Hello, August! Etiquette (?) question here: I'm three days into Flight Rising and don't know anyone personally who plays. I've been exploring the incredible artists on Tumblr (yourself included wholeheartedly). Are there social guidelines around sending friend requests? As much as I might like someone's dragons, I'm still a random stranger asking to be friends. Would you list your ID# in your bio so people can add you, or so they can find your forum sales and stuff?
Every player has their own opinion, of course, and I know you can't answer as a monolith. I guess, if you have any suggestions from experience? The... community vibes around friending? Thank you kindly for reading!
Hey there! First of all welcome to Flight Rising :) Send a PM to 888 (id 670602) and I'll get you set up with a few things...
If you're asking about the reason people put their IDs into their blog bios, yes, it's there so people can find people on-site that they enjoy talking to on here! I use it myself because some people might ask for pings (but don't have their FR username in their blog url), because I want to check out someone's lair, or because they are someone I vaguely recognize and want to confirm if it's them.
The community experience around random friend requests is probably less complex than you think. People tend to say in their bios (on-site) or a linked 'About Me' dragon whether or not they mind receiving random friend requests. Other people might also put things like this in their bio so people know what's up when they get a friend request from them!
It all really depends on what each person views the function of their friend list as. For me, I add people who I talk to on the regular/lairs I want 'bookmarked', so I don't accept random friend requests but I don't reject them either. The pending list becomes sort of a secondary friend list for me... Other people just want to have as many friend as possible! Number goes up.
For your case specifically (finding cool people on Tumblr and wanting to friend them on-site), it could help to send a PM along with the request and let them know you found them here first and think they're really cool! That will scare them less than getting a request from someone they've never seen before - like you said, a total stranger asking to be friends. Hope this helps and have a good time on here :)
