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{{See also|Reflex Games Discord}}

[[Reflex Games Discord]] was the start of the stable server eras, where there was usually a developed server environment and community which 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, as it 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 Channels, such as Tuan Nguyen. Due to a big Discord Server having Rolling Sky as topic was not present at that time and due to the ability to speak with the YouTubers, it seemed benefitial 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 in a much larger scale than before. Due to the big influx of members to the server, a lot of people also decided to expand their activity in the server, which didn't only include talking about the server topics, but more personal topics inbetween the community members and the making of friends. Asides 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. Asides of 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, communitation and interactivity all being covered.

Rolling Dream, the sequel of 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 reveive a Testflight invitation. Because entering the server was mandatory for the submission, this caused one of the biggest member spikes in all of 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 which claimed to be an official Rolling Sky Developer. The RGD community believed this for a little while until the user was exposed of being fake, where upon exposal 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 which was significantly shaped by drama due to the community's young average age. People had made several smaller dramas about topics which weren't worth making dramas about, and there have also been conflicts with other servers due to trashtalking which happened from both sides which gave the core communities of both servers a bad image to each other. Those issues were partially resolved, but continued in some way or another in later eras.