The server has been more or less unavailable for the past couple of days, making it very difficult for me to check on my eggs and dragons. This isn't helping me to maintain any interest in this game.
But on another note, my brother the hotshot programming professor has become interested in my alternative fractal game... and then some. He's come up with a way that I might be able to use it in my dissertation (and he might be able to get some grant money for writing it). So that could be interesting.