For me, the imp thing is not so much 'get your dream dragon' but 'create your dream dragon from an existing dragon.
Just to be clear, while I am sad that imp scrolls aren't a thing, I do agree that there are plenty of ways to get imps and it isn't a huge deal for me.
But, I am also one that gets attached to dragons easily and when something new comes out, and my dragon look good with that something new, I want to change them to that. For me, it isn't so much geting a gen1 Imp, but rather that my progens won't ever be able to be Imps, even if they would look gorgeous as one. It is a minor thing, to be sure. And I am also on the side of FR should stick to their guns re KS items. (though I wouldn't be upset if they did change their minds)
Anyway, yeah, with so few items being retired, they really do standout, because all of a sudden it isn't 'well, there is a whole section of items I will never get' to 'there are five items I will never be able to get! oh no!' You're welcome! It is the whole 'lost in the crowd' type thing.
I had thought I heard differently about the year 1 items. I thought that I saw, closer to when I first joined, people who said they didn't realize the Y1 items were retiring and so thought they would be able to get them next year, so they didn't try to fight the lag and site errors to get as many as they would have? But, this was also like in 2016-2018 or so, during the whole 'bring back retired items' era before Roundsey. Where there were threads pretty much every week at least about unretiring sprites and the like.
Since I wasn't around for the beginning of the site, I can only go by what those threads said, but, as I said, I could easily be misremembering and they were talking about something else.
As for the bestiary overhaul, I think the issue was that, by then, people had already been burned by other people in the community enough to not want to risk it.
I hate to say it, but while a great many of FR's players are kind and completely wonderful people, FR also has a section of players that, well, aren't. They would be the type to take advantage of something like that and the rules about transferring dragons and items, and ruin it for everyone (in some cases, simply BECAUSE it would ruin the item lending for everyone). Maybe most petsites have them and I just haven't seen them, but on FR they at least seem somewhat prevalent. (at least on the FR salt blogs, which, yeah, some of those could just be blowing hot air, but a few too many 'I want to see the world burn' types going around for me to feel safe lending things out, even with collateral, to people I don't know well enough)
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Re: CipherThirteen
(Anonymous) 2025-11-22 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)For me, the imp thing is not so much 'get your dream dragon' but 'create your dream dragon from an existing dragon.
Just to be clear, while I am sad that imp scrolls aren't a thing, I do agree that there are plenty of ways to get imps and it isn't a huge deal for me.
But, I am also one that gets attached to dragons easily and when something new comes out, and my dragon look good with that something new, I want to change them to that. For me, it isn't so much geting a gen1 Imp, but rather that my progens won't ever be able to be Imps, even if they would look gorgeous as one. It is a minor thing, to be sure. And I am also on the side of FR should stick to their guns re KS items. (though I wouldn't be upset if they did change their minds)
Anyway, yeah, with so few items being retired, they really do standout, because all of a sudden it isn't 'well, there is a whole section of items I will never get' to 'there are five items I will never be able to get! oh no!' You're welcome! It is the whole 'lost in the crowd' type thing.
I had thought I heard differently about the year 1 items. I thought that I saw, closer to when I first joined, people who said they didn't realize the Y1 items were retiring and so thought they would be able to get them next year, so they didn't try to fight the lag and site errors to get as many as they would have? But, this was also like in 2016-2018 or so, during the whole 'bring back retired items' era before Roundsey. Where there were threads pretty much every week at least about unretiring sprites and the like.
Since I wasn't around for the beginning of the site, I can only go by what those threads said, but, as I said, I could easily be misremembering and they were talking about something else.
As for the bestiary overhaul, I think the issue was that, by then, people had already been burned by other people in the community enough to not want to risk it.
I hate to say it, but while a great many of FR's players are kind and completely wonderful people, FR also has a section of players that, well, aren't. They would be the type to take advantage of something like that and the rules about transferring dragons and items, and ruin it for everyone (in some cases, simply BECAUSE it would ruin the item lending for everyone). Maybe most petsites have them and I just haven't seen them, but on FR they at least seem somewhat prevalent. (at least on the FR salt blogs, which, yeah, some of those could just be blowing hot air, but a few too many 'I want to see the world burn' types going around for me to feel safe lending things out, even with collateral, to people I don't know well enough)