Rage Quits and Table Flips

Okay, so anyone who plays FR knows that it's been up and down many times over the last few days. Sadly, it's down again, so instead, I decided to write a new blog post.

Yup, that's how I decide to write about stuff.

Anyway, I wrote the title because I thought it was catchy. Seriously, say it out loud to yourself a few times and you'll understand.

So, yeah.

Today's new game, and its siblings, is the cause of such "quits and flips".

A game within a game;

Specifically, within in a dragon/griffin breeding game called "The Dragon Empire."

DE is totally fine as a game, it's the games within it that can be frustrating.

Like, "The Swarm."

At first read, it seems like a simple game: run from the little critters called "Draqrats", which I'm guessing is the DE version of rats. If they touch you ("bite" you, with a foamy red smoke that represents you bleeding) then you lose points, and essentially prize money.

It sounds simple, and in essence, it is.

If it weren't for the fact that if you don't have a dragon and you use the default those Draqrats are just as fast as you and will hunt your sorry tush down.

The first time I played, I don't know how I did it, but I got over 200 points. (Kinda sad because you start out with 750.) Every time after that, though, I got less than 50!! It's like the Draqrats said "Get her!!!"

Sheesh, give a girl a break!

The next game is called, "Skreee!"

Um, What?

Basically, you're stuck in a little box and the only way you can move is if you click the mouse in a direction to turn you around. A bunch of (you guessed it) Draqrats show up and you have to shoot fire at them to kill them. If they get away, you lose points. Simple, right?

No.

I wasn't expecting to be in one spot like I was, and the Draqrats SWARMED after I killed a few of them. There were so many and I had no idea if I killed them or not. They run randomly around you with literally no purpose other than to confuse the heck out of you before they bounce on outta there, and there is no rapid fire.

Lovely.

DE isn't the only game that has rage quitting minigames.

Felisfire has them too, like this lovely one:

I have never finished this game. Ever.

This game looks easy. But it's so hard it comes with a warning!:

"Note to the wise: This game is harder than it seems.
Note to the curious: Orbs behave in mysterious ways..."

MYSTERIOUS IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT.

They act downright weird!

You think you're aiming somewhere, but nope! It will go a little to the left, right or even BEHIND where you are aiming!! How the heck?? Some of them even change when they touch others, but only in a certain order/combo that I have yet to figure out. If you cracked the code, please tell me!! (The highest score is 17!!!)

They also have another game, which is just a version of snake, called "Edgy Eggs".

My issue with this game? You get ONE in game currency for every TEN points in the game. Each egg you get is ONE point. Meaning you would be very hard strapped to even get 10 bucks from it.

Ugh.

Anyway, this post will be updated regularly, so be sure to check back often to see more minigame frustrations!

Buh-bye!

Cash Money, Baby!

Wheeeeeee!


I love making my own unique creatures. But making money in exchange for total control over how it looks is good too.

STRANGELINGS

Make money by making pets. I can do that. B)

I love Strangelings. I would most likely never spend money on it, but that doesn't mean I would give it up any time soon. Why?

Because people buy Strangelings at auction for REAL MONEY.

You: "Le gasp! Real money??"

Me: "Yes, my surprised friend, real money."

You: "How?? Why??"

I shall show you.


Here's how your own Strangelings page would look like (each person gets a random selection of traits in their pets but you don't know what they are until you rank them up in tiers. I shall break it down in a bit.)

I have lots more 'lings.

 

This is after my "spring cleaning". You can get more slots in exchange for 100 gems, the premium currency. I only have 8 gems. I had to release a lot of lovely pets. ;_;

Strangelings is very unique in terms of breeding games:

1. You have your own personal area where you breed your 'lings. Unless you have bought any from auction, all 'lings start from the two they give you. Inbreeding means nothing here.

2. You can send a Strangeling to auction in order to sell them to other players for real money. The highest price I've seen was $10.50. The lowest was $0.50. Mine so far have averaged out at $2 a piece.

3. You can release 'lings into the wild to make room for more 'lings.

4. Strangelings can only breed 8 times each.

5. You need food for breeding. The food regenerates over time, usually 1 food credit every hour or so.

6. Auctions are held by other players; you have to enter your 'ling in an auction in order for it to have a chance at being sold.

7. I have found that if you are there your 'ling is more likely to be liked by people, as you can give them some more info and joke around about names. Mine was called DO NOT BREED and a little war started over him. ;)

8. You can sign in with Facebook. It's the only sign in method so far.

9. You cannot talk to other players while playing the game, as it is your own personal area. You can talk to them during an auction and through Facebook.

10. You cannot chose the traits your Strangeling has. They start out with a unique set of traits that you unlock  with coins. You get coins from logging in daily, unlocking achievements and from breeding and releasing pets. The higher the tier, the more coins you get from breeding and releasing.

11. Two types of currency. We already discussed coins, the basic currency. Gems are the premium currency and can only be obtained from unlocking achievements and buying them. You use them to upgrade your account to reduce breeding waiting times and to send more than one pet to auction.

12. You can interact with your pets! They perform tricks and as long as their mood is higher than 50% they will be able to breed.

Whew! Lots of stuff about Strangelings! You can get it in the Itunes store, or you can play it in browser! You need to download something so that the graphics will work on your computer (just click download, and open it, it'll install on its own and stay in its part of your computer like a good little support program, no spam or lag to worry about), but other than that you're good to go!

One of my prettiest 'lings. She's the only one of her siblings that look like her parents, sadly. :( I love golden 'lings.

You need a Paypal to buy/sell at auction, but other than that you're good to go and breed up some lovely colorful pets!

Check out one of my pets in this auction here (you will need Facebook): 

http://auction.strangelings.com/auction/details.html?id=1f8b5a8e8ead4387a4f930c3cd31883c

Other than that, that's all of the basics for now! Check out Strangelings at www.strangelings.com!

Buh-bye!

NOOOO, FLIGHT RISING!!! T_T (FR IS BACK UP! :D)

**As of the time of this post, Flight Rising has been down for 24 hours.**

Say it ain't so!!!! T_T

I feel like I'm dying!!! (Not really, but my FR junkie side feels like it. :P)

So, apparently there was a critical glitch and everyone was emergency locked out of the system so they could address it. There were several updates, but the latest one looks like this:

Here's what it says if you can't read it:

"To our community:

We would like to thank you for your support while Flight Rising recovers from the issues that we experienced this afternoon and evening. Because we have been transparent with you from the beginning, we will continue that trend in saying: Flight Rising was prey to exploitation by parties who sought to cause a stir with its in-game economy. We are very serious about keeping the site and your accounts as safe as possible, so we locked the site as soon as we noticed the problem. Because these vulnerabilities still exist, it will need to remain offline, but we hope to have it up for general use, dragon care, and battling as early as we can. Unfortunately, this heavily affects the Fairgrounds, and thus, they will be unavailable until that hole is mended.

Because you, as a community, have been so wonderful to us, we want to return the favor and ensure that you do not lose your progress within the game. We will be keeping all dragons' energy topped off, and will be incubating your nests during the downtime. We have also decided that we will not be altering/rolling back treasure amounts, except those that were in gross excess.

We only ask one thing: Honesty. When the site is back up, if you feel that your treasure amount was increased during the event, we encourage you to step forward and mail the extra funds directly to Undel as a means of helping the economy stay as strong as possible.

As a bit of good news: we have successfully migrated our database to its own server, which will now run concurrently to the rest of the site. We are confident that this move will benefit the site in the long run, and we will be monitoring performance as we move forward with the new setup.

Again, our thanks for your patience today, and your dedication and enthusiasm (we have been reading the social media outlets all night!) to our project, and hope that you continue to enjoy yourself, even in the midst of some changes and fixes.

- Your Flight Rising Dev Team"

And if you are wondering what the little picture at the bottom looks like...

Cuteness~

So, yeah. If any of the FR team ever see this post I want you guys to know you are all awesome and I want to thank you guys for all the hard work you guys are doing for this site!! <3 I really appreciate it and you guys are amazing! :)

Just wanted to give you guys a heads up as to how FR was doing, incase you were wondering why you couldn't sign up yesterday or today!

So yeah.

Buh-bye!

(My inner junkie is still dying, by the way. T_T)

!!UPDATE!!

Now FR is just down for maintenance.

Newest update: "20:36: Work still continues! Busy, busy, busy."

All your work is appreciated, guys! <3 I look forward to the result!

EDITEDITEDIT

FR is back up!!! Yay!!!

Waja Waja Waja

Hey everyone~

So recently, I've been obsessed with this site called Wajas.com.

Seeing as I have included it on my blog, it has to be a breeding game right? 

And what the heck is a Waja??

Yes and I will show you.

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Here is the front page of the site (I logged out so you all could see)

Ohhh, pretty doggy!

SO YEAH. A Waja is a type of fictional canine creature. as you can see in the top left corner of the picture.

"I like flying into nothingness from nothingness."

So many things to show!!!

So I'll just give ya'll the lowdown:

1. You can breed pets called Wajas (many breeds of Wajas, too!) using special "pears". Pears also play other roles as well. 

2. Basic currency is Waja Credits and is easy to get. Premium currency is CWP (Crazy Waja Points) and it is $1 in real money each. Or about $7.35 mil WC.

3. You can create custom Wajas in one of two ways:

a. Pure custom: you buy something called a token which costs premium currency (between $20-$60 O_O) and you design how your Waja would look. This is what people mean when they say "custom." They are the first generation, or Gen 1's. These are also the most valuable (clearly.)

b. Dye custom: you use dyes to add markings to your Waja. They are typically not Gen 1's so they are not refered to as "customs" since someone else bred them. They are mainly known as Dye Projects. Dyes are expensive so people tend to treat them as customs in terms of price, only slightly less than true customs.

My dye project. It's completed! :D The female is pregnant with pups and due on the 22nd! 3 more days! If you want one, check the link at the end of my post. They are $2 mil in WC each but if you comment on my blog and show me a screenshot of the comment, you can get 50% off!

4. There are contests you can train your Waja for and enter them in.

I have a contest Waja. I should probably train him more, though...he's been third place his whole life...

5. My cat is distracting me...

He's so cute and plush!! >w<

6. I'm not distracted anymore by the cat. :3

7. You don't have to feed your Wajas! Yay!

Unfortunately, like any forum-based breeding game, that's all there is to it: forum-based breeding. Unless you have a lot of projects you want to work on or have lots of frienda to talk to in the firums, it'll get pretty boring after a while. Wajas is not for you if you are looking for long term active brain stimulation.

But if you wanna make pretty dog based pets, just like me, then go for it!! :D


http://www.wajas.com/

I think that's it for introductions. So...

Buh-bye! <3

FLIGHT RISING!!!

This year's new up and coming game!!

Goodness, can anyone get enough of this stuff?

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...No I wasn't up all night playing it and other games on my computer...namely it...no...
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Yes I was!!!

My main dragon!! Her name is Dusk!

Okay, so here's the dilly on Flight Rising:
1. You can breed dragons once every 15 days.
2. You can fight them against the game's monsters as well as against other players' dragons in the Coliseum and get items (like food) as rewards and experience to level up your dragons to fight at higher levels to get a chance at better rewards (like free dragon eggs!! They go for tens, and even hundreds, of thousands otherwise.).
3. 2 types of currency: treasure is the basic and gems are the premium. Gems are 1 cent each to buy.
4. You can gather and find items every day and find things like bones and on rare occations dragon eggs that hatch into...

Cuties like these!!! <3 I just found her egg today, I'm so excited! I am so keeping her!

Fighting in the Coliseum is like Pokemon; you choose commands and little immovable pictures gesture towards each other to simulate attacks (with "special effects" added, of course), so if you don't like that style of fighting don't play FR as the Coliseum is pretty much the only exciting thing going on as of right now. Hpefully more will be added as the game is improved (they just debuted less than two weeks ago, so you gotta cut them some slack.)

Roar!! (My dragons are on the right, and the male they gave me is getting his but kicked. :( But I won, yay! :D)

Making basic currency is pretty easy. When you get your first two dragons (one you custom design and the other is randomly selected and given to you) you can breed them and immediately hatch the egg or eggs. They can have between 1-5 eggs at a time when they breed, so use the first hatchlings as money bait as they will be pretty useless otherwise for 15 days. (I had two and sold the hatchlings for a total of 50k :3)

Gems are a bit harder to get. If you keep your dragons in the "green" (happy and fed) for three days, you start getting bonuses so keep them in the green!!

In the green like a boss. B) Friend me! :D (I changed it to EeveeDream. Fixed the typo. :P)

Oh, and one more thing! Say, if you play Wajas for example, and you want to sell a Waja for dragon, this game allows that kind of advertisement on their site. B) I got CWP and WC from buying it from a guy here on FR. Sweetness. :3

(Boy, my mp3's shuffle setting is repetative...ohh, Right Said Fred!! Okay, moving on...I do my little turn on the catwalk!)

Anyway, Flight Rising is a pretty awesome game. There are plenty more things to check out, so I'm not gonna ruin it all!

Here's a link in case you're interested. :3 (It'll open in a new tab, so don't worry!) I would really appreciate it if you put me down as your referal! Thank you! <3

http://flightrising.com/index.php

Um, that seems to be about it. So...

Buh-bye! <3

First Post! And WTSmurf is CreatureBreeder.com??

Okay, so this is my first official post on Blogger.

........

Boo.

No seriously, the first time I got on Blogger I completely forgot about it and I'm surprised I was able to get back in my first account again. Probably should thank Google for buying them behind my back...

Anyway! This blog is for the reviewing of online pet breeding games.

Why? Because I like them.

Most of them.

Some of them.

...Okay, I haven't played them all yet, but the ones I play, I like. (For the most part, anyway...)

The one pet breeding game I don't like that I am currently playing is CreatureBreeder.com.

What. The. Smurf.

Don't get me wrong, it's a good game. In theory.

It sounds like a typical pet breeding game at first (breed the perfect pet, sell them, buy them, trade with friends, yada, yada...), but the moment you log in, you are met with something similar to this (I have been foolishly playing this game for days. And I use the word "playing" loosely. VERY loosely.):

Only, when I first started I was met with two hideously ugly frog-like things with insect wings:

A weird female...

and a gross male! (Your will most likely look different from mine.)

I cringed and thought, "What about that super cute puff ball thing that meowed at me when I signed up?"

Translation: "I will eat your soul."

Thankfully they have a store where you can buy a random creature egg. For 50 of the 100 in game dollars you have. 50. 1/2. Yeah.

I bought one (after I bred together the disgusting frog things) and waited for a day and a half. It hatched into one of the cute fuzzballs I liked. Me gusta.

"Meow."

Been playing for 5 days so far. I got a lame menagerie of weird looking pets with an egg about to hatch and no friends to buy them from me. Not that anyone would want them. Sniff...

But yeah, there are plenty more awesome breeding games out there. I could name a few, but I'll leave that to you guys. ;)

I'll update this post as I go through the game, so stay tuned! More games on the way! 

http://www.creaturebreeder.com/

Buh-bye! <3