anonrerising | Night of the Nocturne!

I've been wanting to join Fire forever because I love the aesthetics but I've gotten so comfortable with Earth's constant dom benefits. Hoping in time they finally manage to become the dom powerhouse they have the ability to be because I'd love to switch

Same, I really want to switch to Fire but the chaos happening with their dom team has me a lil wary. I wish their discord was public so I could see what their community is like… I’d have to drop a lot of stuff in my current flight that I would never get back in order to make the switch, so I def don’t want it to be a mistake.

I decided to just go for it and join fire for a bit. Figure I can switch back later if I don't like it.

nayrt whats it like?

I've only been in fire flight for a few weeks, but people seem to want to make it work and are hopeful fire will have a good year. It's good dreamclaws has joined since they seem pretty good at communicating and coming at it with a plan. Like the other anon said, dreamclaws has mentioned wanting to use the forums as the main place for dom communication which I'm also super grateful for.

Some people have expressed an interest in restarting/joining guilds, which I'm not super familiar with. I don't know if it makes sense for fire since it's a small flight, and I'm not sure how they work when coordinating battles/raffles. So waiting to see how those work out.

But everyone has been really nice so far and the vibe is positive so I'm just chilling while things get rolling. There is an upcoming profit push so I'm interested in seeing how that goes and what fire's internal numbers are looking like. :)

dreamclaws has mentioned wanting to use the forums as the main place for dom communication

nayrt, but this alone is making me want to switch to fire. /gen

so sick of everything being gated behind discord 😒

nayrt, but yeah, same on the Discord thing. I don't like that people as a whole are preferring Discord nowadays. Would rather keep things on the actual site itself, and I've had bad experiences with servers and harassment (in a non-fr server, don't worry) so I'd rather not join anymore at the moment anyways. I just mainly use it to talk to friends.

gosh, yeah, suddenly fire is mildly appealing - my flight's dom is like, 99% discord based, barely anything on forums. all of the pings are 'we'll be pushing on those dates and this is the theme': non-discord folds don't get asked about the theme nor the dates and just get the final decisions. much fun /s

and the worst thing? i work awkward hours, so i can't even be active during the main 'active hours', so discord is a complete non-option for me unless i want to back-read several hours of discussions each day...

NAYRT if you're willing to share I'm extremely curious what flight this is

NAYRT but this almost perfectly describes my experience in Arcane:

my flight's dom is like, 99% discord based, barely anything on forums. all of the pings are 'we'll be pushing on those dates and this is the theme': non-discord folds don't get asked about the theme nor the dates and just get the final decisions. much fun /s

We did get a google form to fill out to vote on push dates, but theme discussions and event planning are discord-only. It definitely feels like non-discord-users are seen as less valuable, or like we have less to contribute. :/

Similar in Shadow too. We get pings to the forms to vote on push dates, and there's a little box to fill in with theme IDEAS at the end. As for actually choosing and deciding on the themes though? I have to assume that's all done on discord because I never see any follow up to that. The only reason I know what the festival theme is, is because someone asked on the forum thinking it might be too early to choose a theme, and they got a 4 word reply as it was already chosen.

We also have a push for Lunar NY that's in collab with Plague coming up! Wish I knew that was happening, but it's not on our push calendar. It's not on Dom Watch either for either flight. Was this a last minute thing? Is it supposed to be kept secret? WHO KNOWS!! We got a ping for event planning but that thread is empty so I assume everything is happening on discord. I'd be far more interested in actually helping out with pushes aside from just exalting on my own if the forums actually had some form of life.

I'm in Shadom too. It's all on discord basically.

Fellow arcanite and yup...that is 100% the first thing I thought when I read that post. I'm in the discord, so I do see some of the dom discussion, but to be quite honest? It's difficult to get involved in the convo if you're not already an "established name," I've noticed. I've given up trying to talk in the dom channels because people will just reply to the posts before and after me, but largely ignore me and other less chatty folks.

I'll probably never leave Arcane for the aesthetics, but man do I wish dom were more interesting

It's my experience (in a completely different flight) that event planning generally happens in DMs/PMs between a couple individuals that find each other and want to collaborate on an event together. Sometimes even without communication if it's something chill that 1 person can handle and they just decide to do it. There's little to no event planning happening in the flight dom discord channels at any given moment.

If you want to run and event and need people to help out with it you should defs just go ahead and make a forum thread for it! I see it happen pretty commonly when someone wants to run an event that needs multiple people helping.

I'm sorry you don't get asked to vote on push themes. Our orgs post google polls on FR to vote on themes for major pushes, and for random little profit pushes they just pull from all the suggestions they got in previous polls.

ayrt
i'm in shadow and someone below already described the current situation - you'd think that since mercs usually require fast responses, so they'd be the discord-only branch of dom but plot twist! it's actually the regular dom that's on discord and mercs get each and every ping in forums. good if you're mostly interested in profit though.

to the other shadow person: yeah, i'm also confused over the lunar ny plague push as the one single vote for a push date in the recent times i remember was a question about a possible joint push with light and suddenly there's a confirmed push with plague.

NAYRT

so now we know shadow's poor showing with dom is not just attributable to being large but being disorganized :|

as someone who doesn't mind communicating mainly on discord (apart from the issue of leaving people out) i still don't want everything on there because important things get lost in the flow of conversation and you have to skim through jokes and tangents to find information. i'm glad my flight has all the important stuff on the forums so it's easy to refer to and less likely to be missed even as a discord user.

NAYRT

I also imagine it's harder to organize a large flight to begin with, but yeah

Eh, say that to Light, who is the second largest flight by active members. They clearly do alright.

Y'know what, fair point!

I get that same vibe from my own flight ngl 💀 I'm so disinterested in dom in general as a result because I don't want to join yet another discord server for networking that can be easily done on site.

NAYRT please tell us which flight so we can avoid them!

AYRT, in my case it's Lightning lol

tbf, there is a somewhat active fundraiser operation that I casually throw stuff at, but I don't remember the last time when polls on push-related themes, dates, etc were posted to the forums. Sometimes I got jumpscared by a push I didn't even know was happening until I opened Dom Watch on day 1. :D

Literally the only thing keeping me from jumping ship nowadays is I'm too fond of the desert & tech aesthetics and Lightning eyes compliment the majority of my breeding pairs.

nayrt

are you on the pinglist for push-related stuff? we got pinged last nov for theme submissions on the next 6 months of pushes, and i get pinged semi-frequently for stuff related to dom. it is a pretty discord-heavy dom scene but you might just not be on the right pinglists cause there def are pings happening for this, and i cant recall any time where votes on push timing+themes happened anywhere other than a google form referenced in a forum post

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