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Controlling Your Feeds
So, a couple of things going on here.

You can control what you see about your friends by going to Account Settings / Data Feeds. For example, the Viximo settings are controlled by the "Other" slider at the bottom of the page.

However, it turns out that settings of the sliders are not entirely intuitive (they do not control the percentages directly, but are instead run through a formula and weighted). We'll be pushing out a change tomorrow that will make it easier to understand.

So, your data feed sliders should give you more control over your feed starting tomorrow.

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Feeds Reworked
The Account Settings / Feeds have been reworked a bit to make the sliders more intuitive. You should be getting many less notifications for the feeds that you've dialed down.

Before: all sliders were added together, and the difference between 100 and the highest percentage of slider / total weight was used as an inherent bias to each slider percentage, and then I think there were some references to phase of the moon and gender and the stock market and whatnot; the code got a little turgid at that point and some of the hieroglyphics were smeared.

After: There are seven notches in the account settings, and they give you the following chance that you'll see a message from that feed:

Slider is 1: 5% chance
Slider is 2: 25%
Slider is 3: 50%
Slider is 4: (default): 75%
Slider is 5: 82%
Slider is 6: 90%
Slider is 7: 100%

If you haven't changed your settings at all then everything is at 100%.

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The Alchemy

Item Alchemy is out!!! Go check it out: Item Alchemy

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Quick Item Alchemy Tweak
Some users were reporting problems with not being able to complete even the Aspiring Alchemist recipe -- turns out that if you had craft items in storage that it would just fail repeatedly. We now check only the unequipped items in your inventory for alchemy purposes. Be sure all the items that you're crafting with are in your main inventory.

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CAPTCHA / Ad changes
  • Substantially increased the chances of getting a reward ad. Also, the items you can get from the reward ads have been changed up a bit.
  • Removed Google ad below first post in the forum threads. We could use the ad revenue, to be honest, but we'll try to find something that doesn't disrupt the forum experience so much.
  • Turned off the video captchas for BG for now. We'll probably try revisiting that same CAPTCHA provider with non-video ads whenever we can set it up with them.

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Event Soft Launched

Hey everyone, Pie Hard with a Vengeance, the second half to the Pie Hard summer event is currently soft launched. That mean the forum and event page are active and playable but the wing sticker, event header and event icon are disabled.

Once the announcement is made the remaining elements of the event will be made active. Until then, feel free to Pie Hard.

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Event Launched

Hey guys, the exciting conclusion to the Pie Hard event has launched!!!

In this event expect four new achievements, 5 items (one claimable only when the event ends), lots of pies in the face, and 30 new forum emotes!! (including 6 secret ones.) As well as an update to Pie Paradise so you can pie your friends and taunt them at the same time!

All this and it won't cost you a single Gaia Gold piece...so head over to the event page, live free and Pie Hard ...with a Vengeance!

CURRENT NPC SCORES:
Carl: 130
Diedrich: 135
Ian & Rufus: 139
Kanoko: 138
Louie: 136
Stein: 136

Note: The event will run until next Monday or Tuesday then the event page will be updated to include the final item grant based on who won. Ties will be decided at Gaia's discretion.

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Pie Hard: Pie User Fix

Late last night I read reports of and confirmed the following bug involving pieing other users. A fix for this has been made and is now live. Sadly I have no way to recover any lost data... Sorry guys stressed

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Site Loading Slowly?
We're trying to track down some problems that are causing pages to load slowly. If you find that some pages load slowly, please come to this thread and let us know what is loading slowly.

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Site Loading Slowly p.2
I've updated the OP in the Site Loading Slowly? thread. Basically, we're looking for a few folks that a) have Firefox, b) can install two extensions, and have c) slow loading pages. It helps if you're at least a little bit technical, because we're going to have to try and work with you to diagnose the issue.

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Alchemy Q&A
There's been a lot of feedback on alchemy lately, and we wanted to set up a Q&A on it to try and address some concerns that have been raised.

(We wanted to do a Fireside Chat for this, but the provider that we use was not comfortable with the potential load, so we'll try this a little differently.)

In Site Feedback we have an Official Q&A Thread for alchemy. To try and keep this manageable, please check the thread before posting your question -- if you see the question you were going to ask, go ahead and tip it. We'll be looking at tip counts as a gauge of the questions that are most important to the community.

In the OP, I've tried to summarize some of the fundamentals of alchemy. Be warned that our crack writing staff has not gone over my post, so please make allowances for my poor phrasing. If you read something in the OP and are getting angry about it, it is probably my bad writing; alchemy is, fundamentally, something cool, and we hope that people will agree after we answer questions.

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Pie Hard Score Update!

Hey everyone, thought I'd give a score update so everyone knows where they stand... and what vengeance must be enacted to win!

Carl: 618
Diedrich: 617
Ian & Rufus: 628
Kanoko: 622
Louie: 624
Stein: 620

Live free and Pie Hard ...with a Vengeance!

Note: The event will run until next Monday or Tuesday then the event page will be updated to include the final item grant based on who won. Ties will be decided at Gaia's discretion.

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Final Score Update!

The event will be ending tomorrow night, Pie wisely!

Carl: 834
Diedrich: 836
Ian & Rufus: 846
Kanoko: 845
Louie: 846
Stein: 838

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New Bifrost Formula
A new limited edition formula to create golden giftboxes (the LIMITED EDITION Golden Giftbox formula) is now available in Bifrost.

Important note #1: This formula will vanish on 9/15 (unless we extend the deadline), and when it vanishes we'll grant you back the gold piece.

Important note #2: This formula has multiple paths -- the alternate paths will show up if you have any of the components in the secondary paths.

Marketplace fluctuations: Prices of common farmable components will probably spike up for a week or so. There are a lot of these components in peoples' inventories, however, so prices should drop back down.

If you're a new user, now is a great time to farm components -- either for your own use, or for selling to other people on the site.

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Pie Hard Event Ending

The Pie Hard with a Vengeance event will be ending tonight ~9 PDT.

A winner will be declared and the event page will then give out the final item. The final item will remain claimable for approximately a week, so don't forget to go get it! ..Until then, happy pieing!

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