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For real, if it's because of the post then no one can apparently rant about the game because you will get banned from the Discord like it's their most precious baby or whatever.

Guess who got banned from Dergun Town Discord without any warning at all! 🙃

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Guess who got banned from Dergun Town Discord without any warning at all! 🙃

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So... Dergun Town's gone, at last - Temp. Tester Rant.

To be frankly honest, I was waiting for it to end. I stopped playing after the weird ass Pet update and sudden, unnannounced Hair Change due to “legal reasons” because the game was just getting utterly confusing, a mess of minigames with clunky customization options and systems, and whatnot. Plus, my time as a tester was when I hit the breaks on the game and realized "man... they really are dicks".

I never ranted about it because I knew if I did, they'd definitely come for me and ban me from the game or from the server because "I shittalked about the game" or “I’m unveiling the tester server”, but now that it's over - it's time for a rant.

So, think it was around May 2020 that I decided to go for Tester to better prepare myself for the future updates, the chat itself was basically... like the lobby, just mainly memes and the Dev fanatics, who will defend them 24/7, chatting with the Devs.

One of the first few things that was asked for is the Timezones so that we could test the server together - the Timezones thing is literally thrown out the window after the very first test. From there on, what they would do is ping the Testers to announce an update - at the time, we had no changelog, no proper bug report channel, it was all crowded in one place, and because they disregarded the Timezones, imagine if you will the chat being both filled with players spamming the chat with all the new shit like some happy toddlers, and another half are people who are reporting to be in class, asleep, dinnering, ect.

A chaotic mess that makes it near impossible to actually report something. Eventually, they added a bug report but once again, no proper check list - if any, the changelog and the checklist only appeared around the Argoras or Minigame Update (June-July). And, as always, the checklist was never updated, so you'd be testing something that's already been checked and other listed things wouldn't be checked at all. Organization, which is something a Tester needs, was never a fucking thing in that horrid mess. They would occasionally do polls, one of which was if the Update should release now, nearly everyone said No - they released it anyway. :^)

Then, there would be some bugs where they’d blame us for it - the /hitme was a command that was restrictedly used in the test server because the Devs somehow don’t know how to add a small quantity of resources to all of us, so he instead made a command that gives, what? Over a million of each of the resources? We ALL made sure that wasn’t toggled on the “beta” server, and yet, somehow, it got released with the commad functioning, and instead of admitting their fault, they blamed the Testers for practically saying folks not to use it - one of the testers was literally STRIPPED OFF of their Gil and other resources, and mind you, they didn’t even used the command at all, all they did was accidentally say the command.

The Moderators would also be rather cruel, everyone likes memes, that's granted, but it shouldn't mean you can willingly change our nicknames like that. Imagine switching over to the chat only to find out your name, along with all the other testers, has been changed to "Todd Howard"; you rename it, and a couple of days later, they change it yet again without your permission or consent. This isn't fun, this is just annoying. I had to walk around with "Stop changin my name" on my nickname because of them.

And like how it has been told, these Devs cannot take criticism at all. The Argoras Update will haunt me down as the Update where I was literally fighting against other testers and the Devs over something that needed to be changed. In the Test Server, the Skill Points had a Clover table, meaning you used clovers for Skill Points, the thing is in Pony Town, the rewards are remain unlocked even if you go down the unlocking mark - Dergun Town does not. So players who are unaware of this would've wasted 1k Clovers and then realize that their prizes have been taken away because they're no longer above the unlocking mark. So as a Tester, it should be my duty to warn the Devs about it and come with suggestions.

I told them without mentioning Pony Town at all (because they have a stupid policy of “if it’s close to PT, we can’t do it”) about how the Clover option will result in players losing their reward if they go below 1k and 500 Clovers respectively, which is the equivalent to hundreds of players putting all those days collecting Clovers to waste. They would ABSOLUTELY rant  about it in Bugs or Help Desk. I suggested them to either:

Make the rewards unlocked still even if you left the mark.

Remove the Clover option

Add a warning when about to select Clover

Those are the ones on top of my head, what did they do?

Tom just kept ignoring what I said on the first suggestion and exclusively focusing on the second one, as if it was the only option available. Meanwhile, Q was guilt tripping me into bidding to their commands, "37,500 gil per skill if you the 50 points pure,," it's horrible, sure, but do you really want to deal with a hoard of players coming to the server to scream about how the Skill Point system stole their Clover rewards? And having to deal with a patch or two to make them happy, or worse, having to ban more players because they’re angry WITH REASON that their prizes were taken away because you idiots refuse to add something that allows the players to keep their rewards while below the mark?

You know they would do that, everyone knows they would do that. And worse is with exception of one or two Testers, the other users, specifically folks like J*y and D**r, just kept defending the Devs even though I was literally helping them prevent a future problem that everyone knew it would fucking happen. What's the point of testing a game if the Developers will fucking refuse to take your advices?

They did removed the Clovers from the options, but kept the Dandelions and the Bones, which, you guested it, STILL DIDN'T HAD THE PRIZE LOCKING! And the best part - NO WARNING REGARDING THE LOST OF THE PRIZES WAS ADDED EITHER! So players who had the Dandelion Rune and the ability to get the special items from the Bone would end up in losing them without them knowing - though it’s not as bad as the Clovers, a resource that restrictedly spawns in areas with Clovers as opposed to be map-wide and the last prize needs 1k of those, and the recent-ish Spring Update changed the green to a shade that blends with them.

I singlehandedly helped them avoid a hoard of angry players, and not a singular thank you was given.

The Quest Cap is also a thing, if the mobile users are in such a disadvantage with the Clovers being gone, then why are you adding the Cap anyway? Everyone knows that if a game is relying on the player to grind, it should not cap the Quests to a fucking T - only 20 Quests per hour?! And the NPC's Gil is both dependant on Bootleg Flight Rising Dominance... and dependant on a Clan that YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY CHANGE even if you request for such?! It's like if in Flight Rising, because Fiona has Light eyes, Light Flight would gain extra bonus treasure from here as if Dominance wasn't enough. "It's to balance the Economy", how is that going to balance, it just restricting the mobile users even further, as if the shitty battle controls on mobile that makes it impossible to battle wasn't enough.

The game was also just turning into a weird, funky, Flight Rising bootleg - fitting how the game that Q also worked on was a bootleg hybrid between Dragon Cave and Flight Rising - the release of pets with these genes and barely any use but to literally do the exact shit you do in FR. In FR, you exalt Dragons to gain a upper hand at Dominance, in DT, a rather recent-ish? Update allowed you to sell the Magikins (the gened pets, the other pets are literally useless) for Clan Tokens, giving you a boost to gain Dominance. It’s exactly like FR, I’m surprised no one ever bothered to contact the FR folks about this ripoff. The pets did had a use and it was to gain more gil but a nerf was done because, once again, they released an update were we made SURE that wasn’t happening, but somehow, it happened - the Pet-Gill Machine Glitch that allowed you to gain infinite Gil.

My pets got bugged because of it - the level got reset (it’d only reward 1-2 gil) but the price of the upgrade did not (750 gil) - I asked if that was a nerf or a bug, and as expected, they said it was nerf when it was clear as days it was a bug given how people had pets that requried 700+ gil and rewarded 30+ gil.

The game’s just a mess of minigames and FR Ripoff, I could go on and on with just how bad the game is, but the Devs are even worse.

It's really bad when they're once straight up muted someone for speaking their fucking opinion.

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(From PMs)

This user would constantly bring the flaws in their shit without insulting, they'd argue with reason, give suggestions, everything, in hopes of improving the game. and they instead just argued back, if not, criticized them for even bringing an opinion and tried to justify themselves as to why they didn't need to change - and the users would absolutely defend the Devs like literal ass kissers, to the point of being happy they got muted.

As the user rightfully said in PMs:

I wanted to make contributions that could help improve it, but it seems like the staff just want people to do as they say without question instead of looking for ways to improve. And they desperately need to understand that the game is not just about what they want, what kinds of designs they think players should make. It should be encouraging players to try new designs and be creative, but all the devs want to do is shut that down.

I just wish they didn't have absolute power over the server. If they were accountable to their community in some way, it'd be possible to convince them to make changes when it's really necessary. Not all the time, just when their stubbornness is getting in the way of something that absolutely everybody except them wants.

The fun in these games has always been in the community. If you stifle that, you stifle the game. And unfortunately, I now can't say any of this. Making demon combat even harder for those without skill points was wholly unnecessary, too. I don't know what their obsession is with making the game so heavy on grinding.

Back when I first arrived, Dergun Town was mostly just Pony Town with more customization options, plus a few special prizes you could earn by gathering items. Nowadays it seems like the devs are more interested in forcing players to grind for literally everything than they are in adding new stuff everyone can enjoy and use.

But worse than that is how they always respond to criticism. The mini-events were the biggest example of that. Players didn't like being forced to spend all day on Dergun Town just for any chance to win an award in mini-events. It was damaging people's ability to have a life outside the game, and a lot of users complained. How did they respond? They basically threatened to remove the mini-events altogether and make all the items from them unobtainable, rather than improving on anything. This is how the staff responds to all complaints and suggestions. It's either the exact thing they want or nothing, and if they make a mistake big enough that everyone complains, rather than admitting fault, they basically punish the community for being unhappy. Their entire mentality is "play by my rules or I'm taking my toys and going home".

Reminder that when the garden update broke and erased a ton of players' houses and items, they blamed the players and said they had to do all the work to get everything that was lost back themselves.

I swear, all of this "you complained now you get nothing" and "we work hard, so be thankful to us even for terrible content" we hear in the user suggestions channel is just conditioning their player base to accept being taken for granted and mistreated. They're basically trying to induce Stockholm Syndrome.

Someone who’s also on Tumblr got banned for saying that the new design of the hairs made their characters look ugly - it was a change that was NEVER ANNOUNCED, specially considering it’s a change regarding “legal issues”, the playerbase should’ve been warned about this before they updated it. But instead, they got pissy that some people have complained about the drastically changed hairs and once again, shit down on them for complaining.

Dergun Town is an excellent example of how some people are not and never were meant to run a game - the guilt tripping, the “accept this or get lost” attitude, the behavior they had and occasionally have regarding Pony Town (search “Let’s Talk About Dergun Town” and you’ll get the document), to the point of banning the actual word “to avoid drama” aka keep folks from talking about their real fucking nature.

I am honestly happy that Dergun Town got shut down while Pony Town keeps improving and growing, karma was indeed well served.

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The anouncement can be found at Sleepy Town’s Discord fyi.

Today I learned that Dergun Town’s Staff is pretty damn toxic and completely diregardged Pony Town Staff’s wishes and made nearly everyone to go against PT with lies and misinformation.

Y’all can read it here+where it came from:

https://gdoc.pub/doc/e/2PACX-1vRGUPqUm4PAZ7B2v4IG53TO50L4Fplv5BDhHcy2ySIFd6g5FIOe9FyvN1iQHDZC72TLw916NLWKHTQB

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Today I learned that Dergun Town’s Staff is pretty damn toxic and completely diregardged Pony Town Staff’s wishes and made nearly everyone to go against PT with lies and misinformation.

Y’all can read it here+where it came from:

https://gdoc.pub/doc/e/2PACX-1vRGUPqUm4PAZ7B2v4IG53TO50L4Fplv5BDhHcy2ySIFd6g5FIOe9FyvN1iQHDZC72TLw916NLWKHTQB

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I swear to god, some people act like I have a choice to be where I'm at picking up crystals as if it's my fault that the fucking stupid Dergun Town Admins don't fucking increase the crystal spawning rate accordingly to the number of players mining at that precise moment. I'm the Pillow Dragon and the other user immediately left after they said that, it's not my fucking fault that's the only way I can get crystals without having to brutally fight for them.

Hell, they increased the double shard rate instead which further results in brutal fights for the crystals, and all these crystals are for RNG colored items which you CAN'T choose which color you desire to buy.

And then they don't fucking bother to tell you that ghe bought items will be unlocked if you save it in your house after the Color Festival ends - not even the CHANGELOG mentions this shit.

I appreciate the crystals but come the fuck on.

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Updated the house, thank god for the option to color the cushions.

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Got all gift rewards from Pony Town and Yuleflame rewards from Dergun Town so fast... I don't have that much to do in these now sksnkfnsmd

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And the “Save items in your house” doesn’t even work. If you drop your item in the house or Party Island, you can’t pick it up again.

pony town: *adds winter, new House customization controls with shortcuts included, improved mobile customization controls*

dergun town: have giant map without a guide, fishing without a proper explanation as to how you fish, 50+ items to grab but still no option to hold the umbrella upon dropping it but still bought, you can save items in your house but /drop action is different from /delete item which uses the /drop look

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pony town: *adds winter, new House customization controls with shortcuts included, improved mobile customization controls*

dergun town: have giant map without a guide, fishing without a proper explanation as to how you fish, 50+ items to grab but still no option to hold the umbrella upon dropping it but still bought, you can save items in your house but /drop action is different from /delete item which uses the /drop look

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Updated the house again, removed the Halloween lighting and modified a few parts.

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me:

*sees a herd of HH ponies*

me:

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Update on the solved situation

We changed the company to NOS because MEO was forcing us to pay for the calls that were done by a hacker. The installation of the new company has been done and we now have Wi-Fi!

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Update on my Situation

Prepare yourselves, this is going to be a doozy (on mobile, can't add Read Mode):

Okay so, we've been clients of the MEO company for 10 years and our area is exclusive to only that and NOS, so if anything happens, it's only between those two that we can rely on. So what happened is our (tv) services was suddenly cut because we had a missed fee to pay which was strange because we payed everything, so we called the technical number (fyi we have to pay for that call) and they said we had a fee of 104€ for excessive consumption, the consumption in question? two calls to Macedonia via fixed phone.

The thing is:

It was done at 4 AM which means we were all asleep;

We don't even have a fixed phone, they're all broken down;

Not only that, it's by law that the company must warn the client about their services being suspended, to which they did not.

So my mother and sister went to the MEO store to explain the situation and if you thing the situation wasnt already bad, get a load of this:

So not only did they suspended our fixed phone (to prevent more consumption) and we have the tv services also suspended, they still need to check on the reclamation we did (which we sended both to MEO and to a company thats responsible to take care of them) and that alone takes FIVE DAYS, this happened on a saturday so you can guess the rest; not only that, we also need to deliver the broken fixed phones to the exact store. They also said "you should have Internet for the rest of the day", the day wasn't even over and guess what? at 19h41m (7pm 41m), the Internet went off! they suspended our Internet, asking us to call the technical number (aka another 15€ to pay); we also got a message saying to pay 167,81€ and just NOW they warn us the service that ALREADY SUSPENDED SINCE THE 14 HOUR (2 PM) MARK is going to be suspended - another reclamation was done.

IT ALL DEPENDS on WHAT they will say about the reclamation that will be answered on Monday (today) because the reclamation is deemed as "severe", if:

They admit their mistake, they will bring back the services;

They dont admit their mistake, we are either forced to pay;

If they choose the later, we will instead file a 3rd reclamation, because we are still under an allegiance stage (it was a total of 2 years of it), if there's 3 reclamations of medium to high severety, the allegiance is broken and we can end the contract and head to NOS.

TL;TR: We are exceptionally fucked because a company refuses to admit they are inputting a fee on the wrong number.

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Welp, I won’t have Wifi or mobile net for a long time

So, someone must’ve hacked our fixed telephone and it’s using it to stral our Wifi but the worse crime was at around 4 in the morning, all of us were asleep and they used the fixed telephone, which by the way, it’s UNPLUGGED because it’s broken and this means neither of us three can make any calls or take calls from the fixed, nonexistent telephone, to make calls to somewhere around Russia.

This means my mother has to pay around 100+€ for something neither of us did. And the only way to stop this is to cancel the subscription.

This means I won’t be able to go on the internet at all, not even mobile net.

So, if it does get cancelled, I will try to make a warning about it, but if I suddenly go offline without a waning, you now know why.

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Remodeled the lighting and garden a bit...