Ask the admin (07/25/2011)

[Lanzer]

Hello everyone,

Just came back from San Diego Comic Con, we had a lot of fun meeting Gaians who made it to the panel, and seen many very promising movies and games. For those who haven't seen the new Amazing Spiderman trailer, I suggest you check out the cool intro. Seems like all the highlights this summer are all superhero movies. Seen Captain America last weekend?

Let's get started with this week's ATA, any questions please ask away!

[The Triwizard Cup]

Hello there everyone!
DJ, I've got plenty more questions this week >w> My questions are as follows:
- What's your favorite candy?
- Do you have a Skype? If not, you should get one and add me (triwizardcup)
- Do you have a middle name? If so, what is it?

Edit: Hell yeah, first post for 3 weeks straight!

[CleoSombra]

Hi hi. Congratulations on your partnership with Fever Studio.

First off, thank you to Gaia for putting more staff back onto the zOMG team.

What was the reason for giving AutoCash users and Gaia Cash users (donators) a 160k gold curve in zOMG when non-GC users had their curve nerfed severely? I have no problems with the nerf or the Gold Potion, but in my opinion, this should have been a potion everyone had to buy, not just non-GC users.

Based on some math I’ve done, I’ve hypothesized that GC/AC users make a minimum of 20% more gold on zOMG than non-GC users.
I guesstimated that people earn about 750g per minute (farming papasaw, doing endboss runs, etc). If two players, one a GC user and one a non-GC user play for two hours, the GC user will make 90k while the non-GC user will make 42k (30k after 40 minutes of playing, then 20% of 750g for the remaining 80 minutes).

If they both play for two hours a day for 30 days and the non-GC user buys a potion every three days, the GC user will have 2.7 mill while the non-GC user will have 1.7 mill. That's more than a 35% difference. If two players, one a GC user and one using the gold potion at 100k every three days play until the nerf kicks in, the GC player will earn 4.8 mill in 30 days while the GC user will earn 3.8 mill - a 20% difference.

How many perks are GC/AC users going to be given in the future? Are tank owners who purchase their fish from the cash shop going to get more gold from their tank, someday? Will there be a time in which people who purchase RIG bundles directly from the cash shop will have better luck than people who purchase their bundles from the marketplace or exchange? Because perks like these, in my opinion, would be very similar to the new perk they have now.

[Zealand_Aquarius]

Hello there hope to find you in good health, only a few questions:

Is the gold potion are for zOMG and its funding?

As for the zOMGers that ARE putting up 249/250 GC a month to avoid the nerf, does this mean that we will get zOMG items for our avatars such as, the bosses been able to stand next to our avatars? Or even "I am" poses bundle box of fluffs and other animated? This would I imagine get zOMGers to get cash because of zOMG avatar items.
I will also point out that others are thinking the same as you can see:

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/site-feedback/zomg-can-get-you-money-from-people-who-don-t-even-play-it/t.73411107/

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/zomg-gaia-s-mmo/regarding-zomg-cash-shop-items/t.73473405/

What was the idea behind the nerf and was the reaction a shock to those involved? Are you looking into this and trying to find a middle ground?

After Deadmans Shadow and Buccaneer Broadwalk can we expect another area and update or is this it?

Where's our JK SDPlus Doll?

Thank you for you time.

[One and Nineteen More]

Oh god this so long, I apologize Gaia staff! XD
Thanks for taking the time to do this every week, Lanzer and staff. <3
First question is more of a statement/suggestion then a question.

*edit*
I didn't realize just how damn long my OP was. Refer to the poster above's first link.
*edit number two*
Dug up my thread anyways.

Question two: How much money does zOMG! need to make for you to keep updating it?
A lot of users (Including myself) love this game dearly. I would love to support it but...
I just don't play it that much anymore due to lack of updates. I would totally buy items from it for my avatar.
Especially some of the ring animations.
Kind of a side question, but how long until you completely give up on the game?

Question three: We have Arion the Pegasus, and as you can tell from my sig I'm a huge MLP: FIM fan. Think we can get a recolor of him and make it look like this pony (or one of the two in the background)?
Derpy Hooves!

[Koleda]

Since my question wasn't answered for 2 week.

DJ Helsing, Please marry The Triwizard Cup?

[Platonix]

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[Shadow Coon II]

Welcome back! I hope you had a great time~

Was the Amazing Spiderman panel as awesome as I'd hoped? :3

As for real questions, I only have one: The current inventory arrangement system is a bit buggy/sluggish and I was wondering if there are going to be any updates to it or a new version rolled out in the foreseeable future?

My inventory's a mess, but, with the amount of items I have, trying to arrange around the strange refreshing and such is just not really doable. gonk

[Corinth Maxwell]

ninja Hello again, Gaia staff! It'll be absolutely SPEC-****ING-TACULAR if this particular ATA session can avoid being flooded with a godless amount of questions/flames/etc. that are directly related to the recent zOMG gold nerfing/capping, but considering how people have had all weekend to fume & ragepost over it, that's wishful thinking at this point. stressed evil

1. Why is it that we aren't able to search items in the Marketplace by color as well as "item type"? I tried searching for a "black jacket" last week, and got a bunch of results with colors that are anything BUT black.

2. What happened to video looping (i.e., auto-repeating: "insert YouTube link here"&loop=1) for YouTube videos in Profiles? I thought that video embedding was supposed to have been fixed so that they could be looped properly again after a supposed "glitch".

3. When will users finally have that "staff-only" option of disabling the "like/dislike" feature in their own topics? In case it hasn't been mentioned yet, we're sick & tired of other users abusing that feature to "troll anonymously" without having to post their reasons for disliking topics we make, regardless of their subject matter.

And with that.......*waits patiently for his questions to be answered* whee

[Princess Peach-Chan]

Koleda and Cup keep nagging me to, so, DJ PLEASE MARRY TRIWIZARD CUP.

ALSO GET RID OF THAT FAWKING ZOMG CAP.

[Equinoxious]

DJ Helsing, pleaaase marry the Triwizard Cup so she will shut up about it already.

okay

thank you for your time

[jellykans]

Would it be possible to add a new feature that allows a user to block an ignored person from their profile - without requiring the user to close the profile to all or to all but friends?

Currently, I have someone who will not stay off and who continues on to my friends' profiles. I should be able to block this intrusion without having to be limited by a private or semi-private profile. And without having to deal with reports.

In fact, most users assume an ignored person cannot get onto their profile.

[what a cunning stunt]

no idea if this has been answered before but how will the second half of piehard work?

[Doomdragon8]

Hello!This is my first time here so lemme ask~Do you think zOMG might get shut down? gonk



Oh and also do you play zOMG?I would love seeing you randomly pop up for a dev meat w/o [ JK ] knowing lol

[PingPangPOW]

Why not make D*C a permanent shop with permanent items? It's the perfect gold-sink, and it could be very well one of the best solutions to the inflated economy on here, or atleast a very good one. I'm also curious as to why the items cycle in and out, because (imo) if the items stayed there, people would quest for them and more might be bought from there. I'm almost worried you guys aren't realizing all the wonderful benefits D*C could provide you in the inflation-department xD




Also, slightly random, but could you give us any hints on the cookies? Or even how to get them? I'm befuddled on how to obtain them

xD