What an asshole. I wish I had the gems to buy them and relist them at normal, even prices. They’ve had the gem market/AH by the nuts for months now, and I’m fucking sick of it.

[doctorclawfr]

That DoctorClaw really is such an asshole.  I support the plan to buy up all of his items and then re-list them.  You should totally do it.  That would fix his wagon.

[dramarising]

Go eat a dick.

[doctorclawfr]

Hi everyone!  I think it’s really great that you’re trying to get in touch with me.  I know how hard it can be to talk to people, especially on Flight Rising’s forums where the conversations are visible to everyone and you can ping people to get their attention, or even through the message system that I don’t check all that often... just when an auction sells or expires, or when I get an alert.  I know how cumbersome it is to use some of the site’s features, since they require multiple clicks and confirmations to do even basic buying and selling, so I figured I’d meet everyone halfway (or all the way, I guess) by coming over here and breaking the ice.

So, hi.  I’m DoctorClaw.  My wife thinks of me as David Xanatos from Gargoyles, but what she neglected to mention is that it’s because I think of her as Fox, a.k.a. Mrs. Xanatos from Gargoyles.  It’s a much healthier relationship than say, Gendo/Yui, plus it means I don’t have to do the Gendo hands thing all day and I can sit down by swinging my leg over the back of the chair like Riker from Star Trek.  Where was I going with this?  Oh yeah, hi.  I don’t think I know anyone else here, though I’m guessing your screen names are different from FR.  Since, y’know, someone would have to be a total nut to identify themselves and respond directly to what people are saying to (and about) them.

To the OP: I actually buy entire bags of freeze-dried bull penises, but whenever I go to take one out, our doggy gets so excited I have to give him one, and that’s one less for me.  If you’d like a bag of dicks for yourself and/or your dog, we get ours from Best Bully Sticks in packs of 100 for a little over $1 apiece, which is much better than what it costs at the local pet food store.  Just make sure to wash your hands after touching them, since raw meat can foster harmful bacteria.

[microdragons]

Like, I realize I am not active in the tag much any more but hi guys I am FRs grumpy old sociologist auntie who once upon a time made economy posts until it became apparent that no big overhauls were gonna happen until the site went into open registration. If you go through my blog you will see MANY REFERENCES to DoctorClaw and photos of both of us including photos of him writing on my computer like over a year ago when he didn’t have a tumblr and was using mine to reply. And I guess we could be lying????? But we’ve both been around forever???? And it’s super easy to check our behavior on the site and see that we’re both only on in a roughly 12-15 hour period each day??? And that sometimes our hours differ???? But at the same time sometimes we post simultaneously??? Which would be impossible if IDK we were the same person??????????? ???????????????????????????????????? I’m just a bit exasperated because every few months this comes up. DOCTORCLAW DONE BOTTING I SEEN IT some rando cries. I step up and am like “ … he is my husband? And I can vouch for him? And I know to you I am some rando and it proves nothing other than I exist and have a male companion I can regularly photograph but seriously take a look at our respective accounts and you will see we’re not new to this roe-day-ooh.” And he’s over there cackling at his computer screen and is like “I HAVE HATERS” and le SIGH y’all. He loves being EvilCorp CEO and he’s wearing his angry pumpkin face shirt today and now I have to be fake-angry and humpty trump around.

(Trust me, like, the admins know about him. See this post that Xhaz reblogged and I KNOW it’s just about it being funny but he’s hardly flying under the radar.)

[dramarising]

Go eat a dick.

[meelo-malware]

Looks like bottling tbh “Post what you have at a lesser increment than the lowest listing”.

Why the hell else would you undercut so much?

[flightsinking-blog]

i almost agree- plus its the EXACT same undercut pattern- on their own shit? does seem… questionable, especially since its EVERYWHERE

[wilddog]

Apparently DoctorClaw is a big time flipper(nothing wrong with that, though it is aggregating at times), but I will agree that this amount of under cutting is weird o.o

[flightsinking-blog]

i think part of the issue is that… its just as easy to say “Just a big time Flipper!” as it is “Thats just my sister’s account!” it wouldnt surprise me…. an AH bot would probably be hard to track then a coli-based one

(its really the repeated pattern covering literally /everything/ without fail that gets me)

[shitmanletsbedragons-deactivate]

i remember someone making a post about knowing them and that they signed up for tumblr (http://doctorclawfr.tumblr.com) a few months back. but i don’t remember who said that. :/ i see drclaw EVERYWHERE tho it’s really wild.

[fraidycat-fr]

DrClaws S.O us on tumblr i think? either way i heard the guy plays games until he beats them and loves economy sims - and thats why hes on the AH a lot. Honestly, he plays the FRAH like a big name mmo AH and thats why he dwarfs everyone else. the guy honestly knows what he’s doing!

tbh its a git gud kinda thing, accuse him of botting all you want - but he doesn’t profit from being the most expensive all the time. he profits when things sell.

just putting up an item at a high price, or many as a high price, makes people more lenient to buy undercut items. if you control the undercut and the ceiling, you can work the AH like you wouldn’t believe. same theory with expensive shots/sushi on a menu, it makes you feel like ordering the 8$ roll is a good deal when theres a 15$ roll right next to it - even if both rolls have the same bottom line value to create.

[orangeridgebacks]

it is a git gud thing. not much more to it than that

[microdragons]

Oh my god. Doctor claw does not bot. we’ve been over this before. I AM MARRIED TO HIM. I CAN TAKE A PHOTO OF HIM AND PROVE HE ISN’T A ROBOT.

HERE WE ARE IN NEW YORK CITY A FEW WEEKS AGO. HE IS THE ONE WITH THE GLASSES. (I am the one with the funky hair)

Holy shit he’s been on the site for 2 years. I’ve been on the site a little bit longer. TRUST ME with so much treasure going through his account the FR staff is watching both of us like hawks. WE ARE REAL. HE IS LEGIT. Like omg undel aequorin-fr please someone lay this to rest sob. (Also if you go through his lair you can see he has all these villian themed dragons in his lair. Many of which have absurd custom descriptions like he wrote a whole song for the Elsa one and the BlackAdder one and he sang them to me). (God, and he’s getting this huge kick out of this he is a SLYTHERIN you fools socially acceptable acts of evil are his bread and butter he’s going to preening about this all night)