Hello students! Our current test will be closed on Sept 30th at 11:59pm Alacrity time, so please be sure to get all your entries in! Remember to message them to me on account -101We've had many passing tests so far.
If you'd like more information on how Alacrity 101 works, please see my previous news post or look at my home profile [here]

Here is a recap on the questions for this bi-weekly quiz:
New Student Quiz
For our newest students, ID numbers 31543 and up!
Current Test:
1: If your dogs gets sick or injured on the game, where do you take them?
2: How can I get to the issue hub?
3: Who are the 5 Admins of Alacrity?
4: How many TS do you get from each dog slot?
5: What does this symbol mean next to your dog?
6: What chat/chats are you allowed to advertise on?
7: At what age can a male dog begin to breed?

Alumni Student Raffle
Alumni Students
*Please note the alumni raffle will be temporary while we are beginning this feature.
This quiz is open to all of those who do not qualify for the new student quiz. If your ID is below 31543 you are welcome to enter!
Current Test:
1. How many times can a player post to the shout box per 6 hour period?
2. What are three items that can boost your dog's health?
3. What does it mean for a dog to have a "glitch" coat?
4. When a player breaks a rule in chat what do you do?
5. I just got some bones from selling a dog. Can I now sell them for USD?
6. What is the TP Cap?
7. What is a "mood dog?"

Donations
I'd like to thank everyone that has donated so far. I've been blown away by the caring of the community to help one another out. The amount we have received exceeded my expectation and I'm very happy to call Alacrity my home.
If you are interested in donating, please see the donation thread [here]

Hey, Alacrity.

For the time being we have asked our programmer to remove the feature allowing users to auction things for both cash and bones. This is a stopgap measure to prevent fraud/theft - as well as general inconvenience - resulting from the auction glitch.

The glitch occurs only in auctions with both cash and bone prices and often results in the rightful winner not receiving the dog - on top of that, it awards game-breaking numbers of bones to the auctioneer. Just yesterday this glitch nearly tripled the number of bones in our economy by awarding more than 51,000 free bones.

**EDIT** ALL FRAUDULENT BONES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE SITE. Please feel free to move about the cabin. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

The Admin team would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Bobbie (29063), for being the only person involved to report the glitch. That kind of influx of free bones into our economy could easily have destroyed Alacrity financially. Bobbie's moral compass and quick thinking have saved us all a lot of rather dire trouble.

While we do not have a timetable on how long it will take us to finally eliminate this glitch (we've 'squashed' it before, only to have it return with more heads), this is not intended to be a permanent change. Selling for both cash and bones is a very useful feature that pretty much everyone likes, and we don't want to see it go.

Please bear with us. We hope to be able to remedy this as painlessly as possible.
All my adminny love
Kit

Update!
We believe we have all the bones removed and items returned, the users who were affected have been messaged.Thanks again to those who reported this!

Some of you may have noticed a temporary layout glitch the past couple hours. I've been speaking with our Coder, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what's causing this.

In the meantime, if you press ctrl+F5 to do a hard refresh, this should stop the problem from happening again for you. However, if this doesn't sort out the issue, please submit a report to the Issue Hub, preferably with a screenshot of how the site looks for you. :}

We apologize for the strangeness and any inconvenience caused by this glitch! We'll hopefully have it resolved very soon!

PS For Macs, please use View > Reload this page or command+R.