AskED The Admin: Answer Compilation (10/14: Reincarnation)

[Platonix]

June 4th

biglanky14

Hi everyone,

Welcome to this week's ATA! We'll be starting right about 5pm PT as usual, and be hanging out for 60-90 minutes.

We're going to be a little shorthanded since Lanzer has the sniffles and a few other regulars are off letting their non-Gaia lives interfere with the awesomeness that is ATA. But we'll do our best to still answer as many questions as possible!

Because we get a lot of repeat questions, here are a couple of answers ahead of time.

When is the manga coming back? We're aiming for the week of the 18th - we don't want to leave you guys hanging too long. In the meantime, we're going to try to have a little treat for you, but that's all I can say about that.

Alchemy updates? Nothing really to talk about at the moment. The items in Dernier Cri will be available again (likely this month), and we're definitely still looking at a lot of options. But there's nothing new to report at the moment.

zOMG fixes? They're still working on the bug fixes (and we got a few out recently). Keep posting in the forum so they can see the priority. And we are indeed looking at whether we will open up DMS more often.

What's going on with offers? We know that you guys want more offers to be available, so we're trying a few new companies out to see how they do. We're running some tests on them, and really appreciate you guys being patient with this. Hopefully we'll end up with some good long-term partners that will provide plenty of offers to both our US and international users.

Thanks for joining us today!

biglanky14

Constipated Trillionaire

biglanky14

Constipated Trillionaire

Look forward to seeing the Dernier*Cri items back in the shop soon ninja

Also, any word on changing the odds of getting some of those highly needed but impossible to get from cases formulas like ectoplasm and moonstone? Worlds Suckiest Vendor has opened close to 200 cases and not gotten a single ectoplasm, red mercury, moonstone, sunstone formula. If they're in the case then the odds of getting one must be about as low as the quest formulas themselves. And considering that you need anywhere from 7 to 11 of each of those formulas to finish a quest, that's not really a good thing.

Hey CT,

No real update on that other than the same thing I said before - that's definitely something we're looking at (although I can't promise any specific action). Sorry I can't do better.

Alright, thanks for taking some time to answer my question even though you mentioned the issue in your opening post biggrin

It wouldn't hurt if you made them a little more common in the daily chance while you are evaluating options ninja

No problem smile

Keep on keeping on us about this stuff.

codemonkey37179

Princess-Orphelia

Hello everyone.

I have a few questions today I'd like to ask.

1.. Can we please have an option to purchase quantity in gold shops? Like there is in the Ole fishing hole? Box appears, we add quantity of how much we want from that item. Especially now with Alchemy and the amount of items that are needed. To be able to put down how many we need certainly speeds things up, rather than clicking that item a million times. sweatdrop

2.. Not sure whether it's just me or not, but when I'm in Towns, and I want to enter someone's house. It loads to 100% and that's it. Nothing more happens, it just freezes to that loading point. So in order to get out, I need to close that window. gonk

3.. And speaking of houses, after decorating my house, and then pressing the save button. It does not save. It just freezes at that point and that's it. Once again because I'm stuck while it's frozen the only way out is to close that window. So my home and it's decorations are not saved. stressed

4.. Want a freshly made Pancake?

Thank you for taking time to answer these questions. biggrin

For #s 2 and 3. Hmm. Seems like maybe it is reacting to something in your house or account. Pm me, and I'll check it out first thing in the morning.

DARKNRGY

1. We are currently working on quantity purchasing of some items in the gold shops. Not all, but cash shop in particular.

biglanky14

Tear of Fate

I have a few questions I was hoping to get answered today so I hope you don't mind.

1. an detail to I would like to bring up in Alchemy why does it take so much more to make a Alchemist's Case then the Philosopher's Cache thou they both were at the beginning the same difficulty to make as it is formulas is 4x more then the Caches and with how rare formulas are getting and the rare ones are newly impossible to get, would it not be a quick easy fix to make a small change to how much the case needs in items to make it to get more out the which will lower the the crazy inflated prices and will maybe give a chance to every one to get a item they want from alchemy not just richer the the community on gaia...

as it is in alchemy the wing quests themselves are owned only by at most a dozen people leaving thous Gaiaes how don't have hundreds of mil to wast and hope maybe I'll can get some wings...in a few YEARS!!!

ow and one more smaller note whats with Dernier*Cri items being in the formulas was it not stead that every one would get a chance at getting them these items are crazy price I not realy wanting wings it it takes 10mil pulse in just bigger items!?!

2. just a little last question what happen to the Masters Pendent it was leaked long ago will we be seeing it this year you think?

3rd and last what of the Wii contest?

Hi Tear of Fate,

Thanks for the note. The change to the Cache was a pretty major change (it affected people's ability to proceed through Alchemy quite a bit), so we have to be really careful with any changes to the Case b/c it'll also have a big ripple effect. We're looking at a couple of options, but don't have a concrete path forward at the moment.

As for the Masters Pendent, it might make an appearance, but I can't guarantee anything about it. It's certainly possible though.

We'll be announcing the winners of the Wii contest soon smile

biglanky14

.~.Lady_Aji.~.

Evening, staff.

I think that the school credit exchange needs an update. Can you give us new items to exchange the credits for? A person can only collect so many caps and gowns.

Hi Lady Aji,

I have to admit that's not something I've thought about for awhile. There are some other bigger things we need to punch through before getting to this, but it's a totally valid point.

Zero Omega

Kain-Senpai

Zero Omega

Kain-Senpai

E3 is starting their pre-show goodness. I finished watching what Ubisoft has to offer. Assassin's Creed 3 is looking awesome, and I'm looking forward to Watch_Dogs. PlayStation is going to start in a hour.

Are some of the Staff watching it? If so, what are you guys looking forward to?

I typically just follow the Big 3 press conferences then follow up with everything else through GameSpot or IGN (because they have quick, easy to read lists). Felt like I was left hanging after MS' conference, excited for Nintendo's though.

Yea. I'll read up in IGN. I also suggest looking up http://www.gamesradar.com/.
I did read a little about MicroSoft's new stuff, like XBox Music. I saw the trailer for Halo 4. It looks good, but I don't own a 360.

I'll have to keep an eye on Gamesrader as well, I was excited for some of the media content, but otherwise I was left desiring more.

siskataya

I just really want the new Tomb Raider to be out already. Bah to having wait until March 2013. eek

- Sisky

warrior_of_boognish

Watching E3, rather disappointed with what I've seen so far. Microsoft's and EA's conferences were stupidly dismal and Ubisoft's was mildly interesting but still just as bad for the most parrt. Watch_Dogs looks rather promising though, rather interested in that one.

DARKNRGY

Ren Orenji Doragon

Hello AtA! I hope everyone is having a nice day. c:

I actually have several questions today.

• 
  May we please get Voice Fonts removed from the in-game zOMG! shop? Vivox has been discontinued, therefore having these in the shop is pointless.
  
  
• May we please get a fix to the Recipe Exchange in Back Alley Bargains? Gaia Gold does not display properly there.
  
  
• If we can't get a fix to the Recipe exchange, may we just get the whole shebang moved over to the Alchemy system? ( I understand that there may be many issues with this [ e.g.: "how to convert a level-less system to a system with levels" ] from a lot of people, but it's an idea. o3o )
  
  
• Would it be possible to add zOMG! Badges to the Achievement system? I would absolutely love to display my Badges underneath my Avatar on the forums. emotion_kirakira
  
  
• Random mini-event loot. ( AirShark Plating, LawnShark Blade, Grucken Feather, Zen Charm, Loose Screw, Alien Egg Sac, Biomorphic Power Cell, Spirit Pyre Rune ) Would it be possible to add this stuff back into zOMG! and add it to Alchemy formulae?
  Actually, from what I understand, one of these pieces of loot is already in an Alchemy formula somewhere. ._.;;
  
  
• May we get more zOMG! loot from higher areas ( Saw Blade, Kevlar, Walker Leg Tip, Surfboard Fin, Jewel Eye, Pearl, Blood Droplet, etc. ) added to Alchemy please? owo

Extra emphasis on the points in bold font. o;

Regarding zomg badges as achievements, we don't plan to do this. When we were first scoping out the project we had planned to do it but it fell by the wayside. More people would benefit from more achievements, achievements titles, etc.

carbonphyber

Uncle Kenny

Ren Orenji Doragon

May we please get Voice Fonts removed from the in-game zOMG! shop? Vivox has been discontinued, therefore having these in the shop is pointless.

Thanks for bringing this up! We'll go ahead and toss this over to the guys responsible for zOMG and see if we can get it straightened out!

I tried it just now, but it broke the shop. I fixed the shop and I'll try it again later this week when we have the zOMG developer in the office to help fix it.

DARKNRGY

Beemie

Hi all!

I just wondered if anyone knows how many different items there are on Gaia? I'm thinking it must be several thousands. I was just curious.

Love,
Beemie

It's a bit of a trick question because "items" also includes all of the base models (skin, etc), some test/debug stuff, templates, etc.

mysql> select count(*) from gaia_items;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 47886 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select count(*) from gaia_gameitems;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
| 779 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Answer: a s**t ton

EDIT: Actually, I have a better answer. Marketplace holds almost all of the inventory items. There are 21,712 on Marketplace search.

milkbun

DARKNRGY

milkbun

There are currently 47,900 item entered into the system. However it doesn't separate out different types. There are a lot of stuff in the mix like bundles, boxes, housing, envelopes, flowers, trash, CI stages... etc. Actual number is probably closer to 40,000 individual items.

21,712 on Marketplace search which is only missing a handful of things like hair/tattoos. Maybe 25k?

Yeah DARKNRGY has it right.
The 40k number was all poses and not accounting for sets smile

biglanky14

Babymetal Monochrome

Get well soon, lanzer! Kick sniffles in the a**!

1: Is Ruby the Wing Scout Mother for the kids at the Treehouse sticker shop, when she's not running her shop?

2: Is Edmund going to settle down with Vanessa, anytime soon, and start a family of his own; before it's too late?

3: Has Rina gotten stuck in any vending machines, lately?

4: How on Gaia does Moira's band, Nervegas Crisis get anything done without her, since Moira's always running her shop?

To all staff:
Do you have a favorite forum on Gaia where you spend the most time?

Hi Babymetal,

Ha - I cannot answer these questions, as they are kept under lock and key by our writers, smile

I generally hang out in a few forums - SF, here in the GCD, and various Entertainment and Sports forums.

tiranaki

Babymetal Monochrome

To all staff:
Do you have a favorite forum on Gaia where you spend the most time?

ALL staff, you say? I can answer this! I lurk Q&A but rarely post unless I see something that I can answer/needs attention. I used to be a regular at the Fishing Forum and Gaia Gaming Discussion, and while I still maintain threads there, I haven't really participated in the community in a while. I still think of those areas fondly though and consider Fishing my "home" forum. :3

biglanky14

Meromictic

I wish Lazer well. c:

Some time ago you asked us to give our opinion about 3 possible projects. The art shop directory, forum titles, and thread wars. Will any of those be making the to do list? :o

Hi Meromictic,

We'll pass the word along to Lanzer smile

Yup - the shop directory is something we'd like to do, but it'll be a longer-term project because it requires a ton of work. The Forum Titles is the most likely one we could get done in the short term. Glad you saw that thread, btw!

biglanky14

Mashed Potato Jones

I'm just here to lurk. Be sure to wish those who have runny noses a speedy recovery for me, biglanky. Nothing stinks more than being sick...

Hey MPJ,

Yeah, I think he'll be ok. He's probably out fishing or something.... smile

biglanky14

sai the hokage

biglanky14

sai the hokage

hi, i would appreciate it if there could be an option if you can possibly click on a link on my gaia where it shows all the Gifts you have sent to your friends. that way if anyone has been hacked, or scammed, you can see who you sent the items to. or if anything to just have it as a convenience. i would really appreciate it!! mrgreen

Hi sai,

Thanks for the suggestion! This one has floated around for a bit, although I don't think we'd be able to get to it in the short-term. The good news is that at least in cases where a hack/scam has taken place, we have complete records of where all the items went smile

oh, thank you very much! i was scammed about a few days ago, and reported it. it involved loosing 32 million gold, and my steel plated ninja band. i had thought that my so called friend was supposed to vend with it and get me an item, but instead pretended to be scammed and loose the item. i reported it, and thanks to the trade and gifting section, i was able to support my report with evidence! but if you could make this happen, i think it would be more helpful, and i know many people that have been waiting for this to become true one day 3nodding thank you for your time!

Sure thing - I'm assuming you filed a hacking report already, right? If so, they should take care of you very soon.

DARKNRGY

Princess-Orphelia

Watching dvd of Charmed. While trying to keep warm. My feet are freezing today. gonk

Anyways to keep things going, random question to anyone that wants to answer this.

What's you all time favorite movie?

I really liked the movie Contact even though it's not really the highest quality. Shawshank Redemption, Apollo 13, 2010, King's Speech, Inglorious Basterds. I'm pretty much all over the place.

Battlestar Galactica is the best tv series.

biglanky14

Star Wars #1 - no doubt.

Others near the top: Usual Suspects, Gladiator (I'm a sucker for swords and sandals movies), Shawshank, Naked Gun.

Best movies I've seen recently: Cedar Rapids (quirky comedy I love), Cabin in the Woods.

Favorite TV shows: The Wire, The Shield, Simpsons, South Park, Arrested Development, Modern Family, Family Guy

Zero Omega

Princess-Orphelia

Zero Omega

Clerrrrkssssss. Love Clerks.

Do you really? I've heard of that movie, but never knew what it was about. Maybe I'll check it out. Mind you I've got millions of dvd movies at home. And not that one. I'm a movie collecting freak. I have all the Christmas movies [minus 2 that I can't obtain] rofl

The exact opposite of me!

Zero Omega

Princess-Orphelia

Really? If you lived closer to me, I'd lend you some of mine, which would probably take you a good five years to watch. I carry my portable dvd player to work too, so I can watch movies while at lunch. sweatdrop

Oh it's fine, I probably still wouldn't see them. xd

Zero Omega

DARKNRGY

Princess-Orphelia

The exact opposite of me!

Clerks is the only movie that Zero Omega has ever seen.

YOU'RE THE ONLY MOVIE THAT I'VE EVER SCENE!

Zero Omega

Platonix

Have you seen Clerks 2? What did you think of it as a sequel?

I have, definitely not as good as the first, but still hilarious.

biglanky14

Magnificent Moonbeam

biglanky14

Magnificent Moonbeam

Hey, Lanky. Sorry to hear Lanzer isn't feeling well and I wish him the best. I don't have any questions so far and I hope you're well too.

Yup - in general we're good. Fanime out here last week was a lot of fun, and we've got some cool stuff coming up. It's a good month already smile

How are you?

I hope to see what you guys have in store so far, especially with the new RIG arriving next week. I've been fine, did some baking of a cake and brownies for my older brother. I had to help out a bit in making pineapple pies with meringue on them. 3nodding

Send them all here! Care of Biglanky14. I'll make sure your brother gets a slice.

DARKNRGY

This thread is now about RC airplanes and helicopters.

siskataya

Magnificent Moonbeam

siskataya

Magnificent Moonbeam

*lurks and starts putting slices of pineapple pie with meringue on plates with a fork included*

Mmmmmm, pineapple is one of my favorite fruits...mmmmm! In this case, though, it seems to be a pie-napple. Even better! Om nom nom...
- Sisky

xd Yeah, it's really good. I've started to like pineapples for a while, even when they're mixed in with vanilla pudding. emotion_kirakira

Mmm, sounds good! I just love munching on fresh, cold pineapple while I'm sitting on the beach in Hawaii. It's just awesome. 3nodding

DARKNRGY

Corinth Maxwell

1. The Daily Chance cart occasionally redirects users to that ridiculous white page, which then redirects us to some "permission error" page. Mind giving it a good shake or smacking it with a pipe wrench so it'll stop malfunctioning & being annoying? cat_whee

2. This is more zOMG-oriented, but.......Why is the "P3 Commander" (Old Aqueduct) the only "area boss" without his own instance? For that matter, was it ever suggested or considered feasible to give the "Nexus Trio" (unique Taiko Drum/Ghost Lantern/Kokeshi Doll bosses) their own instance as well, for those who wanted to battle them again & again? cat_ninja

3. I spent my "official anniversary" for becoming an active member of Gaia last month by doing a bit of a massive run in zOMG with several friends of mine. How do you (you = the staff) spend your own Gaia anniversaries? cat_3nodding

The last anniversary we had a little company party with some presentations. Best part was one of our writers reading off some of our "best of" customer emails. Lanzer usually has a few words too :].

biglanky14

Hey Corinth,

I spend my Anniversary harassing everyone in the office, which is what I do on a regular basis anyway. And I try to talk someone into bringing me cake.

siskataya

Corinth Maxwell

DARKNRGY

Princess-Orphelia

Oh boy! when I don't attend the AtA there's a million pages to read, and when I do, it's quiet. rofl

hehehe, we didn't do a dev notice this time because we're short handed!

cat_stare Pffft......I probably wouldn't have even remembered that there was going to be an ATA today if it weren't for the alarm I set on my phone to remind me that it was almost time for another ATA to begin. cat_xp cat_xd

Wow, a phone alert - that is impressive dedication. A tip for your post for this XD

- Sisky

biglanky14

Princess-Orphelia

Maybe it's better when you don't because then all the awesome saucesome people can attend and make it more personally private [joke] rofl

Exactly! (except not exactly for all of you who aren't here smile )

Princess-Orphelia

biglanky14

Ha - that's because we decided not to put out a Dev Notice for this one. We're a bit shorthanded and we just had our last one on Wednesday, so we figured we'd have a quiet one for once. Most likely it'll be back to the regular chaos next week.

Aww but it's fun like this, because then we chat and have some laughs. There are times when people love the Morale in here, when we have laughs and not get too serious...But only when the time calls for it. 3nodding You guys should do them at times when it's appropriate for us Aussies too. rofl

Zero Omega

codemonkey37179

Zero Omega

biglanky14

Zero Omega

Lurk lurk lurk. ninja

GO AWAY!

NO YOU! scream

Don't make me stop this thread. I'll do it! I'll turn it around and we will go straight back home!

Yeah, well, what if I wanna go back home?!

Zero Omega

codemonkey37179

Zero Omega

codemonkey37179

Don't try that $*&@ reverse psychological #$@ on me!

Fine, stay here and work all night then.

OH NO YOU DON'T! scream

siskataya

biglanky14

Mister Him

Any chance you guys can lend us Swarf or JK for a few fridays?

ninja

For manual labor? That we'd probably be ok with smile

siskataya

scullylam

Mister Him

Any chance you guys can lend us Swarf or JK for a few fridays?

ninja

tipped so haaarrrrd. whee

staff:
btw, when can we expect swarf having an sdplus doll? and while we're talking zomg, since gaia doesn't run their rl merchandise store, what do you think about the idea of gaia food? like, bake cookies decorated with diedrich, or even sell "olivia's" cookies? think of all the fun yummy goodness that could be! i know i would want some grunny gummies or even rock puppy candy. yes, why not go into the baking business gaia? biggrin

Interesting idea scully! We did have someone make us a Kiki cake before! It was super cute and tasty. It would have been more morbid/hilarious if it would have been a Red Velvet cake inside! XD Poor Kiki!

biglanky14

Sasune

biglanky14

Sasune

What are you doing to replenish old RIG commons that you haven't reissued? Some of them are getting hard to find, and because they were cheap in the first place they were susceptible to artificial inflation. People are AI'ing Strawberry Shortcake Queen of Cups, Chocolate Crepe, Buttercream Rose, and Leek. The first three are important because they're needed to craft Cupcake Confection.

Hi Sasune,

These are the types of things we track pretty closely in our Alchemy stats. I don't have a concrete plan to share with you about that right now, but we have a couple of options we could employ if need be.

Is there any other way to get Chocolate Crepes besides Midsummer Swirls? I opened a whole bundle and only got one crying

It's in a couple of CIs, I think. But we're going to look into putting more of these items into future CIs too to boost the supply too.

siskataya

WideEyed

Hi Big and all you other Admin's, Mods, and general Gaian citizenry! smile

Happy Monday to one and all! smile

This week's questions breaks new territory for me, so excuse me if I seem a little disoriented.
I'm just not used to talking about anything besides zOMG! in the ATA. wink

Wow, the fact that you haven't asked a question about zOMG! has left me, well, a little disoriented too! *gets woozy head rush and has to lay down*...OoooOOoooOOO... spinning...everything...spinning...

Hehe, I tease, I tease! Happy Monday to you too!

- Sisky

biglanky14

Scobre

biglanky14

Scobre

Hi admins, devs, and mods.

1) Will gaia have new bathing suits in gold shops this year?
2) Will there be more gaia and zOMG! events this year?
3) Why was it decided to never update zOMG! ever again as mentioned in a previous ata?

Hi Scobre,

1) This I don't know - we have some pretty good ideas for the gold shops coming up, but I can't share them unfortunately.

2) There will definitely be more Gaia events - several are coming up pretty soon. As for zOMG, we'll try to recycle events where we can (like Easter).

3) We're going to try to update it when we can, like we did with some recent bug fixes. But no large scale work will be done on it, as you know.

Thank you for answering all my question biglanky and good luck with reading the long pm I sent you today. Recycled events are fun and many like participating in them. Yeah I am sad about the no big scale work, but at least dms is hard enough to level with that it will take awhile for most people to be done with. It's nice to know the game still will receive some updates. It was starting to sound pretty grim in forums. I hope that Lanzer gets better and I'm dealing with a cold myself too. I'm worried about my nephew who is burning up. Maybe Lanzer will catch a big fish. I also like fishing in my spare time and caught a salmon once.

Sure thing. We're not completely abandoning it by any means - we just can't dedicate huge work to it.

I hope your nephew feels better soon! And send some salmon our way smile

biglanky14

Scobre

Sure if I catch another one. I owe my best friend in Santa Barbara some, so I'll try dropping some off on the way there if I catch a lot. xd Would you want it with the eyes or want me to clean it?

Clean please - the eyes would freak me out!

siskataya

Scobre

Hi admins, devs, and mods.
Will there be more gaia and zOMG! events this year?

I can tell you that while I cannot personally make in-game events, I'll be having some really fun contests for the zOMG! community in the forum. Please feel free to join in when they are on, and maybe you can snag a cool prize you can use in zOMG! biggrin

- Sisky

codemonkey37179

Princess-Orphelia

So any chance that you guys will ever visit Australia with your Con touring?
Then all the Aussise will gather across the many seas to come and see you guys. 3nodding

If Only! I would be the first to volunteer to go!

siskataya

I cannot speak for professional con visits, but like I said before, I have some nieces in Australia so I have to get there. Remember, we're all climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge! XD Get prepared :0

Sisky

Zero Omega

Leader Clair

Who is your favorite singer/band?

A toss up between The Mars Volta and Go Jimmy Go. Zeppelin used to be my number one favorite (they're still up there though).

biglanky14

Leader Clair

Is the notice glitch going to be fixed, where if someone on your ignore list quotes/tips you, you still get the notice?

Hi Leader Clair,

Not entirely sure, to be honest. Do you know if this has been posted in the Bug Reports forum too? (Obviously I haven't checked myself)

biglanky14

wunks

WOAH GUYS SORRY IM LATE BUT YOU CAN ALL CLAM DOWN NOW THAT IM HERE
NARUMI WILL U MARRY ME

You're cheating on Darknrgy already?

wunks

DARKNRGY

New rule: No more marriage proposals unless you include pics.

LOL
ok fine
redface

wi-

will you marry me

biglanky14

Princess-Orphelia

Hihi. You don't need a picture of me. When you look at Alyssa Milano, you also look at me. We're twins. rofl

LOL - I KNEW you were one of my favorites. (Can you help me meet her????????)

Lanzer

Last week some of you asked about the recent zOMG bug fixes, and here's a list of what's been fixed recently. The bigger one being the Gnome General instance bug:

A Gnome General bug
Gnome HQ guards respawning
Clutch behaviors in the mini-event
Village gnome loot bug
UnderseaCliffs safe not unlocking.
SealabX fixed a few script bugs, leaders will talk more now.

Having the server automatically restart is something that we've been looking into. Some of the work is done but still got some more coding to do. Will keep you informed when the work is completed.

siskataya

wunks

Lanzer isn't feeling well!? he might have gotten a case of gaianitis lol

Gaianitis... that sounds painful! gonk

DARKNRGY

Princess-Orphelia

OOh I've got another question. Hopefully I'll make it on time.

Is there any way to stop invites from people playing games such as backyard monsters etc? Not that I have anything against the game itself. But more so, getting 10-20 pms each day which are invites gets too much to handle. Can we stop that somehow? sweatdrop

We're supposedly doing this. Not sure what the timeline is like for it. Different group working on it.

biglanky14

mini_faerie_luver

biglanky14

mini_faerie_luver

❀ℱᎯℇℛ℩ℇ ❀
First time in ATA C:
Helllo all.

Questions:
Back in October, you took memphis the mermaid(and others) out of the cash shop, and what the dev notice said, was it would just be a couple weeks. now, 8 months later, it is still not back in the cash shop. will it back back anytime soon?
Link to dev notice: Click here.


Pink heartstring was leaked somehow, or some sort. either way its currently not available anywhere, yet it can be placed on wishlists and is listed in the marketplace. is there any chance we are ever going to actually get the item?

Welcome!

Yup, our plans obviously changed with that one. Memphis needs to be rebalanced, and we haven't had the time to get around to doing that. Hopefully she will be back at some point though.

The Heartstring was supposed to be available through a few things on the site, but for whatever reason it never actually was made available widely (I think b/c of a bug). That's something we hope to fix so you guys can actually get it at some point.

yay i got answered emotion_kirakira
I hope its soon because my memphis die in a couple weeks, and hardly any are even available in the MP anymore xd

And good C: i hope we can get it eventually, because it bothers me knowing theres another out there, but i cant get it xd

Thank you 4laugh
i was worried because i didnt think ATA was happening tonight because i never got a dev notice, but i found you blaugh

Yeah, we're shorthanded tonight and the last ATA was last Wed, so we decided we wouldn't Dev Notice this one to keep it casual smile

biglanky14

Ok guys - we've gotta close this thing up. Thanks for hanging out with us tonight, and we'll be back next Monday with the usual craziness.

Have a great week!

[Peace Trees]

when will gaia be upgraded again?

[Platonix]

Let's see if I can fit both of these into a single post...as before, I'm letting folks keep their post styles for informal chat Fridays.

June 1st

It's another surprise Artist Lanky Chat Friday! (Yes, he still works here.)

biglanky14

Hi everyone,

I was overdue to come by and just hang out here in the GCD for the next hour or so - if you wanna chat about pretty much anything, come on in!

(Note: yes, I know this is a hang-out thread and technically I'm breaking the rules. Getting away with this once in awhile is one of the perks of being in the office smile

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armadillodreamer

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Crystal Sparda

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*waves* Hiiiii..... /is totally not stalking you...
'w' So how be things at the office? Quiet, or is there another Nerf war going on?
You need to go to Metrocon on the 15th & 16th with DJ and Lanzer!

Hey Crystal,

Today is actually a pretty cool day in the office. We're pretty casual (as you might imagine, and like most companies out here), so once a year we have "Corporate Day" where we all put on suits for the day like we're bankers. Very very odd to see Locke in a tie smile

Unfortunately I'm not going to be at Metrocon, but we will have people at AX and Comic-con coming up.

Hey now, I work with community bankers (First National Bank of Townsville, not Bank of America) and they are a fairly laid-back bunch with jeans and whatnot.

Ha - ok, fair enough. Investment bankers. I think they're pretty much required to live in suits.

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Shunji Sato

Sounds like a good time. I love wearing suits. cool

I'm pretty much the opposite. If I could live in sandals and shorts, I would. The last time I wore a sui was when I did my buddy's wedding, which was 3 years ago now.

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Ridley Starsmore

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Antiq

You know, I think we should have a "dress the staff avatars day". Some of you could do with some expert sartorial attention wink

You know, that's not a bad idea. No idea how we'd pull that off since you guys don't have access to our inventories and we're not allowed to grant stuff to ourselves. I'll have to think about how to do that b/c that'd be fun.

http://www.tektek.org/gaia/account.php

Do as it says and post up your invo link in a thread, then we get to play at no risk to you.

Ok, next time I come hang out I'll do that smile

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armadillodreamer

Hi! Can you share some super-secret info? Maybe if you use one of the awesome new spoiler tags, the boss won't notice. biggrin

Yes, yes I can.

I'm awesome!

Don't tell anyone though.....

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Crystal Sparda

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Haha, that ain't a spoiler! Everyone knows that!
Corporate Day sounds fun, especially for a lax place such as Gaia!
You (Gaia) should let us users know when that is so our avatars can join in the fun!
Poop. I wanted to poke a Lanky at Metrocon! emotion_8c
Now give us a teeny tiny spoiler! A hint! A cluuuuue!
A mini event next week? Theme of the upcoming CI? Something? Anything? emotion_kirakira

Oh, and tell whoever that's coming to Metrocon to get their shots!
Apparently we're experiencing a zombie outbreak, in case you haven't heard. sweatdrop

Zombies are everywhere! We were just talking at lunch about how the world seems to have taken one giant crazy pill.

As for spoilers? You know those "this is the Official <fill in the random thing> Month" things? Well, June is the month of the cat, so......that doesn't necessarily mean we're going to do anything smile

We should have something a lot of fun coming up in a few weeks too, but I can't quite talk about it yet b/c it's not 100% signed off on yet.

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Crystal Sparda

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Yeah, unfortunately I saw the pic of the guy who had his face eaten. emotion_donotwant emotion_puke
I guess that's what I get for being a redditor. emotion_awesome

Oooooh... Meh, kitties are okay, but I'm sorta getting tired of 'em. emotion_8c
There's too many kitties and not enough birdies! *has two macaws*
I'll accept it as a spoiler though!

Fun is always... fun! Can't wait to see what it is!

Yeah, we hope it'll be fun! But we've got a few big things coming up in Summer, so we've been slaving away trying to get those ready.

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Crystal Sparda

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Oooooh! "A few big things"...
That means we're getting more than the Olympics! 4laugh

Nothing quite as big as the Olympics, but we're hoping to keep the schedule pretty full. That's about all I can say though.

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Soubi-chu

♥ ♥

HI THERE how are you? 8D

Bring back Black King for something in the future, please.
Hear my plea. crying

the rats in the c e l l a r you know who you are

Hi Soubi-chu,

Perhaps he will return.....perhaps not. Those types of details are kept hidden from most of us so we don't ruin upcoming plot/stuff.

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Dashing Valentine

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Dashing Valentine

Hi there! Do you like twi'leks? o3o

They're ok. Bib Fortuna kinda freaked me out when I was a kid though, so I prefer Max Rebo.

He freaks me out too. D: Us Female Twi'elks are gorgeous though. Don't let the creepy males make you not like us. <:

Are you going to end up dancing for Jabba too?

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Shunji Sato

Dashing Valentine

Shunji Sato

I agree...Darth Talon is easy on the eyes.

Indeed. I own a figure of her irl. I'm trying to get one of the statues that was made of her at some point as well. I adore twi'leks. xD

I'm more of a Mandalorian and Han Solo fan m'self.

I would marry Han if I could. And don't get me started on the "changing it so that he didn't shoot first" thing - I'll be ranting for a half hour.

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Shunji Sato

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Shunji Sato

Dashing Valentine

I own a few mandos and a few Han solo figures. I love Han though. My Comic store has this gorgeous statue of him that I want. o3o

I've got this statue of Han on my nightstand. The unleashed figures are amazing.

Yeah, that one's super cool. I have the Vader one and it's fantastic.

I've had mine for about a year and they don't collect much dust surprisingly.

Very nice. I got a talking Vader bank about 12 years ago, and I still have it out on display in the house. But don't worry, I'm definitely not a nerd smile

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Dashing Valentine

[later in side convo, when eBay is mentioned]


Ahhh evil bay. The bane of my collecting existence.

Ha - me too. That's why I worked there for so long. I had to pay for all the money I spent on sports cards and Star Wars figures (in college, my desk was full of about 80 of them).

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GriDorian

Who makes the mini you dollies next to your avi? razz Allways been curious.

Some of our artists make them - they more or less rotate around, I believe. I was pretty lucky to get one, although I feel super arrogant using my own. But I just can't help it.

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GriDorian

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Maggot

Hi, I think I have a wisdom tooth coming in. emotion_donotwant

So.....a piece of advice. If you have to get them taken out, LISTEN TO YOUR DENTIST ABOUT WHEN YOU CAN START EATING CERTAIN FOODS! I got them out right before college, and ate Taco Bell way before I should've. A piece of the "meat" got into the wound, which then sealed around it. A week later it got infected, and my face looked like I got stuffed full of helium. I couldn't eat anything more than a third of an inch thick, and had to get 2 shots in my hip for 10 days straight to fight it off.

The upside was that it got me a lot of sympathy from the ladies. Of course, b/c I looked like a chipmunk and none of them were furries, it didn't do me a lot of good.

And for the love of non swelled faces do NOT use a straw at least for a week...or..suck on..>.> anything,....yeah ill be in the corner.

Ha - sounds like you might have a date with our Safety team smile

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Crystal Sparda

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emotion_kirakira May I be an unofficial member of the Safety Team?
*points to guide link in her signature*
I even have a super hero alter ego for safety!

That would be a badass Safety Team outfit. And if you become a mod, you sure can smile

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Druddigon

Lanky how are you doing so far?any plans to start summer?

Hey Druddigon,

Not too much - just working. I think I'm going to take a short vacation to Oregon with the family later on this summer, but outside of that I don't have too much going on. You?

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Sinsario

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Sinsario

Do you watch Korra?
Because if so... ONE MORE DAY!


If not: screw you sad

I will have to wear the "Screw you" b/c unfortunately I do not. But I know it's supposed to be super-awesome. My TV watching has been horrendously behind lately.

You can watch it online!
While you work.
Legally.

*nudges*

It's the only reason I watch it too. I don't have a TV sweatdrop

HA.

This is how it usually goes when I try to watch TV at work.

Biglanky14: Wow, this is awesome! Look at me working on this email while I watch.

<20 minutes pass>

<BigLanky14 is just staring at screen - email has been completely forgotten.

<60 minutes pass)

<Biglanky14 is in unemployment line>

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Ninja Katze

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Ninja Katze

Get a DVR! It will change your life! So many shows and so little hard-drive space...

I know - but even with that I'm way behind. Right I pretty much watch only comedies - Modern Family, Family Guy, and South Park. I was HUGE into The Shield and The Wire, but of course both of those are now off the air.

I haven't seen The Wire yet but I have seen Vick Mackey and his shenanigans all the way through. Sons of Anarchy is by one of the guys who made The Shield, it's pretty good for a dude show. The Killing on AMC is good too, but I missed one last week between recording the Animation domination and something else... My DVR only records 2 things at once...

We need items for these shows... and other American shows... *pokes* suggest it... ninja

Unfortunately for most of those we need licensing rights, which makes it tough. But we're always trying.

I LOVED The Shield, especially how it ended (even though I felt bad for Ronnie, which was irrational). I also hear how great Sons is, but I haven't gotten that into the rotation. Same thing for Mad Men and Breaking Bad. Everyone says they're awesome, but I just haven't found the time to get into them.

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armadillodreamer

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Winter Hue

I smell new manga pages or a new feature popping up after this page.

Not today, but soon. Soooooooooonnnnnnnn.......

Ohh, ohh! Tell the artists/writers that I'm curious why Louie and Ian aren't taking more of an interest in Gino's plight. I mean, he is their half-brother, right? They could, you know, ask how he's doing or whatever.

It's quite possible they sent an email inquiry to check on his status smile

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Achriya

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Achriya

Hello, I hope today finds you well.

Hi Achriya,

You too! Are you doing anything fun over the weekend?

Probably just sleeping. Weekends are just like any other day for me.

I remember when I got to sleep in. Oh, the memories.....

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Achriya

I don't so much sleep in as I wake up, cook breakfast for my dad, then go back to bed for a couple of hours. Taking advantage of it while I can.

Absolutely do. I don't think I've slept in past 8 for 3 years. Getting older sucks.

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GriDorian

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Sachie Whitby

Hello, biglanky14!
You do know that there's a horrible thing at your feet. *points at the diedrich-grunny thing* Do you plan to kill it or is it a prisoner?

Hi!

These darn things have infested the office! I'm definitely keeping it as my prisoner. I need someone to test my food for me in case someone on the team has tried to poison me.

Why would anyone on the team wanna poison the Lanky?

They have many, many reasons. Mostly b/c I make them work in cages, and only feed them pellets when they can complete a maze correctly.

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GriDorian

But you DO feed them...that's humane. Maybe add an inch of cage space every 1000 mazez done right?

I dunno.....they don't really deserve it. They do get fed high-quality pellets that are made with only the freshest, most natural newspaper. 100% of your daily ink!

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Ridley Starsmore

GriDorian

Ridley Starsmore

GriDorian

Why would anyone on the team wanna poison the Lanky?

The promotion system at Gaia is like that of a Klingon ship: Kill the guy above you to advance.

As you can imagine, things might get a little unsafe.

Yeah...but isn't poison use beneath the honor of a klingon?

That depends. If the poison is on a blade....

Beside, Gaia staff are not Klingons.

Except maybe Zero, might wanna get him tested.

No one really knows what Zero is. Or how he got here. He just showed up one day and I think someone took pity on him. We don't have the heart to tell him to go home.

biglanky14

Ok guys, I have to do meeting-type stuff. Thanks for hanging out with me, and have a great weekend!

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Ridley Starsmore

Zaade

GriDorian

Zaade

*throws arms up* This can not stand!

We have rules around here, you dang hoodlum!

How DARE you abuse your power as such!
The shaaame! mad *hiss*

We must have order!
We must have stability!
Or this whole forum - the whole website - is gonna come crashing down!
Have you any idea what you have done!?!?!

...How refreshingly random this is. 8D

THIS made me laugh..so hard. XD

How can you laugh at a critical time like this, Gri?
How?
You're just as guilty as the rest of these look-the-other-way-ers! eek

Well I know I'm not just gonna sit here and do nothin'.
This thread better get ready to feel my wrath, i've gonna lay the smackdown with one big </3 all over this place!

Tsk tsk to the rest of you ne'erdowells.
Tsk. Tsk.

Awww...why you hatin'?

-sets up defenses-

Ok, that deserves one more response. Most. Delicious. Fortress. Wall. Ever. Must be consumed by power of mouthwateringness.

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Ridley Starsmore

warrior_of_boognish

Irrelevant post a go go go~

Sup, Boog?

I have an idea for you...

Pretty Sailor Senshi Flak Armor.

Like this.



BUT With sailor moon stuff.

I might just hold onto that idea.....

adorabah

booooog wat.. are you doooiinnggg

oh uh i mean, hi biggrin

Generally being useless at the moment....and hiya~

June 8th

biglanky14

Just like last week, I'm blatantly violating our hangout thread rules for 45 minutes or so smile

Anyone else hanging out and want to chat about just about anything?

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Uncle Kenny

What's your stance on the waffles v pancakes debate?

French toast. ALL. THE. WAY.

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Sifen Yamishi

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Sifen Yamishi

I'm more of a crepes person.

ninja

But how is everyone tonight?

Hi Sifen,

Crepes with fresh strawberries and other fruit = fantastic. Other stuff = ehh.

But I'm doing great - it's a nice day outside, and I'm playing night golf tonight (glow in the dark balls) for the hell of it. Should be interesting.

Try not to smack yourself with the golf club.
sweatdrop

No promises. I'm more worried about losing the stupid balls b/c they are EXPENSIVE. Plus I kinda suck at golf. But glow in the dark stuff makes everything 3498934% more fun (it's science) so how could I say no?

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CioccoLatte

Waffles >> Pancakes

i love the cruchy-outside-chewy-inside texture

You can't go wrong with any, really. But French Toast can be made out of cinnamon rolls. That alone makes it the winner.

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Flz

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Flz

I can make pancakes! But I can't make waffles and that's probably why I like them more xD
But you know what's better than both of them?
Bacon! 4laugh

Uh, yes! We were just discussing how the next logical step in the Doritos Taco Bell thing (surprisingly good) is a bacon shell. Business opportunity!

I have tried the Doritos Taco Bell yet. I want to though, so maybe if it ever stops raining I'll drive down there for lunch. But yes! A bacon shell would be a great idea!
I mean, who wouldn't want to try this:

That does sound fantastic - just needs more sour cream.

I was super skeptical about the Taco Bell thing, but it was shockingly good. And I don't even really like Doritos much anymore.

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Flz

I'm actually not a huge fan of Doritos as well. They remind me too much of an ex-girlfriend I had who was obsessed with them. But the taco does look good.

You know what's also good, but sounds really odd? A grilled cheese with pickles and chips on it. It sounds bad, but it turns out it's really good!

Wow - now you've got me intrigued! I LOVE grilled cheese, so I'll have to try that. Worst thing I've ever eaten was a double cheeseburger, but instead of buns they were grilled cheese sandwiches. It took 3 years off my life, but it was worth it!

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CioccoLatte

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CioccoLatte

I only love French Toast if done a certain way...
i love these versions: all drizzled in chocolate...
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5093/5435451616_2b5af50bda.jpg
http://jauntexpress.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/pic6.jpg

Wow - my heart kinda hurts just thinking about that.

Your heart hurts o 3o
...my salivary glands have gone awry... emotion_drool

xd

As have mine - look at my avatar!

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CioccoLatte

xp dinner's right around the corner.....but i think imma gonna snack before I drown gaia in drool... sweatdrop

attack of the major munchies...*grabs any edible thing emotion_omnomnom

hmmm...i'm curious: besides hotdogs, what do the people over there at HQ like to omnomnom on?

We've got a weird mix of things. Cereal, some crackers and peanut butter, and other various things like chips. We actually have a high percentage of people who eat healthy (weirdos) so we have a lot of dehydrated fruit and other greens laying around.

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OddBird

Lanky, do you wear your sunglasses at night cool

No I wear them b/c the future's so bright.

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Lady Kayura

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Lady Kayura

Figures there's a neat hangout thread like this and I'm going out. xD;

What??? I'm insulted! smile

And the kicker is, I never go out! @___@;;;

You should come out with me! biggrin I'll treat you to pizza.

If it's pepperoni and pineapple, I'm in!

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Lady Kayura

I can't stand the sweetness of pineapple on a savory pizza... but for you, I'll do it! <3

But it goes so nicely with the salt of pepperoni! It's the best combination ever.

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The Trancy Brat

All I have to say is...thanks for the adorable Waffles time guys >w<

Thank Narumi Misuhara and Uncle Kenny mostly (and Reaper for the comic) - they made the Waffles escape come to life.

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Sinsario

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Sinsario

Guess what tomorrow is?





Other than that; hows the whole being tall thing going on for you.

*dons ye olde jumbo hotdog*

Hey Sinsario,

It's working out pretty well so far, outside of the bumping into things. Like chandeliers.

Use them as punching bags, then all the other chandeliers will fear you forever.

Now that is a heck of an idea. I hope that will also work with Exit signs and clouds.

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TehChich

Clouds are too rebellious. They can't be taught. emotion_donotwant

It's those ones that look like bunnies that are the worst. You think their all cute and innocent, and then BAM! One day you'll take a tire iron in the back of the head and they run off with your wallet.

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Maggot

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Maggot

I accidentally shaved my mustache off last night. emo

At least it was only your mustache.

True, I still have a glorious beard. Also, Gaia needs more facial hair! scream

I would actually quite enjoy a nice handlebar mustache here. Would go very well over my drooling mouth.

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Kinny Fear

Hey lanky, do you like Doctor Who?

Hey Kinny,

Unfortunately, no - I'm one of the few people here who is a Dr Who ignoramus.

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Tear of Fate

so how work going staff, hopefully you all have had some rest why the Boss Waffles is chasing grunnys?

There ain't no rest for the wicked!

And money don't grow on trees

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Dashing Valentine

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Dashing Valentine

Okay, serious question time.

How would you combat someone who is trolling, offsite but the offsite thing is related to Gaia?

Hi DV,

Honestly, the best thing to do is ignore it. I know that's hard, but it's really the best way to do it.

It seems I am the only one doing such. Why do people feed the trolls? :/

Largely b/c they're misguided and think it's fun. Yeah - fun until it happens to you.

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Narumi Misuhara

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Narumi Misuhara

biglanky14

Just like last week, I'm blatantly violating our hangout thread rules for 45 minutes or so smile

Anyone else hanging out and want to chat about just about anything?

Don't feed the troll.

Aren't you supposed to be banned?

Don't make me bust out the Waffles!

Dude, I will EAT your waffles!!!

allow me a few minutes to determine if I just punked you, committed a violation, or somehow just hit on you

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Narumi Misuhara

...I'm telling Lanzer on you!...

Doesn't matter.....b/c he already doesn't have any Waffles!!

See what I did there?

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CioccoLatte

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CioccoLatte

Narumi Misuhara

Don't feed the troll.

Yikes...*hides French Toast...cancels pizza order...

NO - TROLL WANT PIZZA

NEEDS PINEAPPLE

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Krissim Klaw

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Krissim Klaw

You need to have whoever made the Waffles npc draw an adorable pixel mantis. blaugh

'Are the words "mantis" and "adorable" allowed to be in the same sentence? That seems like a violation in itself.

What do you mean they are the most adorable widdle buggly wugglies ever.

Look at my adorable swarm hatching Click Here for Cutest Thing Ever

Ok now I"m completely sure of it. Nothing that is described as a "swarm" is remotely allowed to be called adorable.

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Kinny Fear

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Krissim Klaw

How can you say that about my precious babies? emo

Swarms of made up of things that can eat my head. Not of cute things. You don't hear about swarms of teddy bears, or swarms of babies, or swarms of flowers.

Speak for yourself.

Where did you encounter these swarms of teddy bears?

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Kinny Fear

Build-a-Bear Workshop. crying

Hmmmm - this is actually a legitimate, thoughtful answer that has left me with few options on how to reply. I don't like it.

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Krissim Klaw

biglanky14

Swarms of made up of things that can eat my head. Not of cute things. You don't hear about swarms of teddy bears, or swarms of babies, or swarms of flowers.

Teddy bears are full of germs and dust mites, babies drool, poop, and pee on themselves, and flowers can kill people with allergies. emotion_donotwant

A swarm of baby mantises will meanwhile eat the gnats trying to buzz in your eyes or the aphids off your deadly allergy ridden flowers. emotion_dowant

Yes. AND ALSO EAT MY HEAD.

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Krissim Klaw

Only the lady mantises if you don't keep them well fed. Besides I hear you male mantises have a second smaller brain below the waist line that will take over in a pinch. talk2hand

Correction: Not in a pinch. 98% of the time.

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Krissim Klaw

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Krissim Klaw

Kinny Fear

Build-a-Bear Workshop. crying

I went to that store to get adorable clothes for my spider.

Dude......I don't think adorable means what you think it means.

Now you are picking on spider? Have you no soul. You are as bad as my mother. He dreams of one day being the Christmas Angel Spider on top of the tree but she is just as cold hearted as you.

How is this not melt your eyes cute?

Oh, it will melt my eyes all right. WITH VENOM!

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Krissim Klaw

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Krissim Klaw

Nonono, my green blanket, Wiggy, will do that. She is really an alien from another planet with a highly venomous bite. However, you will be dead before you know you were bitten so it isn't such a bad way to go.

Have you considered cloning Wiggy and taking over the world? If so, remember that I was super nice to you and LOVE your not-freaky-at-all pets.

I considered it but I decided to use my mantis minions instead. I am thinking to keep up with the current times I will try a fifty fifty mixture of vampire and zombie mantises.

They will just be distracted by vegetation. And eating their lovers. Bad choice.

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Krissim Klaw

I wish I was having that problem. So far my virus strains have resulted in a mantis that wants to hug your face and another that sparkles in the sunlight. I suppose the sparkles are kind of blinding at times.

Didn't you just rip off the plot of Twilight? But with mantiseseseseseseses?

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Krissim Klaw

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Krissim Klaw

Now that you mention it my buff boy mantis does go around without a shirt. He likes to flex for the ladies. cool

Ha - he probably turns into a werewolf too.

Not exactly but he acts like a little adorable puppy always following me around. 4laugh

Now he sounds like a boyfriend.

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CioccoLatte

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CioccoLatte

NEEDS PINEAPPLE

They got my order wrong! emotion_donotwant I'll take it but no tip for you!!!
Pfffttt...i'll just have someone in Hawaii send me some...

TehChich

AAAHHHHH FOOOOOOOOOOOD -flops on it- so hungry emotion_donotwant

Help yourself...but not before that shipment from Hawaii arrives emotion_awesome

Damn pizza place. Now I want a swarm of refunds.

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Lanky! What measures are you taking to ensure Waffles safe return? D:
What if other peoples cats start running away?
Are the felines of Gaia safe?

We are powerless. None are safe. IT'S COMPLETE CAT MAYHEM!!!!!!!!!

Dont you mean its CATastrophic? Pure meowhem. Its caused quite a furrenzy.

Also, are you familiar with Oh Long Johnson?

My pun-o-meter by my desk just exploded. The mess is spec-tabby-ular.

And yes. That cat is strange. Didn't it also come out with a line of T shirts in the 90s?

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This is quite amewsing. If not handled propurrly, this mess could become a catthroat situation. This is getting so complickated.

Im not sure ouo But are you familiar with the South Park episode with Oh Long Johnson?

Your puns are getting worse. I may have to calico the cops.

I vaguely remember it, but not most of the details.

No! Dont call the pawlice!Purlease furrgive me!

Ah, well in said episode cats wanted a war on humans. Do you think that Waffles could be up to such shenanigans?

<tried to find way to work Garfield pun into quote. Fails miserably. Don't think I have a Snowball's chance. Hopes you're a Simpsons fan.>

Quite possibly. He's probably massing an army right now.

biglanky14

Hi-Potion

Luckily I am a simpsons fan 8D ngvjrcfd that cat seems to have disappeared ;3; I hope he's alive still

So, if Waffles is amassing a mewlitia at the moment, do you think we will have enough string and tuna to keep them at bay?

I'm sure he'd be able to catnip any dissension in the bud.

biglanky14

Krissim Klaw

Kinny Fear

Krissim Klaw

How is this not melt your eyes cute?

OH-KAY I don't think I can fight for your side anymore.

He just wants to drop down from the ceiling for a hug. Don't leave him hanging. emotion_0A0

Yes! Join the punfest!

biglanky14

Krissim Klaw

biglanky14

Krissim Klaw

Prunefest? Well I guess some of you guys at HQ are getting a little over the hill.

That's the one thing we have in common with the mantises. Need for roughage.

You are aware mantises eat other bugs not veggies right? Those claws are not for holding salad forks. wink

Yes. THEY ARE FOR EATING MY HEAD

biglanky14

Antiq

Last time you held one of these sessions, you promised that in the next session (this one) you would post a tektek environment so we could dress your avatar.

I bet you forgot
and/or
I bet you don't actually know how to do it
and/or
I bet you hoped no-one would remember
and/or
I bet you're scared to do it

twisted xd

DING DING DING DING DING

You are 4 for 4! You win the following prize!

me hoping no one sees your post

biglanky14

Maggot

biglanky14

Maggot

*Eats a turkey sandwich* ninja

That is WAY too healthy for this conversation.

Ummm... Uhhh... I'm also eating chips and a big hunk of cheese if that helps... ninja

Ok, your consumption of saturated fat is now acceptable for this thread.

biglanky14

Antiq

biglanky14

Antiq

What is all this intense Waffles/Cat hoohah, have you guys been at the suspect shrooms that have been at the back of the fridge since '03, or are you trying to distract us from some horrible plot you're brewing?
You people better not be planning anything nasty for Edmund mad

Who says these are mutually exclusive?

Uh-huh, I see. I always suspected killing off Gambino was the result of a mind under the influence of......something. There's no other accounting for such wanton and inexplicable destruction of a revered icon.

Ha - that's as good a theory as any. We blame rancid cheese.

biglanky14

Dashing Valentine

biglanky14

biglanky14

Dashing Valentine

New question.

Who is your favorite Disney character? o3o

Hmmmm - excellent question. 25 years ago I would've said Robin Hood (fox version). If you're talking animation, it's possibly Flynn Rider from Tangled. If more advanced, probably Shrek.

Except I just remembered Shrek is Dreamworks, so I am not so smart.

Lolol. It's okay. I have way too many favorites myself. Sometimes I forget that Nightmare before Christmas is a Disney Film.

Yeah - I can't keep them straight at all. So I'll go with Han Solo.

biglanky14

Dashing Valentine

LOL, When in doubt always go with Han Solo, or Chewbacca...cause Chewie can rip arms off if he's pissed.

Yeah, no one upsets a Wookie.

biglanky14

Kinny Fear

You ever play Lego Star Wars? That's Chewbacca's signature move. Stormtroopers arms go POP. blaugh

That is one of my favorite games ever, and one of the only ones where I got to 100% completion. I have a weird thing for Lobot, so it's rare you get to use him in anything.

biglanky14

Daesis

Holy crap this thread is terrifying in a cute sort of way. *hides*

B/c of the puns or the "adorable" scary-as-#$^ bugs?

Narumi Misuhara

biglanky14

Solemn Darkness

Oh snaps, I get to chill with lanky. Wait, where is safety marshall?

He's sitting next to me doing actual work. Loser.

classified_fu

biglanky14

Solemn Darkness

HA. Who does that?
(I'd like to imagine that work includes dressing up in a red kool aid shirt and prancing around the office, in which case, props to him man.)

That is EXACTLY what he's doing. He is a great prancer.

biglanky14

Solemn Darkness

Wait, I just remembered I had another question. Why didn't you take that coffee challenge a while back?
You were like, the only one who didn't drink it.

B/c I have at least one functioning brain cell in my head smile

biglanky14

Kinny Fear

Dashing Valentine

Okay so, I feel like being that weird person that educates people.

Here, enjoy the world's largest parrot, the Kakapo.

Bet he'd fry up nice.

Does it taste like chicken? [/inappropriateness]

biglanky14

Crystal Sparda

Ϲ ʀ ʏ s т Α ʟ ♥ ◕ ω ◕

╒═════════════════════

I'M HERE MISTER LANKEY SIR! 4laugh
Its mah berfday... What do I get? A kitty shirt, that all? ;3;

Naw, its okay if you don't gimme anything...
I already got $35 Gaia Cash, so just a suggestion on what to spend it on
(or if I should save it for some certain unreleased Cash Shop items) would be fine. 3nodding

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Would you like Amigo Pants? smile

The next CI is coming up soon......

biglanky14

Morbereth

biglanky14

Morbereth

cat_ninja *lurks*
All this food talk would make me hungry...if I hadn't just pigged out on fried shrimp, that is.

Did you put it on pizza?

Why would I do that? I like to actually be able to taste the shrimp, thank you. stare

B/c in keeping with this thread, it's either do that or mix it with freaky mantises smile

biglanky14

Morbereth

Am I allowed to batter and deep-fry the mantises?

You have to ask Krissim smile

biglanky14

Alright everyone - I've met my mantis-and-pizza related quota for today, so I've gotta head out of here.

Have a fantastic weekend!!

[Platonix]

[NPC] Waffles the Cat

Platonix

[Waffles quoted the Entire. Above. Post.
What. The Hell. Kitty.]

cat_rofl *Waffles runs away*

Yyyeah, I'm gonna have to delete that. Like the posts in this thread don't take up enough space as is.

Thanks for the item, though.

[Platonix]

June 11th

Lanzer

Hello everyone!

Thank you for participating the Waffles event! Here's a Waffles pic for you all

biglanky14

Welcome to this week's ATA! As usual, we'll be starting right about 5pm PT, and be hanging out for 60-90 minutes.

We get a bunch of questions at these events, and because a good number of them are repeats, I wanted to again post a few FAQs so that everyone knows the answers. As you can see, not a lot has changed in the past week.

Oh, and if you want to talk about Prometheus, I've put in my two cents in this thread.

When is the manga coming back? We're aiming for next week - we don't want to leave you guys hanging too long. In the meantime, we're going to try to have a little treat for you, but that's all I can say about that.

Alchemy updates? Nothing really to talk about at the moment. The items in Dernier Cri will be available again (likely this month), and we're definitely still looking at a lot of options. But there's nothing new to report at the moment.

zOMG fixes? They're still working on the bug fixes (and we got a few out recently). Keep posting in the forum so they can see the priority. And we are indeed looking at whether we will open up DMS more often.

What's going on with offers? We know that you guys want more offers to be available, so we're trying a few new companies out to see how they do. We're running some tests on them, which means that some of you will see different offers than others. We really appreciate you guys being patient with this. Hopefully we'll end up with some good long-term partners that will provide plenty of offers to both our US and international users.

biglanky14

Uesugi Ankit

lolol more Alchemy questions. 8D
trololol refreshed for like 3mins until thread got unlocked ;n;

1. Why are there only like 50-100 different formulas in Alchemist Cases and some are supposedly in DC, but no one seems to be getting them since there are rarely any in the MP? Is there any way we can know which formulas are in cases and which ones aren't?

2. A friend of mine has opened 202 Cases and hasn't gotten a single Moonstone or Sunstone formula, along with Ectoplasm and Candy Mountain and yet he has gotten a Nice Suit For Work. Why are those formulas rarer than NSFW formulas? ninja

Hi Uesugi,

I believe all of them are in there, although we can go back and double-check later on.

I don't know if they're actually rarer or not (I don't think so, but that's not for sure), or if it's just the way the odds fell. Again, I can go back and check after we're done.

DARKNRGY

Darc Nightgale

Hello! It's been a while since I've been to an Ata. I'm usually workin' on Mondays.

Waffles looks so cute btw. cat_3nodding

Was wonderin' if we could have achievements for the different games on Gaia.
Maybe for completin' so many puzzles.
Or earnin' so many tickets from slots, and blackjack.
Maybe gettin' a certain amout of fish from fishin'.
Just a few examples.

We're working on Achievement Titles right now - titles are unlocked when achievements are completed, titles can be mixed and matched together to build a 3-word title.

We want to do some more achievements. I'd like to see how much interest titles generates and go from there. We might lean more towards end-game achievements - stuff that is very hard to complete to unlock some of the better titles. We tend to stray away from the games for achievements just because they are not as well integrated as some of our core features.

Lanzer

We mostly focused on community activities but yes we should have more achievements down the road, but probably not specific to some of the games because they need some updates in the code.

carbonphyber

Knight Yoshi

Can we expect to see the spoiler tag in profiles as well?
This would be fantastic for even more affects. I remember Carbonphyber saying that there will be support for it everywhere the WYSIWYG toolbar is shown. But there's no toolbar for it in the Current profile template, so it made me wonder if it'll be supported there.
Speaking of which, would it be too much to ask for the toolbar in the Current profile editor for custom elements?

Also, just curious. How many of you can relate to this image

I've already submitted the patch to our testing team. We should see it in a few days.

I've learned almost all of the IE-specific glitches so I know what to avoid. That pie chart used to be incredibly accurate before JavaScript-DOM API libraries (like JQuery, YUI, etc) and debuggers like FireBug.

Lanzer

The breakdown changed greatly when we stopped supporting the older IE platforms. Thank goodness

biglanky14

Princess-Orphelia

Hi everyone at AtA, biggrin

I have a couple of questions I'd like to ask today. Sorry if these questions have already been asked. sweatdrop

1} I asked this question, but not sure if I've addressed it to the right person, so I'll ask it in here, in hopes of getting an answer, should there be anyone that can answer it.
In resort world, there's a button that states we can start the game over. My question is, should we press that button, what exactly do we keep and what do we lose? For eg: Do we lose all our money and Piatres should we start over?

2} In Alchemy the wings, can I ask, is the only place for them to be found only in the Alchemy case, or can they be found in something else too?

Thankies for answering.
Orphie. heart

PS, Waffles is sooooo cute. whee

Hi Princess,

I actually don't know the answer to the Resort World question, as it's actually provided by another company. I would guess you don't lose anything you paid for (unused balances, I mean), but I'm not 100% sure. I know the team who runs the game keeps an eye on their forum, so I would ask there. If you don't get a response in the next few days or so, PM me and I'll see if I can track it down.

As for the wings, I'm under a gag order to not speak about the details smile

codemonkey37179

OMG Maureen Cox

Are we allowed to ask if the gaia staff is working out bugs for other things/recommend things that should be fixed?

*noob* emo

Yep.

carbonphyber

Ren Orenji Doragon

Hi AtA. o3o;;

• Thank you guys so much for removing the Voice Fonts from the in-game zOMG! shop!! heart Though uh... I think you missed one.
  
  redface

The code broke when I removed all of the (6?) Voice Fonts so I restored one of them. I submitted a patch to our testing team to fix the underlying issue -- when that code is ready, I'll remove the last VoiceFont.

Zero Omega

Maggot

Zero Omega

Maggot

Since I'm currently watching RAW, I'm gonna say that I'd like to see more wrestling related things on Gaia.

This is the special edition three hour one? Sooooooo~ hoping they kill the Laurinitis (sp) storyline.

Yep or should I say... Yes! Yes! Yes!

Oh Daniel Bryan... xd

I am glad that WWE is allowing 360 owners to download episodes of RAW/Smackdown. Makes it easy to see them because I currently don't have cable.

Uncle Kenny

Lesbian In Denial

Hi Lanzer! 4laugh
so, I must ask: What made you come up with the Waffles event? How did you come into a discussion, even, of the owner of Waffles, about posting them on Gaia? surprised

Waffles is our boss ruler overlord so we have to follow his wishes.

Zero Omega

Vintage Paperbag

This for ATA, I've been banned, because my brother put a playboy picture on my friends account. I feel stupid for leaving my computer on,so now im banned because of him. So is there any chance of you gettinhg my account back for me? My username: ''Magic Meat''

Have you first tried filing a ticket at http://www.gaiaonline.com/help?

biglanky14

Zero Omega

Neuneu

Densire

☪ Zero omega best mod ever heart ☽

Second this.

D'aww, thanks you two. heart

TAKE THAT KENNY! scream

Barf!

Zero Omega

biglanky14

Absolutely 100% incorrect

YOU STOP THAT NOW! scream

siskataya

biglanky14

Absolutely 100% incorrect

Reply: Absolutely 100% correct

biglanky14

The Undead Suitor

is lanky jealous wink

Absolutely 100% incorrect. Maybe.

biglanky14

The Undead Suitor

True Boogy Monster

The Undead Suitor

is lanky jealous wink

^undead has cutest male avi ever!

redface oh mai

Absolutely 100% incorrect rofl

milkbun

Magus

Will Rigel and Mintaka dolls ever receive their extra poses?

Yes.
Not sure when.

DARKNRGY

iiSexual Swagger

I was wondering, how do you guys pick your staff? I'm not interested in being one, but I was just wondering.

We pick staff just like any other company and try to get the most qualified person for the job.

Zero Omega

siskataya

x-iiLatinaPudding

What do you guys do to celebrate a special occasion?

Depends on the occasion! Sometimes we eat ice cream; other times we throw pies at Zero. Sometimes we combine the two and throw ice cream pies at Zero!

Sisky

I blow things up.

biglanky14

Darkaznstargoddess

Good evening Admins,

Thanks for the news regarding Dernier Cri, will that involve new items along with unretiring items? Or shall we just wait and see??

Oh and I was wondering if the content on our Mygaia pages were finalized or will we be expecting some changes/updates soon or somewhere in the works?

ex; More control over filtering friend's status. [less from/ignore or more from certain friends] or the ability to specify to be notified if friends post a topic in a certain forum or to ignore to topics posted in for example chatterbox. I honestly prefer seeing x posted "------" in Art shops or Art auctions over x posted "----" in Chatterbox. I'm always gonk when my notices fail to notify me about topics being posted by friends or birthdays [perhaps a calendar might help?].

I guess I should ask the same regarding friends-list, will we be able to categorize/group friends anytime in the future?

And one last question, how long does it usually take [Or an estimate] to resolve reports regarding art thief?

Thank you for your time. whee

Hi Dark,

I believe it's unretiring items to start, and new stuff may come in later. But I would take a wait and see approach b/c these things can change based on a variety of factors.

I don't think we're going to be able to make changes to those filters or your friends list in the near future. Our devs are pretty slammed working on stuff already, and we're not going to have a lot of time to pick up new projects at the moment. But you could see those types of changes later on, and hopefully you'll like what we have coming up in the summer.

As for Art Theft, those usually get resolved pretty quickly. The one caveat though is that some cases take a lot of investigation, so that can cause an individual case to vary quite a bit in terms of time.

Zero Omega

dizziedobsession

Fun question for the lurking admins for the hell of it:
What is your favorite game? Could be a board game, word game, PC game, or video console type game.

Currently I've been loving Minecraft 360 and League of Legends for the PC.

My favorite game of all time? Xenogears for the Playstation and Megaman X and X2 for the SNES.

DARKNRGY

I think Portal and Portal 2 is the most innovative game series. Very fun puzzles!

biglanky14

EliteDanneh

1: Are there any new animated items on the way?

2: If so. Any hints, please?

Hi EliteDanneh,

1) Yup, at some point

2) Nope smile

carbonphyber

Juicy Hint: I can neither confirm nor deny; if so, it's going to be called "Astra-***********"

DARKNRGY

EliteDanneh

Are the asterisks representative of exactly how many letters the new item (that may or may not be coming out) has?

Also. HTTPS ALL THE THINGS.

Inside joke, don't mind us, folks.

HTTPSing all of the things is a big undertaking. We have mixed content from both dynamic and static content servers, using CDNs, etc. If we HTTPS the main site then we either get big scary popups about insecure content or we have to move to HTTPS for all content. And that doesn't take into account third party served content like imgur, etc. It would be very nice but also very expensive.

I hope this answers all of your things :] (we have the same inside joke here). You know it's from Hyperbole and a Half, right?

DARKNRGY

Dingu

DARKNRGY

Dingu

9 out of 10 times when I try to send PM,
It doesn't go out and stays in my outbox,
But when I delete it, its like
"Psych! There is no message here. We may have deleted it because it was creepy."
I don't send creepy messages. emotion_eyebrow

PMs stay in your outbox until the recipient reads it, then it moves to your sentbox. Hope this helps!

Actually, they don't even get them...
Its like my inbox is eating my messages. gonk

Okay, understood. I'll keep an eye out for that issue. Anyone else having this problem?

biglanky14

7obias

Hey guys,

I've recently been reading about how you are working on updating towns to a 2.0 version, but I was wondering if there are any further updates?
Do you have a specific date where you can say that you will launch Towns 2.0?
And can you by any chance throw us a screenshot on how it will look? gonk
I'm really looking forward to an update to the "classic" hangout smile

Look for it this summer if all goes well smile No preview at the moment, but I've seen the progress so far - it's pretty damn impressive.

codemonkey37179

7obias

codemonkey37179

I'm working on it almost every day. At this point, we are hoping for sometime in the fall. We don't have a set date. The artists would have a fit if I showed you the work before time, but I've been putting together the new maps and building this week and they look really cool. The new layouts proved to be a bit of a challenge, because in the old towns mostly you went behind and in front of trees, rocks, etc, and the new spaces are more complex. There are spots where you have to go over or under an area, and the code have to be adjusted to deal with it. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Wouldn't want to upset the artists lol x]
I've seen quite a lot of talk about Towns 2.0 should resemble zOMG! to an extent (hopefully with less lag because I get stuck in weird places due to lag there), but how much of that is true? Are you using zOMG! as inspiration or are you using somewhat the same coding and layout?

Well, I'd have to say none of that is true. The inspiration for the art comes from the artist, I don't think they are using zOMG! as inspiration, but you'd have to ask them. I think it looks quite different. I'm not using any zOMG code or layout, everything is brand new. It should have less lag.

codemonkey37179

Xerveon

codemonkey37179

Vyrelost

Hi, will the new towns 2.0 be like Hollywood/Rally? Any similarities? mrgreen

Hmm, that's a good question. Yes and no. It will have unique areas instead of just many many chessboards. So in that way it is like that, but you won't pick/create a hangout like you do in Hollywood. The new towns may feel a bit small at first, but it will grow as we add each town into towns. Durem, Gambino, Barton, etc.

When you refer to "It will have unique areas instead of just many many chessboards." What unique areas do you refer to, as in where each chessboard is placed, there will be a new unique place? surprised

No, I mean in that way, it is like Hollywood or Rally. If we do put a chessboard in new towns there will be only one. You can't just keep walking forever. Does that make sense?

codemonkey37179

Xerveon

codemonkey37179

Xerveon

Yes, i do! Thank you , how about avatar interaction with items such as benches, chairs, beds? Is there any change at all?

No, the poses are still limited to the existing artwork. However, there will be some new actions in certain areas, like sliding and jumping.

Alright! Well, over all i think you guys have been doing an excellent work process in regards to trying to perfect towns to a better and more enjoyable environment to our gaian population! Though, i would like to to know what features from the current existing towns will remain as a part of towns? surprised

Can we expect some pools for the summer time? cool

You can expect the trash, bugs and flowers to remain. The houses will still be there. I'm sure pools, skating and snow will still be part of towns, but we haven't gotten that far yet. Expect better public transportation!

Uncle Kenny

Saiphz

milkbun

Saiphz

This is the first time I've ever done this~ It's so exciting o u o
I have a few questions~

Will you guys ever put anything new in the Gaia shop? Like new Clothing and accessories? Not the cash shop, the real shop.

We update the gold shops once a month, so yes.

Oh heh, not that one either. I meant the real shop. o u o

We have no plans to update the real life store any time soon. You can read more about the situation here

milkbun

Oops sorry. That's what I get for trying to read fast and answer as many questions as I can XD.

Uncle Kenny provided the right answer though we did put up a few t-shirts recently. You can find the link in my signature.

Siglink to shirts-for-sale here.

Zero Omega

Hannah Yeager

Alright, I tried asking this question in the Q&A Forum, but no one seems to know the answer.

I recently sent in a request for an event to be in the community spotlight, but I have not recieved a PM or e-mail if my request was approved or denied. Is there any way I can get the status of my community spotlight request?

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place, but the Q&A had no correct answer and there's still more that needs to be done before I can open it up.

Again, I'm sorry if this is the wrong thread. gonk sweatdrop

Could you send me a PM and I'll check the status of it?

Zero Omega

The Omnitrix King

Zero Omega

The Omnitrix King

@Zero Omega

Did you enjoy me grabbing your booty? wink

eek gonk I NEED AN ADULT!

Don't worry, I'm 19. redface

gonk

burning_eyes

codemonkey37179

Zero Omega

codemonkey37179

Zero Omega

codemonkey37179

Guys! Seriously, do you have to do this in front of everyone? This is why we never take you anywhere!

YOU ARE DEAD TO ME! scream gonk

*SIGH* Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays

If I hear that phrase one more time...

Yeaaaaaaah...

You won't hear it again until next Monday.

biglanky14

Gyptoega

Are you going to extend Zomg like add some more areas to train solo and party?

Furthermore, is the beta testing for the new game comming out on gaia? Are you still backed up?

Hi Gyptoega,

No - we're not going to be doing any major work on zOMG unfortunately. We're definitely keeping it available and will fix bugs and add small stuff where we can though.

Yup - the beta testing for the new game will be starting really soon. We're very excited about that!

Zero Omega

iFun Size

I was hacked on another account, i had gotten sent a message the other day to the person working my account . She said it is done, did you get a message? I replyed no. A day later she still had not replyed so i sent it again. She wrote back, i will answer you when i get to the first message. A couple of days have passed and im getting really anoyyed. The account was hacked months ago, i dont understand why she couldnt have just given me my answer to that message. I would like to know if anyone else could give me my answer so i dont have to wait a year before getting it from her.

Some moderators get a lot of PMs from hacking cases and other situations they take care of, if you don't get a reply within the next couple days, send me a PM.

Zero Omega

Shadow Ra Warrior

Why wasn't there an Asian American Heritage Month Hot Topic link made for the month of May?

I never knew there was an Asian American Heritage Month. eek

biglanky14

Sessysaurus

Excellent, I see Waffles was found, I was quite worried.

Alas.
I know he's a dev, not an admin, but do you think Swarf would like me? redface

Quite possibly - you should ask him smile

milkbun

True Boogy Monster

milkbun

kitty868theonly

3) CAAAAAKE!:

Why must you torture me with cake!? I'm happy that the Owlpocalypse finale had cake and that there is a new REI that involves cake, but I would love it if you guys could put regular cake in the GS. emo To be specific, Buttercup Cafe. Just to let you know, I have no money/GC, so each time any item that is released on Gaia that is costing money, I don't buy it with cash anyway because I don't have it (unless I spend days/hours/weeks/months on doing offers). xd So you're pretty much missing out on me buying it, you're 'biggest' cake fan! surprised But seriously, PLEEEEEEASE add cake to the Buttercup Cafe?

Here is a thread on that: Y NO CAKE? crying (Item Request/Recolor; w/EXAMPLES) [/shamelessly self advertisement]

Hopefully any artists that are lurking will see this...or bring it up to them please. ninja And please, get it right this time- Gold Shop, not Cash Shop! emotion_donotwant (Seriously, I want to hoard GS cakes and gift them away too as B-Day gifts- so pretty please!?)

[POST 2]

It's always a possibility though I'm not sure of any devious cake plans at the moment.
I emotion_bigheart cake too *hungry now*

OH MISS MILBUN!!! YOUR JUST THE PERSON I WAS LOOKING FOR YAY! May I PM you some of my ideas? I just would die if i couldnt give them way to you *Squee!* or at least have you look at them may I please!? *begs on one knee*

sure! biggrin

Lanzer

kitty868theonly

1) About the Avatar Arena Coming To Be Update ['IMPORTANT']:

I'm going to be honest and say what's on my mind, and I hope that I am being clear when I do. Please, please, PLEASE tell me that the changes you are making to the arena ARE NOT due to that ONE THREAD in Site Feedback (or rather, second thread by the same OP)? For this update that is coming up, is this based on various opinions from various threads or was it due to that one thread by a reg of the AA, whom is bias about various things concerning the AA? Will these changes to the arena be fair for all or will it be one-sided? I would like a clear enough answer for this, because this raises concerns for me. If these changes must be put into effect, can you guys please create a thread in SF about what they are/might be and ask for opinions from various people? Just like you guys have done with the idea project thread and the calendar one. This way, there is various opinions about it and not from a specific group that is bias to begin with; though, it'll be nice to spread the word about it in dev alerts too, that way, those outside of SF will see it as well (at least most)- as the calender one has proven to do.

[FULL EXPLANATION OF ABOVE IS HERE- NOT REQUIRED TO BE READ]

Let me explain; There were many suggestions/posts in that thread that were bias and one-sided. In other words, it was a concern for REGS of the arena

(in addition, many of the posters are even regs of SF- how is that small thread a 'conclusion' of what others think of the Avatar Arnea (AA)? It shouldn't be.)

and not fair for people all around. When the other thread was created by the creator, there were many things I mentioned that have not been answered and/or ignored. So, the OP blocked me from further posting,

(and their reason is for being 'dense'; funny, I saw it as them being special snowflakes as they call others in the arena)

and when the new thread was created, I could not post in the thread due to being blocked by the OP nor could I reply to the dev that did post there (was it Kenny?), otherwise- I would have made my voice very clear and 'loud'

(and hopping onto a mule account is a no-no etc., so I didn't do that either- even if I wanted to)

. And I can't imagine how many others were blocked by the OP for the exact same reason(s). Again, I find it funny that they call others 'can't handle critique'/'special snowflakes' and I have pretty much done/proven that they are the same thing- seems they can't handle mine either. emotion_awesome Again, for this update that is coming up, is this based on various opinions from various threads or was it due to that one thread by a reg of the AA, whom is bias about various things concerning the AA?

I just want this to be clear, because from what I have read and how fast this is going on when other things should/could be...higher priority, it just doesn't seem right. I guess to TL;DR this: Please don't let these new changes be created just so that the REGS of the AA can and will have 'full control' of the AA. The OP of that thread have mentioned that 'non-regs' have a problem with it too- yet there was no proof of this, from what I have read, it's only a problem with regs, not non-regs or casual people as the OP try to claim it as such. Because bottom line of their problem- is that 'terrible' avatars are winning (based on their definition of 'terrible') and that there is plain laziness going on from their own end. In others words- they want solutions/'stuff handed to them on a silver platter' from you guys, but refuse to do anything for themselves even when alternate solutions have been given and CAN be done. To me, that is no different then a harassment case; where the user has to block the user and then report them if it continues (or rather refuses to block them). Or when a person loses their account due to scamming despite the precautions/warnings that we have and refuses to report what happened to them but rather complain to their 'friends' and ask for handouts etc. There are many others similar problems/examples I can come up with. neutral

2) Spoiler Tags: Thanks for the spoiler tags! I REALLY appreciate them!

Seriously, thanks guys! This is awesome!

3) CAAAAAKE!:

Why must you torture me with cake!? I'm happy that the Owlpocalypse finale had cake and that there is a new REI that involves cake, but I would love it if you guys could put regular cake in the GS. emo To be specific, Buttercup Cafe. Just to let you know, I have no money/GC, so each time any item that is released on Gaia that is costing money, I don't buy it with cash anyway because I don't have it (unless I spend days/hours/weeks/months on doing offers). xd So you're pretty much missing out on me buying it, you're 'biggest' cake fan! surprised But seriously, PLEEEEEEASE add cake to the Buttercup Cafe?

Here is a thread on that: Y NO CAKE? crying (Item Request/Recolor; w/EXAMPLES) [/shamelessly self advertisement]

Hopefully any artists that are lurking will see this...or bring it up to them please. ninja And please, get it right this time- Gold Shop, not Cash Shop! emotion_donotwant (Seriously, I want to hoard GS cakes and gift them away too as B-Day gifts- so pretty please!?)

[POST 1]

The Arenas update contains mainly requests that had been made in SF and ATA for the past 6 months. The main part being a vote control algorithm that's a more advanced version than the one made in the first version of Arenas many years ago. We'll also be creating new avatar arena categories also. Probably one for with higher cost entry fee, as we're not likely to adjust the current entry fee. Since you didn't specifically mention particular issues or features, I couldn't answer to your concerns. In general, we read everything that's out there, and every thread has a potential of making things happen, but probably won't be the only driving force.

biglanky14

Mischievieous Takaton

Ok. Um...

Will there ever be any cheap gold shop makeup that avatars can wear?

I'm not talking about the clown makeup, or the little makeup tubes that you can hold in your hand.

People have been buying up the masquerade items like crazy. I have a little over 100,000g, but it is still way not enough.

I'm not of a high enough level to make an alchemized version of it either.

Hi there,

Quite possibly. We generally like to keep updates quiet b/c they can change a lot, but I know this is something we're looking at putting out at some point.

Lanzer

Betsey-chan

Happy Monday Everyone! I have just one question/request. Skin previews in shops~ I'd love to try out a tan or maybe a potion and previews are what sell me on an item. Thanks for your reply, I hope you have a great week.

We can't make that feature right now mainly because of weird limitations on our system where skin tone does work the same way as other items, it's more like a setting and it'll take more work for it to happen. Sorry, hopefully sometime down the road.

siskataya

OMG Maureen Cox

siskataya

OMG Maureen Cox

Are all the questions you guys are asked ever stress you out because there's so many?

Great question, and one which stresses me out! I tease, I tease! xd

Actually no, they don't stress me out - I like lots of questions from the community. I might not always have the answers, but I like being able to try and find out for you all biggrin

Sisky

Do you like cheese? Do you eat mac and cheese with cheese?
WHY AM I ASKING YOU ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS? emotion_awesome

Lawl, thanks for the answer 3nodding

I do like cheese - lots! Yummy! And I wish I could have Mac and Cheese with cheese, but I don't eat macaroni because of my diet. Gotta stay away from the refined carbs... the tasty, tasty, refined carbs. crying And maybe you are asking because I'll answer?

Sisky

siskataya

OMG Maureen Cox

Yay, more random questions:

Do you like hermit crabs? If you could have a pet, what would it be?

Hermit Crabs are cool! And I do have a pet - a lop rabbit named Nomnom. Here he is in a "thank you" for reporting picture that I send to Gaians who, well, report stuff on Gaia!:

Zero Omega

L3_Swag

Zero Omega

L3_Swag

Hello admin I was wonder if There was a way to get my hacked account back and is there any new items are going to come that are just like mini wings ?

For the hacked account, have you tried filing a Hack Report at http://www.gaiaonline.com/hacking?

i have like 12 times crying

Send me a PM with some information about the hacked account and I can take a look into it.

biglanky14

True Sefirosu

biglanky14

True Sefirosu

Any news from viximo about game updates?

Also, how is the new towns world development going?

Hi,

I'm not quite sure what you mean by game updates - if you mean whether new ones will come out, we're talking to them right now about whether we want to add any.

Towns is coming along nicely. We're hoping that part of it will be available sometime this summer.

By Viximo games, I mean any news about updates to games like Resort World and Backyard Monsters.
(Viximo doesn't seem to respond to emails sadly sad )

Are you posting to the forum in there? They should be paying attention there.

siskataya

Something Invisible

Admin fist bump pl0x? Lol

emotion_brofist

codemonkey37179

Captain Dory

To Admins:
There have been rumors, so I guess this is a good time to ask.

Is it true there will be a Rejected Olympic's 2012?

Also, Waffles is too cute!!

It is true. I've been working on the games today. We had some pretty crazy ideas, and they have evolved in to even crazier ideas. They are going to be more complex than last time, but I hope just as, if not more fun. They will be all events you can do with your avatar.

Narumi Misuhara

Lesbian In Denial

Hi Lanzer! 4laugh
so, I must ask: What made you come up with the Waffles event? How did you come into a discussion, even, of the owner of Waffles, about posting them on Gaia? surprised

The idea came out of an event brainstorm I had. I asked the events team for ideas for the month of June, Prism suggested doing something with Waffles where Gaians had to find him for some reason. We all looked at Prism like she was crazy but then it hit us ...global domination through cute furry things is just the way to go!

lanzer

It's not my decision eek

lanzer

sir sapphire

Good evening Admins.<3

One question,
Are there going to be any new rings released in zOMG?

Not at the moment, we're focused on fixing the NPC related bugs right now.

Narumi Misuhara

Chaos Tsukiji

A question for the Admin Lead Crew! When is the Calender thing Gonna be put up? 1 more question are u guys deciding on putting any new stuff in zomg like new maps?

No set date yet, but I would like to get it out as soon as possible.

biglanky14

Forever Tony

Hey admin, one thing I want to suggest and ask is, are there any plans to make a Following/Followers option on Gaia in addition to being able to friend people?

Hi Forever Tony,

This is possible, but probably not in the short-term b/c we're pretty booked full for the moment with projects. Thanks for the suggestion!

biglanky14

Castiel Lover

Thanks for the Waffles mini-event :3 I'm curious as to how it came to be.. Was it sparked from my ATA questions for a Waffles Companion (which I still want), or was it already planned?

Also, my captcha = Dust Bunny. I guess that means I should ask for the white dander ear recolor? lol

Hey Castiel,

LOL on the captcha.

Part of it was that there are like six different variants of June being "Official Cat Month" so we thought it was pretty natural. Well, that, and the fact that Waffles is more popular than any of us combined.

milkbun

tokisaur

Anyone like Kpop? c:

YES! Totally
Brown Eyed Girls and f(x) are my faves.

carbonphyber

dizziedobsession

1. Is there any update from carbonphyber on the wishlist issue? I know I posted about it 2 weeks ago but haven't heard a darn thing back :/ And his journal is private. Why don't dev's have more public blogs!? Arghhh.

I have not been able to reproduce it yet. =(

dizziedobsession

3.Why is the booty grab captcha different from the forum captchas? My Feedback Thread

The "newer" captcha (the SWF one that sometimes shows products as the captcha) was only a test initially. It looks like we are going to be moving more of the site's captchas to use the new system and away from the (Google) ReCaptcha system.

milkbun

Mrs Casil

Hejo Admins.

My Question of the day is, will the item Bunnihilation ever evolve or is the Bunnihilation at it's final evolve?

It will randomly evolve.

Narumi Misuhara

-Tickle Meh Giggles-

1. Tattoo upgrades?
2. When is the summer events coming? =]
3. Any new games?

2. Still a ways out.

DARKNRGY

Black Death Goddess

DARKNRGY

Black Death Goddess

I think that those Gaians who log in every day should get a major gold bonus. I mean if you log in every single day for more than 6 hours you should get 100k times the days and hours your were on.

So 7 days x's 42 hours ='s 4,200,000. xp

We'll get right on that. Siiiiiike.

Well, ya gotta admit a bonus like that would make people get on more. heart

Yeah, I'd like to bump up posting/surfing gold and nerf booty grab and I hope to work on that this summer some time.

biglanky14

Ridley Starsmore

milkbun

Treemie

Hi, I was wondering who writes your announcements? Do you have a writer who does those or is it different people? Some of them are really funny.

Yes we have wonderful writers to help make our announcements.

Writers who occasionally forget Firefox has spell check. mrgreen

What's spelchek?

biglanky14

Bleeding Apocalypse

Jesus Christ, Waffles is the cutest thing ever.

Hey, oddly specific question here. Are we gonna get some facial/body hair items in the natural color spectrum anytime in the near future? It's nice and all that we have black body hair. But I'd really like brown. And red. And blond. I like my avatars manly, and this whole "chest like a 10-year-old-boy" thing just isn't working for me.

Hey Bleeding,

Honestly, I'm not entirely sure. There are a few "body decor" things that we're looking at, but I don't know the specifics and whether it would include body hair. If we had green I'd probably use it to just be extremely strange.

lanzer

.~.Lady_Aji.~.

Evening, Lanzer/staff.

- What are some of the zOMG! fixes that have gone out?

- Recently, I've gotten a look at the Lucifer's wings. Why do they look so flat? I would expect better considering all of work, gold/cash that goes into making these wings.

The recent fixes were:

- A Gnome General bug
- Gnome HQ guards respawning
- Clutch behaviors in the mini-event
- Village gnome loot bug
- UnderseaCliffs safe not unlocking.
- SealabX fixed a few script bugs, leaders will talk more now.

I'm a step behind in getting the updates, sorry, will have more next week.

biglanky14

Corinth Maxwell

biglanky14

Welcome to this week's ATA!

cat_whee *waves* cat_3nodding

Quote:

We get a bunch of questions at these events,

cat_stare And as usual, I have plenty. cat_xp

1. Why aren't formulas (Alchemy) and recipes (zOMG) re-usable? Given how difficult it (already) is to obtain the gold & ingredients/materials, wouldn't it make sense to not have to buy multiple formulas & recipes as well -- especially for those "one time only" zOMG recipes whose end results you have to have multiples of, in order to be able to create other items? cat_burning_eyes

2. Can you remove the "wow, you lucked out!" message that pops up from the Daily Chance every time someone gets 15 gold? Considering that a person can now easily get more gold than that with nearly any daily site-wide activity, the message itself is a little condescending. cat_talk2hand

3. Question about the "Ignore" feature...When you put a user on your Ignore list, would it be possible to have it set up so that the ignored user's Marketplace store (and any items he/she has listed) do not show up in search results pages?

4. Would it be at all possible to allow users to have their own "personal savings banks", so that they can save separate amounts of gold, while still earning gold through their account(s)? Example: User wishes to save gold for a "Kiki Kitty Plushie", and said user sets up their own bank to automatically deposit gold from their account in specific denominations every day/week/month, or add to their bank manually, or both, until the specified goal is met. While the gold is being "deposited", the user is not able to spend any of it, in order to help avoid accidentally "spending money they don't have" until they've saved up what they need in order to get the item they wish to buy. cat_3nodding

Hi Corinth,

1) That's part of the balancing act of Alchemy - the rationale is really just that we wanted the system to work like that. Could that change in the future? Possibly. But I don't really have a really involved answer to that otherwise.

2) What, 15 gold isn't a mind-blowing amount?? smile That's something we could change at some point, but honestly that's going to be pretty low on the priority list at the moment. But not because we like being condescending (well, I do).

3 and 4) Both of these are cool ideas, but we're really backed up in terms of Dev time right now working on a bunch of stuff, so it's unlikely either will happen in the short-term.

This transcript was morbidly obese and couldn't stick to a diet, so it got liposuction.

[Platonix]

Hey, look, a big pile of transcript fat!

June 11th, some more

DARKNRGY

chibi sugerkoOkies

ok when is the inventory organizer gonna be updated

It's a couple projects out. Don't have an ETA. What kind of improvements are you looking for?

carbonphyber

WideEyed

carbonphyber

kikustronghold

omg. waffles is so cute o uo

unnn... notreallyaquestion.

i haven't been on gaia since the stone ages like some people, but i've been in several guilds and from what i've seen, guilds are behind. they just don't work as well as forums, if that makes sense, and i think i recall seeing a few old threads wandering around about wanting updates to guilds...

What in Guilds needs to be "updated"? Does it just look old or is there something that doesn't work?

Oh!
You walked directly into my trap! blaugh
Well not really seeing as I didn't know kikustronghold was going to ask a Guild question, but I'll take it. wink
I posed this question last week and late today (got a new tablet I was playing with! smile )

Me

(extraneous text removed)
Anyways, I was wondering if it would be possible to make New Topics in Guilds notify Friends in the same way that New Topics in Forums do.
It can be tough sometimes keeping a Guild on its member’s radar, because a Guild can be pretty easily forgotten with there being no Notifications of Guild activity short of the owner sending out Announcements.
Having New Topic Notifications would, I think, go a long way towards making our Guilds more active and worth the gold we pay to create them in the first place.

Thanks! 

The "notify" request seems reasonable. The difference is that forums are public and guilds forums are potentially private. We would need to make sure the notification recipients are able to view the guild forum. I think that is a smallish scoped project.

Zero Omega

Natulcien Raina

Hey all! This is my first time here, posting and not lurking! ninja
I only have two questions:
1. Do you guys just sit around in a circle answering these questions?
2. Can I have a hug from Zero? blaugh

1. We just sit at our desks and yell loudly at each other while throwing water balloons.
2. *hughug*

Zero Omega

Geozeph

Zero Omega

Geozeph

Question for Panagrammic (or any programmer)

Can the beta testers get any more information about what were beta testing? if not here maybe in PMS? : P

Also to Lanzer

Why no summoning tome? o-o i liked the owl...

Lakers suck : P << for Zero

[last line now reads "Lakers suck rule"]
Fixed your post for accuracy.

["Lakers suck rule is what i would have said if they could play basketball"]
: ) made it better

but srsly my question >->

["Lakers suck rule is what i would have said if they could play basketball, which they actually can so I'm just going to contradict myself because of the threepeat they achieved a few years back"]
Even better!

And I actually don't know the answer to your questions, sorry. xd

Zero Omega

Dexigone

Zero Omega

Dexigone

["Celtics are more awesome is what i would have said if they could play basketball, which they actually can so I'm just going to contradict myself because of the threepeat they achieved a few years back"]
now I fixed it.

["Celtics are more awesome is what i would have said if they could play basketball, which they actually can so I'm just going to contradict myself because of the threepeat they achieved a few years back suck"]
Fixed!

["Lakers are more awesome is what i would have said if they could play basketball, which they actually can so I'm just going to contradict myself because of the threepeat they achieved a few years back suck"]
heeheehehehehehehehee
AVAST! The flames of anarchy hath cometh. dramallama

[original post falls out of quote tree and can no longer be edited. sad ]
Lakers rule.

Zero Omega

1-I N F E R N O-2

["Lakers rule at sucking."]
There we go.

["Lakers rule at everything."]
Accurate.

Zero Omega

Dexigone

Zero Omega

Dexigone

Zero Omega

Lakers rule.

I like the Celtics.

I like the Dodgers.

the Boston Red Sox.


(Seriously, I'm having fun with this!)

San Francisco 49ers.

Zero Omega

Dexigone

Zero Omega

Dexigone

The New England Patriots.

Okay you get a bonus on that.

San Jose Sharks.

New England Revolution.

LA Galaxy

biglanky14

Heroine by Choice

Hello. Waffles is cute, I had a dog named Waffles once <3

Anyways, For the wii event(s) that are going on, is there any way you can eliminate Gaians who obviously entered a billion accounts just to have more chances to win? I noticed that one of the winners looked like he was one of many mules. It doesn't really make it fair. To me, at least.

Thank you.

Hi,

The main issue is that at a systematic level, it's hard for us to determine who is whose mule. We can do so when manually investigating, but in a sitewide contest it's pretty difficult without running the risk of blocking potentially legit users. So for now we're taking the stance that if they want to take the time to log in their accounts every day, they'll be eligible like everyone else.

lanzer

It's hard to combat mules but what we make sure is that all you active Gaians will have a fair chance of getting all the good stuff.

lanzer

Glittery Kaya

Are you guys ever going to have new skin-tones available..?
As I recall, there's more skin-tones in the world than just the 5 you guys have.

Gaia's not as diverse as the real world because of its mild climate. smile But seriously, that's another limitation on our end where darker skin will make the facial features hard to see. Are you looking for more shades of flesh tones or something completely different?

Zero Omega

xXAyumi_cherryXx

I was hacked and I gt my account back but I still didn't get everything I had back. I had Cloud,Lusty,Toned Keido, and Neogaia Hero. Please give them back to me! I worked so so so hard to get them!

Send me a PM with the details of your case and I can take a look into it.

biglanky14

DokiDokix3

Why are you skipping over some q's? neutral

We try our best to get to as many as possible, but there are hundreds of you and only a handful of us so we can't possibly answer everything - especially questions that are repeats of stuff we've answered already.

DARKNRGY

Reasons why we might not answer questions:

1) it's obviously a loaded question meant to antagonize us
2) we answered questions like it a bunch of times already
3) we're avoiding it because we don't know yet or don't want to deal with it
4) we think someone else here is better qualified to answer it
5) the wording pisses us off

The list goes on and on :] We're here trying to create a positive experience for everyone, including ourselves.

biglanky14

-I-Mistr3ss_0f_H3arts-I-

Hello admin, it's my first ATA! (:
-Will a hangout like VJ be coming back?
I was really upset when you guys removed it ): I used to go there a lot

Hi there,

Most likely not, at least in it's prior form. It was simply the site/cause of too much bad behavior.

codemonkey37179

Sarah-J-Smith

biglanky14

Sarah-J-Smith

What conventions are you planning on going to next? Because I went to QC Anime-zing here in Davenport, IA and all they had Gaia wise was flyers with codes for last year's con items. The reason why I'm asking is because I'm going to be part of staff next year and it would be wonderful to have flyers with next year's con item to keep up to date smile

Also great job with everything you have done on the site! Been a proud member since 2005 and Gaia never gets old! Keep up the fantastic work!

P.S. - Sneak in some more Doctor Who items... Like a companion item with various companions or aliens from the series or even different incarnations of the Doctor himself! With permission from BBC of course XD Don't want you to end up going to court for legal stuff lol

Hi there,

Definitely PM DJ Helsing - he can get you some stuff for the con at least. And thanks for sticking with us so long! smile

Great! I'll keep that in mind!

.... But what about the Doctor Who item suggestion? XD

Hi Sarah Jane,

I hope we do get some more items. They seem to keep disappearing soon after being made. I think it has something to do with the polarity of the neutron flow.

biglanky14

SpitFireSpirit

Can you please fix the Summer Springs Contest entry form? It keeps giving errors like "Nonce invalid" or "Must be 250 characters or less" when the amount of characters I have is not even close to 250.

Yeah – something wonky is going on with that. We're working on fixing it right now. Thanks for your patience!

biglanky14

Sinyuki

Hello Everyone!

First off, Waffles so too cute. Can I expect to see plushies of Waffles?
1)I know question about the keys for alchemy have been asked before. But I would like to know, will they have a use or has the idea of it dropped?
2)Would it be possible to add a layering of shoes? I have a love for shoes but if I could somehow combine with it would be the bees knees.

Hi Sinyuki,

Prolly not plushies - Waffles retains copyright ownership and is a huge hassle to deal with smile

1) Yup - they're still in the plans. Secret plans.

2) Probably not in the short term, if I'm understanding the question. Changing the layering is really hard, and we've got a bunch of stuff we're trying to do in the short-term right now. But hopefully you'll like it!

DARKNRGY

Kahlan_BrightBlade

Hey admins and staff, I hope today finds you well. I have two questions for you

Hey Admins, hope this day finds you well. I have some questions

- Will there be more things like what you did with the tycoon achievement where having a certain achievement unlocks something ?

-Can we please.. please get a recolor of the Ghostly Hookah item in every color including Rainbow. Purple is just so limited since there aren’t many other purple items.

We're working on a titles system for achievements. Achievements will unlock words, which you can mix and match into a title which will be displayed in Forums.

siskataya

Princess-Orphelia

Gaia, please remind me to not come to an AtA when there's a million posts.. gonk

Actually better still, please dun send out Announcements.. rofl

No, we won't - we want you here, even if there are a million posts! XD Mwahahaha!... *cough* ninja

- Sisky

Narumi Misuhara

Mew mew n-n

Hi there Two Questions
1. Are we gonna do that forums idea's votes again, where people entered in idea's and what ever was the popular topic you guys would add? Like you guys did for the twons subjestions?
2. When is the pools in twons coming out for summer i was just wondering
Thank you very much,
Mew mew n-n

2. I've been so busy I forgot to turn them on xd ...I'll see if I can do this sometime this week.

DARKNRGY

I personally feel like the system of gathering feature ideas via those forum - popular topics, etc was a terrible idea because it sets the expectation that we can actually do them. In reality what we can do is a combination of what the users are asking for, what we think will work, and what we can physically do with the resources we have. So I hope we do not do that again.

I asked around and it sounds like the pool is being enabled this week some time :].

biglanky14

IIx Sin xII

I dont know if anyone asked this yet, but when is gaia gonna show some android users some love and give us a GaiaOnline App, I've been waiting for it in like 4eva!!!

We would love to do that, and it's on our list of higher priorities. But we're really busy with a bunch of stuff coming up soon, and don't have the capacity to take the project on right now. But hopefully we'll get to it in the future.

biglanky14

II LOv3ly_Ang3l II

Do you guys know what the plans are for meebo ???

As far as we know, the Bar will still hang around (even though most of their other stuff is going away since Google bought them). So at least from what they've told us, it shouldn't impact the site.

carbonphyber

Meebo (the company) was recently purchased by Google. They announced on their blog that they are shutting down many of their products -- except for their main website "bar". As far as we know, the bar should stay around for the time being.

I don't know of any plans to change the current Meebo bar.

Zero Omega

xXAyumi_cherryXx

Zero Omega

xXAyumi_cherryXx

I was hacked and I gt my account back but I still didn't get everything I had back. I had Cloud,Lusty,Toned Keido, and Neogaia Hero. Please give them back to me! I worked so so so hard to get them!

Send me a PM with the details of your case and I can take a look into it.

I've tried to PM you before but you never reply!

Fairly certain I saw one of your PMs and answered it. gonk Send it to me again, could have sworn I responded.

biglanky14

Flz

Quote:

SO GLAD I MADE IT.

I'm not sure if this has been asked yes, but have any of the Devs been looking into the new bugs that are going on in the Avatar Arena right now? With the whole editing bug and now these's a new bug going around today where you can't see your stars rank.

Bumping to see if it will be answered ninja

Short answer - yes. We're looking into a couple of Arena-related things right now in general.

milkbun

DanceAlexxDance

Idk who to ask about this but when are the Crosstich winners going to be announced, or how long did the process take last time?

I know this is a horrible word to use but.... SOON. I promise it's soon!

Zero Omega

The Assassin of Doom

I have a question. I opened a ticket on May 31st, 2012. Today is June 11, 2012 an no response. What should I do?

Send me over a PM with the ticket number and I can take a look into it.

Narumi Misuhara

Kahlan_BrightBlade

- when the waffles event is over, can we have a new manga please that shows up what happened? I love waffles,he’s so cute.

Yes

biglanky14

Sayania

Is there an android mobile app coming anytime soon?

No - this is a longer-term project, unfortunately.

siskataya

LogicalFallacies

siskataya

LogicalFallacies

So I had a conversation with someone the other day about gaiaonline ToS and sexual photos on profiles. She said quote, "No one cares about the ToS anymore. Besides her photos aren't n***s."

So my question is- Does what you post anywhere on gaia really have to be nude in order to be against the terms of service? Not everyone wants to see a 16 year old in her panties on her profile.

Heya!

Thanks for the great question! Content can be against the Terms of Service for a variety of reasons including being sexually explicit. And it doesn't matter where the inappropriate content is posted or place on Gaia, the Terms of Service applies everywhere. And lots of people care about the Terms of Service and following the rules. The ToS is there to help keep people safe online, and is important!

Remember, if you see anything that violates the ToS, please feel free to report it!
Sisky

Okay, so I am correct then in saying that something of that particular content is considered something that one should report? That it doesn't have to be nude to be in violation?

Correct - you can report anything you feel violates the Terms of Service. It doesn't have to contain nude images biggrin

biglanky14

Ridley Starsmore

biglanky14

Something Invisible

Now the real question is, What does the MyGaia page of an Admin look like?

It has nothing but unicorns, rainbows, and coupons that we can trade in for real-life riches. If you're bad, it's just a chupacabra.

So, you beens seeing a few chupacabaras? ninja

Far, far too many. Nothing but chupacabras.

Zero Omega

biglanky14

Zero Omega

Dexigone

Are we gonna get basketball items?

The only basketball items that will be allowed are for the Lakers.

Zero is hereby banned. Hope you enjoyed your stay on the site.

YOU ARE GONE! GONE!

biglanky14

Dexigone

What? But I'm from Boston... well, the suburban area, but it still counts as Boston.
I like the Boston Celtics ;_;

But what I meant was if we could get generic basketball things for our avatars, like different colored jerseys and shorts, shoes, basketballs, and hoops? Come on! Gaia isn't just for nerds and my little brother (not on Gaia) and I play sports . We are at a dire lack for football things as well, and lacrosse stuff, and we lack shotputs.

Can we pleeeeeeease see them, no matter what fan of a team anybody's on?

I would love this, and it's definitely possible. Future updates are generally kept pretty quiet though so I can't really say one way or the other about the likelihood of it happening, though.

lanzer

Teacup456

I've had a zOMG technical difficulty and I'm starting to wonder if I'm just insane...
I'm on the Vox Stellarum quest. I got the item and went to go talk to Roderick, but his speech bubble went away and it won't let me talk to him D':
Is this something that happens a lot and has a code (like /stuck) or is it an actual issue?

That probably is an actual issues and is one of the many "silent NPC" bugs. Unfortunately each one of those bugs is its own issue and we're fixing them one by one. Might take a while to fix the specific one that you came across, sorry.

biglanky14

xSilentKnight

HEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLO <Finishes soda>
1) Sorry if this has already been asked but will there every be a GaiaCash > GaiaGold system?
2) Still on that GaiaCash note.Will we ever be able to Trade it?
Anyone can answer these.
Ps: I love how interactive you devs are.

Hopefully you've got Cherry Pepsi over there!

1) No - almost certainly not. I won't say never, but this introduces a whole host of issues that we'd have to prepare for, so it's really unlikely.

2) Same thing here. Allowing for direct trades brings with it a lot of potential problems. Of course, right now you can always "trade" by exchanging the GC for an item and then trading/selling that.

lanzer

The Poetic Soldier

Will we be seeing any BBC Sherlock based items?

I'm sure ReaperSun would agree with your request. biggrin

Zero Omega

Awenita

Zero Omega

lostfromdemoneyes

i reported my account missing when i got hacked. and i even said who hacked it. why havent i gotten the password and stuff back?

Hacking reports can take up to 7 to 10 business days to reply to, if it's been longer than that, then send me a PM with the information related to the hacked account.

LOL
I've had a hacking report since 2004 and it was never answered on my main account; twice. Are you suuuuuuuure?

emotion_facepalm

A Hack Report from 2004? That's was a muuuuuuuuccccccch~ different time, my friend. xd If you PM me I can try to look into it, but can't guarantee any results.

Zero Omega

ii_hailee

yeah ive been hacked tons of times and i never got my gold back. ive even made my avvi look poor so noone will hack me. but then i got so mad i left for a year. and i come back with my old account was hacked, and banded. and i had great items on that account.

As with the others, try reporting it at http://www.gaiaonline.com/hacking. We've found that a lot of times reports don't actually get into our system, so we can't reply because there's never a report. When you file a report, you will always receive a report/confirmation ID to signal the report went through.

biglanky14

pandexX

why not make items on gaia on soul crash and soul crash items on gaia this way there more items on both sites . i.e if we have something like thief's armor ( im wearing always) transferred to soul crash or copyed people who play will want it and join gaia and play gaia to earn it. or if i have that fire axe on soul crash i should be able to get it on gaia for my avi this way people on gaia who like weapons and PVP games will play soul crash tada there you go gaia jump on it lol. well im sure you guys can work out any kinks or tweak my idea a bit. emotion_awesome When is soul crash coming to gaia ?

Hi PandexX,

I love the idea in concept, but they're completely separate systems so there's no easy way to do this. As for coming to Gaia, it's not impossible, but the game was developed with the help of a third party and wasn't built in a way that lets us easily host it on Gaia. So maybe at some point, but not right now.

lanzer

techno engel

Lanzer, do you really take waffles out for walks? Because that is just so.....CUTE!

Waffles is an indoor cat, he likes staying at home all day and napping. smile

biglanky14

Tea Party For Two

Oh, I have another question.
Is there anyway to get someones username?
Like, someone that has been inactive for years~?
cat_3nodding

P.S. I love these cat emotions.. cat_whee

Hi there,

Nope, not right now. We've talked off and on about releasing old unused names, but there are some technical issues with doing so. We might be able to do it at some point, but it's not in the cards for the moment.

biglanky14

THE ULTIMATE DOOM

How's the progress on that new card game?

Coming along nicely - beta should start soon smile

Zero Omega

Backstrom

I haven't been able to use the videos on the cash tree since you changed them. Are you working on getting a new provider for offers or is this what we've got?

How about them Kings btw pirate

+1

We are definitely always checking out offers and working on 'em.

biglanky14

Kahlan_BrightBlade

Hey admins,. I’ve got three questions for you


- Will there be more things like what you did with the tycoon achievement where having a certain achievement unlocks something ?

-Can we please.. please have a recolor of the ghostly hookah item in every color (including rainbow colored)

- Why have shopping carts never been added to the gold shops? they’ve been asked for for a long time.

oh and I thought of one more

can we have an update on waffles.. pretty please. I ‘d love to see a manga of what happens next or when waffles is caught.

Hi there,

1) Quite possibly. We like that too.

2) Don't know this one.

3) Honestly, b/c it's a lot of work and we've got a bunch of other stuff we're working on in the meantime.

4) Stay tuned ninja

biglanky14

Yen Quest

biglanky14

Yen Quest

Is the Marketplace version of selling art (kind of like selling outfit's layout) on hold at the moment?

How many major projects are devs working on currently (nonFacebook-wise)? I only know of summer event and Towns 2.0 at the moment. The event calendar might count as one too.

Yeah, it is for right now. We're working on a number of stuff, including the things you mentioned, a bunch of bug fixes (which is a constant effort), and a few other projects that we're not talking too openly about right now. Forum Titles should be coming out soon-ish too smile

Forum titles! I want "Resurrected" and "Phoenix" if possible, but I guess I'm being a bit too greedy, lol. emotion_kirakira

Thank you for answering.

I want "yen" and "quest". Then I can do some awesome impersonation!! smile

lanzer

hieballa

I feel like I may have multiple questions for the admins, but I'll stick with these 2 for now.

1. The Gaia equips seem to be primarily either female or feminine. Is this intentional, and if so, would it be alright to ask how come? Not upset, as I'm a fan of a slightly feminine look, just curious.

2. This may quite possibly come off as rude, but as not intended to. I notice that most of the shoes on gaia are pretty mediocre at best. There are quite a few leg modifiers that have decent looking shoes, but those generally don't look proper with pants. So my question is this, are there any plans to release more shoes? I don't mean feet items in general, or slippers. I mean shoes.

I believe it's the result of us having much more female artist actually. It's actually really hard to find great artists who are male eek

Perhaps that haven't been a major focus, but I'll forward your feedback to the art team.

siskataya

Hey Cecilia!

Thanks for the questions! I don't have the answers for all of them, but there are a couple I can address:

Cecilia Wolfram Davidson

Third, and perhaps my own important question -
When will us cross-dressing/transgender guys/gals get chest binding tape or stuff that will better "enhance" cleavage?

Ok, I can definitely pass this request along! I don't know when or if these could be made, but it's a neat idea, and I can certainly make sure the suggestion is known! 3nodding

Quote:

Fourth question and important for my boyfriend - When will the ToS have a clarification that slurs of any type (homophobic/transphobic/racist/sexist/ageist/so on and so forth) can be grounds for a ban? Because i still remember the death threats put against my boyfriend while he was being featured - just because he was transgender.

Just so you know, technically, any violation of the Terms of Service is potentially grounds for an account ban. This would include hate speech or slurs based on sexual identity or orientation. The Terms of Service section 4, subsection 2, states that

Quote:

BY USING GAIA ONLINE YOU AGREE not TO: send, post, or make available pornographic, threatening, embarrassing, hateful, racially or ethnically insulting, deceptive, tortious, defamatory, libelous, or otherwise inappropriate or offensive content to other Gaia Members;

The types of slurs you are talking about would fall under this category.

We often try to give corrective educational warnings and temporary bans before permanent bans to help enlighten people; to help them to understand why the behavior is hurtful, and why they should stop. Perhaps it will get through to them, and they will change for the better. That said, depending on the nature of the comments made, it may be they warrant an immediate ban for safety reasons. If anyone again makes death threat towards yourself or your partner because of your sexual identity or orientation, please feel free to email me at [e-mail] and report the incident. Such threats are taken seriously and we will investigate the matter and take appropriate action.

Be well biggrin
Sisky

biglanky14

A_Drawn_Angel

Hello! ~

Have some questions and requests.

1) Will there be any salon durem updates soon? I've seen a lot of good ideas lately in the petitions forums. Like the scene hair...*hint**hint*

2) I can't change my text color, cross anything out, underline anything, make anything italisized (if that even is how it's spelled) or make my text bigger. Can you fix this please?

3) Why can't I put items in my aquarium anymore?

Hi there,

1) Quite possibly, although we don't talk about future updates very openly smile

2) That's odd - please post about that in the Bug Reports forum. As you can see simply from this thread, it seems to be working for most people so that will help us get an idea of the scope of the problem.

3) Same thing as above. Thanks!

biglanky14

Link Of Worlds

Oh hai there. I just wanted to know why i completed an ad survey for gold and never got it? It was 100 gold and for the swagbucks survey. Why is that?

Hi there,

Definitely get in touch with the provider - they'll usually be able to help you out.

lanzer

Arch Angel Neko

Hi Ata!

I just stopped by to give thanks to you you guys who made zOMG servers run smoothly again. It has been a bugger to players such as me who just loves hanging out and helping friends with stuff there. So I am requesting once more for new quest to be available in zOMG that can be done as a group or an individual in the different maps of zOMG. (Request 1) Even better, maybe a quest that would demand us running around zOMG looking for stuff and killing monsters maybe?

Just a quick question. (q1). Are you guys personal fans of the anime Full Metal Alchemist? I see alchemy is becoming a trend here in gaia xd

Dear Lanzer I love mr waffles and the waffles shirt. waffles is a boy right?

ps Waffles I love yew~

Many of us love Full Metal Alchemist, that's why we liked the sponsorship, but that doesn't have anything to do with item alchemy.

Waffles is a boy, he's just over a year old.

DARKNRGY

Lotus Flower 1209

I want to say. I'm not happy with these new offers. They really aren't offering anything. As you might see in the large number of topice in the forums where people are unhappy. Please please return to the older offer set up.

Yeah, we're monitoring the effectiveness of Trial Pay against our old offers. Until we have solid results, we're going to continue the test and, unfortunately, that means some users will not get the offer system they prefer. We hope to the end up with the best of both worlds when we're done. I can only ask for your patience in the meantime.

biglanky14

King Racoon

I have a 2003 Bronze Medal that I love and I recently noticed that MOST vests and jackets layer on top of it.

I would like to know if its possible for you to fix this.

For example the Elegant Satin Vests, the medal goes under them, and I would really love for the medal to show.

is this a fixable matter? thanks for the help in advance.

Hi King Racoon,

Unfortunately I don't think that's something we can fix in the short term. I don't know if it's a layering issue or something else, but if it's the former, it'll be tough. You could try PMing some of the artists though to see if they can give you some more info.

biglanky14

Cecily Cambell of Housman

What happened to H & R Wesley's Shop ?

Why did it burn down ?

Who's idea was it to have that happen ? And Why find a burnt pair of undies in the rubble ?

Read the manga smile

siskataya

i c e r i v e r s

What happens if you find out your friend was on Gaia and was underage, but their birthday already passed a day ago?

For legal reasons, you should report the matter so we can take care of the account. Not to worry - we don't disclose who reported the account, and your friend could verify his/her age to have that account reinstated.

Hope this answers your question!
Sisky

lanzer

Geozeph

Question for Panagrammic (or any programmer)

Can the beta testers get any more information about what were beta testing? if not here maybe in PMS? : P

Also to Lanzer

Why no summoning tome? o-o i liked the owl...

.. Poor Zero''s booty

I don't want Waffles to jump on my head. biggrin

codemonkey37179

scullylam

codemonkey37179

Ren Orenji Doragon

scullylam, Ren Orenji Doragon

[discussion about how lanzer's username changed to [NPC] Lanzer]

idk, mang

Does that mean Lanzer isn't real? That he's just a Non-Player Character? But still played by a real person? eek

Does that mean Lanzer is gonna be in the storyline manga?

WHAT SORCERY IS THIS??

//shot

Okay, bad logic, I know. XD

I think it was just a momentary glitch in the system. Lanzer is quite real and sitting 2 desks down.

you should wave at him and tell him i say hi. and *waves to you* hi codemonkey. biggrin

I did so.

lanzer

Ryder Destry

Will there be any changes for the Gaia Gold prizes in the Avatar Areana's? Now-a-days, the prize seems very miniscule since the worth of gold has gone up tremendously. It would be a nice change if winners were compensated a little for the amount of gold that goes into making the winning avatar.

Yes I've been looking into that too, probably after the upcoming update we'll also change the prize money. Stay tuned!

biglanky14

Tocahontas

I have a few questions for you guys tonight.

first, are you ever going to be able to use our achievement points for anything?

second I saw someone ask what was going to be done to decrease inflation in the marketplace. an event involving some kind of gold sink would be great. while on this subject I would like to thank whoever decided to give out minis for runners up on the wii contest. putting more minis out will hopefully help deflate them a bit. more contest putting out rare items could help deflate items such as the minis.

also I was wondering if you were planning on doing more frequent user based item contest? I also think you guys should have a user based contest for new hair and eye designs. I think a lot of people would participate and you could use designs to get ideas for future updates.

Hi Tocahontas,

Right now, we don't have a plan for that b/c they're not supposed to be a form of currency.

We're running another contest right now smile

And yes - we're planning on doing regular contests like that.

biglanky14

nom-de-cookeh

what would it take to get zomg back in action? is there any possibility of that ever happening? or do u guys just hate your users that much that u decided its done for good no chance of return?

Hi,

Not sure that doing things because "we hate our users" is a good business plan. We just basically can't justify spending the resources that it requires any longer. We are keeping it available and will fix bugs and other small stuff where we can though.

biglanky14

Frawstling the 2nd

Yay, I made it on time. But it's 6:05. Hehe, someone went overtime whee

Okay, so not much to ask today, but...Is Waffles your real cat or just a thing you guys took off the internet? 4laugh

It's his real cat smile

biglanky14

Sinyuki

exclaim Hello Gaia Staff

Are there going to be anymore videos with the gaiaonline crew? I enjoy seeing the people behind the avvies and it some how makes me feel like you guys are reaching out to the other gaians. Plus the videos are funny.

Hopefully soon - we've got a couple of ideas still brewing smile

siskataya

Farrah Fawcett

why is it ok for mods to stalk users?

Mods don't "stalk" users - they are busy handling reports and issues that arise on the site. If one has been reported multiple times for violating the Terms of Service, mods will have to handle the reports and investigate the content posted by an account. This may lead to multiple messages, warnings, or even temporary bans depending on the content posted and which ToS violations occurred.

Also, bear in mind that a particular moderator may get multiple reports about a single user and handle those reports at one time. This also may seem like "being followed" when in fact, it is simply done for efficiency. Handling all reports against an offender gets them out of the queue.

Sisky

lanzer

Thank you for joining us on today's ATA! We'll see you next week!

biglanky14

Legend of Aang

Hello! Random question but is there a place where I can ask a request to have a specific Forum to have some sort of design (like Adventure Time for instance)?

Sure - PM Zero Omega

biglanky14

Wow - this was a huge ATA! Thanks so much for hanging out with us, and I apologize if we didn't get to your question.

I hope you'll join us next week - same time, same place!

codemonkey37179

OV8ION

Hello lovely Gaia staff, how are you on this hot summer Monday?

Will there be any guilds updates?

Is the chance of earning a rare item out of a CI exactly the same no matter when you acquire it? Or is it best to buy them on opening day?

Why does saying "Lanzer" evoke Waffles? Does Derek really own Waffles the Cat?

We are quite hot, as they turned off the AC about 2 hours ago. sad

Sorry I don't know anything about Ci.

I think it is because Waffles is looking for Lanzer. Derek does own Waffles, and we've met him a couple of times.

[Platonix]

June 15th

biglanky14

Hey guys,

Just seeing if anyone's around this fine Friday, and feels like chatting about just about anything. Note I said "just about" smile

biglanky14

Thy Almond

biglanky14

Thy Almond

what are some of the things you won't chat about? xd

I KNEW that was going to the be the first thing asked!! smile

Let's see....my fungus...where Lanzer lives (secret bunker).....nuclear launch codes....anything having to do with coffee ice cream b/c it's gross.

ninja You've said too much, now i know he lives in a secret bunker. Also, you have no taste in ice cream XD coffee ice cream with chocolate covered espresso beans is the best!~ also, i'm just going to go ahead and name your fungus Jeffy

I've already named my fungus Sir Itchalot, so you're a little late to the game. And that ice cream sounds nasty. Never developed a taste for coffee. Now, if it's mint ice cream topped with mint with an extra topping of thin mints, you're onto something.

biglanky14

Thy Almond

biglanky14

Thy Almond

Darnit *snaps my fingers* Sir Ichalot is a much better name. Also, you'll probably see me as the last person to diss mint (i've got like half an acre of it growing in my backyard ) but that sounds way too over powering xd

OOH! OOH! Make your yard into ice cream and invite me over!

No. xd that mint is for delicious simple syrup and tea's (and room fresheners)

So THAT'S where those things that hang on rear view mirrors in cars come from.

biglanky14

Erebea revius

biglanky14

coffee ice cream b/c it's gross.

Huh? I'm not even a coffee fan, yet the right coffee ice cream can be awesome. So what ice cream do you like? If it is to be 99 degrees plus for you tomorrow, you'll need something to keep you cool.

Too bad my forecast is rain again, totally not helping the view that it always rains in England ...

Send some rain our way!

I never liked coffee anything, but give me mint chip whatever and I'd eat it. Mint chip ice cream, mint chip shakes, a mint chip Buick - they're all being consumed.

biglanky14

Erebea revius

Have you tried a rain dance? If not, do it!!! Plus make sure it is recorded! ;P If there was an easy way of transporting water, I would go and catch it - though we'd risk a hose pipe ban here ...

Mint choc chip ice cream is particularly lush, though I just like ice cream - too bad the stuff I'm in to is somewhat expensive here - I'm looking at you Ben and Jerry's Core - dough-ble whammy!

Mint Chocolate Chunk is worth any price!

biglanky14

Skm Imperatoriene

biglanky14

Skm Imperatoriene

Erebea revius

Too bad my forecast is rain again, totally not helping the view that it always rains in England ...

You can share some of that rain with me. biggrin

Indiana has a deficit it seems. crying

Uncle Kenny on our staff is from Indiana - seems like we have a lot of user/staff place-we're-from crossover today!

Is he now? I'm like, amazed. There doesn't seem to be a lot of Hoosiers on Gaia. *knows only like 3 others* All of which I know irl. emo

Where are you from? *is curious*

I'm from San Jose out here in CA - I actually grew up about 15 minutes from the Gaia office.

biglanky14

Skm Imperatoriene

Oh, one of those stay close to home deals? Do you enjoy traveling? I would if I could.

Yeah - I never really intended to stay here, but it's just so happened that two companies I really wanted to work for (eBay and Gaia) are both out here, so I came back after college to do both.

I've been pretty fortunate travel-wise. I've been around Europe for a bit, and did a half-marathon that was partly on the Great Wall of China (prolly the coolest thing I've done). I've been to Japan as well, which was a blast. In general, I'm a pretty cheap person, but the one thing I would splurge on is travel b/c it stays with you forever, unlike a nicer pair of shoes or a car or whatever.

biglanky14

Erebea revius

It's kinda funny that a few weeks ago, we were looking at a hose pipe ban - now they are all ban removed as we've had so much rain in the last two weeks!

I'd certainly share if I could, but I don't think the water would stay in an envelope, much like sun light wouldn't. Not that I mind the rain, all the more reason to stay inside and play computer games! XD

That's a great excuse!

biglanky14

Flz

biglanky14

Flz

Thy Almond

what are some of the things you won't chat about? xd

Probably Gaia's plans to rule the world ninja

<touches nose>

Don't worry, your secret is safe with me ninja
For now anyway.

Just stay inside on the 23rd

biglanky14

Flz

Duh! Legend of Korra season finale that day!
No one can pull me away from my house on the 23rd.

That might be just what saves you.

biglanky14

OddBird

biglanky14

<touches nose>

tuches ur fayse
emotion_kirakira

<Files harassment claim with Sisky>

biglanky14

Purloined Parfait

biglanky14

Purloined Parfait

Hey BL! How's Friday on the Coast? We've been getting some funky weather here on the prairies. (Calgary, Alberta)

Hi PP,

You're in Calgary? Siskataya on our team is from Edmonton smile

It's actually gorgeous today - tough to be inside. It's going to be 99+ tomorrow though, so that won't be pleasant.

She is? That's awesome! Go Canadia!

Yup - and I"m a huge hockey nerd so we talk about it a lot. I took a trip with my buddies several years ago to see the Leafs and Senators play, and I hope to make it up for the Western swing (You, Edm, and Van) at some point.

biglanky14

Purloined Parfait

That's awesome! Vancouver is a beautiful city, Edmonton is SUPER spread out - rent a car hehe. Hear in my house we're following Soccer at the moment.

Nice! It's hard to watch at work, but I am wearing my Czech Republic jersey today (my family from waaaaaaaaay back when is from outside Prague)

biglanky14

Hi-Potion

biglanky14

Hi PP,

You're in Calgary? Siskataya on our team is from Edmonton smile

It's actually gorgeous today - tough to be inside. It's going to be 99+ tomorrow though, so that won't be pleasant.

Im going out tomorrow to the great mall to see Avengers for the 4th time 8D

Wow - that's worse than me seeing Cabin in the Woods twice in one weekend.

biglanky14

scullylam

wait... sisky is canadian??? :O

Technically dual. Born in Texas, raised much in Edmonton.

biglanky14

Adiuvo

/moves the thread.

LOL - glad SOMEONE is following the rules smile

I always say these hangouts are one of the privileges of being in the office, and someone who's ultimately responsible for the rules. I can occasionally break them.

biglanky14

Universal Paradigms

...How about that Lollipop Chainsaw Game eh?

Uhhhh....I think I'm missing something that sounds awesome.

biglanky14

The Amazing Arya

biglanky14

The Amazing Arya

Admin!

*throws pokeball*

Please Mr Admin Sir! What the hell is Niji?

I have cookies if you can answer smile

Do I get cookies if I don't answer? If not, the answer is a thing.

You can have half a cookie for that :p

If it's chocolate chip, I'll take it!

biglanky14

Adiuvo

Hey Lanky, how did Gaia end up teaming up with Adventure Time?

We work with a company that hooks up folks like those at AT with sites like ours to see if they fit together. AT loved our stuff (Pen Ward, the creator, had some EXTREMELY nice things to say about our artists), so it all worked out.

biglanky14

Skm Imperatoriene

biglanky14

Skm Imperatoriene

I'm fine good sir. Do you drink tea? Or.. chocolate milk at least? xD

Not much tea, but a huge yes on Chocolate Milk. An even bigger yes on chilled tomato juice. B/c I'm weird.

I don't find that weird at all. I enjoy it as well. heart

*pours a big glass for you* Hopefully you can drink on the job. o.o

It has to be chilled though. Warm tomato juice=yuck.

biglanky14

Skm Imperatoriene

I threw it in the freezer for a little while when I brought it home. Nice and cold. Now, though, I'm wanting some good, Neopolitan ice cream. Thanks. xp

We have some in our work freezer that's been in there for about 3 months if that helps.

biglanky14

Four Helpings of Pudding

biglanky14

Fay Scarlet

Hey lanky, any ideas for a new username for me? /shot
i'm so bored =___="

"BigLanky14 Is The Best"

I think that's the greatest username anyone could have. Otherwise, "Four Helpings of Pudding"

bahaha, i love dem randomness in that.
but i love you anyway, no need to tell that in my Username too >P /shot

But the other one is definitly great lmao
oh, and i blame you in case i forget my username by tomorrow emotion_awesome

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA - AWESOME! I love it. A good way to remember the ID is to get it tattooed on your forearm now. And send pics.

biglanky14

Zivva

lol, i prefer short names tho, so i tried that one... kinda surprised no one snatched it heh
However, the Puddi remains in my Signature, dedicated to you lawl

It does take awhile to type in the Four Helpings of Pudding. But at least we'll always have your signature....until you change it in 2 days.

biglanky14

Hi-Potion

Why isnt there a hint for this months MCs? ;3;

That is an excellent question. I'm going to have to find out - I love the hints myself.

biglanky14

Shedeem

biglanky14

Shedeem

Yay for rule breaking! I'll keep asking til it's answered, what's your favorite pie? biggrin

Grasshopper - no question about it. Especially with a crumbled Oreo crust.

I'll have to try it one day, I really like cherry.
Have a favorite cake?

Either a good red velvet, or a basic yellow cake with chocolate frosting. I'm easy to please.

biglanky14

Shedeem

Red velvet with cream cheese frosting or vanilla? I like a mix of both, but I LOVE black forest.

I have a cold, so my questions are blah >< Do you have a pet?

Either, although I'd lean towards cream cheese. I have two dogs that basically consist of giant tongues and shedding.

biglanky14

artist aryn

biglanky14

0-DCB

So, are you the June MC? ;P

I have to say that I'm pretty excited about this as I've never been on when something like this happens on Gaia. xD

You'd have to find a way to distribute me to tons of buyers. In a way that doesn't involve dismemberment.

Are you excited about being here for the chat? Now the pressure is on!

Not even a little dismemberment? I'm sure there's plenty of GCD:ers who would love to have... I dunno, one of your toes? wink

Joking aside, we could get little Lanky companions emotion_kirakira

I do have 23 toes, so that could work.

I actually do have a SDPlus doll (I'm wearing it right now) smile

biglanky14

artist aryn

*pout* but that doll is so tiny! I'm talking Celebrity Date size here, what with you staff people being the real celebrities of the site (or of GCD at least, but if the other users want a say in it they should just get over here and get assimilated)

I know! I've been asking for full-size cardboard cutouts of me for the office for years - and I get them? NO! I feel ripped off.

biglanky14

Sinyuki

biglanky14

Sinyuki

Lanky *huggles* can you please tell me what is that June chance animal supose to be D=

and have ya heard about those killer bath salts. A man was caught eating half of a homeless man face.

Hey Sinyuki,

I can tell you it is something. A mystery wrapped in a riddle coated by an enigma. Or something like that.

And yes, bath salts are freaky. Anything that makes someone act like they're PCP x56 is not good.

I can't believe a woman ate her babies fingers. I was like oh my o.o anyways do you have kids? I do, I have a 3yr old boy. And he is quite a handful

Yup, two little girls (4 and 2). They are adorable, and also the reason I don't think I've slept for 3.99 years.

biglanky14

Sinyuki

Kids can keep ya on your feet, and at the same time thet can make ya feel so old. Like last week, I got all excited over a stuff bunny toy and my son told me "mommy a dork, you em"brassy" me" I was like awwwww sweatdrop sorry

ha! that's the best though. And a parent's job, to embarrass their kids.

biglanky14

Denham

biglanky14

Denham

Woah you changed your outfit, how could you? surprised You should nudge whoever is in charge of MC releases wink

It's more like Waffles took over my outfit. I probably am due for a change - I just love my goofiness too much.

And for MC....soon......

Well this is certainly an ode to your goofiness! It'd be interesting to see what you could come up with if you decided to completely change, though.

I've actually been meaning to. Maybe I will before ATA on Monday.

biglanky14

Denham

You should! I bet a lot of people would comment on it. Do you even have any other items than the ones you wear? lol

Ha - one or two. An ocean summer top and some amigo pants. Oh, and some unsightly body hair.

biglanky14

Ridley Starsmore

biglanky14

Ridley Starsmore

Dude, I totally have kettle corn.

And I wonder if anyone noticed I didn't do the EI chat this week.-lol- I suppose I still could since they didn't hit yet!

Kettle corn is a giant bag of meh for me (no offense). I like having some, but it quickly goes from Yumm to Ugh for me. Regular popcorn for me....of course slathered in there's-not-one-ingredient-in-here-that's-found-in-the-wild movie theater butter.

Oh good heavens yes.

That's the part that darn near killed my in watching Avengers. The movie was fantastic [/9th doctor] but my popcorn guy took the "Would you like some popcorn with your butter?" approach to it.

AND IT WAS AWESOME.

It's never a bad time when you can drink your popcorn!

biglanky14

RaeMeian

『ǫᴜᴏᴛᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴀᴠᴇɴ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀᴍᴏʀᴇ...

Hi Lanky!
So... I've been curious for a while now, but do you know who made the Slayer Champion item from the Gauntlets & Goblins RIG? I ask because the back pose for the shoes is wrong (it's actually the back pose for the Palalaladin shoes) and even after reporting it in Stein's thread, nothing has changed. I dunno much about making items on Gaia, but I don't think it'd be too difficult to fix that.

...ᴀᴍɪᴅsᴛ ᴛʜᴇsᴇ sᴄᴇɴᴇs ᴏғ ᴅᴀʀᴋᴇɴᴇᴅ ʟᴏʀᴇ』

They do check Stein's thread, but I mentioned it as well. Can't promise anything, but it will get looked at eventually smile

biglanky14

Ridley Starsmore

milkbun

Hey RaeMeian,
The issue has been fixed.

And by fixed, she means the intern responsible for coding has been taken out back Russian mafia Style. ninja

<touches nose again>

biglanky14

milkbun

In a totally unrelated note, we now have an open spot for an intern.

rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl

milkbun

Ridley Starsmore

What is le benefits? ninja

Just outta curiosity. mrgreen

YOU benefit ME by making me coffee. There might also be some task involving a giant leaf fan. How is your arm strength and endurance?

biglanky14

Magnificent Moonbeam

Hi, lanky. How are things over there? Do you guys have plans to give out a bit more hints for MCs in the future since we didn't get one this month?

Hey MM,

Things are pretty good, although it's so nice outside it's tough to be in the office.

Yes, we'll do them again in the future. We're not going to do them every month, but we want to more often than not.

biglanky14

Treacherous Hat

biglanky14

Treacherous Hat

I'm just gonna hang out here and nibble on my pipe until I have something to say... ninja

I don't think you're supposed to nibble on that.....

Well I'm not strictly human - I could subsist entirely on wood varnish for all you know. 3nodding

That's not saying I do but I could.

I'm intrigued by the word "strictly." Are you a robot from the future, but with humanoid features? B/c if so, can you bring me some money? Or at least some mint chip ice cream from the future?

biglanky14

Treacherous Hat

'Fraid not. Just one of the birdy-bat people. *flapflap*

I could probably get something off a really high shelf if you need it.

I'll never go wanting for Frosted Flakes again!

biglanky14

scullylam

biglanky14

scullylam

*trips in thread*

hiiiiiiiiiiiii. xd

Hey Scully! Please don't skin your knee unless it makes Kenny make a silly face.

ninja it was a gentle trip.. and i didn't fall, the wind caught me. emotion_awesome and kenny is lurking here? :O where where? *looks about*

He's hiding. Probably so we don't take any more pictures.

By the way, if anyone is bored, PM Kenny asking for his ice cream picture.

biglanky14

artist aryn

I actually managed to stumble upon one of these staff-interactive threads while it's active?

Well that's a first. I'm sort-of in the wrong time zone so AtA happens around 2.30 am and right now it is... 10.17 pm. Golly.

Say Lanky, what's your favourite part of gaia? Not the wonderful people (we know we're too adorkable to resist) but things like specific forums, games or virtual areas. In short, where would you hang out if you were to be on the site during your spare time?

Myself I recently rediscovered fishing and found it more addicting then I remembered it to be.

I actually would probably be hanging out in here in a non-staff capacity, or in the Sports or Movie forum. I also really like Monster Galaxy (I swear I'm not just plugging it). I check it almost every day.

biglanky14

0-DCB

biglanky14

0-DCB

Speaking of MC's, I think it would be rather interesting if there were a series of months in which the MC's were interconnected somehow. Maybe it could be through the back story or something like that.

That's WAY too smart for us.

You could write a sentence and then put each word into the item description. So: "The dog ran over to Aekea."
Item descriptions:
MC's 1 & 2: "The" "dog"
MC's 3 & 4: "ran" "over"
MC's 5 & 6: "to" Aekea"

Personally, I think "The" and "to" are brilliant item descriptions. ninja

<picks up pieces of blown mind from floor>

biglanky14

0-DCB

You know what type of item Gaia needs? A sty.
Speaking of which, I have one in my right eye, and it hurts. I can see a little red outline near where it is. Ouch! emotion_facepalm

That sucks!

And we need an actual sty in the office. We kind of treat the lunchroom like that anyway.

biglanky14

8-Bit Revolution

biglanky14

8-Bit Revolution

Hey man, have you heard what happen to our Prez at the Rose Garden?

Man, this country getting horrid.

No, I did not. But from your comment it sounds like that could be a good thing.

xD

Well Pres.Obama signed this bill/thingy/words are failing me about illegal aliens, and was speeking about it in the Rose Garden.

Then this reported-dude was totally actin' like those old Muppet guys.
But instead of being far away, like you supposed to be when heckling, he was like close up.

My thing is, what about Canadians? No seem to be talking about them when speaking about Illegal aliens. Are they not bordering us too?

What about the Merpeople too?

I have been concerned for some time about the Morloks.

biglanky14

Zukes

biglanky14

Zukes

Hello there. <3

Hello!

I hope you're enjoying your afternoon. It's nice to see you out and about.

Thanks - I'm just about to head out, but this my favorite part of the week. Hanging out with you guys.

biglanky14

Ok guys, I've gotta run for now. Thanks for hanging out with me and have a fantastic weekend!!

[Platonix]

June 18th

lanzer

Hello everyone!

Summer is right around the corner, and we're happy to say that the summer event is coming along nicely. How many of you get to have a summer vacation? Got any plans for the summer?

I've got myself a water rafting trip in two weeks, hope I don't fall off the raft this time sweatdrop

Welcome to ATA everyone!

biglanky14

Animal

biglanky14

Animal

Dear Admins,

Two things.

First) You said you'd be putting the needed quest items back into D*C, it has been almost a month since this announcement, are we going to get this update soon? I believe some of the items are actually extinct now... and so unless they are put back will not be able to be gotten at all...

Second) You need to MASSIVELY up the drop rates for the Daily Chance formulas, it should not cost 10M+ for a single formula that is needed in a quantity higher than 10... So if you could really hurry up and just make formulas like Ectoplasm and Candy Mountain as common as Amigo Pants and Summer Tops in Daily Chance, right now we're at a rate of MAYBE (if we're lucky) ONE showing up every 2 weeks to 2 months... as someone who does all 6 of my daily chances every day, and has done them for the last year since alchemy began, I should have gotten at least one if not way more than one formula from Daily Chance by now... so please just do it, don't give us the "we'll look into it" or "we'll get on that", just actually increase the drop rates 10 fold so they become as common as they NEED to be... and that will heavily fix alchemy as a whole.

Thank you for your time, and I look forward to your response.

Hi Animal,

Thanks for the feedback on the drop rates. And I'm sorry to give you an answer that you don't want to hear, but I can't promise we're going to do that. But we are taking a close look at formula availability in general - where we'll land on it, I can't say b/c I can't commit us to anything, but we are definitely taking a look.

Thanks for your patience on this.

Then can we PLEASE get an ETA on when that conclusion is going to be rolled out? Preferably before the end of June? It's not hard, just look at the MP graphs, the formulas are becoming more scarce, and more expensive, plain and simple, there isn't enough to go around, there's not enough period, and there needs to be a lot more, the supply needs to be increased massively somehow, I have a suggestion that you could do to fix things while you're looking for a solution, like you dumped a bunch of alchemized EIs and such into [NPC] Crescento's store to get them out there, why not start dumping Formula 3: Ectoplasm, Formula 4: Candy Mountain, etc into [NPC] Crescento's Store? put a like, 100k price tag on them, and have it keep dumping 20 listings, 10 of each, into his store, and I mean constantly like as soon as one is sold another one pops up, and do this for about... 24 hours, that should get enough of the formulas out there that everyone will have all they need and there won't be all this rage and hate and etc going around the alchemy community.

Hi Animal,

I totally understand why you're frustrated, and I wish I could be more concrete. But Alchemy changes are very complicated for a variety of reasons, and I can't give you an ETA b/c it'd just be guessing. But we don't like the rage any more than you do, so we want to come up with a solution that everyone likes as much as you want us to. Concrete suggestions like the one you gave definitely help.

biglanky14

Animal

Alrighties, glad to help, now please take said concrete suggestion to the highest authority, put your foot down to get it pushed through, and have it happen, like, soon. ^^ *Keeps refreshing [NPC] Crescento's store, waiting for formulas to appear*

LOL. But seriously, the concrete suggestions, as opposed to "Alchemy sux fix it", do really help to narrow down the areas that are causing the most pain.

biglanky14

Ridley Starsmore

biglanky14

...I can't say b/c I can't commit us to anything, but we are definitely taking a look.

Thanks for your patience on this.

You can reword it, but it still counts!-gets the shot glasses-

Glad that I can be part of the game!

codemonkey37179

CioccoLatte

codemonkey37179

CioccoLatte

Hello Admin!!!

gaia_star Non-gaia-related questions from me this time... gaia_star

1. Do you like to travel?

2. What places/countries have you been to?

3. Any favorite country/tourist spot?

4. What is your favorite foreign cuisine/dish? From what country did you taste it?

Thanks for your time!
Looking forward to this year's summer event!

Hi CioccoLatte,

I'm excited about the summer event. I wake up thinking about what I have to do on it everyday now.

I love to travel. I was lucky enough to live and work in Thailand for about 2 years. So that is my favorite place. I also got to go to Loas, Burma, Cambodia and Singapore while I was there. My favorite food is Panang curry, from this little place on the river Ping in the northern city of Chiangmai.

Thank you for replying!!!

I'm sure the summer event will be great!!!

I love Thai cuisine!

My favorite is that rice with the green mangoes, pork satay (love that peanut sauce!), and the chicken wrapped in pandan leaves.

My kids love satay as well, my wife is Thai and she makes it for them often. When I was there, someone just down the street was selling a stick of pork satay for 1 bath (3 cents) each. I would go and order 100 sticks.

lanzer

Yup, my appetite for good food had led me to many countries smile

Canada, Japan, Taiwan, HongKong, China, Singapore, Thailand, Finnland, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, and of course, most states in the US. smile

Japan is still my favorite, too many toys and great food! Think I answered the last question too. Japan has sushi that I've never tasted elsewhere.

siskataya

WideEyed

Hi Folks!
I have a rather serious question for tonight’s ATA regarding the Banning of Accounts.
If a Report is filed against someone and there is no real proof beyond the accusations made by the complainant, is there a real risk that the accused might actually find themselves Banned?
I only ask this because a friend of mine is currently convinced that she is going to be Banned, based solely on the baseless accusations of a couple of individuals who claimed to be Moderators.
I don’t want to get into any specific details of the events themselves, but in a situation where there is no proof that a ban-able offense ever took place, I would hate to think that a veteran Gaian could find themselves banned from a site that they had done so much for because some individual decided to make a trumped up claim of wrong doing against them.

Thanks.

And of course, now dinner is ready. rolleyes

Back in 15 smile

Mmmm, dinner..... I digress!

Actually, before any ban is placed, we investigate the issue and look for proof of the offense. Just because someone claims another user did something, doesn't mean that he/she actually did it. If there is no proof of the offense, or at least heaps of circumstantial evidence to make us 99.9 % convinced a ToS violation has occurred that warrants a ban, no ban will be placed.

If your friend would like, she can message me and let me know. I'll be happy to talk to her about this issue and try to get it resolved.

Hope this helps - have a good dinner biggrin
Sisky

biglanky14

worlds suckiest vendor

biglanky14

worlds suckiest vendor

I was wondering about some things with alchemy.
I know Constipated Trillionaire and other people have mentioned this to you guys before, but it is about certain formulas not being in cases.
I have been looking around and it seems the following formulas are not in cases anymore: Ectoplasm, sun stone, moonstone, candy mountain, red mercury, Banshee's Silver Comb, Head of Night, Rainbow Octopus, Anima Adamantea, Titan's Legacy
These are the formulas that we know of right now.
The reason why we think they are not in cases is, because when you look at theses formulas in the mp their "Tags" do not show Alchemist or case.
These formulas have been slowly getting won from DC it seems.
Some of these formulas are needed for lots of components in alchemy and are getting very rare and very expensive. (Especially for people working on quest)
It would be great if you could make them a bit more common in Daily Chance or put them back in cases! biggrin

Hi WSV,

Yup, we've heard about this one a lot. I can't say exactly what we're going to do about it since I can't commit us to any particular path, but we're definitely aware of the sentiment around it. Sorry to be vague, but especially with Alchemy I don't want to promise something and then have it change down the road. We are definitely aware of this one though.

Thanks, and one more question. smile
What made you guys put the formulas in DC, isn't that what the cases are for? xp

I'm not actually aware of us changing this - I'll have to check on that to see if something didn't switch somewhere.

biglanky14

worlds suckiest vendor

Thanks again! smile
I have opened a little over 200cases and never got any of those formulas that I listed in my first post, but i got one of the rarest formulas a Nice Suit For Work.

Can you do me a favor and PM me a recap of your questions (and other suggestions)? Sorry to ask you to do extra work, but I come out of ATA with so many different comments and such that it's easy to forget some - if I have a PM staring me in the face it's easier. Thanks!

biglanky14

Sasune

Thanks for reissuing Chocolate Crepe. Is there any chance you could reissue Pink Heart Chocolate Cake too?

Perhaps! But that's the best answer I can do right now b/c I'm not sure if it's in the plans or not (and can't say anyway if it is) smile

lanzer

Ridley Starsmore

Heya guys! Happy Monday, and happy belated Father's Day to all you Dads in the office!

So, my post today is once again about alchemy, as I know many of use want to take part in this system!

But we are coming across multiple issues!

One...The way the cache was done was grand! Now...would it be possible to increase the frequency of GETTING them. You guys know there are folks that come on here every day, and get crickets in their DC? Or how about a once a week cache grant, eh? A sort of "Weekly Chance" Log in 5 out of 7 days to get it, and it restarts every Monday?

Second...some of the formulas are...for lack of a better way to think of it, too rare for their level. Is there a way the formulas for the Alc. Case could be done Like you did with the Cache?

Third...Some of the rarer components are DC only. Can these be put in like a "Gold Pressed Latinum" Bag, so we can actually GET THE PARTS?

And finally...an update, almost all of the Alchemized versions EIs are completed. 4 standards and one recolor are still missing. Is there any chance those 5 listings could be activated in the MP? Maybe as the next bid blast!

Now, on the EI front, thank you for finally finishing Timmy (And the Big Lanzer head Pose). He'd been with us for 2 and a half years, and it was nice to get a bit of closure....now...is Timmy gone forever, or will we see him again in the EI report?

(Also, why no halo in the MC this month? Do u not luff us? emotion_kirakira )

I'm sorry that we've been moving slow on the changes, but we will adjust drop rates and rarity based on the availability and payout. Our goal is to make things easier since alchemy started as very challenging.

Not all the EI are meant to have the Alchemized version I believe. I'll confirm and let you know if otherwise.

I'm glad you enjoy the latest EI. I don't know if we'll be seeing Timmy again in the near future.

carbonphyber

Platonix

Are you aware of the fact that nobody's recieving Neutral or Cool Starter stuff at sign-up any more? All accounts, regardless of which outfit they pick for themselves during the signup process, are getting the Warm Starter clothing and furniture.

This is unfortunate for the obvious reason, but also because The Faktori, the Gaia Housing gold shop, doesn't sell Starter furniture the way the clothing gold shops have started selling starter clothing.

Do you have a topic that documents this? It would be helpful to know when it started and which registration methods are affected.

I will look into this.

siskataya

jellykans

lanzer

Hello everyone!

Helllo! And I am sure this is out of line, but we have a very sad situation in the zOMG community, can you help?

Goodbye, zOMG

Hello! Thanks for letting us know about this - I'll look into the issue. biggrin

Take care!
Sisky

Uncle Kenny

Rainbow Beans

Can you open the pools earlier in towns?

The pools should already be available in the middle block of every Town zipcode.

biglanky14

jonjon21428

1) Perhaps review the warnings to her? Are they legitimate?

2) Any of the Gaia staff allergic to cats?

3) Even though it is super early, is there a chance of a Halloween Event for zOMG! this year, even a recycled one?

Hi jonjon,

1) Yup, someone on our team is looking into it.

2) Yup, unfortunately. But it's only one or two.

3) This I don't know. It'll depend on how much bandwidth our devs have around Halloween. But we'd certainly like to if we can.

DARKNRGY

Scobre

DARKNRGY

Scobre

I loved how you had an event involving your kitty Lanzer. It was a very creative idea. Hope Waffles returns for future events. So far I just plan on going fishing, to the beach, and to the lake and I'm going to California for a funeral. Anyway my 3 questions:

1) Could zOMG! rings be used as ingredients for future alchemy recipes to encourage gaians to play the game?
2) I've met a lot of fellow gaians who also love minecraft. Could Minecraft be a sponsor and gaia have some minecraft inspired items if they agree?
3) A lot of friends love to sing on skype and play instruments. Would it be possible for gaia to have a game or flash space for gaians to perform in front of friends?

1. I would need to ask around. I don't think there's any specific reason why we can't do that.

2. Minecraft is pretty neat. Haven't played it in a while. It's certainly possible, but I'm not currently aware of any interest they might have. I'll bug the relevant sales people because I think it would be really cool!

3. We don't have anything like that planned. We experimented with voip stuff a few times with mixed results. We don't have that technology so it would have to be third party. Am I to understand that you are playing instruments and singing together on skype? I don't see how this works because latency would ruin timing, so maybe you're just proposing a way for a single person to broadcast their performance - sort of like a podcast or streaming radio. Can you explain more about how this would work and how it would be used? Like a flash space with a audio stream attached? Sounds interesting.

Thank you DARKNRGY. Yes I finally got the guts to sing to a few friends on skype and very happy to hear one is going to try out for American Idol. I have heard some friends play instruments on tinychat and skype before. I do play flute and piano myself and used to be a band geek in school. I'm just too shy so far to play piano in front of others. Well there could be a wannabe game I guess like Rock Band or Guitar Hero. I guess easiest way is for a gaian to record their singing or playing, then have their gaia avi perform it in the flash space. The mouth and arms don't necessary need to sync, just move a bit I guess. Probably for multiple people to play a song, they would each have to record their part and pray it syncs, xd . Yeah I know zOMG! used to have vivox in game which would make it easy for multiple people to talk at once with some cut outs and disconnecting issues with it. So for singing at least probably would have to have a third party. I just think generally there could be so many ways to have music more into this site since Disney and Nick have had music more in their website and shows. I'm sorry I'm not tech savvy, but it would have to be a voice chat of some sort to do live performances. With Skype, it's usually like 2 to 3 people singing together and sometimes just one and others talk and comment on it in voice chat. It is a shame technology hasn't been developed yet to make this a lot easier.

It is possible to use the skype API so maybe it would make sense to attach a Skype room to a gaia flash space. With the new towns coming up we're looking for neat features to put in it. I can't really think through all the ramifications right now so I don't want to set an expectation, but we'll talk about it some and see how it works out. Thanks for the suggestion! I think it could be used for performances but also just a way for everyone to communicate.

Zero Omega

Bunnyfish Queen

Hello ladies/gents I have a question regarding bans :3
If someone reopens a ticket after the year is up (or has reopened it a couple of times) will a mod look into it? Or just overlook the ticket?

We try to answer every ticket that we receive, for a ticket re-opened after a year we will do what we can to investigate the ban itself, however after so long sometimes it can be very difficult to review the situation. We will do our best though!

lanzer

Darc Nightgale

Hello!
Any way we could get the different animal ears to layer in front of the omg instead of behind it. I haven't wore them in forever because of that.I

Which animal ear in particular? I can help look at one, but hard to try to fix all of them

codemonkey37179

Ardian Logic

codemonkey37179

Ardian Logic

FIFA 2012 SUMMER!

I Want Football Online Arena!
QUOTE ME PLEASE,

American football or real football?

Real Football, it will looks good in gaia world!
Gaians can play it often emotion_awesome

It might happen. Not sure. I did create a football script, we will just have to see where it fits in.

Narumi Misuhara

-Masked Violinist-

I'm glad you found your cat Lanzer
I have school in the summer (only June)
Classes are going by fast, too fast!
I can't wait for the summer event.
It's going to be Olympics related, right?
yum_puddi

*nods*

Zero Omega

Gum Gum Disaster

When will you guy's be doing applications for new Mod's and such!?

I've been waiting a while to see you guy's say your accepting applications for Mod's

>.<

p.s. My Capacha(Typo feel free to corret) says - "pipe down" lol

We're allowing mod applications to be sent in all the time! You can check the thread here to apply:
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/questions-assistance/moderator-application-faq/t.46243481/

Uncle Kenny

Melancholy Melanoma

It would be nice if I could get an answer this month, as I've asked this question for the last three months and have been ignored each month at the Ask the Admin.

Has there been any progress with the Android App?

Nope, sorry. We'd love to do it but we just don't have the resources to put toward it right now. If you know of a good Java developer, send them our way!

carbonphyber

It's not a priority as the Android browser is pretty much capable of dealing with most features on the site. We would like to, but we don't have the capacity / resources right now.

lanzer

Mashed Potato Jones

I'm just here to lurk a bit...I may have a question...Oh!

With summer time practically here, what is everyone's favorite kind of ice cream? Including toppings and such?

Always a fan of Rocky Road. Marshmallow and nuts just go so well with chocolate...

DARKNRGY

Knight Yoshi

DARKNRGY

Knight Yoshi

So now that we have the spoiler button, would it be possible to give the button different text
something like

[spoiler="Blah blah"] Something here [/spoiler]

Where the spoiler button would say, "Blah blah", instead of "Show spoiler" Because not everybody will use it for being a "spoiler" feature. It's becoming quite handy to hide long texts in posts, like extensive CSS. Just a penny for your thoughts.

We would like to keep the button consistent across all uses. There is a problem with clarity if everyone uses different text on the buttons. A spoiler is a spoiler and it should always work as expected for users with all different levels of experience on gaia.

Mmm, yeah that makes a valid point. Hmm. Do something maybe where instead of changing the entire text of the button, have it say "Show (user input)", but of course if no user input is there have it say "spoiler"? IDK, just seems like more can be done in the forums with this new feature.

We can keep it mind, but probably not. If anything it would be a drop down of different options but then you're not really getting the level of customization you really want so it's a wash.

lanzer

Lishee

I was wondering if Waffles ever visits the Gaia office and if DJ Helsing likes cats.

Waffles do visit Gaia HQ once in a while, though DJ Helsing is actually allergic to cats! So we can only have Waffles stay for a short while.

codemonkey37179

Black Death Goddess

codemonkey37179

Black Death Goddess

What IS the Summer Event?

AWESOME!

Huh?

The summer event is Awesome. I could have gone with cool, fantastic or wonderful.

Narumi Misuhara

Black Death Goddess

codemonkey37179

Black Death Goddess

Thank you for clearing that up.

Sorry, feeling mischievous tonight. The summer events is the rejected Olympics. But that is all I can say. smile

Cool, has Gaia ever had a Winter Olympics event?

Not to my knowledge

biglanky14

Cecilia Wolfram Davidson

(hey, just a heads up that Meebo bar is being funky)

a good evening to all the staff and mods!
i asked my questions the other week but i would like to ask a semi-personal question to you -

Who was your biggest non-celebrity idol when growing up?

Easy - Dad.

codemonkey37179

Adiuvo

codemonkey37179

Adiuvo

Guh, Lanzer why do you never accept my friend requests!?

Well, did you tell him you were going to beat him with a stick, as you did in your pm to me?

No, but I did say he should lay off the spam a few years ago because he was getting chubby around the time Gaia Olympics.. sweatdrop

... I suddenly am starting to understand why I don't have many friends.

rofl

Uncle Kenny

Bon and Bon

What is your opinion on "My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic"? surprised

I can't say I've seen too much of it, but you should ask Zero Omega. He's our resident Brony and loves to watch it, I'm sure he'd love to talk about it.

Zero Omega

xXAyumi_cherryXx

well I was hacked a while back (like 4 weeks ago) I have my account back. But I'm missing 4 things still: NeoGaia Hero, Lusty, Toned Keido(which was my favorite item),and Cloud. I looked in my store log to see when i bought them and I remember being them each day that I got them bought. But it's gone! Is there a way that the hacker could have deleted the history for those items? I'm also wondering about these sites that say it's from gaia online but they aren't they say they are giving away a VERY expensive item such as cloud or Custom Cut. Then when you get the item you click Close(it looks like a daily chance window) it will take you too log in where when you enter your password and username, you will get hacked! Then when the hacker get's on the account he/she will message all of the user's online friends says: Hey I just got a free item! (web address here) Go get one yourself! Or something like that. Could you please make a dev notice or an announcement about those to help people from getting hacked form them please? I was hacked by one of those sites before and I really don't want it to happen to other people!

We're always happy to do what we can to protect our users, I know in the past we've done a variety of different safety notices on how to protect your account. We may even do one again sometime in the future.

Also, there isn't anyway that a hacker could have actually deleted your own Marketplace history.

milkbun

Ridley Starsmore

milkbun

DanceAlexxDance

Again, just wondering about CrosStich... I'm dying for "soon" to come ):

SUPERsoon

Uh hu. Sure.

*makes you eat those words.... SUPERsoon*
*takes a drink as well... because its a Monday and I need it!*

DARKNRGY

Ridley Starsmore

Uh hu. Sure.

That's obnoxious.

biglanky14

ZYNAY

are you guys planing on making an ipad app i know theres one for ipod but it looks so small on the ipad. Why cant we try on our clothes on the app in the MP? working on that or.... smile

Hi ZYNAY,

Right now we're not working on an iPad version - like the Android app, it's something we'd like to get to at some point, but right now we have too much other stuff to work on.

Thanks for understanding!

Narumi Misuhara

-Sora-Light-

Hello administrators, how are you tonight?!

I have, only, one question.
Do you guys have any summer events planned for Gaia? zOMG related, or just related to the whole community?

Yes, we have plenty of community events coming up. smile

Narumi Misuhara

-Sora-Light-

Narumi Misuhara

-Sora-Light-

For the summer? surprised
Cause I know there's upcoming community events.

Well I guess first I should clarify, are you talking about Site events or real life events?

Hahaha, Site events.
Also, if you have anything fun planned for summer I guess.

So then yes we have summer events lined up. smile

Zero Omega

x CHRlSTlNA

Zero Omega

x CHRlSTlNA

Dear admins,
I would love to work for your amazing company.
What are the odds of this happening.

(PS. I live in San Jose. Super close)

Take a check at our job listings page:
http://corp.gaiaonline.com/

Aw man. I really stink at coding,
but I'm slowly become an established graphic designer.

Any chances of internships?
whee

That I wouldn't know! I know in the past the artists have made a GCD thread looking for interns, but currently I don't know if there are plans for it (not my department and all). Shoot me a PM and I can see if I might be able to get some additional information (no guarantees though).

carbonphyber

SHufflin-Bear

When are you guys updating the site to IPv6, unless it has already been updated o-o'

That is up to our operations team. They like to only change things when changes are needed. We have a lot of old code that will likely break so I'm guessing this will not be anytime soon (unless we are forced to).

biglanky14

Furious Tarantula

When will the next 'Bid Blast' take place? Are there any plans to revamp it?

It should be pretty soon. We're actually putting some thought into what we want to do with BidBlast in general as well.

biglanky14

Crawford J Pegasus

biglanky14

Crawford J Pegasus

Dear Admins,

How much can you bench press?

Sincerely, I'm random. biggrin

16 pounds!

That is horrible xD

Well, it's really 16.5, but I didn't want to brag.

carbonphyber

I used to be able to bench my body-weight (180 lbs) and squat ~425 lbs in high school -- which came in handy for track and (American) football.

Bench pressing creates pretty muscles, but focusing too much on any one exercise makes a person's muscles lop-sided. It's much better to make your opposing muscles (like biceps and triceps, quads and hamstrings, abs and glutes/back groups) equally strong.

lanzer

BF-dragontshd-40

Okay, questions after giving you time to swallow the cookies
a) does Lanzer watch Chinese animation?
b) what is your feeling toward the successful Chinese rocket launch?
c) why no solar panel item?
d) move/unlock HG forum to the entertaining forum?
e) any Underland Chronical readers?

Watched a few when I was young, remember nothing from them though...

I'm happy to see any country being technologically capable of space exploration. It's welcomed news after the recent Russian space accident.

Don't think it'll look all that nice as an item...

Will ask Sisky

Nope, is it good?

Zero Omega

Death Before Dish0nor

Hello admins!

I have one simple request. I would like, along with many others, to have a Garden forum included- perhaps an extension to the Health & Fitness or the LifeStyle Discussion forum. It can have sub forums such as: Growing Fruits, vegetables, pest control, show off your garden, tips and techniques, tools/ DIY greenhouse/ raised beds, flowers, trees, Different gardening systems such as Hydroponics, aquaponics, greenhousing, raised beds, etc.

What do you all think of this idea?

It would certainly reinforce the message and events of the previous Earth Day event. And I think it would help others to get involved in helping our planet thrive abundantly.

After all .. This website wasn't named Gaia for nothing, right? Why not show some True Gaian Spirit by reflecting it for our love of our precious Earth by creating this wonderful addition! biggrin

Here are some comments from other Gaians who are very interested in this idea.

Strega Mama

I would be all over this if it happened. This would be lovely, to have someplace besides this thread and my one guild (neonascence) to discuss gardening

TarotBunny

I'd be totally all up in that hydroponics forum if there was one. XD

Haven't tried it but just really curious. o uo

Ratttking

I'd love a forum or sub-forum dedicated to gardening. Some of the sub-forum titles could be, Flowers, Fruits and Vegetables, Mushroom Cultivation, Aquatic Plants, Container Gardening, and Hydroponics. A separate gardening forum would be great.

It's certainly something we can look into, when we create forums we look for either unique ideas or really active topics somewhere on Gaia. We always want to make forums that our users can relate to in some way, shape, or form, or might be relevant to their interests. So if there's enough interest, who know what could happen!

Narumi Misuhara

lVlurder

I don't have many questions. c:

1. Is there an exact date we can expect the event to come out?

2. What do you think of the event-anons?

3. Whats going to happen to zOMG?

1. There's an exact date I expect to have the event to launched? o.O ...does that count?

2. I think they are interesting.

3. Nothing new for now.

biglanky14

Black Death Goddess

I have a suggestion for the Cash Shop, I would like for we who buy there to be able to basically purchase all we want at one time.

You know when you buy something from a place online and it puts it in a cart and asks, "Purchase now?" or "Continue Shopping?" and that way you can click on all the items you want to buy and do it on one transaction.

Hi BDG,

This is something that we would love to do, but it requires a lot of work, and we can't take it on right now. Hopefully we'll be able to get to it in the future at some point though.

Uncle Kenny

While a shopping cart setup for the shops would be awesome, we don't currently have any plans to implement such a feature on Gaia. Doing so would require a lot of work and we just don't have the resources to put toward something like that right now.

carbonphyber

I'm working on quantity-item purchase for CashShop (the new CashShop in the "gold shops" layout). It won't be a "shopping cart" -- it would only allow you to buy one "item" (but in a quantity).

Uncle Kenny

iiiiJamie

Hello Admins. Another question. On my iPad when I'm away from home why is it I can't access Rally or Towns. It aggrivates me because my friends always ask for me to get on but I can't. I don't have a computer and my iPad is my only resort. Please help.

Rally and Towns are both spaces run using Flash. The iPad and all other iOS devices do not support Flash and will not run it. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about that, it's all on Apple's end.

codemonkey37179

Starflyt

Dear admins...

I've found that virtual hollywood has stopped working with my firefox. This used to be a problem with just chrome, but now I can only get IE to run hollywood. What's the issue?

Windows Vista
Firefox 12.0

I'm not sure. It still works on ff for me. Try clearing your cache and updating your flash player. If the problem persist, shoot me a pm.

biglanky14

Lady__Miko

Hi there

Thanks for a bit more diversity in the hair last update. Honestly, it wasn't much as I'd hoped BUT I was very happy to see some diversity in texture nonetheless. The loss of bluenoodle has been pretty noticeable for me as it gave me 10 GC that really added up over the months. Are there short/long term solutions that can cover for users the loss of video supplies of GC like bluenoodle? I guess I really did take it for granted back then..

Are bangs for salon styles in the works or will ever be? Some styles (especially afro textured ones) are growing popular with them, so I thought to ask.

Got a few more but I'll wait.

Hi Lady_Miko,

Yup, we're running a test right now with a new offers provider to see if they can help in that area. Trust me, we'd like there to be a ton of videos to watch as much as you do.

As for the bangs, that I don't know (and wouldn't really be allowed to say even if I did).

Zero Omega

Lilsis Charmer

Zero Omega

Lilsis Charmer

Hey~! Thank you for taking the time to read my post, I will keep it as short as I can~!

I was banned 3 days ago, June 15th 2012. (My account: Lilsis Charm)

Quoted reason was "sexually explicit content".

None of the content (drawn pictures on my profile) were explicit. No nipples, no bare buttocks, or anything of the sort were shown. They were implicit/suggestive~

I thought the pictures I posted were within the rules, but apparently they weren't. I got PERMANENTLY BANNED WITHOUT A WARNING.

If I'd been told to remove them or given a warning, I would've removed them immediately and without a question.

I filed a ticket with proof of deleting the pics from my photobucket as a sign of respect and willingness to fully abide by the rules instead of debating on them.

I kindly ask you to look into my case. Knowing how many cases are before mine would also help~

I feel that a permanent ban without a warning was overkill, as I was breaking the rules neither clearly nor on purpose.

Thank you for your time, and I hope for an answer, even though I know you are very busy~!

Have you received a reply to your ticket yet? If not, then just sit tight and our staff will look into it. If you have and aren't satisfied with the response, then send me a PM and I'll see what I can do for you.

No, it's still Open (filed 6/15/2012, 3 days ago, the same day I got banned).

I realise 3 days is a short time, and I will wait. Can you give me any idea of how long the queue might be...? Thank you~

General inquiry tickets like the one you filed typically take about 7 to 10 business days for a reply due to the amount we receive. Hope that helps out some!

DARKNRGY

semen-eater

i've got a question about Meebo, the IMing thing most of us use.

Do you guys know what happened to it? Or is something up with the whole ownership switch or whatever with Google?

And do you know if it's going to be back? If so, when?

My current understanding is that the meebo bar is not going away. They are discontinuing their dedicated IM service and meebo rooms (?), but that the way we are using should be unchanged.

If you get logged out of meebo, you just need to log out of your Gaia account and log back in. Don't try and log into their service as it will not work. I understand that this is confusing and I'm working on a way to make it more clear.

Edit: testing editing a post for No Longer Present.

DARKNRGY

No Longer Present

Is someone working on the glitch where at the end of editing a post, I'm always taken to the end of the thread as opposed to the post I edited?

Hmmm... I see what you mean. We can look into it, thanks for heads up!

lanzer

xcrimsonlegendx

Can we please have the Zurg Flarn skin?

If the right event comes about, perhaps. Probably not just the item itself.

Uncle Kenny

The 15th Doctor

What do you guys plan on doing about Meebo shutting down its messenger?

Honestly? We don't really have any plans for it. The Meebo bar and its messenger are all products of Meebo, not us. While we utilize their bar on the site, we don't control the products they offer on it. As a guess, I'd imagine Google will replace the Meebo chat with some utilizing their G+ service but again, that's all on Google and Meebo, we don't have any part in that.

Uncle Kenny

Durithill the Black Blade

Dear Admins,

So I've looked back through the old ATAs, and it seems like at least once an ATA someone asks about when guilds will be updated and the answer always seems to be "eventually". Would it be possible to get a more specific date on this? Most people agree that guilds are pretty out of date and it seems like guilds are constantly losing people mostly because of this fact. I realize of course that resources are scarce and being used in other places at the moment like for zOMG, but I think a lot of people wouldn't mind waiting a bit for the next zOMG update while guilds received their long needed update. I'm not asking for a "we'll do it next week" type of thing, but even if you gave a vague answer like "fourth quarter of 2012" a lot of people would appreciate it.

Also, whatever happened with Spring Cleaning 2011? It seems like it just kinda petered our without a resolution.

Sincerely,
Durithill the Black Blade

Unfortunately, an update to Guilds isn't on the road map yet to be able to offer any kind of timeline beyond "eventually". It will require a pretty large amount of dev work to get it overhauled and caught up to the rest of the site and we just don't have the resources to dedicate toward it in the near future. Once we have information about when to maybe expect it, I'm sure we'll give more detail then but for now, it really is just "eventually".

biglanky14

MistressMinako

So about those Epic recipes. Since zOMG is in maintenance mode and the rare loot has been taken out of the area events, is it safe to assume that there is a very low chance of ever actually seeing the Epic items that were promised to revive interest and add challenge to zOMG?

An observation. I created a thread back in January to inform users passing through GCD of the new games zOMG has been pushed aside in favor of. Myself and others are noticing a distinct lack of interest already in these games. Now that the con season is well-underway and Pan has started sending out invitations for the closed beta of your "high fantasy" game, I would expect to see a little more enthusiasm, but so far, nothing.

I would also like to know just how much information I can post about said games, since I'm apparently running the default thread for them.

Finally, are we ever going to see changes to the GGB formula, and the way the Case functions? The all or nothing aspect of the Case makes it extremely unattractive to craft.

Hi MistressMinako,

I think you're probably right - it's not off the table that you'll see them because we do want to add some content when we can, but it's probably a low chance.

If you're in the beta group, then you might need to keep some stuff quiet (although I"m not 100% sure since I'm not involved in it). But otherwise I don't think there's anything wrong with talking about it. As for interest, the forums may not reflect it, but we got thousands and thousands of applications for the beta - it actually blew away our expectations.

For the Case, I don't know. Right now we're not planning on changing it, but that doesn't mean we won't in the future.

biglanky14

The Undead Suitor

Hi Biglanky

I am formally asking you a SUPER IMPORTANT QUESTION

in a formal format

Get ready for this question

its a doozy

ready?

y do u have a cat hed?

Catz r in my body and clawing out

Uncle Kenny

VVhip

Is there a plan to get more show sponsors like Adventure Time?

I loved the items, and the fact that a sponsor relevant to the community was chosen. It'd be nice to see more in future. I hope it was financially beneficial to Gaia to do this.

Maybe wink

biglanky14

jazzycola

For any developer out there:

There are many of us that have a glitch with the quest where you use orbs on a ring and then return to talk to Elizabeth in zOMG. It's one of the first quests to be done and it's required to do any other quests beyond that. I'm stuck in Village Greens because I can't get past this quest. I've been told this glitch has been around for a very long time and only happens to some people. Is there any way you guys can look into this and possibly get it fixed? I've seen several topics about it in Site Feedback.

Hi jazzycola,

Please make sure you're posting in the zOMG forum too. We're using that to help us prioritize which bugs we're fixing next.

Uncle Kenny

Adiuvo

When do you guys think you are going to put into motion some of the A/M/C forum revisions discussed in this announcement?

It's still on my list of things to do. I've got some higher priority things to tackle first but when I get the time, I'll take a look at getting some changes rolled out.

DARKNRGY

Ryder Destry

My question wasn't answered last time

Will the avatar arena ever up it's gold prize? the amount received now-a-days is so insignificant to users. It'd be nice if there was a little compensation for these upcoming years!

lanzer is creating a premium space in arenas. It will cost more to enter and the reward will also be larger. Since you mentioned though we'll also probably up the normal AA as well. Thanks for the suggestion :].

Zero Omega

Aush0k

Zero Omega

Aush0k

Here's a suggestion, give me my account back.

Have you tried filling a Hack Report if you were hacked? If not, file one at: http://www.gaiaonline.com/hack

Was your account banned? File an appeal at: http://www.gaiaonline.com/help

No, I filled a ticket out already. It was banned, not hacked. It's still 'Open' and has not been reviewed yet.

Could you send me a PM with the information about the ticket and I can look into it.

biglanky14

XxSakuraSatoruxX

Dear administrator,

I know this is kindaa rude to ask but why all the good stuff in the market place too high to buy!! i hav to save up to 2 months to get one item of my dream avi even if it costs as low as 500,000

Hi there,

Marketplace prices are set by users, not by us - it's basically the supply and demand of the site. I know it can be frustrating when stuff is expensive, but that's the way to keep it fair for everyone (as opposed to us manipulating prices).

Uncle Kenny

iiTsuki-Hime

Dear Admins,
~~~~~Hallo Thar.
~~~~~I've been wondering if you could make it possible to have all the benefits of FaceBook's BYM transferred to Gaia's BYM. My friend has a FaceBook and he says that the FaceBook BYM is much better than Gaia's, and has been rubbing it in my face for quite a while. I don't want a FaceBook, but I want to play this so called "better BYM". And like Animal said, I really don't want answers that you are unsure about it, but you'll "try to make it happen". No offense intended. But seriously, I'm getting sick and tired of him saying stuff about FaceBook BYM because I don't want to hear it. Can you please find a way?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sincerely,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A fellow irritated Gaian

Backyard Monsters is controlled entirely by Viximo so any content update would have to come from them. We don't really have any part in that one, sorry.

DARKNRGY

Scarlet Vacancy

I appreciate all of what you do for Gaia, but I was wondering if you could possibly fix a few glitches with meebo?

If you appear offline, you have to sign in using a meebo account, rather then being able to sign back on. I'm not sure if this is a repeated request, but right now it's down on my side, and It's a little not irritating, but it makes it hard to keep in touch with people, especially if your rp plotting, or meeting up in zomg.

Regardless, I think you all are doing a good job as well. :3

Try logging out of your gaia accound and then logging back into gaia. This should fix your account status through meebo. I'm looking into a way to make this process a bit more clear.

lanzer

Castiel Lover

arrow Waffles Compainion! ... Lanzer, you haz one! Y U NO SHARE? cat_cry

arrow Artists: Update on the years-old eye glitch I brought up weeks ago? "Suspicious Eyes" is the name.

For example: Dream Town's red car; both Valentines Kissing booths; Grave Danger Funeral Frame; secret retreat's mirror; Reve Rouille (diving in); Little Lucie (Empty Eyes); Many other eye mods, etc. etc.

Example:

arrow What kind of animal is this RIG's rare animal supposed to be? (The one in the header)

There can be only one!
(There is no Waffles companion item right now, so there really can be only one avatar with Waffles)

The eye doesn't work the same way as regular item so it's hard to fix, sorry we haven't been able to fix it yet.

It's an unique species only found in Gaia. I don't even know its name!

codemonkey37179

Seltzer Cole

Hello! You may call me Cole.

Question 1 - I am just curious if we will ever see some sort of Video Lounge ever again. I really miss it.

Question 2 - Will towns or hollywood ever have any interactive things added? I feel like interactive ways to role play with people comes up a little short.

Question 3 - Will being able to marry another gaian ever get added? Perhaps it would cost gold and then it would be displayed on your profile, signature, or even a little thingy beside your avatar name such as "Seltzer Cole (Whatever six letter word the two married people want here)". This could also give way to marriage rings etc and finally put use to those fancy clothes all love to buy.

I can answer question 2, but I don't know the answers to the others.

The new towns will have some interactive items, mostly for events, but it is possible some may stick around.

biglanky14

evilchimcharmander

Dear Admins.

My meebo is gone. I don't understand why, when yesterday and just earlier it was working completely fine.

Hi evilchimcharmander,

Can you give me a little more information on what you're seeing? Is the whole toolbar at the bottom of the screen gone? I ask b/c I'm seeing mine just like normal.

Thanks!

DARKNRGY

evilchimcharmander

DARKNRGY

Make sure it is enabled in your account settings -> Footer -> New Footer.

Also, it can be mostly hidden by clicking the minimize button. Look for a button on the very bottom right of the page to expand it out.

Yes, it is enabled.

Okay, not sure then. Try a different browser and/or disabling plugins you might be using. It's a bit out of our hands if meebo decides to not show you the bar.

This transcript has been sliced in two by a samurai. It looked really awesome.

[Platonix]

This half-a-transcript is currently being kept in stasis by two log-shaped automatons so that a goddess can heal it at a later time. If you get this reference, I apologize for it not actually involving anyone being cut in half by a samurai.

June 18th, some more

lanzer

Kill Hybrid

Are there any plans yet for the mini-event loot from zOMG? Re-releasing, using as alchemy components? ( '-')

We would probably re-release it at some point, though probably within zOMG and not as alchemy component.

Zero Omega

Winox

Zero Omega

Winox

I have a question

I heard some people that vend are getting ban because of the lack of information ,mods says that using java disable can be seen as botting,but nobody knows that disabling java can make them look like "bots",there was a sticky already about the vend and the programs they use but there wasnt anything about disabling java or using adons like speedfox or fasterfox,so my question is Can they make another sticky or edit that one saying whats allow and whats not for vending?

We don't have a formal list of what is and what isn't allowed for using Gaia and using the Vend. Having such a list will just allow other users to try to by-pass around it. We have made a general statement regarding add-ons such as these though, you can read that here:
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/the-gaia-exchange/lastpass-and-automatic-page-submission-programs/t.77630821/

This applies to any add-on that might make your browser faster than normal, by-pass certain areas, etc.

I have another question, how about disabling java? I can do that from my firefox browser without any program or add-on,so is that allow?

That's fine, but the overarching statement is:

If you do anything to the point where we can't differentiate you from a bot, you run the risk of getting your account banned.

Zero Omega

Winox

last question
how do I know when can I look like a bot? When I buy fast like 0-3 secs or when I refresh pages too fast?

thanks for taking the time to answer my questions smile

That is information I can't actually give out, if we tell you what we look for when we review bots, then people will figure out ways to get around it. ninja

lanzer

angelicasterling123456

When is the last time you guys cleaned the Zomg servers? Because they lagg with a passion

I'll check for you. Hopefully the auto-reboot program should be done in the near future.

biglanky14

Sinyuki

Hello everyone. I have a serious question what has caused me and my friend to wonder, but what town is Carl from? This is serious we really wanna know. and Lanzer I would like like to know if Waffles could be a MC. I think Waffles as a avvie plushie would be awesome Lanky your still awesome, and I bought your doll

That question is shrouded in mystery, wrapped in an enigma. Even I don't know the answer, but I suspect it's somewhere with easy access to the woods smile

And I hope you enjoy the doll - it's pretty sweet if I do say so myself.

lanzer

Totally Hers

Lanzer, where are you water rifting at confused

American river south fork. It's a class 2 and 3 rapid so it'll be fun but not dangerous. smile

DARKNRGY

Zeilsarulli

Hi Admins,

I was wondering if there will be any upcoming changes around the towns.

Yesssssssssss razz

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/site-feedback/towns-2-0/t.78071015/

lanzer

Rave Panties

Sandwich event , yes? emotion_kirakira

Why not a burger event?

biglanky14

The Undead Suitor

biglanky14

LiXKuja

Is the manga coming this week or delayed?
When the summer event july or august?

Hi,

It should be coming soon. We're aiming for this week, although it's possible it could move to next week. As for the summer event, I can't say for sure for super-protective-secrecy reasons smile

So, for the next update, are we talking smaller/same size/larger than "Out of the Shadows"?

About the same size. This "chapters" format is what we're shooting for going forward so that we're keeping the story up regularly (or at least as much as possible).

Uncle Kenny

MastaVern

I was wondering if there will be any way in the future to recover trophies that are trapped on mule accounts, and bring them back to the account hat they were originally won with?

long story short, some of the fishers have won trophies and ahd them traded to mule accounts when they became soul-bound, and would like to see them back on their main account so they do not need to win a duplicate trophy in order to have the full set on one account.

thanks for any input.

We don't have an answer for you at the moment but I can definitely toss the idea around and see what the thoughts are about it around the office.

Zero Omega

LoyalCompanion

Zero Omega

LoyalCompanion

When will I get my items back from a account called Loyalcompanion.
I named myself that for my hacked account.
The account it was taken over and changed his name. I will have to recheck to remember what the username the hacker changed it to.

Have you filed a Hack Report at http://www.gaiaonline.com/hacking? If you already have, then shoot me a PM so I can check the status of your report.

I believed I did like 7 months ago. But I will do it again just to make sure. ^^ thanks but what happens if the hacker sold the items or traded it?

We have magic powers that are capable of things beyond your imagination. ninja

biglanky14

Lotus Flower 1209

Ok my question is tonight is well I was wondering if there was any way to add more colors to the defult text color? Everyone knows how to move around this but as I love to rp in guilds it gets troublesome to alwasy type in the diffrent colors I want...here is a list of the colors I have found that work...please maybe look in to adding some. TQ and I love this site.
aqua
aquamarine
blueviolet
burlywood
cadetblue
chartreuse
chocolate
coral
cornflowerblue
crimson
darkcyan
darkgoldenrod
darkgray
darkgreen
darkkhaki
darkmagenta
darkolivegreen
darkorange
darkorchid
darksalmon
darkseagreen
darkslateblue
darkslategray
darkturquoise
darkviolet
deeppink
deepskyblue
dimgray
dodgerblue
firebrick
forestgreen
fuchsia
gainsboro
gold
goldenrod
greenyellow
hotpink
indianred
khaki
lawngreen
lightblue
lightgreen
lightgrey
lightpink
lightsalmon
lightseagreen
lightskyblue
lightslategray
lightsteelblue
lime
limegreen
magenta
maroon
mediumaquamarine
mediumblue
mediumorchid
mediumpurple
mediumseagreen
mediumslateblue
mediumspringgreen
mediumturquoise
mediumvioletred
midnightblue
navy
olive
olivedrab
orangered
orchid
palegoldenrod
palegreen
paleturquoise
palevioletred
peru
pink
plum
powderblue
rosybrown
royalblue
saddlebrown
salmon
sandybrown
seagreen
sienna
silver
skyblue
slateblue
slategray
springgreen
steelblue
tan
teal
thistle
tomato
turquoise
violet
wheat
yellowgreen

Hi Lotus Flower,

I'm not sure how hard this would be - I'll throw it over to the devs to consider, although they're really busy at the moment so I don't know if it's something they can get to at the moment. Thanks for the suggestion!

siskataya

Heya!

I know biglanky14 already answered this, so yay! I just wanted to let you know about a super fun text color thread started by Naramaru. I know these aren't defaults, but if you have the patience, you can use the codes to create a whole world of colors that will work for you!

The Ultimate Text Color Code Guide Thread!

Hope this is helpful biggrin
Sisky

biglanky14

la morte di me

So I've been on here for a little over 6 years and I've seen games come and go. Quite frankly I'm getting kind of tired of the games that are currently available. When are more games going to be available to play... that actually outu gold or are similar to OMG POP?

We're hoping to have a few more soon (in addition to Monster Galaxy) - our upcoming Fantasy game will be coming to Gaia directly, and we have other things we're looking at as well.

lanzer

Owlie

Good evening admins heart

1: First, thanks for getting a developer on fixing Deadman's Shadow! The current quest line bug (Alastor's "meet me in the crypt" quest) has been worked on, and now the player can accept this quest, which was the problem....

However, people that have accepted this quest can now not activate the first form of Kamila. This creates an even more game breaking problem- now crews also have to make sure at least one person doesn't have this quest before they start Kam. Few people know the problem it makes to accept this quest, so few people know not to accept it. At least with the old can't-accept-this-quest glitch it didn't impede gameplay, just storyline.

Can this be reverted to its original state until this issue is resolved?

2: Please post (at least) a dev notice when Deadman's Shadow opens to the public.

3: Update the "Open access until November 18th" nonsense on the forum page. People are starting to think it's open until now to November.

4: Update the "Dec 23rd to Dec 28th" marquee on the launch page

5: Add a banner for DMS in the "Gaia ads" that show when a user has supporter status. You advertise gold shops to your own userbase, but you don't advertise your mmo. Really?

6: Remove this from the FAQ.

gaiaonline.com/games/zomg/world/faq/

How much are rings worth?

That's up to you. zOMG! Rings are fairly rare loot drops, but there will be enough of them that you may eventually find yourself with a surplus of rings. Watch the Marketplace and figure out what those rings are selling for...and then sell them for around that much, if you so desire.

Alternatively, you can gift those rings to friends or teammates, or even salvage your rings to upgrade your other rings instead. It's up to you.

Thank you for your report. I'll make sure he knows about it.

we'll work on the other problems mentioned too.

biglanky14

Amour Belle et Deces

What're you guys gonna do once Meebo shuts down? It won't even let me on today.

As far as we've been told, the toolbar part of Meebo that we use will continue to work even after they shut down some of their other services. So at least as of now, we shouldn't be affected. Although Google could change their minds at any point, of course.

codemonkey37179

Petite Aristocrat

Dear Admins,
There have been many events over the years that have allowed us to visit various flash spaces such as Valentine's and Prom. After the event ends these are removed. The options available in the 'friends chat' are so limited, and not much to look at. Why don't you add old flash spaces that were made and work fine to available themes for friend chat? You could essentially re-purpose them, like digital recycling.

We are sort of thinking along the same lines. While it is hard to think of where to use the GrunnyGedon (Easter) event, the Valentines space could go into towns 2.0 as a restaurant. I'm not saying it will, but I hate when the artist create something so cool, and then we only see it for a few weeks. As far as putting them into friends chat, I'm not sure.

Uncle Kenny

emorexic-pimp

Hey guys!

I have a bit of a boring question, so forgive me, but I was wondering approximately how many layers there are on avatars anymore.

A lot burning_eyes

lanzer

H33

Hello ATA~ I'm dropping in to say hi and hang out for tonight's session, heh.

Question for Lanzer!> Do you still like Eyeshield 21? If so, who's your favorite character?

Question for everyone!> Do you like the new meebo bar? Why or why not? (Personally I don't really like it...)

Yeah Eyeshield is one of my favorite series. Yoichi is my favorite character, I like supporting characters that are wise yet don't advertise himself/herself to be so.

I would like the new bar to be smaller, but then it's not that big of a deal.

biglanky14

Gyptoega

I was curious. Has the beta testing for the new game been canceled? I hadn't heard a things afterwards or any announcements of the closed beta for the new game. It's already almost the end of June. Just curious.

Nope - still going on. But like most games in development, things are changing all the time so I'm guessing the team is just making some extra tweaks to get it ready for the beta testing.

biglanky14

Countess Kinoko

biglanky14, I just wanted to say thank you for introducing me to grasshopper pie. I had no clue I could get my favourite drink in pie form until I saw you mention it. I've researched a recipe and plan on trying to make it myself soon. =D

Awesome! God, it's so good. I want some right now. <drools>

Zero Omega

Mekkiro

~Just...a lot of questions! I'm a very inquisitive guy. owo

zOMG:
-When will we be able to see our rings stats in zOMG? (They disappeared a long time ago)
-When Deva not granting orbs for the 50/50 monster quest be fixed?
-Will there be any more work done on zOMG?
-Will there ever be a way to convert regular orbs into shadow orbs? (100/1?)
Aquarium and Cash Shop:
-Is the Masters Pendant actually possible to get? (I have never seen one despite it being supposedly released in the Luck Chest)
-Will there be a set date for Advance Chances or will the date continue to be random near the middle of the month?
-Will the Aquarium Luck Chest ever be updated? Maybe with new or more current items?
-Will the old Aquarium bundles ever be removed from the Cash Shop?
Gaia, etc:
-What are the qualifications to work for Gaia? (not as a moderator but actually at Gaia HQ)

Thank you~

Qualifications: It really depends on the job and what the job demands. You can find a current listing of jobs at http://corp.gaiaonline.com.

DARKNRGY

EliteDanneh

@DarkNrgy - A while back, we discussed the idea of achievements unlocking more outfit slots and other perks, has this idea been bounced around some more or any progression on such?

@Any - Animated Items ~ Throw me a bone? So much want for more. Any coming soon? o.o

Yes. We're doing achievement titles right now - each achievement will unlock a word which you can mix and match to create a title for yourself in the forums. I want to wait and see how that catches on and then go from there :].

lanzer

iWintre

Dear Lanzer:

Are you a brony?


Sincerely, Wintre.

Only if ponies starts shooting lasers and fight battles with space aliens

Narumi Misuhara

Adiuvo

Narumi Misuhara what does your name mean?

*shrug* If you find out let me know razz

One is a name I like, the other is from a character in Azumanga Daioh

lanzer

iiiiJamie

Hello. I was wondering if it's possible to get a application to have a job with gaia. like be apart of the gaia staff. And another question that I have is if you will have anymore Animated Items coming?

You can email your resume and portfolio to [e-mail] if you're interested in an artist position.

Uncle Kenny

Backstrom

when can we expect to see the cat game that you guys were working on?

Soon cool

siskataya

Captain KyuKyu

I don't really have a question but I just want to complement all the people who work at Gaia.
You guys and gals at Gaia are doing a great job improving the Gaians experience, I hope you continue to do so.

With much love,
Captain KyuKyu

Awwww, thanks for the kind words. It's always good to know that people are having fun on Gaia, and enjoy being here biggrin

- Sisky

DARKNRGY

You are cool :] thanks

biglanky14

Sinsario

I know I asked this some months(?) ago, but how is the unisexing going?
I uh...I would still really love those forbidden skirts on my manly figure...

What's your favorite color combination? emotion_c8

Not sure on the first question, but dark green and black!

biglanky14

Ace Fehrr

I was wondering if you could answer this question.

Nope

biglanky14

.~.Lady_Aji.~.

Evening, Lanzer/staff.

Any updates on zOMG! glitch fixes?

We should have an update in the near future (hopefully next week) - Halzy was in here working on some fixes over the past couple days, but I'm not exactly sure which ones he was taking care of.

biglanky14

Constipated Trillionaire

Hope you guys have missed me as much as I've missed you ninja

WAAAAAAAY more! I missed your question about whether Ectoplasm was more available yet smile

lanzer

ryu yuhi

.I've asked this before, but received no reply: Can we please get some sort of skateboard item?.

Considering that L0cke is a great skater I am surprised that we don't have an item yet. I remember us not being able to have it as an item under your feet because of size limitations and that held us back when we first came up with the idea. If we make one today it can only be a hand held item

biglanky14

ladyxdnyx

Hey I just had one question. You guys were having a contest and all people had to do was log into gaia to be entered. When did this contest end? I don't think I ever saw the end date for either the xbox one or the wii.

Hi,

They both are monthly contests. This one runs from June 1st to June 30th.

biglanky14

Tetsip

Hi Admins,

First, thank you for your time, effort, dedication, and commitment to keeping things running on this site. I am sure it can be challenging.

My question is simple: will DeadMan's Shadow ever be able to be played solo versus being in a crew? Oftentimes, I find it difficult finding good, consistent crews that are patient and fun to participate with. I would like to continue to increase my CL. It does not seem feasible if it must be done in a crew. Another reason for this question is that I am not always on-line in Gaia and have a changing schedule, so, I would like to see if it is possible at some point to complete DeadMan's Shadow solo.

Thank you for your time and feedback. I look forward to your reply.

Best regards,

Hi there,

I don't know if it will be solo-able. We're kicking around some ideas to open it up more often, but I'm not sure on the solo part. However, that's not to say that we won't do it - I just don't know of any plans for that in the near future.

carbonphyber

Xx Karkat Vantas xX

WWhy are things on here so expensive?

Gold prices for items on Gaia are set by "the market" (other users that use the marketplace). Prices are pinned to "value". If you find items that are expensive, it's because the market believes they are valuable. There is also a supply/demand curve involved (supply for most GCash items stops at some point, supply for gold shop items will likely last a lot longer)

Xx Karkat Vantas xX

and also why is the meebo keep changing?

Meebo is a product from a different company (the Meebo company... which was bought by Google just 1-2 weeks ago). Google bought the company and shut down some of their products. They also forced GaiaOnline.com to "upgrade" the Meebo Bar to the "new look".

Zero Omega

Teh Little Devil

Zero Omega

Teh Little Devil

Quite a while ago, my account was hacked. While that person was using it, they deleted the little part on my profile where it just had my avatar. I really miss it and I want it back, but I don't know how. Any help?

Check your profile.

Baah!
Omg, thankyousomuch.
I love you.
heart

Not a problem at all! Reproduce it by doing.

Edit > Content > Details

siskataya

Aalyve Wyyre

I would like to know if you all are aware that users cannot buy GaiaCash through paypal any longer.

I am on autocash as well, but cannot purchase additional GC through paypal any longer. I'm not the only one, so I just wanted to know if staff is aware and if anything is being done to fix it?

Thank you!

Heya!

Thanks for letting us know about this. I paid with Paypal recently, and it worked fine. If you could message me so we can talk about this and I can get some more information from you, I might be able to help you out.

Be well biggrin
Sisky

biglanky14

Demgelic

Hello Admins!!

Are there any Basketball fans out there? I've recently been watching since I am now 6 1/2 months pregnant with our first child. A little boy! Met my love on Gaia about 5 years ago and started dating 2 years later. <3

Anyway who do you think will win? Heats or Thunders?

I also think Waffles doesn't like me. It's okay. I have 2 cats anyway! Lol.

Have a great summer!

Absolutely - I'm a huge bball fan (and headed to my own rec league game as soon as this is over). I hope the Thunder will win, but I'm afraid the Heat will (I'm not a LeBron fan).

lanzer

Singiling

Hey, Admin, my friend and I are wondering:
Is it true that Meebo is closing for the iPhone in July? I'm not sure if that was real or not, so reply soon!
-Sushi yum_tamago

Yes, Google bought Meebo and they're only keeping the Meebo bar, while the other products such as the iPhone app is being shut down. It's really too bad.

Zero Omega

Seasick Hearts

Why are people just allowed to post at whim about whatever topic they choose, no matter how explicit, and get no punishment ? This is mainly regarding the forums. I've seen So many posters just repeatably post anything from very sexual pictures, to offering inappropriate pictures of themselves, and nothing done. It just really makes me wonder...and bothers me to no end that nothing is done currently, perhaps because im stressed.

If the problem is a shortage of staff, hire interns to be forum moderators. Im sure there are alot of people that would be willling to do such, including myself.

We actually have a very dedicated staff that are always checking out for these things and removing it as fast as possible. However we still need your help, if you see this stuff, then report it so our staff can check it out. We're always accepting application for users to apply to become moderators, which you can find here:
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/questions-assistance/moderator-application-faq/t.46243481/

As for internships, we don't offer those for the moderator position because that's a volunteer position.

carbonphyber

Notice to users:

I'm working on fixing Spoiler tags for those of you users that are currently unable to use them.

As part of this, I'm upgrading a lot of forums JavaScript. One feature I'm trying to add is "PJAX" -- which will make navigating a forum topic extremely quick compared to how slow it is now. I'm hoping to make it available to public Forums and Guild users in a week or two.

biglanky14

Sigma Blu

Dear Admins,

Please, alot of us in the Gaia community would love it if you brought back Real OMG hats....I've searched and search but the OMG hat cosplay hats just don't seem to be as well made as the ones you all made. I'd love it if you made them availible for a limited time. Please could you make them again?

Hi Sigma Blu,

Unfortunately we've gotten out of the real-life goods business, at least for the foreseeable future. Sorry about that!

Narumi Misuhara

HellzBellz411

Good evening gaian admins =^.^=
This is my first time posting on an ata thread =)
But that is because it is nearly 2 am here.
Anyway, i'm not sure if anyone has asked this yet, but I was just wondering when this years summer event will take place and what might we expect to see this year.
I'm hoping to read a spoiler or two tee hee ^.^

Welcome to ATA smile

The summer event is progressing nicely, I just finished the event page today. The games are coming along thanks to Codemonkey, one is nearly complete and others have working prototypes ...but that's all I'll say on the matter ninja

biglanky14

Lady Cressida

Dear Gaia Admin,

Stop ignoring my questions >C

Anyways I have couple questions for you tonight

1) For the Summer Spring game on Facebook, is there any plans on adding more in-game reward items for our avatars? I really love the sunflower background award for hitting level 9 or was it 10 ??&.>

2) Is there any scoop about fixing the animated avatar glitches for Classic Profiles? I have been asked by my customers about why their avatar is in the default location when it was suppose to be at this location. I have to tell them it's a glitch with avatars wearing animated items, and it only effect uses using classic profiles.

I would be nice if the tech guys fix this glitch or have some code to prevent it from happening.

Have a nice night.

Hi,

1) Probably not, at least for right now.

2) Have you posted in the Bug Reports forum? I don't have any scoop on this, but our devs check that forum quite regularly.

lanzer

Kitty

Hello admins and more so developers.

I have a few questions.
is the Gaia on the Go app going to get fixed any time in the near future? The bugs with the PMs most especially is bothersome. Or has the app pretty much gone the way of guilds.. Not high enough on the priorities totem to matter. I appreciate having the reporting thread sticky reinstated, but feel its useless if the bugs reported don't get fixed.

Also- mentioning guilds. Is ther a way to fix them so that iPad users can view users names in threads after the page loads. Currently users who utilizing Gaia via an iPad can only see usernames who post in guild threads when the thread is loading. Once the load is complete the name disappears.

On another note, Daily chance says

Quote:

+2 bonus for logging in 6+ of past 7 days.

However I see no bonus given and still am granted denominations such as 5 gold. Is the 2+ supposed to bring me to 7 gold or up my chances for a better item next time, because currently this doesn't seem to be the case. And furthermore, I get a grant error when claiming the shops tab of daily chance.

Quote:

There was a problem granting your request. Please try again.

Lastly, are there any strides in fixing item glitches. Juno was in charge of this at one point but since she has left I have seen no mention of fixing item glitches.

I myself have several dress glitches in which the bunny slippers layer in front of the dress and the new opalescent rainbow item take them off completely in the stocking pose.. As does the seafoam gown... Love to see these fixed if possible

We've been actively fixing bugs on the iPhone app, which bug are you referring to?

The guild iPad bug might be a little tricky, but we'll check it out and see if it's a quick fix.

The dailly chance bonus will give Gaians a bigger chance of winning better prizes, though there is still small chances of winning the smaller gold prizes unfortunately.

siskataya

Ridley Starsmore

siskataya

biglanky14

Krissim Klaw

So where is my adorable pixelated praying mantis pet item complete with I AM pose? emotion_awesome

Ha - you're once again using the wrong adjective. Adorable does not apply. Try freaky or pants-poopingly scary.

Please don't do the latter in the office.... and mantises are cute! Don't insult Krissim's pets! eek

Sorry Krissim, biglanky14 is impossible to control...

Sisky

Have you tried one of those spray bottles with siracha (sp?) sauce in it?

No I haven't, but that is a good suggestion! eek heart

Uncle Kenny

Porcelain Toilet

Dear Admins:

I've always felt the need to ask this question because this bothers me a little.

Why are there no gold shop updates?

Gaia is seriously turning into 'let's favor the rich, forget about the poor'. I mean, if you want more users, you're really kicking a lot of them out the door. Give them nice gold shop items. The ones in there are really ugly considering the art of the items is a hell of a lot better. I know you guys just LOVE money pouring in from users buying CIs but give the newbies a bit of a starting point to feel apart of the users that look good with our fancy CI and such.

Probably will never happen but it's really the main reason people leave Gaia almost as soon as they join. Even if you don't want to update the gold shop. Maybe just revamp the items..? Subeta is a pretty big site (not as big as Gaia) but they still do things like revamps. Since you're looking for a gold fix, why not do the simple.

Bah, but a girl can dream. For others or not.

Also when I say rich I mean like gold-wise not irl money-wise although they both kind of co-exsist together. You have a lot of kids on your site who obviously can't buy cash often (like me who doesn't want to work yet).

There is a gold shop update every month, just as it has been for the last several years. Typically these updates have more individual items than single cash shop updates which is why there seem to be less of them and more of the cash updates.

May
April
March
February
January

biglanky14

Jaenie

Many of us have been wondering why rare bugs never show up in towns anymore. Is the current generation rate accidentally set to zero or something? sweatdrop

They should still be - I'm not aware of them going away. We'll have to look into that - thanks!

siskataya

sunny515241

sunny515241

Dear Admins,

I was wondering If you planned on adding new wing and animal items.

And what are your favorite items? (Hopefully more then one admin will answer that)

Sincerely, Sunny

post ignored crying

Don't feel ignored -Ahhhhhh! HELLO TO YOU! biggrin

I'm not sure about new wing or animal items, but I can tell you some items I love. I love the OMG hat, and my Pancake the Bunny. Oh, and my Sisky the Wombat, Mona the Platypus, and flame pants! I just love lots of items - too many to list biggrin

Sisky

biglanky14

Spifficated

Quick question, though I doubt I'll get an answer.

Why is it that if someone spends $2.50 that they can disable ads and have donator status for zomg, but I purchased $10.00 in cash, spent it on an item that's $1.25 / ea and am not eligible?

Are you trying to say you'd rather see me spend $2.50 than $10.00? I think that's kind of messed up.

If you bought $10 you should still have donator status. If that's not happening, send a note to our CS team through the Help section and they can take a look.

lanzer

Bleshoo

Greetings! Has anyone had a chance to watch Indie Game: The Movie? I just saw it last night and thought it was pretty great at showing the hardships and devotion that go into making indie games.

Haven't had a chance yet, but will soon!

codemonkey37179

Asashi85

Dear Admiin(s):

I know there are a lot of bugs and glitches still in Gaia that have to be work on...but I did notice one thing...I was changing my avi clothing when I kind of notice my stuff was out of order. I went to go into my inventory to fix it up a bit, so it looked a bit neater in the inventory...but I notice something on the top of the tab...The REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY OLD Inventory Arranger... So, my question is, are you guys going to plan on keeping that name? XD Or is they any future plans to have a better way of arranging your inventory in the future? O.o Just asking....

Yeah, we know it needs to be updated, and it will be. Just have a very long list of things right now.

Narumi Misuhara

Stormy Werewolf

codemonkey37179

Stormy Werewolf

Hello,
Not really an issue, just curious.
Do admin get given gaia gold? Or do they have to earn it like everyone else?

When I first got here, I needed gold for testing the programs I was running, but in general we have to earn it.

So the only way you can get gold (assuming you aren't using it for a test) is by posting?
I never see admin anywhere else.

Posting, item vends, participating in games and events, Booty Grab, zOMG!. All the same ways you guys do. smile

codemonkey37179

We post quite a bit. Mostly in site feedback, community discussion, and bug fix forums.

We also tend to get tipped.

biglanky14

axisofsymmetry

This probably won't get answered because I'm incredibly late, but this is about floating gift boxes/pink links, etc.

Is there any way you can make it so that, if clicked, it doesn't take you to another page that says 'YOU GOT A BOX, CHECK YOUR INVENTORY!' ? It's a little bit annoying having to go back to the page I was on previously, or alternatively, add a link to the 'you caught whatever' page that links you back to the page you were on.

Just an idea.

Yeah - I hear you, I have the same feeling. Truthfully we're just working on a bunch of cool stuff for the summer so little tweaks like this can take a backseat. Hopefully we'll get to it at some point though!

DARKNRGY

rinlee

Short question:

Are you guys still thinking about adding the ability to completely remove Guild subforums?

IF we end up working on guilds then yes, I'd like to add that option. Or a way to empty them out, something like that. We're not planning to work on guilds yet but it's something we want to do.

codemonkey37179

Adiuvo

You guys at HQ... How do you guys get into nerf gun wars? Do they just happen without warning?

Sometimes shots come without warning. Wars are planned. I'm afraid I don't participate.

biglanky14

x-LittleMissAlice-x

Hello admins. c:

It's so cool you guys open a forum to get feedback from the member of this site. This is one of the reasons I love Gaia so much. <3 You're always growing to the members needs. I don't actually have a question ( Since I'm sure it's already been asked and I can find the answer if I snoop through the pages enough ) but I just wanted to say I think you guys are doing an awesome job and I hope you'll keep up the great work. c:

Oh! Actually, I think I do have something to bring your attention too. The guilds, as someone had said before, haven't been updated in a while. It may be due to some changes you've been making to the site, but for some reason I can't join another Guild. D: It always re-directs me to another page that says "User belongs to more than one Clan" even though it's not a Guild for zOMG. Could you please fix this? o:

Thank you for your time,

- Miss Alice

Thanks Miss Alice!

Can you PM me with the info about the Guilds? That way I can have someone take a look when they have a chance. Thanks!

codemonkey37179

Adiuvo

Ridley Starsmore

Adiuvo

How many servers has it taken to store all of Gaia over the years; how many servers did gaia have in the beginning, and how many does it have now?

Started with one server, it was named sushi, and it was broken CONSTANTLY.

Reportedly, someone thought it was a coffee maker at one point.

I always thought the Sushi errors were some technical term. xp

Sushi is a type of server.

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petrichors

Why is my meebo gone?
I have my footer set to yes.
But how come, it is still not there?

Hi,

I'm not sure - Meebo is a separate company, but as far we were told, they're not changing the toolbar we use even though Google just bought them. But enough people have reported this, so we're going to take a look and see if we can figure out what's going on.

lanzer

Thank you for joining us on this week's ATA everyone! We're wrapping up on some more replies and they'll be posted in a few minutes.

Have a great week everyone!

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EliteDanneh

Animated Items - Any soon to come? Any info? Anything?

Unfortunately I can't share any info - and even if I had answers, I'm not allowed to say under threat of death from the artists. They're a tough bunch!

DARKNRGY

Black Death Goddess

Here's another thing I'd like to see happen.

I'd like for items that are hot (selling fast) in the MP to have a little flame symbol next to them. It'd be so much easier to understand what items are selling good then by trying to figure out those graphs. 3nodding

We show the "trending" items, which are items that are selling slower or faster all the sudden.

Showing items that are selling quickly would just show you the most commonly sold items, which won't change substantially. Like, sort of wildly guessing - tickets for example get bought and sold a lot and it wouldn't be useful information to see that.

I definitely see what you mean but it would need to work differently. Maybe we could just put flames on items that are trending?

siskataya

Epic Wild Tiger

Ok I have another question now:

What do you plan to do about the massive amount of people who make accounts on this site just to

have cyber sex, and who continuously populate the flash environments and subject us users who

don't care to see them screwing and trying to hook up? I find it very annoying to see them in the

sluttiest clothing they can find spamming for sex and pics and fb accounts. It's GOT to stop and

just reporting them is not stopping them. We need more people in there with actual authority to

keep them from breaking the rules because just reporting them is NOT working! I had one of them

the other night tell me that's all this site is good for anymore is a sexual hookup site and that is

NOT what gaia is supposed to be. PLEASE pay more attention to the flash environments and police
them better, because we just can't report them fast enough anymore. Something needs to be

done besides making an announcement about it to scare them away from such behavior. Gaia is

not a whorehouse and that is what they are making it into. Please DO something!

Thanks for the post and the feedback! We're sorry to hear you've encountered some less-than-fabulous behavior in Towns. We actually do handle issues that are reported in Towns, so please make sure to report if you see anything untoward going on. As well, if you feel there is something that is a safety issue, please feel free to email [e-mail] and let us know so we can get to it rapidly.

Take care biggrin
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Thanks to everyone for coming out tonight! As always, we apologize for any questions we didn't get to, and hope you'll join us again next week!

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Admin blocked my main account C a n n a b i s L o v e e for 14 days, well today is the 14th day and its still blocked I would appreciate it if you would unblock it.

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June 22nd

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[topic title: Another Friday, another Biglanky hangout thread]
Anyone around today?

And just for the record, this is the shirt I'm wearing at the office today. Yes, those are sequins (or something like that).


SPARKLY BOBA FETT MEANS BUSINESS!!!!

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Pirate Captain Sushi

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Pirate Captain Sushi

Hey Lanky, Soosh here! What's going on? Been getting stuff done at the office? Found a song yet? What have you eaten for lunch?

Hey Soosh,

We had Wing Stop in today, which tastes great but makes me feel like junk after eating. Alas I have not found a song yet, but I was singing the CodeMonkey song so much (replacing the main character with BigLanky) that I got told to cram it.

And yup, getting some fun stuff done, although right now I'm also sitting in front of one of our TVs watching the Euro Cup match between Germany and Greece too. Boba Fett helps me multitask.

Mmm Wing Stop is delicious. To settle the discomfort, I recommend some Imodium immediately afterwards. It's a life-saver, trust me. o.o

I could easily be headed that way. Plus we're headed to a Jamaican place this evening for a friend's bday (an awesome restaurant, though), and then I hope on a plane at 6am tomorrow for a family thing. I might several types of stomach settler to get through that flight.

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Pirate Captain Sushi

Owch. Painful. I feel your pain. crying
I get queezy on buses... I used to take one to college every day.

I don't get motion sick very often, so I'm lucky that way. But we're flying from California to Wisconsin, so it'll be a 4+ hour flight, which won't be good if my stomach is bugging me.

It makes me sound super lame, but I'm looking forward to it b/c I'll finally have a chance to finish Hunger Games. I've read the first book but not the next two.

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Mitsumi-chan

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SnowbaIl

Do you guys have like, Video Game tournaments at HQ? emotion_kirakira

Hi snowball,

Yup, sometimes. The last one was Super Smash Bros, but I'm HORRIBLE so I didn't fare very well. I'd need to go back to Street Fighter II to have a chance.

Is it Brawl? If so, pick MetaKnight and mash B until you win. If it's Melee, pick Marth and mash foward smash. XD;

Who do you play in Street Fighter II? o3o

Sweet! I think it was Brawl, so I'll use that next time for sure.

If I HAVE to win a match, I'd use Ryu. But he's kinda boring b/c everyone uses him, so I prefer Sagat or Dhalsim (Dhalsim mainly b/c he's lanky like me). I certainly wasn't the world's best player, but I was one of the only few that I knew who could use THawk effectively. And I was banned from using Balrog by my friends.

On the Genesis version, I figured out that if you timed it right, you could get your opponent in an infinite loop. To start it, you grab them for a headbutt. Once they're released, time a medium low punch right when they land. They're forced to block (or take the punch), which means you can grab them all over again for more head butts. Repeat, repeat, win. It was almost impossible to break unless I mistimed it (not very often). My friends literally refused to play me as him unless I promised not to use it.

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Mitsumi-chan

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Mitsumi-chan

Yeah. Ryu is kind of boring because of how basic he is. At the same time, he's a good choice if you like basic because you're too lazy to learn anything else. o3o/

And yeah, older games had a lot of really silly stuff in them (SF2 has variable damage). If you ever get the chance, you should play SF2 Rainbow edition. You'll see very quickly why it's a silly game. For example, you can jump after doing a fireball and then do another fireball in the air and continue... you'll eventually go so high off the screen that you'd pop back up from the ground.

Holy crap - I've never even heard of Rainbow Edition. Was that an official version of it, or a hack? Sounds like I'd end up with a lot of finger blisters trying to continually pop up the bottom of the screen.

Although continually Yoga Flame-ing higher and higher into the air would be amusing.

I think it is a hack, but some arcades do carry it in actual cabinets. It's pretty funny. :3

I'm going to have to look that up. There's still a Nickel City arcade near me, so if they have it, I may be gathering up my nickels.

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Druddigon

inb4 "rule breaking again"

Good day to you Lanky any games you been playing besides Gaia? ninja

I'm kind of a lame gamer. I like playing solo missions, but I don't do multi-player very often. Right now most of my video game time is taken up by Call of Duty 3 (finally beat it on all difficulty levels - the last one was a b*#$), or NHL 2012.

What about you?

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Magnificent Moonbeam

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Magnificent Moonbeam

Hey, Lanky. Hope things have been well at HQ. The shirt looks great by the way.

Any time you can take a badass character and make him sparkly, you have to do it, right??

Things at HQ are good - we're pretty excited about stuff coming up in the next month (although can't talk about it yet). Plus it's Friday, so that's always nice.

I'm looking forward to what you have planned. That's true about the shirt. I'm very excited to see what items will evolve tonight.

Me too!

Did you see Narumi's leaked Olympics image in his bday thread?

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Magnificent Moonbeam

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Magnificent Moonbeam

Yes, I did. It looks pretty interesting so far.

If nothing else, it should be entertaining. You'll see all sorts of weird stuff going on - so it's pretty Gaia-ish smile

Okay. Thanks for letting me know a bit more about what's to come for the event.

No prob. And we may even have some smaller stuff beforehand. But (cue BigLanky's favorite line)...no promises smile

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snufflypoo

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Me too!

Did you see Narumi's leaked Olympics image in his bday thread?

Yes!! How long til it starts?

That is a FANTASTIC question that I can't possibly begin to answer. But I can say that it will start somewhere in the 6 month range before or after the real Olympics are. smile

Lol, fair enough!

How about this then: Breaking Bad - do you watch it? I've been up late every night watching the series rewind before the new season starts...it's been getting hard to function during the day as a result.

My TV watching has gone down the tubes lately. The last serials I watched religiously were The Shield (omglove), The Wire (omgbiggerlove), Rome (Season 1 awesome, Season 2 kinda off the rails), Sopranos (one of only people that loved the ending), and Lost (don't get me started on how pissed off it made me).

There are several shows that I know I'd love that I should get into, and Breaking Bad is right at the top of the list (with Mad Men and Sons of Anarchy). I just haven't gotten into the habit. I need a few nights alone with a Netflix queue in order to get into them.

I did watch the full 6 hours of the Hatfields-McCoys miniseries recently though.

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snufflypoo

Lmao - I'm right there with you on LOST! By the end of the show I was all 'HULK SMASH!!! RAAAWRRRR!! *table flip*'.

Breaking Bad is awesome and I'm willing to bet you'd like it. I like Sons of Anarchy too - it feeds my inner rebel. wink I recommend both shows wholeheartedly. 3nodding

Excellent.

I don't think I've hated an ending more than Lost. I didn't expect them to answer everything, but given the mythology, I completely feel like the "let the audience decide" was complete code for "we made crap up as we went along and wrote ourselves into a huge corner so we'll just make it vague and hope people think it's artsy." You can get away with that in some cases, but I don't buy it at all for Lost.

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Druddigon

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Druddigon

Played any new games lately?

I don't play NHL games or any sports game and I got tired of COD .___.
All I been playing is Skyrim and my still new Vita.

Also,this might be more Ata but can Dernier cri gets some new items now? gonk
it's been there long enough and Smouldering helm would be much needed.

Have you guys played Assassin's Creed? I keep wanting to get into it, and I can't decide whether the upcoming American Revolution one seems awesome or terrible.

As for Dernier Cri, I honestly don't know. That's for the top-secret artist schedule to determine.

I have played up until brotherhood that game is pretty good and the American revolution does look really great I suggest playing the second game.

Which one is that? Do they all have a theme, like the upcoming American Revolution one?

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Druddigon

1st took place in Jerusalem
2nd was in the year 1,500 in Florence Italy
Brotherhood was in Rome (only)
Didn't played revelation.

You will like the 2nd the first game just leaves you in a huge cliff hanger gonk

Oh sweet (not about the cliffhanger). I have a huge soft spot for Roman History, so anything set in Italy already is getting good marks from me. I was excited about Dante's Inferno (my favorite book), but then Sisky played it and said it was meh.

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Crystal Sparda

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Crystal Sparda

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Hey Lanks!
Have you heard of image resizing? ;P
Go poke PRISM and tell 'em that I love this skirt. whee

What team are you on for the upcoming Gaia Olympics?

Image resizing is overrated smile

I will definitely pass along your thanks. And rumor has it we may even have a livestream session with a few of our artists next week. But stay tuned.....

I haven't fully decided yet. I was fully for Aekea in the Harry Potter mini-event, but I might jump ship this time.

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Oooooooooh, livestream! emotion_kirakira
ninja Lemme know when it'll go down beforehand.

Hop on that ship to Durem! Do it! We're hardcore over here!
*sends a friend request*

Durem is definitely in the running - it'll probably come down to the last second.

And we'll do a sitewide announcement for the livestream next week.

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Dashing Valentine

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Dashing Valentine

Man I jelly of that shirt. I have quite a few Star Wars ones myself.

So what would you say is your favorite piece of Star Wars stuff you own?

That's actually pretty easy - my Imperial Shuttle. It's not b/c it's the coolest (the Millennium Falcon is by FAR the coolest thing in SW), but it's b/c when I was a kid I never had one, so I told myself I would get one when I got my first job. That didn't happen for money reasons, and then I finally got one last year. It's pretty sweet.

What's yours?

That's a toss-up really. I love my shirtless Darth Maul figure cause my Fiance got it for me. I also love my Bossk Bust and I love my signed Boba Fett figure... @3@ I guess those would be my top three. sweatdrop

It's signed by Jimmy Bulluch? Awesome!

And did you say shirtless Darth Maul? Where did you get that? Is that kind of like the Amidala figure that got a lot of press b/c of her prominent nipples?

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Dashing Valentine

Yes indeed he is signed by Jimmy. x3 I don't know where my fiance got him. I love the figure to pieces though. It is a great part of my collection. x3

That's great - I had Jimmy's auto on a picture hanging on my wall in college. And let me tell you, nothing impresses the ladies more than an autographed Boba Fett picture! In completely unrelated news, for some reason I never really had many ladies over at my house.

I will cop to an unhealthy fascination with Lobot (bonus points if you know who I'm talking about).

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Dashing Valentine

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Dashing Valentine

I wonder how impressed guys would be with the fact that a girl likes Star Wars...oh wait...I kinda know. xD

I wish I knew. .3. Now I look bad. emotion_facepalm

Uh, very. And the Twi'lek headgear doesn't hurt.

Lobot is Lando's cyborg-ish assistant in Cloud City (in Empire Strikes Back). He's the bald dude who has the metallic ring around his head to communicate with Lando, and helps them all escape from the stormtroopers. He's a total bit character, so I can't explain why at all I like him. But I've always been a huge fan, to the point that when I'm playing Lego Star Wars (one of my favorite games of all time) in Free Play mode, I'm almost always him.

Lobot

Heh. x3 I guess the fact that I'm working on an Imperial Officer costume in real life helps too, eh? XD

I love background characters. Oola is one I've always loved. It's such a shame she got eaten by the rancor. It would have been nice if she was expanded on. Oh and Lyn Me too.

There's an expansion book called "Tales from Jabba's Palace" that expands out on some of the background characters. I don't remember if Oola's story is in there, but there's a chance. Unfortunately most of the content is blocked out by the fact that they decided to make Boba Fett's story (post-Sarlaac eating):

-Gets eaten
-Dengar saves him
-Boba Fett is best man at Dengar's wedding
-BigLanky vows never to read that junk again

tiranaki

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tiranaki

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Dashing Valentine

Lol. It sounds hilariously bad. My Fiance told me about this one girl who writes Boba Fett books and has like a major crush on him. She's apparently a really bad writer though. xD

The disappointing part was that "Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina" was actually really interesting. Most of the stories were plausible, reasonable, and compelling. This one was just bad though.

Oh, actually - I take that back. It was "Tales of the Bounty Hunters", which should've been the best. But it was horrible. Tales from Jabba's Palace was so-so.

I have read these books! But I don't remember what happened in them, it was over 10 years ago while I was still in high school emo

Also no one's impressed with my Star Wars knowledge geekery either emo

We will need to discuss smile

Haha yeah. It's been a while though so my memory is foggy and I lost track of what was happening in the books some time ago. My username is actually inspired from an old Star Wars RP club I started with my friends in school. True story!

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Dashing Valentine

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Dashing Valentine

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But speaking of high-priced toys, have you seen this piece of ridiculousness? Even I'm not that crazy.

Amazon link

Da fuq? 0.o

That's like one of those ridiculous Ebay auctions that Rebelscum posts so people can get laughs.

Ha - those are great.

If you could get one thing, what would it be? For me, it'd probably be one of those huge Falcons that hang from the ceiling at FAO Schwarz.

Life Size Anakin Skywalker Statue...>3>

Really? I'm assuming you mean Hayden Christiansen Anakin, not Fester Anakin. That would remind me of the way Lucas altered the final scene with their spirits, which would then send me into a rage about how that's all wrong.

Feels....rage.....building......

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Dashing Valentine

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Dashing Valentine

Yeah, I mean Hayden. -3- I like him....I mean...I realllly like him... emotion_awesome

So is that just Anakin-Hayden, or Hayden in general? Like "Snow falling on cedars" Hayden or whatever movie he was in along those lines?

Just Anakin. He will always be my Anakin. <3

Ok, fair enough. Although I was secretly hoping you had a crush on the Fester version of Anakin from the original Jedi b/c that would be hilariously gross.

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Dashing Valentine

That is totally creep mode. I've seen that Anakin. I would feel weird if I liked that Anakin...considering I'm 20...and he's like...what...60 or older.

Yeah....that would be a bit disturbing. Plus it's not good to have your boyfriend's head look like a hard-boiled egg.

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Pirate Captain Sushi

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Pirate Captain Sushi

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the Millennium Falcon is by FAR the coolest thing in SW

Inb4 the Y-wing space dong.

Hahahahahaha - you know, I've never thought about that. And now I won't be able to stop thinking about it every time I see one. Thanks!

Lol seriously? The side turrets drop glowing blue balls while the cockpit stands far out infront of them...

You couldn't get more of an innuendo from a Star Wars ship!
Imagine the jokes in the docking bays!

Seriously - and with my sense of humor, that's something I would normally catch on to right away. Lots of jokes about the Ion Cannon from Hoth.

I will now forever laugh when picturing the Y-Wing entering the base......

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OddBird

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Druddigon

inb4 "rule breaking again"

Good day to you Lanky any games you been playing besides Gaia? ninja

Whoops, forgot to put that in there this time. Hopefully the mods have mercy on me today.

LOL - awesome!

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Pirate Captain Sushi

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Pirate Captain Sushi

So Lanky...favor the single-player eh?

...Are you a fan of Fallout? ninja

The biggest issue for me is that I don't often have time to sit down and play a game for a long period of time, which makes multi-player difficult. It's much easier for me to play a level of something, walk away, and pick it back up later.

I typically like more open-ended games like GTA, so what would be something I should take a look at for my next game?

And what's your favorite game of all time, regardless of the system? I think I'd have a tie b/w Baseball Stars for the Nintendo, and Shining Force for the Genesis.

My favorite game of all time would have to be Fallout 3. It's open, it's post nuclear 50's, it has GREAT interactivity, it has great music, it has robots, aliens, zombies, mutants, and two headed cows, It has elements of an RPG game and (if you suck at shooting) you can use something called a "VATS" system that targets for you, leaving the shooting up to a system of percentage chances that change depending on what weapon you hold, if you're crouching, or if you're up close to an enemy.

The overall feel of the game is just mindblowing. It was amazing to me when I first played it a few years ago and I still play it to this day. Fallout: New Vegas is a good sequel but it's still no where near as good as Fallout 3.

Then again... I'm a really big fan of Portal.


You might be into Saints Row, Lanky. I hear it's a good mix of an open-world, linearity, and open endedness.

Sweet. As I'm getting older I can feel myself losing touch with some of the titles. I know of them (like Portal, Saints Row, etc) but I haven't played any of them myself. Even though it's a little older now, I've been told several times that Red Dead Redemption is awesome too.

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Pirate Captain Sushi

I want to take back what I said about my favorite game... I just remembered...

Pokemon Blue for the Gameboy will always have a special place in my heart.

Ha - that's like Kid Icarus for me. Not the best game ever, but that's the one game where I'm the only one I know that beat it, so it's special to me.

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Erebea revius

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I typically like more open-ended games like GTA, so what would be something I should take a look at for my next game?

And what's your favorite game of all time, regardless of the system?

As a fan of sandbox games, there are a few titles you could go for. The Saboteur, it is a little old but still quite good, I'm pleased I recalled the game and was able to track it down easily.

There is also Saints Row: The Third, not having played the series I wasn't sure what to expect but it looked fun and not knowing anything about the previous games didn't hamper my experience at all. If your PC can handle it, then I'd recommend going with the PC version as there are some awesome mods for it, unlike the console versions which aren't mod-able.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Saboteur-Pc/dp/B001KNID2S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340397235&sr=8-1&keywords=the+saboteur+pc

http://www.amazon.com/Saints-Row-Third-Pc/dp/B004QEWVTO/ref=sr_1_1_title_2?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1340397294&sr=1-1&keywords=saints+row+the+third

Favourite game? Probably Phantasy Star 4 on the Mega Drive, it was my first proper introduction to RPGs.

This is almost certainly a stupid question, but what is the Mega Drive? I haven't heard of it.

I'm not much of a PC gamer - I usually stick to consoles. I only use a PS3 right now, so it'd preferably be compatible with it.

I was into Guitar Hero for a bit, but that passed sort of quickly. Now the guitars just sit in my garage gathering dust. And I was so excited when I got to play One from Metallica that first time too....

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Erebea revius

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Erebea revius

I know Sega's Mega Drive is old, but I would have of guessed most people would have of known about it, though it probably because I've been in to games since a young age. Though I had to wait till I struck out on my own before I was able to get in to gaming - I guess one of my parents were concerned that I'd get too in to gaming ... I'm not an addict, however gaming is an important part of my life! XD

It at the time was much like Nintendo's Super Nintendo (SNES) as they were both 16-bit machines. Compared to consoles and things like ipads etc that must seem so unbelievably small compared to today's standards.

EDIT: Oh, I forgot it had a different name in America - so you may know it as the Sega Genesis, the Sega Mega Drive was the European name for it.

There are PS3 versions for both the The Saboteur and Saints Row: the third. I bought a red PS3 recently, not that I've had much time to play it with work and trying to play the MMO Tera before my first month's sub expires. I have a lot of JRPGs to play for it too.

Ahhhhh - I LOVED the Genesis. And I was pretty surprised I hadn't heard about a system. I was pretty into video games around that time (between my friend and I, we had all the systems covered - Nintendo, Genesis, TurboGrafx16, 3DO, etc.).

In fact, one thing I love about the iPhone is that someone converted Shining Force (my favorite RPG of all time, primarily b/c it was the first where you could name all the characters at the beginning, and then find them throughout the game) into an app. Amazing that the game I used to have to blow on the cartridge for now is a lightweight app in my pocket.

I'll definitely have to look into both Saboteur and Saints Row. Where in Europe are you?

I wanted to be, but could only admire from afar - or visit a friend and play on theirs! When I finally broke away from parental restrictions it wasn't long before I got a SNES to play.

I partly miss having to blow the connectors of cartridges and consoles to ensure they worked. To think dust would have such an effect on it!

Nowhere special, just England - and it didn't exactly rain last weekend at all to be able to send any your way. Not that it changed my plans about gaming at all! XD

Ha - the good old days. Did you see on April Fool's where Google made Maps into 8-bit? It was awesome. If you haven't, it's another thing that you should go Youtube.

I've never been to England, so it's pretty special to me! I've been fortunate to have gone some other places in Europe, but didn't have time to get to England.

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Erebea revius

I did luckily, and it was certainly one of the better April fools.

England is an okay place to visit, but you wouldn't want to stay here! One day I want to leave, though I don't know which country/countries I'd leave England for though.

That's a tough question. I'd of course say come here, but it depends on what you want. I personally loved the Czech Republic, but it's probably easy to do that when you're just seeing the touristy stuff with great weather.

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Rabid-Turtle

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Rabid-Turtle

That is one crazy shirt.

Thanks - at least I can pretty safely say I'll be the only one wearing it wherever I am.

Hah yeah I would say so, its certainly of unique taste, yet the fact that its star wars makes it acceptably cool.

I think that's why I like it (despite the lame designer label on it). It's a complete contradiction in coolness. The rhinestones are completely stupid, but Boba Fett is awesome. So what is the end product? Neutral? Super-awesome? I'm not sure, but I tend towards super-awesome.

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Rabid-Turtle

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Rabid-Turtle

I could agree with super awesome, The designer label makes it so you can wear it to a club. I can just picture boba fett out on the dance floor.

Ha - yeah, picture me out there dancing. Without a single female within 50 yards.

LOL - that is perfect!

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Mermaid Eater

Nah i'd dance with Lanky!
You have someone Lanky!
Come on over here. emotion_kirakira

Sweet!

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Ha - yeah, picture me out there dancing. Without a single female With only one person within 50 yards

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Thy Almond

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Thy Almond

I gotta a question for you, does it weird you out when avatar's don't wear pants/skirts? it kinda does me, once i find a good pair to go with this i'm changing

Ha - honestly, not really. I've seen so much funky stuff while working here (which I can only politely describe as extremely creative ways to use our items in inappropriate manners), that the simple lack of pants doesn't even catch my eye. Plus I have absolutely ZERO fashion sense, so it doesn't offend my sensibilities that way either.

gonk now i can't unsee what people did with "box of totally innocent objects" emo thank you for that. Do you know if the artist who made it even had an inkling of some of the pairings that'd pop up?

Honestly, probably not. There are infinite combinations of items, so it's impossible to think of all the ways that users could equip them. Ok, maybe it's easier with a few than the rest. But while we want to be edgy, we also are pretty aware of the line that we have to be careful not to cross.

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Merumiharu

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Merumiharu

Happy lankyday! biggrin heart

Ha - sweet!! That is decidedly not creepy today smile

Glad you're actually around for one of these....

Oh Sir Lankylot, how dare you throw down a creepy challenge.

I do usually catch these at the end but now im here earlier, so lots more meru time in the thread.

EVERYONE WINS. emotion_kirakira

I know WAY better than to try to out-creepy you - you are the zen master of creepiness. A real Creeptimus Prime, if I may.

And yes, everyone wins! Except for Zero Omega, b/c it's impossible for him to be a winner.

biglanky14

Merumiharu

... Creeptimus Prime? cool

I was going to go with Creepatron, but that sounded too generic (and a little unclear whether it was a reference to Megatron or Voltron). Creep-O is just dumb, and I wasn't sure if you'd get the Thundercats reference. And Creepy McDuck sounded like you were lurking around a giant bin of gold coins that you can swim in for some reason.

biglanky14

Meromictic

Any news on the glitch that I forgot to PM you about to remind you? XD

Ha - I have no recollection of the glitch that you forgot to PM me about so I could be reminded to remember smile

biglanky14

Simply Geek

Team Imperial ! /Hi5 emotion_brofist

Sweet!

Ironically, I was actually out of the office on May 4th, so I didn't get to be part of the event. Thank goodness that the Star Wars folks won out, or else I would've heard about it for months from Jak Bauer.

biglanky14

Scobre

biglanky14

Scobre

LOL That's an awesome Star Wars shirt. I didn't even know about these threads till this week. Anyway, did you watch the Stanley Cup biglanky and if so, who were you rooting for? I was very happy my favorite team The Kings won it. Such awesome plays and fights.

I don't do them every week, but lately I've been able to set aside a few hours every Friday and come visit smile

I am a HUGE hockey nerd - one of the biggest I know. I definitely watched the Cup Finals, but I'm a Sharks fan so I can't say I was rooting for the Kings (due to their rivalry). However, I was happy for Coach Sutter. My mom was a longtime school principal and had his kids there when he was the coach of the Sharks. When he found out she was a hockey fan he went out of his way to say hi and be extra nice to her, which was awesome. Don't know if he's the world's best hockey coach, but he's definitely a class act.

But full credit to the Kings. They went on an amazing run through the playoffs and definitely deserved it. I just hope we can do the same next year.

It's always nice when gaia hq wants to get to know the community and makes this site super unique.

Yeah hockey has always been really big on my mom's side of the family even though my dad watched it too. I'm part French Canadian, so guess it's in the blood. xd I know my cousin used to coach games and funny that his daughter told me she didn't get ballet slippers, she got to grow up watching and playing hockey games instead. I really enjoy watching hockey games with them and it's sweet they said next time I visit they will take me to one. That's nice your mom loves hockey and got to meet Coach Sutter. Yeah I hope your team does make it to the Stanley Cup next year. It's a blast when a favorite team finally make it to the Stanley Cup. It was the first time the Kings made it to the Stanley Cup and was so happy that they won. It is funny thing with rivalries. The university football rivalry here is like a religion. Duck vs the Beavers and there even was a platypus trophy. Even when I mention I used to be a Beaver, people get upset at me or say oh we won't hold that against you. Funny stuff.

Yup - we're trying! And I hope you can join our little livestream thing with the artists next Friday (assuming we're able to pull it together).

Sports rivalries tend to be all-consuming. So you went to OSU? I haven't been up to Corvallis, but I've spent a little bit of time in Portland. Beautiful, beautiful city (at least when it's not raining). And as for hockey, definitely get to a game if you can. It's the one sport where watching in person is WAY better than watching on TV.

biglanky14

Tsukita-chan

wohoooooo lovely shirt!!!! emotion_kirakira

-steals and run away-

GET BACK HERE! NO ONE STEALS MY SPARKLY BOBA FETT AND LIVES TO TELL ABOUT IT!!

biglanky14

Maggot

biglanky14

Maggot

I hate the way pages load now. classified_fu

They're supposed to be way faster, but it looks like it's not working quite right for everyone.

Can you do me a favor and either PM or post on Carbonphyber's wall? He's monitoring reaction pretty closely - obviously we don't want to piss people off/have them go slower.

It's not really going any slower for me, I just find it annoying. I like to see when my page reloads and now it doesn't do that anymore.

Forgive my confusion/stupidity, but do you mean the white screen that used to display between page loads?

biglanky14

Crystal Sparda

biglanky14

Ϲ ʀ ʏ s т Α ʟ ♥ ◕ ω ◕

╒═════════════════════

Why do I have a feeling that this would be your cat?
Or would it be any of the other admin's kitty?

Ha - I am not a cat person. I have two slobbery Labs at home.

biglanky14

Shedeem

biglanky14

Shedeem

Cool ti
Not much going on, just waiting for the report >< Tired as heck!
What is anyone doing this evening?

@ biglanky14 was your theme song chosen yet?

Hi Shedeem,

No, not yet. Although I'm pushing for "Sweep the leg" by No More Kings. If you're a Karate Kid fan and aren't aware of the video, do yourself a favor and Youtube it. The entire original cast is in it (outside of Mr Miyagi due to his unfortunate passing).

I've got a birthday dinner for a buddy tonight, and then it's an early night (hopefully) after b/c I have a way-too-early flight to catch tomorrow morning. I'll actually be gone for most of next week b/c of it, but the rest of the team will hold down the fort regarding the ATA.

That's a good one, I had to youtube it hehe. Yeah, that was depressing.
Cool, where are you all going out for dinner?
If you don't mind me asking, what is your destination? And for business or pleasure?

It's a local Jamaican restaurant called Back-A-Yard. Freakin' phenomenal. If you haven't had a fresh corn festival (kind of like a thicker New Orleans-style beignet), you're missing out.

Unfortunately, it's for my grandma's funeral back in Wisconsin (where my family is from, although my bro and I were born out here in California). It's definitely for the best, as she's been senile for years but kept hanging on. But it's still tough on my dad (it was his mom). But the upside is that my brother and I have never actually been back there, so we're taking the opportunity to go visit Green Bay and Oshkosh and the other spots where my folks grew up, as well as meet some family I barely knew existed. So there will be some fun involved as well. So you guys won't see me poking around here again until around the end of next week.

biglanky14

Shedeem

biglanky14

Shedeem

I am missing out, I always wanted Jamaican food.
Aw, I am so sorry. You must feel somewhat awkward and excited all at once huh? At lest you'll be going with some family, so you'll know at lest you'll feel good with them there. Have fun, I wonder what you'll tell them you do for a living. If I remember right, it's a mix of things here. Most people i try to describe gaia, still don't 100% get it.

That's pretty much exactly how I feel. Kinda excited, kinda sad (mainly for my dad b/c it's still hard on him). And there is no way on earth they'll even begin to understand what I do smile

It's very good he'll have everyone there, he must be very mixed too.
I doubt it, but as long as your 86% sure of what you do that's good hehe.

I generally hover around 47% understanding smile

biglanky14

Mermaid Eater

Hi Lanky!
How are you darling?
*blows a kiss* wink

Hey Mermaid,

Good! How about you? And thanks for the kiss - but they should go to Narumi. It's his birthday week after all smile

Buki

Mermaid Eater

Buki

biglanky14

Buki

I went into an old thread. my bad.. gonk

Don't ever do that again!

~ eek ~ *flails* i'mterriblysorrysiritwonthappenagain! D: D: D: D: D:

Buki when will you make another EI?!
you are my favorite artist! cry

I'm glad you like what I do smile I'm not sure when I'll make another EI. I do have ideas floating in mind I want to work on sprite-wise but I'm not certain when I can get around to it. I've been working on Summer Olympics stuff. 3nodding

Buki

Mermaid Eater

Buki

Mermaid Eater

Do you think we will ever get a re-color or re-hash of Galactic Solider?
I really loved that item...
and i can't wait to see more of your work. smile

A recolor of the Galactic Soldier would be cool and I do have an idea for what color I'd like to use... yum_puddi

I want Blue... or Silver.
What color did you have in mind?

Also do and send me like 50. emotion_dowant

Hmm.. I'd like to keep that as a surprise smile
and I don't think I can give 50 emotion_sweatdrop eek

biglanky14

asedc

are you or anyone around the office heading to pride this weekend?

Actually, I have no idea.

biglanky14

Just a quick note - I have to head off in about 10 mins smile

biglanky14

Ridley Starsmore

G'afternoon, peeps!

Could somebody tell me who the artist is for Bunnihilation?

Milkbun smile

tiranaki

Zero Omega

tiranaki

Zero Omega

tiranaki

These threads always start right when I'm gone/too late emo

EDIT: I still want that Boba Fett shirt for myself.

HAH-HAH! [/Nelson]

... *goes back to work. emo *

HAH-HAH

I am done with work and am relaxing at home. That's right. Be jelly.

I didn't have to walk home and soon I'll be relaxing, playing games, then going to ComedySportz and laughing, then enjoying some good sleep.

That's right, EAT IT! scream

Psh, I didn't walk home either. Bike, train, bike.

I'll be relaxing and playing games too, maybe movies, then sleep. YOU CAN EAT IT TOO. talk2hand

tiranaki

biglanky14

tiranaki

These threads always start right when I'm gone/too late emo

EDIT: I still want that Boba Fett shirt for myself.

It's pretty awesome. You know who wouldn't look good in it though? Uncle Kenny.

I agree rofl

biglanky14

7obias

biglanky14

7obias

biglanky14

I'm also sitting in front of one of our TVs watching the Euro Cup match between Germany and Greece too. Boba Fett helps me multitask.

You guys get to watch soccer at work?! That's an awesome workplace! emotion_dealwithit lol
I didn't think the EC was something Americans would watch sweatdrop Who do you think is going to win the EC this year?

I love watching soccer at the highest levels (WC and Euro). My family background is Czech so I was thrilled they unexpectedly advanced (despite losing yesterday), but I enjoy just watching in general. We turn on the TV for big occasions, like this or the Olympics.

This is the same as most people are saying, but I have a hard time not seeing Germany getting to the final, especially after their performance today. I think Spain will get there again, but I think France could give them a scare tomorrow.Overall I do think the Germans will stop the Spanish attempt at a Euro-WC-Euro trifecta.

The Czech soccer team has always been of a relatively high level, but I was surprised as well to see how far they made it x] I was even more surprised to see Greece getting there, but then again, they lost BIG time to Germany today xD
I'm pretty much convinced that Germany will win this year, or at least give Spain a very hard time. This EC has been full of surprises though.. I never thought the Netherlands would be kicked out so fast >_< or to see the Greek and Czech team go as far as they did.. they had both been tipped as underdogs.

Exactly. It's a transition time for the Czechs, and not having Rosicky didn't help. The Netherlands is the other team I follow (for no real good reason - they just have a lot of cool names with double As, like Van der Vaart, which is the dumbest reason ever), and I was stunned how badly they played. Then again I've come to despise Robben for his diving and selfishness, and it's clear that team had internal issues.

A Germany-Spain match would be pretty epic.

biglanky14

Tear of Fate

what do you guys think now thats ********** is back and spilling secrets?

We love that he's back. And as long as he doesn't spill my deep dark personal secrets....

biglanky14

Ok, I have to head off. Thanks for hanging out with me today, and see you guys next time!

[Platonix]

June 25th

lanzer

Hello everyone!

Summer's finally here, and the weather's more lovely than ever here in Gaia HQ. Got any summer plans of your own?

We're particularly excited about the upcoming summer event! Many games in the event are just as funny as they are fun to play. Let's see if Narumi and CodeMonkey has any hints to share. smile

BigLenky and Darknrgy are out in their weird endevers this week so it'll be a more quiet ATA today, just like old times. Welcome to ATA!

Zero Omega

Crystal Sparda

Heyo!

1) If you guys have been working on alchemy, why aren't there
very many components for level one formulas out there?
Example: Chicken Fletchlings ABP is 440k for one component.
We need thirty of those to craft the Formula 1: Chicken Suit.
If we can't even expect some decent changes in such a system like alchemy
in the time span of almost a year, what is the point in keeping it?
If you can't fix it in a decent time frame, it really shouldn't exist,
as no one wants to play with broken toys for years. :[
Please please please take a look at the history and how much
has really been changed since it was released and come up
with something that a majority of users can be satisfied with.

If users spend more than 1 mil on a chicken suit, it better lay golden eggs. >_>;

2) Summer Event. This week? Next week?

3) Crystal Sparda from January is still wondering if we can update
the captchas in report forms to the newer version...

4) May we have another mystery word contest thing soon?
Preferably something that isn't an ad for a facebook game?

4. Something we've been thinking about doing, just gotta figure out how we want to do it!

Uncle Kenny

Crystal Sparda

3) Crystal Sparda from January is still wondering if we can update
the captchas in report forms to the newer version...

There is a project floating around to make captchas default to the newer one when applicable but we haven't started working on this yet so don't expect it in the short term.

Narumi Misuhara

1. Biglanky14 is the best person to answer this but sadly he's out of state handling family matters. What I do know is that a more drastic change to the system is being worked on.

biglanky14

For what it's worth, we are actively working on a change (beyond just fiddling with drop rates) that we think will help address the complaints about formula rarity, and hope to have it out in the next few weeks or so.

posted here

2. Patience.... patience... smile

3. *shrug* don't know on that one ...I mean we could... is there a particular reason why?

4. If an opportunity presents itself, probably. smile

lanzer

Uesugi Ankit

I was wondering if I can get any information on the Leathery Egg component? What formula is it used for, if there are any even out yet?

I have the eggs listed in my store, but the listing doesn't show, it just says "Item not found in item search table." So I was wondering if that could get fixed. ninja

Regardless of which formula the component is used for it should be able to be placed in the marketplace. We can check on the problem and have it fixed ASAP.

codemonkey37179

The Undead Suitor

codemonkey37179

The Undead Suitor

so liek


why are reapersun and sherlock the new announcers?

That's not Sherlock. That's Tanya Bumbercatch

no the other one

Ricky Baudelaire? Why would you confuse him with Sherlock?

lanzer

.~.Lady_Aji.~.

Evening, Lanzer.

Any update on what's been fixed so far in zOMG!?

We fixed a couple of bugs in DMS related to Kamila. I should have more detail later this week.

Narumi Misuhara

CioccoLatte

Narumi Misuhara

CioccoLatte

Hello ATA!

How was your weekend? I saw 'Rock of Ages'...

Lookin' forward to Pixar's 'Brave'...

Also, a big thanks to Narumi-san for the summer Olympics spoilers...(spoil me more?)

whee

-edit-What team will you be joining for the Olympics?

Weekend was awesome, saw Brave and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter biggrin

...and your welcome... more will be released through various forms and various staffers as the event gets closer...

Yes! *fist pump* Hoorah for spoilers!!! emotion_dowant

Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter: was it good? The trailer was interesting...

Decked in gold...joining Barton perhaps?

I loved it, it was good, but the "really ridiculous" kind razz

EDIT
Sadly no, I'll probably have to join Aekea for reasons that will become more obvious when the event launches XD

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Go Team Aekea!

codemonkey37179

I know it is a bit of a cliche, but the book was so much better. I listened to the audio book from audible while working on towns. It was great! Much better than the title suggested.

Narumi Misuhara

CioccoLatte

lanzer

Saw both Brave and Abraham Lincoln over the weekend. I'm sorry to say that I enjoyed Abraham Lincoln more as a movie! :O Guess not every Pixar movie become a polished diamond.

A not-so-very-good Pixar movie? emotion_0A0 What is the world coming to?

Looking forward to the Olympics manga starring you again! (Does Waffles have a cameo?)

ninja

lanzer

Whatever Waffles wants, Waffles gets.

Harbinger of Pandamonium

codemonkey37179

Zeeni

lanzer

Sessysaurus

Why does Swarf never answer me back? redface

He's really tied up coding, but I'll harass him to check his PM's.

They're always tying up cool people like Swarf and Panagrammic so they hardly ever have time to be on here anymore. There's something wrong with that.

Panagrammic posted around the first page. He is lurking tonight.

*hums codemonkey song*

ninja

Narumi Misuhara

...*shrug*.... maybe you have to be wearing a pirate hat?...

lanzer

shellsmachine

Please re-stock Phin Phang! Any ETA on that happening?

We don't have an ETA, but can look into a few updates shortly.

Uncle Kenny

Sinsario

Sooo... no chance of the zOMG Monster Galaxy soundtrack on not-itunes, huh?
'Cause I want it.
But not through itunes.
:C

Fret not! You can find the soundtrack on Amazon as well. Buy here

lanzer

Sasune

Can you please fix the level 3 trap in alchemy? It usually takes 20 formulas of a previous level to level up, but when you're level 3 you need 40 level 2 formulas to level up. For every other level you need 20 formulas of the previous level.

That's not supposed to happen, we'll look into it and possibly make balancing adjustments later. We're focused on making formulas more available so stay tuned for more changes.

Narumi Misuhara

Cherry Rook

Narumi Misuhara

Cherry Rook

Did you guys have any plans for the development of Halloweentown, on the map, when it was first released, years back?
We're any shops or NPC's supposed to be there?
Was it supposed to be an official town, like Durem, Barton, and the others?
Why was it never developed?
Do you have plans to develop it in the near future?

Halloween towns creation and planning was before my time here XD so maybe Lanzer can better answer that part.

As for future plans. I've left it on the World map because interest has been expressed to me to develop it further, what I don't know and can't answer is when we'll have the time to do so :/

Lanzerrrr! emotion_kirakira

Narumi: thanks for leaving it up. but I feel like if you guys spend less time focusing on all your mini events like the harry potter and may the fourth ones, then you'll have more time to put into developing Halloweentown and have it included with more main events or towns vs towns events, since it's the only other town on the map that's being left out of the fun. It's not wise to upset the great pumpkin, Narumi Misuhara. You've seen what he's capable of.

Hahahaha ...I help decide what he's capable of razz

Zero Omega

Knight Yoshi

Zero Omega

Knight Yoshi

Recently I was talking to Crystal Sparda about Wix profiles being against the rules to sell. She then went to talk to Elindranyth about going to the higher up staff about getting the rules changed to be able to sell Wix profiles. Based on this http://www.wix.com/support/forum/flash/community/other/can-i-build-a-website-for-a and this http://www.wix.com/support/forum/flash/other/other/gaiaonlinecom. The thing is Wix is a free service to use and pretty much a generator, just drag and drop what content you want where. Users are not permitted to sell a free service. So I'm wanting this issue settled, users are allowed to sell Wix profiles for Gaia Gold or not?

My next issue at hand is the Profile Discussion forum rule

Quote:

Paying for profiles/profile help
The Profile Discussion forum is geared towards discussing profiles, and is not a suitable place to buy or sell profiles or profile help. Buying or selling profiles should be done in the Personalized Graphics forum, while buying or selling profile help should be done in the Services Forum.

People always go to the PD for help. I understand its for discussion profiles. But it should be allowed for help (free of course) and not tell users to the Services forum. As people in the Services forum typically charge.

1. Wix profiles is something that is being discussed and when we have an update, we'll let that community know.

2. As for the PD rules, something we can discuss, no guarantees on any sort of change, but we're always welcome to feedback/suggestions.

Well I even have a CSS thread in the PD and not in the Guides and Resources forum and some others have help threads there, because that's where people for help. If you look just on the first page it's almost all help question threads. Or at least give us a sub-forum in the PD for help.

Why don't we take all the help threads, and push them over here?!

But seriously, yeah, it's something I'll bring up for discussion at the very least and see where it goes.

lanzer

berserk0

Hello everyone
1.is there a way to add a notification alert (notifications and PMs) to zOMG like the red indicator

that lights up when you don't have enough resourses?
2.is it possible the edit button (in posts) adds an automatic note saying the date the post was

last edited?
3.is there a place in the forums (or anywhere else) where you can see all the people involved in

Gaia and what they do?

Possibly, but we're focused on bug fixing right now.

That was one of the oldest features that was taken away years ago because of user requests.

ATA I think is the best place to get in touch with most of the Gaia staff. There are many others who like to work quietly in the background, they've asked to remain that way as they are still extremely devoted to making great work.

lanzer

The Omnitrix King

lanzer

The Omnitrix King

@Lanzer, is Waffles your real life cat? emotion_kirakira

Edit attempt #2: Why your profile blocked?

Will abuse ring become salvageable in the near future for those who didn't ring farm? cry

Yes, Waffles is one of my joys in life biggrin

It's not blocked, are you referring to commenting?

I'll look into it.

O
MY
GOD

I thought it was random cat off net. He's beautiful. crying

And I meant your profile isn't viewable to the public. o3o

Oh! Might have been disabled by accident. Will turn it back on.

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Tear of Fate

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Narumi Misuhara

Pirate Captain Sushi

I might be a little early in asking this but... any plans for halloween? ninja

Yes actually.

They are amazing!

emotion_jawdrop any hints any small little hints!!!

Well it'll have _______ and __________ and __________.

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Ridley Starsmore

OMG! HALLOWEEN IN SPACE! DO WAAAAAANT!

Ahem...also, every tim I see Codemonkey, I hear this theme in my head.

No no should hear

codemonkey37179

Ridley Starsmore

OMG! HALLOWEEN IN SPACE! DO WAAAAAANT!

Ahem...also, every tim I see Codemonkey, I hear this theme in my head.

Awwww. Codemonkey like you.

codemonkey37179

Ridley Starsmore

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Uncle Kenny

Ridley Starsmore

That's both adorable and amusing at the same time. 4laugh

Don't encourage him! We've heard that song every day for the last week. BigLanky has even started replacing "code monkey" with his own name while singing it!

biglanky likes tab and mountain dew

Fiiiiine, I'll write the lyrics over...

-nibbles on the end of my pencil....-

What rhymes with blackjack and hookers?

Oh, I am so sorry he is not here to see this.

codemonkey37179

Cherry Rook

Pirate Captain Sushi

I might be a little early in asking this but... any plans for halloween? ninja

hey! hey. stare what did I say about it never being too early?
buy ya, spill on the Halloween dirt, yo.

Well, we just started talking about it this morning, so not much to tell yet. Sorry. But let me throw the question back to you. Last year we focused on werewolves, what monster would be your choice for this year?

codemonkey37179

Cherry Rook

gargoyles!

Gargoyles or Grotesques?

warrior_of_boognish

How]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBFGwqG1Dfs

warrior_of_boognish

How

about legions of galaxy cleansing machines from beyond the veil?

Disregard my brown name plz k thnx

Narumi Misuhara

The Undead Suitor

Also so like

weren't we supposed to get a manga update on the week of the 18th

It's ready, I already have it just need to push it live, going to do it right after ATA.

carbonphyber

Kill Hybrid

Hi Gaia staff,

Will YouTube functionality come to guilds anytime soon? (we have a button, it just doesn't work)

Summer plans: building a tardis garden shed, because I can't make a real one emo

I think it's just a matter of some JavaScript that needs to be copied over from forums + shared with Guilds. I'll look into it.

lanzer

Sweet Angelic Gem

The original Fausto's Bottle doesn't have the poses of just the small pony without the bottle and I was wondering if there are any plans to release an alchemy formula that would give users those poses?

Also is it true that the candy mountain formula can only be found in the DC?

How come you let zomg get so laggy these days?

Why is alchemy so hard to obtain basic formulas and components? Will there be an easy way to obtain the backwings formulas?

We're more cautious about releasing alchemy items with cash shop items, so the chance is pretty low. Maybe there will just be pony items in the future

Not sure about that particular one, we do have some changes coming up and maybe candy mountain formula is one of them.

Might have missed our reboot before the weekend. Will do so ASAP.

carbonphyber

Yuki Kajiura

Why do some marketplace tags, like "self" not show anything when searched for?

Interesting point.

darknrgy

Any thoughts? Is it the search engine stripping that word?

Example item:
http://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/itemdetail/82947

lanzer

Oh that's a question for Darknrgy. We'll look into it and hopefully it isn't a bug.

DARKNRGY

That is quite strange, I'll check it out. Are there other words like this?

Zero Omega

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Zero Omega

Ridley Starsmore

Heya peeps.

-sets some carrot cake on the table, and curls up on the couch-

I totally had something I wanted to ask today...but for the life of me, I can't remember what it is.

It was something pretty simple too. sad

Anyway, you guys enjoy the cake, I'm gonna lurk over here and try to remember...

OH...a bit of a suggestion for the Gaia staff...next panel you guys have, can one of you record it and upload it to Youtube after the fact? That way those that are in other time zones, or have comps that don't do live streaming well, can watch at a time best for them?

We always try to record our live streams, so here ya go!
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/22877040

Woah, you're actually being helpful. eek

*sets on fire*

Panagrammic

Scobre

1) Why did Narumi pick a girl avi?

2) How is the progress on the new games going?

3) So we know Lanzer has a cat, do any other staff have animals that they adore?

Personally, I'm a big fan of Yorkies.

Narumi Misuhara

1A. At the time I created my account they had more clothing options
1B. Prettier to look at (and with my work I have to look at her a lot XD)

2. Codemonkey can better answer that smile

3. I have 2 cats Brom and Simba

lanzer

There are a number of pet owners here in Gaia HQ, and most of them are cat owners. L0cke and Ling has 2 cats also.

codemonkey37179

Scobre

2) How is the progress on the new games going?

They are going quite well. 4 out of 5 are almost ready, unless we add some more to it.

We started out with some simple ideas like basketball and some other traditional sports with a few twists thrown in, but they evolved almost beyond recognition of where they started. Some of the games require you to cooperate with your teammates, some you have to fight other towns, and some are just on your own.

codemonkey37179

Uncle Kenny

Castiel Lover

Uncle Kenny

Castiel Lover

Second: Can you tell me anything about this cat game I keep hearing about? I haven't really seen anything about what it is, aside from horrible quality pictures of some characters. Is it going to be a fb-style game, or something innovative and uniquely Gaian? Can you tell me anything about it?

It's a game...that involves cats! Sorry, don't have a whole lot more to say about it right now. We have started some internal testing though so sit tight and there should be more info soon.

Well.. Can you at least tell me if Waffles will be in it? emotion_kirakira

I'm afraid I can neither confirm nor deny any existence of Waffles in a game that features cats.

Nor can I confirm or deny any existence of Waffles in an olympic game

lanzer

Waffles wanted to be in the game. Yes.

carbonphyber

Platonix

Hi! Did you happen to discover anything about the problem I pointed out last week with new accounts being granted Warm starter inventory no matter what outfit they pick?

I haven't gotten around to looking into the code yet. Pretty busy with the forums and shops bug fixes from Thursday.

lanzer

Sinsario

Oh a not-Gaia question; I just read Cat Diary by Junji Ito, have any of you guys?

Great manga or what, amiright?

Oh wow, time to start reading!

codemonkey37179

allegoriest

Can we ever have an inventory organiser upgrade? Please? It's really really really really old and just kinda ridiculous. ;__;

Yes you may. Just not yet. It is on the schedule.

lanzer

Uesugi Ankit

If JK is there, can you ask him to cycle the zOMG! servers? xd

Asking now :O

codemonkey37179

Carbon Soul

Can the ignore list ever be upgraded to show a sequence of someone's avatar being hurled into a supernova when you ignore them?

Could also unlock a "Destroyer of Worlds" achievement for maxing out your ignore list.

hmmm. interesting.

lanzer

That's actually what happens in the background as soon as you hit the ignore button, but we chose not to show it due to its violent graphic nature.

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Narumi Misuhara

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Narumi Misuhara

Ridley Starsmore

WE NEED A ZOMBIE/ZURG HALLOWEEN

Aliens and the return of the old zombie/grombie skin.

(Has be having cravings for some old school Gaia style fun with the return of VO...)

Zurg are out, zombies are possible. smile

How about pandas?

...lame ...wait, are they brain eating pandas?

I guess they could be. In strange colors too!

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Pirate Captain Sushi

Grandas?

Almost sounds like Granpas. o.o;

Pandas! Purple Pandas!

>_>

Zero Omega

codemonkey37179

Zombie Pandas from outer space.

That fight with nuclear bomb chainsaws.

Panagrammic

Marytanna

Not sure if this is a right place to ask this, but.... this question plagues me for a loooooong time cat_4laugh

Why was the zOMG tutorial with train taken down cat_redface ?

We were getting a lot of people dropping out during the tutorial -- when we removed it, we actually had a higher percentage of users play the game.

lanzer

While some people love the idea of the "training" mission, the flow end up being kind of slow. Some event said that the training stage was boring, so we made many changes to the beginning to bring the real battle forward, and most new users ended up liking it more.

lanzer

Thank you for joining us for this week's ATA! We'll see you all next Monday!

[turntechgodess]

hey in zOMG i cant talk in letters i can only talk in numbers when i press a letter it goes to a number stressed

[Platonix]

July 2nd

lanzer

Hello everyone:

Happy Independence Day everyone! Got any celebration parties or BBQ lined up?

It was great meeting many of you at Anime Expo last weekend. Hope to see those of you at the east coast at Otakon!

Welcome to Ask The Admin!

Zero Omega

Ridley Starsmore

Zero Omega

Ridley Starsmore

Heylo, Gaia Staff!

Lanky thinks he's funny. Writing 'no' on a whiteboard.

THOU HATH AWOKEN THE BEAST.

...rawr.

Anyway, onward to more important things.

One: pants poopingly scary or not, we could use a little mantis item on the site. And white Dander Ears. And any number of cool things you see on the site being requested every day. So how about this. (And get this, AWESOME gold sink.)

Sell a cash shop EI. But here's the catch. You will need an awesome artist for this. And works fast. It will have an irregular schedual for 6 months. Because it would be updated when the pose fee was paid. (With gold as it is, we are talking millions. Like...50 million or something.)

BUT...the one that pays the fee gets ONE POSE from the EI, what ever they want, as long as it is not already under copyright, or can be easily parodied.

You make a crap ton of money, we get an awesome gold sink, and the item would likely be oddly popular.

Or for less work, make a mantis pet, and a white Dander ear stand alone item, and pop up a grant link? emotion_awesome

Two: I notice you have the ability to turn off the upvote/downvote feature on the admin threads. Why exactly can we not have this feature? Just a little check box when making a thread. "Would you like to turn off voting for this thread?" Because I don't want votes, I want discussion. Plus, let's face it, the feature doesn't exactly get used the way it was intended in a lot of the forums. I mean, take the GCD...you guys know Winter puts a lot of time and effort into making the monthly rig list for the users. Why downvote hard work and helping others?

YET IT HAPPENS. By people doing so to be jerks. Winter doesn't deserve that, and neither do a lot of other users. All joking aside. is it really so hard to impliment?

Three: I know you folks are kind of on an anti zurg thing in the office...I was curious as to WHY? I know the manga says 'gone forever". Like it'd be the first time a comic was retconned. The Zurg have a very loyal fanbase, and it'd be awesome to have an event that was a little out of the norm Like Christmas was all those years ago.

Four: (Yes, I am a wordy bunny.) Could we have some kinda timeframe on the summer event? I'm not asking for a specific date, but a lot of kids go back to school in a month an a half, including my own, and they'd love to see the event.

And five: What exactly does the +2 for logging in on each day for Daily chance mean? Cause if it's supposed to be a change, I'm not seeing it... sweatdrop

Thankies so much. Also, I drew you a picture.



-Bunneh.

Question two: Can't say what we're doing (not my area), but I can say that any stickied thread/announcements don't come with a <3/</3, doesn't matter if it's from a dev, admin, mod, user, NPC, etc. It's not a setting that we turn on/off.

AH HAH! See, that one right there alone answered a lot of questions!

Now the trick is to see if it's POSSIBLE to make it a feature.

Also, i would think some things you guys would WANT that kinda feed back on...

Yeah, no idea how hard it would be to turn on/off, that's all dev stuff that is Greek to me. But definitely, if a user makes a thread and we sticky it, it won't have the <3 and </3 icons.

Uncle Kenny

Ridley Starsmore

Four:

Soon cool

Only timeframe I can give at the moment, unfortunately. It should be out in plenty of time for them to enjoy it before school starts up though 3nodding

codemonkey37179

Lanky thinks he is funny about a lot of things. Sometimes he isn't, but often has us in stitches. I can only speak to the summer event, as far as your questions go. The real Olympics is in 25 days, and we hope to have the rejected Olympics launched before then. We are leaving it a bit open at this point, because we want to make sure our ducks are in a row before opening, but right now things are looking good.

Harbinger of Pandamonium

WideEyed

Harbinger of Pandamonium

biglanky14

I AM FUNNY!!!!!

funny looking maybe

Maybe?!?

Okay okay. He is funny looking. 3nodding

biglanky14

Actually, I'm gorgeous. This has been proven by science.

Panagrammic

Ridley Starsmore

And five: What exactly does the +2 for logging in on each day for Daily chance mean? Cause if it's supposed to be a change, I'm not seeing it... sweatdrop

We have different tiers of daily chance. If you log in frequently in the past week, then you get a better reward tier -- the prizes are, on average, better.

biglanky14

Ridley Starsmore

biglanky14

Ridley Starsmore

biglanky14

I AM FUNNY!!!!!

Occasionally... stare

You are also a great source for a drinking game. NOT THAT MYSELF OR GAIA ONLINE CONDONES THAT SORT OF THING.

We'll have to look into whether we condone that thing. I may not time to do so now but it's something we'd like to do eventually smile

So...Soon, then?

SOON!

And I'm still funny

DARKNRGY

Ridley Starsmore

Two:

We're currently in the process of rethinking how the voting system works for forums. We have a more powerful ranking system that we can use which I believe will be less prone to the type of abuse that bothers people. As to whether or not we allow opting out, that's still up in the air. With the trolling issues mostly solved there may not be a strong motivation to opt-out and it may make sense to cultivate an environment where feedback becomes an integral part of the experience.

Zero Omega

Crystal Sparda

Zero Omega

Crystal Sparda

Hey guys, just a few questions about a certain topic...

How is it that if a user commissions art, the artist is allowed to
scam the commissioner in almost any which way without punishment?
*SPOILER IS RELEVANT*

I ask, as I had ordered art from an artist and once they said they were done,
I requested that she send me a preview with a watermark,
but then she told me that because I didn't do as I was told (she didn't tell me to do anything),
that she refuses to send me the art I ordered and that she just doesn't want to give it to me.
I'm pretty sure this is a common problem, and can be considered scamming,
as the commissioner and the artist enter a contract and if commissioners
can be punished for saying they don't want art anymore and canceling a trade,
then artists should be punished the same for not giving art at the end of the deal.
I didn't finish my gold trade with said artist, as I didn't want to get scammed another way.
I tried asking the Art Shops forum mods this question, but never got a reply.

Oh, also thank Koleda for helping me remember that a while back
it was mentioned that you guys were thinking about creating a trade form
specifically to prevent this kind of issue from coming up.
What ever happened to that idea?

This actually isn't allowed. When you agree to purchase art you enter into a contract with the user where you agreed to pay [x] for art in return. The artist is not allowed to withhold the art from you if you're fulfilling your end of the bargain. If you've already tried working it out with the artist, then file a Scam Report with the necessary information such as: Where the contract was made to commission art, when, link to posts, etc.

Okay, I'll fill in a form then. ^w^; Thank you.
Also, the latter part where she refused to fork over an image,
was done in PMs, so would I have to report the PMs as well
(since I know the scam report says not to include links to PMs)?

Wait for a moderator to respond to your report first before reporting the PMs, they may not even be necessary. However you can mention it in your report, so make sure to save the PMs!

biglanky14

Constipated Trillionaire

biglanky14

Constipated Trillionaire

Just wanted to check and see if you had a new time frame for when you expected the cri items that are needed in the quest to be back in the shops since it's not June anymore ninja

Also, as far as the case issue goes. Is it possible for you to generate something like a thousand of them and open them yourself, think it would give you a way to see what is in them, or what isn't in them? Really seems like they are broken right now. Back in the early part of the year when the cases were given out extensively through the daily chance you had a lot of the formulas that are now no where to be seen popping up often. Even the quest were somewhat find able; however still really rare. Now the cases aren't in the daily chance(at least no where as common) but they are easier to make than they were back then so there is still a large number of them being made and opened. However, you still have pretty much no quest formulas popping up and a lot of the formulas that are needed to craft components seem to be missing from them and are only gotten directly from the daily chance.

Hi CT,

Thanks for the reminder. Yup, we're behind on getting Dernier Cri stuff back out there, so we'll hopefully we be getting that done soon.

Nothing we see indicates that the Case is broken, but we do have an independent change that we think will address the formula rarity issue. It's not going to solve everything, of course, but I think it'll be a good step in the right direction like the Cache issue was. We're aiming to get this out in the next couple weeks.

They certainly seem broken from our(alchemist community) point of view, but it's great to hear that something is being done.

Thanks again for your time! biggrin

Sure. We can check into the Case in the meantime as well to see if we can find anything funky, but right now we're not seeing anything out of the ordinary. Thanks for the heads-up.

Zero Omega

Mashed Potato Jones

Good evening. I have a question...maybe it can be answered.

With Backyard Monsters leaving Gaia, I'm curious to know what will happen to the forum that is dedicated to it? Could we possibly see the Viximo forum subsidized so that we have instead, a main forum for Resort World with appropriate subforums similar to how Soul Crash and Monster Galaxy forum tee's are arranged?

BYM forum will most likely be closed like what we did with Mahjongg Dimensions. It's possible we could add the subforums for Resort World if we deem it necessary. The reason we did it for Soul Crash/Moga/Summer Springs was because they were their very own forums.

Harbinger of Pandamonium

CioccoLatte

Just dropping by to say: Thank you for that Live Artist Stream!!!

I wasn't able to catch it live, but i was able to watch the recording...

It was so much fun to see the artists (plus those-others-who-dont-have-the-artist-designation-but-can-draw-really-good-as-well) being spontaneously creative!

I just wished they drew more of the human NPCs though. Seeing the NPC as sailorscouts was a real treat!

Also, a present to Zero Omega: http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc273/mizzi_md/ciopoo/bronyking.jpg

I support this image completely.

Zero Omega

CioccoLatte

Zero Omega

Glad you enjoyed it! It was certainly a blast and the artists were incredible! Sisky and I were just really picking posts at random, we jumped to a random page and found some random posts to nominate.

And that image is... Very special. xd Thank you though, you got the "Z" down perfectly.

I totally enjoyed the ones that got through...but i guess it's still up to the artist whether they'll draw a suggestion or not biggrin

I wasn't sure about the colors for the mane and body so that's why it turned out looking simple...but i'm glad you like it :3

Looks better than mine. ninja

Zero Omega

CioccoLatte

Zero Omega

CioccoLatte

redface i didn't mean to make you feel bad about your attempt though... o 3o
And i've been wanting to draw "your" pony since that mini event with the Teams event (Bronies vs. Star Wars vs. .... oh noes i completely forgot the other factions... gonk )
but i didn't know what to do about your cutie mark...until that live stream

Oh it's fine, I don't have an artistic bone in my body and I know that. xd

The question is, do you know what the "Z" is from!?

gonk
i don't think i've been in gaia long enough to have learned about that...
i'll take a guess though: Dragonball "Z"?

I'm fairly decent with landscapes, but that's pretty much it.

And nope!

Zero Omega

CioccoLatte

Megaman Zero! *facepalm

Bingo! S'where I get the name from

Zero Omega

Ridley Starsmore

MMX 4 lyfe, yo.-fist bumps-

BAM! Yes!

Zero Omega

tiranaki

Zero Omega

tiranaki

rofl That is perfect, so true to life. Needs to be printed, framed and placed on his desk.

Don't start a war you can't win.

Hey I am just saying

I'm just saying, don't start a war you can't win!

biglanky14

Knight Yoshi

No issues to question at this time cool
Just thought I'd ask what does the staff plan on doing for fourth of July? smile

Probably a BBQ with buddies, which may or may not include fireworks which may or may not be legal in our general area. Nothing can be confirmed smile

tiranaki

milkbun

*waves hello to all*
*answers everything with SOON*

job done here.

I approve of this approach!

Also *lurk lurk*

milkbun

Sasune

Is that Starfy in your sig? I love that game.

Yes it is! I made this .gif millions of years ago.

SOON

milkbun

Ridley Starsmore

milkbun

Ridley Starsmore

-loves on joo-

Can I has Bunnihilation hungover bunny pose?

The fan thread loves the idea. whee

I'd have to run it by some of our contract artists. I mean they are CRAZY bunny fiends... eat, breathe, sleep bunnies (wait don't eat bunnies actually). I swear they just flew to Japan so they can go to a Bunny Cafe. I can't disappoint them on any poses and incur their wrath.

Figured it wouldn't hurt to ask...the fanthread's been getting ansty for an evo, i figure if i suggest a pose, it might give ideas.-lol-

SOOOON~!

milkbun

WideEyed

Loved you in the Livestream! heart

Oh I wasn't actually on camera.
I was one of the voices behind the camera being a jerk. xp

biglanky14

Sasune

When will formulas become easier to get?

Soon! smile

codemonkey37179

main squeeze

codemonkey37179

main squeeze

To whom it may concern:

I was wondering when the fantasy game with the cats will be ready for us to play.

Also, why do red snuggle tables turn into green steel tables when you place them in your home?

Thank you for your time.

Love,
etc., etc...

The tables are my fault. I do know about it, and I'm going to get to it as soon as I can.

If you're too busy, it's okay. Maybe someone else can fix it.

I'm afraid not. But don't worry I'll get to it soon. I've been super busy with the rejected Olympics.

Uncle Kenny

We're currently shooting for a public launch next month or so. Stay tuned for more info!

Uncle Kenny

Corinth Maxwell

lanzer

Happy Independence Day everyone! Got any celebration parties or BBQ lined up?

cat_stare I don't like to barbecue, and people in this city are almost ALWAYS playing around with firecrackers. Still, I'm hoping to set off my own kind of favorite explosions (i.e., with virtual high explosives & missiles). cat_twisted

Now, then......>.>

1. Why is it that only certain kinds of avatar items grant us entry into the event area, but other aquatic and/or beach-related items, such as "Aquatica" or any of the gold shop items released last summer, do not? cat_whee

That's all I have.....for now, at least. cat_xp

There are a couple items that we missed while making the list (Full List) and I have a thread for users to post the missed items here. Mainly, we tried to make it so you have to be wearing an article of beach clothing, swimming trunks, bikini, etc. and not just something aquatic or beach related.

Zero Omega

Gendocide

Zero Omega

Gendocide

Today is my birthday guys and gals
Any staff birthdays coming up soon?

Two weeks from tomorrow.

You don't say....

I say, therefore I am!

Zero Omega

Eruravenne

Zero Omega

Two weeks from tomorrow.

Hey, the day after mine! Nice!

Woot! I've got two other friends that have birthdays on the same day as me.

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Is august soon? XD

siskataya

Happy Birthday! yum_pie yum_icecreampie yum_pumpkinpie

Sisky

biglanky14

Princess-Orphelia

biglanky14

Princess-Orphelia

Herro, everyone! biggrin



I don't have any questions right now. But stopping by to say hi to everyone and
perhaps bring in some freshly baked Aussie biscuits. whee

Hi - I love biscuits. Especially with jelly.

Hiya Lanky. And ok. I'll send some over to you then. The Jelly ones are Delish! whee
PS. Thanks for not Announcing this AtA. rofl

Oops.

codemonkey37179

Princess-Orphelia

codemonkey37179

I think she mean cookies, Big Lanky.

I think you guys call them cookies, but we call them Biscuits. 3nodding

Yep, I know you do. But Lanky doesn't get out much. What we call a biscuit, can really only be described as a fluffy scone. We have them for breakfast either with meat or as Big Lanky said, with jelly or butter.

lanzer

Princess-Orphelia

Herro, everyone! biggrin

Waffles says hi

lanzer

.~.Lady_Aji.~.

Evening, Lanzer/staff.

- zOMG! Glitch Fix Update: What's the word?

- On the reply/edit post page, can you add a spoiler button?

We've been focusing on fixing quite a number of bugs inside DMS. It's kind of a high level player only series of issues but we found that if certain party has certain quests enabled it would hinder the progress for the clan. It took a while to figure out but we're finally able to fix it.

We'll look into it. Shouldn't be too hard to add.

carbonphyber

.~.Lady_Aji.~.

- On the reply/edit post page, can you add a spoiler button?

Will do!

Uncle Kenny

emorexic-pimp

Hello everybody!

I just wanted to stop by and thank everyone involved in the making the beach party event so awesome (especially whoever is taking over the various NPCs) :3

Can we expect more forum events that require minimal dressing up in the future?

Definitely possible! We don't want any aspects to get overly stale but if it's a popular feature then it's definitely something we can look at including when appropriate. 3nodding

Zero Omega

kittenkitten

Why is it impossible for you guys to give back an account that has been hacked?

Our turn around for hacking reports is actually quite fast these days, most users get their accounts and items back. There are some situations where we are unable to return the account or items due to various issues that come up during the report though. If you have a case that you weren't happy with, send me a PM with the information and I can look into it.

DARKNRGY

Sapphire_God

DARKNRGY

Sapphire_God

Umm, Lanzer? Why does Gaia suck so much right now? = I mean I thank you for listening to all my comments lately, but still, a lot needs to be addressed in such a short amount of time.

Maybe Gaia is not for you and you should do something else with your internet time.

I have been here for a very long time now. Yes, 2300+ days. That and I also spent a fair share of real life cash here as well. I guarantee at least $20.00 + a whole lot more from advertisements - but if nobody gives a s**t then apparently I will save my time and money on here. No, I guess I'm not rich enough to drop $20,000 and contribute significantly to your projects...but even if I had that much, I still wouldn't with that type of anti-socialism.

Maybe I'll tell all my friends on Gaia to quit as well and see how independent you guys are~ Anyways, what turned out to be a slight joke or constructive criticism doesn't need to be political. See if I ever try and change Gaia for a better place again...

Sorry if you guys are offended by my comment, and you should be as it's a mere reflection of the current state of this website. Maybe if you could tell your Board of Executives to pull their ******** god-damned heads out of their asses, I'd have more respect for you guys. I thought this was a time for feedback on what could be done to improve this website rather than a questionaire for Staff. Okay~ I can play it that way too: What's your favorite color guys?

*Sigh...What I've done on Gaia~

You're not saying anything constructive or inquiring about a specific grievance you have so there's no meaningful way to respond to you. You think gaia sucks and that the board should pull their heads out of their asses. Noted.

DARKNRGY

Sapphire_God

Noting that the Board of Executives should pull their heads out of their asses isn't constructive? That's it.

You have to give some context. The geometric challenges in pulling a head out of an a** are formidable. Even more so if you are pulling your own head out of your own a**. We cannot move forward with the head-pulling-out-of-a** initiative without some some of procedural guide or diagram or something.

biglanky14

oTazi

Hi guys! :D
Just stopping by to say hi, and thank ing you all for the hard work you all do. :3
I don't have a questions today. ^^ actually I do... LOL!

Sometimes, when someone sends me a trade, I don't get a notice next to my avatar, so I end up having to go to the actual trade page to see my trades.
Is this a bug/glitch? I've tried clearing out my cache and history, but nothing changes. ^^;

Hi oTazi,

Hmmm - that's a new one on me. Have you posted in the Bug Reports forum? That's the best place to get our devs' attention.

biglanky14

A Random Act of Terror

DARKNRGY

A Random Act of Terror

Hello, everyone.

It appears the hotlinking today for the dev notices are acting iffy redface

What's happening with it? I clicked two today and it seemed to work ok.

Ah, that was at biglanky 3nodding

He didn't the thread in the first dev notice lol

Basically my brain was acting iffy. Read: I'm an idiot.

Zero Omega

zerostrikesback

Zero Omega

zerostrikesback

Are Gaia moderators allowed to vaguely and loosely use the TOS to reprimand Users?

Is this generally frowned upon or encouraged by administrators?

What exactly do you mean? Our moderators enforce the Terms of Service, so they have to use the Terms of Service to take care of issues. If you have a moderator decision/warning that you disagree with, you should first try contacting the moderator to appeal it.

I don't know how else to really put it. Its simply using the terminology within the TOS to vaguely justify a reprimand.

I don't really have any issues as any action against me was in warning, but it seems rather totalitarian approach to a vague subject.

Either way, is that normally encouraged?

Just as with any court, moderators are allowed to use the Terms of Service to enforce policy, and that includes being allowed to enforce policy based on what the intent, or implied meaning, of the rule is. That's why we allow for users to appeal, because there may be a time where staff members read the implied meaning of the rules a different way and have different ways of interpreting it. Most of the rules are solid, but there are some rules that come down to interpretation, which we allow our moderators to use so long as it's in a fair and just manner.

Zero Omega

Dexigone

biglanky14

Dexigone

talking about the "OMG HEY GAIA IT IS A BELOVED MEMBER OF THE GAIA TEAM emotion_kirakira " types of threads.

Are you referring to threads such as mine that are more like hangout threads? Our staff almost always follows the same rules as users, but there are certain times where we'll call "staff privilege", such as that.

Staff privilege.
must be pretty awesome having some fame ninja

Besides, if we did put the threads where they normally would belong, you'd have no idea what's going on! xd

Zero Omega

Death Before Dish0nor

Hello admins! ♥

I have one simple request. I would like, along with many others, to have a Garden forum included- perhaps an extension to the Health & Fitness or the LifeStyle Discussion forum. It can have sub forums such as: Growing Fruits, vegetables, pest control, show off your garden, tips and techniques, tools/ DIY greenhouse/ raised beds, flowers, trees, Different gardening systems such as Hydroponics, aquaponics, greenhousing, raised beds, etc.

What do you all think of this idea?

It would certainly reinforce the message and events of the previous Earth Day event. And I think it would help others to get involved in helping our planet thrive abundantly.

After all .. This website wasn't named Gaia for nothing, right? Why not show some True Gaian Spirit by reflecting it for our love of our precious Earth by creating this wonderful addition! biggrin

Here are some comments from other Gaians who are very interested in this idea.

Strega Mama

I would be all over this if it happened. This would be lovely, to have someplace besides this thread and my one guild (neonascence) to discuss gardening

TarotBunny

I'd be totally all up in that hydroponics forum if there was one. XD

Haven't tried it but just really curious. o uo

Ratttking

I'd love a forum or sub-forum dedicated to gardening. Some of the sub-forum titles could be, Flowers, Fruits and Vegetables, Mushroom Cultivation, Aquatic Plants, Container Gardening, and Hydroponics. A separate gardening forum would be great.

Think we answered this one last week, but it's certainly something that we could consider!

lanzer

Tear of Fate

Lanzer any chance for a update this month in mecha neko?

Don't think we have an update lined up, please check with us later.

biglanky14

SaikoTaiko

Uncle Kenny

SaikoTaiko

I feel like Monster Galaxy won't be supported or updated anymore...Especially since it's been taken off of Facebook.
What was the reason for that anyways?
I can't even get it to work on Gaia (even after transfering my acc) but anyways, why do you keep making these flash games (zOMG!, Moga) and then...You seem to just ditch them.
Is it because there aren't enough users playing it? Not making enough money?
It seems like a lot of money goes into making them and then you just ditch it...

Monster Galaxy is still available on Facebook, the only feature that was removed was the ability to play it using your Gaia account. The reason behind that is it was a pain for us to keep the connection up since working with Facebook's APIs is pretty intensive and we had our own version available through Viximo. Both versions are still continuing to receive updates and bug fixes so it's far from not being supported.

Well I know the glitches and bugs for zOMG! are still being worked on, but the game itself, the story, has just been dropped, or so I've heard. Are you guys going to have Halloween or Christmas events in zOMG! anymore? Or has that been dropped?

We hopefully can recycle some events like we did for Easter, but I can't guarantee we will.

DARKNRGY

SaikoTaiko

DARKNRGY

Monster Galaxy is still going strong. There was fraud going on with the fb connection version and, after looking at the numbers, we decided that it was easiest to turn it off an encourage people to move to the Gaia/Viximo version if they wanted to get gold, etc. You can access the FB version of Monster Galaxy directly from facebook or do the migration into Viximo. Not sure what you mean when you say it isn't working for you on Gaia. Do the migration and it should work.

Thank you, this explains a lot.
I could've sworn I migrated over to Gaia but I can still get on Moga on Facebook, and when I try to get on on Gaia, the "free gifts" ad pops up, but no images load...And when I close it, "charging your zodiac..." appears but no images load, nor does anything move, or do anything...

There is online support for Monster Galaxy... at the bottom of the page somewhere, I don't remember offhand. If you're having problems using it you can create a ticket with that support system and the Monster Galaxy devs will see it. I don't know enough about it to set any expectations.

biglanky14

Eruravenne

DrinkyTengu hasn't logged in since April. Where is she? gonk

She didn't quit or get fired or anything, did she? crying

Hi Eruravenne,

She still does stuff for us, but it's off and on. So you'll probably see her around again at some point smile

Zero Omega

Doing your mom

Zero Omega

Doing your mom

Hey, I have a hoard of Aquarium Arrow Fish and they have a store price of 500 gold (sell back is 250), but I can't sell them back to the store. I have over 150 of them and I'd like to be able to sell them back. Could you fix this?

You can't sell the back? Are they lite fish by any chance?

Nope. I took a screenshot (on my main):

Screenshot

Going to take a random guess and say that it's probably because we never set a sell back value to it because it was first available for Gaia Cash.

milkbun

Serene Rainstorm

Good evening! biggrin

I just want to ask a couple of things.

1. Is there going to be a GS update for school supplies in August/Septemeber? We have all these cool uniforms, a pencil, a calculator, an Overdecorated Cellphone, The Plastic Lunchbox, and The Homeroom. I thought it would be cool if we had an update on school supplies, backpacks, cafeteria trays, more messenger bags and lunchboxes in the Gold Shops. If you want me to, I can specify more on this subject.

2. Have you watched or heard of the show, Dan Vs. on The Hub? Just curious. sweatdrop

3. Will you have a Housing Update for Halloween items in our homes, like you did for Christmas? Which was an awesome idea!! emotion_kirakira

4. Is there a chance that there will be a Dalmatian pet on Gaia?

5. Will we have another superheros & villains RIG sometime in the distant future? Kind of like Code Alpha 2?

6. Will The Buttercup Cafe or The Jockstrap get another update? Preferably skateboards in The Jock Strap?

For the 4th of July, I think one of my family members is having a cookout.

All possible though I don't know of any plans at the moment. I'll jot it down if a relevant time comes up.

biglanky14

Hi there,

Cookouts are the best - I hopefully will be having one as well.

We don't typically talk about upcoming item releases b/c they change all the time, and surprises are part of the fun. Thanks for understanding smile

codemonkey37179

Zay-roh

No questions, just came by to say hello hello!

Oh well...

Towns V.2 how is that going?

Anything interesting we could expect before the summer event?

Last... How is your cat waffles?

Towns 2 is going great, as is the summer event. I see that you discovered the beach party already,

Not sure if we will have time to fit much in before the Olympics.

Lanzer says Waffles is doing fine. (He may be making an appearance at the rejected Olympics)

Panagrammic

The 15th Doctor

Dose Gaia have any plans on warning the members of Gaia that Meebo is shutting down its messenger? as the members of Gaia should be warned.

Meebo isn't shutting down the service that provides for third-party sites (like ours) to use them.

Narumi Misuhara

Dexigone

Narumi Misuhara

Dexigone

it's my birthday today! I'm so thankful for the wishes the users gave to me, but I kind of miss those friendly reminders back when I was a n00b. I think we should have a birthday item for the users that have their birthdays! Whaddya think?

Happy Birthday! It's certainly an interesting idea smile

Thank you! When's your birthday Naru?

recently passed, 6/21

biglanky14

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

I love the idea, although it would take a bit of work. How about some Amigo Pants? smile

siskataya

Prelude to Hell

I have no questions. Gaia is great as it is. cool

Btw, I enjoyed that little bit with the live artist drawings and whatnot.
You guys are hilarious. xD

I do live art screening myself and it's really, really fun.

Anyway, do carry on with all your awesome.

Thanks for the kind words! Glad you enjoyed the art walk/live artist drawings! We'd like to see some of your live art drawings sometime too! :0

- Sisky

Zero Omega

OV8ION

Aw, I tried to watch the live art stream after it was recorded, but no sound. sad

Gnome General still glitches on Normal and can Kudzu be made with something other than Wing Tree Leaves, which are already in demand for caches and such?

Strangeeeeee~ I have sound on my end, sure your volume was up? xd

codemonkey37179

lDots

I just wanted to know if you are ever going to fix the adding friends in towns, rally, VH, etc. o:

Yes, we have talked about fixing it for the spaces as they are upgraded.

biglanky14

Castiel Lover

Waffles companion item w/ I AM pose! Please?

So, I just got my braces off today after almost two years. What should I eat? biggrin Had beef nacho chips for dinner. Feels so weird to chew, now.

Dude - I remember when I got mine off. Taco Bell galore!

Eat something super stringy. Like steak or celery or something. Just to savor the fact that you can now get stuff out from between your teeth.

Uncle Kenny

Shirlox

I have a question directed towards Uncle Kenny.

A few months ago I asked about when we could possibly see the Angelic Rod PLUS since this is the only real update for fishing that we can imagine and have to look forward to. I was just wondering if we can expect it anytime soon. whee

Also, thank you for having a poll put up for us fishers and asking what we, as a fishing community, thought about keeping trophies soulbound or un-soulbounding them, just lets us know you still do care. heart

It's still on my list of things to do, still have a couple bigger projects to tackle first. I'm hoping to release it along with a new Fishing landing page once I get the chance. Once I have more of a firm timeframe in mind, I'll be sure to let you know. 3nodding

biglanky14

0-DCB

I haven't been able to make one of these since they first started. I had some questions in my mind last night, but they all seem to have vanished. gonk

Um...um...
How's the weather? If you could have any unconventional power, what would it be? Is this is a question?

{Personally, I'd like to be able to smell the future.}

Smell the future? Just walk downwind from everything smile

Definitely freezing time so I could mess with people.

biglanky14

Luna Rousse

Hey, admins!

I was wondering if there will be any more animated items lined up for the future. I would really love to see more animated animals.

Thanks!

Yup - you should see more in the future.

codemonkey37179

alanliu12121

I'm new to this. What is this?

This is a once a week question and answer session with the staff. See? You asked, I answered.

DARKNRGY

TEEHEE

biglanky14

http://i.imgur.com/JYtwZ.jpg

biglanky14

Princess Xiao Long Nu

I hope this isn't sounding too self centered or mean. But can us Gaians get better clothing and hairstyles? because I dont wanna sell my clothes if there is nothing awesome to wear. JJust think of the noobs.They have too wear these ugly clothes sad (no offense)

Hi Princess Xiao Long Nu,

There are tens of thousands of items you can choose from - hopefully there's something in there that you like smile

Uncle Kenny

doordream

Any news on if Backyard Monsters will be transferred to facebook?

That won't be a decision we make. Anything related to the game will be up to Viximo and Kixeye, we have no control over any aspect of it.

lanzer

Magiconekogami

How's the beta testing for the new game going? We hadn't heard anything about it ever since you last mentioned about the new game. I know it's not soul crasher nor summer brings, but a totally new action mmorpg. Has it been tested, canceled or is it slow in development?

The upcoming game is more of a strategy game than MMO, but it will be a while more until we test it, because we plan on improving on the interface and making it more fun and easier to play.

biglanky14

Hi,

It's still coming along - just undergoing a lot of tweaking based on feedback we're getting. It's on its way.

Zero Omega

Hoshina Utau120

Zero Omega

Hoshina Utau120

crying I was so sad..I tried to watch the live art stream thingy but all of a sudden it stopped!! :U Then the video thingy went black AND I DIDN'T GET TO SEE ANYTHING!! Hoshina out.

(always wanted to say that.. >_> )

You should watch the recording!

There ws RECORDING?!? emotion_jawdrop Where?

Just check the artist live stream thread!

siskataya

Ridley Starsmore

Zero Omega

You should watch the recording!

Yup, not often I get denied in video form.-_-;

Poor Ridley... *pat pat*... that giant NO! on a whiteboard must have been soul crushing sad

Sisky

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Ridley Starsmore

nah, not really. Had a friend tell me about it, and watched the vid...I was laughing so hard rootbeer came out my nose.

Which is not plesent and I will have revenge for.

REVENGE!

...revenge...

Just make sure someone can tape it.

siskataya

emorexic-pimp

siskataya

emorexic-pimp

Offhanded question for anyone on the staff:
I noticed that the olympic gymnastic trials were being held in San Jose. Anyone go out and see it? I've been addicted to watching the competitions on tv lately redface

Wow, sorry I missed that - it would have been fun to see biggrin

Sisky

It looked like they managed to nearly pack the stadium :O

I can imagine! I've always liked watching the Olympic Gymnastics - what skill! They recently had the Crossfit Regionals here too. Super fun fit people :0

tiranaki

I watched them on tv! Tickets were sold out pretty fast, from what I heard, and were supposedly not that cheap. If you saw them on tv, you might have noticed just how full the arena was, it's a really popular event!

Panagrammic

iiViRaal

Okay, a question.
With Viximo suddenly backing out with Backyard Monsters, is there any concern with them hosting Monster Galaxy, and going in the opposite direction is there any chance that Gaia will look into partnerships with other companies to bring more browser games to Gaia; such as ChangYou, Aeriagames or Nexon? Or will Gaia take the other route and work on more of there own browser games; such as soul crash, summer springs, and monster galaxy, and zOMG. If so, not really a question, but a possible idea would be to simply use the 2D side scrolling layout, and use current gaia avatars.

It wasn't Viximo that backed out, it was Kixeye (the makers of BYM). Viximo has always been pretty straight with us -- in this case there was nothing that they could do.

biglanky14

Kiarra-Chan

Hey Admins! I have a major question regarding the Saint Ciel items. Since their popularity is so high, why not make a male version of them? It would give the chance for more male oriented items. (Which are few & far between these days.) Also for the chance for more fantasy type items & the color schemes for the Ciel items.

Hi Kiarra-Chan,

Yup - this is something we definitely could end up doing in the future. Thanks for the suggestion!

DARKNRGY

Lesbian In Denial

DARKNRGY

Lesbian In Denial

Who's idea was it to start the ATA?

Is it possible that in the future, there would be parts of the site for adults only?

Will you guys be doing any Anime Expo's near Montana anytime soon? surprised I'd love to come to one... but I never hear about anything close to where I live!

I think it was lanzer's idea? We're not too sure.

I like the idea for an adults-only forum and suggested it a few times. It's a little bit tricky to implement because age is hard to enforce and we have site-wide ToS to consider. If we see more support for the idea we'll give it another look.

Fair enough.

Well, my idea of it would be where a forum where adult-content (within reason, of course) could be posted, and only show up to users who are listed as 18 or older.
I think it would be better, and have less people being banned.
I'm not sure how hard that would be to enforce that though, and anyone can lie and say they're that age, so it could be sketchy.
But, personally, I think it'd be a good idea.

Yeah I hear ya. It probably wouldn't happen that way, unfortunately. We have to maintain the PG-13 rules site-wide. If we did have an adults section the rules would be the same. Hm... sort of talking out of my butt right now but that's my educated guess.

Uncle Kenny

sexygingerbear

why is this event only giving out a cup, and a towel!!!? come on really, this is all you could come up with? do you really think that little will get people to chat more?

The Beach Party event is meant to be just a fun excuse for users to hangout, chat, and grab a couple free items in the process. It's not meant to be any kind of grandiose gathering. That said, as of this post, we've had several tens of thousands receive the cup and towel cape so I'd say that's a good indication that it has peaked the interest of more than a few wink

siskataya

hawktstar

My 3 questions ..

1 Can we get some Canada / other country orianted items.. .

Do you have the Canadian Bacon item? It's super cute biggrin As for other items from around the world, we're always taking item suggestions, so if you have any ideas, let us know! biggrin

Sisky

biglanky14

OMFG Shushu

biglanky14

OMFG Shushu

Hello everyone

Hi Shushu - welcome!

Hihi
I edit my first post to a question:

What's going on with zOMG glitch fixes?
How many are their left and how many have you guys fixed.

Also will we ever have something like this:

The most recent fixes all revolved around some DMS changes for hardcore players, which I believe we're done last week (although I was gone so I'm not 100% sure).

As for piercings, I have to give my standard answer: maybe (since we don't typically talk about upcoming releases).

codemonkey37179

Dexigone

codemonkey37179

Dexigone

Are we getting basketball items during the olympics? PLEAAASE say yes or I'll cry.

I don't know about the items, but we originally had a basketball type game planned for the games, but it evolved into something much more Gaian, and something much more swampy. Can't wait for you to see it.

Swamp basketball?

Well, that would be silly wouldn't it. So it got changed to more swampy themed stuff.

biglanky14

La Prodige

I have a question.
Dunno if it'll get answered, but why was H&R Wesley burned down?
sweatdrop

Hi La Prodige,

It's part of the storyline of the site, which you can follow by reading our manga smile

DARKNRGY

Highpass

Will you ever release an API for sections of the site?

Specifically useful would be one for the inventory -- it's a mess (no offense) and I've had a sketch of a redesign for a while now but implementing it as it stands would require a lot of server calls, and I'd rather not risk my users getting banned for botting.

An API wouldn't be too hard for you all to implement (assuming your backend isn't a total mess), and the benefits you'd reap from, essentially, other people doing work for you would more than pay off.

We will probably not create an API meant for public consumption. We do have different APIs for our client-side apps but we expect these will only ever be used by our own apps.

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