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Kizzy’s condolence card participation information

Hi everyone,

As you may by now be aware, on the 3rd of Feb, 2019, our dear Kizzy (Kizmetto #59149, @duskthicketbonepicker), passed away from bowel cancer.

Kiz meant a lot to a lot of people. She was always kind and generous and never had an unkind word to say about anyone. We understand that she impacted many people, whether you knew her for years, or just enjoyed her dragons, art, or tumblr posts coming up on your dash.

We would like to organise a tribute to her from the FR community that meant so much to her. Our plan is to buy one of those giant condolence cards, and fill it with messages from anyone online that would like to leave a message. Shadowdawn199 (#148774) @enchantinggoblin is planning to attend Kiz’s funeral, and will deliver the card to Kizzy’s parents and family.

So, if you would like to have your message included, please send it via tumblr ask, or FR pm, to one of us:

@enchantinggoblin (Shadowdawn199 #148774) @gustinggoblin (Meebo #65972) @goannafr (Goanna #1321) @reliquiaenfr (Reliquiaen #705)

We will print the messages and glue/attach it into the card. You are also welcome to include handwritten messages, or even drawings if you like. It will just need to be scanned/photographed so we can print it out.

Please remember that we will be delivering this to, and it will be read by, her parents and family, so keep all messages respectful and appropriate.

We don’t know the funeral date just yet, so we would kindly ask for you to get your messages in to us as soon as possible, so we can get the card ready.

Another way you may like to contribute to her memory, is to donate to Bowel Cancer Australia, which you can do so at the following link: https://www.bowelcanceraustralia.org/donate

Please share this post so as many people who want to participate, are able to

With love,

Goanna, Shad, Meeb, and Reli

gustinggoblin

We don’t have a final date yet, but as soon as we find out when the funeral that will be the closing date to send in those messages. Don’t wait till then, send in your message and/or pictures o/

gustinggoblin

We have now set the end date for the messages.

SATURDAY 23RD MIDNIGHT AEST

If for whatever reason you need more time please let us know, otherwise we’ll start putting the card together the next day.

This update!

I have been waiting for this update for 4 years!?!?!? omg about dang time. I almost cried sorting my lair into tabs! Sooo much feels right now

#flight rising

duskthicketbonepicker

Breezebreak Resort in watercolours :) I love this place….

frforlosers

I don’t know if this was intentional, but seeing everyone pass around Kizzy’s art posts is such a thoughtful form of remembrance and respect, and I’m really glad it’s happening.

flightdescending

flight rising 2014 moodboard

nynehells

Reblog with your UN and ID# for a random drunk 1-dragon review.

Im 21, We have rum, and I will get to as many as I can — before I can’t!!

thenorthwindrising

if still going

chezameed #66060

Selling some dragons. You can find them in the Auction house under chezameed. If you would like to haggle, message me.

#flight rising #flight rising dragon sales

Annual Holiday Opening

So every year I save everything that can produce treasure and I wait to open on the first of December. I know many decided to do something like this on their anniversary on the site but I think its a fun holiday treat to yourself.

So I put every treasure and gem I currently have in the Vault so I start at zero. Here is the list of what I am opening today:

111 Broken Penny Jars

51 Rusted Treasure Chests

19 Iron Treasure Chests

7 Gilded Treasure Chests

5 Leafy packs

4 Skirmisher Packs

5 Burlap Sack

8 Fishscale Basket

4 Hefty Treasure Cache

3 Some Secret Stash

7 Shattered Ceramic Jar

125 Broken Pottery Jar

3 Frozen Knapsack

12 Bonebound Chest

4 Waterway Pipe

5 Molten Crucible

13 Treasured Planters

(There would be a lot more but RL happened and playing on FR has been off and on)

And here is the total!

Not too bad for casual playing all year.

#flight rising

fr-ari

wip wip war

:eyes:

nynehells

JEEZ this is gorgeous already

nimrook-fr

I need this so much oh my lord

duckrepellent-archive-deactivat

everyone, and I mean everyone who reblogs this will get a top 6 review.

thenorthwindrising

may the gods be with you

chezameed #66060

#flight rising

flightrising

Status Update

We are currently investigating a connectivity issue with our provider. We will update you as more information becomes available.

dramarising-replacement

thank god there’s a toggle

kuhli-fr

roombadragons

I reached 500 followers a week or so ago so I’m doing a giveaway! Their will be 4 winners total. Well what can I win Roomba? One person will get a new Ghost tertiary, one will get 500G, one will get 2 stacks of pinecones, and another will get a flat bust from me.

Rules: -only reblogs count -don’t have to be following me -in your reblog please include BOTH your FR ID and Username AND what order you prefer the prizes: Ghost, Gems, Pinecones, Art. This is so I can send put prizes as soon as I end it -Ends at Feburary 14th at 3:00 FR time

thenorthwindrising

chezameed #66060

Ghost, 500G, Bust, pinecones

Thank you and congrats!

#flight rising

rhea245

literally unplayable

seriously tho if they don’t fix/change the constant coli page reloads and replace current coli with this “updated” version I will probably quit FR, because fuck that noise

I like participating in dom things, earning (user-made) badges in (user-made) events (because fuckin’ forbid the actual site make any cool events or collectable shit) (achievement system still broken lol). I like collecting coli crates. all that with beta coli’s mechanics? slow fucking mole asses

who’s the idiot who thought it was a good idea? fire them immediately

kaguraspetsims

Yeah I have to agree. I have no incentive to beta test it bc there’s no loot or achievement or anything, but I’ve been hearing a lot of bad stuff about it.

The few minutes I played it, it was way too slow for my liking. Like, way too slow.

Just remember to tell them all the problems with it so that they (hopefully) fix everything

kymris

I definitely agree. The constant page reloads are annoying as hell. I used to be able to farm in the Coli while watching TV, but now, after every won battle, I have to recenter the page every. single. time, and it’s just infuriating. This is the worst thing they could have done. I honestly don’t think I’ll ever used the Coli again if they implement this.

highland-gem-guardian

I most certainly agree! It is only in its very early beta stage, and I know staff are serious with catching and preventing bots with this new Coli, but they really didn’t have to go to such lengths to prevent it from being, well, playable. For the humans that play it 99.9% of the time.

I’m really hoping the whole “page reloads with every battle” thing is just an unexpected side effect of the implemented captchas, and that it will be fixed and gone with the final, whole Coli. All we can do is let staff know what we like and dislike and how they can change it for the better, and hope they’ll listen!

rhea245

from what I’ve heard, it was a purposeful design choice - it allows a given coli page to only load that page’s assets, i.e. one battle’s worth of images and such.

however, this forces us to every time reload ALL assets on the page, non-coli ones included (and conveniently for them, the ads as well)

lililira

Hffgggh the reload between battles bothers me so much

It’s literally the exact opposite of an optimization, and is objectively terrible from a game design perspective. Let me explain.

It forces a deload and reload of assets that don’t need to be reloaded. Including:

Things outside the coli window:

Site logo

Top banner

Site background

Left side navigation menu and links

Ad spaces

News ticker in the top right

Player avatar and banner

Player currency counts

Message / Friend Requests / Notifications bar

Site clock

Players online count

Thing inside the coli window that are unchanged between battles:

Venue background

Coli frame

Coli buttons

Coli menus

Dragon images

Dragon data (battle stones + stats)

Health and breath bars

Damage calc equations

All of those things don’t need to be altered or reloaded between battles. The things that do need to be reloaded between battles are:

Enemy images

Enemy data

Turn order

That’s literally it.

It’s incredibly inefficient to reload 95% of the page’s code just to get the 5% that needs changing to be reloaded. It causes more strain on the servers and browser alike, since the server needs to send all that data every single reload, and the browser has to load it all basically from scratch. It causes lag and hogs resources on both ends. It’s just generally just objectively terrible game design, and the exact opposite of an optimization.

Why would you need to reload so many things that don’t need to be reloaded just to reload the enemies and turn order? It really shouldn’t have to happen under any circumstances. There should be a way to refresh just the things that need refreshing, the way the old coli did.

I understand that there might be additional data that makes it so the entire new coli can’t be loaded at once like the old one, but if there is so much junk data that only one battle can be loaded per page refresh then there is something very wrong with the code and it needs to be seriously reworked before release.

At the very least, a good medium would be to load up all the venue specific data once the venue is selected (since there’s no reason for all 20-ish venues to be loaded if you can only be in one at a time), and just go from battle to battle without needing a full page reload of assets that are fine as-is.