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{{Infobox | {{Infobox Server | ||
| name = Rolling Lounge | | name = Rolling Lounge | ||
| image = | | image = RLLogoAJR.gif | ||
| | | caption = Rolling Lounge's current logo, designed by Quiddion. | ||
| servername = Rolling Lounge | | servername = Rolling Lounge | ||
| abbreviations = RL | | abbreviations = RL | ||
| owner = SHAvibe | | owner = SHAvibe | ||
| servergenre = | | servergenre = Rolling Sky-centered community | ||
| topics = General topics, Rolling Sky, Fanmades (Rhythm Join, [[Rolling Sky Remake]], Rolling Fanmade, [[Rolling Universe]], [[Rolling Unlimited]]), Other Games (Geometry Dash, Rhythm Games, Genshin Impact) | | topics = General topics, Rolling Sky, Fanmades (Rhythm Join, [[Rolling Sky Remake]], Rolling Fanmade, [[Rolling Universe]], [[Rolling Unlimited]]), Other Games (Geometry Dash, Rhythm Games, Genshin Impact) | ||
| partnerships = Rhythm Join, Rolling Sky Remake, Rolling Fanmade, [[Rolling Universe]], [[Rolling Unlimited]] | | partnerships = Rhythm Join, Rolling Sky Remake, Rolling Fanmade, [[Rolling Universe]], [[Rolling Unlimited]] | ||
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| safetyfeatures = Image scanning, High verification level | | safetyfeatures = Image scanning, High verification level | ||
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'''Rolling Lounge''' (short form: '''RL''') is a Rolling Sky-centered community server founded on January 11th, 2018, by Gems Power and owned by SHAvibe. The server serves as a central place for international Rolling Sky players to chat about the game. It has also partnered with several Rolling Sky fanmades, such as [[Rolling Sky Remake]] and [[Rolling Universe]]. | |||
Rolling | After its foundation by Gems Power and ownership by SHAvibe, the server had grown due to its unique addition of challenges for the three games Rolling Sky, Dancing Line, and Dancing Ball. The server was promoted on YouTube and grew a large community in a short time. This also set the start of several problems, such as raiders and hackers invading the server. This community expanded in the [[Reflex Games Discord]] era, where more promotion came into place thanks to more YouTubers joining. The community decided to make itself stronger, and several community projects as signs of unity and friendship arose. | ||
Another game, the sequel to Rolling Sky, "Rolling Dream," shaped the era, where the server played as a beta tester application hub. However, the influx of members caused issues in the community and server wars as well. In October of 2018, Dancing Line and Dancing Ball were abandoned as primary server topics to prioritize Rolling Sky and its sequel to start the [[Rolling Sky Discord]] era, where the server experienced a big increase in activity and members. The server was the center of everything Rolling Sky-related on Discord. This lasted until Rolling Sky's status declined, and due to the dissatisfaction of the community with the developers, the server got rid of Rolling Sky as a central topic and turned into a community interest-based server to start the [[Rolling Lounge Era]] in January of 2020. | |||
Due to dramas, the staff team had broken apart and fallen into a de facto anarchy, which arose many problems for the server and its community, which was then resolved in the 2nd half of 2020 with the goal to restore a reasonable server experience, which succeeded with several server revamps and RS Fanmade partners, starting with Rhythm Join. | |||
Rolling Lounge is the biggest Rolling Sky-related Discord server on Discord; it has its own server economy built around it. Before and after the ban of Cheetah Mobile apps, Rolling Lounge served and serves as a download archive, with the newest versions of Rolling Sky (related games) being posted in it in the form of Android Package Kits (APKs). It's also used as a place to get support and other help regarding Rolling Sky-related topics. Rolling Lounge has partnered with the Dancing Line Community server. | |||
Rolling Lounge is the biggest Rolling Sky related Discord server on Discord; | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
===Foundation - Reflex Games Discord=== | ===Foundation - Reflex Games Discord=== | ||
This time of the server was when the basic structure of the server was built and had taken a shape. This lasted around one month from the foundation of the server (January 11th, 2018) to | This time of the server was when the basic structure of the server was built and had taken a shape. This lasted around one month, from the foundation of the server (January 11th, 2018) to February 12th, 2018, when [[Reflex Games Discord]] built upon the basic structure and stabilized it together with a general expansion of the server, making it ready for a bigger community inhabitation. | ||
The server was founded by a group of people from the old Rolling Sky Discord founded in 2017 as this group had an idea of making a server where people could host and play challenges about two (three, including Dancing Ball) games by Cheetah Games, Rolling Sky and Dancing Line. As SHAvibe, a popular Rolling Sky and Dancing Line content creator was a part of that group, growing it would be possible | The server was founded by a group of people from the old Rolling Sky Discord founded in 2017, as this group had an idea of making a server where people could host and play challenges about two (three, including Dancing Ball) games by Cheetah Games, Rolling Sky and Dancing Line. As SHAvibe, a popular Rolling Sky and Dancing Line content creator, was a part of that group, growing it would be possible easily. Therefore, the server was founded on January 11th, 2018, by one of the group members, Gems Power, who gave the ownership to SHAvibe right away. The members of the group joined after, and some were given staff permissions to set things up properly, whereupon basic setup people were publicly invited outside of Discord through SHAvibe's showcase of the Rolling Sky level "Cloud." This caused the member count to increase, as the server managed to reach 100 members in around one week already. | ||
The first challenges were also introduced at this time. The concept of challenges is that a challenge host/manager gives out a specific mission to be completed inside | The first challenges were also introduced at this time. The concept of challenges is that a challenge host/manager gives out a specific mission to be completed inside a game, which is then submitted to gain rewards depending on how fast the challenge is completed. This concept was taken by the biggest Dancing Line server at that time, Dancing Line Discord, and was applied to not only one game (Dancing Line) but three games (Rolling Sky, Dancing Line, and Dancing Ball). A level would be given where you had to reach a specific percentage in that level along with other parameters (like crowns and gems in Rolling Sky). Depending on your speed of completion, you'd get a server-wide currency called "Points," which placed you higher in a public leaderboard. | ||
The management system was not a structured system at the beginning of the server yet. Instead, a handful of people who offered their help got access to administration roles which they then used to help the owner with setting up the server. Various people in this old management system were Chorl Fate, EmmaCat, GemsPower and TNTBlower. This was changed | The management system was not a structured system at the beginning of the server yet. Instead, a handful of people who offered their help got access to administration roles, which they then used to help the owner with setting up the server. Various people in this old management system were Chorl Fate, EmmaCat, GemsPower, and TNTBlower. This was changed when the server had reached 120 members, when a staff team system was established, starting with the first official staff member, [[AZMindroma]]. | ||
The server's start was quickly followed | The server's start was quickly followed by arising problems. A raider with the name "MLG Dancing Line," who was also an issue in the Rolling Sky community inside of Discord already, had targeted this server and began spamming the then against everyone ping unprotected server with mention spam and general raiding. As one account got banned, the raider used [[wikipedia:Virtual private network|VPNs]] to come back, but it was unknown where the raider was provided with the invite links and the possibilities to rejoin, as it was seen like the raider was expected to be a very young person due to the maturity they had shown. This problem was not solved for a long time until the problem was identified in the Reflex Games Discord Era. | ||
===Reflex Games Discord=== | ===Reflex Games Discord=== | ||
{{See also|Reflex Games Discord}} | {{See also|Reflex Games Discord}} | ||
[[File:RGD.jpg|thumb|Reflex Games Discord's logo, designed by SHAvibe.]] | [[File:RGD.jpg|thumb|Reflex Games Discord's logo, designed by SHAvibe.]] | ||
[[Reflex Games Discord]] was the start of the stable server eras, where there was usually a developed server environment and community | [[Reflex Games Discord]] was the start of the stable server eras, where there was usually a developed server environment and community that had given the server a specific direction. The direction then stayed in the server until a new era came, which changed the fundamentals of the server. Several major events happened in this era, contrary to the time before, and it was also met with a big popularity spike. This era's topics were Rolling Sky, Dancing Line, and Dancing Ball, which could be seen in the logo designed for it. This era lasted from February 12th, 2018, to October 3rd, 2018, when [[Rolling Sky Discord]] replaced the era. | ||
While SHAvibe was the main advertiser for the server before Reflex Games Discord, the Reflex Games Discord era added more YouTubers to the server willing to advertise it in their YouTube | While SHAvibe was the main advertiser for the server before Reflex Games Discord, the Reflex Games Discord era added more YouTubers to the server willing to advertise it in their YouTube channels, such as Tuan Nguyen. Due to a big Discord server having Rolling Sky as a topic was not present at that time, and due to the ability to speak with the YouTubers, it seemed beneficial to join the server / join Discord by itself, as many people had created Discord accounts just for joining the server. | ||
The already existing community of the server Pre-RGD was expanded, but | The already existing community of the server Pre-RGD was expanded, but on a much larger scale than before. Due to the big influx of members to the server, plenty of people also decided to expand their activity in the server, which didn't only include talking about the server topics but also more personal topics in between the community members and the making of friends. Aside from concentrating solely on the server topics, the community started making itself an attraction as well, making a place where even people who didn't play the server games could have a place in. So, Reflex Games Discord was the first era where member bonds were made. This was also shown with several community projects being made and family pictures being drawn for the server. | ||
Due to the growth of the community, the potential staff candidates also increased, and therefore the staff team was greatly expanded under the new staffing system in this era. The first people also began to get promoted to admin, such as Dzeus, AZ and Tuan Nguyen. | Due to the growth of the community, the potential staff candidates also increased, and therefore the staff team was greatly expanded under the new staffing system in this era. The first people also began to get promoted to admin, such as Dzeus, AZ, and Tuan Nguyen. Aside from the staff team, an event team was also established, which was solely responsible for making challenges, as those were now revamped and improved to increase the user experience. Under this management, RGD was well taken care of, with moderation, communication, and interactivity all being covered. | ||
Rolling Dream, the sequel | Rolling Dream, the sequel to Rolling Sky, entered its beta stages in 2018. Once the beta had opened, several YouTubers posted this announcement to their channels and to the RGD announcement channels. Since RGD was the biggest non-Chinese community about Rolling Sky so far, it can be assumed that the developers of this new game gave SHAvibe and Tuan Nguyen the job of getting beta testers for the game in the non-Chinese sector of the community. This function has been given to RGD, where people would be required to submit their Apple ID in a special channel to be able to receive a TestFlight invitation. Because entering the server was mandatory for the submission, this caused one of the biggest member spikes in all the server's history, getting it to 2000 members. | ||
While the MLG Dancing Line issue had been solved by the staff team using a logging method to find out who invited MLG Dancing Line which turned out to be a member called Khoai, with the huge popularity spike of Reflex Games Discord an account had joined the server | While the MLG Dancing Line issue had been solved by the staff team using a logging method to find out who invited MLG Dancing Line, which turned out to be a member called Khoai, with the huge popularity spike of Reflex Games Discord, an account had joined the server that claimed to be an official Rolling Sky developer. The RGD community believed this for a little while until the user was exposed as being fake, whereupon the user began to raid the server, mainly insulting the community and especially the owner, SHAvibe. Following their ban, a series of accounts joined in the same way as the previous raider, MLG Dancing Line, did; however, their raids were worse, since they also included 18+ content (Not Safe For Work, NSFW), which had disturbed the community. There have also been claims that towo had the ability to hack accounts, though this hasn't been 100% confirmed. For a big part of the Reflex Games Discord era, towo was the biggest issue, which was mainly resolved by bans. Reflex Games Discord was also an era that was significantly shaped by drama due to the community's young average age. People had made several smaller dramas about topics that weren't worth making dramas about, and there have also been conflicts with other servers due to trash-talking, which happened from both sides, which gave the core communities of both servers a bad image of each other. Those issues were partially resolved but continued in some way or another in later eras. | ||
===Rolling Sky Discord=== | ===Rolling Sky Discord=== | ||
{{See also|Rolling Sky Discord}} | {{See also|Rolling Sky Discord}} | ||
[[File:RSDAnimated.gif|thumb|One of Rolling Sky Discord's logos, designed by Khoi Tuan.]] | [[File:RSDAnimated.gif|thumb|One of Rolling Sky Discord's logos, designed by Khoi Tuan.]] | ||
[[Rolling Sky Discord]] was the pinnacle of the server's existence in terms of activity, community size and strength, activities and more. This era has changed the server and its influx still holds until today. This era lasted from October 3rd, 2018 to January 25th, 2020. | [[Rolling Sky Discord]] was the pinnacle of the server's existence in terms of activity, community size and strength, activities, and more. This era has changed the server, and its influx still holds until today. This era lasted from October 3rd, 2018, to January 25th, 2020. | ||
After some time of its existence, the management and the community of [[Reflex Games Discord]] had discovered several issues with the contents of the server. The issues were that Dancing Ball lost relevance drastically and problems with other servers | After some time of its existence, the management and the community of [[Reflex Games Discord]] had discovered several issues with the contents of the server. The issues were that Dancing Ball lost relevance drastically and problems with other servers arose due to the existence of Dancing Line as a main game, as another server had it as a main topic already. Because of this, both Dancing Line and Dancing Ball were removed as topics from the server once this era started. | ||
With the removal of Dancing Line and Dancing Ball, their dedicated challenge channels were also removed, leaving only Rolling Sky challenges. That's why Rolling Sky challenges were expanded drastically, as a new Challenge Manager team under the rulership of RoyalMike had formed and gone through intensive planning for events. The currency $RGD was renamed to $RSD and several other currencies were added, which were used to buy different items. The Challenge Manager team added several new modes to the challenges adding twists and tricks, which made them far more | With the removal of Dancing Line and Dancing Ball, their dedicated challenge channels were also removed, leaving only Rolling Sky challenges. That's why Rolling Sky challenges were expanded drastically, as a new Challenge Manager team under the rulership of RoyalMike had formed and gone through intensive planning for events. The currency $RGD was renamed to $RSD, and several other currencies were added, which were used to buy different items. The Challenge Manager team added several new modes to the challenges, adding twists and tricks, which made them far more varied and interesting. This increased the participant amount by a lot, and therefore the Challenge Manager team put intensive work into creating a Google Spreadsheet showing the entire leaderboard of RSD. In this era, Weeklies were introduced as well, challenges that were hosted every week instead of every day. Due to them appearing less often, the challenges required more time to beat and also rewarded the winners more. Unique to the Weeklies was the role "Challeader," which was given to the winner of the current Weekly challenge. | ||
The community reached its peak size during the Rolling Sky Discord era, reaching ~2500 members at its maximum. Due to its name and defined topic, people could identify if the things that they would like to talk about | The community reached its peak size during the Rolling Sky Discord era, reaching ~2500 members at its maximum. Due to its name and defined topic, people could identify if the things that they would like to talk about were included in the server and therefore made the server more attractive. With the growth of the community, the YouTube content creators inside the server also increased. One encouragement for joining the server was the presence and, for the first time, activity of official Rolling Sky developers outside of Chinese chatting applications. Though the first Rolling Sky officials had already joined the server in its first major era, "Reflex Games Discord," they showed little to no activity. In the RSD Era, however, the activity of the officials increased by a bit, causing an incredibly large amount of people to join the chat and try to interact with the officials. While there were plenty of people who solely chatted about Rolling Sky (and its sequel) or people who didn't chat often, there were also numerous people who befriended each other in the server, expanding the core community of the server. | ||
This core community almost solely used Rolling Sky Discord to chat in all of Discord and built | This core community almost solely used Rolling Sky Discord to chat in all of Discord and built plenty of projects together to increase the community feeling or benefit the server in any other way. Notable projects were the continuation of the Family Pictures and the extreme growth of the Rolling Sky Discord Community YouTube Channel. Many other "unofficial" artworks were drawn for the server, and a website dedicated to RSD was also in the works. | ||
Raiding problems continued in the RSD Era, with two figures, towo and Ramesh being the biggest issues coming from outside the server. However, due to its peak of activity and community size, Rolling Sky Discord suffered from a lot of drama coming from inside the server. | Raiding problems continued in the RSD Era, with two figures, towo and Ramesh, being the biggest issues coming from outside the server. However, due to its peak of activity and community size, Rolling Sky Discord suffered from a lot of drama coming from inside the server. Numerous arguments happened at this time for various reasons, be it because of Rolling Sky, specific moderation measures taken against members, people feeling disrespected, and more. Some dramas in this era also caused parts of the core community to either temporarily or permanently take their leave from the server. | ||
===Rolling Lounge=== | ===Rolling Lounge=== | ||
{{See also|Rolling Lounge | {{See also|Rolling Lounge Era}} | ||
[[File:RLAnimated.gif|thumb|One of Rolling Lounge's logos, designed by Terria.]] | [[File:RLAnimated.gif|thumb|One of Rolling Lounge's logos, designed by Terria.]] | ||
[[Rolling Lounge | [[Rolling Lounge Era | Rolling Lounge]] got rid of Rolling Sky as a central topic and instead prioritized the community, using their interests as a base of the topics present in the server. | ||
As the year 2019 progressed, the Rolling Sky community's satisfaction with each update started to decrease. The levels seemed to lose quality, and the philosophy of Rolling Sky's developers which made rare reuse of special game mechanics and no new interesting, game-changing ones made the community desperate for the developers to listen more to suggestions. The community did a lot of suggestions and people in closer contact with the developers transmitted those suggestions to them, however only one suggestion was implemented, it being a relatively insignificant one. That's when the community started a type of strike/boycott against Rolling Sky('s developers) and wanted to start a new server era independent from Rolling Sky as main topic. A referendum was held and as result, the server was rebranded to a community server. | As the year 2019 progressed, the Rolling Sky community's satisfaction with each update started to decrease. The levels seemed to lose quality, and the philosophy of Rolling Sky's developers which made rare reuse of special game mechanics and no new interesting, game-changing ones made the community desperate for the developers to listen more to suggestions. The community did a lot of suggestions and people in closer contact with the developers transmitted those suggestions to them, however only one suggestion was implemented, it being a relatively insignificant one. That's when the community started a type of strike/boycott against Rolling Sky('s developers) and wanted to start a new server era independent from Rolling Sky as main topic. A referendum was held and as result, the server was rebranded to a community server. | ||
A lot of channel changes were done as a result of the change of the server, but ultimately, it didn't seem like a proper rebrand due to the same icon being used generally, no big changes being seen. The rebrand seemed to be done prematurely as there wasn't much of an idea about what to do with the server now, and due to a giant drama in the management team, server development was immensely slowed down. As a result, the events quickly became very inactive and there wasn't much going on in the server anymore. With an unstable staff and event team, a substitute staff was searched to help continue the server development, and so eventually, one with the name of "Skye" was added. A new community had built itself up, which partially consisted of Rolling Sky Discord Core community members who were holding on, and friends of the new staff Skye. This boosted server activity despite the community size shrinking, as the few ones who were in the community were very active in it, making Rolling Lounge their "home", just like the previous core communities did. However, this community overtook the base community due to the 18+ (Not Safe For Work/NSFW) topics being one of the biggest topics due to a lack of moderation. | A lot of channel changes were done as a result of the change of the server, but ultimately, it didn't seem like a proper rebrand due to the same icon being used generally, no big changes being seen. The rebrand seemed to be done prematurely as there wasn't much of an idea about what to do with the server now, and due to a giant drama in the management team, server development was immensely slowed down. As a result, the events quickly became very inactive and there wasn't much going on in the server anymore. With an unstable staff and event team, a substitute staff was searched to help continue the server development, and so eventually, one with the name of "Skye" was added. A new community had built itself up, which partially consisted of Rolling Sky Discord Core community members who were holding on, and friends of the new staff Skye. This boosted server activity despite the community size shrinking, as the few ones who were in the community were very active in it, making Rolling Lounge their "home", just like the previous core communities did. However, this community overtook the base community due to the 18+ (Not Safe For Work/NSFW) topics being one of the biggest topics due to a lack of moderation. | ||
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==Events and Economy== | ==Events and Economy== | ||
As it was the reason for the server's creation, Rolling Lounge features a wide amount of events | As it was the reason for the server's creation, Rolling Lounge features a wide amount of events, in which a participant must show a specific skill in something to complete a challenge. This also includes minigames, as they also show an appearance in the server. These evens have their own category in the server and happen in a regular way due to a dedicated management team for it, though the challenges are not bound to being always constant. | ||
Events have different modes: | |||
* '''Dailies''' - Within a week, each day featured a different challenge about Rolling Sky is hosted. This challenge type has been in tact (although with breaks) since the beginning of the server and are a key aspect to the server's challenge economy. Dailies feature different challenge modes which change the way the challenge procedure is done. Completing dailies in succession adds to a Streak count to increase the rewards gotten from the challenges. | * '''Dailies''' - Within a week, each day featured a different challenge about Rolling Sky is hosted. This challenge type has been in tact (although with breaks) since the beginning of the server and are a key aspect to the server's challenge economy. Dailies feature different challenge modes which change the way the challenge procedure is done. Completing dailies in succession adds to a Streak count to increase the rewards gotten from the challenges. | ||
* '''Weeklies''' - Once a week, a weekly challenge which is also about Rolling Sky is hosted. Unlike dailies, these challenges consist of a series of mini challenges, single tasks which take an amount of time, or contests. After a week, the winner of the weekly challenge receives a special role called ''Challeader''. | * '''Weeklies''' - Once a week, a weekly challenge which is also about Rolling Sky is hosted. Unlike dailies, these challenges consist of a series of mini challenges, single tasks which take an amount of time, or contests. After a week, the winner of the weekly challenge receives a special role called ''Challeader''. | ||
* '''Tournaments''' - Tournaments are long-lasting events which aren't bound for a certain time and consist of several rounds. It's entered through an Opening Round, the goal is to fulfill the requirements for every round to avoid disqualification. | |||
* '''Thinking Corner''' - Occasionally, riddles or puzzles are hosted which do not Rolling Sky skills but general riddle solving knowledge, making this type of challenge attractive for members who are in the server but don't play Rolling Sky. | * '''Thinking Corner''' - Occasionally, riddles or puzzles are hosted which do not Rolling Sky skills but general riddle solving knowledge, making this type of challenge attractive for members who are in the server but don't play Rolling Sky. | ||
* ''' | * '''Special Events''' are more simple Rolling Sky challenges including lore for JOL's Rolling Sky characterizations which are usually awarded with special role rewards. | ||
===Currency=== | ===Currency=== | ||