Good day, Alacrites!

Just a couple quick reminders for you!


Newbie Helper Open Applications are closing today, likely in a few short hours, so please remember to put in your application if you are interested in becoming a Newbie Helper! Details on the application process can be found HERE


There are only a couple days left to buy your raffle tickets! Don't let this chance pass you up -- click on the ticket above to go to the raffle page to learn more about what you can win.

New Poll!

Please take a moment to weigh in on the new poll.
This one is important and will affect game play, so make sure that your voice is heard! The current trial system is a little bit broken; massive amounts of money are being introduced into the game and causing the entire economy to destabalize. In order to get inflation back under control, we need to somehow decrease the amount of cash being introduced into the game and the best way to do this is to tweak trial payouts. We know this will affect a lot of your bottom lines, but please understand that this is for the good of the players at large.

The new poll offers options for which we can limit the amount of cash being brought into game play. If you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to voice that as well. We have set up a thread to discuss to ramifications of these options, voice your opinions about the potential effectiveness of the options given, show support or disagreement with any/all of these options, and to give us ideas we had maybe not thought about. You can find that thread HERE

Please take a moment to read through the thread before voting so that your opinion is as educated as it can be!

Also, please note that Magical Food Bowls will be removed from the Cash Boutique shop at some point today. These will go on rotation in the monthly shop as a rare item. If you wish to purchase any today, please do so quickly :)

Good afternoon!

We are pleased to announce that the raffle is now live and tickets are ready for the taking! A minor amendment to the previous instructions; tickets are located on the Raffle Page, where you can also view how many tickets are live on the site and how many you already have! You may also view the full list of prizes on the raffle page -- there are 12 prize packs in all (one for each year of the Chinese Zodiac)!

Go forth and buy tickets!

Another couple updates:
• Adverts now have a preview option before they are posted. Here, you can make sure any formatting you've done is correct and that your ad looks the way you want it to. Once you've verified your ad is the way you want it, you can post it!
• Newbie Helper Applicants are open. You can find details on this in the Newbie Helper Open Applications Thread.
• In case you missed the below news post, the backslash problem has been fixed! You can clear up backslashes that were appearing in dog names, forum posts, on your profile, etc by editing them out.
• There has been recent confusion about using the refresh function to search for Random Events. Please note that excessive use of refresh by way of manual F5 manipulation or by program/bot is considered an exploit and is cheating. It is extremely obvious when this happens and we will be keeping an eye out for it, so please keep it honest :)

Have fun and good luck!

We've "slashed" through the backslash problem, or so we hope! They've been a problem for a while now, but our excellent coders have been hard at work trying to hammer this particular bug out, and we think it might be gone for good! So, if your usernames haven't been working due to apostrophies and/or quotation marks being in them, try updating your profile information and hopefully everything will show up as it should. :}

We've also noted the problem where news post comments that contain more than one paragraph get smashed together into a single one. We're keeping our fingers crossed that we've resolved this as well.

Many thanks to all of our members for your continued support and patience as we work out all these kinks! <3