Rolling Sky Discord

Rolling Sky Discord (short form: RSD) was the second of the three major eras of the server which is today known as Rolling Lounge. Lasting from October of 2018 to January of 2020 (1 year and 2 months, with the third era called "Rolling Lounge" replacing it), this era acted as the pinnacle of the server history in terms of activity, community size and strength, activities, and more.

History

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 first issue was that Dancing Ball lost relevance drastically due to its slow delivery of updates, which also made the challenge making of it harder. The second issue were problems with other servers due to the existence of Dancing Line as a main game, because of an already existing place mainly dedicated to it, rendering Dancing Line a bit useless on Reflex Games Discord's side. While there wasn't much of a point seen in keeping Dancing Line and Dancing Ball, the new game Rolling Dream was in its early stages and had already attracted a lot of people, causing the first big member spike. The most popular challenge type were Rolling Sky challenges, and most of the community pretty much consisted of Rolling Sky players. Because of this, it was decided that it would make more sense to prioritize Rolling Sky (and its sequel) as there were no other active servers solely concentrating on Rolling Sky on Discord. Hence, the server name was changed to "Rolling Sky Discord" and its fundamentals also customized to fit the name.

Server Contents

Challenges and Economy

With the removal of Dancing Line and Dancing Ball, their dedicated challenge channels were also removed, leaving only Rolling Sky challenges (and partially Rolling Dream challenges, which however were quite limited due to its release only being on iOS for a long time). 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. Some of these different currencies were special to specific challenge types, some of them listed and explained below.

Expansion of Rolling Sky Events

For a long time, all that Rolling Sky Challenges consisted of was to get a specific percentage, gem and crown amount in a specific level, which was slowly seen as boring and repetitive by the members. Due to this, the Challenge Manager team added several new modes to the challenges adding twists and tricks, which made them far more varying and interesting. Some of them were "Mix n' Match" (Several levels being needed to be beaten, but all of their percentages, gem and crown amounts needing to add up to the challenge requirements), "CIY / Create It Yourself" (Ability to change the challenge requirement in a specific spectrum if you beat the main challenge first) and many more. This increased the participator amount by a lot and therefore the Challenge Manager team put intensive work in creating a Google Spreadsheet showing the entire leaderboard of RSD.

Weeklys

Weeklys were - as the name says - challenges, that were hosted every week instead of every day ("Dailys"). Due to them appearing less often, the challenges required more time to beat and also rewarded the winners more. Unique to the Weeklys was the role "Challeader", which was given to the winner of the current Weekly challenge. Instead of being one challenge like in the Dailys, Weeklys often included many challenges combined in one, leading to a sort of race throughout the week.

More Events

While the events in RSD mainly focussed on Rolling Sky, there have also been general quizzes added, such as the famous "Thinking Corner", where riddles and quizzes about any topic were hosted.