Flight Rising Discussion

Imagine if a new member starts digging out in old threads, much like I did. Imagine their horror upon realizing that egg rot was an actual mechanic of the game designed to encourage players to stay active daily; that, at a time, the site being down for an hour didn't incite mass panic; that many people commonly exalted their random progenitors because they couldn't stand the colors and Scatterscrolls weren't a thing.

What would you say to anyone with these questions, and others? Share your experiences, be they horror stories or tales of glory!

Dragons used to die, way back before the beta. If left alone without being fed, you'd come back to find your lair a field of dragon corpses.

We eventually decided that no dragon is so idiotic that it would starve itself to death; the energy system was re-tooled to grant bonuses to well-fed clans instead of dole out punishments for absent-minded or highly casual ones.

Not entirely along the same lines, but a fun bit of trivia I think.

The wonderful old times when the site would sometims be down for a whole week and would lag into oblivion the moment there were a bit over 1200 users online.

The small lag hiccups we've had today are almost nostalgic, though not quite intense enough.

@Hera Oh, the great downtime.

@GoldenBeetle And the lag! Gods, the lag. e_e" It's gotten to the point that the little blip we had a few minutes ago made me think, "Hello again, old friend..."

@Thrage (eep!) Phew! Fields of dragon corpses... I wonder if that's how the Hewn City came into being.

@Hera That seems like so long ago. I remember terrible downtimes and long lags were just part of playing FR.

I laughed at this thread. I remember that lag that lasted for several days, and we got free stuff from it. And then the one that was 2-3 days long, and we got the golden bantam fangars and the 200 food points and instant incubation. That day, I hatched my first x/y/y. I also remember that when I joined, people were like... trying their best to bad-mouth everyone else's flight on ***********.

ah yes, the lag and downtime
i remember that, haha
the lag today reminded me of it

@Sylph I never thought I'd feel nostalgic for it, to be honest.
@qwertypi303 Oh, cool! Well, not the bad-mouthing and flight bashing, because honestly *********** is a petri dish for that type of stuff, but the XYY!
@Earth Do you remember the Plague Dominance/food glitch mishap?

@Fara I may need a reminder. Does it have anything to do with the fact that all our dragons went hungry (0% clan energy).