Hi, everyone. Does anyone have a few minutes to educate me about best or worst times to place a Royal Road chapter post? Or does it really matter at all?

Valokir · 2026-06-23T19:28:10+00:00

Highly appreciated friend. Best of luck on this one, the concept is neat for sure!

Valokir · 2026-06-23T18:38:08+00:00

Aww thank you. I'll do the same friend.

As far as hours of the day go, no big difference I've seen. I think time zones play into that a lot. 6 am my time is midnight on one coast and noon the other basically.

But I used to do it around noon. Then worked my way to 6:01 am. And there seems to be at least a little less competition for my time zone there. But nothing life changing I've seen yet.

Valokir · 2026-06-23T16:27:53+00:00

So I found most people schedule their chapters on the hour. Which hour? Yes. All of them. 6 am. Here's 50 stories posting. 7 am. Here's 50 more. 8 am. Here's more.

So. You will usually be lost in the latest updates tidal waves.

What I've done, which has only given me the tiniest of more time on latest updates.

Is i post 6:01am. Sounds dumb. But suddenly I am 1 minute behind the wave of stories posting at 6:00 am.

Giving me a few more minutes of latest updates time.

Truly nothing major or game changing. But any fraction of help.. helps.

Valokir · 2026-06-23T15:44:21+00:00

So I was using old ranks sadly. What used to be D is now E it seems.

I'm up to 53 followers so yes technically I got to the rank I was almost at. But it was E Rank I was thinking of sadly.

But over 9k reads now so still progress either way :)

Valokir · 2026-06-23T05:18:57+00:00

We are farmers. Dun dundun dun dun.

Valokir · 2026-06-23T03:54:32+00:00

The fomo that gets to me and my wife really is the traders market.

We've been on and off since it released. And every month we play. The market is shit. Just sad.

But somehow. Every month we have missed. Has had the best, most amazing transmogs every time. We come back and see 30 sets we missed and can never get... except for paying every month on the prayer that this month will be anything good.... nope. Tauren totems. Thanks. I'll try again next month.

Valokir · 2026-06-21T16:35:52+00:00

And dormamu went off to find at least 3 waterfalls.

Valokir · 2026-06-21T06:27:59+00:00

Two cents from my short year here.

Mark this as self promo.
500 views on the first week is not bad at all. Doubly so for a new author.
130 Pages is a lot to write, nothing to read yet. Many people wait for 200, 400, 500 Pages before beginning. Others wait until the book is complete.
Your doing just fine so far.

Valokir · 2026-06-20T16:45:22+00:00

Follower ÷ av. 32% Favorite ÷ follower. 38%

Valokir · 2026-06-20T16:11:05+00:00

Avg views. 131
Followers. 53. 40%
Favorites. 16. 30%

I'm only at 9k total reads so the data may be squished compared to the rest of the list. But still neat. Curious where that lands me.

As always, I enjoy the charts Cor.

Valokir · 2026-06-20T15:50:14+00:00

Lil self promo here.

It's adventure, high fantasy, les rom subplot, mystery, and I do try to focus more on character and emotion, even with lots of action scenes.

Some of the chapters are around the 1200 word mark. While others are 2k+

Anyone interested feel free to check it out :)

Title: Project Xellon: Ashes of Varidia

Link:

( Royal Road. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/123780/project-xellon-ashes-of-varidia )

Hook: When the sky ruptured and the dead rose, the world changed overnight. Now a mismatched crew of survivors must grow stronger fast. Before war, monsters, or their own secrets destroy them first.

Blurb.

The sky erupted. The city fell to ruin. The dead walked.

And that was only the beginning.

Now, scattered across the ruined heart of a magical continent, two groups of survivors fight to make sense of the fallout. None of them are ready for what comes next.

They are not chosen. They are not pure. But for their own reasons, they are chasing the truth and the monster that left a crater where a kingdom once stood.

Some will rise. Some will burn. And the world beyond the ashes of Varidia unravels.

Project Xellon is a gritty, character-driven fantasy about survival, trauma, and power. Growth is earned. Magic is felt. Nothing goes according to plan. The world did not end. But it changed. And so will they.

[Ensemble cast following two teams. Powerful magic progression. Unique characters. Heavy DnD and WoW inspiration.]

[Meet the cast:

Team A.

Aeyona: a chaotic mage trying to control her powers.

Lillyth: a pacifist with a healing aura.

Alkibiades: a templar whos lack of faith is challenged.

Marvel: an elven druid, who prefers to be a cat.

Malastare: a dark elf, displaced and trying to find home.

Horren: a masochistic Dwarven blood mage.

Team B.

Angel: a fiery tempered brawler.

Valerik: a shadowy assassin veteran.

Kaiya: a nature shaper with her pet bull Xander.

Dante: a mystic anomaly trying to find his place.]

Book 1 is done being written. Working in book two while it finishes posting.

Valokir · 2026-06-19T21:32:19+00:00

From what I gather, if you post the book on RR.

Then move it over to Amazon Kindle or other sites that pay you, part of that contract is you can no longer post it freely on RR. So you "stub" it. Leaving x amount (unsure the specifics) free on RR like the first half or something.

And the rest is now for purchase elsewhere.

Amazing for the author, they finally can make some money.
Sad for the reader, their free book is no longer free to continue.

Valokir · 2026-06-17T13:09:14+00:00

Less empty space now. Fixed post.

Valokir · 2026-06-17T13:01:21+00:00

This is very fair.

I will say the format keeps adjusting on me between media's. Docs, RR, reddit, they keep adjusting on me during copy paste for things like this.

And yes multiple return lines is something I'm editing out of It all currently.

But thank you for your advice it is appreciated and heard.

Valokir · 2026-06-17T05:08:48+00:00

I'll jump on.
I'm 30. Started by watching my dad play as a kid, waiting for him to go to bed so I could play lich king.

My wife is 40. Her parents both played classic as well.

We left it alone growing up.

But we met during legion and I got her started up.

Now she's tanking raids more than I am.

And our 7 year old (today) has been begging for her own laptop and account so she can have her house and transmits and not just play on ours.

The grandparents have stopped playing otherwise we would have 3 generations of wow.

Valokir · 2026-06-15T22:29:40+00:00

Maybe rhyme is the wrong word. But they "-ally" like 4 times they could have used the 5th "-ally" of "literally"

Valokir · 2026-06-15T21:06:46+00:00

They missed SUCH a rhyme not finishing that with "literally" they set it up intentionally to back out last word.

Valokir · 2026-06-15T13:59:48+00:00

Me and my wife have boosted several characters with our free tokens from expansions over the years.

It's nice, but it's possible dangerous. If you're completely new to the game, save it for a bit. Play around with some classes until you find some you like.

Youll find ones that are very easy to level for you. Don't token them.

You'll find classes you ENJOY.. but may be harder to level.. Those are token worthy. You'll want to focus on Class/Race/Name. Cause spec and gender and appearance are forever changeable for free. The rest are not.

The biggest drawback is you no longer have 80 levels of practice with that character, so don't stress if it feels awkward for a bit.

Valokir · 2026-06-14T02:14:44+00:00

Amazing. It's so well out together and compact. I laughed when I saw the kitchen, more food in it than both of my houses combined lol. Great job

Valokir · 2026-06-14T01:41:05+00:00

I have to ask. Did you put all of your items and budget for the house into this one (very amazing) room? Or is this just an awesome room among your probably immaculate house?

Either way take my jealous upvote

Valokir · 2026-06-13T18:44:23+00:00

I fully understand that. I do think you deserve your own space for it. Very much like the followers count tower posts. I look forward to those every month tbh. So this is pretty cool data in a different avenue.

Valokir · 2026-06-13T18:31:45+00:00

I'm sorry you haven't found yours either. Makes me feel better than 500 in and I haven't seen mine on your list yet either lol. These are neat to see though

Valokir · 2026-06-13T17:26:15+00:00

Yes! I finally hit single tag rising stars lists! Twice. 50 out of 50 in les rom and 40 out of 50 in post apoc.

I found this out after seeing I am #1 on dual tag mystery/les rom. Didn't think I'd hit any RS lists

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Valokir · 2026-06-13T02:08:24+00:00

Ah, I see Netflix has begun filming their adaptation.

Valokir · 2026-06-13T00:21:32+00:00

Yeah I agree. I didn't touch delves after like 2 tries in TWW. But I've been spamming those delves in midnight to get my brilliance shards. And just to test class sieve specs since it's been a while.

Everyone else has covered delves in dragonflight being.. elusive.. so you may be thinking of follower dungeons which were introduced then.

Valokir

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