gonna have to percolate a bit on how i feel about this one i was excited for our spur-of-the-moment tussle with earth, not with...... four people with deep pockets. so even if those users are worried it makes earth look bad or something, i'd actually be really happy to hear if their initiative ended up getting less-wealthy earth flight folks also enthusiastically participating!
(regardless, though, the numbers they're citing are indeed very real levels of dragoncash to be tossing around, even on a dom scale, whew! thanks @ rich earth flight users for your sacrifice to the FR economy. 🫡)
As someone in earth, here's the thing: there were four users with deep pockets, but they were buying a lot of mercs FROM EARTH (and other flights, but mostly Earth and Fire). Light WAS pushing against Earth, but the incentive for those pebbles levelling and exalting was provided by four users with deep pockets instead of the official dom team itself.
Which is pretty much what an 'official' organized push looks like anyway, except replace the four rich users with the dom bank. It was pretty much an internal public buy with private citizen funds.
thank you so much for this further context! that sort of effort is both much more what I originally imagined, and more what I hoped we'd gotten to experience with earth. <3
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ayrt
(Anonymous) 2025-01-12 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)gonna have to percolate a bit on how i feel about this one
i was excited for our spur-of-the-moment tussle with earth, not with...... four people with deep pockets. so even if those users are worried it makes earth look bad or something, i'd actually be really happy to hear if their initiative ended up getting less-wealthy earth flight folks also enthusiastically participating!
(regardless, though, the numbers they're citing are indeed very real levels of dragoncash to be tossing around, even on a dom scale, whew! thanks @ rich earth flight users for your sacrifice to the FR economy. 🫡)
Re: ayrt
(Anonymous) 2025-01-12 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)Which is pretty much what an 'official' organized push looks like anyway, except replace the four rich users with the dom bank. It was pretty much an internal public buy with private citizen funds.
Re: ayrt
(Anonymous) 2025-01-12 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)