Day 2 Release

[ragdoll]

It's in Volcano biome. It glitters oddly in the light (or something like that). Missed the 12 am drop and haven't seen one at the five minute drops yet. Have a bad feeling about this one. :-(

The forum keeps crashing on me too. *grumbles*

Comments

[alicit]

Since they made Javascript compulsory yesterday evening, the lag has been unbearable; pages take forever to load, I have a blank screen more often than not, and everything keeps freezing.

[ragdoll]

I honestly can't remember if I had java on for FF yesterday. I can't turn images off in Chrome anymore because you can't even see a link anymore, so I don't bother. Switched to FF to see if it would help, and the lag is 100x worse. I don't know what the point of making java compulsory is. :p

[alicit]

Ad revenue apparently. I understand that Dragon Cave is a free game and TJ wants to keep it that way, but surely he could allow javascript off in the biomes? It's not like I am going to click on ads when I am competing with 700 people for eggs.

[ragdoll]

Exactly. I just added Adblocker to my FF (I have it already on Chrome) because I can see that there's a lag every time one of the effing banner ads comes up. I never click ads on his site anyway, so there's no point, and now I'm just plain annoyed.

(it's been a bad day, and the inability to catch eggs so I can do what else I have to do tonight is not making it any better. *whinge whinge*)

[codyne]

Thing is, I've been paying the $5 a month for the ad removal subscription -- I don't see ads on the site anyway. But Javascript still slows down the page loads so much it's almost impossible to catch eggs. So what the heck am I paying for?

[alicit]

Obviously for nothing. I have just installed adblock and managed to catch three in the :55 drop.

[codyne]

I finally caught three, too, in the :45 and :50 drops. I think the crowds finally thinned out enough. But this is really disheartening. It's no fun hunting with endless white screens and lags. Bleah. I sure hope TJ changes his mind about the Javascript thing.

[ragdoll]

LOL I just got one at the :55 mark and one at the hourly mark (with like 200 tabs open -- that was just stupid). I'm hoping the crowd is thinning out a bit. It looked like there were "only" 300+ people in there now vs. 500 earlier.

The javascript thing bites though. I keep getting white page lags in between refreshes. The Adblock on Chrome does help though. We'll see if it works on FF as well.