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This is never something I never intended to have to do but sadly has become needed.

I am working on getting google ads up and running for our site. Only accounts who have not made a purchase in the past 30 days will see these ads.

We have members who have played the game for 1, 5, even 10 plus years and never paid a cent to support the site. While that is fine in isolation, I hope people understand that every free member costs us money when they use the game. Every page load, every image generation has an associated cost. This drives down our income, and drives up prices for other players.

The addition of ads on unpaid accounts means those server costs can be covered and not have to be born by my family or by paying players. I will always be happy to have members who chose not to or can not pay for the game. These members are still appreciated and welcome parts of the community, we just sadly can't afford to support them on our own dime anymore.

I will work to make sure the ads are relatively unobtrusive, and hope people will be understanding about this change.

Having another member buy something for your account counts for a recent purchase. Purchasing something for another player does not. If the heart next to your name is solid it means you are a recent game supporter, and will not see any ads. If the heart is white, or there is no heart at all you will start to see ads soon.

I am expecting ads to start running some point in August.