Post-Goldemort Assessment

[dreamsk]

I'm more looking forward to the Gaia we'll have after the devs update everything and they can actually work on new cool s**t. But that probably wont be for a few years.

[Your Neglected Sex Toy]

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Your Neglected Sex Toy

KuraiSakura

But I have a question, did the soft-cap cover alts and them farming gold because I don't know how lax Gaia was to alt farming with Lake Kindred? If they hit the softcap for the account, it wouldn't have stopped people?

I can answer this for you. There is no rule which would prevent you from farming on another account under any circumstances. So basically yea, if someone softcapped on one account, they can switch to another one.

Wouldn't that be covered under funneling?

It's the same with having marketplace stores on other accounts and trading items and gold between them. It might be frowned upon but then again there are no rules to prevent you from doing that. So funneling it may be, it's still legal as long as you do everything yourself and don't bot. And trust me, far more people do quick bumping on mule accounts because it gives 30b in literally no time, whereas you have to spend some time and patience in LK to even get this amount.

[Knight Yoshi]

Your Neglected Sex Toy

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Your Neglected Sex Toy

KuraiSakura

But I have a question, did the soft-cap cover alts and them farming gold because I don't know how lax Gaia was to alt farming with Lake Kindred? If they hit the softcap for the account, it wouldn't have stopped people?

I can answer this for you. There is no rule which would prevent you from farming on another account under any circumstances. So basically yea, if someone softcapped on one account, they can switch to another one.

Wouldn't that be covered under funneling?

It's the same with having marketplace stores on other accounts and trading items and gold between them. It might be frowned upon but then again there are no rules to prevent you from doing that. So funneling it may be, it's still legal as long as you do everything yourself and don't bot. And trust me, far more people do quick bumping on mule accounts because it gives 30b in literally no time, whereas you have to spend some time and patience in LK to even get this amount.

That's not accurate. If you're using multiple accounts to bypass a cap and funnel that into a single account, that is a ToS violation. Manual or not, it doesn't matter.

Manually vs botting is a different ToS violation.

[blinddivine]

you're an a** kisser. gaia was bad BEFORE goldemort, and almost nothing has changed.

[RevvRaptor]

BlindDivine

you're an a** kisser. gaia was bad BEFORE goldemort, and almost nothing has changed.

Someone didn't read any of my Goldemort era and prior rant threads. They once were fairly legendary for being some of the lengthiest (literally had at least three people per thread copping out with TL;DR replies) and most severely cutting of bad practices and then some.

I kiss no a**, I call what I see. If it's an atrocity, bet money I'd have paragraphs shredding it by the sentence.

For something to be praiseworthy even to a minuscule amount by my standards, previous rants shedding plentiful light on said standards, it has to earn it by performing enough death-defying daredevil feats to make even the most stalwart observer take a dump in their pantaloons consisting of every inch of every fingernail.

It's not a simple 180 that occurred to make me go from repeatedly saying Gaia was a hair's breadth from death to what I posted in the beginning of this thread. You really don't want to know the full details of the lengths required to get from there to here.

[Apollos Liar]

BlindDivine

you're an a** kisser. gaia was bad BEFORE goldemort, and almost nothing has changed.

Gaia's always had several issues, but how is someone an a**-kisser for still being upset over the worst the site's ever been?

Let's get real here, the site is still a mess and the way things are being handled could stand to be a lot better. But at the very least, they're not shutting down all communication with staff, censoring users, using pay to win elements to lock users out of completing events, reselling MCs (like the Halo for 1k USD), selling gold and lying to us about inflation, etc.

In order to kiss a**, we'd have to praise Lanzer for the site being 100x better, which it isn't yet. Shitting on Gary doesn't require puckering up for anyone.

[RevvRaptor]

Just in case anyone wants to take a nostalgia trip to one of my legendary rants for comparison's sake to now: https://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/site-feedback/oh-really-now/t.94805737/

[Breadist]

Apollos Liar

I don't think the ranting we did had any effect on him leaving, but it certainly had an effect on staff. I think the amount of unhappy users and staff might have been a driving force for Lanzer to come back, even if he planned to already.

Unfortunately, a lot of the s**t he did is still making waves, but at least we have a staff that cares about us, even if they don't always do the best job. It's nice to not get the middle finger every day you log in. lol

Nah, Goldemort left when his job was done.

His modus operandi as a corporate b*****d (he's known for this) is to take over a functioning business and make a lot of short term gains at the severe expense to the company in the long term. It's not just Gaia he did this with.

When he started, Gaia was a major vibrant site known globally. When Schofield left, there were 14,000 users online or so. Just before leaving, he sold a ton of Project Tickets of various sorts, and I am pretty sure he knew that most of these would not be fulfilled; but the Gaia ToS by this point had been altered to relieve Gaia of liability to us ift he site shuts down.

So, Goldemort left because he got what he wanted and the wreck remaining wasn't worth his time anymore. Hundreds of thousands of suckers, yes. 14k suckers, not so much.

[Apollos Liar]

Breadist

Apollos Liar

I don't think the ranting we did had any effect on him leaving, but it certainly had an effect on staff. I think the amount of unhappy users and staff might have been a driving force for Lanzer to come back, even if he planned to already.

Unfortunately, a lot of the s**t he did is still making waves, but at least we have a staff that cares about us, even if they don't always do the best job. It's nice to not get the middle finger every day you log in. lol

Nah, Goldemort left when his job was done.

His modus operandi as a corporate b*****d (he's known for this) is to take over a functioning business and make a lot of short term gains at the severe expense to the company in the long term. It's not just Gaia he did this with.

When he started, Gaia was a major vibrant site known globally. When Schofield left, there were 14,000 users online or so. Just before leaving, he sold a ton of Project Tickets of various sorts, and I am pretty sure he knew that most of these would not be fulfilled; but the Gaia ToS by this point had been altered to relieve Gaia of liability to us ift he site shuts down.

So, Goldemort left because he got what he wanted and the wreck remaining wasn't worth his time anymore. Hundreds of thousands of suckers, yes. 14k suckers, not so much.

Trust me, I was very active during Gary's tenure. I know all about what he and his COO were doing.

Gaia was still doing better than it is now when he came on board but it was in a steady decline to being where it is now. He just accelerated that process. The problems with the art team were still happening, events were still lack-luster most of the time, assets weren't being updated and worked on, etc.

What I meant by making waves is that the distrust he created between users and staff and the extreme focus on premium content is still alive and well. Things weren't quite as bad in that regard as before and it's something that won't be easy for staff to mend.

[Renji7]

Nice topic.
But I have one question, what is the current max gold limit one can attain?
Edit: A second question, If you attain the max gold limit, switch to platinum, then switch back what will the effect be?
Would that make any impact on the economy?

[Onikiria]

dreamsk

I'm more looking forward to the Gaia we'll have after the devs update everything and they can actually work on new cool s**t. But that probably wont be for a few years.

Agreed.
The new app Go Gaia is out, Inventory 2 is in Beta.
I'd have to say 2020-2021 are more than likely ETAs at the moment.
The most unfortunate part of this whole ordeal,
was that Gaia Online was purposefully left outdated in order for a foreign business tycoon to fill his beer belly.
He even gave up the website to Lanzer willingly, which is usually never a good sign.
The amount of trust they drained out of us was astonishing, and the bombardment of adverts were obscene.
It's only natural that Gaia Online would have to pull all nighters to fill 5+ years of updates within 2 or 3 years.
We want the staff to be healthily even paced, and enjoy their passion as much as we do.
Patience and a little money here and there is all we can offer them at the moment.