I was also a member of Foopets up until very recently (11 days ago to be exact, the day I was banned for unjust reasons. Still fighting that actually) so any mention of new owners has got me scared because I am working on making Ala my new "go to game". I understand that right now Henry's focus is just going to be fixing bugs and issues but that can't be a long term goal can it? What is the 1 year plan? 5 year plan? I'd hate to get started and three years down the road I am wrapped up in a game I can't part from but resent all the same.

I'm glad to hear that the new owner is putting honest hard work into the site and I hope Alacrity improves from it.<br /> <br /> I don't see how Jambers question is silly. A lot of us are wondering how this new hands-off owner will effect our site. As far as we have been told via the news, we as the players know that one new coder was added and we were given a vague list of things planned to be worked on. Expecting us, as the players, to know what all the new owner and coder have done behind the scenes is, in itself, 'silly'. We aren't as informed as the moderators or other staff members.<br /> <br /> Some of us do miss the family feel our community once had and lost since Rob hasn't been around and actively talking to us like she once had. I'm not saying I expect the new owner to be all buddy-buddy with his players and sit in chat with us, I'm just pointing out how some of us older members are sad to hear that Ala will continue to feel less like one big family.<br /> <br /> I'm sorry, I was just rather put off by how a question on a thread dedicated to questions and concerns on our sites new owner was called silly.

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it would be nice to have an owner who talks to the investers in the site though. and its not a "silly question" and you never acculy answered my question, so im guessing you dont know if hes going to stop in once in a wile and say hi eather.

The question "will he just be like every other site owner and sit in the background not talking to the people who invest in the web site?" is a bit silly, as we both know that not every site owner is uninvolved with their website. You've been playing Alacrity a long time Jambers, you know Robyn was always heavily involved in Alacrity. That negates that entirely, but regardless, there are a lot of sites in which the site owner talks to the players a lot.<br /> <br /> To me it doesn't matter if he wants to talk to the players or not. There are some people in this world that are doers, not talkers. Henry's proven that he is a doer. He's hired more coders out of his own pocket to help with the site, he's retained Robyn to keep the feel of this site the same. He's worked hard to give us a faster, less buggy site. That speaks so much more to his commitment to Alacrity and the players here than just coming in and talking to us. That's what's most important.

Well we get to meet this new Henry person at some point? Or will he just be like every other site owner and sit in the background not talking to the people who invest in the web site?<br /> <br />

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hi i'm new here

ala has been working pretty well.<br /> But then we have the occassional 503 errors ( I believe they are)

Well, Clay, your nice kitty animations show just how fast Ala does for you, doesn't it? xD &lt;3<br /> <br /> But still, I can't help say that the site is still a little slower than usual sometimes, although the work is, yes, awesome. :)