06-2-2015 at 8:26 PM

Ravette I can probably agree with you on some things. I'm not 100% sure of that state of things now. For me the communication issue and the accusations were two years ago? Between well known moderators as well. <br /> <br /> The communication issue for me was a vital thing as I had applied to come back as a mod and lack of communication except via AIM was a deal breaker for me as I can't get on AIM at all anymore.<br /> <br /> But yeah I can see your point for most things ^^<br /> <br /> For me the layout kinda bugs me a bit after having studied web design XD

04-16-2015 at 9:28 AM

"I would suggest having kennels count towards upping the amount of dogs we can have to say that the first kennel we buy equals 12 dog slots and then from their we can upgrade the kennel to say 25 for high price of normal currency then 50 all the way to hundred. We are pretty much paying for a useless feature that would better serve us if it gave us more slots.Also considering that that bones are used for customs I'd get rid of having to pay for slots with bones entirely. Oh and the donation packages 5 dollars for 5 bones not good deal up the quantity of bones instead of charging a dollar per bone otherwise the site will not make much money. "<br /> <br /> -Nope. I do not agree. 12 dog slots for the first kennel? That is a really high number. As I said on another post, having more dogs is not a necessity on here. You can obtain a really good amount of slots without too much money. Kennels are also not 'useless'. Players had been asking for ages for a way to sort their dogs. That is what kennels are for. Plenty of people use them and enjoy the option of sorting dogs. That's not useless. <br /> <br /> "People are less inclined to buy bones when they are only getting a dollar per premium currency. On many games especially MMORPGs and other browser games, the prices go from 5 dollars for 100 of the currency to 100 dollars for 50k of the currency however since this is smaller site. Double bone sale amounts should be used as the main donation packages because the current packages are not viable to keep the site running in my opinion."<br /> <br /> -You are comparing apples to oranges. You can't really compare one game currency to another without actually calculating what you are getting and what the real value is. So say that $5 can get you 100 of that currency from site A. How much are you able to buy with it? If everything costs about 50+ of the currency, that $5 isn't really getting you much. The amount is really irrelevant. The value is relevant. You can buy a decent amount with bones on here. Also the double bone currency comes up quite frequently. Bones are not necessary to play the game. The game is free. Anything with bones is extra. <br /> <br /> "The other thing I thought of was that on dogs page we could a next and previous dog buttons above the picture for easy navigation between dogs this way we don't have to keep clicking life and kennel just to get to the next dog in our kennels."<br /> <br /> -I see nothing wrong with this. Seems easy to implement and would be nice if players would really find this useful =)

04-16-2015 at 9:20 AM

I had a lot to say on these so it took me a while to get to it =).<br /> <br /> 1. One thing I had heard was that communication between admins, mods and helpers was horrible to the extent that people were accusing each other of rule breaking. I am not certain this is true but I have seen problems with communication and this was the major reason most people quit. (ie, admins and mods not responding through messages unless contacted outside of Ala. Which just doesn't work).<br /> Now I don't know if you guys use Aim still and group chats but I'd suggest Skype as more people have it since it is included with every Windows computer and is more up to date). I'd also suggest a better filtering system or an account dedicated for questions because I have also heard that admins get so many messages on here that they just cannot go through them all.<br /> <br /> -I'm not sure what you mean with people accusing each other of rule breaking. Are you talking about currently or something in the past? We've had changes of staff over the years so I'm not sure if you are saying this is still happening today. For the messages, people should not be messaging staff members questions or issues. All the work is done in the issue hub. If an issue hub question has been sitting long, it's okay for the player to comment on the issue again. I agree issues shouldn't be sitting there unsolved or unanswered. As for a staff chat, that's not something I can comment on or that is even relevant to players. <br /> <br /> 2. Layout problems. I use Earth Day and some things I've noticed is that the forum layout is a royal mess. The colouration varies from green and blue and some sections are bold and others are mashed together. The next problem is that the owner tools is white until you hover over it and it turns blue.... blue like there's a broken link tag somewhere which makes it impossible to see any of my dogs names. It also needs to be more friendly for all ages.<br /> <br /> -I only use Earth Day and I don't have any of these issues. It's definitely not easy to get a site to be compatible across all devices and browsers but people shouldn't be having these issues like you are because I doubt you're the only one experiencing it. I agree the layouts need sprucing up. <br /> <br /> 3. The monthly shop. That auto item check thing seriously doesn't work and I'm 100% certain it is broken. Also people don't have much interest in it if the items don't change. I'm not saying you have to go back and create items every month. What I'd suggest is a yearly rotation of months with the addition of 1 or 2 new items in that months rotation of OLD items. (Say you bring back the farm theme items and just add maybe a new collar and a new background?). <br /> <br /> -I think the check box was incomplete coding. Like, the coding was there for the box but the action was never assigned to it. I am not sure why it's up if it's not functioning. It gives me a messy room vibe. So yeah, I agree on that. For the items, I do think there should be some kind of rotation or change out of items. <br /> <br /> 4. Next is slot prices. They get ridiculously high and I feel like we have no choice but to depend on bones that we cannot buy. For people that are dog addicts like myself I depended on the bones I received from my mod payment to fund my breeding and training. Now I find that I have encountered the issue of having more puppies than I know what to do with but it breaks my heart to loose them. So I think we need a better slot deal so that we can get new slots and keep the dogs we want to keep instead of being forced to sell. We need a FIXED cash price that won't cost hundreds of thousands but instead a smaller maybe a few thousand dollars to help the influx of dogs and sales. I no longer purchase dogs from other people due to this and if we want to increase sales we need a major decrease the price of kennel slots. This way users can save their bones for customs and magical items and spend more bones in the monthly shop. (Cause I had to stop buying from there as well).<br /> <br /> - I disagree. There is a huge cash influx right now. The slots are more 'affordable' than they have ever been in the past. If you take away dog slots being a little difficult to obtain down the road, it takes out one of the few goal aspects of the site. You should have to work to have that many dogs. The large amount of dogs on an account is not a necessity to play, it is a luxury. Luxuries shouldn't be that cheap. It doesn't inhibit new players from doing well on the game and interacting on it. The purpose of purchasing later slots for bones is a perk of donating. I could see maybe playing an 'either' option in paying for a slot with cash or a bone but I'd have to think more about my thoughts on that. <br /> <br /> 5. Issue Hub: It needs cleaning. We have "unsloved" issues that date back to 2011....<br /> <br /> -This. <br /> <br /> 6. You might want to update your Copyright to 2015.<br /> <br /> -And this.<br /> <br /> 7. Organization of navigation. I'm sorry but I got so confused coming back on here today. I forgot where to find some stuff and had a hell of a time finding it. Some of the names in the navigation really need to be better. I'd also suggest adding a few things like the Junkyard and so on. <br /> <br /> -I agree. I suggested forever ago to move 'Issue Hub' under the 'Help' tab for example. Robyn was going to do this but then she had life happen. I'm not sure why that is under 'Help Alacrity'. Makes no sense to me. The map links also need to be taken off and the map removed. It's not being used. I think some of the menu tabs need complete name makeovers and reorganization. <br /> <br /> 8. Trial ideas. How about a champion trialer (the same dog cannot win two months in a row) each month that can win a neat little prize? I mean honestly no one seems to make trials anymore or enter them. You could even give a prize to the person that hosts the most trials per month type of thing. Or even Trial teams, where a couple users can team up and have the best trial team per month? Something more fun to gain interest in trialing again.<br /> <br /> -I agree trialing needs a lot more involved. Actually, trialing needs a complete makeover entirely. So I don't agree with the 'most trials made award'. I agree to the needing more incentives and interaction. <br /> <br /> 9. Get the community involved!! Have an active thread for chatting and suggestions between players and admins. I feel like there has hardly been anything like this when I see the news posts. Something I've seen that might possibly be implemented could be a live Q & A chat. In a sense this could be one active admin or mod monitoring this chat and answering any questions about the site. Or helpers or someone online XD <br /> <br /> -I see staff interact on the suggestions threads a lot of the time. Perhaps not as much recently but it has been done. I think a Q & A would be nice. I'd definitely enjoy it myself. <br /> <br /> 10. When I was a mod and idea that we had wanted to implement was a sort of Get to Know the Staff type of thing so that the admins and staff seem more, well, human and not just robots behind some type. Why this was never implemented I do not know but I feel this would be a good thing to have to help members relate.<br /> <br /> -This sounds vaguely familiar. What would this actually entail? I wouldn't mind an actual page on the site where people could look and see all the staff members listed out. Are you saying something like this but with little comments by that staff member on the page as well? Sort of little random facts they want to share about themselves? Let me know if I'm way off base with this. <br /> <br /> 11. Also chat has issues in terms of double posts and eating words. And if the layout to edit posts could be more user friendly and not totally HTML that would be awesome. Like have it the same way for editing as when we first write out the post.<br /> <br /> -Chat and forum need a makeover. Chat and forum need a makeover. Chat and forum need a makeover. I don't know how many times I have said this in the past. The coding is TERRIBLE on them. Chat should not be able to be stretched and manipulated by normal players. Not at all. It crashes a lot, has the delay, and as you said, does the double posting. Forum is set up so odd. You can't search the forums properly, the preview of the forum is an eyesore, there is no type of post count, it's just seriously lacking as a forum. <br /> <br /> I think I covered everything. I think I agreed with most on here aside from a couple of things. I don't think this alone will revive Ala even if they were all implemented. There is a lot to do. I'd love to see everyone pull together =)

03-21-2015 at 7:56 PM

I would suggest having kennels count towards upping the amount of dogs we can have to say that the first kennel we buy equals 12 dog slots and then from their we can upgrade the kennel to say 25 for high price of normal currency then 50 all the way to hundred. We are pretty much paying for a useless feature that would better serve us if it gave us more slots.Also considering that that bones are used for customs I'd get rid of having to pay for slots with bones entirely. Oh and the donation packages 5 dollars for 5 bones not good deal up the quantity of bones instead of charging a dollar per bone otherwise the site will not make much money. <br /> <br /> People are less inclined to buy bones when they are only getting a dollar per premium currency. On many games especially MMORPGs and other browser games, the prices go from 5 dollars for 100 of the currency to 100 dollars for 50k of the currency however since this is smaller site. Double bone sale amounts should be used as the main donation packages because the current packages are not viable to keep the site running in my opinion. <br /> <br /> The other thing I thought of was that on dogs page we could a next and previous dog buttons above the picture for easy navigation between dogs this way we don't have to keep clicking life and kennel just to get to the next dog in our kennels.