Okay! Now it's time to explain a few things about this new fandangled icon system!

Currently, our upgraded users will be the only ones who can see the open fields on their profile pages, in which they can enter a URL for both a normal icon, as well as a fun new feature; chat icons! Site staff have their ribbons, question marks, and rainbow paw prints, but now our upgraded users can have their very own 15x15 icon that will show beside their name in our live chat!

And as a special treat for everyone, we're going to make the normal icons, which show on your profile pages and in the forums, available to EVERYONE! :D The chat icons will remain upgrade-exclusive, but for normal icons, I feel like that's a feature that everyone should be able to enjoy. This news post will be updated as soon as this feature is released beyond the upgraded users!

Now, we do have to make an announcement now about something else that's going to change. We've run into problems often times where mistyped HTML in the Display name field will cause forum and Issue Hub posts a lot of trouble, as well as dealing with the issue of bright colors that can make it difficult to read your names. We feel the easiest solution is to disable HTML in Display names, and while we understand this might be a bit of a bummer for everyone, we hope you'll understand the need for this change. We are also giving consideration to limiting how many times you can change your Display name, but this is something that still needs discussion amongst the admins. It can often become very confusing, and has even been cause for misunderstandings and resultant drama, because it's so easy to mimic one another's user names, since not everyone can memorize the user ID# of everyone.

DO NOT USE STAFF ICONS!! We can tell who is a legitimate staff member and who isn't, and anyone caught using the staff icons in chat will face serious consequences, if not a potential ban for impersonating staff! Please don't do it!

In the meantime, we're still working out the new trial system, and for what's planned, it may take a while, but we're extremely excited for what's in store, and feel that the wait will be worth it! So hang in there, and thank you all for your continued support!

Starting tomorrow, we plan to finally implement something that's been long overdue. Uploadable user icons! :D

More information tomorrow once we get this feature up and running!

As per Carni's post yesterday, we're moving servers to keep things for Alacrity speedy for all of you!

However, this means you will be seeing things like "Server Error" where it won't display a page/image/let you do things like feed your dogs.

This is only temporary!!

Check back a few hours later or so and it should be better. (Although some items take longer than a few hours.) If you still have errors after we announce the server transfer is over, then we want you to contact us. For now, however, we don't need the reports of server errors as they're all apart of the transfer.

However, we have noticed a few bugs because of the server, some dogs have given birth to 8 puppy litters and other goofy glitches like that.

If you have this happen to you, where you receive more than you should have, please let us know so we can correct it! We'll only get rid of the dogs you don't want or items you weren't supposed to get. Please remember that not reporting this sort of glitch is a violation of the TOS and as we're all good people on Alacrity, I know you guys don't want to break our rules and TOS.

Thank you guys for being so patient with us while we work hard to keep things going fast while we're on here! Stay cool to those of our players who are sweating in this heat wave and enjoy your summer breaks!

Edit as of 10am Ala time:
We're mostly done moving the server now! You might experience some issues with commas and some lag loading large inventories/kennels/etc, but we'll be working on fixing that. However we should be done with the server errors, 404s, and all the other major irritating aspects!