Reflex Games Discord

Reflex Games Discord (short form: RGD) was the first of the three major eras of the server which is today known as Rolling Lounge. Lasting from February of 2018 to October of 2018 (8 months, with the second era called "Rolling Sky Discord" replacing it), several major events happened in this era, such as a major popularity spike, establishment of a functional event system and gain of the role as the official Rolling Sky 2 Testflight application server.

Reflex Games Discord's logo, designed by SHAvibe.

Name History

Until the server name was established, several experimental names have been used to see which one of these would fit the best, such as "Rolling Sky & Dancing Line", "DL & RS Challenges" and "DL&RS&DB Challenges". The management of the server had come to the conclusion that there could be 2 potential name candidates for a "permanent" server name, them being "Reflex Games Challenges" and "Reflex Games Discord". At first, the former name was used until in February of 2018, it was decided that the name "Reflex Games Discord" would fit better, and the server name was changed to that.

Server Contents

Challenges and Economy

The server started mainly dedicated to the creation of Challenges for several games made by the subcompany of the Chinese megacompany Cheetah Mobile, Cheetah Games. Before of the start of the era, the 3 games "Rolling Sky", "Dancing Line" and "Dancing Ball" (the "Reflex Games") had been chosen as the main games of the server, and this was also continued in RGD. Dedicated channels were made for the Rolling Sky, Dancing Line and Dancing Ball challenges, where upon completion of them you got a server currency simply called Points (later $RGD, which was added along with a reform of the event and currency system itself) which you could then use to buy server-specific items, such as custom commands in the MEE6 bot, shoutouts and more.

Community

The already existing community of the server Pre-RGD was expanded, but in a much larger scale than before. 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. A big bond between the members had been made, which could be seen by the attitude inside of the community and with several community (including) projects, such as the first "Family Pictures" and the Reflex Games Discord Community YouTube Channel, hosting videos solely made for the server.

Growth

The server was actively advertised by the players of the 3 games who were members of RGD on YouTube, the most influental people responsible for the growth being SHAvibe and Tuan Nguyen, the most popular RGD YouTubers at that time. This caused a massive influx of people who joined, some of them for the challenges, some of them for a community about their favourite game to talk about it, and some to be able to talk with the YouTubers. The biggest influx of members however came from the Rolling Dream Testflights.

Rolling Dream Testflights

Rumors and leaks had spread that Cheetah Games planned to release a new game, which would be the sequel to Rolling Sky, named "Rolling Dream". These rumors came out as true when several YouTubers posted these announcements 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.

Problems

Raiders

MLG Dancing Line

Even before the server's existence, there had been several known raiders in the community, one of them being an user called MLG Dancing Line. The user, presumably an underage child, created many alternative accounts and bypassed bans using VPN services, where upon joining, he would then spam, pings inclusive. This problem in the early days of RGD was solved, as a staff member called "AZ | Mindroma | Sticky" had noticed that an user called "Khoai" had been assisting the raider by providing him with methods of joining, trying to pretend to save the server from him by alarming staff members and gain their trust. Upon seeing through that, Khoai was banned and the problems significantly decreased.

towo

Along with the huge popularity spike of Reflex Games Discord, an account had joined the server which claimed to be an official Rolling Sky Developer. To be able to get the community to believe this, he had sent apparent selfies of him being in the office of Cheetah Games, and talked about how apparently a level was being made. It is also known that the user had pre-access to information that wasn't known by the wide community before, including the Rolling Dream details. 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.

Drama in the server

Due to having a community with relatively young members, Reflex Games Discord also had to deal with dramas a lot. Noticable dramas were the other issues mentioned in here, but there had also been issues which didn't include any outside intervention, mainly due to toxic individuals or arguments. One noticable drama was a server admin claiming to leave Discord for 6 years, which had caused a big drama due to the admin's good reputation. The admin actually returned 6 days later, but the impact had already caused a big damage to the server.

Problems with other servers

Reflex Games Discord, while having a somewhat close community, didn't always go along well with other servers. The biggest example of this is the Dancing Line Discord (DLD), where individuals trashtalked the other server for various reasons (bans, arguments, etc.) which gave the core communities of both servers a bad image to each other. However, the administration of the servers didn't have an issue with each other and partially worked together to resolve these issues.