anonrerising | Damnit, Arcanist

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thank god they lowered it because 5000 levels for the final badge was ridiculous. what were they thinking?

yeah lol i saw that and was like "okay so youre getting a dragon a day from me so i can get the daily badges" because i for sure am not sending in 700+ dragons for an average fest raffle

absolutely no idea what they were thinking. maybe if the badges were amazing id consider it but they're just kinda average. nothing against the artist who made them but its very hard to justify such a steep price set by the leads

ayrt

I think its because the last one was animated, but even that's too much for an animated badge

Whoever set the previous level requirement must've been horribly out of touch or thought they're supposed to be cumulative badges. The badges from an Arcane user's PB last week aren't even that high and they even carry over to the next one.

nayrt

alternately, water mods made a mistake and when it was brought to their attention, they fixed it because they too realized it was far too high

a thought™

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(Anonymous) - 2023-04-19 15:10 (UTC) - Expand

Definitely a good call on the quick fix - but I forgive a badge labeling oops easily when the gem ratio is decent and attendants are offering them almost 100% of the time.

(Do I feel bad about judging flights that don't offer gems properly for fest payouts? A little. But with all the treasure-only public buy pushes nowadays it feels like gems make fest kinda special yknow.)

As an attendant, I am just so grateful I'm not doing it out of pocket and can offer you those gem payouts.

(And no, I'm not saying anything about the update to fix that high badge level requirement.)

damn you really cant even mildly criticize waterdom here without someone jumping in to defend them. kinda funny to think about cause i know for sure at least one of waterdoms orgs uses this comm

tbf you can't say anything here without someone jumping in to say the opposite that's kind of how it works lol

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(Anonymous) - 2023-04-19 18:25 (UTC) - Expand

So it looks like the natdom team fucked up and their RL scavenger hunt is gone now: https://saltminerising.tumblr.com/post/717983121744838656/not-sure-if-whoever-came-up-with-nature-doms#notes

Their OOF raffle is hit with the nuke too though.

this is legit just doxxing yourself and/or risking your life for some petsite items lmao. a shame the big raffle thread got nuked but it shouldnt have happened in the first place :/

AYRT

Yeah, I'm not too sure what's up with the raffle thread being nuked too since they're supposed to be separate. My guess is that the daily questions have to do with it and people were getting a little too detailed in answering them.

Natdom did daily questions in their last conquest which is only a few months ago and that didn't happen. Perhaps this one got a little too much attention from the RL scavenger hunt being a massive fuckup.

official clarification on the situation from Aequorin https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/frd/3240338/2#post_54225100

dunno exactly what got posted in the oofr that got it deleted alongside the scavenger hunt, but if the two were somehow linked or there was something in oofr that got people getting too personal then. well bye

yesterday's OOFR daily question was to tell a story about you getting lost. i could easily see people putting info about specific locations, which opens the door to PII concers as aeq said.

i guess the OOFR's daily questions from their push a few months ago were more general, like "how do you relax" or "where would you like to vacation." i do like the daily question idea, but itll be a challenge to make questions that /nobody/ will interpret as invitations to post identifiable details.

dude, a friend of mine was doxxed when they posted a photo of their cats and the fireplace was visible, and people compared old house listings in their city and found the exact fireplace

this scavenger hunt is terrible lol

checking the new dom watch thread... god damn, plague is conquesting two weeks in a row later this year. after four pushes before that, two of which are also conquests? forgive me if this is a usual thing and this post comes off strangely, it just sounds like a lot for one flight.

I can see why I've seen people saying they're worried about the active dom participants getting burnt out. any plaguelings in here to share how that planning for all that is going, if you know?

sa

*the planning, whoops

I got no idea how planning is going, but from my expirience profit pushes are very casual in comparison to conquests and most of us don't actually focus on placing during them, so they're not really cause for burnout (for me, I guess).
As for conquests, we're having less this year than last, I think. More profits in any case

ayrt

yeah, the amount of conquests just threw me off a bit, i don’t think my own flight attempts that quite as much. profits all around tho, as you said. i’d sell fodder to y’all if I wasn’t saving up for a battle later lol.

I remember back when Plague did that many conquests routinely. 2015 was a simpler time... I wish them luck in their dom ventures, would be cool to see that kind of action again!

2015 Plague Dom was by far the most fun I ever had on Flight Rising ngl

First and foremost, since it’s going on right now, I wish the house cup theme was changed. Instead of school houses, surely we could do, like… opposing research groups or something. Research battle! This is a magicy scientist experimentation flight!

But, in general, dom has felt a little disorganized in my flight. I see a lot of people not knowing what’s going on or when things are happening, and a lot of the people who ran things in the past aren’t even here anymore and there are no clear replacements. I know the team right now works hard and I find them all lovely to be around, and I know that as a large flight it’s harder to pull through, but I want a more serious feel to dom; new events, other ways of drawing support, more fun themes, anything really. I really just want new life to be breathed into this. But I have doubts on how well suggestions like that would be received given how nothing has changed (see: the house cup, being kept for tradition purposes, I believe?) despite a lot of people not being super enthralled with things as they currently are.

I don’t want to to leave Arcane, I just want it to feel exciting again.

I feel like the dom team needs to fix fundamental issues before diving into new themes and such. FWIW, almost every push seems hastily put together with in-flight badges not even ready until *after* the push is over and at least one person every push pokes them to wrap up and roll the raffle. To some extent I can still overlook that since things get done before the new push starts anyway but for this push specifically apparently the dom team /forgot/ about it until dom watch is up. Their dom watch post isn't up now either (there's no foddart from what I've heard) and that doesn't exactly instill confidence when even OOF stuff is delayed like this. Also, I'm not surprised by the amount of clueless ppl due to the lack of communication tbh.

It seems like the dom team is also caught up with lots of IRL stuff but it really makes me wonder if they just bit off more than they can chew. I don't know if other flights are like this so this is my only frame of reference and I don't know the behind-the-scenes that much so that's just my $0.02 on arcane dom.

That’s fair, yeah. Again, this isn’t me shitting on the dom team, but there has been a persistent sense of things being over-rushed and under-planned. And yeah, I noticed that things for this current push were just straight up forgotten until it was too late. I’m IN the flight and I wasn’t even aware of what was going on here— and I know you’ll get a pretty quick answer if you ask in the discord, but should it not be clearer anyway?

Is the team just not big enough? Are they just consistently too busy? I don’t want to sound like an asshole but I don’t remember the last time that people weren’t siting IRL busyness for things being behind. In that case, I feel like more people need to be brought on that have the time and/or energy to be able to attend to these things. It feels like there’s just never enough hands on deck to do anything more than keep your head above water.

Hell, some parts of the dom effort have been under perpetual reconstruction or closure for years. I don’t know what’s going on.

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