Hei All!

It’s come to our attention we don’t have a real Alacrity Mascot. We have Mascot and Roo, who belong to Hel and Robyn respectively, but neither are a dog we use actively in the site. So, much like The Professor competition of a while ago, we’re looking to make an Official Site Mascot.

The mascot that wins this competition will be in a new site banner, the dog that alerts all our players of accidents, auction winnings, etc, and elsewhere throughout the site! He or she will also have his or her own account. This means if you win this competition, your design will become a permanent part of Alacrity.

We will also be having a “Naming” competition for the mascot, for those of us - including myself - who cannot design.

How this will work:

We will have all our interested members submit a custom dog design and/or name to us. The designs will be organized by breed and then the site staff will choose a top design from each breed. We will put up each of these top designs for a vote by the entire site - anonymously, so nobody can vote based on friendship. This means if your dog is a finalist, you must keep it to yourself! The winning dog will then have a vote for a name, the top names being again chosen by site staff and the finalists being voted on by the entire site.

Requirements:

NO RAINBOW GLITCHES! Natural coats (or glitches that look natural) only!

You can only submit ONE design and/or ONE name once. If you design something better in the week, you cannot replace your already submitted design. If you have a specific gender in mind for the name, please list it when you submit the name.

When you submit a design, you relinquish all rights to that design. That is, if this is your fursona, it’s not going to be your fursona anymore. If your wish is for this design to be your own personal custom, then you should keep this design to yourself instead of submitting it.

Design the dog in the Custom Tool and submit the image, with marking list, and/or the name you thought of to the Admin/Report a Staff Member Issue Hub. Mark it as a private issue and title it “Mascot Competition”.

All designs and names must be submitted by 11:59 pm Saturday the 9th of March.

Winning:

The design winner will get a set of custom dogs. (No copy of the design winning dog.)
The name winner will get a single custom dog. (No copy of the design winning dog.)
All people who make it to the public voting round will get 2 bones.

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(Also, if you missed it, there's a post on the winners of the Custom Companion Contest below!!! Congrats to them!)

Finally, we can announce our winners! :D

Raffle Winner - jillferret
Auction Winner - ChestnutBrumby

Notifications have been sent, and we hope these lucky and supportive players enjoy their Custom Companions! And many thanks to everyone who participated in this event!

Taking into consideration the majority vote in the current poll, staff members WILL be allowed to participate in future events such as this. <3

Okay, my dears, I know this will upset several people, but just today I realized just how much the Frisbee game was hurting our economy. In one day, frisbeeing all my own dogs, I was able to earn enough to purchase a background from the Monthly Shop. :C So it isn't any wonder that this has been a contributing factor to our financial troubles.

Winnings have been lowered to a random possibility of $20-$200 per turn, and each dog will now get 3 turns each per day.

We also discovered that the energy take was bugged. It has always been listed on the game page that each turn was supposed to cost 10 energy. Instead, it was only taking 5. But since we've lowered payouts and turns, we'll adjust the page to reflect the take of just 5 energy.

The last thing we want to do is upset people, but this is a feature of the site that has been grossly unbalanced for a long time, and rather than prolong it, I feel we needed to fix this ASAP. We hope everyone will understand that this was a change we absolutely had to make, in the interest of our struggling on-site economy. There was simply way too much cashflow, in large part due to the payouts of this single game. :C