Ask the admin (11/14/2011)

[Lanzer]

Hello everyone, sorry for being late. Got caught up with work today.

It's been a quiet week, as we're smashing the remaining bugs in the housing system for the final stretch.

How many of you have seen Immortals over the weekend? I was sitting beside a family with two 5 year olds. it was amusing how the father was trying to cover the kids eyes during the adult scenes. ..

[Platonix]

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[Fractale]

1: Will there ever be an ATA hosted on another day of the week, for people who missed the Monday edition?

2: Is there ever going to be an event, or CI or something where all 3 Jacks make an appearance? Jack Frost, Jack, the king of Halloween, and Radio Jack?

3: Does the king of Halloween, Jack, have a family?

4: Is Meili really dead?

[Siefren]

I cannot access my zOMG! Clan Guild, it's been like that since the very day I made it over a year ago. I keep getting this message:

"An error occurred:
Unable to retrieve information about this guild."

It's not the only guild I get a message like that from either. I really would like this problem addressed, and resolved. I've had a topic up in the bugs forum for a while but never got any feed back from anyone about it.

I am the owner of that clan guild, but i can't access it at all, and it's keeping me from being able to join any other clan, or being able to use my own. As for the other guild I'm apart of, I would really like to unjoin the guild so it's not just there taking up space. Can I please get some help with this?

I made a bug report thread about it, but never got an answer back on it.

[PQ and Retrostacja]

I am really excited to see the new Housing update; as someone who has their house decked out, my anticipation keeps growing! emotion_awesome

Alright, I am going to try and keep this short and sweet. Since most of these questions tonight are probably going to involve alchemy, mine aren't going to be surprising.

First, I want to thank the artist that created my brand new puppy here! I was very excited to see a mecha companion item with the release of Alchemy. My questions and criticisms aren't meant to offend, I am just voicing a growing amount of confusion about the quality of Alchemy items.

Ever since Alchemy was released, I quested for the Groovy MP3 Dog. Last week (two months later, and around 6 million gold spent) I finally gathered all the components and got my puppy. Only to find out that he only had a single pose. All my hard work and dedication for an item with just a single pose that has illogical item bumping.

Now, this is just my personal experience. There are other items which have the same situation, other items at even a higher Alchemy level such as the NPC Companion items. In my thread created in Site Feedback I have had many users agree that the quality of these items should be higher than some that they've been seeing.

Companion items almost always have these two poses: standing on left and standing on the right. Sometimes they come with extra poses as well such as being held in the arms or laying on the avatar's head.

Companion items from RIGs and other Cash Shop items have these poses, but not all of the items made from Alchemy? It takes real money for the Cash shop, but it takes real dedication to Gaia for those items painstakingly crafted in Alchemy.

And so, my questions are the following:

1. Why are some of the Alchemy items not being held to the standard that has been advertised?
2. Can these simple poses be added to the Groovy MP3 Dog?
3. Should Alchemy item layering issues be posted in the Avatar Item Glitch Report Thread, or is there a better suited thread?

[Krissim Klaw]

Hello everyone, it is me with yet more alchemy questions.

I brought up the insane fail rates at the last meeting with people trying and failing countless times at crafting something at their own level. Is there any word on the system being tweaked? I have spent over a month getting all the components I needed to make candy mountain so I can have my cream kitty crafted. Tonight, and with the help of a lot of friends, I got the last of the components needed. The only problem is the formula is a level 10 with a 750k crafting fee and a Low Success Rate. The level 10 alchemists are going to be even with it meaning almost certain failure. My friend tried and failed 6 times going for this.

The other question I have involves the supposed prize. Panagrammic went out stating this, but that isn’t really true.

Panagrammic

Level 10 Reward
There were concerns that the level 10 reward unfairly awarded users with tons of gold. So, we'll change it so that a reward will be given to anyone that reaches level 10 -- not just the first n.

You are still really only giving the prize to the first 5 alchemists. Everyone else gets an impossible to complete formula that will in the current market take 50-100million plus to complete. That is not a prize, it is a slam. Users are currently putting in just as much sweat, tears, and gold to make it to level 10 as the first few so why is it you guys find them less deserving of a little reward? Couldn’t you at least extended the additional crafting path to say the first 50 or so?

[Jayce Reinhardt]

#1
Just wanted to know if there was any chance the artists could, you know, meet the users halfway regarding alchemy. Is it because alchemy does not require cash that many of the items made from alchemy are only single pose even at level 9 or don't walk in ZoMG/Towns?

For example, MP3 Dog and the NPC Companions.

We don't expect Alchemy to be easy but we would like it to be rewarding and so far it seems the artists don't want to change anything. (Even when it first came out and they could have)

Is it because of their managers/Bosses or is it the artists wish to be unworkable with the userbase.

And when I say artists, I mean the ones that created Alchemy in the first place. Pan, Narumi, and JK can easily talk with us and not find us "scary". The ones who created Alchemy prefer to hide and act like this doesn't exist or make a opinion thread then disregard all of our suggestion or improvements.

#2
Are we just not worth talking to/taken seriously for an artist or is it a money issue?

For $5 I can get a nice multi pose item that walks in towns
For three months worth of effort, work, and loss of sleep for alchemy, I get a one pose level 9 item.


Easy third question

Do you like Minecraft?

[Damien_The_Omen]

stare My question for this session is rather simple.

Are the zOMG devs really against individuals being on their own in high-level areas all that much, or did they just assume (as with every other instance following the "Doll Shrine" in Zen Gardens) that everyone who plays zOMG willingly wants to play with nearly anyone & everyone else that either needs a crew or more crew members? stressed

I'm asking because I apparently made a mistake in assuming that the new area would actually be a "stand-alone area", and not "an instance-within-an-instance". That I'm supposed to want the help of other people to get anywhere or do anything in this new "area", when I more-than-often prefer to play alone, is rather discouraging to me.

[-Shiny_Tsukkomi-]

Good evening, Lanzer and co.
Can't wait to see those housing items layer correctly. ^^

Two questions:
--Are you planning to do anything with those leftover cookies from Spring Cleaning?

--What is the percentage of success for an alchemy recipe with a Very Low rate of success? It took me ten tries to craft one of those.

[Lanzer]

A long while back a couple ATA were hosted during Friday. Perhaps next time we have Monday as a holiday I'll move it to Tuesday.

That's a fun idea. We'll keep that in mind. How would Radio Jack fit into an event? Hmmm

No, that's also part of the reason why he's so angsty. smile

Most likely...

Fractale

1: Will there ever be an ATA hosted on another day of the week, for people who missed the Monday edition?

2: Is there ever going to be an event, or CI or something where all 3 Jacks make an appearance? Jack Frost, Jack, the king of Halloween, and Radio Jack?

3: Does the king of Halloween, Jack, have a family?

4: Is Meili really dead?

[Lanzer]

I'll ask the zOMG team about this problem. I remember changes made to the clan guild but will need more detail. Thanks for letting me know.

Siefren

I cannot access my zOMG! Clan Guild, it's been like that since the very day I made it over a year ago. I keep getting this message:

"An error occurred:
Unable to retrieve information about this guild."

It's not the only guild I get a message like that from either. I really would like this problem addressed, and resolved. I've had a topic up in the bugs forum for a while but never got any feed back from anyone about it.

I am the owner of that clan guild, but i can't access it at all, and it's keeping me from being able to join any other clan, or being able to use my own. As for the other guild I'm apart of, I would really like to unjoin the guild so it's not just there taking up space. Can I please get some help with this?

I made a bug report thread about it, but never got an answer back on it.

[DJ Helsing]

Hey everyone hope your week's going well.

Please feel free to drop questions my way!

[Corinth Maxwell]

1. Will we finally get our long-awaited cross-dimensional interior expansions* for our houses with the new Housing update? whee
*cross-dimensional = being able to purchase even LARGER interior housing expansions, despite the tiny exteriors shown in Towns

2. Would you rather have "The Elder Scrolls V: SKYRIM" on the PC, or on a console? ninja

3. Serious question time.........Would you rather sit through a Twilight marathon, or play a marathon of all of your favorite Castlevania games? xp xd

Thanks as always for your replies! 3nodding

[carbonphyber]

Siefren

I cannot access my zOMG! Clan Guild, it's been like that since the very day I made it over a year ago. I keep getting this message:

"An error occurred:
Unable to retrieve information about this guild."

It's not the only guild I get a message like that from either. I really would like this problem addressed, and resolved. I've had a topic up in the bugs forum for a while but never got any feed back from anyone about it.

I am the owner of that clan guild, but i can't access it at all, and it's keeping me from being able to join any other clan, or being able to use my own. As for the other guild I'm apart of, I would really like to unjoin the guild so it's not just there taking up space. Can I please get some help with this?

I made a bug report thread about it, but never got an answer back on it.

Please PM me with a URL to the page(s) in Guilds where you get this error and the URL to your Bug Report. I'll look into it for you.

[Lanzer]

Thanks for the comments and I'm sorry that the item didn't meet your expectation. We had to produce a lot of items in a relatively short time so having multiple poses is rather difficult.

I can't promise if we'll improve current items, or future alchemy items will be different, but we'll definitely be putting more time into future items, especially the higher level ones.

The item glitch report thread is the place to go. Hope we can have your problem resolved soon.

PQ and Retrostacja

I am really excited to see the new Housing update; as someone who has their house decked out, my anticipation keeps growing! emotion_awesome

Alright, I am going to try and keep this short and sweet. Since most of these questions tonight are probably going to involve alchemy, mine aren't going to be surprising.

First, I want to thank the artist that created my brand new puppy here! I was very excited to see a mecha companion item with the release of Alchemy. My questions and criticisms aren't meant to offend, I am just voicing a growing amount of confusion about the quality of Alchemy items.

Ever since Alchemy was released, I quested for the Groovy MP3 Dog. Last week (two months later, and around 6 million gold spent) I finally gathered all the components and got my puppy. Only to find out that he only had a single pose. All my hard work and dedication for an item with just a single pose that has illogical item bumping.

Now, this is just my personal experience. There are other items which have the same situation, other items at even a higher Alchemy level such as the NPC Companion items. In my thread created in Site Feedback I have had many users agree that the quality of these items should be higher than some that they've been seeing.

Companion items almost always have these two poses: standing on left and standing on the right. Sometimes they come with extra poses as well such as being held in the arms or laying on the avatar's head.

Companion items from RIGs and other Cash Shop items have these poses, but not all of the items made from Alchemy? It takes real money for the Cash shop, but it takes real dedication to Gaia for those items painstakingly crafted in Alchemy.

And so, my questions are the following:

1. Why are some of the Alchemy items not being held to the standard that has been advertised?
2. Can these simple poses be added to the Groovy MP3 Dog?
3. Should Alchemy item layering issues be posted in the Avatar Item Glitch Report Thread, or is there a better suited thread?