Ok with the caveat that this is obviously scummy to do, this is so funny. Imagine taking flight rising dom so seriously you have a spy ring and you melt down trying to find a way to explain it. It's a dragon png site???
Back when FR started, dom pushes were actually secret. Because of how dom worked back then, flights were hush hush about it to try to stem any competition.
Part of this was because Ice had most of the whales- and if they wanted to, they could literally buy dom, which they did often.
By keeping pushes quiet, folks wouldn't start buying up fodder. Gave them an head start.
Dom's changed since then, so pushes aren't as cut throat.
Do you think the openness of dom pushing now is because of this celestial senate stuff? Or did the population grow enough to make it not matter, or something?
imo its a combo of things. population and hibden increases made the "inerta"/cost of a flight-wide push much more significant. things like dom watch and big battles also made it easier for people to understand the appeal of dom.
the barrier for entry is simultaneously easier for new people to join in and harder to actually organize given the balooning scale and price of it all. its a necessity to be transparent these days, if you want to actually place (without having to shell out obscene amounts on private mercs.)
the science alliance light and lightning did changed things too, once they discovered that each level "weighs" the same for dominance, ie 5 level 5 dragons equal 1 level 25 dragon
so people stopped leveling very high level dragons and instead started fine-tuning time and money efficiency to pump out as many 4-5-ish level dragons as possible during conquest
I remember my flight used to have a strategy of buying slightly above fodder floor so that other flights wouldn't notice we were pushing until the floor fell out from under them. What wild times. That would for sure Not Work now, nor be worthwhile on account of Hibden
The funniest part is when they accuse the FR community of making too much drama in a pixel dragon game when they're the ones multi-accounting, spying, cheating, playing the victim, and stalking.
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(Anonymous) 2025-03-01 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Raffle Donations
(Anonymous) 2025-03-01 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)Part of this was because Ice had most of the whales- and if they wanted to, they could literally buy dom, which they did often.
By keeping pushes quiet, folks wouldn't start buying up fodder. Gave them an head start.
Dom's changed since then, so pushes aren't as cut throat.
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(Anonymous) 2025-03-01 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Raffle Donations
(Anonymous) 2025-03-01 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)the barrier for entry is simultaneously easier for new people to join in and harder to actually organize given the balooning scale and price of it all. its a necessity to be transparent these days, if you want to actually place (without having to shell out obscene amounts on private mercs.)
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(Anonymous) 2025-03-03 02:40 am (UTC)(link)Re: Raffle Donations
(Anonymous) 2025-03-03 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)so people stopped leveling very high level dragons and instead started fine-tuning time and money efficiency to pump out as many 4-5-ish level dragons as possible during conquest
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(Anonymous) 2025-03-03 02:39 am (UTC)(link)What wild times. That would for sure Not Work now, nor be worthwhile on account of Hibden
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