05-30-2013 at 9:00 PM

Guys, please remember that this is not a general suggestion thread. You should confine the subjects of your posts to referral contests, the referral system, and perhaps ideas about how to up our recruitment numbers without holding a referral contest.<br /> <br /> If you wish to make general gameplay suggestions, please post a thread in the suggestion forum.

05-29-2013 at 10:54 PM

I think Alacrity should get rid of the entire referring contests, and just leave the simple referring! I voted for #4.

05-29-2013 at 5:46 PM

Well, I admit I agree that spaying pound dogs should be taken out. ^_^

05-26-2013 at 5:47 PM

Hi everyone....<br /> <br /> Okay I am a newbie.. but i thought I could ask NOT to spay the animals in the selter? I am probably stupid asking this, but you would get a lot more service (mostly from me...) thanks for your time....

05-21-2013 at 7:06 PM

I voted for #1, accidentally. It was supposed to be #4, although I still like the rewards for a certain amount of days they are on, but, I don't think we should have contests.

05-21-2013 at 5:50 AM

Unfortunately, referral contests aren't even mostly about getting the new players to play.. that's the bummer about it :( Users want to gain as many new players as possible in hopes of winning the contest. If they stick around, that's a plus because they get bonuses.

05-16-2013 at 8:45 PM

A referral contest is basically a contest to see what player can get the most people to join the site in a certain amount of time. <br /> <br /> To refer someone to Alacrity, you can go to the referral under 'help alacrity' then click 'referrals'. Here is a url to the page: http://www.alacritysim.com/referrals.php<br /> <br /> Once you're there it explains referring works and gives you the special link that you give people to join the site so the site can keep track of who you invited. <br /> <br /> I'm sure if you still had questions on how referring works on here, the newbie helpers would be happy to help you at the issue hub under 'help alacrity'. http://www.alacritysim.com/issuehub.php<br /> <br /> So basically the poll is asking about having the contests that involve inviting the most people possible on to the site and getting them to play ^^

05-15-2013 at 7:01 AM

I don't even know what refferel contest are. >_>

05-12-2013 at 7:12 PM

This post is really just to help our users understand why the referral contest has come up as an idea again, as not everyone is privy to this sort of information.<br /> <br /> Alacrity has (as I type this) 29,983 registered accounts. 2,974 are frozen. Considering the number of multiple accounts violations with which the staff deals and that each user is entitled to 2, It's safe to say that between 10,000 and 20,000 people have unfrozen accounts on Alacrity. That's a big number, but that's not how many users we have. <br /> <br /> For administrative purposes, the 'active player' count currently stands at 4,502. Only 3,939 users have logged in this year. The number we should be most concerned about, however, is this one: 563. That is the number of users who last logged in after December 1st, 2012 but before New Years Day. That's the number of users we <b>lost</b> in December. 842 users who were active last month aren't active this month. 30 days of inactivity doesn't mean leaving, but it's still a troubling trend.<br /> <br /> Now, you're always gonna lose some people. Some join and decide they don't like it. Some grow out of the site or of this kind of game in general. Some users left over changes made to keep the site above water or to correct imbalances in our system. Still others have left due to rumors about site staff perpetuated by users we've had to freeze/ban, or former staff members who felt that rule breaking or under-performing were not legitimate grounds for being let go. While we hold no ill will towards these folks, Alacrity is still a small site which cannot survive without the new users we're losing to gossip. <br /> <br /> It would be so very great if we could continue to run this great little community without income, but I'm thinking the people we pay to keep the lights on around here would probably object if we paid our bills in alacash and custom dogs.<br /> <br /> This is the reason we thought of running a referral contest - because our community can't survive without new players to replace the ones who move on. However, this in no way means we want to run one against the wishes (or best interests) of the community we're trying to save. That's why we need suggestions and ideas which allow us to attract and retain more players without reverting to a system which was not working. We need to hear all the voices in our varied community if we hope to turn Alacrity into what we all know it can be.

05-11-2013 at 9:07 PM

What I think is that instead of referral contests, which trigger cheating, Alacrity should give out rewards for how many members you have gotten to join. :D <br /> <br /> I'm positive people'll still cheat this way, but this would make things a lot easier.

05-7-2013 at 12:28 PM

Sorry about the double post

05-7-2013 at 12:28 PM

The thing I don't like about referral contests is the person that used their friends Account number to make an account and used it once and never came back to the site is cheating in my opinion o.o

05-7-2013 at 12:28 PM

The thing I don't like about referral contests is the person that used their friends Account number to make an account and used it once and never came back to the site is cheating in my opinion o.o

05-5-2013 at 7:03 PM

I voted for #4.<br /> <br /> Posting my reasons, but I don't know what I want done about it.<br /> <br /> I love bringing new people to sites I'm on. I also enjoy receiving perks from it.<br /> <br /> What I don't enjoy is when there is a referral contest on a site that already has issues with cheating from it, and that has 20k+ users already. I for one beleive referral contests should be used primarily when a game is starting up. I don't see a reason why ala would need a referral contest other than to just promote the use of joining and quitting. Most people don't stay on sites. All they do is click on a link and join because someone told them to, but they won't stay on for more than 2 days. Especially on an already large site like this. I know that as someone who is on rather a large number of sim games, that if there is more than 2k people, I'm a little bit more nervous to join, unless the game REALLY sticks out to me. Granted, not everyone is the same. <br /> <br /> I think that we should keep the referral system, but get rid of the contests C:

05-5-2013 at 6:15 PM

You're probably right, Ravette.I like MizzMalfoy's idea.

05-5-2013 at 11:00 AM

I voted #4 because I really like our referral system, but I don't like referral contests. Our system of receiving prizes after referred members play for a certain amount of days is a great way to encourage members who will play for a long time to join. <br /> <br /> Referral contests, on the other hand, are great for getting lots of members who won't play to join. This creates many new accounts that will just sit unused, taking up space. <br /> <br /> I suggest deleting referral contests all together, considering that members are already given enough compensation for referring long-lasting players.

05-4-2013 at 10:36 PM

I think it would be awesome if a reward were given to the players for new players signing up. I remember we had 10k teddy, but we never had any more after that D:

05-4-2013 at 8:18 PM

100 days is a little much. I was thinking of 10 days because thats when the welcome message thing turns off I believe ^^;.

05-4-2013 at 5:03 PM

I think that if you refer someone who logs on for 100 days (not neccessarily in a row) than you should get a point.

05-4-2013 at 1:44 PM

I agree with Ravette