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

[Platonix]

October 15th

lanzer

Hello everyone!

Halloween is two weeks away and we're all excited already! Why? Because the event will be starting soon! When? Maybe someone in the event team can share some details with us. wink

Let's get started!

lanzer

Squee Nii

Artist question. Can we pretty please fix the layering of Modus Operandi + Oolong Wonder + Kabuki so that they properly go UNDER, like so?

Good news Squee, the fix should be up later this week.

Uncle Kenny

Tear of Fate

How soon are we away from the Event?

When can we roughly expect the gold shop update,
and will it be befor the event starts or after?

Lastly when will HOC be open to every one? I signed up to the bata
quite sometime befor bata started to open up and I have yet to
getin.

The gold shop update for this month will be coming out before the end of the month, that's all I know about it.

Our Halloween event is still on schedule and we're planning on rolling it out later this week. Stay tuned. In the meantime, enjoy the NPC shopkeeper art if you haven't seen it already!

Zero Omega

rinlee

Zero! Where the heck is my rejection letter? I've seen some new purple names, so you have no excuse!

I have an excuse! You weren't in the reviews of the people we had, come next round you might be. ninja

Zero Omega

rinlee

Zero Omega

rinlee

How about a timeframe I can look forward to hearing about your next round?

Next year. ninja

Haha, nice one.

Wait, are you serious?

Also... how's the progress on that... investigation?

I actually am serious. xd We don't plan to hold another training round until sometime after the new year begins because this one will take up a lot of our time.

I haven't forgotten, honest.

Sandokiri

NippIe Jelly

Dear Admins, do you like cats? Do you want to hug every cat? Do you want them all in a basket and on rainbows?

Well, considering that cats allow us to be admins... because as you might have heard...



The internet is, in fact, comprised of felines.

tiranaki

The Art of Losing

1. Moar Waffles!

2. When does the Halloween event kick off?

3. If any of you admin are gonna dress up, post pics? wink

I will always agree with moar Waffles!

I would like to dress up but I wouldn't know what to dress up as, unfortunately. emo

lanzer

Darc Nightgale

So I asked last week about gettin' the devil tail layered infront of the spartan cloak. This was your response. "I thought it was designed to go on the back, but then it wouldn't make much sense would it? biggrin I'll look into it."

Are you guys able to fix this?

There were a lot of conflicts for moving the tail up, so we were not able to change it for now, sorry.

Uncle Kenny

Beware of TnT

When will notices for subscribed threads work again?
also
Event skins have been disappearing when we changed avatars, for the last couple months.
It was posted by a developer that wearing the skins from previous events has been users exploiting a glitch.
If we were not meant to keep our skins or no longer able to keep it, why not simply make a Dev. Notice of it?

Thanks have missed the last few ATA and haven't seen an answer.
I would just like to have these at least acknowledged.

The only old skin that counts as "exploiting a glitch" is the original B.O.O. skin since it was removed from the site. The other skins are unequipping due to a bug with the dress-up feature and is not actually an intended functionality of it. Unfortunately, I don't have an estimate on when to expect a fix for it currently.

siskataya

Ren Orenji Doragon

Hi AtA. o3o

• SISKY! Any more teasers on that special surprise you have for the z!F? emotion_c8
  

Oh yes.... yes! Would you like hint? Maybe just a little one? MAYBE? Ok, a forum contest thread is going out tonight. It has to do with this...and pumpkins. And server lag. That is all I can say for now! ninja

lanzer

.~.Lady_Aji.~.

zOMG! Glitch Fix Update: Anything to share?

We do have some surprise for everyone, please wait and see smile

siskataya

SMD Hoe

why can't yall one day unbann everyone account question

Well, that wouldn't be good from a safety perspective. Many of the account bans placed are for safety violations - hackings, password phishing, posting explicit content, etc. These are not accounts we want on Gaia as they have caused harm to other members of the community.

Uncle Kenny

Princess-Orphelia

Uncle Kenny

Princess-Orphelia

Good morning everyone.

I have one or two things I'd like to ask.

Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee have future events, such as Christmas start early during the whole month, instead of the last two weeks. We want more time hosting them. gonk And giving participants more time to enter the contests. sweatdrop

Hurry up with the Halloween event please. rofl By the time you guys start it, I'm going to be back at work. I'm impatient Darn it. rofl

Working on it! burning_eyes

Thanks Uncle K. Oh hey, if we were to use a percentage. How far would you say you are with the preparation of it? 3nodding

I'd say 90%, give or take. Main work is completed, just going through some internal playtesting, stress testing, and going down the master list of "Things to Fix Before Putting the Event Live so it Doesn't Crash the Site".

The wait is almost over.

lanzer

Scobre

Hi ata people!

1) Why does the mouth always reset when we change our avis’ outfits?
2) I haven’t been able to buy my Power-ups in game anymore, but I can on Gaia page, what’s wrong with it?
3) People have been earning 100K-150K per hour with the new game HOC, since this will happen again with future games, isn’t about time to unnerf Booty Grab and zOMG! and do a site wide nerf of top 1%?

That's due to a bug, sorry! We'll fix that ASAP

Which particular power up items are you referring to?

It's definitely a balancing issue as we're still making adjustments to the gameplay. As we polish the gameplay, so will the payout change.

Zero Omega

Coldfire Oxymoron

Do rare items from banned accounts get recycled? Or do they just sit there?

They sit there.

Narumi Misuhara

Empress Boa

When is the trash available for Towns 2.0? or is it ever going to be in there?

It will eventually, we're shooting for before the end of this year.

Sandokiri

Xelvorktork

Hello Admins!
First of all, thanks for the work you do, and for keeping Gaia the way it is. I really enjoy it!

Now, my question:
Is it normal that I do not get notices of the Tips I get? Because I have a quest for Tips, and I am offering a Lotto, and when people Tip me for tickets, I don't get the notices, only sometimes. Is it something that I have to deal with, Or can it be fixed?

Thanks in advance! biggrin

I'd suggest trying to tweak some of your feed settings, especially the last two, and see if you get your tip notices more often. If you're getting too many tips, though, a flood control might be eating some of them, which is unfortunately something you'd have to deal with.

Uncle Kenny

[ R ]

Can we get a simple, solid-white background item for us forum-goers so we can make avatars without worrying about the Green Goo problem? It's a pretty simple fix and a LOT of us who are avatar-enthusiasts would really appreciate it!

Alternatively, a lot of people want background items that are just solid colors.

( Some interest in the item is garnered here. )

Making a white background actually wouldn't fix the problem that causes green goo. It's rather complicated to try to explain but the short and easy version is that there are multiple layers to each item. If two or more of those layers have a discrepancy or collision, the green goo appears. We're actually working to make the artists' tools better equipped to catch green goo issues before the item is released. For those items that already have issues, just continue reporting them in the designated thread and they will be resolved eventually.

Zero Omega

Mashed Potato Jones

Zero Omega

Mashed Potato Jones

I'm starting to see quite a few new pink names...I hope my app wasn't forgotten?

Nope, it was not, just wasn't up for review this round.

So...does that mean I'm going to have to reapply, or will I receive notification of acceptance/rejection?

You will receive notice of acceptance/rejection.

lanzer

Corinth Maxwell

Well, you know us, Lanzer.....we're gonna keep asking the questions we want to ask, no matter how repetitive they may seem, until we get definitive answers for them! cat_xd

1. In forums, there's a feature that allows you to display certain items in your inventory, but it's a little flawed -- specifically, you can only view and/or display a limited number of items. Would it be at all possible to alter this particular feature so that you can see your ENTIRE inventory, and therefore be able to display whatever you want in a post? cat_3nodding

2. Ok, so........The "Superior Form" monthly collectible got its own unique set of "Elven Ears", and there are even different kinds of these ears for each of the skin dyes created from the bug exchange.......so can we have Elven Ears for Vampires, Orcs, & Centaurs, as well as for each skin of the "Uncanny Form" monthly collectible? cat_sweatdrop

3. This is probably the strangest & most unusual question you've probably heard all year, but.....can we have a feature that allows us to combine the properties of two different kinds of "one-time-usage-only" skin potions? For example, combining a Dark Elf skin with a Centaur lower half, or allowing us to create muscular Zurg-Orc hybrids? cat_ninja

The limitation on the item showing feature is not meant for showing entire inventories as many Gaians have thousands of items and without limitations there will be big performance issues.

Sorry the item was planned with the standard ears only. Unfortunately we couldn't find time to make all the variations.

That is a pretty cool idea. Would love to see a story around that. smile

Uncle Kenny

Zweizi Galon

3) When will the next scheduled manga update be released approxiamtely?
4) Any new information on Countess Ambrosia you can share?
5) Will we see any new characters in the Christmas storyline this year?

3) I'd watch for something to show up before the event.
4) Nope!
5) Not a clue!

siskataya

Woodlyn Fairee

Q~Since October in National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, is Gaia going to do anything to support breast cancer awareness or maybe go in with the 'American Cancer Socieity' on selling little Pink Ribbons to Gaian's for say 99 cents in the cash store and the pixeled pink ribbon does something like transform into a scarf or something like a little pink bird or whatever; But 100% of the proceeds from the sales of the Pink Ribbons could go to the American Cancer Socieity for breast cancer research and awareness.
How are it Gaia Admin?
Care to get behind a good cause??
Huggles,
~Lyn~
heart

Heya Lyn!

Thanks for the great suggestion! I am not sure this year that there is time to get something together, but it is definitely something I'd be happy to consider for next year. Perhaps we can do something then biggrin

Take heart though, I am personally going to be part of a charity workout for called, erm, uhm...ok, pardon my language, but it's called "Barbells for Boobs". I'm lifting for a cure - wish me luck! biggrin

Uncle Kenny

wind arashi

I have been trying to ask this for a while: is there any news for an Item layering feature? I would like to use items in a specific way, however it doesn't work with the current item layering. So is there anything like this in the works? please let me know

We have no plans to create a custom layering system for items on Gaia.

Narumi Misuhara

moostachios

When are you going to fix/let us use the friend request functions in flash games(rally, VH, etc.) again?

As we update Towns and other virtual spaces, we'll be adding it in.

codemonkey37179

We changed it in the new spaces. Around the 1st of the year all should be fixed.

milkbun

Nicooriia

Hello, I would like to ask if GaiaOnline is currently recruiting. That, or if there's anyone in particular I might directly call/message/e-mail regarding employment, if it's not too much trouble.

((I'll even dress up my avatar all fancy if I must.))

Here you go:
https://corp.gaiaonline.com/careers

siskataya

Crystal Sparda

Crystal Sparda

Can't wait for the Halloween event!
Just one question from me tonight!

Is anyone aware of the glitch with the "Think" post format?
The top line or two can't be selected or clicked (just try clicking the link or spoiler in this post).
Can we get this fixed?

Reposting this just in case no one saw it. >w<;
Oh, and to add to it, there is a white line that goes across the post (can be seen over the spoiler button).

Heya! Sorry, I wasn't aware of that glitch. Not sure when it can be fixed, but I'll let people know about it biggrin

codemonkey37179

Sakura_Madison

codemonkey37179

Sakura_Madison

Hello everyone!

Questions? I might have one.

In the old Towns, you can lower the quality on the screen to make it less lag for users with old computers or lower processors. But, in the new Towns, there is no such thing to do that. Will there be something implemented in the new Towns?

I don't plan on putting any buttons in for it, and I'm not sure it helps much. If you really want it, it is on the right click menu.

Thank you so much!

I noticed that the gold count gets forced to the side, if you have a high gold count amount. Also, will there be adding commas on it too?

I hadn't thought about it, but it isn't a big deal to do so. I just wrote it on my checklist.

Uncle Kenny

Black Death Goddess

Hello! Hello! Happy Halloween! (Yeah it's early but I love Halloween.) xp

So I have some questions that, I truly would love to have answered today.

When will the event officially start?

When do we get to go trick or treating throughout the shops?

When will the CrosStitch contest winners be announced and the items made available?

1) We're shooting for later this week.
2) Trick or Treating will start when the main event starts too. The NPCs have been decked out early this year though so if you haven't seen them already, be sure to go take a look.

milkbun

Tear of Fate

ONE LAST QUESTION!!!
WHO came up with the NPC costumes this year?

All the artists did ^_^

codemonkey37179

Maggot

Krissim Klaw

codemonkey37179

Spider London1

Hey admins, why is there a towns 2 now?

Because we need a towns 2 if we are ever going to get to towns 3.

Seriously because towns needed an upgrade. We will be phasing towns 1 out as we build towns 2.

There will be praying mantises in towns 2 right? Naturally we will be able to catch them and if you collect 1k you can turn them in for an adorable mantis companion complete with an I AM pose. emotion_kirakira

I'm not sure what bugs will be there. It will be addressed in the next 4-8 weeks though. We are trying to wrap up plans by years end.

lanzer

Sifen Yamishi

Evening Lanzer and company:

Some questions regarding Avatar Arenas this week.

Question 1: When will the edit description feature be fixed? A majority of contestants aren't able to edit their entry's description after submission, so they have to re-submit just to edit or write a comment just to add one. Any chance this will be addressed?

Question 2: Any chance for an Arenas 2.0 soon? Given the downvoting trend, etc., it would be nice to address this issue.

Misc. question:
Do you guys offer internships? If so, what major would I have to go for in order to get one?

Let me check on that, thought it was fixed already.

There was actually a patch to tackle downvoting, and there is an improvement on how low an effect the downvoters have on contestants.

Narumi Misuhara

The Art of Losing

Regarding glitched tasks on zOMG: is there any way to just reset them? My mules have gotten through the game without a hitch, but I still have quests in the Aqueduct and Otami that I can't clear.

Try PMing Swarf about this.

Zero Omega

King Awesomolocity

Do you Gaia staff generally get gold for items, or do you not really...buy many items?
And if you DO buy items, what method do you use to get gold?

I typically don't buy as many items because I have one avatar I really like, but then every time I go to dress my avi I get confused because I have so many. gonk I typically just post for gold.

tiranaki

I buy my items with gold I have saved up from my years as a member (I had an art shop at one time, and I played Fishing a lot, and amassed a lot of fish to sell). These days most of it comes from selling back items/selling items in the marketplace from Chance Items or MCs that I purchased with Cash and decided I didn't like the item enough to keep the item/letter around. I also do some offers and occasionally get some Cash to buy items directly from the cash shop. I am a hoarder though so I avoid buying anything unless it's something I really like. I've managed to save up quite a bit of gold from simply not purchasing anything ever! xD

milkbun

Zweizi Galon

Hello Gaia Staff! Very excited to see the [NPC] costumes and MCs are out today! smile Great job on all of it! Here are my questions for tonight.

1) Any new shops planned for release?
2) Any progress on getting a Pets system?
3) When will the next scheduled manga update be released approxiamtely?
4) Any new information on Countess Ambrosia you can share?
5) Will we see any new characters in the Christmas storyline this year?

1. No
2. No

sorry ;___;

Narumi Misuhara

Kamon Keronji

ok here we go again!

me and a lot of the percentage of gaia online are wondering when we will see updates to zomg. It has been on the back burner for so long and we need new zomg items to collect and areas to explore. what happened to the new addtion to the map where you were going to add durem I beilieve to the zomg game. its been awhile since we heard what was going on with that. and there is some glitches that need to be addressed. like caruthers,mctaggert and logan for instance, you do their missions and part way they freeze up and won't let you continue with their missons. and mctaggert needs to have a mission to give you or something. just standing like a statue isn't doing the game any good. and we need to make it so you can sell orbs and shadow orbs. some of us have way too much of them and don't know what to do with them.

I am sure others have more complaints than I do but here is a significant amount of them

My last two journal updates cover what is going on with zOMG!

lanzer

Kidfunkyfly

Anything inappropriate get thrown up on the office chalkboard yet?

We just have strangely drawn dogs on the chalkboard this week

codemonkey37179

kisyen

'Ello Gaia staff, thanks for doing this!

I really like all of the new games being added, especially since Facebook is taken out of the equation. I think Gaia is the perfect platform for up-and-coming social games, so the partnerships make sense.

Do any of you know what types or genres of games we can expect later? surprised

We lost a few games due to OmgPop being bought out, and we'd like to replace those empty spaces with some Gaia-themed type games. We want a variety of games, but expect some of the tile, card variety games, as well as possibly some multi-player board games.

Zero Omega

Semi-Sweet Ignorance

Hi there, I asked a few ATA's ago about changing the featured avatar back to its old format. Over the past few weeks, I've been keeping an eye on the vote or heart thing that shows if people like or dislike the post, and every single time the numbers have been very far into the negative. Are you guys going to change the old featured avatars back? Just seems like a common thing that people do not like the new way it is done. Thank you for your time.

Probably not any time in the near future, or ever, we're not really too concerned about the <3 or </3s because that doesn't really tell us anything, it could be because people don't like it in the Blog, or they don't like the avatars, or they don't like me! Either way, we will currently be keeping it where it is as we're still going to be using the front page as a major communication source.

lanzer

C 0 0 K l E M O N S T E R

Question:
Will there be another wafflez story? I love him! He should appear more often smile

Waffles have plenty of stories to tell, hope there will be another event later

milkbun

7obias

Hey Admins!

I'm just wondering, since there's been a lot of discussion about it so far - Will there be a Black Friday Sale 2012? And in that case, will you open for more expensive sales, such as e.g. $75 or $100 (yikes gonk )?

There will be a Black Friday sale but it hasn't been decided yet what will be sold and for how much.

milkbun

xXAzzie_blushieXx

Are we able to design a new avi item..?
I was thinking of making a design that may look nice

You can! Enter our next Crosstitch contest which should start soon. Watch out for the announcement.

milkbun

ShiroKitsune9

When will you be announcing the cross stitch contest winners?

This month.

lanzer

VintageBrobie

How Much Money Does The Gaia Staff Get? o;

There isn't one answer as different poeple are paid different rates. If you search how much a programmer would make, then the average programmer on Gaia would be earning about the same. Except for Narumi, I heard he earns waaaay more than anybody else. biggrin

Sandokiri

Leader Clair

XhaxcatX

there should be a market price limit.
buy this item for 2,345,665,654
who's going to have that much money?

2,345,665,654 is the limit.

Actually, that's rather over the limit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2147483647

Zero Omega

MY rusty h a l o

My question is this: Will there be any IRL Gaia events in Toronto or Ottawa, or any area like that In Canada this year? I really want to attend a Gaia event but I'm never able to because I don't live in America.

I also want to know if the Canadian Gaia lovers will ever get a store that is series themed (like the Neko store that only Americans get get into

I actually have no clue on either of these, the conventions are something DJ Helsing does, so you might want to send him a PM.

As for a Canadian/international Mecha Neko story, it would really depend on who we partner up with, can't really make any guarantees about this in the future.

milkbun

Ellie the Magnificent

Are you ever going to re-release Lovely Lucie in the Cash Shop? (You did with the Ciel Agape, so I was just curious.)

Don't know. I guess it's always a possibility.

codemonkey37179

SUSHI Multiuser Server

codemonkey37179

Things have been good. Took a week off to Costa Rica, and came back all ready to get into stuff here. We've been pushing ahead on Towns, and moving Rally and VH over to the new format. Also a lot of game stuff. Let me know if you need me to resend the info.

Ooh cool. And when you say moving Rally and VH over to the new format, do you mean the graphical/game layout of Towns 2? And nope, I found the emails, thanks! I'll be sure to email you though, because this thread will probably lock soon haha.

Yes, just porting over the maps, and adding in a few more things. It means you can walk from Vh to Rally to towns, etc without having to close the window. It also mean that you'll be able to use the features from Towns in those spaces as well.

Zero Omega

TheRoseLife

Okay hi hi xD.
Soo just wondering something. If I'm vice captain of a clan and I want to leave how do I do so? >w<. NOT SAYING THAT I WILL I LOVE MY CLAN, just for futures notices and such. ALSO we tried the youtube feature in the Clan, and it just didn't work. gonk
Um umanjsgbfkjmdsf first time doing this... HI whee

I believe you need to have the Captain actually demote you.

milkbun

sacrificeseeker87

I might have missed something, but why are Mintika and Rigel dressed up all normal-ish???

They're dressed up as Mulder and Scully from the X-Files smile

Uncle Kenny

GuinAoiichi

Any hints on what the coming event is going to be like??

Is it going to be like B.O.O. VS S.I.N. ????

It will be based on the Dark Elves v. Vampires. The battle mechanics will reuse the elements that you're used to but put a different spin on them. We'll also have some GCash functionality built into the gameplay for those who want to go a little faster. For more, you'll just have to wait to see the actual thing later this week cool

lanzer

Luna Rousse

Hey, Admins!

Just out of curiosity, will there ever be a day where there will be really special items in the daily chance one day? Perhaps an old chance game item? That would be interesting to see in the future 3nodding

Thanks!

We've added exclusive rare items in Daily Chance, though items that cost gcash is not likely. We'll continue to add more rare items into Daily Chance though.

lanzer

Sugarsweet Acid

when are you guys gonna fix all those glitches that are posted in the glitch forum?? cat_gonk

i've been waiting like FOREVER, and none of my glitches have been fixed Q A Q

We've been fixing a lot of bugs, are there specific ones that you would like to refer to?

lanzer

HDMI

Hey again admins, developers, artists. I asked this last week but I guess things were too busy and it got lost in the shuffle so I can only try again.

My question this time is the same:
1. Are there any future plans to implement a "report this profile" button? When I was doing my usual reporting around the forums, I came across a profile with a few pornographic/nudity images. There was no report this button so i had to pm an online mod & she removed the inappropriate images. I think it would be much easier when stuff like this happens, because it's not a pm, or a comment, or a thread post.

Thanks for your time & any & all responses : ) .

The number of questions out number our replies 10 to 1, so if we couldn't get to your question, please try again next week.

There isn't a report button for profiles, sorry. For now you'll need to copy the URL of the profile and report that to any of our moderators and we can deal with any problems.

Narumi Misuhara

Princess-Orphelia

Oh darn it. I forgot to ask about resort world. And whether or not the Scott guy is still in charge of it. As his name isn't purple anymore.

Reading back on this kind of reminds me of the Star Trek movie. rofl

No he has moved on from that company.

Narumi Misuhara

Uncle Kenny

epopoeia

What is the theme of the Halloween event? o.o

Dark Elves vs. Vampires. Be sure to read the manga if you haven't already, it will explain more.

To be more accurate it's the House of Von Helson vs The Kuro Gang. An important distinction since you don't need to be either a Vampire or Dark Elf to be on a side

lanzer

Lilsis Charmer

Just wanted to stop by and say 'thank you!' for the marketplace warning. ^^ By the way, some have complained about the size, others about the colour. If it's going to be changed, I think the nicest compromise would be toning down the brightness of the red in the text using a larger font size (=the price). Same size, darker red. Just my two cents. (Personally I think the marketplace warning is PERFECT as it is, but since I've read a lot of bickering about it... I see no reason not to compromise if the brightness of the large price is too 'in-your-face' for some. ^^; Have a nice ATA.

The change is not hard to make, whatever works best for avoiding mis-pricing and easy on the eyes is what we're shooting for. smile

lanzer

Thank you for joining us on this week's ATA! Have fun at the Halloween Event and we'll see you next week!

[Platonix]

October 22nd

lanzer

Hello everyone!

How do you like this year's Halloween event? Are you able to name all the costumes that the NPC are wearing? And how far are you at collecting the event items? Tell us what you think!

lanzer

MillKitten

Can we see Hatsya as a character in the next RIG?

Hatsya is cool though we have got quite a few other RIG ideas lined up for now. Sorry.

Zero Omega

Tsuki_Kirkland

Hey Gaia staff, a happy end of Monday to you all. I have a couple questions

1. When will some of the hot topics like adventure time ,tiger and bunny, and lolita fashion be removed?

2. What are you doing for Halloween this year?

1. Decisions are being made regarding those and other Hot Topics, no ETA at the moment though.

2. Relaxing at home.

Uncle Kenny

Scobre

1) Back Alley Bargains shop is still broken for purchasing power-ups for zOMG! in game but works when buying from Gaiaonline shop page, why is it only broken in game?

The two stores run on different systems. Nobody on the current Gaia team knows how zOMG works so if the store is broken there's not much we can do to get it working. The only option we have is waiting until we can get some time from the former zOMG devs to look at it.

milkbun

Squee Nii

lanzer

Squee Nii

Artist question. Can we pretty please fix the layering of Modus Operandi + Oolong Wonder + Kabuki so that they properly go UNDER, like so?

We had fixed the masking for the hair, but we weren't able to fix the layering, sorry about that! crying

But why can't the layering be fixed? gonk

I know that specifically regarding Kabuki and the MO coat the wrap is meant to go OVER all shirts. However in the future there may be another wrap that goes under all clothing.

milkbun

marshmallowcreampie

When will the gold shop updates be out? I'm always really excited to see the Halloween ones!

VERY SOON!!

Uncle Kenny

Jinglybell

Hello admins.
Id just like to ask is right click and opening multiple healing windows allowed in the event? (therefore you can have more then the max 180 heals per hour you would max) I lost my top healing spot because I couldn't keep up with some of the people who are doing this.
Thank you for taking the time to answer

It's allowed in that we're not specifically disallowing it, yet. After talking it over among ourselves, we're going to be adding in a block to prevent users from getting credit for games in which they score 0 points. While this will negatively impact some who are having issues with the game loading, our hand is unfortunately forced by those who want to go to such means to exploit it. I had not yet prevented it since I wanted users to be able to be free to play how they liked but it's unfortunately just gone too far and is starting to negatively impact their own team's scores as well.

I'll make the fix tomorrow and make a Dev Notice once it's out explaining this to everyone so just sit tight until then.

Zero Omega

houstonnn

Also, if you did a report, where do you go to find it and cancel it. I find out my situation it was a mistake. I check my Tickets, and it's not there.

Did you file a Gaia report or a ticket at http://www.gaiaonline.com/help ? If you filed a report, just PM a moderator to get it canceled. If you filed a ticket, you should have an option to close it on your My Tickets page.

lanzer

Castiel Lover

WAFFLES COMPANION! Lanzer, y u no haz waffles on your avi anymore? If it's not on you, how will we ever see it again?? I say it's time to release it with lots of aditional poses, including I AM poses. PLEASE? *Waffles begging face*

Alchemy back wings: Is anything being worked on (or going to be worked on) to make the quest more afordable for the non-venders? And I mean total costs of the quest being less than 100 million gold. Right now, they are not questable unless you are insanely rich. Will they ever be for the 99%?

Halloween/Supernatural the TV show: Who is responsible for the Castiel costume on Brennivan? And Who made Apotropaic Magic? <3 Supernatural stuff on Gaia.

Last Debate tonight! Who is watching it? Will we see new election freebie items like we saw four years ago? I'd love an Obama companion, since we already have a mask. 3nodding

My friend's question:
About the 2k12 skin potions: Are you guys going to put them in the gold shop? If not, why? I mean the sticker limit a person can acquire a year really has a toll on it. The skin potions are 20 stickers and when we get new stickers there is usually a new event and we would want the new items with any new stickers. So please explain how you plan on dealing with this problem. Would you put the skin potions in skintyte, after the event, if asked to by the community?

There was never a Waffles companion item. Waffles just happen to visit during the event. Hope we'll have other Waffles items in future events

I understand the worry over how hard it is to obtain the backwings. We'll visit the balancing again at a later time

Many of us will be watching tonight. Who are you be rooting for?

Sorry, some of the artists are out and I can't find out who worked on the items.

Uncle Kenny

houstonnn

When easter comes, We there be a release on 2003 Slippers? as in Chickies and Bunnies?

I can't say definitively, but we typically do not rerelease past event items in new events.

lanzer

We probably won't be giving away old event items as it's been our tradition, but new slipper items are definitely possible.

Panagrammic

LollipopLocomotion

What happened to the essence to gold button on Heralds of chaos that was a nifty little feature

This will come back -- it was inadvertently hidden as we reworked some UI.

Sandokiri

OV8ION

Hi, hard-working people of the South Bay! How'd you like the rain showers this morning? And what about them Giants! The Oakland Coliseum will be packed tonight.

Also, can the Halfling Pipe be included in the list of items that trigger off the "Risky Lifestyle" achievement?

Oh, and I am not even close to getting all the items. I think I am at 100 attacks and 64 heals as a vampire. A long long way away from an Achievement.

Rain is always a good thing. It's usually perpetually sunny, so breaking up the monotony is a great thing. 3nodding

As for the Halfling Pipe... if you understood Halfling culture, you'd recognise that the pipe, and the pipeweed that Halflings smoke, are symbols of that which is the exact opposite of risk. They're the symbols of a comfortable life in one's burrow and village, far removed from even the thought of adventure. razz

milkbun

Sen Natsu

What are the chances of getting Gambin 'Brows as an item?

dude has some epic brows.

You're in luck: http://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/itemdetail/44680

Uncle Kenny

Zealand_Aquarius

Uncle Kenny

Princess Eilonwy Prydain

I love the event but I keep seeing people asking on zOMG, "Where is Jack?" Is Jack going to be on zOMG!?

Unfortunately, no. The work that would've been required to make it happen in zOMG was just too much for us to be able to undertake this year, sorry.

So no Halloween event fair enough....but Christmas? Given that most companies start planning early for Christmas I wonder if you are planning yet?

If it makes you feel better been practising carols with the band since August 3nodding

In fact we could have a White zOMG Just like the ones I used to know., with the giftboxes attacking and Chirstmas Tree talking and coal given out for spirits...

Can't really say one way or another just yet. We're beginning planning for Christmas soon but so far there are no definitive plans.

lanzer

Death Before Dish0nor

Good job on the event guys! My favorite part of all your events- no matter the holiday- are the manga updates. They were Gorgeous- the art especially ♥

But just a quick question: Will there be any future new forums on topics such as Gardening perhaps in the Health and Fitness forum/Spring forum? As well as Drawing/coloring tutorials in the art forum?

Thanks for the feedback! We are always open for suggestions on new forum ideas. If we see enough demand for any of those categories we'll expand the discussion areas.

Uncle Kenny

MissTermiNative

what are the sacred keys for, seriously?

They're currently used for high level Alchemy formulas.

Zero Omega

Squee Nii

It's next week. emotion_kirakira

Also, is gaia ever going to get back into the business of selling its own real life merchandise?

Yes yes yes, I know. gonk

And that is not something I have the answer too, sorry. Although you can get some shirts drawn by our artists on Red Bubble: http://www.redbubble.com/people/gaiaonline/

Uncle Kenny

Platonix

1) I've pretty much given up on asking for the Marketplace's "Sell An Item" menu to have an Aquarium tab...but there are still some Aquarium items, such as the Aquarium Starfish [lite], that have a Sellback Price listed in the Marketplace but can't actually be sold back. Can this discrepancy be fixed, either by letting us sell them back from inventory or by removing the false sellback price info from the Marketplace?

Yep, I've got a list of items for us to go over and resolve sellback discrepancies on but I've been busy with the event so haven't been able to deal with them just yet. Just sit tight a bit longer and most of them should get fixed soon.

codemonkey37179

Stray Cougar

Where's Jack, and why is there no Towns trick or treating?

Towns is being phased out in favour of Towns 2. It will remain until we get all of the features that are currently in Towns ported over. We will be rolling out more updates around the end of the year or early 2013. By next Halloween, trick or treating and possibly Jack will be in the new towns.

Panagrammic

_Jackass_Supporter_

Any updates on the Beta for Heralds of Chaos? whee

We've been slowly letting people in -- fixing some bugs -- and then letting some more people in.

Narumi Misuhara

C 0 0 K l E M O N S T E R

I asked this last week, but it was left unanswered. I'll ask again(please answer crying )

How many signatures does an item petition need before it is seriously looked at being made by the artists?

*shrug* I don't think it's just how much an item is wanted but also what the theme is for the upcoming releases.

An artists could answer this far better than I however.

Narumi Misuhara

5Tsunade-sama

Oh yeah, I also miss trick or treating in the original towns. That was a lot of fun. 3nodding

As do I :/

Hopefully come next year though we'll have a far more awesome version.

Narumi Misuhara

OV8ION

Can the Halfling Pipe be included in the "risky lifestyle" achievements? (repeated Q)

Will the NPCs The Fish and Countess Ambrosia be visiting the forum, pretty please?

1. Yeah

2. Maybe

lanzer

Serene Rainstorm

Hello Admins!! Thank you for the event!! It's been really fun!! heart

1. Halloween Housing Update, like you did for Christmas? If not this year, consider it for next year maybe?

2. What's Halloween like in real life at HQ? Just curious.

3. More Halloween treats this year in the Buttercup Cafe, maybe? Cookies, brownies, more candy, and a punch bowl!! If not this year, can you consider it for next Halloween?

4. Why aren't our treat pails filled with treats on Gaia?

5. What's your favorite Halloween treat?

6. Can we please have an Astra: Rolling Fog item? A user suggested this in the SF recently and it's really a great idea!! heart

7. Can you fix this issue with this hair style. The hair strand is really annoying with it sticking out of cloaks and hats. And the agape scissors doesn't help.
Example of what I'm talking about.


8. Can we one day get a black recolor of the Little Sister item?

9. hinthint Lunar Mage hinthint emotion_awesome

-edit- I made it to the first page!! Cool!!! heart

That's under serious consideration. wink

We're pretty quiet about it this year. Didn't dress up the office, but I'm sure many will be dressed up on Halloween

We'll keep that in mind. Who knows what kind of crazy ideas we'll come up with next year?

I'll look into the hair bug with the cloak. Seem like a tricky bug to fix. Thanks for your other suggestions also!

bluefeathers_onDA

Fixed it for the Maggie cloak! Thanks for letting us know! biggrin

Zero Omega

HeIIraiser

I finally get featured avi and no one knows.
;w;

Can we get an announcement?
emotion_awesome

Front page is an announcement! You can spread the word to all your friends! Betcha want people to read the blog now. ninja

Uncle Kenny

the jilted age

Uncle Kenny

the jilted age

Few things here:

• There has been quite a bit of grumbling regarding the current team scores for the Don Halloween event. Many insist that the game is rigged, and have developed varying tactics to "make up" for the handicap. My questions here are twofold;
  
  
  • Firstly, will team stats be released after the event? I am very interested in learning just how outnumbered the Kuro team was, and how large of an influence the "handicap" had on the raw numbers. And to clarify; how are mules being included when calculating team activity?
    
    
  • Secondly, those vampire tactics. One of them involves opening multiple tabs of the heal minigame on a single target in order to raise the number of heals cast, and therefore artificially inflating the team's heal score.
    
    OP

    So, what can we do to win this war? The answer is easy: stop attacking them and, also, STOP HEALING!
    
    You must just find someone who's injured (or even killed): open numerous tabs, say 10, by right-clicking on the "HEAL" button. Then, for every tab start the healing game and DON'T PLAY IT! Your healing will be counted, and in few minutes you'll be able to score HUNDREDS of healings!

    
    
    

    OP

    
    
    I don't think so. For first, in the main event forum I've seen threads about using this strategy to get the event items quickly: it really doesn't get a genius to apply it to the team's score, so I'm pretty sure someone is doing the same, in the other team.
    Most important, it's not like I want to exploit a bug or else: it's totally the fault of the one(s) who designed this event, not only if we can use this strategy but, actually, for the fact we're almost forced to do it.
    
    [OP's reasoning of how total scores "should" have been calculated, redacted]
    
    If only killings were used to determine the final scores, we'd be winning because we surely doesn't have the triple (+200%) of the elves, in number of active players! I guess we're about the 20% more active players than them. So, with the triple of killings, we deserve to win.

    
    

    OP

    
    It makes us win because it's the NUMBER of healings what counts, not how much we heal. If we heal for 0 points, we can keep doing it as long as we want, without losing time in desperate search for some injured player. Look, I'm in the top ten of Von Helson healers: those points are part of our total healings. I've made almost all of them this way!

    
    I think the quotes speak for themselves. Is this "strategy" being considered an exploit?

1) We'll release some stats on the event once things are wrapped up. The exact specifics of what will be released have yet to be determined. If someone uses a mule and does enough to qualify as an active team member, then they are counted just like anyone else.

2) I went into more depth on this in an earlier post on one of the first couple pages, but yes, at this point the level of exploitation that that specific tactic has resulted in, has forced our hand and we'll be making a fix for it tomorrow to prevent any user from receiving credit for games where they score 0.

For a more, thorough explanation on how the team score is calculated, I have a short description in the Event Guide which is an announcement located in the main Halloween forum.

2) Will you also be preventing players from opening multiple minigames (both on several different targets and single individuals) at the same time? I have heard of a variation of this exploit where players make a single match per window and move to the next.

Thanks for taking the time to detail these c: looking forward to the stats!

It's unlikely we'll go to this extent just because there is only 20 seconds per game. Making it so that 0 score games do not count, should make it not beneficial enough to mass spam new windows. We can always make additional tweaks if we see it's necessary but we aren't planning on it currently.

Narumi Misuhara

KayIei

Why did you guys get rid of Jack in zOMG?

We didn't get rid of him, the work required to do so was more than the necessary people had time for. It's not a simple matter of "flipping" a switch.

Narumi Misuhara

Jody Highroller II

Will we ever see another story event in Towns similar to Halloween 2006?

Probably.

Zero Omega

rinlee

Zero Omega

rinlee

Zero! I'm a bit disappointed that I've waited so long just to be told you haven't forgot about me. Way to make me feel otherwise, champ.

How about some updates to the PM I sent, pretty please?

*Le sigh*

Who are you again? No updates right now, sorry~ I'll see if I can check into it this week.

I don't mean to be rude if I've ever come across that way...
I'm just a little miffed at how slow everything seems to be going. I mean, it's been months since I submitted that app and I don't even know how long it's been since I sent you that PM but it feels like a dreadfully long time...
*Steals your apple and eats it.*

I can totally understand that. *steals the apple back and gives an orange*

Ban appeals typically take a while when I have to personally do them because I have to set aside time to actually look over the evidence while trying to balance out other things. With mod apps, that really just comes down to your place and line and how many people we actually need.

Narumi Misuhara

Sagebomb

Narumi Misuhara

The Magnificent Unsu

I know this isn't entirely your fault, but this has been bugging me for weeks. What has happened to Summer Springs? There hasn't been an update in a month. No e-mail rewards, no Rich sunny faces, nothing. And the Facebook page has gone idle as well. Is there any reason for this? Any news? I hate to hear it's been abandoned, but at least knowing nothing's going to be done is better than being left in the dark.

We don't know, someone from the Social team would have to answer this for you :/

Is the social team, the devs who work on social games, and if so do they ever make it to ATA?

They are, and usually not, though they are always welcome.

Uncle Kenny

A7X_Angel_6661

I believe the Halloween event this year was pretty awesome. Although, trick or treating just isn't the same without going through the towns collecting candy. I miss Jack too :/ He was the coolest. Why no Jack this year Admins?

Our work on Towns 2 has gotten to the point where we had to set aside Towns 1 and a Towns Halloween this year. We should have Towns 2 to a pretty awesome place fairly soon though so hopefully we'll be able to incorporate more event things in it for future events.

milkbun

Brojova

Hello godmins! How has your Halloween experience been so far? wink

I'm just wondering if you have any future Housing Updates planned. While I know that Houses aren't that big of a thing on the site, I still get super excited when new things come out! And the potential for animated housing items like seen in the Cash Shop for Christmas is a great area to go!

Also, what about other "pets", like Aquariums? I believe it was mentioned ages ago that you guys were considering expanding past aquariums to offer more pet options, not just fish. Was that idea abandoned?

Thanks, guys! Loving the event so far!

Yes to the first question but not sure about the other.

Narumi Misuhara

1. Great! Thanks for asking.

2. Been a while since our last update... what... Christmas I think?

3. Yeah, we simply don't have the resources right now. Especially with our push to get Towns 2 completed.

lanzer

KatanaWielder26

How does gaia make sure reports are credible?
Because frankly i think we should be able to debate whether or not bans are just.

We have all sorts of background data to verify any reports, so reports filed just let us know who to serve first, while any actions are backed by data found in our systems.

milkbun

GoddessOfCharity

Will the Gaia Online office staff be performing a Gaia Style (Gangnam Style) video?
With Lanzer as Psy of course!

That's a good idea! We dance to Gangnam Style on Thursdays in Zumba Class here... we should 'influence' them to do it for Halloween.... hehehe.

lanzer

I think CP makes a better Psy than I would biggrin

codemonkey37179

Erynnis_Tristis

Hello admins,

As someone who has been trying (unsuccessfully) to be online at the right time for an AtA for at least 6 months, and have only managed it today for the first time because I travelled halfway around the world to be in another timezone, I'd like to ask you:

Are you aware that the AtA's are always held at around 2-3am in Europe? And that most Europeans who are members of Gaia are precluded from being online during the time that an AtA is held unless they are insomniacs, vampires, or are allowed to stay up past midnight by their parents, or don't have jobs or a need for sleep etc?

I am wondering if it would be at all possible to occasionally have AtA's at another time of day, for example at lunchtime there, which would at least be before midnight for UK and Western Europe?

Thanks,
Erynnis

I can appreciate the problem, especially since many of us here have friends and family in other parts of the world, and to find a certain time to contact them can be problematic. Whenever we hold the ATA, it will be 3 am somewhere. We hold it at this time, and stay late during our Monday night, because it is less likely to interfere with our project schedule. You can always contact us, at any time of day, and we will do our best to respond.

milkbun

K4M

I forgot to ask

will there be a Gold shop update?

Will there be a victory item?

Will there be any changes made to the new Halloween skins due to the community feedback?

any chance we can get more clog items detached from trousers like that of "Nihon Shoki"?

Yes
I.. think so?... actually I'm not sure XD
Not that I have heard of
I'll remember that!

Narumi Misuhara

The Undead Suitor

Narumi Misuhara

Salaura

Hi everyone. I just wanna say that this years event is a blast! Who's idea was it to give staff members uber defense? Cause that's awesome! I got the achievement last night trying to kill Lanzer all by myself! Failed, but it was still fun!

I have a question about the new vampire and dark elf skin potions in the Treehouse though. I was in a debate earlier today about their fate, and the OP thought that after the event, that the potions were going to vanish from the Treehouse. Is that true, and if it is are they going to be moved to the Skin Tite shop for gold?

Also, who picked out the NPC costumes? Cause Rina as Sailor Moon and Mirai as Cadance and Sasha as Korra and Cresendo as Loki had me squee'ing.

1. *raises hand*

2. No, since they require wing stickers, they'll stay in the Treehouse.

3. It was a collaboration among the art team.

Any reason why the skins are consumable potions this time around instead of equipable skins.

One use items (items which are minor fixes on already existing items at that) aren't really an entire events supply of wing stickers for one go.

Especially for items that you have no way to preview.

I didn't make that call but can't say I disagree with it. Every big event gives 14 wing stickers of which there are at least 4 each year plus the monthly video updates... that's a lot of stickers some people have been collecting.

Narumi Misuhara

The Undead Suitor

so is it really going to be 1344 hours till the manga updates

Totally.

codemonkey37179

Krissim Klaw

codemonkey37179

Kamon Keronji

to respond to first post. yeah I love it but von helsing team is behind a little bit. which makes me sad...

and I have 3 questions:

1. When will towns 2 be done and what improvements can we see out of our houses (inside and out)

2. Can we have the shadow orbs and regular orbs un-soulbounded so we can sell the extras we don't need.

3. for the zomg staff. you said last week that their is some zomg items that haven't been released yet. could you give us a hint to what they are?

Towns 2 may always be a work in progress... as well hope to keep adding new areas, and events, etc... Expect to see housing around the 1st of the year. I don't want to raise expectations too much, but I think the changes to housing will be fairly dramatic, inside and out!

Is there any chance we will ever see Halloween Town in Towns 2. I want my house there, in the graveyard with all the other spooks.

There is a chance. Too early to tell though. I will say that Durem, Akea, and Barton will be made, and Gambino finished, and Vh, and Rally brought in before any other area will open in Towns 2. As you see there is a lot to do!

Zero Omega

GuinAoiichi

Also will Gaia Consider adding subbed versions of anime that is being played in the Anime Player?????

The anime that go into the player are all decided by our partner.

Narumi Misuhara

Ketira

RE: Halloween Event - I hate the "attacking" (I'm not good at drawing with a mouse; I prefer a stylus), but I like the "healing". Can't there be an Achievement for being one or the other in this Event?

.....and does the Event end on Halloween?

RE: NPC costumes - I got about half of them. You really should ask the Sailor Moon guild what Rina's Sailor Senshi name would be.... cat_wink

Final question: Will there be a ZOMG Christmas Event this year?

1. No

2. Yes, midnight on Halloween

3. Doubtful.

lanzer

.~.Lady_Aji.~.

- zOMG! Glitch Fix Update: Any good news?

- The New Dark Elf and Vampire Potions: Why did you put them in the Treehouse instead of Skin Tyte. There's nothing special about these potions to make them worthy of stickers.

- I've been having some problems with the site while using Chrome. Please read my thread for more details.

We're getting closer to having the server patch applied, will let you know when it's up and running

The potions are event items and naturally, having them in the gold shop would have different implications in cost and marketplace price plus how often they will be used.

We're looking into the problem in Chrome. Sorry for the annoying bug.

lanzer

Ruyail

When is the Gaia app going to be available for more phones?

/currently unable to use it

We're looking into it now. Sorry about that.

codemonkey37179

OV8ION

codemonkey37179

Nookimo

Why aren't the town decorated in a halloween fashion way ?

Towns 1 is being phased out. Halloween should be in Towns 2 next years.

Does that mean we should hang on to our trash, flowers and bugs?

Bugs, flowers and trash will be in towns 2 as well. Housing will be moved too.

Sandokiri

Nookimo

This question might not be answered but.....How much do you get paid for working at GAIA ? lol

Enough, but the money is secondary to the fun. 3nodding

lanzer

Sagebomb

I missed last week, so my questions built up sorry…

Soul Crash

“SC”

Hi SoulCrashers!
We wanted to let you know Season 3 started, but new bosses will be added in the upcoming weeks

1. Does that mean act six will come out this season, and when act six comes out will the max level be raised? Does weeks mean we are close to a push, or is it the usual weeks may be months scenario? (I understand and have no issues with missed deadlines due to dev stuff I know its part of what gaia is, its just nice to know we can expect something around Xish)

2. Ive been trying to complete the zanten/dragon plate set, the current final boss set. There are 4 items in the spin, and the spins 5 soul cash. Ive had ~ 40 spins and still not got it. Are the odds meant to be that low, or would it be buggy or just bad luck?

3. Any chance of adding video rewards or similar back again? Even 4 vids a day for 1 cash I would do.

The SC team is working really fast and it should be out in weeks, not months.

The chance isn't rigged and a lot of times, bad luck appears when there's something specific that you want, but I'm sure you'll get it in time. I always remember having to kill this one boss 95 times to get this one item that has a 5% drop rate in an old MMO game... Then I got 3 more within the next 10 games. That's just how luck goes.

Yeah we're constantly adding more, the difficult part is to have them available before everyone else snatches them all up.

milkbun

[ Glass_wings ]

Who do we owe thanks to for the great shop keeper costumes this year? :3

It was done by several artists... reapersun, mishiri, gem2niki, PRlSM and buki.

milkbun

Meromictic

Any hints on what will be in the black friday sale?

More items than last year? >o>

and thanks for the avatar feature o.o b

Sorry we haven't decided on the items yet.

codemonkey37179

Sagebomb

Hows the updates with new basic flash games coming? any coming "soon"

I think you meantioned something like board games/multiplayer vs eacher game, any clues what sort?

I think I mentioned it, but maybe Uncle Kenny did as well. Some older games may be getting an upgrade. What I"d like to do is chess on the Towns 1 chessboard!! That's on my personal wish-list.

codemonkey37179

GuinAoiichi

Will Gaia have Voteing / Election themed items / events this year??

We debated about that today. Tomorrow we will take a vote.

Uncle Kenny

Onyx Millennia

Hi, question here!
What ever happened to gold lotto? I understand it's been removed, but why? And why wasn't there an announcement? Or maybe there was and I missed it

It was removed due to a simple lack of use.

Zero Omega

klebold

Will be looking for any Moderators? How's the demand for those positions at the moment?

We're always looking for new moderators, you can find more information about that here:
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/questions-assistance/moderator-application-faq/t.46243481/

lanzer

Knight Yoshi

GLITCH: There's an achievement glitch pop up. You can see it here. Go to spoiler at the end, "open" the spoiler and click inside the spoiler area and the "Beta Treasure Hunter" achievement pops

Edit:The achievement also seems to pop up when clicking in the tiny area between the post time stamp and the link to the post.

Suggestion: Also, some months back. I was talking to Carbonphyber about the CSS @-import rule and why it was filtered out. It's filtered because IE6 allows CSS "expressions", basically JavaScript in CSS. To prevent cross site scripting it gets filtered out. But it's only in IE6, you guys have dropped support for IE6 some time ago, why not allow it? It shouldn't even really be a problem though, I haven't met a single person who even knows what a CSS expression is. If necessary set a script that will parse out the at-import from the CSS if it's IE6, because again, only that browser supports it. This would open up more possibilities to advanced profile shops and other advanced CSS users such as myself.

Thank you for sharing your insights with Carbonphyber and the rest of us. We'll look into both the bugs and the feature suggestion and see what we can do. Thanks!

milkbun

Celtic Scholar

Um, hello. I'm a bit nervous right now since this my first time doing this ATA thing. I was just curious about who to speak to about more armor items being added? I had started a thread that has a bunch of ideas that me and some others would like to share with you. 3nodding

I apologize if this seems a bit too forward. ._. Like I have said, this my first time doing this ATA thing, so I'm fairly nervous.

Thank you for the suggestion! We'll definitely have more armor available soon.

Uncle Kenny

Aqua-lichi148

Uncle Kenny

Tebaun Valdruk

Apologies if it's already been asked (And if it's just a plain stupid question): But why is it the Kuro Gang is ahead in points for the Halloween event when it appears that the Von Helson Crew seems to be mopping the floor with them. o__o

I feel like I'm missing something. o ~ o

The total scores are based on a number of factors including active team member size. You can see a more thorough explanation in my Event Guide.

Hello, during the war between kuro and von how do I heal others? many people don't know and i cant find the healing icon (you can't heal if your K.O) < thats what i know

You can only heal within your team's specific subforum. More explanation on the event can be found in my Event Guide.

lanzer

Owlie

What percentage of Gaians have been let into HoC beta?

I'm wondering how many are left, that like me, have yet to receive a PM. emo

I'm sorry that you didn't make it into our round of beta testers. We're coming closer to a general release now. Please stay tuned. 3nodding

Uncle Kenny

Knight Yoshi

Also, what about the ability to remove verified IP addresses is that being discussed or in progress behind the senses?

It's something that's doable but it isn't prioritized or on anyone's plate currently.

Zero Omega

Moonlight Flower Dancer

Whats up Gaia staff I have two qustions

First, Is it okay if I write a story/fanfic about gaiaonline?

Second, will we find out about about what happened to the ghost from the Hallooween event from 2 years ago? (Just wondering)

Keep up the great work Gaia staff

1. As long as you aren't trying to sell it for profit without authorization from us, then it's fine.

lanzer

Lucentas

Oh, I suppose I could take a break from rabidly attempting to get that event achievement for some good old-fashioned ATA. razz

I'm enjoying the event quite well! 'Tis fun. ^^

I knew maybe about half of the costumes, but that seems to be the trend every year. xD I really loved Sam's costume! Whoever did that one, we must have had the same childhood! razz And Sasha's costume rocked! I was hoping there would be something Korra-related in the costume batch this year!

I've been doing the event like crazy trying to get everything! Now the only thing I have left is the achievement and I'm coming up on that! >:3

I actually have a question this week, too! Will you guys ever do another item sink event? Ever since the one we had for Christmas I've been paranoid about throwing anything away because I don't want to be short on items if another item sink event ever comes along--but on the other hand, I don't necessarily want a bunch of summer tops and amigo pants cluttering my inventory or dress-up page. <.<

Thanks for the positive feedback!

The event has not yet had the small details laid out such as what mechanics are involved, so I cannot promise whether there will be an item sink or not, but it had been a great idea to clear out our inventory, and I would love to see it again.

Narumi Misuhara

Corinth Maxwell

cat_stare *looks around for someone who can answer these questions so that he doesn't have to keep repeating them every week for the rest of the year* cat_stressed cat_evil cat_scream

Corinth Maxwell

1. I've asked about having the ability to disable "likes" and "dislikes in user-created threads, and now I'm wondering......would be at all possible for us to have a feature to "revoke" a "like" or "dislike" in threads -- particularly in the case of if and/or when we were tricked into following a link that led *TO* an automatic "like" or "dislike" for a thread which we had not thoroughly reviewed for ourselves beforehand? cat_stare

2. Could you take a look at the "Status" section of "My Gaia", and perhaps solve the mystery of why practically everyone's statuses mysteriously disappear/vanish/etc., and then randomly reappear without warning? cat_stressed

1. It's possible to enable/disable like but at the moment isn't a big enough issue for me to consider adding to our priority lists. The ability to revoke a like or dislike is not possible the way the system currently is.

2. Yeah status have been broken for a couple of weeks, I'll bump that up our priority list.

milkbun

Hi-Potion

Also, while we're fixing item layering...

Ive reported this atleast 5 times ;3;
Nothings been done, I posted in the proper threads and forums.
But the Adventure Time Style conflicts with some of the hair items, removing the bangs

I'll take a look at it. If it's not fixed within the next few days just give me a poke.

Narumi Misuhara

PrinceBloodElf

I've been going on Gaia and clicking on Heralds of Chaos everyday... my friend got her PM after the second time she clicked the "Play" button...
Is this something weird, or have you guys just not gotten round to some of us yet?

*shrug* not entirely sure but last I heard people were still being trickled in XD

lanzer

Sagebomb

Hope you dont mind me post splitting questions, just trying to avoid wall of txt terrors.

Games

How is the games update looking? I saw mention of possibly some multiplayer board games? Any clues to what kinds? Do we expect any new games (ignoring the mega games like Hoc) before Xmas? Any chance of multiplayer games with gold buy-ins and payouts?

There are focus on mini games within the new Towns but because the same people working on Towns are the same people working on multiplayer board games, there will be some wait until we see anything like that. Look forward to the new Towns first, and we'll let you know what we'll add next. 3nodding

Zero Omega

FUS ROH DURR

Alright, here's a second post in this thread tonight that might get me on the poop list:

1. Is there a reason questions about the same topic are repeatedly replied to with answers while other questions that aren't repeated don't get answered?

2. This is "Ask the Admin," not "Chat and Spam with the Admin," so why is there so much chatting in these threads every week?

I am sure I am not the only one who feels cheated after sharing a few questions, not having them answered, but seeing the thread filled with admins etc. who are quick to jump on the chat-wagon. This is the FIRST time in a long time I have managed to make it to this thread. This thread is only open for about an hour or so every week. I should not have to feel like I should have to spam my questions to get them answered - because it's rude and obnoxious. Shouldn't you be making the most of your time in a thread that's open once a week for such a short time?

Look at me, feeling like I have to resort to big text to get noticed. stare

1. Some questions we don't have the answer to. For example, I work in customer service dealing with hackings, scammings, and account bannings. As such, I probably don't know the answer to a lot of art/dev related questions. Some questions we may miss, and some questions we know are particularly worded to rile us up and get a response. Just because a question is posted multiple times doesn't mean we'll get to it, it really depends on who sees the question and if they know the answer to it.

2. Some of us want to recognize those who have questions that are as simple as, "How is your day, what's your favorite color?" These are all legitimate questions. If you'll notice in the thread (and in previous ATAs), you'll see that we actually do get a ton of different questions that are not just "chatty/spammy."

siskataya

pandexX

question is it banable to hoard like millons and millions of gold ?

Define "hoard" - if you are just saving legitimately-earned gold, then no! If you are being a sneaky weasel and stealing it from others, stuffing it into your dragon lair of an account, and laughing maniacally, then yes, yes you would be banned.

siskataya

dizziedobsession

siskataya

Tsuki_Kirkland

1.when will the forum updates sisky was talking about in site feedback go into affect?

2. will housing get an update after everything is moved to towns 2?

Aiming for early November to start rolling out the changes biggrin I have been working on the spreadsheet though, and should have that up soon biggrin

Once you release the spreadsheet, we can get more feedback on that right?
Or can we like, vote on our favorite suggestions for new forums?? User input ftw?

Actually, this will be a list of what is going to happen this round. That said, this will also be an ongoing project, so ideas and suggestions will be taken into consideration for future forum clean-up projects ^^

milkbun

Fedelta Hellbond

again I am here to ask one thing.

LONG
BLACK
STRAIGHT
HAIR

you made a white version of what I envisioned!! I felt like you did it on purpose after my constant asking!

also put price caps on items. no way in all hell can people afford 100.000.000.000 in gold for a fawking pair of wings.

THIS TIME PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE ME AS ALWAYS

I don't believe this was done intentionally. This is my first time seeing that you had asked for this type of hair. I'll pass it along that you would love a recolor of this hair in black though 3nodding

Narumi Misuhara

Damien_The_Omen

*continues to post this question week after week until he is provided with a proper answer* stressed

Why is Gaia not only promoting elitism amongst its "donors", but also giving unbalanced "rewards" and/or "benefits" to anyone who just happens to play zOMG -- specifically, in the way of "letting" them farm more gold than non-donors just because they spend $2.50 or more per month on the main site?

Shouldn't the amount of gold a person is able to earn in zOMG be completely separate from whether or not that same person chooses to spend actual money on Gaia itself? Or have you now abolished the "this site will never have and/or allow 'pay to play' features" stance, and simply neglected to make that announcement public? evil

"this site will never have and/or allow 'pay to play' features" stance, and simply neglected to make that announcement public? "

Is there anything there that if you don't pay you absolutely under no circumstance are able to do in zOMG!? DMS would have been the closest thing we had and even that is now open to all.

lanzer

xBlazedd

Two things:
1. Will salon durem eventually gain the ability to put highlights or streaks in hairstyles with a full color palette? It was in the Spring Cleaning Proposals 2011 forum. I would truly love to have red highlights or streaks in this black hair.

2. Will there be a Halloween event in zOMG where we can kill jack for lots of gold?

We've been trying to add highlights for quite some time, having it work right with different color hair had been difficult so we haven't gotten a system to work right yet.

We tried bringing back the older zOMG halloween event but only to find out that the DMS update over-wrote a lot of the codes for the holiday event. We'll continue focusing our effort in resolving bugs and issues wtihin the game.

Narumi Misuhara

Darling Vortexus

Are there any new expansions for zOMG in the works? If so, about how long should we expect to wait for the new area(s)?

No, the game is in maintenance mode. We will do our best to maintain what is there but we won't be building anything new.

lanzer

THeSLuSH

Hello everyone!! The Halloween event is amazing, getting the event items is a little slow-going for me, but I will eventually get them all! I just wish Jack would have been included in the event, I miss him crying Will he be reappearing next year?

But anyways, wanted to stop by and tell ya'll thanks for everything, tomorrow is my 9yr Gaiaversary!! heart heart

Wow, happy 9th year anniversary! Glad you're enjoying the Halloween event, and hope you'll enjoy other events to come!

Narumi Misuhara

Tsuki_Kirkland

Will housing be getting an update after towns 2 is done and housing is moved over? I’d love to see a housing update.

Probably

milkbun

We'll update housing, yes 3nodding

siskataya

GuinAoiichi

Is there something wrong with subscriptions to the zomg forum? One of my subscriptions does not send me notices when there are new posts.

Hey hey! That is a notifications glitch - we're sorry! We are working on getting this fixed, though I have no clue when it can be done. biggrin

Narumi Misuhara

Fedelta Hellbond

I have a huge favor!!

As a regularly logged on gaian and someone who buys gaia cash each month I see this as a total disregard of consumer concern.

I have heard you are getting rid of towns for towns 2. This is not ok by me, and many others who like me prefer towns over the poorly designed laggy towns 2. You have no idea how disheartened I was to hear that jack was not in towns, much less to hear that everything I love and adore will be removed.

The pool, trick-or-treating with Jack, snow towns with the icy pool, summer pool. Towns in general means so much to so many people.

By not even giving us a choice about it I feel you have not given thought of how people think or feel. That I will say again is a total disregard for everyone's opinions and a complete lack of choice.

I believe you should at least hold a poll about it to give us a chance to voice our opinion about towns leaving and give us an option to keep it as well.

Again as a gaian I feel as if you did not care enough to let us voice our choice or even give us one.

"Please do not disregard or skip over this because this means alot to me and I am sure it means alot to others as well."

No, it's not just a matter of what is wanted. The infrastructure is so old, we can't even properly maintain it. Adding things to it is difficult to impossible. The system is so outdated ideas we have had for a couple of years now have had to be scrapped. I understand it will suck to have to switch to a new system, but the benefits in terms of site integration and new things we can do in Towns that we couldn't do before in my eyes vastly outnumber the benefits of keeping the existing system.

lanzer

Thank you for joining us on this week's ATA. Time for us to watch the debate!

Have fun at the event and good luck collecting all the items! See ya!

[Platonix]

October 25th

siskataya

Hey gang!

So, sorry about missing last week's BLT (with no B,L, or T!) chat. I spent the whole day handling billing issues and helping people fix that pesky skin potion glitch. Unfortunately, this Friday I am going to be out of the office, so I cannot make the usual chat time.

If you all have a bit of time now, I'd love to have the weekly chat a day early so I don't miss two weeks in a row.

Let me know if this works for you, and as always, if you have any qusetions or ideas for Gaia, I'd love to hear them biggrin

-Sisky


P.S. - Also, in case you are interested, I am having a zOMG! Halloween Contest. Carve pumpkins, draw art, or take screenshots and you could get some real world items! eek Feel free to join the fun here: http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/zomg-gaia-s-mmo/zomg-2k12-halloween-contests-have-fun-win-prizes/t.82802001/

siskataya

An Ultimate Arse Head

Heya Sisky! How goes things?
Hopefully you guys have gotten most of those glitches out. People have been throwing a ton of flack at ya'll for those skins.
-pats-
Doing anything fun tomorrow?

Heya!

Yeah, that is a mighty pesky bug. I'm almost caught up with everyone that has let me know about their issue, which has taken a fair chunk of time. Good gravy! People have been pretty good though to be honest - they haven't been giving me grief, and I hope they know I am going as fast as I can to resolve the problem for everyone!

As for tomorrow, I might just go to the ocean and loiter about. A day playing in the sand sounds good to me! Of course, I am always on call for emergencies so no worries - I'm never that far biggrin

How are you doing?

siskataya

Pheregames

So it was pretty cool to see a house update again, as it's a feature that some people don't even know exists anymore. Going forward, I know there will be attempts to update older things as well as opening new avenues, which always get mixed responses, so I wanted to know if our maps will ever get some love? Since the Gaian world had expanded it would be kinda cool to see how everything is connected now.

Also good luck finding a warm beach, heading down to Santa Cruz I guess? I'm up in SF right now and it's still a treat seeing tourists find the beach and thinking that it's going to be Hawaiian warm. Never do I see people move so quickly.

Yeah, Santa Cruz or Half Moon Bay, which I think is lovely biggrin And true - people don't realize how cold the water here is XD

As for a maps update, I can certainly pass the suggestions along! ^^

siskataya

Parashta

ninja I have never seen such a thread, is this like a mini ATA, or just a general chatter-with-sissytaka (which is how I pronounce your username no matter how many times I've realized that's not even close)?

This is a general chat with me, ask questions about the Gaia community, give feedback kinda thing. Usually I am in here on Fridays, but this week it is a day early biggrin

And you can pronounce my username any way you like! ^^

siskataya

Maggot

I have a couple of signature questions... First, can I report a Staff member for a signature violation? ninja

You can, or just pm me so I can deal with it ^^

siskataya

Krissim Klaw

siskataya

Krissim Klaw

*Pounces* I have a question about one of your zOMG contests Sisky. =o

I knew Maggot's words summoned you. You just know when he is disrespecting the mantis!

And what's your question my friend? biggrin

I knew my Maggot senses were tingling. classified_fu

For the lag monster contest you stated no copyright materials but it is it okay to say have zOMG/Gaia related characters/creatures drawn in the piece with the lag monster? The lag monster itself will be an original design of course.

Oh yeah, of course - you can use zOMG! characters that we created as part of the piece. I just meant other non-Gaia works. Sorry if that was unclear! ^^

siskataya

Krissim Klaw

No worries, I figured that is what you meant, I just wanted to double check. One other quick question are there any size restrictions? I don't think I saw anything on that.

Nope, no size restrictions biggrin

[Platonix]

October 29th

lanzer

Hello and Happy Halloween everyone!

How's the Halloween event going? Do you have enough time to collect the prizes?

What costumes have you prepared for Halloween this year? I'm a skeleton his Halloween. Time to find the right suit for my avatar. biggrin

Narumi Misuhara

Sagebomb

Hey Guys.

How is alchemy updates progressing, any big changes expected before Xmas?

Nope, currently scheduled for updates in Q1 2013

siskataya

Sagebomb

Any plans to visit NZ when you Visit Aus?

Might as well while I am out that way! Besides, I need to Zorb! I really do. That looks awesome! eek

Uncle Kenny

Scobre

3) Can the latest event be extended a tad so that those enduring storms can have more time to play it?

All major events run for 2 weeks to give everyone time to finish them. Unfortunately, we can't plan these things around Mother Nature's wrath and need to stick to our plans so that we can get things wrapped up and begin work on the next events in a timely manner. Long story short, we currently don't have plans to extend the end of the event.

Zero Omega

V_Vendetta

How do we find out about job opportunities with Gaia? (Are you guys hiring? I'm a CS major graduating in about a year.)

https://corp.gaiaonline.com/

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Katyasha_fox

I got a question is there going to be any events happening in the month of November?

Yes.

Uncle Kenny

The Extortionist

First time to ATA, I was wondering which group of Gaia developers design games and whether or not they decide to make a game based upon the interests of the Gaia community or from a collective group of ideas from the developers themselves. Thanks!

We have an entire team based on thinking up and creating games for social platforms like Facebook and mobile devices. As for games made for Gaia, those are usually thought up by one person and then pitched to everybody else who agrees/disagrees. The inspiration for the games can come from their own ideas or things they've seen in the forums (we do take feedback on games/features quite seriously). As for those who make them, it's pretty much whoever wants to and has the time.

Narumi Misuhara

MillKitten

siskataya

MillKitten

how many months do you plan rigs ahead?

Can we see Hatsya as a character in another RIG, in the near future?

Thanks for the post! We've seen you post this a few times - guess you really like this character! I'll pass along the suggestion.

Sisky

is there any way for me to ask whoever does the rig art, myself? i've been asking the adminsin this forum for a while, and feel like I'n getting nowhere. So I'd much rather ask the artists who does the rigs

it's not done by the same person each time, so that might be a bit difficult. In addition they don't always want people to know it was them... making it further difficult.

milkbun

Sagebomb

milkbun

It's already been passed along. Obviously she would not fit into every CI theme but if there is ever a month where she is relevant it's a possibility.

Any chance that this months RIG has some playability beyond click and recieve.

Any plans for another rig that has "Right/wrong" awnsers in the near future?

I'm not 100% sure as I don't run CIs but we tend to change up the game play every month so you get a different experience. I'm sure we'll do a right/wrong play soon but I'm not sure when exactly.

lanzer

Scobre

First of all I wanted to thank Gaia HQ for giving zOMG! some attention. It means a lot to have the set server cycles, the zOMG! forum event, the zOMG! Anniversary parties, Jack appearances, and the latest dev notice. I am completely shocked any of it happened, so thank you Gaia and zOMG! community for organizing it all. It makes me so happy to be on this site and that zOMG! hasn’t been forgotten.

1) I want moving wheels for my wheelchair items like Timmy so when I run in flash spaces, people don’t laugh at my moving feet. So would a wheelchair upgrade be possible?

2) When I think of Gaia I instantly think of community that works together, so can all the games be integrated more with each other including ways to link to MOGA, HOC, and zOMG! from towns and other flash areas?

3) Can the latest event be extended a tad so that those enduring storms can have more time to play it?

We actually wish to do more but ran into some technical difficulties. But we'll continue doing what we can with the time we've got!

1) We'll look into it, will probably see what the demand is though

2) The upcoming Towns 2 project will be more integrated with different flash spaces and games. Though titles such as HOC exist in a different universe so that'll be tougher.

3) I think Narumi or Kenny can answer this one

Zero Omega

King Blackwater

Zero Omega

King Blackwater

Woooo NZ love on the ATA TODAY!

Anywhoo let me think I did have a question.......oh I remember now.

Would there be a chance of re-issued rules on how to handle trolls?

And not just basic something more in depth? there are situation where users are banned for getting angry at a troll or a troll avoiding being banned because they can sidestep rules.

Chur

I don't think I've seen a user who was banned for getting angry at a troll unless they really went out of their way to step out of line. We totally understand that the nature of a troll is to get other users to respond and get a rise out of them, it is for that reason that we typically do not take any action against users who have been trolled by others unless they decide to troll back. What about the current rules are confusing/unclear?

They just seem so plain, or a better word for it specific

I'm not entirely sure what you mean... xd

The general definition is intentionally making a post/thread with the intention of provoking a negative reaction out of others.

Zero Omega

King Blackwater

I guess what i'm trying to say that there a lots on instances that could be considered exactly that, however it does not define what those instances exactly are as the rules can be interpreted differently by different people/mods.

So one person could be trolling others but because of the manner they do it they would never be punished or held responsible for the behavior while said behavior is not with the spirit of Gaia or the users.

Have you seen what been happening on the MLP board recently? That worries me....

I have not, one thing to keep in mind is that we have to try to read intent. For example, someone going into the MLP forum saying, "I hate MLP, I don't like it." isn't what we would consider trolling. However, someone saying, "I hate MLP, I don't like it, fans should jump off a cliff and the show should be cancelled forever for being stupid." would be something we consider trolling.

The issue with making completely black and white rules is that it then leaves room for people to try to find loopholes around it, thus, we keep them "vague" or flexible in order to enforce them in the most appropriate situations.

Panagrammic

Decisions In Absentia

How many users are let into HoC at a time, and how often are new batches of users included?

Couple thousand at a time, and we're letting them in every day now, since the server load problem is much better.

codemonkey37179

SS2-SITH LORD

Uncle Kenny

MAGGIE_CHI v2

Why is the towns not on Halloween spirit? emotion_0A0
I hear a rumor that this year Halloween's Jack was not going to make an appearance at towns, is it true? emotion_donotwant

We're not having Halloween, and likely not Christmas, in Towns 1 or Towns 2 this year since we're focusing on getting Towns 2 to a more finished point.

No caroling in towns? ARE YOU MAD? Insane? Oh, haha, i guess this is an early April fools prank.....(waits for the funny part)

We are a little insane, but that's beside the point.

We hope to have everything ready by next year, as far as holiday events go, but you'll see some nice stuff in Towns 2 before then.

Uncle Kenny

69Bit

Grumbie Skin.

Will you guys ever have an event where you get the skin?
And the Gaia App.
For some reason it keep force closing on me.

It's not likely that we'll rerelease an old event skin through a new event.

Narumi Misuhara

Maguspaladin

hey everyone at Gaia HQ hmm only got one question and it's pretty simple when are we going to see some new alchemy formulas?

Probably not this year.

Uncle Kenny

Captain Dory

Any big events coming this November? Any big changes?

We've got some things planned, you'll just have to stay tuned to find out what they are. wink

Narumi Misuhara

Tsuki_Kirkland

Happy Early Halloween Admins and Gaia staff.I ‘ve got a question for you.

Will there ever be achievements for aquariums?

Probably not anytime soon.

milkbun

EliteDanneh

milkbun

EliteDanneh

Hey guys. Me again with the usual question I get to ask every time.

Any new animated items on the horizon?

Keep up the great work!

ED~

Yup!
500 animated wings on the way!

!?!!!!?

You jest, surely, you jest.

...You're kidding...Right?

My body isn't ready for that many, though that seems completely...Out of proportion. o.o

You're right I was lying...
It's 1,000 wings.

Uncle Kenny

Chief Sakura

how many months ahead do you plan events?
how much work goes into the events?
And when is Heralds of Chaos going to be ready so people can get in? (Ive been trying to play but cant get in yet)
Tons of Thanks
Chief Sakura

Major events are usually planned out a month or two in advance and have weeks to a month or so of work put into them. The mini-events are much more random and can either be thought out ahead of time or decided on the day before with time spent on them being anywhere from a few hours to a couple days.

lanzer

Dr Jin Love

Happy Halloween guys! =D

I just got one question, will we be seeing a salon update soon?

Also keep up all the good work at gaia headquarter.

We're not forgetting salon updates, just takes a while to get to it. Thanks for your patience!

Zero Omega

Calelith

I've been having issues with two specific users, one placed on ignore the other I cannot due to things that specific user says. I've sent in harassment reports only to be told to place them on ignore with nothing further to be done. I'm assuming that the other user was told the same thing.

So why does this particular user still refer back to me or reply in threads I've made knowing full well they have to leave me alone?

Probably because they know you haven't put them on ignore, if you have evidence of the user continuing to bug you after you have told them to stop, then compile all that evidence and send in an Abuse/Harassment report. We really do recommend the ignore list because that is a sure fire way to make it completely clear to others that you do not wish for them to talk to you.

siskataya

Zora Midnight Eclipse

Um....Admins? My avi still won't load....it won't let me change my avi...So please, PLEASE fix it? It says the base model for my avatar doesn't exist. I have a really cool avi i want to change to, but it wont let me save it.

Thanks for the heads up on this! Please feel free to post in my bug thread on this issue: http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/bug-report-technical-support/fyi-get-help-for-recent-skin-potion-avatar-saving-bug/t.82922725/

codemonkey37179

Unforgotten Warrior

Zero Omega

Unforgotten Warrior

Zero, why do we have no Trick or Treating in towns this year? Hardly anyone goes to Towns2. -_-; Also the servers for Zomg are near dead every time I look.

ToT'ing in Towns wasn't done this year so that we could continue to work on Towns 2, I don't know the exact numbers behind Towns 2, but I'd have to imagine that because Towns 1 is still the place to go it isn't as popular as Towns 2. And what do you mean the servers for zOMG are near dead?

Every time I go to Zomg now, there are maybe 3 people in an area. And Towns2 doesn't work well for some. D: It makes us lag more. Like the houses. I can't even get into mine. >.<;

There are not a lot of people in Towns 2, that's true, but there isn't much to do there either. That will soon change. If you are experiencing issues in Towns 2 please send me a pm with specifics or you can post in the Towns 2 forum

Towns 2 Feedback

Zero Omega

Maybe try using one of the more active servers, also keep in mind that most people at this point are probably CL10 and running really high areas. You could see about getting people together to play in the zOMG forum. Codemonkey might be able to address any Towns 2 lag issues.

Narumi Misuhara

Pirate Captain Sushi

Hey AtA, I've made myself a slenderman costume out of old socks and my business suit, here's hoping I don't get athletes foot on my scalp!

I know it may be early for this question but: Have you guys started planning out the Xmas event yet, and if so, is it related to the Halloween event?

And an unrelated question: are there any future features you guys have been coming up with that you haven't had a place to disclose them, but would really like to tell us about?

No we haven't started on Xmas yet but yes it will be tied to Halloween.

Yes we have a few updates coming that we would love to tell everyone about but no we won't be saying anything quite yet smile

lanzer

Serene Rainstorm

Hello admins!!

1. Do you think in the future we could get handheld plushies/ side companions of the school mascots in the House Pride Item? I would love to hold the DurePuff mascot, it's so cute!! :heart
2. I really wish the hoods and goblin helmets layered over the Tsumu hairstyles.

I'll forward your message to the art team. Thanks!

Uncle Kenny

Cyndelle Maxwell

Considering my brother & I not only just started, but we're also feeling a little ill here, I *SERIOUSLY* hope so. cat_gonk

Question: Whose idea was it to handicap the Dark Elves (and subsequently nerf the Vampires) just because a majority of the users chose to join the Vampires? I mean, from the way you guys set up the backstory of the event, you practically *MADE* the Dark Elves into the "bad guys", as well as the greater of two evils! cat_stressed cat_scream

Furthermore, considering how there's supposedly a lot of "inactive" players on both teams, it's clear & apparent that your event(s) need a set system in place that allows for inactive players (i.e., people who "park" a half-dozen alts on the other team in order to ensure that they'll get the "grand prize" regardless of which team they're ACTUALLY playing for) to be "booted" from their team(s) until they actively participate again, so that they don't "negatively impact" their team's overall score. cat_neutral

There is no handicap or nerf for either side. The total score is looking only at those who are active on both teams. There aren't negative impacts for those who are inactive, it's all just the active players. The team has to work together in order to win, if, as a team, they aren't working toward more kills/heals then their numbers won't grow as quickly as the team that is.

Zero Omega

White Dymond

I've been hearing rumors that, New Mods on Gaia who either have it out for people or someone who has it out for someone who happens to have a Mod friend will get their Mod friend to ban the person they are having a problem with; Is this really whats happening…?

( I've also been one of the people who've been banned, I don't even know why since I've only been in the "Art Store" forums & Ordered art allowed by gaia rules ).

Could you PM me with this information so I can check it out? I can assure you that mods are not allowed to moderator based on bias and as part of training we tell all moderators that if they run across a case involving a friend/someone they have an issue with to let someone else handle it. Additionally, all bans are reviewed before a ban is placed and if bias is found, a ban is not placed. Finally, if we were to find a ban that was made out of complete bias, then we would surely investigate it, more than likely unban the account, and take action against the individual involved with this action.

siskataya

Katyasha_fox

Ok maybe someone out there can solve this problem that I'm having. I was trying to access Gaia on my parents computer, typed in my user and password, clicked on Logged In and it takes me to a page saying my log in info was wrong so I tried again nothing so I went to my computer and I got into Gaia with no problems.
So my question is this how can I access Gaia on my computer and not my parents? We both have Windows XP and the latest FireFox on both our computers.

Is it possible it was an IP verification issue? If your parents are on a different IP and you have the IP verification notification on, you'd have to check your email and verify you want to confirm the new IP address as ok to use your account on. You can check your email to see if a confirmation email was sent - if so, that might be what is causing this.

codemonkey37179

Vyeru

codemonkey37179

Vyeru

Hello guys! (:

A few questions for you:

When is the next 999gcash EI going to be released? Any hints on what it could entail?

What are you dressing up as for halloween?

Anything the office does to celebrate halloween?

The artists are making Jack O lanterns as I type this.

Haha awesome! Any insane ones? (:

I can't see them from here, but they might post some pics later.

Sandokiri

Lyanda

Dear gaia. So selling gold and items for real money are forbidden. However, I have seen this on the gaia front page. It leads to a site called gaiaguru.com

It's definitely not legit. Please report the ad if you can.

Sandokiri

Daranigan

What are people that grew up with gaia and are now over 18 supposed to do here. Are we just supposed to leave after 18?

Continue to enjoy Gaia however you want. There are plenty of people on here that are over 18. Heck, I'm 35, and my parents enjoy Gaia. 3nodding

Sandokiri

Daranigan

K4M

In Gaia one never grows old!O.O

Maybe not our avis. However myself and a LOT of my friends feel we have matured past the childish PG-13 rules we are still forced to live by on this site. Our options are leave or put up with things we outgrew a long time ago. And it's not just friends either. I meet a lot of people all the time that feel this way. Just because we are wanting to have more mature conversations doesn't mean the conversation has to do with sex or perverted crap. And I'm tired of worrying about getting banned because the admin find my conversation to be above a "PG-13" level. I'm an adult now and I don't want to be force to either give up something I grew up with and dumped money into, or stick with the old.

That's easy. Leave the sex and perverted crap out of it, and you will be much safer. 3nodding

Zero Omega

Daranigan

Zero Omega

Continue using the site as you normally do? ninja I joined this site when I was 16 and kept on using the site as normal after I turned 18.

That’s not what I mean. I mean those of us who have become more mature are forced to remain on the PG- 13 level even after we grow well past that. Friend of mine got a banning warning for talking about a rated R movie. He's 20. Kinda sucks that the people that grew with the site have to stay back with the children here.

I think there's probably a bit more to that story than you're being told. Despite having users as young as 13 we do allow for discussions about adult topics. For example, you would be able to talk about an adult movie so long as you aren't going into explicit detail about it. Heck, we had a whole forum dedicated to Game of Thrones and we have a forum dedicated to Walking Dead, those shows are hardly family or kid friendy. xd

Zero Omega

Daranigan

Not to sound rude but theres not more to it. I was there and he forwarded me the warning. When he was talking about it he was talking about a scene where some guy got the crap beat out of him. Things like, "His face was slammed with a metal bar then the was stabbed and burned." somebody didn't like that and reported him. He's 20. I'm 22. but we have to watch our backs when we talk about anything. there should be a way where adults can be who they are without worrying about the children getting all butthurt and reporting every little thing.

I would really have to see everything before making any sort of judgement call on whether or not the action was correct/incorrect, have him file a ticket at http://www.gaiaonline.com/help . Regardless, adult subjects can definitely be talked about, you just can't go into any explicit detail about them.

codemonkey37179

Unforgotten Warrior

codemonkey37179

Unforgotten Warrior

D: No TorT in Towns or caroling either... that just kills the tradition though. TwT I hope towns2 gets a lot more interesting... >3>;

I can tell you, it will get more interesting. I just can't tell you all the details yet.

We will be able to do a lot more events in Towns, like we did for the Rejected Olympics.

But it won't be different rooms like towns 1 correct? It will all be the same server?

I don't deal with the server side of things much, but I do know there is more than one. It will be a lot of different rooms, but more organized. We've made a list of features asked for by Gaians over the years. There have been a ton of "Why don't you do this in towns?", and we were not able to. So now we have a much move flexible program, made in modules, so it easy to add a game or a new room, or remove it after an event is over without having to disturb the normal Towns 2 maps.

Zero Omega

Sugarsweet Acid

okay, i have a whole truckload of requests but here they aree gaia_kittenstar

gaia_crown how about we change the store interface to make it easier? like a flash version? it's
kinda tiring to keep clicking the back button after making a sale, and i don't wanna go
open a new tab and waste time finding the page i was on before selling something. crying

gaia_crown can you extend the range of items that the daily cart grants its players? biggrin

gaia_crown AGAIN - can we have a gcash arrow gold converter?

gaia_crown if a person has blocked us, can we receive a notification so we don't run in confused
circles trying to contact that person b/c they've blocked us and we don't know that?

gaia_crown can we have a purple wig at a lesser price? (because i love purple lol)

gaia_crown can we have a search box in the outfits store, plus a tags option for our outfits so we
can find outfits easier?

gaia_crown can we make our status posts more noticeable/easily accessed than just through my
gaia? and can we also tag people in our posts like on facebook?

gaia_crown can we have a tool on gaia for specific post style customization??

i probably have more questions but that's all for now. thanks for considering~ heart

gaia_crown AGAIN - can we have a gcash arrow gold converter?
Probably not anytime in the near future, or ever.

gaia_crown if a person has blocked us, can we receive a notification so we don't run in confused
circles trying to contact that person b/c they've blocked us and we don't know that?
Possibly? My concern about that is people using that to use mule accounts to talk to them and harass them.

Narumi Misuhara

Alice is Madness

I'm not dressing up for halloween this year but my avatar is. My question is when can we expect towns 2 to be all finished?

Depends which phase your talking about, we don't expect to all the towns completed until Q1 2014 (...and no that's not a typo)

Phase 1 will be this year however.

Narumi Misuhara

I Play Foreplay

Narumi Misuhara

I Play Foreplay

I asked this on another ATA but didn't get a response.

Is it a possibility to incorporate a "did you mean: ___" when searching for an item?
I no spel rite. sad

you mean like an auto-correct? ...That would be pretty cool.

Yes, something like that. I personally forget how to spell some item names.

It's not currently in our plans but it is a good idea if we have the time.

Zero Omega

Parashta

Is there currently a list of developer/staff usernames? I seem to remember there being some kind of masterlist in the past to link developer journals or something... I really enjoy stalking reviewing the posts and journals made by staff to get a better insight into Gaia's future and current projects, and a masterlist would be highly useful!

Think you can find one in the Gaia Guides & Resources forum.

Zero Omega

The Enforcer666

Zero Omega

The Enforcer666

Question. Why is it that I get other people's conversations in my My Post history?

Also, when you create a signature, there are all these rules and regulations one must conform to if you don't want it disabled. When will there be something telling you that you've exceeded those parameters? Yes, there is the whole right click>view image info but shouldn't there be something in place that automatically detects that your signature has exceeded those set parameters and stops you from completing your signature? It just seems like there isn't something in place just so the users can get in trouble and spend gold to unlock their sigs.

Thank you

1. Glitch.

2. It's possible, something we've definitely thought about doing in the past.

Thank you for answering. Now, not trying to sound like a p***k or anything but shouldn't that possible be a actuality? Seems to me that if you have the ability to create, there should be something there to prevent. Again, I understand the rrruuurrruuus are there (trust me, i'm a regular in the vgd) and we don't want to break them. But there are those that do not understand tech talk and will grab any ol picture and slap it in their sig and call it a day without knowing they've broken the rrruuurrruuus. Hell, I've seen countless signatures with YouTube videos in them. And the last I checked (i.e. got my signature disabled cause of a video), those aren't suppose to be there.

By possible I mean that it's possible to do with coding, however it takes developer time to do it and our developers are currently busy with other projects. As for YouTube signatures, we changed the policy on that so they are allowed now.

lanzer

There is a caching problem where other people's posts might appear in your post history, but that should have been fixed. I'll need to check up on that.

As for signatures, it's tricky to render sigs on the server side, where it's technically easy for any users to look at their sigs and determine whether it's too big or not. A user can correct any mistakes within a reasonable amount of time without any consequences.

Zero Omega

ailter

Ummm...... Admin is the heralds of chaos playable in ipad or any device like apple biggrin

Seeing as how HOC is coded in Abode Flash, not likely. You can give it a try because I don't remember all the iOS devices that don't have Flash.

codemonkey37179

Debit Card

I was wondering if Darknrgy still works for Gaia? I never see him posting anything anymore. He's never at the ATAs either.

Yes, he is here. He is currently working on a new game on the social gaming team. Something for mobile I think.

lanzer

Shiny Leather Boots

Just wondering....what goes on at the real Gaia HQ? Coffee breaks must be pretty weird...

Outside of L0cke, we're pretty normal people. Everyone is focused on their work, and most discussions are work related. We don't scream and run at random, but Zero is about to break all those rules.

Narumi Misuhara

suzushi-sa

Still wondering, I know that Towns 2 is new, will the towns be extended like towns 1?
Edit: such as barton related zip?

We're getting rid of the zip code system.

Uncle Kenny

Sen Natsu

question - two-way ignore?
A while ago I had a user trolling me and posting personal information. I was told by pretty much everyone to put them on the ignore list, but they would still follow my posts and post things disrupting the thread.

Is there any way to impliment an ignore that will cause the ignored person to also be unable to see the ignore-ee?

I'm working on some improvements to the ignore system that hopefully will be out before the end of the year (can't promise anything though). The changes should help you with the situation you're describing.

milkbun

L o s t -x- A b y s s

Wow, I didn't get the dev notice for this ATA, and I actually have something to ask.

I don't know if someone has brought this up, but a few of us have noticed that our evolving items, well, haven't been evolving. No, I don't mean "Why don't I have all the poses" I mean, they simply haven't moved on to the next stage. It's Modus Operandi and Zodiacal. Think you could nudge whoever is responsible for evolving these items?

I'll pass it along.

Sandokiri

Divine Crime

Hi gaia!
A guy was asking, will there ever be 18+ pages?
I feel awkward asking this, as an apathetic, asexual... emotion_puke

The magic ⑨-ball says that it is highly unlikely.

Uncle Kenny

Toxoplasmic Septicity

Any chance of the B.O.O. skin I haven't changed out for 1095 days from the Halloween 09 event being re-released?

Nope, we will not be bringing the B.O.O. skin back.

lanzer

darkstarjaz

Happy Halloween Everyone one question for me. Will you guys ever develop a chat system like meebo or Facebook that is only for gaia?

Most likely not. We're more focused on games and activities on Gaia at the moment. Outside of that we would be putting more time in forum and events. It's something we'd like to do, but we think that great games and events would probably be more preferred by Gaians.

Uncle Kenny

Crypt Queen Kamila

Where are my bats in my lust instances? emotion_donotwant

If there's a new bug as a result of the fixes that went out, be sure it's added to the bug threads in the zOMG forum and we'll let the zOMG devs know about it when they work on the bugs.

Zero Omega

Mikaino

Ouch, I'm a bit late. D:
Anyway, if the Gaian staff has not noticed, we face an impeccable amount of spam in certain forums, most notably the Lifestyle Discussion forum. Now, due to negligence, or not being able to be fully caught up, the mods are swimming in reports and just not moving/deleting/whatever spam threads. There are upwards of what.. 30? 50? spam threads a day, from trolls, misplaced, etc etc. It's rare to see things be done about it, and it's really starting to bother me, especially because I like to go there for the actual discussion. Could we get some more Forum Assistants or Mods up in there?

One thing to keep in mind with reporting is that we work first in, first out for the majority of things. So when we do handle the reports, the threads that are moved out are typically not on the first page of the forum depending on how active the forum is. Forum Assistants assist in getting stuff more visibly off the front page, so we could see about that.

Sandokiri

BOMB4Y

Of all the male Gaian staff, who do you consider the hottest amongst yourselves? yum_puddi

No one. The guys are all 37 degrees Celsius, more or less, here; since none of them is an efreeti, or has been attacked by fire magic or incendiary weapons lately, none of them has had situational increases in their hotness.

At least, I think that's what you were asking.

Narumi Misuhara

[Maiyo]

Narumi Misuhara

Maiyo

Will the original version of Towns still be available after Towns 2 is fully released?

For a short while

Is there any reason why? I know the dev team no longer has access to alter the code (or something, I don't quite remember) but does the original Towns really take up so much server space? I was a beta tester during the initial release, and I've seen a lot of communities form there throughout the years. What are the chances of the original Towns remaining available as-is?

Thanks so much for your time.

We won't be keeping it up indefinitely. Keeping things up means we have to keep maintaining it and that's not a commitment we can make if we're going to launch Towns 2.

codemonkey37179

[Maiyo]

codemonkey37179

We've wanted to update towns for sometime now. (I use the collective Gaia staff, 'we', as it predates my employment by some time). Towns 2 was started with the intention of replacing Towns 1, the reasons among others:

1. Towns 1 has security issues, as we have all seen with hackers causing problems.
2. Towns 1 was written about 2 year before Facebook, and the year before Youtube launched,
the technology is out of date.
3. We wanted something that was easier to maintain and update, We get a lot of suggestions from users, and many of them are really good, but just impossible to work into Towns.

Now we have something that can grow and expand, and that means we can take more suggestions, and add more rooms, events and games into Towns.

I understand how many of you feel about it. I personally don't want to change to windows 8, and I don't like it when my favourite sites change. I promise it wasn't done on a whim.

Houses will be added, as will bugs, flowers and trash. There will not be zip codes, but there will be addresses, and public transportation. I know many will miss towns 1, but we will do our best to make Towns 2 fun.

Thank you very much for the coherent reply. (Don't switch to Windows 8, it's a trap!) Uh, one last question before I stop pestering you...
Will avatars move around less erratically when Towns 2 is released? xd That's the main peeve I have against it, really.

Did you turn off the path-finding? There is a temporary button at the bottom of a man walking. That should do it.

Uncle Kenny

Parexus

Uncle Kenny

Korrye

Random question that comes out of a thought that I had not too long ago while listing items on the marketplace. I've been a member of Gaia since 2004 and since the creation of the marketplace I've been an avid user of it. When the 2% tax was instituted I know it was to stem the use of the marketplace which was driving up pesky inflation on goods. I'm just wondering if staff know that it truly works? And I'm also wondering where does all that gold go?

It all funnels into a RL room that Lanzer goes swimming in daily.

Can you tell us how much gold was removed from the site since the tax was added? I really want to know.

Could I find that out? Probably, but I don't have that number easily available unfortunately. It'd take a bit of work to actually determine.

codemonkey37179

Csilla Silvana

codemonkey37179

Csilla Silvana

Sorry if someone has asked before, but I loved the housing update this month. heart Is there a chance we might have some kind of housing item previews, kinda like the wearable items have in the future?

I'm not sure what you mean by "housing item previews", but we will be reworking the houses a little for Towns 2.

Being able to see what an item would look like in a house before buying it, like we can see what a wearable Item would look like on our avatars, and what fish look like in the tanks before buying.

Hmm, interesting... I'll give it some consideration.

lanzer

Sodafop

Hello! emotion_yatta

I was just curious:
Do you guys have family or friends over here on the East coast that you are concerned for safety-wise due to the storm? C:

My thoughts go to everyone on the east coast who are facing the wrath of the hurricane, or have to deal with the stress and uncertainly that the event leads to. My family members are all on the west coast but I do have many friends in the east coast.

Uncle Kenny

Princess-Orphelia

I'm back for a minute while the guy is looking at the problem in my car.

I've just thought of a question: Is there a problem/glitch with the feeds, as I get them a little later than what they're meant to be. 5 minutes later? sweatdrop

All feeds go through a system we have setup to handle large quantities of requests (feed notices) and get them all sent out. It's quite possible and likely that there were just a lot of notices at the time and so yours were delayed a little bit. It's basically a method of flood control so we don't crash the servers.

lanzer

SaXoPhOnE_gEeK

Hey Guys! Nice to see you! I'm going to ask a quick question before my power goes out:

Is there anyway you can alphabetize the titles drop-down list for achievements? It would make it a lot easier to find some names quickly. 3nodding

That's a great suggestion! I'll pass that on with the dev team.

lanzer

Thank you for joining us on this week's ATA! Have fun with the rest of the event and have a great time this Halloween!!! See you all next week!

[Platonix]

November 2nd

siskataya

Hello everyone!

Sisky here - just checking in with you for the weekly BLT (with no BLT at all!) Anything you want to discuss about the Gaia community, Gaia, etc. this week? I'll be here for a little while (have to cut this short tonight) so let me know.

Sisky

siskataya

Magus

siskataya

Magus

First emotion_awesome

That you are! biggrin How are you doing today/this evening?

Doing well. Yourself?

Just playing a little HoC as we speak. There seems to be a lot of hate for that game; more than I would have thought.
Do any of the staff (that aren't devs) play it? Do you play it? (°ロ°)

I have played it! I am trying to improve but I confess, I am not the greatest strategy-game player. Still, I think it is fun and I like the animations. I made a HoC pumpkin for Halloween hehe!

As for why people hate it, I have no idea! Could be anything - maybe they are just crabby right now, or don't like strategy games, or are allergic to virtual dragons. The possibilities are endless! As long as you enjoy it, and others enjoy it, it's all good biggrin

siskataya

Pirate Captain Sushi

How's voting coming along on that contest of yours? ninja

Pretty good, but it's going to take me a while! There were so many awesome entries, it's taking a long time to narrow them down eek

siskataya

Pirate Captain Sushi

Do you like to keep up with the plot manga sisky? c:

I do actually! I am so glad to see the manga return so strongly this year, and with such compelling characters. And I have no idea how it will turn out, so it is as suspenseful for me as it is for everyone else! biggrin

siskataya

Pirate Captain Sushi

siskataya

Pirate Captain Sushi

I'm a ball of questions so please excuse me for my uhm... quizzical nature. sweatdrop
What's your favorite gaia event to ever occur on this site?
Who is your favorite NPC?
Out of the 3 holiday deities (Jack, Santa, and Easter Bunny) who is your favorite? o:

Wow, ok, these are tough questions. Let me see here..

a) I love all the events, but I have a special place in my Gaian heart for the 2004 Halloween Event. Zombies vs Humans. I remember you got to shoot zombies with a shotgun!

b) Favorite NPC? I'm torn on this - I have a few favorites. I always liked Vanessa from the Salon, Old Man Logan, Liam, Nicolae, and Carl!

c) Jack or the Easter Bunny - probably Jack though, because Halloween is my favorite holiday biggrin

Ha, I'm sorry for asking so many. I like to get each admin and devs opinion of the site. I plan to try applying for a job there one day and I just want to see how close they are with the community, the site, the events, and the items they work on. c:

One last question regarding events: Some people like NPC interactivity and the sense of immersion within the site while others prefer the items. What to you is the best part of an event?

The users - always the users. I like that people are having fun and enjoying themselves. Items are fabulous, don't get me wrong, but those I can buy in the vend after the event is over. I just like hanging out and chatting with people, hearing their stories, and all that good stuff. biggrin

siskataya

VKiera

siskataya

VKiera

*waves* Hia, I wanted to say thank you for the zomg Halloween contest, it was a lot of fun carving and painting pumpkins. I really love to have an omg plushie, but that was the prize for drawing a monster not pumpkins, but still it was fun.

Too bad my pumpkin got all gooey really quickly, eww >.<

Glad you enjoyed the contest - it was super fun to hold! biggrin And my pumpkin was all mushy and moldy today - I had to throw it out eek

My pumpkin was more slimy than modly >.< it was nasty, my poor OMG pumpkin, my fluff pumpkin is fine though, since it was painted and not carved.

We should have contests like this more often! ^_^

Indeed, that is my plan! I want to have lots more contests in the coming year - hopefully they will continue to be fun ^^

siskataya

Huckleberry Sawyer

What about the mobile version of Gaia.Any hints of the bugs that will be fixed?It has a lot :c

I know that bugs are being fixed on an ongoing basis! If you have any specific bugs, you should post in the Bug Reports forum if you haven't done so already and let the devs know. All feedback is welcome biggrin

siskataya

I Sinistro I

siskataya

I Sinistro I

I'm doing fine, actually!- OH! I've been meaning to tell you that I saw your Journal entry about bullying some time ago. I read it and it made me want to give you a hug. I was bullied growing up, too. So, I know how it feels and it's a seriously terrible thing to know that it's happening to so many people. I was touched by your entry, honestly.
I just thought I'd share that with you.

Thank you for the nice words! I am ok now, but I wanted to share with the community something I went through. I was hoping it would let people know that it will work out - just have to hang in there. Sorry to hear you were bullied too. Don't ever own that hate - just keep being your fabulous self ^^

[Nods] Yeah, I was bullied for a couple years (I was ten years old when it started. I moved from a small town to a HUGE city), and then when I got to the sixth grade I just got sick of it and took matters into my own hands- Not something anyone should do, but at the time the teachers wouldn't do anything to help me so I thought that that was my only option. Out of frustration I fought back, and while I did get into serious trouble my bullies got the punishment worse than I did, and then I found out that I wasn't the only person they were bullying. So I guess that only one good thing came out of it.
I Look back on it now, and I realize that though I could've handled my situation differently at the same time that experience has made me into a stronger person. I don't let anybody push me around at all.
Your entry really got me, though. I'm dead serious. I read it and thought "Nooooo. . . Not Sisky : /" And I loved the bit about how bullies are actually haters. I smiled at that part! That was awesome, I thought! And the links you posted were helpful! I sent them to my aunt, whose daughter is actually being bullied by this girl at her school. My aunt found them to be helpful!

Ugh, so sorry to hear about all of that - including your cousin being bullied at school. So glad the links were helpful - I hope that the bullying stops soon.

Someone tried to bully me just the other day on Gaia. He didn't get too far XD

siskataya

Ridley Starsmore

Did you happen to swing the bahnhammer like a golf club or was it more of a baseball bat type of grip?

Neither actually, I replied with kindness. I think it confused the person XD

siskataya

I Sinistro I

siskataya

I Sinistro I

Yeah, it bites! But Thank you again for posting them up! They're very helpful to those currently going through that terrible ordeal!

When someone tries to bully me I'll do one of three things:
1.) Walk away
2.) Turn on my charm [Pops my collar]
Or 3.) Smile and say "Sticks and stones".
But that doesn't mean I won't fight back if it comes down to punches. I give them the first couple of hits, and then I'll wail on them.

So, I saw that you lift weights? I think that's pretty cool! D'you also play any sports?

Weightlifting is my sport! I also occasionally climb up tall mountains. I went to Japan to climb Fuji, and next year I am going to head to Africa to climb Kilimanjaro! Fun! biggrin

Kickass!! Honestly I don't think I'd be able to climb a mountain! XD I'd be too scared of my chord snapping, or something! XD
D'you play any other sport? like basketball, or hockey? I Like to play Soccer, and I Like to do some Boxing now and again!

Nice! Boxing is fun, but I suck at running so soccer is out for me! Nah, I only do Crossfit and weightlifting. It's enough for me biggrin

siskataya

J 4 C K

I was actually wondering about that. What are the rules for posting in a thread that's obviously against the rules, misplaced or otherwise not supposed to be there? I always thought you were not supposed to.

Generally reporting it and moving on are the best policies for handling inappropriate or misplaced threads when it comes to non-staff members. That said, there are times I try and use my posts as a learning experience for people and will post to address the issue.

siskataya

Pheregames

So yeah. Ello Ello again.

Enjoy the beach day recently?

So I was playing around in my invo and was trying to find good poses for the black tonfa again and a friend of mine mentioned the other items that never quite made it; the "Banhammer" for example. Any idea what happened to them?

I always enjoy the beach - it's super fun and relaxing! And there *is* a Bahn Hammur (Any) item. It's description is "The mythical weapon of the ancient goddess, Adameen." XD

siskataya

Alrighty - thanks for the awesome questions! I have to dash here, so hope to see you all next week. Have an amazing weekend too biggrin

*hugs you all* biggrin

-Sisky

[Platonix]

November 5th

Narumi Misuhara

Holy elections Batman! Diedrich is running for president... unchallenged D: What do you guys think of this latest development?

Has anyone seen Wreck-It Ralph yet? I haven't but definitely want to!

Did you guys have a good weekend?

Where's Lanzer you ask? He couldn't make it tonight, so for now, you're stuck with me razz

Zero Omega

Sleep Isabella

Hello! I have a question from Sinsario since they are currently 'watching wreck it ralph like a boss' and couldn't make it tonight:

How about giving forum assistants more power? Currently, they cannot move a thread if it has a reply on it and only mods can move them which is very bothersome. Take this weekend, there was a misplaced thread that went on for 8 pages and no one moved it for a long time because only a mod could.

Uhh... A Forum Assistant can move a thread if there has been a reply. eek Is it possible that there were no Forum Assistants on at the time?

Panagrammic

Contact x

In HoC when will gold packs be released/will they cost chaos cash?
It's been over a week already gonk

Yeah, gold packs will be out this week.

Narumi Misuhara

Existential Existence

Hi Gaia, I have several questions.

1) Power Picks are still floating around in people's inventories but Gold Lotto is now obsolete. Power Picks don't have a sell back value (or trash option), so could it get one?

2) I'm inquiring about this b/c of discussion in a thread that popped up recently in SF.
Are there any plans to re-evaluate the <3/</3 system anytime next year?
If Gaia does not want to make it an optional feature, how about re-vamping how it's presented and adding in a neutral button? Some people neither like nor dislike threads, but they can't represent themselves in thread ratings because they hold neutral opinions about a thread.
Someone suggested using Gaia's emoticons instead of <3 and </3, and something like: emotion_c8 -- emotion_8c for like-neutral-dislike, respectively, seems much more lighthearted than the current setup of <3 vs </3. I also remember months ago staff threw around the hypothetical idea of changing what sort of rating information people see.

btw a neutral opinion is different from no opinion, since neutral opinion means you still have an opinion, it's just conflicted or between either extremes.

Additional verbage:

Also I wanted to let Gaia know....If you are wondering why people are get emotional with votes it's because these rating systems, placed on social websites, are social in nature. They are not just objective decisions made with being fair-minded in mind, they're also about judging the people who contribute content based on their behavior and what one already knows about the content contributor. That's why these types of rating things get taken so personally on social websites (like facebook, gaia, youtube, myspace) where people can stalk the content of the people they get to know - because they are personal to some degree, especially in forums like Life Issues where thread content are generally about personal issues. At least other websites give users the option to disable these ratings (like youtube), or websites force these ratings to be positive (e.g. facebook's like-only button).

Before when there was just the thumbs up/thumbs down feature, it did not cause these problems because it was unobtrusive. But the way thread rating has been presented and glorified now in each thread (top left corner of every thread, highly visible, highly accessible, a "total score" involved as if we were a grading people on their content) have turned these thread rates into a process of what people get on social websites like facebook, except it's a little bit worse on Gaia because it's much more flawed; as others have mentioned, multiple votes are only limited by the number of mules people have aka limitless since votes are not limited by IP, people on your ignore list can still vote in your threads, ratings cannot be changed if you change your mind or made a mistake, and there is a forced <3/</3 dynamic that introduces negativity, especially by forcing a positive OR negative dynamic that is highlighted by ignoring those who have neutral opinions about a thread.

You are an awesome website and people know you care about the users but with this feature it is just weeeiiird the way it is presented on Gaia. Rating features can work on social websites, but the way you guys did it is just weird. It sort of mildly shocks me why a social networking website like Gaia would want a feature that introduces and pretty much forces anonymous negativity onto its users, without giving users a way to protect themselves from anonymous misuse, short of users refraining from making topics or users retreating to guilds where the feature does not exist.

3) No question, just feedback. I enjoyed the Diedrich announcement, it was really cute and funny. Light-hearted entertainment is always a joy to see and experience while on Gaia. That's why I enjoy the things staff do to showcase the company's people and their talents, like the pumpkin contest, sisky and biglanky's chat threads, ATA itself, and just the idea that you guys enjoy this site just as much as your users. One of Gaia's unique flavors is that we come here to play/share/communicate, but staff as well contribute to this atmosphere. It makes Gaia somehow a worthwhile experience to invest time in (to know that the people taking care of Gaia and your e-stuff are doing it with active love) so good job on creating those moments biggrin

1. I could request this from the art team

2. The change we'd most likely make is weighting the <3 </3 system so that a few users selecting the same one wouldn't change the rating but many over time would.

siskataya

Existential Existence

3) No question, just feedback. I enjoyed the Diedrich announcement, it was really cute and funny. Light-hearted entertainment is always a joy to see and experience while on Gaia. That's why I enjoy the things staff do to showcase the company's people and their talents, like the pumpkin contest, sisky and biglanky's chat threads, ATA itself, and just the idea that you guys enjoy this site just as much as your users. One of Gaia's unique flavors is that we come here to play/share/communicate, but staff as well contribute to this atmosphere. It makes Gaia somehow a worthwhile experience to invest time in (to know that the people taking care of Gaia and your e-stuff are doing it with active love) so good job on creating those moments biggrin

Awww, thank for the kind words and the feedback! We love being able to get out in the community and hear what you have to say, have contests, and sometimes just have fun chat! Always glad to have you all about. I've got some more ideas for similar activities in the future, so keep an eye out for them biggrin

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Glam Factory

Do admins get free items ?

Sometimes from daily chance. surprised

but not as often as I'd like. sad

codemonkey37179

I only get them if I need to test something. Otherwise, no.

Narumi Misuhara

HDMI

Hello admins, developers, artists. My question this time around, are there any plans to implement a “report this profile” button/feature? Along my usual reports this has only happened once where the user had inappropriate images on his profile. But I had to pm a mod directly for it to be handled. This would be a nice feature and make it easier & quicker to report such profiles. Like how you can already report comments, pm’s, etc.
Thanks in advance for any & all answers : )

Edit: Damn it! I'll never get that first post bah!

This is something we could look into.

Zero Omega

PreciseIy

We should go on a double-date to see Wreck it Ralph. emotion_kirakira

But yeah, thank you all for the hard work you all put into gaia, really appreciate it. <3

Oh one question. What can I do about my other account? I moved like a month ago, so I got a totally different IP address, and I forgot the email I used on my mule, and it has the IP verification on. :/

You can file a ticket at http://www.gaiaonline.com/help to get some assistance on an e-mail change.

Panagrammic

ryry Kenny_McCormick ryry

Panagrammic

Sweet Angel Mary

So how much will gold packs cost in HoC?

So we'll get an exchange cards for essence in HoC this week?

We haven't finalized the pricing yet.

Yeah, card => essence exchange should be in this week.

correct me if i'm wrong, but i recall you saying you were hoping to release the gold pack either today or tomorrow (tuesday). is tuesday looking to be at all possible, or will it be released later in the week?

We're shooting for tomorrow but it might be Wednesday. There's a bunch of cards in the update that we need to check (over 25 units last I looked, ugh).

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Glam Factory

Will you guys make another item like starmony on an admins page < confused

Those type of things tend to be spur of the moment artist decisions, so maybe. XD

Narumi Misuhara

Onyx Millennia

1. Hi there, when is bid blast going to be started up again? is there a set schedule for that?
2. Are there any plans to revamp or update the inventory organizer? (pretty please)

1. Not really, we're planning to phase it out and replace it with a different system.
2. Yes but not anytime soon :/

Narumi Misuhara

Ouka Dark

Okay so one of my questions is towards meebo. I've heard rumors that gaia would no longer support meebo, is that true or is there something afoot?

That's a rumor I haven't heard o.O

Uncle Kenny

Chachiix

Do you think there will be new rare fish or harder/new lakes in the future of fishing?

Also, why do my toes talk to me sometimes?

Sometime down the line maybe, but we currently don't have any updates planned for Fishing.

That's probably a question better answered by a psychiatrist.

siskataya

Owlie

Since the <3 </3 system is being brought up again, I'd like to mention my continued support of the </3 feature. Likes are meaningless- nothing more than a popularity contest- without dislikes.

Diedrich is irritating.

Hey sisky, how is the judging process going for your zOMG Halloween forum contest? Any idea which day winners will be announced? whee

Heya Owlie!

Judging is tough, but coming along! I expect to be finished in a day or two. I'll update the thread and contact the winners once I am. So tough to choose winners for these contests - so many awesome entries! eek heart

Narumi Misuhara

Tear of Fate

Would it be possible to give us gaiaens another chance for the Risky Angels item? I remember doing art for Diedrich and getting nothing at all but a small thank you.

*shrug* Honestly don't know, though I would suspect highly unlikely. If it was it would probably still be a limited quantity re-release.

Zero Omega

Sandy Flipflops

Hello Gaia : D

I was wondering, Where one might submit fan art. I have worked on and am still working on a few fan arts of various gaia admins and higher ups. I just want to be sure that i send them to the right place. These were soooo fun to draw especially the one i did of lanzer and waffles. C: I really love doing fan art so who knows maybe you (as a general audiance) will be the next victi.....i mean lucky person ???? ._. XD

Check this out!
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/gaia-blog/going-postal-returns-send-your-fan-art-and-you-could-win/t.80220001/

Zero Omega

Engi3Piece

hey I just wanted to know is it possible to add a sub forum (maybe in the computer or gaming discussion) for videogame development. for instance I'm using a program call RPG maker and having a forum where people can meet and discuss ideas for characters, story plots, music, world maps, ect (beside the writers forum) it can also help people to know the different game software out there to make you own game.


and one more sorry for making this post long sweatdrop

when will there be another event like the Adventure time one where you got exclusive items from and inspired from the show as well as a interview with the creator?

Thanks for the suggestion! It's something we can definitely keep in mind as we continue to work on forums.

Uncle Kenny

Divine Queen Sheba

Hello, there. I was wondering if Gaia will have another Black Friday blowout this year? Oh please say yes. 8D

Yep

Narumi Misuhara

Animal

Firstly, Wreck-It-Ralph was AMAZING, go see it!

Secondly, is there any item/achievement/etc for the Diedrich for President thing?

Thirdly, when are you going to fix the Gold Cache drop ratios so that they are less than half the price of platinum caches as they SHOULD be since Platinum caches are RARER than gold but right now gold are 3x the price of platinum... -_-()

2. nope
3. The groundwork for the changes we want to make to alchemy are being put in place this year. We're shooting for more significant changes to take place in the first quarter of next year.

Zero Omega

Stray Cougar

Why do we need Facebook to get the reward for a daily treat video? It's not really fair to those of us that don't use Facebook.

I don't believe you actually need to click the "Like" button on the Facebook page itself to get it, you might just have to click the link which takes you to the Facebook page. Either way, the video offers are decided on by the offer company, we really don't have any control as to what the video/stipulation is.

codemonkey37179

Nekinu

Hello my Admins!!!! (just posting again, just in case!)This is my first time submitting a concern on here, so here I go!
I was playing Jigsaw the other day on Insane and I was down to the last 3 pieces to the puzzle, those 3 puzzle pieces were not there! I moved the whole puzzle and clicked Shuffle many times and they did not appear! And I had to start on a new puzzle after I worked so long on that puzzle!
Are you guys working on fixing this glitch??

We are working on it yes. Sorry for your trouble.

Narumi Misuhara

Yes, along with many others.

milkbun

Mifftastical

Actual questions: How do you guys decide on what theme to do for RIGs and items? I can guess you take some inspiration from the world, but who decided to go Dark Reflection 2 and gender bending, how did that arise? xP

Do the artists call dibs on who gets to do what quality of item in a RIG? Or is it assigned or something <3

WILL STAFF GET MOAR SD DOLLS? I reckon you guys could totally give each SD Staff a Nerf Gun pose, it would be amazing : D

Also, what are you favourite items, and the worst/best thing you've done on/off Gaia : 3

Some of the CIs are based on the time of year. Some are ideas we've been wanting to tackle for awhile and some are re-imagined because users liked them the first time around.

Artist's get to choose what items they'd like to make and they decide the tier. They already know they need to vary the sets in terms of tier smile .

Some staff still don't have dolls so it's totally possible.

Narumi Misuhara

Dankin

This isn't a criticism in any way, shape or form, but I was just wondering with regards to the manga updates:

The artwork is impeccable as always, but will there be more installments where the pages are coloured in at all? Just wondering.

We forgo colored pages so that we can get it out quicker, but for special editions we'd probably color them in.

codemonkey37179

Sloane Hawthorne

Why the h didnt you put up gaia towns halloween? That's my favourite towns development by far, and a lot of other people's as well. Seriously, if you want to take anything out of towns, it should be pools. they're annoying, pointless, all of my friends hate them, and plus people can poop and pee on people. How is that pg-13 gaia?

We may have pools in Towns 2. We already have the swimming area down by the docks. The other things you mentioned (gross!), I'm determined not to put in.

Uncle Kenny

BeIIus Mortis

Uncle Kenny

We decided early on that we would not bring Halloween/Caroling back to Towns 1 since we're trying hard to get Towns 2 to a more polished state. It's not likely you'll see any events in the Towns spaces until next year.

So are you going to put them back up in towns 2?
Still, that's lame. I say you should at least try and put them back up in towns 1. A lot of people (myself included) most likely wont be using towns 2, because my friends and I are old farts. Been on since '05 and we really like the old stuff. ; ;

We'll be remaking them in new and more fun ways for Towns 2. Eventually, we'll be taking Towns 1 down altogether so I wouldn't expect we'll put any more development time into it.

Uncle Kenny

ECMLG

Uncle Kenny

ECMLG

So does this mean, Christmas caroling in towns will not be happening this year?
thats my (and many others) favorite part of Christmas on gaia.

We won't be bringing it back for Towns 1 and we don't plan on having Housing to a point in Towns 2 that will allow us to implement a caroling system in there yet. Sorry sad

That was my next question, I've spent alot of gold and GC to get items for my house in towns....I read in a post that you are planning on removing towns1 (unless i miss read that)
and if thats the case, are you going to put houses in towns 2 for us? cause I (along with many others) also like my (Their) gaia house

Yep, most things you can find in Towns 1 now will be added to Towns 2 along with many more new things that will make it even better.

Narumi Misuhara

BobCatHKSS

When will GaiaOnline actually listen to the concerns of the guild captains?

And not just listen, but actually assign resources to make changes to guilds?

C'mon, I'd love to have guilds have the same features that regular forums have.

It seems that GaiaOnline does not care about guilds.

It's not that we don't care but we scoped the project out of giving guilds the same features as the forums and it would be at about a 6 month project. That's a long time to have devs assigned to something sweatdrop

siskataya

Foxglove Tea

Lost ln Wonderland

Omg im never on gaia at this time so i never get to ask questions- FINALLY.

so admin do me a huge favor and through a masquerade soon. I want a reason to dress classy and not look trashy at the same time ;D

I second this... Id like a masquerade soon as well.

We'll keep it in mind for sure! Sounds like it could be fun biggrin

codemonkey37179

Doom Lemons

Now for a legit question!!!

Will Casinos EVER be updated to play more than 3 tokens for Blackjack? I've like12,000 and I wanna be able to spend in bulk!

Could be. We've been discussing changes.

Narumi Misuhara

jadedrenee

What is your opinion on all the "safe zones" and "no kill zones" that have popped up in the last two Halloween events? Is there going to be any official word on them the next time we have an event like this?

...Does there need to be? If that's the mores of the group, who are we to step in? If it needs to be "Official" we'll code it in smile

Zero Omega

klebold

What kind of Post History would be applicable for a Moderator applicant? I noticed that the post history of a lot of Moderators out there (for those that even had much of a history) contained barely any opinionated posts. I enjoy these forums very much and do my best to follow the rules, but are there 'invisible' rules to becoming a Moderator? I read on the FAQ that Moderators were encouraged to maintain a neutral attitude as I can do (I'm a hockey referee) and was wondering if one's post history would compromise this. I'd be willing to give up all 'personality' to posting, but I guess I'm mostly just asking if it's too late for that...

When we look at post history we're mainly concerned about Terms of Service violations and if you've said anything that we think might be unfit for a moderator. Being opinionated isn't a problem, but it's about how you give your opinions. Being abrasive or brash isn't too mod-ly, but being constructive and detailed, without being abusive, is fine.

Narumi Misuhara

Vyeru

Hey guys! A few questions for you :3

1) As always, any word on a new EI coming out soon? 3nodding

2) Recently, I haven't been receiving text message notifications when I receive a PM or a comment on my profile, whereas I was about two or three months ago. I checked my settings and text notifications are enabled. My sister has been having the same issue, any idea as to what could be the case?

3) I've found some interesting layering issues! One is with the items I currently have equipped now. With the Zodiacal Capricorn leg mods, if I equip the cave bottom, I suddenly have holes in my legs D: It doesn't do this with any other item though, to my knowledge. Also, if you equip the Zodiacal Pisces shoes with any kind of stockings, you get green goo on the right foot. Just thought I would let you know (:

1. I know but can't say
2. Known issue we are looking at.
3. Thanks for letting us know XD

Narumi Misuhara

Corinth Maxwell

Narumi Misuhara

Where's Lanzer you ask? He couldn't make it tonight, so for now, you're stuck with me razz

cat_stare Hmm......he must still be wrapped in an inch-thick cast after all the attacks upon him......you don't seem to be wearing any visible bandages, so clearly you weren't as wounded as he was. cat_whee

Panagrammic

Lurking (and lurking by the first page, woot!)

cat_ninja *shines gigantic spotlight* I see you hiding there! cat_xd

Zero Omega

Now, then......on to the questions.

1. Given how, thanks to the manga, the Dark Elves were basically set up as the "root of all evil" in Gaia (or at the very least, the greater of any number of evils), can any of you SERIOUSLY say you were surprised that a lot of users sided with the vampires?

2. When you basically realized that the Dark Elves were going to win no matter what transpired, did any of you happen to hear ominous "choo-choo" noises at the office? cat_xd

3. Given that the Dark Elves were being set up as the villains of the story, wouldn't it have made more sense to have just had everyone joining the Vampires, in order to fight off different Dark Elven NPCs (as with the "Grave Danger" event)?

4. While we're on the subject of the event (and other previous events), has anyone ever asked if it would be possible to have a section of the "Games" page to have all of the past non-forum event games available to be played (much like "Frontier Skies" before it was removed)?

5. Diedrich for "president"? Seriously? About five seconds after I read this, I saw the words "secession", "impeachment", and "assassination" in my head. cat_whee cat_xp

1. No, which is why we programmed the scoring to account for one side being lopsided well before the launch of the event.

2. o.O

3. Some people want to be evil.

4. If we didn't have the resource to maintain Frontier Skies, how the heck would we bring all of them back stressed

Zero Omega

The Enforcer666

Zero Omega

The Enforcer666

Dedicated forum mods. When will this happen? The mods for the VGD are never there and when they are, they don't do nothing. Hell, I spot many outside mods posting in threads that do not belong. As a matter of fact, I see more outside mods in the VGD than the VGD mods in the VGD.

As far as the update on what's going on with the Cash Cards, it was stated that we can use this Ultimate Game Card. What made using the Gaia brand cash card so much better over Ultimate Game Card was the fact that
A) The Crystal Box that came with Gaia Cash Cards
B) I don't have to go to some other website and make a account there just to use the cash card here.

My question on that is what kinda incentives will there be for those using the Ultimate Game Card? Yes, the Gaia Cash Card is still being sold at other retailers. But some of those listed that are suppose to be carrying them, aren't. But they do have the Ultimate Game Card.

1. Something we can put a call out for, if I remember correctly (my memory is a tad fuzzy), I think that, while active, VGD actually doesn't get too many reports so there hasn't been a huge need for a lot of moderators.

Holy crap. I'm two for two with you, lol.
Also, I'm actually shocked that somepony actually answered that. I was more venting than asking and actually expected it to get ignored. Thanks for proving me wrong.

But in honesty? I've lost count as to how many threads I've reported. I'm sure that it's probably well over the 200 mark. While I can't speak for the other VGD regulars, but I will speak for myself when I say it's easier and faster to inform the person who is breaking the rule that whatever they are doing is against the VGD Rules/Guidelines (which has been removed and replaced with announcement: gaming discussion: rules & guidelines. it's been read first: guideline for gaming discussion for as long as i've been posting there *depressedface.bmp*). Yes, I understand that by doing that, it, unto itself, is breaking the rules of not posting in a spam/misplaced thread/whatever. But if left unchecked, the thread goes on for countless pages and takes months before it's removed. A fair majority of the people are understanding and close up shop and move to the appropriate forum/subforum. Then there are the others who want to argue about how a thread about Pokemon gameplay doesn't belong in the Pokemon Subforum. It's still a Pokemon thread regardless of what you want to call it.

BUT, if there were some dedicated mods, threads that break the rules will be caught a metric ton more quicker than having to report it and waiting for a mod to take action on it. Then the Regulars there wouldn't have to worry about getting warnings when all we are doing is trying to clean up our home.

Sorry if this seems like I'm venting. I am, but at the same time, trying to bring light to a problem that seems to have no end.

Also, any info on the second part of my question about the cash cards?

From the sounds of it you want more active moderation, in which case I think it sounds like a better solution would be Forum Assistants which actively check the forum, as opposed to moderators who work via reports. That's something we can think of doing.

And no clue on the second one, sorry.

Zero Omega

AGrazi

Um not really a question but I wanted to bring this up, I think theres an inventory bug. I bought a dark reflection 2 bundle earlier and when I tried to use the 9 ci's from it I got this error:
"Database Error
Unable to load your inventory at this time. Please try again"
the problem is, I lost the item and it left me with 8 ci's, I waited a bit and tried again and it happened again, so I lost 2 of the ci's from my bundle and there are no traces of them in my inventory. Wanted to bring this up in case anyone else is having issues with it too. sweatdrop

File a ticket at http://www.gaiaonline.com/help , the staff over there should be able to figure out your problem and help you out.

codemonkey37179

Mors Morza

codemonkey37179

iSumiko

Weeeeell, last time I was here, my question got misinterpreted.
Anyways, when I click on "towns" and I enter a specific "barton", it gives me the choice to choose the topic name or to name the barton itself.

Example picture:

I click the little board thingy, and this option pops up. (Please keep in mind that I am only given the optiion rarely)

http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu36/emoluver42/GT1.png

and then I click the red area and get this. (I typed in "Canterlot" )
http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu36/emoluver42/GT2.png (there's also a time glitch.)

And when I press enter, I receive this:
http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu36/emoluver42/GT3.png

(Sorry if this was... a page stretcher.)
[Well, it sure isn't now that I changed all the images to links. -Platonix]

There are many things broken in Towns, that is one reason why we are coming out with Towns 2. We launched it as a beta for the Rejected Olympics, but most of it is still unseen. We will be replacing the old towns with it in the new year.

Does this mean I won't be able to access Old Towns even with a direct link? T-T I love collecting game items there...

We will be putting those items into Towns 2. Remember you haven't really experienced Towns 2 yet. We only put up the bare bones for the RO. Only about 10% of the new towns is up.

siskataya

Kinny Fear

What makes you choose which questions to answer in ATA? Like, what can we do or not do to help our question get answered?

Q: whenever an announcement or Dev Alert happens, the poster (admin, NPC, etc) invariably gets tips. Diedrich has recieved hundreds today.

What does Lanzer do with his tips, because he doesn't really change his avatar? And what happens to the gold that NPC accounts receive in tips?

I try to answer questions that pertain to my area of work, or those which people want personal info from me that I can share! We do try to answer as many of them as we are able, but sometimes we might not be able to provide a response for a variety of reasons - not enough time, perhaps we are still deciding on a solution, perhaps we missed the question due to the speed of the thread, etc. Just know it is not personal - we are not trying to ignore anyone biggrin

As for tips for NPC's, I believe they just sit there. Nobody I know in office uses the gold NPC's earn for tips! As for any tips I get, I often use it to buy items from the market and give them away to members.

Zero Omega

VVhip

Did anyone win the Wii contest in August?

I asked last week, and haven't seen any announcements regarding it. I didn't enter, I'm just curious as to why such a simple thing hasn't really been addressed or announced?

I'll ask about it.

codemonkey37179

GuinAoiichi

ONCE new towns is intalled , what will happen to the stuff in our homes???

You can move it to towns 2. The contents inside will not be disturbed. The houses will also load faster inside Towns 2, and a few more surprises as well.....

codemonkey37179

sleeping giant1

i want to put nude pics of myself online is that fine???

No, and thank you for asking first.

siskataya

kirey13

I have just a little feedback problem for you guys... The G-cash stuff that happened recently is fine and everything but, it was stated in the form that we could use ultimate game cards to get cash. I've tried this and it doesn't give me the cash it just tells me its an invalid entry. Is there a problem with the cross over stuff. Just wondering... Oh I want to see Waffles run for president of Gaia!

Huh, that shouldn't be happening! Can you send me a pm with more details about this so I can look into the matter for you? I want to make sure you get your Gaia cash, and that there is no issue affecting cash purchases biggrin

Narumi Misuhara

Sifu Chyaku

Evening! Are there going to be any more available Achievements soon? I've already earned all of them, but still waiting for Loiterer to grant.

Yeah we're planning on releasing another set, not scheduled for this year though.

codemonkey37179

BeIIus Mortis

codemonkey37179

BeIIus Mortis

If we start a petition, will you consider keeping the link to towns 1 up? ; o;

No, I'm sorry. There are security concerns and the code can not be maintained.

We are always getting requests to put new things in towns, and we get really good ideas from the community, and we have not been able to do anything about it. There are some of the reasons for the change.

Ug but that's not fair! A lot of people will still want to use the old towns. And you're basically looking them over and saying "WELL SUCKS TO BE YOU" and moving on. You say a lot of people have been requesting new stuff in towns, well a lot of people /hate/ this idea and are requesting you to at least keep it up. Your always making changes to good things in gaia, instead of those where we really need it. Like the old inventory organizer. Please, at least consider finding a way to keep it up. Even if you dont do anything at all to it and focus all your attention to the new and most likely crappy towns, at least keep the old one up.

I'm sorry you feel it is unfair. It was not a decision made lightly. We needed a newer system.

Zero Omega

lD r e a m s h i f t e rl

Will there ever be the opportunity for users to get the usernames of inactive accounts? [As in accounts that have been dead for years]

It's always a possibility, but there are some things to take into consideration such as if the user will ever come back, is it fair to others, how would we do it, etc. That isn't to say that we can't think about trying it, but it involves a pretty in-depth discussion.

Uncle Kenny

Cissy-Chan

Would you consider giving back overseer skins if they remained soulbound?

We won't be bringing back the Overseer skin.

siskataya

GuinAoiichi

Once the " LAG MONSTER " entries have been judged will the winner get made into a new Villain for zomg???

Thanks for the question! I don't believe this will become a monster for zOMG - sorry! Besides, if you win, why would you want your avatar to be a zOMG! villain?!? (I tease, I tease!)

Narumi Misuhara

Alright guys, time for us to head out. Sorry we couldn't get to all the questions (...so many stressed )

Thanks for joining us and have a great week!

[Platonix]

November 9th

siskataya

Hey everyone!

It's that time of the week again - BLT without the B,L, or T! I'll be here to answer your questions as well as, you know, be a bit sociable!

Also, this week I have a question for YOU and I'd love your input! Anyhoo, I'll be here for about an hour, so feel free to drop by and say hello and ask me questions about Gaia, and give me your answers to the following:

I have recently been holding forum contests in various locations around Gaia and people seem to like them. Do you think I should have a GCD contest? If so, what type of contest would you like to see?

siskataya

VKiera

*waves* Hi Siski!

I love the contests you've been having, I think they're a great idea. As for a GCD contest, how about a contest to suggest a new NPC or RIG theme, since the GCD is all about the plot and gaia items and updates?

Hellllllooooooooo! *waves back* Glad to know you love the contests. I really like finding ways for people to have fun and win some treats. And that is an interesting idea about a winning CI or NPC suggestion. *ponders this*

siskataya

Mermaid Eater

I think we should have an EI/REI contest!

Thanks for the suggestion! biggrin

siskataya

Dankin

Hi there, nice lady! biggrin

I'd love a GCD contest. What sort of thing would you like it to entail?
If I had a say, I'd love to see a contest where we can pick which NPCs we want to see in a plot update.

My question to you is simply this: how much coffee is too much coffee?

Thanks for the contest suggestion! As for how much coffee is TOO much coffee, I think that depends on the person and his/her caffeine sensitivity, age, belief systems, etc. For myself, I've had to cut back because I could drink coffee all day and night. Then I wouldn't sleep, and I'd get twitchy. And twitchy Sisky is not a good thing! eek

siskataya

iymcool

Hello, hello, sweetie. heart I hope you had a fun week and are ready for a relaxing weekend, despite the fun of Gaia, even the staff needs a break, right?

I think a GCD contest would be fabulous. However, an AT one would even be better. emotion_dowant

Ahhhh, an AT contest would be fun too. No reason we cannot do both though, right? Thanks for the idea! ^^

siskataya

An Ultimate Arse Head

siskataya

Heya! I am doing OK - a bit tired, but as you know by now, Friday is a Crossfit training day so I am up at 4am if not earlier. By the time 4pm rolls around, I am tilting in my chair eek

Glad to hear you also like the contests. You should join as many as you can! XD

4AM?! -cringes at the very thought-
Well thanks for taking the time to hang with us. You're a better woman then I am!

And actually I do have an idea: Maybe you can host a contest for your Friday threads. You still go b BLT -without the B, L, or T. You can have a title and maybe banner contest for it? Possibly a mascot design contest?

Ohhh, that is a fun idea - I like it! I think people might like it too. Well, except the people that don't like the BLT threads. But they wouldn't have to enter! biggrin

siskataya

Sweet Angel Mary

create a green goo monster contest?

I would like a writing contest like write the first date of two NPCs or something fun.

I want more contests especially ones that give out gaia cash.

A writing contest could be fun! And I just had a monster design contest in the zOMG! forum that was to design a monster and had cash cards as prizes. I'll keep the cash card prizes in mind for future contests.

And speaking of the green goo - want to kow something funny? I was planning on going as the Green Goo Glitch for Halloween XD I painted all these foam squares I got from Michael's green and was going to attach them to my clothes. Unfortunately, they didn't dry in time. That would have been awesome XD

siskataya

VKiera

Ridley Starsmore

A rig theme contest?

A Gaia Wallpaper contest?

A "Who wears the Dander Ears the best?" contest? emotion_awesome

I really like the idea of a wallpaper contest, but I guess that would be more suited for like the art forum yea?

Well, depends! I think things can be adapted for various forums. And we can always have more than one contest. I'll add those to the list of ideas biggrin

siskataya

Michiru Chiba

siskataya

Michiru Chiba

Hello! Siski!

Was wondering...I know Tektek has it's dream avi creator,but I was wondering..

Do you think you can update the Housing Dream creator?

Hmmmm, to be honest, I am not sure exactly what you are referring to! Can you link me to the Housing Dream creator? That would be great! ^^

here it is:
Dream House Sim

Thanks so much for the link! That is actually a user created app - pretty cool hey? Unfortunately, we cannot update that as it is not our property, but I can let people in office know you are interested in having something like this. Maybe we could get something similar going. I cannot guarantee it'll happen, but it doesn't hurt to ask, right? biggrin

siskataya

MistressMinako

Your contests are fun, Sisky. I'm sure GCDers would love to take part in a contest. Maybe one focused on the plot, or history of Gaia.

Ohhh, great ideas - especially the history of Gaia. That has a lot of possibilities biggrin

Glad you could stop by ^^

siskataya

Ethes Evos

Sweet Angel Mary

I would like a writing contest like write the first date of two NPCs or something fun.

I want more contests especially ones that give out gaia cash.

Sweet Jesus, this!
We have so many pairings and almost pairings of Gaia characters, they don't get much development unless they are part of the main story line.
The winner gets to be made into a mini comic of sorts.

Interesting idea about using minor NPC characters. Could be fun! *throws it on the idea list* biggrin

siskataya

Kitty Gnar-Gnar

A GCD contest would be fun.

It should be a contest to guess what's coming next in the manga. Prizes for closest, most cynical, and weirdest.

Hmmmm, that could be interesting too! We'd have to announce the winner after the manga update is released, but speculating on plot is fun! biggrin

siskataya

Alrighty everyone, thanks so much for the amazing contest ideas. I sure appreciate them! And thanks for taking the time to hang out and share your ideas with me. I have to head out now, but it's been super fun as always.

Take care and have an amazing weekend ^^
-Sisky

[Platonix]

November 12th

lanzer

Hello everyone!

Diedrich made it's appearance again in last week's event! How did you like our take on the election?

How many Gaians here follow politics? Are you happy or sad about the election results?

Zero Omega

taylorgordon

Zero Omega

taylorgordon

Will you fix the botting issues with the slots and fishing soon? Also, can you tell me if there will be an app for a minigame on IOS?

What sort of botting issues are you seeing with these two games? I think we've found the number of bots within in Fishing and Slots is significantly down.

Not much, just wondering. What about the IOS app? Will it ever feature a minigame such as Slots?

You mean making Slots available on iOS devices? Probably not because they're all done in Flash and Apple doesn't use Flash. As for stand-alone games? It's possible, but not something I can make a call on, that's all for our devs to decide.

siskataya

.~.Lady_Aji.~.

- zOMG! Glitch Fix Update: Anything new to report?

- Dress-Up Page Settings: On the dress-up page, we already have different settings for mouths and arms. How about a setting that removes the human bases ears? This would be for people who don’t like having the human ears visible while sporting animal ears (cat ears, bunny ears, etc.).

- Page Loading: Is an opt-out being worked on for this? Sometimes it takes a long time for the pages to load. I also dislike the “Loading” message that appears on the page. I find it unnecessary.

Heya .~.Lady_Aji.~.! Thanks for the questions - I can talk about [the first] one. We're still gathering up the suggestions and trying to sort them into various requests. My thread is taking suggestions until November 14th, and once that date has passed, I'll be figuring out what is plausible to complete. Once I know what is on deck, I'll let you all know biggrin

milkbun

Second question: The ears are actually attached to the base and cannot be turned on/off I'm afraid.

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Dankin

So Diedrich is president of Gaia now, but it was noted as being an insignifigant event.

Does this mean we don't have to listen to him?

Can I hit him with this bat now? ninja

Feel free to hit him. He can't die anyway.

Sandokiri

You must always listen to Diedrich, for Diedrich is a fountain of ancient wisdom. As for hitting him with the bat, of course you can! But each thwack only makes his trivia more... trivial?

siskataya

jk desu

What was the item from that mini-event anyways? I missed it... and can't seem to find it in GCD.

From the Election Event? It is a "Binder Full of Diedrichs" item. Oh yes, we went there XD

Zero Omega

GuinAoiichi

Thank you Admins/DEVS for fixin the missing background in the Heaven Forum !!

Also Do you think that the Zomg! Forum could get its own background???

Potentially, it would require an artist creating a forum background for it. So if it were to be on the list, it would probably be a low priority thing.

Panagrammic

Scobre

Panagrammic

Scobre

2) Hoc is becoming a very addicting game to me, even though I wished I didn't like it as much, but how come whenever I click fight against friend button nothing happens?

Yeah, we have a bug on that in our buglist -- should get it fixed tomorrow or Wednesday.

Thank you pan and for the scheduled server cycles for zOMG! too. It makes it so much nicer and more bearable to play. I sadly do still freeze in hoc so I have to refresh and I wish a graphics setting was put in so I don't have to adjust it to low for less lag ever time I play a game. So I wish there was just a graphics option like in zOMG!

We're putting in controls for it, but you can experiment with lower resolution if you like. Spoiler for details.

Quote:

If you have lag / slow game issues, we'd really like feedback on whether these options help the game perform better on your box. To enable it, you'll need to add a parameter to the URL. For example, if you have a game:

http://www.gaiaonline.com/hoc/join/?gid=1337

add:

http://www.gaiaonline.com/hoc/join/?gid=1337&extra=m

Alternately, if you have:

http://www.gaiaonline.com/hoc/join/

add:

http://www.gaiaonline.com/hoc/join/?extra=m

The options are:

"s" -- small resolution ( 960 x 600 )
"m" -- medium resolution ( 1024 x 768 )
"l" -- large resolution ( 1366 x 768 )
"p" -- turn off map animations
"b" -- turn off battle animations

So, extra=spb is the lowest resolution with no animations.

Note that resolution control on the strategic map is not working, but animation control and resolution control in battle is working.

Let us know if this helps performance.

siskataya

2sarahgate

taking away cash cards is a stupid idea.

Thanks for the feedback! As we mentioned, cash cards are not going away from all stores, and we'll be bringing in new cards that function in a similar manner. Once we have a few more details, we'll be letting you all know how you can still get your Gaia cash from cards. biggrin

Panagrammic

FaceIess Void

Hello Admins!

1. Is there going to be a trading feature for HoC in the future?
2. Is HoC going to be on Facebook?
3. If yes, will we be able to connect our Gaia accounts so we don't have to start over?

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Gaia users and Facebook users will be able to play each other. I shudder to think of those poor Facebook users when the battle-trained PvP masters in the Gaia community start farming them for essence.

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Sinsario

You know how years ago you'd have an event and an event forum?

But then you completely deleted that forum?

So then when you subscribed to a topic from the event forum but didn't unsubscribe before the forum was deleted then you'd get

"Topics blocked: 1"

when you looked at your subscriptions?

Could that maybe be removed because it's been torturing me for years?

We could potentially look into making old event forums visible again, just locked so you can't post in them. Then you could either remove the subscription manually, or just keep it for the memories.

lanzer

ChrisHemp

will we see an update to the iOS app to support the iPhone 5 full screen?

We're looking into it. Time to get rid of the top and bottom bars, yes.

Zero Omega

skeithdreamer

1. Can we have a better way to stop hacks because three of my friends been hacked and I'm wondering is Gaia security system is running good because I don't want anyone on Gaia to get hacked or scammed

A lot of hacking comes down to user security and making sure their accounts are secure. This means not giving out your password to anyone, having a strong password, and making sure that you're not entering in your password to a site that looks like Gaia but isn't. I would advise your friend to file a Hack Report at http://www.gaiaonline.com/hacking and to turn on IP verification to prevent their account from being logged into from a foreign IP without them authorizing it.

milkbun

Sweet Angel Mary

milkbun

Sweet Angel Mary

Since a black friday sale has been confirmed, can we please get the schedule of items to be released this week? It'd help users know how much cash they need if the schedule came out sooner than it did last year.

Will cherubic queen get rereleased? Will the animals from the best friend forever ci be rereleased?

How high will prices be in the black friday sale?

Will we get another silver bells-type item this year, you know the animated evolving item?

Sorry these are all questions that we can't answer ahead of time xd

Can you at least answer if the schedule will come out sooner than it did last year? Last year it cam out on like Wed. so users had to rush to get cash and Thurs. was thanksgiving.

It came out a few days before Black Friday as it will this year.

Panagrammic

Magus

Will HoC ever produce items / achievements?
Or will that stay a cash shop deal?

We have achievements for it planned.

siskataya

dee ban

Hi there Admins!

To whoever is going to reply to this comment, I just wanted to make a quick note of the new users coming to Gaia from TinierMe. As you can tell, a lot of them from TinierMe has converted to Gaia because their site will be shut down in a few weeks. How do you feel about this?

Cheerios!

Let me say that it is always sad when a fun site has to close its doors. Zero and I had the opportunity to talk to one of their admins at AX one year, and she seemed super nice. We wish them all the best in their future endeavors online and offline.

Now, that said, we are also happy to have any new members who want to join our fabulous community of Gaians wherever they may come from. We hope they find a great home here as we all have biggrin

codemonkey37179

Welcome!

Sandokiri

GuinAoiichi

Oh yeah that new Grunny's pet sure is....creepy. Any chance you guys could kill him off in the new manga??

Why would you want to kill off Ultra Satan? It's freaking adorable and has eldritch secrets deep behind its eyes.

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Lei_Trigar

Uncle Kenny

Lei_Trigar

Hey guys,

Just wondering if the Loiterer Achievement is still broken, I log in every day (even before it was out) and I've yet to get it, and its been over 30 days since the Dev notice went out saying its been fixed.

Thanks.

Yep, it's broken. We're working on a fix for it currently. Just sit tight for the moment.

Man, by the time its fixed I would've gotten the 180 day one (if there is one). xp

May I ask as to what broken or what is causing it? Cause I notice more and more of the people in my friends list is getting it as time passes. sweatdrop I feel so left out. emo

We wish we knew what was broken. xd

Panagrammic

Sen Natsu

Harbinger of Pandamonium

vegasshopgirl

wxc

I would like to know the answer to this as well.

ditto
I think after all the years I've spent on this site it's an achievement I should have received ages ago..

Yes it's still broken, devs are looking into it.

Shal I grab the duct tape?

Duct tape doesn't help us catch the pigeons at all.

lanzer

SiCotic Oz

1. How can I turn off achievements?

2. HOW IS EVERYONE DOING TONIGHT!?!?!?! xd

Sorry no switch to turn off achievements at this time. Why not gain free points from doing stuff on the site?

siskataya

MsRarity

How much do you guys love your jobs?

I love my job a LOT - I don't think I have enough words to describe how awesome I think it is to be able to help this community biggrin

milkbun

Definitely the best job I've ever had. blaugh

Harbinger of Pandamonium

HeIIraiser

Hey, staff.
I thought the Diedrich thing was funny.

So much hate in SF.
LOL.

We're glad you enjoyed it. We had a lot of fun coming up with the ideas.

DJ Helsing

HDMI

Hello admins, developers, artists. My question this time:

1. Will the August 2012 Wii Giveaway Contest winners be announced anytime soon or has no one won it yet? I haven’t noticed any announcements on this yet.

Please see the first post of the sticky located here

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/contest-archive/august-2012-wii-giveaway-contest/t.81309321/?_gaia_t_=7562

codemonkey37179

Fallen_Vampiric_Warrior

I saw some posts in the last ATA about Towns 2 and the fact that they'll be transferring our homes there and taking down the first Towns.

That aside, I would like to ask if Towns 2 will have some things added onto it. Will the layout be a lot like what you first see when you enter Towns 2 or will there be a lot of changes to it?

I guess to put it simply, will there be similarities with Towns 2 and Towns or will Towns 2 be completely different from Towns?

I apologize if my question isn't very clear. It's hard for me to word it correctly.

And thank you for your time!

Almost everything from Towns 1 will be added to Towns 2. There will be a lot of new things there as well. The Marketplace in Gambino will be expanded. I am hoping to upgrade the houses as well. A lot of events will be held in towns.

Zero Omega

Tsuki_Kirkland

Two things real quick

Thank you thank you for the updates to the AMC forum , the forum looks so much better now that its been cleaned up. But will the AMC be getting a rules update? We could use one about fan made stuff not really going in the forum what classifies as low content in the forum.

Have you considered updating the arenas?

Already something we're considering. Re: AMC rules.

Panagrammic

Sweet Angel Mary

Panagrammic

Hey, guys! Mostly playing HoC but will also be sniping questions as appropriate.

Was JK and L0cke in a competition last week for the top of the HoC leaderboard? How come you don't make it on the leaderboard?

I never play full games -- I'm always starting a game, trying something to reproduce a bug, and then forfeiting.

That said, once some of the glitches are ironed out, I plan to compete with JK and L0cke for the leaderboard -- but it's going to be tough, those guys are good. I think right now if we had a devs vs. artists HoC faceoff that the artists would completely dominate.

lanzer

Vendz 4 Life

lanzer who u voted to win obama or ronnie?

I can't vote since I'm still a Canadian! Waiting for my citizenship but if I could vote, it'll probably be for Obama since I'd like the country to place more focus on the nation's deficit, amongst other issues that are important, but won't be as important if our economy does not recover.

milkbun

Hybernation

milkbun

Hybernation

Pardon, please, I have a question to ask on behalf of my friend...
Um, the shop keeper Ruby is still in one of her halloween costumes, and he's wondering why she's not wearing normal clothing.
Um, thank you!

She's in her normal clothing. The blue dress and wings. 3nodding

She's not going to wear anything else?

Not till next Halloween (or another event).

Zero Omega

Lyanda

Dear Admins

so I've completed the achievement for the Halloween events this year. The achievement is listed under my "available achievement" section, however I still don't have it...?

Go ahead and file a ticket at http://www.gaiaonline.com/help , our staff will be able to help out with that.

Uncle Kenny

Darling Vortexus

What was with the red and blue lines in the election event? I wasn't sure what that was supposed to be.

It indicated the relative popularity of the candidates response for that question.

Zero Omega

DeviL Inside Joo

Hello guys! I just want to ask about the Featured Avatar event. Wasnt there a reward before? Or the reward is the featuring of the avatar? smile

The reward was just being featured! You might be thinking of winning one of the top ten spots in the Avatar Arena, which gets you gold.

milkbun

morgieneko

Can you fix the Blade of the Dawn Sky boots, please? cat_4laugh



*edit
pretty much everything in the back isn't aligned

I'll look at it tomorrow. If it isn't fixed in a few days just poke me so I remember.

siskataya

MissJewelsOfChrist

hi mr lanzer im MissJewelsOfchrist i just wanna say i loved the event last week's gaia election it was awesome. i was for diedrich smile as for real life elections between obama and ronnie i loved the result of that. go obama! anyways i was wondering if you guys ever consider ever doing a contest on who can send the most gaia awesome mail in drawing (art) ? i think its a good idea i mean not everyone knows how to do the internet way of sending drawings (trust me im one of them) so please respond as soon as you can ok? have a nice day

Ah ha! I know you - you sent in some ART to us. Thank you so much for that- it is awesome! And we do have a place for mailed in art, the new Going Postal. Since we've started getting more mail in art lately, we'll be featuring it there. biggrin

lanzer

Obsidian Goat

You should improve the guilds, focus on those for now, improve quality of management and of editing, I'd be grateful! Also, I know you guys are always, AAAALWAYS busy, but I'd like to ask you the why of no name recycling, I know a relative answer but I'd like to hear it from you, personally to have a clearer view of what it actually involves, because there are allot of good names out there claimed by either one timers or never used mules, even permabans, I think this would help not having people called XxX_Nightnipples_XxX or 696969_dragonslayerswoop_696969.

The actual amount of work for recycling of names are tricky as it's not a one time deal, with potential for old users not being able to log back on, old posts looking different with user name changed, search and PM would point to different users with the same search keywords, and support related issues. Though the main reason was the fact that each name can only satisfy one user, and for every user who get to have the name he or she likes, everyone else who wanted the same name is still out of luck. We do want to support name recycling in one way or another, though the priority is still placed on events and games for the time being.

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Darkened Fay

1. I would love to know how you guys manage to keep up with all the posts here.

lots of refreshing and lots of people and lots of shouting across the office

Panagrammic

Dildoe Faggums

When is Heralds of Chaos going to be open for everyone, and no longer in the "Beta" stage? I'm a big fan of MMO's; I was there when zOMG was first released, and I've been playing World of Warcraft since that has been out as well, along with countless others. How is the game play like? is it like Tower Defense? An actual MMO?

We're sending out invites every day -- it's pretty close to being open to all. It'll be in beta for a bit even after it's open to everybody, I suspect.

milkbun

Doom Lemons

How are you guys today? Any plans for an animal-destruction themed EI after bunnihilation? I'd love to see a Guinea pig theme! *not taking orders from my two adorable piggies glaring at me* eek

We'll most likely continue the tradition and make another animal EI after Bunnihilation is done but as for what animal (OR MAYBE EVEN NOT AN ANIMAL!), I'm not sure what.

Uncle Kenny

-Yuui-TR-Flourite-

^^'

Is there away to block someone from replying to you?
When you have them on ignore.
Seeing their name pop up.
Gets a little annoying.

I was sort of disappoint with the election.
It was crazy.
Main reason.
Why I didn't vote for neither of them, went with the 3rd party.

I have some enhancements for the Ignore system coming up that should remedy this.

Zero Omega

Mof Queen

I don't want this to seem like a silly question. Its been a long time I have been warned for my behavior since the recent warning I got. Does the warning fade away after a long extent of time or is it permanent? I admit I sometime slip up when I post things and I don't give it second thought to delete the post.

Can't really give out the details, but we do recognize that if a lot of time has passed between warnings then there is the possibility we're a bit lighter. It really depends on what the warning is, what you posted to get it, the time it's been, etc.

codemonkey37179

HeIIraiser

Just wondering if I could get a definitive answer on this?

Well, as I said on page 3 of that thread, that I am considering it. I've put it on my checklist. So there is a good chance.

siskataya

Toriki-chi

*first time in an AtA* ninja

Haiya! I'm here to help a friend of mine (Princess-Orphelia) to ask a question since she can't attend the AtA this week. So~

- Can we have the option to purchase more Outfit Storage Slots? For users such as Orphie who love to save outfits, 20 slots just isn't enough. sweatdrop

And now for my own question.

- Will we have the option to purchase items in bulk in Gold Shops one day? This feature would be very useful to users who like to buy things in bulk (Orphie and I *cough* ). whee

Welcome to AtA! Say hi to Orphelia for us - she's always a good seed to have about biggrin

We'll pass along the request for more outfit saves. Seems like a cool idea that people have really liked. Plus saving outfits is just darn handy!

As for purchasing items in bulk in the gold shop, we can look into that, but it might not be possible without a ton of work. Goodness knows the issues there were to be had with granting pancakes en masse!

Appreciate the suggestions though ^^

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Toriki-chi

- Will we have the option to purchase items in bulk in Gold Shops one day? This feature would be very useful to users who like to buy things in bulk (Orphie and I *cough* ). whee

Maybe. It's on a list of potential changes, but it's not a priority anytime soon. xd

lanzer

Don't hear requests for upping the slot enough, but I do think it's a reasonable request. Will look into it.

Multi item purchase does require quite a bit of changes on the store code. It's unlikely that I can add that feature soon. Sorry.

codemonkey37179

Ricotte

Are we gonna be able to downgrade our house in the future? yum_puddi

No plans for it at this point, but we will be looking at houses again and doing some tweaks.

lanzer

Castiel Lover

Very happy about the real life election results (aside from the republican majority in the house, still).

Waffles companion. And why wasn't Waffles running against Diedrich? I mean, he is in charge of everything over there, right? wink

We all know how the election if it's Waffles against Diedrich. wink Waffles is gearing up for the 2016 election at the moment.

siskataya

Epic Nobody

How do you feel about The GD community?

Do you believe we are the white trash of Gaia like many others do?

No, actually, I don't feel that way about the GD. I think, like all forums, the GD has its share of users that are problematic, but there are also a lot of fun, kind, and intelligent people in GD too.

Uncle Kenny

Sifu Chyaku

"Apologies if this question has already been answered, but can you make the Loiterer Achievement retroactive for the users who have logged in for 60 + days please? I don't think I can stand to log in for another 30 days which will end up being 90. Even though I do log in every day."

The issue is that the counter for logins is not working correctly. So someone who has only logged in one day in a row, may have the same count as some who has logged in for 3 months straight. Retroactive granting is therefore quite difficult. We're working on fixing the achievement and will do all we can to make it as painless as possible.

milkbun

X_of_Pentacles

Will Shadowlegend's stockings ever be fixed? It currently only shows how it would appear on female avatars, and currently covers up the toes of all male avatars. I pm'd the issue a while ago, but I know the list to alter gender only/layering/etc. is quite long.
*Now with a image!*

VERY old issue. Like, when the first generation Shadowlegend completed it's evolutions.

To be honest I don't know if it will get fixed. It almost seems like the artist made this intentionally.
We have a very long list of items to get through first that were not intentional like green goo and layering issues.

Sandokiri

Castiel Lover

Also, are you guys aware of TinierMe (english version) shutting down in a month? I know a lot of users are returning/fleeing to Gaia. And with Summer Springs, from Gaia, also shutting down, i'm a little worried that Gaia isn't as stable as I assumed it is.

Can we expect Gaia to be around for a long time?

-Worried

The future is always cloudy. But we've survived for almost ten years so far. We survived Helgen (no, wait, that was the Dragonborn - bah!) We survived several regularly scheduled World-Ending Apocalypses™. And now it seems that we've survived another competitor. We'll stick around, because we're tough and durable. 3nodding

Uncle Kenny

badtzmaru

I missed the Diedrich election event! emo I wish you guys had it for a full 24 hours. But, it was really adorable from what I saw in the official announcements. I would've voted for Friedrich!

It ran from 2:00pm PST on 11/6 to just after 2:00pm PST on 11/7. That's a full 24 hours wink

siskataya

mamarita

At the risk of getting the ire of everyone here, I have to say that there has been concern stated on the GGN Moderators' Guild that these ATA sessions are quite ill-timed so that only North Americans are really able to attend them. Is it ever possible to schedule one of these meetings during an earlier time, say in the morning time so the Europeans or Asian members of Gaia could attend?

Thanks for the questions!

We're sorry if people cannot make the AtA meetings due to time zone differences. Clearly, we'd love to have all Gaians attend but that is not feasible for our schedules. We have to hold the AtA when we have the time to do so, which happens to be at 5pm on Monday. This has nothing to do with wanting to exclude anyone from attending, but it is the only time we in office are all available to do this. At other times we here have various meetings, project work, etc. we must attend.

Please let your guild members know that we're sorry if this time doesn't work for them, but if they can ever make it, we'd be glad to have them!

Also, perhaps you can coordinate with each other so that if they have questions, one of you who can attend can bring the questions here and we can answer them.

Take care biggrin

siskataya

Darkened Fay

Darkened Fay

1. I would love to know how you guys manage to keep up with all the posts here.-Answered. Thanks Harbringer.

2. I'm wondering if there is any plan for an app for the new Kindle Fire HDs coming any time soon??

Still hoping for an answer before ATA closes?

Thanks for the question! Honestly, I have no idea about a Kindle Fire app - I don't think there is an app in the works, but I can ask around. I can also pass along the suggestion so people know its wanted biggrin

Panagrammic

vegasshopgirl

I love you. Let's get married, yes? Tomorrow is good for me wink emotion_dowant

I'm sorry, I have strict requirements for the girl that I marry.

1. She must be able to recite at least 30 digits of pi on the first date.
2. Must be able to beat me at Mario Kart.
3. Must speak one of the following languages: Esperanto, Klingon, or Elvish.
4. Should be capable of wielding a katana decently in case ninjas ever come after me.

Uncle Kenny

DIAMOND-XIII_SSC

i know i already asked 2x tonight
but i really would like to see an option to turn off achievements in labs
can this ever be a possibility again?

I don't believe it ever was a possibility. We don't have any plans to dedicate resources toward such a project though.

siskataya

Marrionetta

User suggested tags for item listings y/y?

;_;

That is a really neat idea - we'll definitely consider it! biggrin

Zero Omega

GuinAoiichi

For something worth while please click the icon.



Read the OP and you'll see the reasoning behind it.

You're most likely never going to get banned due to this unless you are actually trying to exploit this. Simply coming across the error because you have multiple tabs open and one of them happened to be a Pink Giftbox that you missed/are clicking on late is fine/acceptable.

lanzer

Thank you for joining us on this week's ATA! We'll see you all next Monday!

[Platonix]

November 19th

lanzer

Hello everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving! Looking forward to thanksgiving dinner? Or are you looking more forward to the Black Friday sales? How many of you are going to line up for deals? Gaia's Black Friday sale is also coming up, get ready to shop!

Uncle Kenny

HDMI

Hello Admins, Developers, & Artists. My question this time around, is...
Why have you at Gaia lied to all of your users for so long? If you take a look at this screenshot I took on the 13th of this month, you’ll see that the last 2 threads have the last post of Wednesday, December 31st , 1969 at 7:00 P.M. Created in 2003?... I think not. So why the lies & secrecy? Was the internet even invented back then?! Is this magic?!?
I think you owe your users some answers Gaia emotion_donotwant !!!
Thanks in advance for any & all answers. 3nodding

Magical time warp threads!

Narumi Misuhara

TehPaolini

When will the mobile alerts be fixed?

When we have enough free time to address it sweatdrop

Uncle Kenny

Scobre

2) A lot of the new games don’t seem to have that much related to the Gaiaonline characters, so do you think we could get more Gaia games with our favorite NPCs?

Not just yet. We're working on some updates to the existing games and have some new small games coming along but none have much focus on NPCs themselves. Perhaps sometime down the line though smile

Narumi Misuhara

Castiel Lover

Waffles.

When can we expect the update to Daily Chance to go live?

PLEASE take out the summer tops and amigo pants and silk boxers. There are enough on the site, already.

Will there be any inexpensive things in the black friday sale? I mean, Black friday is about reduced prices, not returning items to a shop. *EDIT* Just saw the new announcement. Those prices are a bit rediculous. Where is the SALE?? $50 for Jet? How about $15??

Also, yes. I'll be out shopping on black friday for season 7 of Supernatural. smile

Daily Chance will most likely go out tomorrow.

milkbun

Castiel Lover

milkbun

You will notice on the schedule that all the items that were released directly for Cash throughout the year are now 30% off! Plus there will be discounted bundles available just like last year. 3nodding

Sure, but things directly released through cash shop aren't the expensive rare things that everyone wants desperately. I feel like $50 for Jet could be better spent actually buying and playing the rigs that he is from, and actually getting him and a lot of other items. $50 just seems like it's not a deal at all. And very few people will actually be able to pay that much.

Say 100 people would buy him at $50. (5,000 cash profit)
And maybe 500 people would buy him at $20. (10,000 cash profit).

Do you see where I'm going with this? You could maximize your profit by lowering the price and getting a larger market share.

Sometimes I wish Gaia would hire some economists or marker researchers...

I understand but it's also important keep these rare items rare. A lot of users worked really hard to save up their money to purchase them for millions upon millions.

Uncle Kenny

Meromictic

Black Friday any info?

You can find info on Black Friday here.

Uncle Kenny

Tsuki_Kirkland

Evening, Happy Thanksgiving to you. I have a question will there be anything done for Thanksgiving this year?

See my journal for the answer to this. That's all the hint you get wink

Uncle Kenny's latest Journal entry

Gobble, gobble, click, boom, splat.

Yep.

Uncle Kenny

Animal

yeah, are you guys going to REALLY fix the Loiterer achievement anytime soon? (As well as the subsequent 60 day, 90 day, and 180 day achievements that will follow). It's been way more than 30 days since it's supposed being 'fixed', and I've not missed a login and yet still do not have it.

As has been mentioned in the multiple Site Feedback threads about this, we're working on trying to find what's wrong with it and getting it fixed. Once we do have it fixed, we'll let you know. Until then, it's being worked on.

lanzer

Arwen

Hello Folks! biggrin

The FAQ/HELP page... doesn't seem to get noticed much. Are there any plans to move that link where people will actually see it? Its a great resource, but not a lot of folks seems to see it or utilize it.

Black Friday ... I avoid it like the plague.

How's Waffles? Has he gotten better D: ?

Having the help page sitting in the corner seem to be the convention, though where else would you suggest? We're always open to suggestions.

Waffles has gotten better, but only with constant medication and attention. Hope he'll be healthy one day.

siskataya

Admiring Oblivion

Hello Admins..!
I saw the Black Friday event in the cash shop! Excited, but sort of down they were high up in the thousands. Oh well, I might buy cash cards! :3

So any plans for Thanksgivings? Black Friday?

I don't shop Black Friday sales - the crowds drive me nuts. It's completely crazy making! Besides, I'll be in Hawaii hanging out, surfing, and lazing about for a few days.

milkbun

Cyrus Farre

So much good items for Black Friday /).(] but they're so expensive...hehe ^^" shouldn't be complaining, but why so costly? x3

and will Mobile Gaia ever get a trade function and fixed replies to Private Messages?

The more costly items are all rare Chance Items that have never before been offered directly for cash. However all the direct Cash Shop items are available at a 30% discount.

Panagrammic

Sagebomb

Panagrammic

Lurking!

Hey pan

How is the packs update looking? Do we expect new pricing/ return of the elites early this week, mid week, later in the week, unsure or other?

We're shooting for this week.

DJ Helsing

Dark_Splendor

Hello, I've asked this once again before.
When will the winners for the august 2012 wii event be announced, if they have not been announced already?

You can view the winners at the bottom of the first post in the following post.

thanks for asking.

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/contest-archive/august-2012-wii-giveaway-contest/t.81309321/

siskataya

Snowy One Piece Lover

Are you guys ever going to put VJ back in?
That place was awesome
crying

Sorry, but no - VJ is not coming back. It wasn't being used a lot, and there were repeated DMCA (copyright) issues. cry

Narumi Misuhara

[ Glass_wings ]

Who's your favourite Gaia NPC?

Rufus

codemonkey37179

Awesome D41

Hi, I am still having issues with my house and towns loading completely. It says 100% and sweeping floors but never actually loads.

Sorry, I'll check to see what's going on. We are updating the houses soon, and hopefully put an end to eternal sweeping. If you don't hear from me by tomorrow, send me a PM to remind me.

siskataya

Tsuki_Kirkland

sisky

when are we going to see more changes for the fall forum clean up? I know there was a lot on the spreadsheet you put up to explain it.

Actually, it's still ongoing as we speak! I have some behind the scenes stuff I am tweaking, but not to worry - more user-facing stuff will be happening soon. biggrin

Panagrammic

Scobre

Panagrammic

Lurking!

I noticed a new glitch today pan with the targeting being off for enemy units with Hoc. It made it really difficult to do a battle with the target off screen and had to refresh my page a few times in order to continue fighting.

I've only seen that if you're running the lower resolution mode -- what mode were you running in?

Uncle Kenny

BladedANGELWOLF

Narumi Misuhara

BladedANGELWOLF

Is the black friday this weekend all weekend long? Im confused by the calender

Yes it runs through the weekend.

Normally im not this confused, thanks for clearing it up ^-^ Also the random ???? Marked one is that this week or next week since it says Monday - Friday at the top.

The ???? items will be available all day starting this Friday and running through Monday like the other items.

Uncle Kenny

II Lilium II

Good Evening Admins!

Are there any plans to add new Rare Fish to adjoin the "new" fish series? Thank you!

Currently, we don't plan on adding any new fish to the lakes. Who knows what could happen in the future though.

milkbun

Mokumoku Naito

Black Friday sale question~
Will the mystery exclusives be at random through out the days? Not an any specific times?

The mystery items will be available all day long, all 4 days.

Narumi Misuhara

IIwizardeigesII

What does the fix to alchemy include?

In what way do you plan on it"fixing"alchemy?

We're going to "fix" it by significantly rewriting how the system currently works. The updates needed hinge on other things being in place like, for example, our current games being updated and some other alterations to existing site features.

Uncle Kenny

marshmallowcreampie

I noticed we haven't had a regular sponsor in a while. You know, the "watch this movie trailer, get an item!" thing. Is there any reason for this? Have the sponsors just stopped coming?

The sponsorship world is ever changing and websites like Gaia just aren't the way companies are wanting to advertise nowadays.

Narumi Misuhara

For the most part the industry has moved on from advertising on sites like ours.

codemonkey37179

Chombi

Before shutting down Towns1 (killing the hang out we love) are they going to open their eyes and realise that the mechanics in Towns2 are not working properly? The walking is way off, and anyone who goes into Towns2 can tell right off the bat that its messed up. When you want to walk to one area in a straight path the character rapidly moves back and forth all on its own.

Are they planning on fixing it?

did you try turning off the path finding?

lanzer

BOMB4Y

If Waffles were to grow old and die one day, will Lanzer ever consider turning Waffles into a pair of slippers to preserve his essence forever and ever? :puddi

Absolutely not.

It'll need two cats for a decent pair of slippers.

milkbun

Dildoe Faggums

How is the Black Friday sale going to work? Is there going to be a limit to how many of the items on sale we can buy?

Nope, you are welcome to buy as many of the items as you'd like. Some items will only be available for a short time on specific days s,o if you're interested in them take a note.

Uncle Kenny

Dragon Ormr

The prices of the black Friday sale are just has unfavourable has before.

What I would like to know is, are you ever getting around to fixing the issues with the Loiterer and Timid achievements?
I have yet to get both of those and I have done what I was suppose to and I have reported bugs as well.

As mentioned previously, we are still working on addressing the issues with the Loiterer achievement. Once we finish with that, we'll have time to look at the Timid achievement.

codemonkey37179

Sweet Angel Mary

codemonkey37179

Tanooki John

I have few questions for the Admns. Some avy, home and other related questions.

1) When will all the Lex's clothes be equippable for guys? I do like the Lex's shorts and I now notice the guys can wear the gloves now. The girls can all wear Blade's equipment, why cant the guys wear Lex's? And I hope we can wear the shorts on top of the body suits we have here. (like the spacey body suits and Galaxy suits.

2) When will there be more decorative, interactive, and cool stuff for Gaia homes like lab equipment, potion brewery, super large computers, bookshelves with actual books in them, indoor garden, lagoon, nature, and some with interactive plants, and some with robots in it? I also can't stand housing lagging and glitches so I know im not the only one to complain about it. Getting back to the topic, I know these ideas would probably end up cash items and some for gold shop stuff but...... that's just me assuming.

3) That new cash card you can get. I never heard of that before but I have used "uiltimate cash card" before. I think I might suggest a total list of all useable online cash cards.

4) Getting back at avy issues. I wonder will there be more anime and videogame related equippable items that are both affordable and reasonable. (Without getting a demanding item that would end up like the Marionette and Kanako's reflections.) I shure would like to see Megaman Zero/Zx, Touhou, Harry Potter, and many more movie/anime/videogame related items we can all enjoy.

That is all from me. Your thoughts?

I like your thinking in regards to the housing items. What book would you have in your house, if you could?

I'm integrating the houses into Towns 2. It uses a lot less code, and loads faster. Hopefully that will take care of the problems you are having.

i'd have the Twilight series in my home. I also would love classics like King Arthur and Sherlock Holmes.

We'd probably get in trouble for having Twilight books in the house. The classics would be do-able. I like the idea, but just not sure when we would have time.

codemonkey37179

Chombi

codemonkey37179

Chombi

Before shutting down Towns1 (killing the hang out we love) are they going to open their eyes and realise that the mechanics in Towns2 are not working properly? The walking is way off, and anyone who goes into Towns2 can tell right off the bat that its messed up. When you want to walk to one area in a straight path the character rapidly moves back and forth all on its own.

Are they planning on fixing it?

did you try turning off the path finding?

Where is that located?

It is the little white button with a man walking on it. It is on the toolbar. If it is semi-transparent it is off. Turn it off, and walk in a straight line, then go to the docks, turn it on, and try walking around the tables. There are times when it is annoying, and times when it is helpful.

codemonkey37179

Chombi

codemonkey37179

Chombi

thanks, but it does seem a bit fast still, but now that I know i can turn off the jerky movement im not so upset about towns2 anymore.

It does walk faster than avatars in Towns 1. Are you saying you'd like to walk slower?

It looks less robotic in Towns1 is what im saying, alot of people dont like change, me included. We would love it if you could keep towns1 and towns2.

Yes, I understand. It just isn't feasible. I've given the reasons in the site feedback Towns 2 thread. I am interested in feedback about towns 2 though. I want to tune it up so everyone can have a good experience.

milkbun

Little Dead Soldier

Doesn't 50 bucks for item that is roughly 9mil or even 14mil just a bit too high? Or is it placed so high to reduce deflation in the MP?

Yes that is one of the main reasons. We don't like to devalue rare items that some users have spent many months or years to get.

Panagrammic

Sagebomb

Panagrammic

Krampusz

No question, but I don't think I've ever posted in AtA before, so just stopping by to say hello! (Also, I am too poor to afford any of the cool Cash shop items for Black Friday gonk )

Welcome to the AtA! We talk about all manner of Gaia topics, as well as whatever random topics may come up, including: politics, weather systems, food stuffs, movies and entertainment, and food stuffs. And sometimes we talk about food, too.

So those times that you seem to be on 24 hours a day working on game stuff and such, is it mainly coffee, or some other food/drink secret?

Also (For any dev/admin)

Do you like regular coffee or prefer the mega calorie sweet things like "White chocolate-caremal-mocha-frappes" What is you fave kind of coffee when you grab one whislt "out".

Black coffee for me, but Red Bull is also consumed at copious rates by other Gaia staff.

Uncle Kenny

A Random Act of Terror

Since there is the holding 1mil achievement, can we get an achievement for this:

ninja

Sure, if you can get that much gold without getting banned or breaking your gold count then we could look into an achievement for that. Looks like you still need another 27,502,910,688 gold to actually hit that mark though wink

siskataya

Sagebomb

siskataya

My most recent weightlifting pic:


It's how I roll on a Saturday afternoon XD

Totally awesome, getting pumped is a awesome feeling.

Random question, have you ever tried one of the "super work out vid things" like Insanity or p90x?

I did insanity, and a friend did p90x. Though work sadly got in the way and I plan to restart insanity again soon.

No, I haven't tried those workout videos. I do Crossfit and train with my personal trainer Jeff who is awesome! He's actually coming into the office to teach a class for everyone in a few weeks. I think that'll be super exciting! biggrin

milkbun

Ridley Starsmore

milkbun

Ridley Starsmore

Hey Guys.

No question. Just a suggestion.

Your black friday sale needs more mid tier items. I mean, the majority of the items are 30 bucks plus.

NOT an incentive to buy. 5-15 dollar items would be more of an incentive.

Anyway, have a good thanksgiving. I'm gonna go pass out for work now.

Some of the items start as low as 209GC!!

And the majority are 30 bucks or more.

We can toss that again if you like, I love volleyball. What you guys NEED is a spike at the net.

I think what you're mostly looking for is CI items at lower prices. Point taken. We're leaving the 'mid-tier' items to be the discounted CS bundles that have that chance for a rare recolor like the previous years'. There will be 6 bundles this year.

Narumi Misuhara

Ridley Starsmore

Chance bundles?!

AGAIN?!

-Facepalms-

No. Just no. We don't want a CHANCE at a recolor. WE JUST WANT THE RECOLOR. Period. Stick it in a flat bundle? BAM. Instant happy customers.

Have you guys not seen the multiple threads from angry users EVERY TIME this is done?

Please, for the love of all that is good, just put the recolor in the bundle. No chance, no, "Buy during this hour and it's double" Just the bundle, with all the item and be done with it.

Learn from Tinier Me's mistakes. Not repeat them.

Quote:

Have you guys not seen the multiple threads from angry users EVERY TIME this is done?

You are free not to purchase, history has shown us though people do.

Quote:

Learn from Tinier Me's mistakes. Not repeat them.

Personally I prefer to learn from our own mistakes. What works or doesn't work for one group may or may not work with another.

siskataya

Darc Nightgale

Hello! Is there a way that we can get the goatee from SDPlus #327 Hook to layer with the loathing style. At the moment I actually have both equipped, but you cannot see the goatee. Please emotion_kirakira



Postin' again, since I got skipped on the first page.

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll pass it along as a request. Don't know when or if it will be made, but I can let them know you want it biggrin

milkbun

I've gone ahead and fixed it. Have fun!

lanzer

Funem

lanzer, the shops have had a beautiful series of updates over the years. everything has been recreated, reorganized, and even made a little sexier (the shop keeps). but it seems like Buttercup Cafe is pretty much the red-headed stepchild. There are pages and pages of things and it takes so long to go through it all to find what you're looking for. will BC ever get organized? I think tabs like PASTRIES, CANDY, DRINKS, FLOWERS would be a great start.

We wanted to make some changes for similar items to be grouped and organized better, unfortunately the flower and similar items are categorized in the database as the same type (unlike the difference between hats and shirts and shoes), so we need to do a bit more legwork before we can make that happen. Sorry for the trouble.

codemonkey37179

Darien S.

codemonkey37179

Valkyrie Gauge

Do you guys have a vending machine at the office? If so, what's in it? o:

We do not in fact have a snack machine. We do have snacks. A lot of fruits, nuts, crackers and pastry.

Is Snacktopia still a thing at HQ? surprised

It wasn't when I first joined, but it returned. It does tend to keep us happy.

Narumi Misuhara

Sweatpants Princess

Happy incoming Thanksgiving/Black Friday weekend, admins! Any plans on the horizon?

How many of you spend time on this website for recreational purposes? do you like playing around with your avatar? do you participate in the events?

Do any of you have a lot of free time? do you watch anime at all (or is that just not your thing)?

Do any of you lurk in user feedback threads? do you ever see useful information or is it just complaining?

Do any of the writers attend these threads/have the capability to attend these threads? (I don't want them to be spammed with dumb comments if they identify themselves, I was just curious since questions about writerly things aren't addressed to them.)

To any/all lurking artists: LOVING THE MANGA. I feel like this needs to be said. Even if some weird s**t it going down, the art is great and the story looks like it's going to really pull together in the next year. I'm wicked excited.

(First time really making it to AtA and having things to say, how exciting!)

1. Yes. Yes. Yes.
2. Not really
3. Yes. Sometimes but rarely anything we hadn't already thought of or considered months before.
4. They peruse on occasion

lanzer

Yummeerein

Hi Admins, mods, artists, and so on!
Last time ATA was on I asked a question and no one got back to me! emotion_0A0

Anyways...

1. When will the ipod app for gaiaonline be updated?
2. When will the ipod app vs for gaiaonline get the regular shops? You've got the marketplace but not the shops!
3. When will the ipod app get guilds on there too? Not everyone has access to a computer 24/7 like they'd love to. You've got the forums but not the guilds! D:
4. Why can't we try items on in the marketplace on the app?

Plz reply this time! *fingers crossd*

There should be an update for iOS6 coming out soon, no dates yet, sorry. We're busy with other games but we hope to have some more time to work on other features like Guilds in the mobile app. The Android version need a lot of work too.

lanzer

Mirastella Crowley

...I've sent a report regarding to a guy who still bothers me even if I told him that I no longer want to talk to him anymore. Is there a way to block him through more IP addresses if he does create other accounts to persistently bother me? ;--;

Sorry we don't have IP based blocking for Gaians, nor do I know of any sites that support something like this... you'll need to stick to the ignore feature for now. Sorry.

Uncle Kenny

Little Gai

Am I the only one who misses frontier skies? Is there any chance you'll bring it back, even without gold grants, for those who wish to play for fun?

Unfortunately, no, we don't plan on ever bringing the Frontier Skies game back. There were just too many security issues with it and too few players to justify giving resources to update it.

milkbun

Raven Ailes Fiore

crying I'm getting ignored at every turn. can you lovely artists try to make black hair like gogh reed? I'd greatly appreciate it.

Sorry, haha, you have one of those hard to answer questions. Yes we can technically make one. When or if it will ever happen, I cannot not tell you but I will keep the suggestion in mind.

Uncle Kenny

Tsuki_Kirkland

Uncle Kenny

Tsuki_Kirkland

There’s a glitch that’s happening with reporting sometimes : It keeps saying :
Database Error : Unable to retrieve topic information from database.

Is it possible to get this fixed? I know reporting is important

Does this happen in a specific thread/forum? Does going back and refreshing the page allow you to report it?

Its not in a specific thread or forum but going back and then re-submitting the report after filling in a captcha fixes it.

Strange, haven't heard many complaints about this. We can add it to the list of bugs but it probably won't be fixed any time soon.

codemonkey37179

Stubbius

Will we have to rebuild our houses? Will we have to spend more gold to get a big sized house in towns 2?

The sizes or the houses will remain the same for the time being, as will the room prices (as far as I know). You will not have to rebuild your houses, but you will have to pick a new spot. After your spot is chosen, the robots of Akea will safely transport your houses to their new location free of charge.

Narumi Misuhara

Kelsie Is A Sheep

I doubt it's necessary to charge $50 for those items on Black Friday.
You're making extra money from the stupid ads in the daily chance, why charge us so much??

I would just like the know the motive for charging so much for these items when you already make enough.
Thanks.

We're not making extra money from the ads in Daily Chance. If that project makes what is projected it will barely be in the range of what we're currently losing for not having the theater->item grant sponsorships. It's a replacement, not an addition.

codemonkey37179

Raven Ailes Fiore

codemonkey37179

Raven Ailes Fiore and codemonkey37179

[talk of Alchemy and CIs]

I have very little influence in that area. You should have asked me the towns question instead. Although the answer would have been the same.

n///n; I'm notorious for my town questions huh.

Umm what are the odds of having them both to stay then?

To be blunt, no chance at all. We are writing the new towns to replace the old. There are a lot of problems with towns 1. Security is a big problem, not being able to update or put in new ideas submitted by users. You can read all about it here.

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/site-feedback/towns-2-0/t.78071015_796/

I understand how you feel about towns, and I'm trying my best to include a lot of the old features as well as new ones, so you can still have a good time in towns 2. Feel free to post any suggestions in that thread.

lanzer

Thank you for joining us on this week's ATA. Have fun shopping, hanging out with families and see you all next week!

[Platonix]

November 26th

lanzer

Hello everyone!

How was your Tanksgiving weekend? How many of you had the traditional turkey dinner? I've heard that KFC now serves deep fried Turkey. That sounds scary yet delicious at the same time. Anyone here lucky (or unlucky) enough to try one? sweatdrop And did anyone bought cool stuff on sale?

Zero Omega

Sextans

Hello.
It's been a long time since my last account extension was created so i don't really know what the current fee for the trading pass is we have to buy before we can trade between users, we used to be able to buy a Trading Pass of 500g.

I'm aware that the trading pass prevents people from making tons of accounts and sending the 500 gold you get in the beginning to there main account, the 500 gold fee used to stop people from creating mules just to get their starting gold.
But it has come to my attention that many people have been creating mules in order to obtain a free Alchemy Starter Kit which is valued around 8,000/15,000 gold.

My proposal to you Gaia Staff is:
A) You increase the Trading pass fee to 10,000/15,000g
B) You kill the free Alchemy Starter Kit Link

Not to mention they are wasting some good user names on accounts that will never be used again.

Also, I bet some users after reading this post are creating a bunch of mules, which is a violation against the Terms Of Service,right?

That's something we can take a look into. The creation of mule accounts isn't inherently against the rules, but it's what you do with those accounts that we're mainly concerned about.

Uncle Kenny

Sorceress Djana

Hi, I was wondering; when you would be putting more bid blast items up?

We're actually working on a Marketplace system that will replace the Bid Blast feature entirely right now. Not sure if/when items would go up for Bid Blast at this point.

milkbun

Tear of Fate

I have a reasonable issue, with the drop of the all the black Friday stuff, items and bundles the bundles had to play 2nd fettle tell just half an houre ago, which does not give us much time to get the recolors that are rare, it was only yesterday when we finally got the last one to be found, Mellow Cryptodira, Manny people want a chance at these items but with the time span left it will make it impossible to get one unless you are crazy lucky or can find one being sold, I would hope that you Gaia would see this and make the odd a bit better, it not fare to any of the Gaiaen community to have any items more RARE the even the Angelic HALO, with how many there are is seems they will be.

That or make a alchemy formula for the items at lest give others the chance at them.

Thank you for your suggestion, we can consider it next year. As for Mellow Cryptodira taking a long time to drop my thought is that most people were waiting to buy that color bundle when it went BOGO.

There is always a chance that we will sell these rare recolors directly next year just as Gravedigger was.

Narumi Misuhara

.~.Lady_Aji.~.

- zOMG! Glitch Fix Update: Anything new to report?

- Gaia Fishing: For the past couple of days, whenever I try to save a bucket after I'm done fishing, the captcha will sometimes appear as blank. I'm unable to refresh it to get a new one and clicking "Submit" doesn't work either. Thread about the problem can be found here.

- Page Loading: Is an opt-out being worked on for this? Sometimes it takes a long time for the pages to load. I also dislike the “Loading” message that appears on the page. I find it unnecessary.

1. No
2. Thanks for letting us know
3. No, the "Loading" message is there because for some people it take a little bit and it helps avoid confusion about why the page hasn't changed yet if they are stuck waiting a few seconds.

Uncle Kenny

Kimiko Doll

is it possible that we could have more time to get the black friday exclusives?

Since the Black Friday deals are exclusive to the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend, any exclusive items in it are only going to be available during that time. It doesn't really make sense to run a Black Friday sale for a week after the actual day, after all.

milkbun

Sorry, it will be ending midnight PST tonight as planned. xd

codemonkey37179

Blaze the Fire Dragon

Please tell me the Frontier Skies shooting game will come back as a permanent game, it's pretty much the only fun way to earn anything around here.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. At the moment we don't have any plans for that game past the Thanksgiving event. However, there are plans for some new games in 2013.

Uncle Kenny

My Magic 8 Ball says chances are favorable wink

tiranaki

BOMB4Y

tiranaki

BOMB4Y

Who does the staff consider hotter - Waffles or Lanzer? yum_puddi

Waffles is hotter than anyone, ever!

Even Ultra Satan!? emotion_0A0

I'm personally not a huge fan of Ultra Satan, so yes! xD Waffles is just the ultimate... everything. Waffles is awesome.

lanzer

That's not even fair, I cannot come close to Waffles's cuteness.

codemonkey37179

Ash Li Nicole

Hi!

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

I was just wondering though, are the issues with housing being worked on right now? I have items that are locked in my house inventory that I can't remove, no matter how many times I clear all and re-save. They're not housing items, but equip items that I placed in my house.

I am working on it. Send me a pm in the morning, and I'll try to get your items unstuck.

Zero Omega

Harmony_SH

I hope i can get an aswer to my question but:

what does it take to get hired as an artist for Gaia?

thank you 3nodding

Depends on whatever the art department is looking for at the time. For more information and possible openings, check out corp.gaiaonline.com

Zero Omega

Admiring Oblivion

Hello Admins!

Any news on Lanky? How do you guys think he's holding up with the teaching?

Also, I know I'm asking this early, but I'll throw it out anyways:
"Do you guys have any plans for Christmas? And what do you wish you could get for Christmas?"

Take Care you all!!!

-Admiring

The last I heard was: "It's kicking my a** and I have 100 essays to grade."

tiranaki

Black Lust Perfume

tiranaki

X_wishing_well_X

Hello! For the Daily Treat at the top of the page, is that only for U.S. Residents only? The video does not load for me, thus, I cannot click the cards.

Thanks, if you read and respond to my question! :]
- X_wishing_well_X

The Daily Treat (not the cash tree), should allow you to receive a small gold amount if you are not a US resident or if there are no videos to show. The Cash tree may or may not have videos or offers available, depending on your area.

Yes but how come we cant even click the card for small gold?

I wish I knew! It sounds like it may be a glitch or technical issue, if you haven't already make sure to post a thread in Bug Reports so that the devs can take a look.

Uncle Kenny

Marie-Cris

2: I know we got new fishing fish earlier this year, but I had a thought when I was looking back over an old graphic I made. Would it be possible to release special Halloween / Christmas / et cetera fish that come out in the holiday's month each year? So ... you know, maybe a zombified fish?



I just think some holiday fish and crafting items would be kinda neat. I know there's the panic about events for these holidays, but would it be really hard to release a code at the start of the month and let it run until the month ends?

Anyway, they're just thoughts.

Until we have the opportunity to rewrite Fishing in a more workable format, we probably won't be making any other changes to the game.

codemonkey37179

Glam Factory

I got a new car a 2012 ford focus what do you guys drive?

Well, I walk. I did however rent a car this year, and it was a 2012 ford focus. It was very cool.

tiranaki

Congratulations on your car!

I share a 2012 Honda Civic with my fiance, we got it back in August! Before then we just walked/took the train to get around, or asked friends for rides.

milkbun

The Semblance of Unity

Are there any staff specifically assigned to the avatar glitch thread? I feel like that thread does not get enough love. :/

Also, how come the "In the Queue" forum is never used?

Yes I've been keeping my eyes on it.

Narumi Misuhara

Kohi Squee

Yes Hello there admins! I would like to know when the new inventory organizer might be released? I keep hearing rumors but that's all. And the REALLY REALY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY OLD organizer is so hard to deal with :/

Before it can be released, it must be worked on, and before it can be worked on we need to hammer out how the new one would function. For the moment this is on the backburner.

lanzer

Corinth Maxwell

1. A simple question (or probably one or two not-so-simple questions) about our "Friends List" feature. Would it be at all possible to allow us to expand the view (like with the Marketplace) to 100/200/500 per page?

2. Pertaining to the "Friends List".....Would it be at all possible to add a feature that allows us to rearrange our friends as easily as we can rearrange items in our "Wish List" (i.e., via drag-and-drop)?

3. Why aren't the "Preview" frames in the Marketplace and the Shops as large as the one on the "Avatar" page, and can you make those particular frames the same size as the larger "Avatar" version?

The system was built a long time ago, and unlike recent features, it doesn't allow us to easily make adjustments like that I think. But it's been due for an overhaul and we do want to raise the current 500 user limit also. Will let you all know when we start on that project.

If we re-write the friends feature, that'll definitely be part of it.

In the avatar page, there are no environment, NPC, nor various information being displayed, so it made sense for the design to be focused on the avatar. I see what you mean though, having regular sized avatar is hard to see at times. For the time being, perhaps you can use the (ctrl +) feature in your browser to zoom in?

milkbun

lnspiration

Hello!

I just wanted to say what a wonderful job you all do.
Thank you for working to make this site so fun!

I just have one question concerning the new gaia homes,
which are incredibly impressive and very fun.
Are you going to put any of the Christmas housing items
back into The Faktori? Some of them are in the marketplace
for a around 4,000,000 gold, and are unfortunately quite
expensive, very rare, and still popularly sought for.
(i.e. Roaring Fireplace, Winter Woodframe Window, Gingerbread House, etc)

That is all I am wondering, really.

Thanks for your time!

- lnspiration

I think there is a chance we'll be offering all the Christmas Housing items again. I don't know 100% yet or that everything will be available but it would be a shame for people who weren't around last year.

Narumi Misuhara

KGB_Czarina

I'd Like to Ask about zOMG. When it first came out it was the craze, then ther was Deadman's Shadows.. are there going to be anymore "Expansions" I'd like to get zOMG back. It's so dull, everytime i log on, there is NO one there,,,

No, we are not planning any additions to the game.

Uncle Kenny

II Lilium II

Good evening,

What was the reason or determining factor for not including "new" rare fish during the same time Balloonfish, Jellyfish, and Ironjaws were added to Fishing? Was it because of affects it could have to the Market Place? A lack of artists to draw items that could be made from "new" rare fish? Please explain, thank you.

Mainly it was just a lack of time and uncertainty on how to add any in.

Zero Omega

CbLord

why hasent gaia made a block button?ignore button ignores the user but doesnt block the other person from seeing your threads.if u add a block button we will not be annoyed by people we dislike bc they wont be able to see our thread and not get spammed by a mule

Uncle Kenny

Is working on some changes to the ignore system.

codemonkey37179

asedc

hello smile sorry for being late.

I only am wondering if there is an ETA for the updated organize inventory or maybe more card games soon?

Well, the bad news is, not this year. The good news is that this year is almost over.

No promises, but we are talking about more games for next year.

(and maybe the arranger as well)

milkbun

Holi Would

Do you plan on adding heigh and weigh options to avatars
Anytime soon?

Nope sorry. That means we would have to redo every single clothing item on the site so they fit different body types. That would mean tens of thousands of clothing.

Uncle Kenny

Bellecoso

Will we be learning of Nicolae's and Captain Cresento's fates soon?

Dunno, you'd have to corner one of our Writers and bribe it out of them. We'll be continuing the plot into the Christmas event though so I'd guess chances are higher than not that you'll see something about them.

lanzer

Kain-Senpai

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone at Gaia! I hope it was a good day filled with much eating and family fun. Now, onto CHRISTMAS! Anything special for Gaia on that holiday?

So... how much money did you guys pull in for the Black Friday sale? XD

Hobbit is coming out on the 12/14! Anyone going to see it?

We're in the middle of planning the Xmas event right now. Got any suggestions on what you want to see?

Everyone's excited about the Hobbit. I'm glad that made it longer but would probably hate the wait for the sequel.

Uncle Kenny

baby_kitty_258

Oh one more thing. I can't find anywhere near where I live to buy the current currency card carriers. Where can I actually go to get the *zeevec* (is that correct) anyways an actual listing of stores selling this card would be appreciated. I live in the USA.

https://www.zeevex.com/retailers

Narumi Misuhara

simple aster

Hello
Two questions
1.) will there be a way to sell wing stickers in inventory ?
2.) can regular orbs be exchanged for shadows orbs in zomg, say 50 regular orbs to 1 shadow orb in the future ?

1. No, probably not unless we were going to get rid of them completely from the site.
2. Again no, we don't have anyone available that could even make such a change XD

lanzer

NanaBananaFana

Hi everyone! emotion_yatta

I have a request regarding the Pink Magical Giftboxes. Can you please put some new rare(r) items back in them? Not too long ago something was removed from them (Alchemy formulas I think it was), and their value has plummeted. Booty grab tank owners and players alike would LOVE to have some new items! Thanks!

I had a great holiday and hope everyone at Gaia HQ did, too! For the very first time ever, I cooked a turkey!! eek It was better than I expected. lol Did any of you try anything new this year... either cooking yourself or just eating? biggrin

From what I know the items were changed for balancing purposes, I'll check and see what we can do as it's been a while.

Congrats on your first turkey cooking. I'm getting hungry just thinking of it. smile

milkbun

Dora The Exploded

Hi! We don't really celebrate Thanksgiving in Sweden smile
When are you going to evolve some of the older EI's? Like Vivacenote(Only 2nd gen), Rosamund's revenge(Only 2nd gen) Sainte Ciel(Only 2nd gen) and so on, instead of inventing new ones?

Those are REI and they already finished evolving I'm afraid. 3nodding

lanzer

Opera Phantomess

*stands in a corner mischievously*

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! I tackled Black Friday with my sister before midnight right after we returned from dinner on Thursday. I bought some items I was in need of and survived standing in lines for hours. I still have yet to obtain my wanted white and blue Furbies! *grumbles*

1. Rocky Horror items for these coming winter holidays, yes?

2. Is there any way we may receive items that shall allow better and easier ways to cosplay a Weeping Angel that do not include random chance, Alchemy, or high price tags in the CS? You do not know what I had to go through to figure out what would layer over the damn Facepalm item correctly instead of hiding behind the torso, let alone attempting to find the right colours (of which was impossible) and being forced to use the animated pose of Curse of the Gray Wizard in order to get the coloured items monotone. I would gladly pay $5 for a pair of nicely made stone angel wings in the CS without needing to jump through hoops involving the above pet peeves of mine (so long as I have the money to spend, that is.).

Hats off for surviving the chaos of Black Friday shopping, especially for lining up from midnight.

We try to put as much varieties as we can on different styles, but it's very difficult to anticipate how everyone would want to use each item in their own ways. We'll keep your suggestion in mind though. Thank you.

Narumi Misuhara

Holi Would

Another question,
Why don't you guys add color options for every item that comes out?
Or at least for clothing?

This would require a complete rewrite to how our item/avatar system works. ...Not happenin'

milkbun

CuddlexPanda

milkbun

CuddlexPanda

Hi Admins!
Two questions for today:
1)I'm not sure, but I don't think Wisteria has finished evolving right?
2)Also, is Wisteria an REI or EI? because in the announcements. it says EI but in the market (tags) it says it is a REI.
Thanks for answering and taking your time to read this. (Thanking in advance <3)

I don't think it's done and it's an REI.

Alright ty Milkbun. heart
Oh yeah, are you going to make more items(like rei or ei in the near future)? I really loved apprentice charm!

Oh thank you <3
Yeah I'll be making more REIs in the future for sure.

Narumi Misuhara

unchanging

Dear Admins,
I want to know if an Animated Avatar Arena is a plausible possibility. Thank you in advance for your time.

Cool idea, but not at this time.

lanzer

Cecilia Davidson

Is there any chance that (a) Avatar Arena's score glitch will be fixed and that (b) the spotlight glitch and (c) inability to edit entries will ALSO be fixed?

Because i'm getting tired of the damn thing being systematically ignored.

The arena fixes is in the queue of bug fixes, can't say when but we'll get to it as soon as we can. Sorry for the wait.

codemonkey37179

Yoru no kitsune

Do you guys get together and party while thinking of new ideas for Gaia?

I want to just say yes, and leave you with that illusion. I wish we did!

We get together for brainstorming sessions, but I will strongly encourage Narumi to consider the party idea.

Narumi Misuhara

Angel Ein

When will the Daily Chance's new items be updated?

We're shooting for later this week, but it's not set in stone.

milkbun

Dropped My Bass

Also, When will they fix the glitch on Fall 2012 Men's Collection. Im getting agitatd of the gree inbetween my legs >:U

Oh that is strange, I cannot see the green goo when testing it. It must be happening when paired with another item. Do you have something under the legs or a skin? I can try to look into it.

milkbun

Black Death Goddess

Also I wanted to thank Mishiri for this fabulous hair from Wisteria. heart

I will pass it along to her! 3nodding

Zero Omega

K i n g X u m o t - XVI

Can we please have a "Philosophy" forum?

Possibly! It's something we can talk about.

codemonkey37179

Tsuki_Kirkland

codemonkey37179

Tsuki_Kirkland

Hey Admins

Can Gooble Gooble Bang Bang be a permanent new game?

That would be cool, but I'm afraid it is going back in the closet for now. We have more games planned for 2013.

awww..but ooh new games. That sounds promising. any chance it might come back again next Thanksgiving?

That would be nice. I wouldn't have to build a new game, LOL.

milkbun

Sweet Angel Mary

Will ashen marionette, ultra satan and the golden doll box be available again next black friday or are they gonna be gone forever?

I don't know, we don't have next year's planned out haha. SDPlus GOLD is exclusive to Black Friday events. Ashen Marionette and Ultra Satan are not so there is always a chance they may be available as a rare item like in a CI.

Narumi Misuhara

The Sacred Darkness

This is my first time ever posting on ATA so please forgive me if I sound stupid...

I am an active Gaia Roleplayer, meaning guilds and forums are my life pretty much.
The one thing I have definitely noticed is that the BBC coding in forums and guilds are different.
When coding in forums it is not always required to put [./color] after every time you change the color, yet in guilds you must or your entire code is messed up.
This often makes coding much more lengthy in guilds than it is in the forums.

Is there anyway to make the codes in both forums and guilds the same, possibly the less lengthy version.

Another thing about guilds and forums.
The sizing of the posts are different.
I constantly make layouts in the testing forum and they turn out pretty good, but when I transfer them to the guilds, often I need to change them because sizes get changed and it looks all screw up.
Anyway to make sizing the same as well?

Welcome to ATA!

This is actually an issue that has been brought up a lot. The short answer is no we will not be making these changes at this time.

The long answer is...
The guilds and forum system use completely different backends to work. To get them both the same would mean scrapping the existing guilds system and re-writing it. A project that would require months of development work. In addition the new version would not be compatible with the old, requiring that everyone switch to the new version and the old ones would be read-only. We're not able to make such a development commitment to that at this time.

milkbun

Winter Hue

milkbun

Winter Hue

I really don't know how the artists are assigned what, but could we possibly see future REIs by artists that frequently make CS bundles, MCs, and RIG items?

Personally I would love to see REIs and/or EIs made by:
Bluefeathers, Lowkei, Miori, reirei, and Bandis77.

Also, is our next 999GC Evolving Item in the works? ninja

It's always a possibility but REIs take a long time to make and then we don't have those artist's for CS, MC, CI... etc sweatdrop

Oh no, I understand that. I am not saying that they should drop all of their work.
Making it a long term project for a future release would be a step in the right direction.
( Or basically the direction of me getting my way and being selfish. XD; )
Like making a pose every now and then for the item, but not releasing it until all the poses are made.
Seems like it would be a very productive and efficient way of producing more REIs with different varieties of pixeling styles.
(Not that we don't like the current styles. More variety is always a plus)

Heck, I am sure Gaians would love more collaboration REIs like the Sugarsuite.
Of course I am not going to assume that I know how artists are paid for their work...
So I have really no idea what all of this would entail and how it would affect them monetarily.

Those were ideas kicked around so again it's always possible! During the holiday season we are so swamped though there is no free time. Also *cough* when there is free time I ask some of those artists from other teams to make CS bundles for us...*cough*

Uncle Kenny

drakokatze

Will it ever be possible to make a thread/ posts on the front page that can be shareable/ edited by multiple people? That way for threads with co-owners or whatnot, there would be less need to make a mule and share around the password information for it, and switch back and forth between accounts xd

and great job on all you guys do, thanks for all your hard work! <33

This would likely require a rewrite of the forum posting logic so it's not likely to happen any time soon. It's a cool idea, just likely a time consuming one to implement.

Zero Omega

Sen Natsu

Question about bans: can someone be banned from an informal warning, or can a mod go back a few days later and switch an informal warning into a permaban at their whim?

I'm curious because I got two accounts banned after asking a certain mod to stop talking down to me.

All bans are reviewed by others before they are placed, so one can't necessarily just decide, on a whim, to permaban you. We also do not ban users for simply "talking down" to staff members unless the person is being abusive. Have you filed an appeal at http://www.gaiaonline.com/help yet?

milkbun

Endlessly Silenced

How come when in a shop when I click show
new items, it does not order it correctly?

It's an annoying bug! The programmers are trying to fix it.

codemonkey37179

Fire 0ak

Also I have a minor suggestion for Towns I hope you'll find interesting. I was thinking, What if you made guild spaces which guilds could decorate a shared house/hall?(Multiple rooms area's)design as they pleased?
I see it as a digital lodge which people could use to get the most out of the housing items, possibly incorporating games/ movies in. What do you think about it? whee

We have something coming up next year that might suit your needs, but that's all I can say for now.

tiranaki

Valkyrie Gauge

Are there going to be any more new shop items (By shop items, I mean the t-shirts, sweaters and stuff people can actually wear)? I haven't actually heard about the retail for those items in a while.

Unfortunately the old RL Gaia merchandise store failed on their deal with us and is refusing to give us what they owe or return our merchandise, so there won't be any new RL items. However, the artists have a Red Bubble store where you can purchase some awesome t-shirts!

http://www.redbubble.com/people/gaiaonline

milkbun

Maggot

Posted this glitch in the Glitch Report thread months ago, still waiting... gonk



The two Force a Nature items don't layer correctly with my mohawk.

I was about to fix it in 30 seconds but it's not a layering issue. I'll have to look at it tomorrow, it's completely missing files.

Uncle Kenny

HAYNIE

why didnt resort world have a halloween event?

Resort World is all handled by Viximo and its game developer, we only host the game, so you'd have to ask them.

Narumi Misuhara

Winter Hue

Tsuki_Kirkland

Admins,

every year this question comes up and I think this would be interesting to know. Why are there only x-mas items and none from other holidays like Hanukkah ?

Not an admin, but I thought I might as well take a crack at this.
Hanukkah is probably not given items because it is strictly religious.
Xmas is given items because it is treated in the non-religious aspect.
All about Santa, not about Jesus or anything that is overly religious.
If Hanukkah had a non-religious figure, it would probably get attention.

...Actually no it's because we can only make items and events for x number of holidays, so we try to hit the ones we can that are big in the U.S. Christmas is one of them. Christmas and Hanukkah are pretty close to each other so it would be pretty hard to do both. Christmas is a far bigger commercial affair than most any other holiday.

lanzer

Anne Packrat

I know you guys won't allow a direct gold to cash conversion, but the issue keeps rearing its head. Are there legal reasons why this cannot be done as I suspect?

Both options have serious impact on the Gaia economy so we cannot do them. Since Gaia give out gold for free, and Gaia give out a tremendous amount of gold per day, any gold to cash conversion would first of all render the idea of having another currency obsolete, but it'll de-value cash shop items tremendously. On the opposite end, we like to encourage users to obtain items with cash, then sell them in the marketplace for value in gold, that way users would gold still have an option to buy with gold. If cash can be converted into gold directly, then there would be much less cash items on the market and items would skyrocket in price. At least these are the short explanation, while there are much more points in detail.

-Derek

Uncle Kenny

Landusk

Will the story pick up from the 2k12 Halloween war, sure we lost but Not like the story died.... Right?

Yep, we'll be continuing the story from where things left off in the coming month leading up to Christmas. Stay tuned ninja

codemonkey37179

Scobre

Please answer at least one and seems like not as many admins at ata today.

Scobre

1) What fun activities can we expect from Towns 2?

2) Could Gaia make a similar permanent game to Tasty Planet involving Diedrich eating all of Gaia?

3) Have the zOMG! glitches posted on Sisky's thread been discussed yet?

1. Hollywood and Rally are both being integrated into Towns.

2. maybe, but I don't know what game you are talking about.

3. no by me. (not that they would be)

Uncle Kenny

La Optimiste

Will there be any updates on Word Bump & the credits that we earn from it?
Or will it just be left as is and the credits will just remain as components for Alchemy and nothing else. Like it will remain un-redeemable forever?

Updating Word Bump is on our list of to-dos along with some other game updates. Swapping out the credits for things like tickets is part of that.

Zero Omega

baby_kitty_258

Can Ultra Satan give out Christmas gifts this year??? smile

What would he give out? Fire and brimstone?

lanzer

And that concludes this week's ATA! Thank you for joining us and we'll see you all next week! Be sure to start your Christmas shopping before the craziness sets in!

[iKillPanda]

I'm sorry if I'm not supposed to post here. I only read the top... I would only like to know how to create a thread?? question

[Platonix]

iKillPanda

I'm sorry if I'm not supposed to post here. I only read the top... I would only like to know how to create a thread?? question

How to create a thread? It's pretty simple. When you're viewing the list of threads in a forum, there should be a button, both above and below the list, that looks like this:



Click that and you're on your way!

[Platonix]

December 3rd

lanzer

Hello everyone!

It's December already! All the Christmas ads are on TV, Christmas trees and ornaments are being sold everywhere, and shopping malls are packed over the weekends. How many of you are decorating your home with a Christmas tree?

Welcome to ATA!

Narumi Misuhara

Sweet Angel Mary

Uncle Kenny

Tsuki_Kirkland

2. When will the December event begin?

Sometime during the second half of the month.

so after the 15th? Will we get a lot of free items?

Nope.

Zero Omega

Seasend

If a thread was deleted by an admin, will your total posts number be affected?jw

It won't.

Zero Omega

Dandelila

Hello Admins! Two things I am having issues with, and these are bugs:

1. My aquarium hasn’t been showing up, all I get is a black screen when I go to it (this has been going on for months). I can see comments, but not my aquarium. Help?
Aquarium crying

2. I’m getting glitches with my items showing up in my inventory as text instead of a picture/icon. Any reason for this? Here’s two examples:
Example 1
Example 2

I did post my concerns in the Bugs and Tech support forum, but nothing has been resolved or addressed.

You should be able to clear your cookies to resolves the first one. Unsure about the second issue you're having.

Uncle Kenny

Platonix

Lanzer, practically every time you post a Waffles photo these days it fails to display (the forum calls it a malformed URL.) We're being deprived of adorable crying

Uncle Kenny has stated that, when Word Bump is updated, it will give out Tickets instead of Credits. Does that mean the three sets of graduation caps and gowns that Credits were originally redeemable for will no longer be obtainable? Or will you make those items available in H&R Wesley's regular inventory or something?

The thing about pictures was a problem with the parser eating https images. I fixed that a couple days ago so any new Waffles pictures should show up correctly.

The graduation caps/gowns will likely be added to the Prize & Joy shop once we switch the credits to tickets 3nodding

Uncle Kenny

Opera Phantomess

I would love to also know what will happen to the requirements for those in the formulas for the Philosopher's Cache and Alchemist's Case.

Credit requirements will be switched to something other than credits, likely just gold or tickets. We'll take credits out of the equation completely across the site.

Narumi Misuhara

Lyanda

Woot, Gaia, I'm so happy it's almost the holidays. What do you guys have in store for us?

quite a bit actually...

Zero Omega

Stray Cougar

Have any of you ever walked around the office in a horse head mask?

L0cke has, multiple times. In fact, he's rode in a scooter race with it on his head.

lanzer

Krissim Klaw

I have a question on the item Nightmare Game. Currently, it has a beautiful secondary hair mod you can add to other hairstyles and wigs. You can also get a pose that just involves the lovely bangs without the bow and bottom half of the hair mod. Unfortunately to get just the bangs, you have to use the scissor pose of the Sainte: Ciel. This wouldn't normally be a problem except since it is a hair mod, that means you can't wear just the bang pose with any long hairstyles because the scissors will also cut them also!

I would really love to wear the pretty bangs with many of my long hairstyles without the rest of my hair getting chopped to bits. Is there any chance that the bangs could be added as a separate pose? Or, could you create a special scissor item that only will cut secondary hair/bang mods without touching the underlying hairstyles or wigs?

Sainte: Ciel works great for adding hidden poses and cut looks to main styles, but when it comes to the newer secondary hair mods that are coming out, it has a major disadvantage because it also clips your main hairstyle.

Hi Krissim, I'll check out the item and ask to see if there's anything we can do on that end. I know that the team is pretty busy with preparing for the Christmas items so no promises, sorry.

siskataya

Kain-Senpai

Question about the Ultimate Game Cards...

Originally from: Tue Nov 27, 2012 1:12 am
Alright... not sure if anyone else had this problem with the Ultimate Game Cards. Since there is no $20.00 USD option, I was using the $10.00 option twice. As a result, I have 10 Red panda scarves instead of 5. In addition, I have 5 Ultimatum Blades. Not sure about any of those... I do have my receipts and cards if needed to confirm I did purchase 5 $20.00 Ultimate Game Cards.

For the time being, I'll use the GC but leave the items in my inventory until notified.

Edit: There really should be a $20.00 option for the Ultimate Game Cards. The amounts shown on their page reflect the amount that's selected on the Gaia Cash page. Maybe that should be something you guys should look into.

Also, if it's best I file a Billing Inquiry, I will.

Heya Kain-Senpai!

Thanks for the great question, and for doing the right thing and holding onto the items. In this case, you earned the items! For each $10 purchase you make, you should get one item which varies with payment method. If you did 10 transactions of $10 each, you should have gotten 10 items. Make sense? biggrin

And we'll see if a $20 option is possible, but we cannot guarantee if or when it could be implemented. I'll ask about on that biggrin

- Sisky

Narumi Misuhara

simple aster

Will there be a zOMG Christmas event this year?

Most likely not.

lanzer

Sextans

Thanks for the improvement to the confirmation page, I'm sure that little change will help reduce the number of misprices further.
Though I would like you to implement my auto-commas suggestion


some day,I know it would help reduce the number of misprices even more and help them become non-existent ..if you're selling a high priced item all of those zero's run together.

perhaps with a Smaller G, We dont want people to confuse it with a Zero, xp wink

edit* Thanks for the captcha i couldnt get first post gonk scream

That shouldn't be too hard of a change. We'll look into it and hopefully have something changed quickly.

Narumi Misuhara

Tsuki_Kirkland

I have two more question for you, when will the new items go into the daily chance? aaand.. what’s your favorite x-mas movie if you have one.

I'm hoping we can get them out this week.

..Favorite X-Mas movie... Hmmm.....

codemonkey37179

hawktstar

Are homes and towns 2 being worked on still.?

Id like to walk to halloween town or north pole in zomg/ towns 2..
well homes its nice to have the classic wood style.. but id like to have the outer walls modern if optional. and id like homes to go full screen like zomg.. and the exist button and what not made smaller.. there soooo darn big.
plz and ty

They sure are. As far as Halloween town or the North pole, I'd like it too, but if I say yes to every idea, nothing will get done. Maybe someday.

Uncle Kenny

Sweet Angel Mary

Will there be an easter in zomg next year? Like recycling the one from year's past?

We currently are not planning on dedicating any resources toward zOMG beyond the already mentioned bug fixes. This includes not working on/recycling events for the space as well.

lanzer

Darc Nightgale

Hello!
Not feelin' very well tonight. sad

So I'm really really close to finishin' my trouser quest. -Points to sig.-
There should be an achievement for it. That's a lot of pants. xd

I like the idea about items from banned accounts bein' put into the mp.
I do have some ideas though.
The really high end items should not be placed into the mp. Instead you can have more monthly log-in contest. This would give a lot of people a change to get a hold of some of those items.

Maybe the low-end items could be put into dumpster dive.

We do get old username requests often. We'll let everyone know as soon as we have come up with something solid. For now we're focused on the upcoming events and a few feature updates that you are gonna love.

siskataya

minaminolover

I have a slight problem.
Before I updated my house I had several items on shelves, and then updated my house, and the items disappeared.
It says they are in my house locked yet no items appear in my house (Its all the coats/cloaks from tsubasa chronicles (sponsor items). it says they are in my inventory but none are in there. By any chance does anyone know the problem?

This should be easy to fix. If you could pm me to remind me about this, I can get it resolved tonight or tomorrow biggrin

codemonkey37179

CaeIeste

Towns 2 is very glitchy; which is why a lot of unsavory folk were around there I assume. I once walked into a random part of it and it made me walk up and onto the side of the castle. As in standing on a wall. The barriers need some fixing.


Also. Is waffles ever going to return in items? As in an SDPlus Waffles or somethin?

Howdy.

Yes, the part you are talking about is fixed, and will updated with the next release.

Zero Omega

nazi gold

will you guys be deleting all permanent banned accounts?

No.

codemonkey37179

Black Death Goddess

Will towns 2 be decorated for Christmas like the original Towns is?

Eventually yes, but not in time for this year I'm afraid.

Uncle Kenny

The Queen of Nothing

Are we ever going to have body items for that Halo Wars Helmet item?

That item was released as part of a sponsorship with Halo Wars at the time so it's not likely we'll have any other items related to it come out. Unless of course we manage to get a sponsorship with Halo 5 or 6.

Zero Omega

Dark_Splendor

Zero Omega

Dark_Splendor

Will there be another lotto sometime in the future? wahmbulance
Gangnam style items? emotion_awesome

Also, can we put requests for Usernames that are taken by inactive accounts that have been banned or just made in vain?

We typically don't make these changes and don't change the usernames, I mean, it's possible, but only under really extenuating circumstances will we do this change.

I mean, some people make accounts just so that the username is already there.
And they forget about it, it's not used as mule or anything, but as way to show off their unique username. I understand you guys have a policy against that, that all accounts are made for a reason and they can't be deleted or something but it's stupid dumb just to make an account to show off a username. emotion_facepalm

I've been wanting to change my username to something else but all my options are taken but accounts that have the year 69 next to them. >.<
What does that even mean?
And most of them are inactive and serve no purpose whatsoever.

It means that the account is so old that it's probably glitched due to never being activated. The policy can always change, but for now we don't plan to make any changes.

Uncle Kenny

True Sefirosu

Hello all,
Is there going to be a Waffles or an Ultra Satan themed game in the near future?

Also, any new forum events coming soon? I really liked the last few that we had this year and am definitely hoping for more.

Chances are possible?

We're currently only working on the Christmas event and don't have specific events planned out for next year just yet.

Zero Omega

Tsuki_Kirkland

Can the AMC forum get a little more work done on it, including rules clarification for what goes there. People keep making threads about making their own anime/manga or posting amv threads which really doesn’t go. It’d be nice if you’d .

* Rename the animation/cartoons sub-forum to Cartoons: This will cut down on any anime threads being made there as the name would be clearer that its just for cartoons not anime

*Add a sub-forum for anime recommendations : Since people keep not reading the rules and posting them anyway, make a sub-forum where people can ask for recommendations

*Remove the pokemon sub-forum: People there mostly just talk about the game, it’d be better suited under the gaming forum as a sub-forum there.

Will consider the points that you've brought up.

lanzer

Opera Phantomess

Happy December everyone! Can you believe the year has nearly come to a close and Gaia will soon be ten years old really soon? Are there any plans to party over there at HQ and celebrate? Is everyone prepared for the proposed Winter Solstice "apocalypse"? Did you all have a hard time finding Twinkies to stock up on and use for your survival once the world comes to an end?

I would like to inquire about official Heralds of Chaos figurines/action figures. A lot of the designs for the Units are wonderful and I would love to have them sitting on my shelf looking all important and stuff!

And, for good luck, Rocky Horror items; I must have them! Rocky Horror blood runs through my veins! The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!

It's hard to imagine that it's been almost 10 years! Actually, it's 10 years and one month ago that we came up with the project and started working on Gaia. How time flies! We'll definitely be celebrating if we survive the 2012 apocalypse!

siskataya

Can one every truly be prepared for the Apocalypse? I have no Twinkies or other such foods, but maybe I can make do with the macadamia nuts I brought back from my recent vacation in Hawaii. Speaking of apocalypses, this vacation almost killed me! Between the shark problem, getting caught in a mudslide and almost falling off a mountain, being attacked by fish, bees, jellyfish, and poisonous centipedes, and having a coconut fall on my head, I think I have survived enough recently! eek

As for HoC figurines, I can pass the suggestion along to the HoC team. And the RHPS requests on to the art team again. In the interim, I will continue to throw virtual toast at you in consolation! *throws toast*

Zero Omega

Renais

Hi, bit of a question although it may be more suited to your legal team. I make nifty little animated gifs of people's avatars using Photoshop.



Stuff like that, yea? I've been selling customs for gold for about a year now, however I've had people offer me actual currency in exchange for an animation. Can I take on such orders since I'm manipulating fairly heavily, or does that go against TOS because the sprites are owned by Gaia?

Not a legal expert, but in my opinion I wouldn't take real money for them as you are actually using our sprites and images. Despite the modifications to the animation all the actual base content belongs to Gaia Online.

Very nice work though, super impressive.

Narumi Misuhara

KittenGrey

Narumi Misuhara

KittenGrey

Hello everyone!~
I don't have many questions tonight, just more curious about a few things.
The comic updates stopped, can you give us any hints of whats coming (or when?) I love keeping up with the storyline and it's sad when there's no new juicy story for me to read
Also, how are updates coming with Towns 2 and Alchemy going? Will the updates to Alchemy drastically change how it functions now? I know a lot of users hording games items, such as paper and flowers, and I'm hoping that the new updates to Alchemy won't make there effort wasted.
Also, HI ZERO biggrin

Hi, Towns 2 is coming along nicely. smile

The alchemy update will significantly change how it currently functions now.

Will the update make any drastic changes to the current formulas? My main concern is if the philosopher's cache and alchemist case formulas are altered drastically, since a lot of users hording millions and millions of game items for these two formulas.

Right now I can't answer that. When we're farther along in planning and development I'll be able to give more detailed updates to the community.

Sandokiri

Zettanumberoneoverlord

admids when r u going to uodate the bid blast

We won't be; the feature is being phased out. However, do be sure to look for auctions posted on the marketplace by a certain starfaring NPC, who was last seen in geosynchronous orbit around Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

3nodding

codemonkey37179

Soundholic

Hi Admins! I just have one question regarding this upcoming Chrstmas.

Will we have caroling in Towns this Christmas, or will it have to be done through the Gold Shops just like ToT during this past Halloween?

Unfortunately we just don't have the time before Christmas to make it happen. There will be a lot of updates to Towns in the new year. Hopefully by the next holiday season.

lanzer

Black Death Goddess

I have a question about closet slots, will we ever get more?

Yeah we're working on it. Will let you know when we're close.

codemonkey37179

Konani_NTH

Yeah, got a few questions here...

1; Will you update the inventory arranger this coming year of 2013? Because it's "REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY OLD"

2; Will you release plushies or clothes to throw around/spread around our houses and it's furniture to show off how cuddly or messy we Gaians can be?

3; Will you Please do something about the soulbound items so we can move them into the Storage Locker?

4; Will you focus more on Housing and releasing Housing items, as well as take care of bugs and problems with item layering/placement of items within housing?

5; Would you consider releasing more slots in the Marketplace in a user's store to sell more items at the same time? And if yes, would those be unlockable through sales, or achievements, or by buying them?

I think those would be it for now~

I only know the answer to #4. Housing will be getting some attention very soon. If you have any specific layering issues, you can post in the office housing thread feedback or send me a PM.

Narumi Misuhara

1. Yes
2. *shrug*
3. Maybe
4. smile
5. Probably... we'll have to consider a good way to open up more slots

siskataya

pandexX

Hello everyone how are you? I Apologize in advance if it seems like i am being bitchy.

Okay i have a few things i think i must bring to light regarding soul crash.

- why the heck holes was the gold redeem button removed this makes this game less enjoyable.
okay so many gaia users hate facebook anyways but we love the game, but the issue is that you can only play it for so long ,and since there is no longer no gold it's not really worth playing to some players. I have seen and talk to many many users that soul crash needs to be more like any other gaia game can we have some trophy's ? items???? can we at least be able to display our multie flags on gaia as well as soul crash please ???

-new season and new flags ,but prizes are not good.
I heard the queen of soul crash herself ( lol mis money) complain about how the prizes are the same as last season and they are now worth equipping 99.999% agree can you guys try harder for the next seasons prizes . user feed back is a must !

-can we get some avi items over here ?????
Okay i liked that we got a item for leveling to 10, can we get more like mabe ever 5 or 10 levels for our gaia avis please ?

Their is simply to much for my poor little brain to articulate at the moment but please dont let soul crash go the way of zOMG! please.
-please check the forums more often.

~ The Crimson Thief

Heya! Thanks for the question. I was actually writing up a dev notice to answer this very question when you asked said question. The gold grant banners and links to Gaia were removed because of a change to Facebook's privacy policy. This has nothing to do with Gaia or a decision made by Gaia but we're sorry you find it frustrating. Not to worry, we're working on a solution for this at present, and will let you all know once we have one biggrin

Social Jackie

pandexX

Thanks for the replie but please ( sorry if its bitchy ) please have Social Jackie go to the forums more often, oh and yes the items sisk the items !!!!

Hi there,

I have been getting out to them again and you should be seeing more from me in the upcoming days! smile

Social Jackie

pandexX

- why the heck holes was the gold redeem button removed this makes this game less enjoyable.
okay so many gaia users hate facebook anyways but we love the game, but the issue is that you can only play it for so long ,and since there is no longer no gold it's not really worth playing to some players. I have seen and talk to many many users that soul crash needs to be more like any other gaia game can we have some trophy's ? items???? can we at least be able to display our multie flags on gaia as well as soul crash please ???

Well, there was just a Dev notice posted HERE and notices posted on each of the Facebook pages explaining this situation smile

Quote:

-new season and new flags ,but prizes are not good.
I heard the queen of soul crash herself ( lol mis money) complain about how the prizes are the same as last season and they are now worth equipping 99.999% agree can you guys try harder for the next seasons prizes . user feed back is a must !

Thanks for the feedback! We'll see what we can do. But, those are some pretty good prizes! smile

Quote:

-can we get some avi items over here ?????
Okay i liked that we got a item for leveling to 10, can we get more like mabe ever 5 or 10 levels for our gaia avis please ?

I'll pass along your request!

siskataya

Heart of Benevolence

I have a question. For zOMG, How come the developers haven't decided to fix the glitches in it? Like fighting General Mayhem? You fight a few gnomes then it freezes. :/ Or the Lag issue. Even lowering the graphics still causes my laptop to lag badly. My crew members complain about it too.

Actually, we are working on getting some bugs fixed! I made a thread requesting user feedback, and we've been looking into some of the more irksome bugs that were discussed. Once I have fix updates, I'll post in the thread. It's just taking some time, so thanks for being patient biggrin

Sandokiri

TINSTAAFL

Sandokiri

official meevs

whats the maximum amount of money you can have in a cash stack is it 2,147,483,647 gold?

Yes.

will this eventually be updated, or does Gaia think they'll never need to?

It's the largest number you can achieve using a 32-bit signed variable, being 2^31-1, or 0x7fff ffff ffff ffff. So it's a hard technical limitation unless we went to 64-bit, something I'm pretty sure we don't have planned in the near future. 3nodding

lanzer

MoonRosePetal

Hello everyone. I just had a few questions that I hope you guys could answer:

1. Will we be getting a regular EI and/or a few more REIs evolving at the same time in the future (AKA after the busy holiday season)? For the past couple of months, the reports have mostly consisted of one REI evolving and we haven’t had a regular EI since Modus Operandi finished.

2. There’s been a bug with searching for items from this year’s October CI in the Dress-Up Search bar. Even now, there are quite a few items that will not show up when you search “All Gaia.” Examples are if you search “witchcraft”, “melodious” (The item “Melodious Witchcraft” does not appear at all) or “bloodstone” (“Bloodstone Maiden does not appear, only the “Bloodstone Amulet”). These items will appear if you have the item and search “My Inventory.” These tags also work in the marketplace; the only problem is in the “Dress-Up” search. Is there a current system/thread to report tag issues like this?

3. Any hints on this year’s X-mas event and/or storyline developments? emotion_kirakira

Thank you for your time. whee

Modus Operandi had been the one that update the slowest. We are scaling back on EI releases because we want to ensure that we can meet all schedules. Hard to say what will be released after Christmas but most likely REI instead of EI...

The search system outside of inventory is a very different system that is more optimized for messages than items, even though it should work with everything. We'll take a look and see if it's something we can address as a quick bug fix.

Heh, you know we've been pretty good at keeping secrets. wink

lanzer

qRegulus

will you guys redo past events like in zomg perhaps?

We actually tried on the last event. Unfortunately some maps and data were over-written when we added DMS. I can't promise anything at this point as even recycling events became a real challenge for zOMG. We'll see if the same might have happened for other events.

lanzer

RetroShoeLace

Yes, I will be decorating for Christmas this year!

I do have a question for you though, I hope I am asking the right person! But I was wondering when there will be an update to the Gaia App? I have the iPhone and I would like to see the outfits shop added to the app. I kinda gets annoying when i have to go back and forth between the app and the browser.

Thank you for reading!

There are other updates planned but the outfit store would take a bit more time to add, so it won't be in the next update. Sorry.

siskataya

Reverse M-dmas

Dear awesome mods of awesomeness:

Is there any way to petition to get an NPC created? Cause if so, we'd love to see mcm's creation, modergator, made~

Thanks!
-Staff of Reverse Modmas (Drakokatze and Sundri)

We can consider Modergator! Not sure how we'd do it, but anything is possible right? And thanks so much the for Reverse Modmas - it means a lot to me to see people celebrating our volunteers mod team. They do a lot all year, so its such a nice treat for them to get user art smile

Narumi Misuhara

Twisted Lady

Hi admins, couple of questions!

1. I remember a couple years ago how you released that game with Sen and Overseer for us to download and play online. You didn't get any gold or items from it, but it was still fun to play. Any chance you'd release Frontier Skies as a similar thing? I'm thankful for the hunting game last month, but I'd love to play the full thing again.

2. SD Plus Cardbot? I'm pretty sure he's the only NPC that we don't have a doll for yet.

1. No, that game was made by a staff member in their free time at home. That staff member is no longer working on the Gaia Online side of the business nor was programming/making games part of their job responsibilities.

Zero Omega

A s t o r i a Edition

Zero Omega

A s t o r i a Edition

Hello!
Recently, I made this thread; Click.
The issue was for the Sign Shop, Contests, Request forum and the lack of mods. I went ahead and copy/pasted the text. While I mod has posted in the above thread I linked, I was wondering if I could get a word from the Admins/etc.

While it's a smaller subforum, it's HUGE for those who visit it often. I'm a retired sign maker, and after last year's move from being in the PG to it's own sub forum, I noticed that there were more violations, since the rules were also updated. Yes, I know it's the user who needs to read the forum rules and keep up, but then there's the issue with reporting.

On the average week, I report about 2-3 shops/posts in that sub forum. There are at times when the violations, you'd think, would be dealt with in a week due to the explicit material involved (bra and or panty shots). I've noticed that, at times, it takes 3-4 weeks for the results to actually take effect. If you go to the CB/GD, you see that these issues are dealt with within that 1-2 week time, if not right away.

In the SSRC, there are only two mods. While reports in certain forums come and go with how many are made, I feel like the lack of mods in this sub forum are disturbing. The two mods are quite busy ones (not saying all mods aren't), but these violations and reports need to be dealt with a bit more soon than 3-4 weeks.

This bring up the thought to as if every forum, even if not needed, SHOULD have a min amount of moderators in it.

We'll see about getting some more mods within that forum to help out. A lot of where moderators are placed depends on how many reports come into a forum. Sometimes a forum's reports can be all handled by just one or two moderators.

Thanks for responding.
I go through, on occasion, and notice some reports do take that 2-3 week time. While I know the mods in that forum are busy with other, higher report forums (the CB,etc), many of the material in the SSRC that is reported is for sexually explicit material, rather than trolling, password phising,etc.
Also- Is there a way the SSRC is able to get a Forum Assistant, or should all of those go to the FAs in the Personalized Graphics?

Seems a bit high for reports, we typically get to sexually explicit reports really fast. As for FAs, definitely possible, we always keep an eye out for potentials.

lanzer

Black Death Goddess

Will we be lucky enough to get a Waffles item for Christmas?

Waffle will tell you as soon as he's done hugging the carrot.

Uncle Kenny

ECMLG

Hello Admins, I have a question...

because there will be no caroling in towns this year crying
so, because of this I was wondering, are going to implement an event or game to make up for it?
(I know you'll probably still have caroling in the shops, but I had issues with that on halloween)

Caroling will be in the shops similar to Halloween, though hopefully easier. We'll have the Christmas event as usual but we won't be using any Flash components this time since we're working heavily on getting Towns 2 ready for its nice and shiny debut.

Zero Omega

THE Aqua Dude101

Ok so, how exacly do i become a featured Avi, iv been wondering for a bit now, but never could get it thought through, other than the fact by luck...and, the best way to make gold, whats that? I also love the site it's self! Very well put together, you run a suscess for shure! (sorry for any misspells)

Pretty much all by luck, just nominate yourself in this thread:
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/gaia-community-discussion/interested-in-being-a-featured-avatar-for-the-gaia-blog/t.48450339/

As for the best way to make gold, probably Booty Grab or playing our flash games. Thanks for the compliments about the site, glad you like it!

siskataya

A Random Act of Terror

/was gonna post on santa mule
/gaia loading slow as s**t on chrome

Welp. There goes today's plans neutral

How is everyone spending their last 17.3 days on earth?

Drinking as much coffee as is humanly possible and trying to hit my weightlifting goal of making a 300lb deadlift. How about you?

codemonkey37179

slp101

Question about Towns 2

What will happen to my house items that show up only in the Edit House section in Towns once House 2 is up and running?

Will I still have them or will I lose them?

(There are some items that show up only in there and that don't show up in my actual inventory under house tab anymore.

Such as my Gaia Puzzle artwork and some items I bought from the Facktori shop.)

As soon as housing is available in Towns 2, just select your new spot and the Akean robots will move your house from old towns to new, and set everything up just as you had it before.

lanzer

Doc Goth

*waves arm rapidly back and forth*

A) Will there be a fix for the treasure chest bug? It is the one you open with a luck key. (Excuse my lingo I was hiatus for about a year). It's the same items...all the time..like a fortune egg, captain's hat and such. Will there be different items displayed for me to possibly gain if I purchase a luck key?

B) Also..one teeny tiny question. Maybe some eyeliner added to one of the shops please? There are many types of eye liner styles out there and besides putting eye accessories in CI's Monthly's etc... perhaps we could purchase these from the shop? Sorry. I love my wing eyeliner I have on practically everyday and was wondering maybe it could come to my gaia

<3 DoC

I'm not familiar with the chest bug, but I'll check on it and let you know if there's any problem, or might it be a matter of luck.

I'll pass on the suggestion also. Thanks.

codemonkey37179

Valkyrie Gauge

I liked when the interactivity of some items was added (tvs turning on, dresser drawers opening and closing). Will there be more housing item interactivity in the future (like the ability to change the channel a few times or turn the sinks on and off, possibly turn stoves on, or make the cash registers go cha-ching and doors open and close?)

Also, will housing eventually have multiple levels (like stairs and second floors, or wall items besides book shelves)?

Possibly on all questions, but not anything too soon. We want to get everything that exists now working smoothly. By the way, the stoves and sinks already turn on.

lanzer

CuddlexPanda

Woot! 2nd ATA I got to take part in. All those other times, I couldn't catch it! Anyways, here are the questions I have atm:
1) Is there any way we can have an REI called "Barber Shop" where the REI has a lot of hair styles and things from the salon or something(mostly very popular hair styles in rl or maybe on gaia)?
2) Will there be more items from HoC? They look nice, but there aren't really any that makes me want to buy the HoC deck from the cash shop..like more varieties?

That is a great idea! I'll pass it along.

HoC is still in beta and the team actually is thinking through what else to add as store items. It's still being designed but I hope to see more pretty soon.

Zero Omega

Kimchi AA

Have you guys thought of making a Gangnam Style/ Psy Item?

Have we thought about it? Yes.

codemonkey37179

Crown Royals

RALLY QUESTION:
CAN WE PLEASE HAVE 4 PLAYER RACES INSTEAD OF 1 VS 1 CUZ THEY'RE GETTING BORING! crying

No. sad Time does not permit. But I'd like to make it less boring.

Zero Omega

Valkyrie Gauge

Thanks for answering my questions. o: I'm also wondering if the anime player section will be updated or live much longer. It looks like not everyone really knows it exists. I'm afraid it'll go the way of the cinemas.

The anime that actually go into the Anime Player are decided and put in there by the hosting company.

siskataya

Tsuki_Kirkland

Admins i have a question, why can’t we trade wing stickers ? what’s the reasoning behind that.

Thanks for the question! Wing Stickers are meant to be personal rewards for things you do on Gaia, like achievements, and not for trade. biggrin

Narumi Misuhara

They are a participation item only to be gotten by participating in events on the site.

lanzer

VKiera

Hi there all and Happy December! Too bad it feels like summer here, where's my cold weather?

I'd actually like to make a request, I've always wanted red Santa dresses on Gaia. We have that one miss. Clause set but I've always wanted to have something like this from the classic movie White Christmas.



That'd so make my Gaia Christmas if we could have dresses like these. heart

On a small side note I wanted to say thank you to the artist for Wisteria for fixing the layering on some of the poses. <3

Will pass your request on to the art team. Thank for the suggestion!

lanzer

Priestess Lina

Will the marketplace inflation go down at all? ; 3;

Currently there isn't any big gold sink so inflation will steadily go up. Unfortunately Gaians are very opposed to taxes so inflation is going to stay for a little while. Sorry.

Zero Omega

TokerkingNEW

Alright thank you and can you please Explain is there any RARE BUGS in Towns anymore??? Demonfly, Purplefly, anything like that, and a Third and hopefully final question, on Gaian members Birthdays Can we specifically get said special gifts/items? but the way so that no one gets confused you have to first be a Gaian For a Year and claim the Birthday Achievement, and then the Following year get something special like a Thank you Letter or Birthstone, or Envelope of 3 or more gifts?

There are rare bugs! But they're rare. wink

Birthday stuff is possible, but probably not likely right now.

codemonkey37179

Konani_NTH

A few suggestions/questions about housing-
since it's growing more popular now as it's given attention~

Will we EVER receive gardens and/or more Floors for our houses? (or within the coming 2-3 years...)
-I could see people loving to have a creepy cellar filled with scary things, or a cozy loft where they keep their cuddlies -or someone arranging a fancy garden-party of tea-slurping
-just arrange stairways/teleporters/elevators with the same kind of arrows you have to get from one place to another in Towns, Virtual Hollywood and so on?

Will Gaia update multiple-level bookshelves? So that you can use more than just the top and bottom shelves?

Will Gaia release more Whole-themed items, similar to the Underwater package that was released, would you release something similar to jungles and grottoes and so on?

More items and themes for Houses over all could probably be appreciated

I love all these ideas. I just wish we had time....

lanzer

Thank you for joining us for this week's ATA! Hope you get your holiday shopping done before the big rush! See you all next week!

[Platonix]

December 7th

siskataya

Hey everyone!

Sorry I had to miss a couple of Fridays there - I was away on vacation in Hawaii. You'd think it would have been relaxing, but no. Alas, between the 12-15' "shark" issues, getting hit on the head by a falling coconut, having a 6" centipede fall out of a branch and down my shirt, getting swept out to sea in a strong current, running into a smack of jellyfish, etc. is was more adventurous than soothing. I need a vacation from my vacation! gonk

Anyway, got some time to talk today? How are you all doing?

Also, I am wondering something: I am planning to have another contest over the holidays. I would like to know: What are your favorite contest prizes that we give away? If you could win anything, what would you like to receive? What are your favorite types of community contests?

Interested in hearing your ideas! biggrin
Sisky


P.S.: This whole thwack of coconuts ALMOST hit me on the head. This fell while I was walking under the palm tree. I was lucky only ONE coconut beaned me. eek

siskataya

Existential Existence

Near-death experiences? What is life without a bit of whimsy! At least you're alive!

Favorite contest prizes would be art scenes of Gino x Meili making sweet...coconut smoothies...with each other. yes...yes...coconut smoothies.

Favorite community contests would be ones where people do things IRL and post them to Gaia.

At least I am alive indeed! biggrin And I like the IRL things too - I like when people share their creations and a bit of their world with us. Makes one feel more connected biggrin

Mmm.... coconut smoothies...

siskataya

Hi-Potion

Also, sisky, did you get my suggestion about games on FB randomly generating codes that we could imput on Gaia, similar to convention cards, to retrieve our level up rewards?

I did, I did! And I passed it along. Sorry if you didn't see my reply. It's a neat idea! I am not sure if it can be done, but I think it is a great suggestion ^^

siskataya

Sweet Angel Mary

Uncle Kenny is giving away a great prize in modmas, it's choose an item from a CI from the past year. I'm gonna do a lot of drawing this month.

I do hope you do another contest this month.

I have a contest for Modmas too! A share your holiday story contest. Its some post on page 2, if you are interested biggrin

siskataya

Yorugami

OMG! Good thing you didn't really get hit straight
on by those deadly coconuts Sisky!
THERE HAVE BEEN COCONUT RELATED CASUALTIES FOR REALZ!

Hm. XD It would be fun if Gaia gave away any of the Marionettes for a contest. I'm sure that would exponentially increase the entrants.

I know, and the team always teases me about being killed by a coconut in Hawaii. And then this happens eek

And, in an insider scoop, I am going to be having a "12 Days of Siskmas" contest soon. Keep an eye out for that. Some of the prizes are sort of, how shall I say, Black Fridayish? wink

siskataya

The anti-social cookie

siskataya

The anti-social cookie

And those are all the reason why I do not miss Hawaii at all!!!

I hope you are ok Sisataya.

I am fine! What's a few sharks and deadly coconuts when you have the rest?! Are you from Hawaii?

Deadly Coconuts are the worst. My dad was military so I spent three long years there.

Nice! On Oahu I suspect, right? I have family on Oahu. I miss my nephews and niece. They are such joys biggrin

siskataya

Alrighty everyone - it's time for me to head off for home. Been up since 4am per usual for the workout, and am going to go soak in a hot bath then read.

Thanks for taking an hour of your time to let me know your ideas on contests, sharing your personal and Gaia stories, etc. I always love being able to hang out with you to discuss community issues, your lives, platypuses, Pokemon - whatever you want to talk about.

I'll be back next week - have an awesome weekend biggrin

-Sisky

[Platonix]

December 10th

lanzer

Hello everyone! It's been a lovely weekend seeing all the Christmas decorations everywhere, and people happily carrying home their Christmas trees. Have you got a Christmas tree at home?

Today we introduced Towns 2 to Rally, though there are still a lot of polishing to do and bugs to fix. We're listening to all your feedback and would appreciate anything more specific. There will be a lot of enhancements coming so your opinion matters a lot.

Welcome to ATA!

Narumi Misuhara

Lei_Trigar

Hello fellow Admins, Devs, the whole staff..

Just stopping by in hopes for an update on a few things;

Achievements, any update on the integration with games like zOMG!, Fishing, etc.? Really wanting those hard earned Badges to be changed into some points and nifty little icons to wear. smile

Alchemy, I know there's a 'major' update coming in the new year, so I'm just curious as to what kind of changes will it have, like will I have to redo my whole thread to accommodate the changes? Also pleeeeease increase the Level or at the very least, make those who have MAX XP 'act like' they are Level 11 in terms of success rate.

Inventory Arranger, been waiting..... 2yrs now for that promised update, I know it got pushed back due to Towns 2 but is there any hope we'll get it early next year?

Thank you for your time. smile

Also, nice update to the flash spaces.

We'll have an achievement update early next year, don't know exactly when yet.

Alchemy, I'll have a detailed update once we're ready to make the changes known

Inventory arranger: I have a dev assigned to investigating the work required. Early next year is a possibility.

Uncle Kenny

ChrisHemp

Any Christmas event being plotted (hopefully with some achievements)?
Update to BidBlast at any point? Or adding new items?

Yep, more will be revealed soon!

We are in the process of removing BidBlast from the site completely so there will be no new items added. We'll have a way to redeem existing tickets for gold soon. The new way of distributing items is now through Flynn's Store.

codemonkey37179

Sweet Angel Mary

Can we get an animated toy train item?

I would love that! *hint*hint* my artist friends.

Do you have a model train by any chance?

Uncle Kenny

.~.Lady_Aji.~.

Uncle Kenny

.~.Lady_Aji.~.

a Fishing/Bucket Saving Glitch: Has anybody looked into this yet? Thread about the problem can be found here.

It's a known issue but it's likely not something we'll be able to fix or resolve until Fishing is rewritten and updated to AS3.

Oh. Can you tell me when this will happen?

There's currently no ETA for that I'm afraid. We're focusing all our Flash resources on getting Towns 2 up to speed along with other changes that today's update allowed for.

Uncle Kenny

gataka

Does this also include the people usually working on HoC? >.>

No, HoC is being developed by those on the Social team in the company. We don't have any part in that.

Narumi Misuhara

Opera Phantomess

I would love to have a Christmas tree at home, but my family celebrates Chanukah, so we have an unattractive menorah to use. xp It seems the only person that really cares anymore about it is my father for the tradition and my brother for the presents.

One week closer to the prophesied Apocalypse! emotion_awesome

1. -insert what I have been posting about in AtA for months-

2. Is there any way to create a thread somewhere to explain, in better detail, what the new update to Rally, Virtual Hollywood, and Towns 2 implies for now and the future? SF has exploded with threads expressing dislike for the new changes, and I think it would alleviate some of the anger the regulars of these areas have if they knew more than just what changes were made and what bugs were known about.

3. Anything more that can be shared about the supposed changes to Alchemy and the general idea of when they will be implemented?

1. ?

2. This update is a prelude to a bigger update coming in the next few weeks. We also do plan to create a detailed thread with how to use some of the new features added to today's updates.

3. Nope

codemonkey37179

Sahliel Vaengbal

Ello Admins some concerns

1) Loading time for the new vh/rally/towns 2 bundle is it supposed to take more than 10 mins to transition from the starting point in the vh to the cab

No, it isn't. I'll keep an eye on it. For now, please refresh.

Zero Omega

Yuma Obito

Question: Uh, if botting is where you have buttons to do things automatically, then is meebo a type of botting?

Meebo doesn't do things automatically.

codemonkey37179

KitsunEva

codemonkey37179

KitsunEva

A Rally question:

Will racing ever return? D:

---
how does the little PDA thingie work?

how do we follow friends in rally when we know they are in rally and they want us to follow them but they show as offline on the PDA thingie?

We are having some issues with friends on the smart phone at the moment.

Racing will indeed return. I've got most of the new game done. I'd like to put some new items in as well. Any suggestions?

oh kul ^^

new items, like car items?

i know one suggestion people have been dreaming of is motorcycles....only one i remember off the top of my head, but i can ask around and come back with a small list if you like

EDIT:

got some feedback from rally-goers. if you meant rally items here are a few they've mentioned

grunny decals
animated sputtering exhaust pipes
coco kitty car (with matching decorations) or a coco skin for the kitty car?
smiling grille (like cheshire cat smile)

if you mean in terms of the race tracks, i am personally fond of the classic maps, but i'm sure there are others with better ideas than i can offer presently ^^;

I'm not sure about the motorcycles as an obstacle . When I first started I didn't meet DarkNrgy for six weeks due to a mishap with a motorcycle. Don't fear, though. He only flies planes now. It think something with grunnies may be good though

codemonkey37179

purplemonkeys227

Is being an admin stressful? Do you enjoy it?

Yes, and Yes.

Narumi Misuhara

Latina Puddingv2

Alot of people are really hating the new rally
Alot of people are quitting too about this
Is there anyway you can bring the old rally back?

1. Who?
2. Who?
3. No, though we can make changes to the new version.

codemonkey37179

KaylaGalela

I can't think of much to complain about with the newest flash space updates. I look forward to seeing more.

I just wish Housing had smoother movement controls... and bring back "humping". XD

I will be working on Housing in towns2 all this week. It should be smoother soon.

lanzer

Sextans

I would say at this point that it would be very difficult for you Developers to disable the voting system in existing Threads, okay I guess the damage is done and there is no way that you remove these negatives votos.

I wonder what percentage of people surf the internet and just prefer reading something interesting, people who just lurk on the internet without posting or sharing their own views on the subject. what percentage is that like to post and contribute their opinion? and what porcentage refrains from posting but like the use of the voting system.?

1.- why do you allowed anonymous votes?

2.- are you going to make this voting feature Optional?

i wish to know who these Trolls are to put them on my ignore list and not have to deal with them ever again.

I mention again that Youtube and other Internet Communities downvoters are hated.
if you want to cause more commotion in our Gaia community , say it!

I say ... if you do not like a video you do not see it. if you do not like a topic, ignore it and go somewhere else.
no need more negativity on this site. This situation is creating bad vibes,
You have asked all Gaians "to like Gaia on Facebook" because you wanted to compete with Justin Beeber. asking people to upvote is not a bad thing. but tell me what people would think of you if you asked them to downvote Justin Beeber ?

3.- this is a moral issue, so what are you gonna do about it?.

sorry if i made some grammatical mistakes, but please don't Ignore me.
i'm just voicing my opinion.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and worry for the voting system, Sextans. There are specific algorithms we wanted to use in both the up and down votes so I don't think we can easily just take away the ability to down vote at this time. However we're looking into a lot more ways to remove griefers trolling with just downvotes and we should have something that will nullify their attempts. The system is still in design but we hope to have a solution in the future.

Narumi Misuhara

im not a mango

Why the changes to rally/hollywood?
It really affects me, and I'd like a reason.

To tie the Gaia World together. This is a prelude to larger updates coming later.

codemonkey37179

Silent cannibal

Hello admins~
Id like to ask...Will you revert the flash spaces to its original design?
or will you leave it as such and only update the way it is.
I've noticed how a lot of users are quite angry of it only because of how buggy it is along with because it pretty much puts us into different servers, rather then allowing us to choose one ourselves/ make our own..
I admit the place new look is slowly growing on me but at the same time the 'bugs' that are there aren't making being there unbearable...

We are working on several ideas to address concerns, but at this point it will only be going forward.

milkbun

lilloulou

milkbun

Sweet Angel Mary

How come it took so long to fix the item leak of the red and black umbrella?

Item thumbnails are a pain... sometimes it takes days to flip over.

Talking about that... it's still showing the red umbrella thumbnail for me sweatdrop

Oh darn. We've done everything we could to try to switch it back. Only time can fix it now!

siskataya

Sweet Angel Mary

Sisky!!! That contest you mentioned on friday, does it start soon?

Yes, soooonnnnn! SOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNN! MWahahahaahah! *cough* eek

To those that don't know, I'll be having another contest for the holidays. My very own personal "12 Days of Siskmas" contest. It'll start on Christmas Day, or the regular day of December 25th if you don't celebrate Christmas biggrin And there will be fabulous prizes. Oh yes there will be. Stay tuned because I have some stuff up my sleeve ninja

Uncle Kenny

Hopingfordestiny

Is there going to be a special holiday event in Zomg! this year?

I wouldn't get your hopes up for it as we don't currently have any plans to do so.

lanzer

jonjon21428

Happy Monday AtA

1) I like the update on those flash spaces, even though it is a bit buggy, are you guys going to implement the friend chat hangout too?

2) An update on Lanky's life? surprised

3) Christmas Event right around the corner? emotion_c8

4) Any news on Towns 2 Housing?

5) Wasn't Sisky going to Japan and going to climb a mountain there? I heard this 1 or 2 years ago o3o

6) You guys did the Rapture Forum event, is there gonna be a 12-21-12 one? surprised

The old flash code is outdated and has some really terrible security bugs, so we had to update the code one way or another. Ultimately we'll make sure all existing features are staying, and new features will make the flash space more fun. We'd like to think that features such as path finding so your avatar doesn't get stuck on corners to be a good addition, but I know that there are many other issues that we need to tackle before we can say that the new Towns is a definite improvement.

Lanky's having the time of his life! He dropped by to say hi the other day and shared with us how much of a thrill it is to teach, but more so, how much work it is to grade students!

Most of the Towns 2 work is inter-connected and the changes should be coming out one after another. But first we gotta finish tackling the current issues with Rally.

Yes! Sisky did climb Mt Fuji and had the best tasting coffee of her life at the peak. Hats off to Sisky!

We're focused on Christmas event right now, can't say for anything else...

Sandokiri

Khrazzii

Do you guy's Believe we will Die in 11 days?

In my 35 (almost 36!) years, I've gotten pretty good at surviving scheduled apocalypses. Speaking for no one else anywhere, I fully intend to survive this one as well... regardless of what happens. 3nodding

lanzer

Sweet Angel Mary

Since the gold grant had to be taken down for the facebook games, does that mean that those playing summer springs won't ever be granted gold for leveling up before it closes?

Sorry we can't grant gold because of the recent policy change. We're looking into whether or not we can make it happen without a link on Facebook.

codemonkey37179

Pancakered

codemonkey37179

Pancakered

How much time does Gaia Online take out of your life?

On a good week 40 hours. This week took a bit more.

Worth it?

It depends on who you ask, Lol. I spent the extra time on the new Rally and Hollywood.

Uncle Kenny

darkstarjaz

When will you guys be updating towns for christmas or will you not?

No, there will be nothing changed in the Flash areas for this year's event.

Harbinger of Pandamonium

A Random Act of Terror

Harbinger of Pandamonium

A Random Act of Terror

Will trash/bugs/flowers/etc be in towns 2?

o3o

yes!

/is probably asking questions that have been FAQ'd somewhere o3o

Will this be implemented soon?

Will it mean the death of towns 1? o3o

Those specific features won't mean the end of towns 1 afaik, but I don't know where they are on the list of things to get done.

Zero Omega

Vaginal Disturbia

Zero Omega

Vaginal Disturbia

stop banning and putting people's accounts on hold......and OH YEAH STOP MOD bullying !!!! i mean now they think they have so much power talk2hand

We can't just stop banning people, if someone were abusing you and insulting you, wouldn't you want the mods to help you out? If you believe that a moderator has abused their power then you can send an e-mail to usertalk [at] gaiaonline [dot] com with information and evidence about the abuse.

one said my siggy was too big and stopped it then i bought it back but didnt post anywhere and banned it again so yeah that's bullying

That's not bullying, if you were reported by other users after having your signature removed, then we would continue to take action.

codemonkey37179

angelpinkydoe

codemonkey37179

groovy fruity smoothie

They're not really getting rid of towns, are they?! crying

We will be moving houses to Towns 2, and Towns 1 will be going away.

We have a lot of exciting stuff coming up.

Will any houses or house items change?

The artist have been busy, and that's all I can say.

Sandokiri

Silk Kanishk

Sandokiri

Silk Kanishk

Hello admins and devs of Gaia. I've been on Gaia for more than a year now and I've had one of the most memorable stays here I can remember. From playing awesome games to designing beautiful avys to making all the wonderful friends that I have. I've really come to love Gaia as such, so much so that I would like to work for you guys. Can you please suggest how I may go about doing that?

heart

We have at least one posting on our corporate page; check About Us in the footer. 3nodding Never hurts to find out!

I don't really have the right experience for the job posted. Don't you need someone in digital marketing? sweatdrop

To be honest, I'm not sure. ^^; That page does update once in a while; in the meantime you might do well to ask DJ Helsing if he has any info or tips on that front.

Zero Omega

Lyanda

Zero Omega

Lyanda

Dear admin. Is it normal for the people on fancy avatar section to be naked? And not just a day either.

Are you talking about Daily Chance or the Featured Avatar?

About the daily chance.

Also how do you guys pick the ones from daily chance?

Those are completely randomly picked from the last 100 recent avatars in the thread. It's all automated.

lanzer

CodedNinja

This would be last time I would be posting in ATA since I make valid points, make front page, and no one ever replies to my posts. I am sorry if I intimidate you guys but I just think you should fix simple bugs if even the users tell you them.

I found out some people have a weird achievement popup saying "Beta Treasure Hunter". It has something to do with adding div elements into the div element with the ID "post_container". I have tested it for a while and don't see anything other way it could be happening, it's only the div elements.

For SolveMedia not working anymore is do to the JavaScript you are calling is not being called under HTTPS. You are requesting a HTTPS domain specified by SolveMedia and you are getting 503 errors cause of it. So it's simply change http to https.

I really hope I don't come off like an egotistic developer but I do have respect for fellow developers. I am always here to help if I can and all I want to do is make users of GaiaOnline have a better experience overall.

Also for my questions, here they are...

Since GaiaOnline has officially made a Gaia On The Go app for Android, is there any hope seeing it be able to be on ARM 6 phone? If not why not? I don't understand what would be the problem and integers. If I remember right but I don't see how any of that can cause an issue in my eyes. Out of all I know about the Mobile API it's really just calling URLs grab data then populate the screen with it. If by chance you guys won't be attempting to do anything about ARM 6 devices, I am willing to give it a shot since I have multiple ARM 6 devices.

I know this been asked so many times but I want to make sure for last time while I am working on my extension. Will Guild's forums be updated to be similar to GaiaOnline's main forums? If not why? I remember a developer telling me that he was working on it since it has been outdate for a long time, this is the main reason why I am asking about this for one last time.

I think that is all for now, I really hope I get at least one reply.

- CodedNinja

Hi CodedNinja,

Thanks for the info on the bugs, I'll pass it on to the team.

Regarding the Android version of the Gaia app, it was unfortunately developed in Corona, and that specific development kit had an update that stopped supporting ARM6 devices. We're looking into other cross platform development platforms right now.

Guild's system uses a different messaging database platform as forums, and while changing the code is a project by itself, changing the database format on all existing posts is another challenge. It's just been prioritized back by too many events and games, but we're still trying to find time to work on it.

codemonkey37179

TokerkingNEW

ANother Question Will VJL (Video Lounge) Be coming back anytime Soon, so we can all watch videos onces again? or Does it have to do with Youtube? and its updates making it a problem for it to be around anymor?

We have no plans at this point.

lanzer

Branama

Do you have any plans in the future to sell gaia clothing?

No plans right now, but if we come up with anything we'll definitely let you know!

siskataya

sweetcookies24

Hello Admin!

Was wondering what was up with Backyard Monster. Has it been going through some long-term maintenance or has it been stopped overall? Thanks.

Thanks for the question! Unfortunately, Backyard Monsters had to be removed from Gaia due to licensing reasons. Sorry about this, but we hope you like other games that are available biggrin

lanzer

Minimum Zero

The changes to the virtual world really brought a storm in the CB.
Do you plan to add or bring back the transfer of rooms, or keep it as a random room?

Yeah we're looking into it now. Most of the old features should be there. Some features are pretty major, but we happen to be focusing on new features and old features fell through the crack.

Harbinger of Pandamonium

Chliste

What are the odds of getting a new inventory organizer? Just curious...the current one runs soooo slow.

Potentially next year, we're aware of the current issues.

Sandokiri

flickadur

What do you guys think about the TinierMe immigration?

We were running low on feed for our pet grues 'round here, and the immigration is a MOST welcome solution to this situation.

Seriously, though, it's a new set of people with a new set of perspectives, which is always a good thing. 3nodding

codemonkey37179

groovy fruity smoothie

I know a lot of people dislike the new rally/VH/towns 2, so is it possible to bring back the old ones too? Have it like "Towns" and "Towns 2" with Rally and VH?

I'm afraid not. We wrote the new ones specifically to replace the old ones. We were having a lot of issues with the old ones. Security issues, it wasn't possible to update. The list goes on.

lanzer

Cryoma

Q: Do you need beta testers for your android apps?
Or anything for that matter?

Thanks for the offer, there isn't any beta tester needed for the app right now. It's HOC that's going through beta but we're hoping that it'll be released soon. We have more games in the works so keep your eyes peeled for more info!

Uncle Kenny

Tsuki_Kirkland

Hey admins, happy holidays. I ‘ve got two questions

When will we see a forum for the x-mas event ? Since its getting closer to christmas fast and I know the event starts close to then.

What are your Holiday plans?

I'd expect to see it around when the event actually starts.

lanzer

gataka

What are the HoC devs up to? They're pretty quiet lately.

And thanks for adding a disclaimer to the HoC Deck CI <3

The team is polishing up the game and adding some more items. We hope to have the game polished and ready for final release soon!

codemonkey37179

Castiel Lover

codemonkey37179

Castiel Lover

[post about Waffles, and the user's own cat who's not feeling well]

There should be a bar with a text input and a lot of buttons. Is there not?

Wrong person quoted.. You guys really should fix that issue. lol

Yes, we should. Unless I just quoted someone else.

Zero Omega

Fluffeh_Toby

Although I've already sent a report...

Could I get banned because a hacker sent me items? .-. I didnt add it to the report..

We don't ban users for just simply getting items from an illegitimate source, if we believe that you were aware of the origin of the items/worked together to obtain these items then we reserve the right to ban your account for being involved with the hacking of another account.

Zero Omega

Tsuki_Kirkland

I’ like to bring up something if I may.

I was wondering if the In the news forum could get a couple forum assistants. As its a hot topic people are now spamming the forum with non news stuff and I rarely see the mods for that forum on. A forum assistant or two would really help since they can do simple thread moves.so can we get one for that forum?

Something we'll look into.

Uncle Kenny

The Silenced Grell

1)Why are things being updated that don't need too much work on? (EX: Flash components)

2)Why is there a drop in users on the website, and what are your plans to bring the user count up?

3)What events do you have planned for the future, and how are they going to improve and expand to add more people to the community?

4)What changes are you looking to bring to the site to keep people involved?

5)Have you thought about making the sell back of items more convenient for users? (EX: A grouping system for easier selling)

6)What do you see the future of the site being?

7)Are there any major changes for the towns or Gaia houses? (EX: Gardens or outdoor decor)

8)Will we be seeing any changes/improvements to the Gaia "games" section and the games themselves?

1) All of our Flash areas are in desperate need of updating and have been for years. The security holes and lack of ability to customize the areas is a very large part of why we're taking the time to update them along with Towns 2.
3) Christmas?
7) We'll be adding houses to Towns 2 soon.
8) We have some changes and enhancements to our existing games planned out for next year. We're also looking at some new, simple games.

lanzer

Sweet Angel Mary

Can we get farm/ranch related items for our houses?

We wanted to have the ability to build your own garden sometime down the road, hope to have some ranch related items by then.

lanzer

Exumer lives again

Lanzer will you please have a romantic dinner with me?

How about a romantic dinner with Waffles instead?

lanzer

Serene Rainstorm

Hello admins!! The holidays are almost upon us.
This weekend I finally saw Wreck-It Ralph!! It was great!! heart
Yes, we've already got our tree during the last week of November. It's at least 7ft!!

1. Do you think in the future we could get handheld plushies/side companions of the school mascots in the House Pride Item? I would love to hold the DurePuff mascot, it's so cute!! heart
2. Have you ever considered using the banners from previous RIGS, and turning them into actual background items for our avatars?
3. Can we please get a black recolor of the Juno's Lace?
4. Can we get more Xmas/winter backgrounds this year? Like a background with a fireplace and tree with presents underneath. Or a mall background to go holiday shopping in, with shopping bags/boxes for our avatars to carry around? And presents and toys too!!
5. Is CrosStitch going to be the only shop updating this month? Are we going to have another garage sale update too, last year?
6. Could we get more candy cane stockings in different colors. If not this year, then maybe consider this for next year.
7. Will Rina get fruitcake in her Cafe this year?
8. Can we get more earmuffs like in Frosted Affection in the GS this year? Winter gloves, mittens, hats, scarves, sweaters, boots would be loved too!!

Wow, that's a lot of requests Serene! biggrin I'll check on how many winter related items we have this year, and forward other requests to the team.

Uncle Kenny

TokerkingNEW

lanzer

TokerkingNEW

On Christmas Day will you guys be giving out a Free Amount of Items or Gold????

Well, even before Christmas Day, we'll be giving free items during the Christmas event, but you'll need to participate to earn the items, of course. wink

LANZER FINALLY SOMEONE FROM THE ADMINS Answer!!, When is the Christmas Event Said to start just incase some people have to go on vacation and they end up not being able to have access to internet during Christmas or possibly before?

It'll start before Christmas and last until after it as well for a total of two weeks. There should be enough time for everyone to participate 3nodding

lanzer

Absynia

I just got a new spiffy phone and I was wondering if there is ever going to be more apps that I can get. Its an android and all the things I could find so far for Gaia is monster galaxy... Don't get me wrong, its pretty awesome, but there's gatta be more! Also, what happened to the alerts, the thing won't let me register my phone and I'd like to get alerts again.

There will be more feature on the Gaia app down the road, and there will be more games also. The selection is pretty limited right now but we have more on the horizon for sure.

Zero Omega

DemonLadySesshomaru

LANZER why do you and the staff seem to want to ignore users outside the USA for the ATA meetings? It really isn't fair to have the meetings at 5pm PST, 8pmEST. Can't you plan at least 1 meeting in the morning every 6 months, say 9am PST so the Europeans can attend, and the Asians, with the time difference, that gives them at least twice a year you can PRESCHEDULE all projects to start a little later and 1 meeting could cater to more Gaians. Is that really asking too much??

How about it? Can we get Gaia to cater to ALL Gaians?

That works for Europe, but what about Australia, New Zealand, and Japan? For example.

Sandokiri

dragonblade629

What are your feelings on the NHL lockout?

It's only hurting the team owners and the league, folks who play high-level power games with pretend money. The players are playing elsewhere, or going back to day jobs, or enjoying their wealth. The earth's rotation causes the referential effect of the sun "rising," as it has since the earth started rotating.

In other words, "meh."

lanzer

Neon Wasteland

Admins don't let children get to you. There just impatient and mad that you took away there toy and are trying to fix it. Keep up the good work. Those of us who appreciate the work you do , thank you and like the changes made.

Thank you for the encouragement. We know that there are major features that were left out in the update and that introduced much inconvenience for all the regulars, so I understand Gaians' frustrations and we're working as quickly as we can to put the features back in.

Please be patient with us, and we promise we'll keep updating and making things better!

Thank you for joining us on ATA everyone! Time for us to get back to work!