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Phin Phang Opens Tomorrow
We're planning to reopen Phin Phang tomorrow; there will be many changes, such as fish for gold, the return of some popular fish to the store, and substantial changes to BG.

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Easter Event Over

Hey guys, the Easter event has (obviously) ended. Our team of Advanced Decimal Manipulation Engineers (Team ADME) is working hard to sum up the event and declare a winner. When they finish we will award the winning team their item and announce it to all the world MUAHAHAHAHAHA *cough* *cough*...

The item grants will probably take a couple of days but once complete you may stand proud as Easters victor.

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Soft Launch / Phin Phang
Soft launched Phin Phang with a collection of fish for gold -- we'll roll out the fish for cash at the same time that we make the announcement about the changes coming to BG.

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Booty Grab Work
We'll be making some global changes to BG over the next few hours; you may see some glitches in play as we make the changes.

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Booty Grab Changes
There is an announcement coming, but until then, there are some changes to BG gameplay that you'll start seeing immediately:
- the number of gold sprites on screen has been decreased by a factor of 4. This means gold earnings will also drop.
- to compensate, the player : owner ratio has changed from 4:1 to 1:1
- this means that owners should be making about as much as before, but the tanks will be substantially less laggy
- the notion of a player bonus has been added; this is a multiplier that is added to the player's earnings only. For example, a 2000/500 game before would pay the same as a 500/500 game with a player bonus of 300%. (Note that this will report as a 2000/2000 game, but the bonus is only applied to the player's earnings).
- We'll be tweaking the player bonus to try and get player earnings to about what they were before. You'll be able to see the player bonus under the tank when you play.
- We will be gradually decreasing the player bonus over the next several weeks as more users open up tanks. Our intention is to get it as close to 1:1 as possible.
- Why? Because a 1:1 ratio allows us to a) offer dolphin-level fish again, b) offer fish for gold, c) offer much cheaper fish, and in the long run d) makes it much easier to balance the game.
- If you have feedback on these changes please direct them to the Site Feedback thread.

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PP / BG Glitches
Numerous glitches fixed in some of the new fish and Phin Phang -- probably too numerous to detail but a list of all gameplay changes will always be kept in this thread.

One last glitch we're trying to narrow down is one where the gold is reported, but the gold is not granted. We believe we've fixed it, but if you run into the issue, please let us know in this thread so we can track this down and fix it ASAP.
Easter Rewards are Going Out

Now that the winners of the Easter Event have been announced, the victors are receiving their spoils! The Monarchs of Easter should be granted within the day to everyone who collected eggs for the Easter Bunny. To commemorate the losers' participation in the event, those who foolishly followed Diedrich to failure shall get runners-up prizes.
Easter Rewards Have Gone Out
Congratulations to the robo-winners, and better luck next time to the small, green, valedictory runners-up. All of the secondary prizes for participating in the Easter Egg hunt have been granted, and those lucky enough to have been caught in the crossfire when the Easter Bunny was spraying additional prizes get to keep them. Congratulations all around on a successful Easter event.
Hidden Easter Bonus!
The Easter Bunny and Diedrich have issued a joint statement alerting users that some of their secondary rewards were accidentally hidden along with the Easter eggs, and they need to go looking for them. Any users that should have gotten their Fail Book and Easter Crown but did not will receive, but not today. Probably tomorrow. Enjoy!

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Booty Grab Lab
The lightweight Booty Grab glow indicator is back in labs. Please try it out and let us know your feedback in the feedback thread.

For those of you that hate the very idea of this feature and consider it it all things anti-puppy and rainbows, we suggest that you do not turn it on. Thank you.
Editing Posts

We have resolved the problem that some of you had recently with editing posts. Please let us know if you have a thread that's still not working and we'll look into it.
Fat Diedrich and the Easter Bunny have issued a joint statement alerting all Gaians that the second batch of Easter items have gone out, and everyone that participated has been given their items. Have a good weekend!

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Cool Down in Towns
I don't know about the rest of the world but here at Gaia HQ it's hot burning_eyes ...So what better way to cool down than a nice swim! I hereby declare the pools in Towns open, head over and take a dive!

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iPhone App version 1.3
The new version of our iPhone app was released to the App Store today.
Here is what's new:
- NEW! Marketplace: item search with bid and buy now options, my Store with listings' management, store log, watchlist and wishlist
- Notifications: status update, request' management, easier navigation
- Login: fixed issues related to multiple login password failures
- Required OS: now also for iOS 3.0 or later
Go check it out!

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Daily Chance Fixed
Thanks for the bug reports; we've pushed live a fix for the "no reward" message that some people were getting in the Daily Chance. As a nice side effect, you will find that you will be getting a wider variety of items in DC in the future.

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