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[mindlessflight]

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Edit: I have updated the rules:

ADDENDUM TO RULE THREE (3): Because I do NOT want another instance of shit that happened this month, and the shit that happened in @anonrising, Fandom Politics are NOT ALLOWED. This includes, but is not limited to:

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•         Anti/Proshipping war bullshit      

*These subjects almost inevitably bring up Anti/Proship bullshit and there are folks on both sides who might be triggered by certain content, or feel dismissed by various argument points on both sides. As a result, THEY ARE  NOT ALLOWED. This site is for DRAGON DRAMA, not your Pro/Anti shipping bullshit. Take it to fandomwank or fandom_secrets or whatever other platform they're using nowadays.
 

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[(Anonymous)]

Tfw the next conquest battle is 5 months away

[(Anonymous)]

DA
tbh I'm still surprised that battles are still happening, considering you can nearly flawlessly predict who wins and who loses

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT
Yeah I took a long hiatus a couple years back and just saw the current state of Dom. Not surprised though, it's probably gotten stale. I'm pretty sure the leaderboard (with the Beastclans) was the only change they ever made to it?

LvP was the last major battle I participated in... that was fun.

[mindlessflight]

I am having flashbacks to the LvP thread on the old AR

[(Anonymous)]

it all sorta started to go downhill after lvp tbh

[(Anonymous)]

i literally have no idea about dom and this just makes me feel so much better

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

i think the decay is many factors together:

-the game itself growing older but the coliseum/dominance/meta aspect of it not really being updated to keep it fresh for the players so that means that it's pretty much up to the players to offer incentive and organize the dom battles/games and people burn out, it's a lot of work and it's always the same and no one gets paid

-open registration (cough easy multiple accounts cough) opening up a never-ending flood of fodder, made it easier for people to exalt for profit

-the "true value" of dragon levels for dominance being more or less figured out by the lightning/light science alliance so people realized lower levels were more efficient for winning dom (people no longer leveled so many dragons to level 25, which also tanked the price for them)

-the coliseum enemies being tweaked to add more and more neutral enemies in every venue, and the new venues that appeared, both made it so that people no longer flocked to the arena venue in every festival to grind for currency, which made the eliminate battle stone rarer and more expensive, which made people more careful about which dragons they leveled up as their permanent coliseum dragons, which was one more point that made adult dragons cheaper since you might as well sell or exalt the extras?

-the mire flyer coliseum build taking off in popularity when i think kiena and then culex recommended it?, followed by the ghostlight ruins trainer appearing when that venue opened, which allowed people to train lots of dragons to low levels en masse

but i think light vs plague made people realize that they could make bank whenever there was a battle going on, light and plague were both shoving massive amount of treasure into the raffles and public buys at the end of the week

[(Anonymous)]

sa

so dom became about money, more or less

also lvp left plague burned out and people didn't like fighting light after that

and then light vs earth left light burned out and people don't like fighing earth

(it also revealed the population ratio means that small flights are invincible against larger flights if they are willing to put in the effort)

[(Anonymous)]

(it also revealed the population ratio means that small flights are invincible against larger flights if they are willing to put in the effort)

Not invincible. If that was the case Fire would have beat Light earlier this year.

[(Anonymous)]

Late to this, but Light was (afaik) the first larger Flight to beat the smaller one in... YEARS. And Fire still flipped despite Light pulling out a Bonefiend. If Fire hadn't waited to respond to Light's Bonefiend offer until 12 hours later, I think Fire would have had it in the bag.

[(Anonymous)]

It's always so weird to me how many people claim that LvP was some kind of beginning for people wanting to make a profit from dom. I've been here since 2014 and remember making bank from battles long before that. I especially remember people complaining that other flights only care about raffle prizes, and then when public buys were introduced people complained about how mercenary they were and what a shame it is that so many people are motivated by treasure. And then they complained long and hard about actual mercs, of course. Dom has always been costly in one way or another, and people have looked to make a profit off it for nearly all of the site's history. As far as I can tell, the only special thing about LvP was that it was high stakes and involved a lot of stress and drama which made the combatants more likely to get tired of the arrangement. It's just odd how much it made people seem to forget that that arrangement is way older than 2016.

[(Anonymous)]

I got to be one of the dom coordinators of one of the battling flights and that was by far the most fun I ever had on FR (stupid drama aside..I ignored it and did my own thing lol)