Hey! I'm Mutation, and I used to be an avid, daily player of FR. I joined back in 2013, two days after Flight Rising officially launched for the non-beta public, and a few days before registration would close due to the massive influx of accounts (week-long downtime... I have seeeeen it).
I joined as a 14-year old sprout, so excited about the prospect of a big dragon game. At around the same time I also had Exhibited.sim and Lioden accounts, but they never managed to hold my attention for long.
Now though, I'm going through the same with this very site. Maybe it's reorganized priorities, maybe it's all gotten a bit old after 7+ years. Flight Rising was my online haven for a good while, and maybe I'm not fully ready to let go after all.
I've tried to make a big comeback before. I (quite unsucessfully) lair-purged, and I even started a nuzlocke that got... Pretty popular.
And the nuzlocke worked for a while! I came back every day and took my dragons into the coliseum, fearing for their lives but all the same eager to see how their story would unfold.
I love to write, and the story made me happy - but at some point, the pressure I imposed upon myself became too great, and I began dragging my feet. Activity dropped like a stone, and I disappeared once again.
I still have all of those nuzlocke dragons, and I love them very much, but doing a hardcore nuzlocke with hard limits imposes, well, limits on your playstyle. Multiple accounts per person are forbidden by the TOS, and although the hibden is great, it is still just stowing away my account's extra baggage (dragons) and as a result my clan space is in quite short supply, and my clan feels... Aimless.
I'm 21 now, which feels crazy to think about. I loved FR, and I see it getting better every day, still. I have some peeves here or there, but over all things have been on an upwards trend, we even have that big Hoard revamp launching soon! Maybe I just totally grew out of the gameplay loop, or perhaps I just scared myself off by diving headfirst into the world of nuzlockes, underprepared for how much I would come to demand of myself.
I think I could lair-purge again, and get rid of some old breeding pairs I haven't put to nest in eons. I haven't played actively with other people for a long time, maybe I need to freshen up my friends list and get more involved in the community again. What's your advice? Have you struggled with this too?
Hey! I'm Mutation, and I used to be an avid, daily player of FR. I joined back in 2013, two days after Flight Rising officially launched for the non-beta public, and a few days before registration would close due to the massive influx of accounts (week-long downtime... I have seeeeen it).
I joined as a 14-year old sprout, so excited about the prospect of a big dragon game. At around the same time I also had Exhibited.sim and Lioden accounts, but they never managed to hold my attention for long.
Now though, I'm going through the same with this very site. Maybe it's reorganized priorities, maybe it's all gotten a bit old after 7+ years. Flight Rising was my online haven for a good while, and maybe I'm not fully ready to let go after all.
I've tried to make a big comeback before. I (quite unsucessfully) lair-purged, and I even started a nuzlocke that got... Pretty popular.
And the nuzlocke worked for a while! I came back every day and took my dragons into the coliseum, fearing for their lives but all the same eager to see how their story would unfold.
I love to write, and the story made me happy - but at some point, the pressure I imposed upon myself became too great, and I began dragging my feet. Activity dropped like a stone, and I disappeared once again.
I still have all of those nuzlocke dragons, and I love them very much, but doing a hardcore nuzlocke with hard limits imposes, well, limits on your playstyle. Multiple accounts per person are forbidden by the TOS, and although the hibden is great, it is still just stowing away my account's extra baggage (dragons) and as a result my clan space is in quite short supply, and my clan feels... Aimless.
I'm 21 now, which feels crazy to think about. I loved FR, and I see it getting better every day, still. I have some peeves here or there, but over all things have been on an upwards trend, we even have that big Hoard revamp launching soon! Maybe I just totally grew out of the gameplay loop, or perhaps I just scared myself off by diving headfirst into the world of nuzlockes, underprepared for how much I would come to demand of myself.
I think I could lair-purge again, and get rid of some old breeding pairs I haven't put to nest in eons. I haven't played actively with other people for a long time, maybe I need to freshen up my friends list and get more involved in the community again. What's your advice? Have you struggled with this too?
Lair purges are a great way to start. It'll help you get some needed cash for catching up on missed festival stuff or for completing projects. I am a writer as well, and a while back I did a lair review service that made bank! Channel your writing skills into a shop of sorts if you have the time. You can make that sweet, sweet cash and practice your skills while staying involved in the FR community.
I struggle daily with returning to do anything beyond the dailies, so I understand your troubles.
Lair purges are a great way to start. It'll help you get some needed cash for catching up on missed festival stuff or for completing projects. I am a writer as well, and a while back I did a lair review service that made bank! Channel your writing skills into a shop of sorts if you have the time. You can make that sweet, sweet cash and practice your skills while staying involved in the FR community.
I struggle daily with returning to do anything beyond the dailies, so I understand your troubles.
Officially joined in 2013 too and it took me an hour to get myself registered lol.
Anyway i just started over again because i had no idea what to do anymore, today it seems like i always find something to do, gen1's, make new silly goals and still do dom. Dom is actually the only reason where i communicate with other players so its good.
Still take a lot of breaks from the site though but thats only because RL sucks, but they sure keep me coming back to FR with nice updates to check out!
Sometimes i dont even feel like playing at all either for some reasons, could be i lost interest for a while but never stopped loving FR or see myself ever leaving.
I just dont think there is any way to force yourself to enjoy something again, it come out of itself. Every time i stop playing for 4-6 weeks and come back i just want to keep playing again. Me struggle? Seems like it and it feels normal.
Officially joined in 2013 too and it took me an hour to get myself registered lol.
Anyway i just started over again because i had no idea what to do anymore, today it seems like i always find something to do, gen1's, make new silly goals and still do dom. Dom is actually the only reason where i communicate with other players so its good.
Still take a lot of breaks from the site though but thats only because RL sucks, but they sure keep me coming back to FR with nice updates to check out!
Sometimes i dont even feel like playing at all either for some reasons, could be i lost interest for a while but never stopped loving FR or see myself ever leaving.
I just dont think there is any way to force yourself to enjoy something again, it come out of itself. Every time i stop playing for 4-6 weeks and come back i just want to keep playing again. Me struggle? Seems like it and it feels normal.
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hello! I think I joined the year after you when I was 15, and I'm 21 now too! I'm not entirely sure what the nuzlocke challenge consists of, but if you've been playing it for years, don't feel pressured to keep to that playstyle! you can try another one and pick it back up when it calls to you again. take a break from the whole game if you need! it'll still be here when you get back. most of my account age has fallen into hiatus periods.
I love writing so I've felt the same pressure with characters until I realized that anything is better than nothing. So I've just been writing when I can, trying to push myself to try new styles & get better, because this is one of my only fictional writing outlets.
& you're a nature flight member too! please feel free to message me, I think we'd get along ~!
hello! I think I joined the year after you when I was 15, and I'm 21 now too! I'm not entirely sure what the nuzlocke challenge consists of, but if you've been playing it for years, don't feel pressured to keep to that playstyle! you can try another one and pick it back up when it calls to you again. take a break from the whole game if you need! it'll still be here when you get back. most of my account age has fallen into hiatus periods.
I love writing so I've felt the same pressure with characters until I realized that anything is better than nothing. So I've just been writing when I can, trying to push myself to try new styles & get better, because this is one of my only fictional writing outlets.
& you're a nature flight member too! please feel free to message me, I think we'd get along ~!
@Mutation A flight change and getting involved in that flight's private forums might be exciting. (then again, as a windy, travel is my first answer to anything [emoji=fae winking])
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Mutation A flight change and getting involved in that flight's private forums might be exciting. (then again, as a windy, travel is my first answer to anything
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Joined in 2013 and never really taken a break. I found that collecting old dragons with an id of 6 digit or lower and scatter and gene them to my taste keeps my interest going. But it's an expensive habbit :)
I struggle with finding myself a new internet persona. Ive been another username for ages but that name was bound in World of Warcraft which I put behind me for good. Struggeling to find a name for myself. This one is my 8th username change.. and I am not sure it will stick.
Joined in 2013 and never really taken a break. I found that collecting old dragons with an id of 6 digit or lower and scatter and gene them to my taste keeps my interest going. But it's an expensive habbit :)
I struggle with finding myself a new internet persona. Ive been another username for ages but that name was bound in World of Warcraft which I put behind me for good. Struggeling to find a name for myself. This one is my 8th username change.. and I am not sure it will stick.
NO LONGER ACTIVE.
I LEFT FR AND GIVEN AWAY MY STUFF.
I threw my(rather tiny) lair into the Hibernal Den and started over in a new element.
Having been in Fire for my entire time, and only keeping to that theme/colors meant that this was all brand new to me.
I've gotten the idea now that I'll start over in a new Element each time it comes, and try a whole new lair each time (with a max limit of maybe 8-15 to each Element) throwing the last one into a new tab in the Den. It gives me short term and long term goals that way.
I've already started collecting dragons for my next move, but I'm not allowed to do anything to them until afterwards, unless it happens to be a coliseum gene I run across on my own. XD
I threw my(rather tiny) lair into the Hibernal Den and started over in a new element.
Having been in Fire for my entire time, and only keeping to that theme/colors meant that this was all brand new to me.
I've gotten the idea now that I'll start over in a new Element each time it comes, and try a whole new lair each time (with a max limit of maybe 8-15 to each Element) throwing the last one into a new tab in the Den. It gives me short term and long term goals that way.
I've already started collecting dragons for my next move, but I'm not allowed to do anything to them until afterwards, unless it happens to be a coliseum gene I run across on my own. XD
Flight Rising newbie but a speaking as a serious veteran of burn-out in all its forms...
What I'm getting from your description does not sound like just losing interest.
It sounds like you made a commitment to something that was fun and energizing for you, and that commitment snowballed into something that was draining--
-- so now your brain is giving you the warning signal to take a step back because the thing that you go to for energy is draining you and that means something's out of whack. But at the same time, your brain is also telling you not to let go, that this is still a living part of you, just stuck or blocked right now.
If that sounds like what you are feeling, you might like this very short video a lot.
https://youtu.be/Uo08uS904Rg It's aimed at ADD folks but we all hit blocks sooner or later. You see where it talks about how online activities are especially challenging because it's so easy to derail ourselves again and again before we hit the good part. Tip number two if this reads true-- thinking small and focusing intimately detail can be a crowbar to busting open creativity and concentration. There's a key passage in an old classic, _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_, where the author, a former professor, was watching his class struggling to get a start on an assignment to write a description of themselves. When he told them to describe only
the back of their nondominant hand, the entire class went heads-down, started writing, and kept writing until the bell.
Hope this or something else on the thread is what you need! Good luck.
Flight Rising newbie but a speaking as a serious veteran of burn-out in all its forms...
What I'm getting from your description does not sound like just losing interest.
It sounds like you made a commitment to something that was fun and energizing for you, and that commitment snowballed into something that was draining--
-- so now your brain is giving you the warning signal to take a step back because the thing that you go to for energy is draining you and that means something's out of whack. But at the same time, your brain is also telling you not to let go, that this is still a living part of you, just stuck or blocked right now.
If that sounds like what you are feeling, you might like this very short video a lot.
https://youtu.be/Uo08uS904Rg It's aimed at ADD folks but we all hit blocks sooner or later. You see where it talks about how online activities are especially challenging because it's so easy to derail ourselves again and again before we hit the good part. Tip number two if this reads true-- thinking small and focusing intimately detail can be a crowbar to busting open creativity and concentration. There's a key passage in an old classic, _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_, where the author, a former professor, was watching his class struggling to get a start on an assignment to write a description of themselves. When he told them to describe only
the back of their nondominant hand, the entire class went heads-down, started writing, and kept writing until the bell.
Hope this or something else on the thread is what you need! Good luck.
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Mutation
just celebrated 6 years with almost no breaks... plus i am older than you so there is a chance you have not grown out of it..haha i know i have not. i have found as you get older responsibilities cause you to narrow your hobbies.. so fr is all i play.
Ok ut of everything friends and community are the pick ups when you go through a lull. I could never do a lock so I am doing a lore lock .. letting the rng kinda decide my dragons character lick rolling stats for a DnD character. I have a few friends on discord that I talk with every day about fr , goals .. small and big...
I actually find that people that can purge .. tend to be less happy with their accounts...I have done small purges but over the years have ammased over 100 perms and i love them.. if i get bored I scatter ....
I am on every day and love to chat , if you like to connect on Discord we can chat there as well.. about anything really ... but Fr lore are stuff will be great as well
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Mutation
just celebrated 6 years with almost no breaks... plus i am older than you so there is a chance you have not grown out of it..haha i know i have not. i have found as you get older responsibilities cause you to narrow your hobbies.. so fr is all i play.
Ok ut of everything friends and community are the pick ups when you go through a lull. I could never do a lock so I am doing a lore lock .. letting the rng kinda decide my dragons character lick rolling stats for a DnD character. I have a few friends on discord that I talk with every day about fr , goals .. small and big...
I actually find that people that can purge .. tend to be less happy with their accounts...I have done small purges but over the years have ammased over 100 perms and i love them.. if i get bored I scatter ....
I am on every day and love to chat , if you like to connect on Discord we can chat there as well.. about anything really ... but Fr lore are stuff will be great as well
ive taken a few small breaks since joining in 2015, but at the minimum usually get on to do my gathering and feed dragons. sometimes you just need to step back!
gen ones are soemthing that have helped me keep much higher interest in the past year. an expensive hobby for sure, but to me nothing beats getting and working on a new project! Its also a great place to work on lore imo!
ive taken a few small breaks since joining in 2015, but at the minimum usually get on to do my gathering and feed dragons. sometimes you just need to step back!
gen ones are soemthing that have helped me keep much higher interest in the past year. an expensive hobby for sure, but to me nothing beats getting and working on a new project! Its also a great place to work on lore imo!