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[(Anonymous)]

So no Dom battles for the rest of the year?

[(Anonymous)]

doesnt look like it, although there's been 2 this year already which has been pretty standard for recent history. modern dom battles are obscenely expensive

[(Anonymous)]

Fairnuff

[(Anonymous)]

doesn't seem like it D:

[(Anonymous)]

The lair expansions and dens have been nice for storage space and just having more pretty dragons, but god damn has the relatively dead dom scene completely killed my interest in the site.

[(Anonymous)]

Blame all the users that make battling too expensive.

The dom scene is active in good flights, it's just not battles to profit off of

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

yeah, at this point dom battles need months if not a year+ of prep and fundraising. dom-active flights that have frequent profit pushes/IF conquests/dom team challenges are where the fun is.

altho if youre only looking to offload your fodder onto a pushing flight for 25kT/L5 you probs need to just accept that it only happens 1-2 weeks per year.

[(Anonymous)]

So like everyone?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

The dom scene is dead compared to what it used to be even in the current most active flights. Back in the day it wasn't hard to get 2-3 OOFRs to attend a year per flight, more if I scheduled my change dates and locations correctly. Now it's like, one and a half per year (including festivals), and even if you swap flights to try and be part of battles it's four at best.

It's too infrequent and killed my interest in the site. I understand the reasons behind it, but understanding why a thing is the way it is does not make its absence any less missed.

[(Anonymous)]

I want the more frequent dom battles back even if it means they’re cheaper, fuck the whiny babies who’d cry about not getting 30kT/dragon.

[(Anonymous)]

more like "fuck people who demand a full suite of top-tier raffle prizes even when there isn't a head-to-head battle going."

i know ARR isn't a monolith, but for all of fire flight's dom team problems, seeing all the complaints about their non-battling raffle ~merely~ having a sprite and full set of haloes is still causing me so much pain whenever i contemplate what my own flight is going to have to go through.

[(Anonymous)]

💯 the content of the fire raffle was perfectly respectable

+1

[(Anonymous)]

I really don't understand why people raised their hackles over the OOF raffle prizes and payouts being "underwhelming" because it's not like they were in dire need of support for a fest push. They didn't even *have* to make a OOF raffle in the first place and they'd still get the dom.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

If they hadn't raised their payouts, they very well could have had issues from folks exalting for themselves. It took fire a fair bit to knock down Earth Sunday, and they were buying dragons off the AH with personal funds to do it.

Profit exalters won't quit exalting just because someone won't make it worth their while. They'll just exalt to their own flight. And there's a lot of those in Earth, combined with flight size bonus.

You can say they don't have to all day long. Folks don't have to support them and they'll have work that much harder to get their festival week. No one will push that week, but lack of competition isn't a sure win.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

I think some people only looked at the raffle before it was reorganized. Initially with the layout it was very easy to miss the sprite and some of the other big prizes.