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July 2nd, some more

Panagrammic
King Awesomolocity
Why does mineral water that has "trickled through mountains for centuries" go out of date next year?

Once exposed to open air and sunlight (and plastic, presumably) it goes bad quickly. This is why, if you care about preserving the true mountain goodness of the water, you should drink it in the dark while in a vacuum.


biglanky14
HOB0SEN
Are there any plans for The Sentinel to be involved in any site events in the future?

If not, I'm afraid you may fall victim to some conveniently-placed death portals.

<Stays mum>

Do you have access to any conveniently-placed "this is going to take me to an awesome place with much pleasure and excitement" portals?


lanzer
Saines
I've had this thing that is kind of bothersome, when you get the notification for a trade and it pops up in my feed and I click the accept button, it will link me to my profile. [instead of the bank]

I just end up clicking my trade button in my profile page, but it seems kind of roundabout. xd

I remember there was a limitation with the notification bubble, but we can look into it again and see if it's an easy change.


DARKNRGY
Black Death Goddess
I have a question for the staffers, why does a happy face show up next to a number Eight if it doesn't have a period next to it?

8

Maybe you're thinking of an eight with a right paren after it: cool . It's an emoticon.
carbonphyber
Black Death Goddess


These are the text sequences that are automatically turned into emoticons without needing a colon (":" wink both before and after:

:-)
:?:
:-|
:-D
:!:
T_T
:-x
:-P
:-(
;-)
:XD
:-?
:-o
8-)
:D
:x
;)
:(
:P
:|
:?
:o
:)
8)


It looks like the
;)
emoticon is triggered if you type
")
because we sanitize the double-quote character by converting it to
& amp; )
(which is the way safe HTML works).

Adding a space after your double-quotes and before your close-parens should fix this issue.

We could (and should) change the order of parsing so only plain text is converted to emoticons (and not things such as URLs), but it's a huge task and will likely cause a lot of bugs.

It's on our list of "nice to have"s for when we re-write the BBCode parser.


biglanky14
Zphal
Hey guys. c: Any possibility of adding the Aekea River to Gaia Fishing? It's always been my favorite Gaia game. <3

Hi Zphal,

Unfortunately, not in the short-term. Fishing probably isn't going to get many new additions b/c we're working on a bunch of other stuff right now (although we did recently unsoulbind the trophies based on Community feedback).
lanzer
Fishing is rather old so there probably won't be a new map for it, but I hope that we can refresh the game in Towns or something. hopefully we can get to that eventually.


lanzer
Dinkaw
Are you going to fix all the bugs the arenas are having?

Like not being able to go to your favorites entry or not being able to edit your avatar?

We will look into it. There will be some additional features coming soon also.


biglanky14
uncorrupt lion
isnt that new game working for me it takes me to the stats but never gives me a point for my stats its annoying

Hi uncorrupt lion,

What game are you referring to?


codemonkey37179
Angel_Kist
codemonkey37179
codemonkey37179
Angel_Kist
Dear Admins,
I was wondering what the beach party was about. I thought it would be a towns theme., but I am directed to a forum? I'm confused

Yep! Towns 2.0. When finished, it will be our largest flash space. We will be putting all of the towns in it, Barton, Gambino, Durem and Aekea.

Also the rejected Olympics will be coming up soon too.

Sorry replied to the wrong post!

All the flash dev resources are directed to towns 2 and the summer Olympics. We will have a beach though.

Awesome! So that means the bonfire and poolbar and everything will be in it? biggrin


Eventually, it probably will. We are starting with one town and adding on.

codemonkey37179
Assassin Raze
I just randomly had this on my mind.
Will you guys be designing any new flash spaces/ virtual worlds some time soon?

Yep! Towns 2.0. When finished, it will be our largest flash space. We will be putting all of the towns in it, Barton, Gambino, Durem and Aekea.

Also the rejected Olympics will be coming up soon too.


Uncle Kenny
Wolf Princess of the Moon
I asked about this last week and seemed to ask it right before the thread closed. XD So I shall ask again. :3

I know it's not uber popular like many of the other nice features on gaia, but will there be a time when Guilds can get a face lift to look more similar to forums? And most of all wanted by some of my guild buddies, we can has tip button in our guilds? emotion_c8

Overhauling Guilds is definitely something we'd like to do but we currently don't have any resources to put toward doing it. It would require a massive undertaking on our part to be able to completely catch Guilds up with forums and right now we just don't have the Devs to put toward something like that. That said, we do try to make small changes to Guilds when we can (adding spoiler tags, commas to numbers, etc) but any larger changes aren't likely to happen soon.


Zero Omega
fIorence
heya admins who are your favorite npc(s)? wink

also how is timmy doing in prison mmm timmy ur so hot what are your visiting hours sweet babe...

Carl. ninja


biglanky14
Destroyer
biglanky14
Destroyer
Are there any plans to add an old skin for gaiaonline? Such as like. with the different revisions over the years? (go-gaia theme, 2004 theme, 2006 theme, 2008, 10, ect)

I would personally like the skin used up until mid-2005 back when you had Gaia-Hangouts (You and a friends avatar at the topleft instead of just your own avatar, chatting up there and ect, Not saying you should re-add hangouts since the meebo toolbar renders it obsolete, but I would love to have optional skins while browsing gaia,)

this would give users their own consistent experience with gaiaonline. Sure new skins and re-building the sites appearance is nice and all, but every time gaia changed, Myself and everyone I know went "I miss the old theme! What is all of this stuff! How do I navigate!"

Long story short, Is there anything in the works for such a thing? If so, I will love you forever <3

Hi Destroyer,

Regarding skinning the site - not anything immediate. I know it's not the same thing, but we do hope to start putting more downloadable content out through the downloads section though.

Well. I didnt mean like. Download a toolbar to change the skin, I was thinking something in the profile options. You have profile themes right now such as Classic and Current, so, There could totally be a tab saying "Gaiaonline skin" and have options such as go-gaia, 2004 gaiaonline, 2005, 2007 ect.

Then all that you would have to do is have a small line put into the index of each page going "profile option x = blabla skin.css" which could change the page simply <3

Only downside is there would be slightly more work with every page added to gaia. More skins = More changes to deal with.

sorry for all the confusion and time wasting >< Ill shut up now

Not at all - these are all good suggestions/points. I'll throw them around to the team too - probably would take us awhile to get to it b/c of all the stuff we're currently working on, but we can at least consider it (assuming we still have all those files saved somewhere smile )


Narumi Misuhara
_Estlye_
Narumi Misuhara
_Estlye_
Good evening staff. I have a few questions, if you don`t mind.

Q1: Do you plan on updating shops anytime soon?

Q2: When will it be explained about the whole H&R Wesley ordeal?

Q3: When will Prize & Joy be shut down?

Q1: We recently had an update and we try to update them once a month.

Q2: Rumor has it the bomber is among the community as we speak (...type?...) ...Keep your eyes open.

Q3. ?

Q1: Oh. I`ll have to check it out. c:

Q2: Mysterious!

Q3: On January 12, carbonphyber posted in Dev Notices about it . You can find it here. Fifth post on the page. And I`m not sure about what`s going to happen to it. Maybe they aren`t closing it? I was hoping you could look into it for me~

Q3 Oh, looks like you misunderstood. Prize and Joy is not closing, we closed Gold Mountain and moved it's functionality into Prize and Joy.
carbonphyber
Gold Mountain (the shop that currently does nothing but offer tokens) will be shut down, not Prize & Joy.

Once we confirm that the NPC from Gold Mountain is successfully moved to the Prize & Joy store and that tokens are available in Prize & Joy in all browsers, we will shut down Gold Mountain.

Does this address your concerns?


biglanky14
iDeduce
Will you be doing an promotions for gaia? I've noticed less and less users on the site. Makes me rather sad. I don't want it to die.

Also would be it possible to lower prices or have a sale in the shop? I don't want to buy a 15 dollar card and only be able to afford 1 evolving item. I can get a used ps3 game for that price....*looks at final fantasy 7 for 10bucks on psn store*

Hi iDeduce,

I know we don't have as many users as we've had in the past (thanks, expanding internet smile ), but actually we've been pretty steady for awhile. We don't have any plans to go anywhere anytime soon.

As far as prices go, we don't do very many sales for a variety of reasons. But nothing's set in stone.
lanzer
We always have promotions that make sense, like the partnership with MyYearBook, though we don't do general banner ads anymore.

We will continue to strive for having different items at different price points. Hope that you can find items in the marketplace also.


Narumi Misuhara
Black Death Goddess
So is the beach thing the whole summer event or is this just the opening act?

It's a summer event, it's not what the events team has been working on the past few months.


DARKNRGY
Gyptoega
DARKNRGY
Gyptoega
Dear Gaia staff,

I noticed that we are losing backyard monsters on July 15th, and I am now forming a Petition to try to keep Resort World on Gaia Online to be sent to the company in Moscow, Viximo Games, and your company of names of people who wanted Resort World to stay on Gaia. Will Resort World meet the same fate as Backyard monsters and Mahjongg Dimension?

Due to these games leaving off the site like OMGpop, people are starting to not put money into these games nor your site anymore because they fear they are going to be taken away in the end. So, why bother supporting the game. Some even think your site may shut down later in the long run. Overall, my question is on Resort World. How long will this game last?

Thank you for answering my question in advance,

Gyptoega

Resort World is going to stay up to the best of our knowledge. It's a third party contract so we don't have full control.

We're also bringing in some more games from Viximo.

Thank you for responding, and I fully understand that your contract is distance from control. However, just to let you know. Some people who truly love resort world and I will not give up fighting to keeping this game on gaia online. I wish you won't give up on us for at least trying. Some people are not even giving up on Backyard monsters. So, I hope to see more of those games. It's coming in slowly because I remember Viximo said the same thing months ago wink

I greatly appreciate your efforts to gain support and I understand it must be frustrating to be unsure about the future of a game. We hate losing games and we try to maintain as much control over the future of them. OMGPop was sort of a special case because of their buy-out and we just didn't have enough flex for Zynga. Here's to hoping we don't have to go through that again!
DARKNRGY
OV8ION
[bolds the line "we just didn't have enough flex for Zynga."]
Damn it. Can't you invite them to San Jose for a dance-off?

hahahaha, there is no problem that cannot be solved by a dance-off.


biglanky14
Aaron Kain
well, here are my questions. i hope they get answered ^^
1) Zomg. what's the deal on it, because it's gotten very laggy and far-less enjoyable.
2) on the all of gaia option in customize my avatar, why won't certain items show up, even though i search their exact names?
3) Can you bring alot of the facebook-only games onto the website, like you did with monster galaxy? i know alot of people who'd love that.

That's all. please answer these questions biggrin

Hi Aaron Kain,

1) We're keeping the game available to play, and will be doing bug fixes and small improvements when we can. But we're not going to be doing any further major work on it.

2) This I don't know - if you can, please post about this in the Bug Reports thread, which is the best way to get our devs' attention.

3) Our newest one, that we're working on now, will be available on Gaia as soon (or even before) it's available on FB smile
lanzer
Sorry we'll recycle the server as often as we can.

Please give more detailed examples of which item that is and how big is your inventory. Hard to diagnose as I haven't come across that problem before.

Our next game will arrive on Gaia before Facebook, hope you'll all enjoy the new title.


siskataya
Epona_08
Are we ever going to get VJ back? Everyone I talk to really misses it. The video lounge was a great place for everyone to hang out. Why did you get rid of it?

Heya Epona_08,

Thanks for the post! We're sorry you miss VJ, but unfortunately, it won't be coming back for a variety of reasons. Not a lot of people were using it, and there were repeated copyright infringement issues. For these reasons, we removed it. Hope you understand why, and that you can find new places to hang out with friends!

Sisky


DARKNRGY
Sisterbroken
DARKNRGY
Sisterbroken
Can we expect any more changes to alchemy fourmulas like how the caches can be made with common items found on gaia or will we continue to have to depend on a drop system that is less then helpfull to the newer users?

We have plans that will make the formulas easier to obtain.

Any idea how long it will be till then? 1 month 3-6 months a year?

Hehe, less than 3 months. I'm not the one working on it so I don't want to presume an exact timeframe.


biglanky14
amazing clare bear
i'm back ..........
anyways. I wanted to know will there be anymore anime items like the full metal items ????
it would be awesome if you got something like air or Clannad or kanon. Maybe even Pokemon ........

Hi amazing clare bear,

These all depend on partnerships we can get with the rights owners. We're working on a couple, but they typically take a long time to finish. We hope to have one that we think will be pretty popular in the next month or so (but we can't talk about it yet).


biglanky14
D3LP
what do you admin do on gaia?

Our Admin team typically makes sure that people are having fun (but also behaving) on the site. That can include contests and fun, but also moderation and rule enforcement.


Uncle Kenny
Darth Mudkip
Dear admins, I've asked this before and every time I come here but do you ever think you guys are going to update the old inventory arranger?

It's on the list of things to do but currently can't offer a timeline for it. There are some other inventory updates coming first so just sit tight.


biglanky14
PessimisticalOptimist
Will you ever fix the green globs for items when wearing gonk ...

We have a thread set up (by Stein) for users to report "green goo" errors. We actually fix quite a bit of them, so keep letting us know.


DARKNRGY
itty bitty north kitty
Is the shop for irl items from gaia shutdown? owo I can't find a link to it anymore. The plushies and t-shirts, and stuffs. >w< <3

It is indeed shut down, sorry. Any conventions in your area? DJ Helsing usually has merchandise on hand for contest give-a-ways, etc.
biglanky14
Hi there,

Unfortunately, while the shop exists, we're not associated with it any more. It's a long story, but it involves them never paying us, while still holding on to all the stuff we gave them to sell. Not fun times.


Zero Omega
Lady__Miko
Dear admins and developers. I still cannot save my avis, move them, or have access to things life mouths, etc. This is problematic because I want to go to threads that will of course require it. After about a year or so with this problem I hope someone will tell me the cause. I've heard it's an account issue from some people rather than an issue with browsers etc.

Send me a PM! I'll check into it, probably need to resave it.


biglanky14
little_kiwis2
Hello Everyone! :3 I have a few questions i'd like to ask.

1. will there be more animated items?

2. do you like my avi?

3. are you going to see fireworks for the 4th of july?

Hi little_kiwis2,

1) Yes
2) Yes!
3) YES!


Zero Omega
-TheTemptressOfLove-
On my old account (now my mule) I had submitted a report and had finally gotten a message back from a mod on May 25th.I replied with more information on the case and still till this day I haven't gotten a message back. Can I get someone to help me or is this case now closed or expired or will I have to submit another report on the incident?

Definitely don't send another report, send me a PM and I can take a look into it.


Zero Omega
Tainii
I have some questions. ^^

1) Will guilds be updated? It's probably a common question, but yeah.

2) I know several account that have been banned for no reason. Will you guys be finding a way to legitimately prove that a person should be banned, or a way to contact account owners with inquiries of whether or not they have been hacked? They seem to be banning anyone in possession of a tainted item these days.

3) Is there a way to get one's account "unbanned" for the reason above?

We always have a reason to ban a user, there is never a ban that is placed for "no reason." We do not simply ban a user because they completely 100% innocently receive an illegitimate item. We have to believe that they knew the source of the item before we ban. However, if a user has some sort of proof that they were completely innocent, then they can appeal the ban by filing a ticket at http://www.gaiaonline.com/help


biglanky14
Xavier The Hero Of Legend
Administrators, I have a question as well, can You guys donate gaia gold in gaia trades sorry to ask but it's hard making enough money to buy buy really expensive items
(you may not because if you do so many people would beg you guys)

Yeah, we typically get tons of solicitations, so most of the time we don't respond. But it never hurts to try!
lanzer
Sorry but admins are no different than other Gaians where we have to earn gold through normal means, so most of us don't have a lot of gold to donate.


siskataya
OMFG Shushu
Now that zOMG is no longer being updated can you take away the nerf?
Also Why wasn't zOMG advertised like you advertised Soul Crash?

Heya!

Thanks for the questions! Regarding the "nerf", if you are referring to removing the gold cap, this is probably not going to happen. That is in place to help keep the amount of gold going into the economy at a reasonable rate.

As for advertising zOMG!, if I recall correctly, that actually was quite heavily advertised when it came out on various websites, in magazines, art cards, posters, conventions, etc. I'm curious what differences you see between how we advertised zOMG! and Soul Crash smile

Sisky


Zero Omega
Princess-Orphelia
I think everyone at the HQ should have a tank. blaugh

Yes.


biglanky14
KingKentling
Hello Gaia's contracted Artists,
is it true that you are not allowed to make overly masculine items and if you did you guys do it behind Lanzer's point of sight? if not then what's the reason on the lack of masculine items?

Nope, no rules like that. We basically make items that we think will appeal to a wide swath of our Community, and that fit within the theme of the release.
lanzer
Gaia would be a very interesting place if I have power to reject every item that get released, though fortunately for all of us, I don't go around doing that. smile Artists draw whatever inspires them and whatever they think would be appreciated by Gaians. We do have more feminine items and it might be because of more female users giving feedback or because we have more female artists in our team also.
warrior_of_boognish
KingKentling
Then I guess its time for gaia to open their doors for male artists? biggrin

Well next time there's a round of hiring and all that fun jazz, those seemingly elusive male artists need to man up and step up to the plate!


Zero Omega
Castiel Lover
siskataya
Castiel Lover
Oh yeah. 15 days until I turn 25. What should I do on my birthday to celebrate?

Oh so, that would make your birthday on the 17th right? That is also Zero's birthday. You two should go out ( in a friendly and appropriate way) for cake. Or to throw pies at Zero. It's super fun to throw pies at Zero. You should try it.

Sisky

Yep. 7/17/87. I'd love to, but I live in Orlando... (Come to Megacon, dang it! You guys haven't been since 2008, and I joined that day because I got a gaia gold flyer. Seriously, those things are pretty effective. lol)

And how am I older than Zero? gonk /FeelsSoOld

only by a year! OLD MAN!


Zero Omega
Fat Obstreperous Jerk
Hihihi. So I'd like to formally request a couple of simple items for jokey and/or general purposes. One being a bottle of chloroform. This could create a knocked-out expression when held near the face, and would be super-simple to make. Also, a rope. Just a rope. The item could be called Rope and have several poses including a lasso and your avatar being tied up with it. A piece of duct tape over the mouth would also be cool.

On a different note.. account bans that cannot be undone 'due to the nature of the internet'. If all the parties involved came to the gaia offices and told their part of the story, would that make any difference at all? rofl

Question 2. Potentially...? xd That still doesn't actually answer the question of whether or not you were at the computer when the action happened though.
siskataya
Thanks for the item suggestions! Always love requests for quirky items like this. I'll make sure to pass the suggestions along although the concurrent request for both chloroform AND a rope seems kind of creepy! eek (I tease, I tease! smile )

Sisky


biglanky14
D4ncing_With_Demons
✖ M A R K E T P L A C E ✖

Is it possible to make a "Follow user"?

Like... In marketplace when people sell stuff, instead of adding an item to your wishlist just to follow what that person is selling.. Could you make a button to follow the shop owner?

I think it would be a lot easier for some of us...

Not a bad idea. No idea how quickly we could do something like this, but it's interesting. Thanks for the suggestion!


codemonkey37179
Sapphire_God
Vendz 4 Life
Can anyone give me a response please

No, because Gaia Staff is too busy debating on the non-trivial comments right now. Like what's your favorite color? =D The answer is blue. Oh! Why not red...~?

It is red actually. Vendz for Life, I gave you the response you asked for, because I didn't know you had another question. I believe Uncle Kenny replied to your original question.

Sapphire_God, you got a negative answer, because you posed a negative question. We are not of the same opinion, that Gaia inhales as vigorously as you suggest.

We welcome your comments and constructive criticisms, as we do with all our fellow Gaians, and we strive to make improvements.


lanzer
Soul Silver Uchiha
How Come there aren't many centuar items. Like horse shoes, fur dye etc.

Centaur was a race created specifically during the last Olympic event, unfortunately after that we haven't came across another event or idea related to that. Probably if more Gaians ask for it we'll put more items in.


biglanky14
Omnileech
Is there any chance for more Zomg! tieins with alchemy? Specifically Dead Man's Shadow loot like Kamila Essences?

And the real important zomg question: When will be getting more bug fixes for Zomg!

Hi Omnileech,

Probably not, unfortunately. But we are still doing bug fixes. The latest round were focused on DMS fixes.


biglanky14
Tear of Fate
OK GAIA!!! whats with the CI hint they are of no use at all give us a little more then a obscurer hint in a story.

We want you to really strain your guessing bone smile


siskataya
911child
siskataya
911child
how are you Admin?

I'm fine, but a bit sunburned! How are you doing?

- Sisky

sick, i got the flu. and it sucks. but heh if i wasnt sick now, i'd be sick later so i am greatful im sick so i can get over it.

Oh no! Hope you feel better soon. If it is any consolation, I think I am getting a wicked cold too. Blah!

- Sisky


biglanky14
Sisterbroken
How are the choices on Rig pet artests made, and the drop rate of items from rigs?

Hi sisterbroken,

They both involve high-tech algorithms, teams of extremely well-paid behavioral scientists, a secret lab, and Lanzer walking around with a briefcase that can never be removed from his arm.


Narumi Misuhara
SaikoTaiko
Narumi Misuhara
Zweizi Galon
Is there anyone online that can answer these for me?

1: When will we be seeing the release of an instrument store as portrayed in the Barton Town world map art, and the Weapons Shop as portrayed in the Isle de Gambino world map art?

User Image

2: Any chance of releasing the Job Class outfit items??

User Image

1. At the moment there are no plans to create such shop... but a weapons shop would be pretty cool.

2. *shrug*

Just a shrug? gonk
I've never seen that picture before but...A LOT of the items on there are so interesting!
Why did Gaia take the time to create all of that...But never released it? Did you guys lose the file or something?
I am totally drooling over the items on that wolf-girl...

I shrugged because I really don't know. xd


codemonkey37179
Black Death Goddess
Can anyone tell me how the Rejected Olympics works? I've never done it before.

Once it opens you will choose a team, which represents on of the four towns on Gaia. Then you and your teammates will work to earn points for your team by playing games.
Narumi Misuhara
The original was a series of single player mini-games you played for points. The new version we are making now is a bit different.


biglanky14
SkyeTheUniicorn
I haven't been able to play any games since like, a year ago. It always says "server security error" or "cannot connect to server". I miss playing jigsaw and I want tickets, but can't go on slots. Are you guys going to fix this, please?? I could play Monster Galaxy, but that stopped working to. It just never loads.
Also, any idea when Bunnihilation is going to evolve?

Interesting - have you posted in Bug Reports? You can also PM me with the issues. I'm not a dev so I can't promise anything, but I can see if someone can take a look.


Uncle Kenny
Tragick Lullaby
I keep getting passed :/ I don't have a tough question just something I've been wanting to know.... will there ever be an app for the android? theres one for the iphone and thats great but for us android users who love gaia its sad ): so will there ever be an app for the android?

We'd like to make one but currently don't have the Devs to put toward such a project.


biglanky14
Sisterbroken
Why isnt there an Ask the artests like there is ask the admins how theres a set time every week for users to ask questions?

Partly b/c the questions that would be asked would be really narrow, and things they can't really ask anyway (such as "can we get X"?). But they do pop out on the forums from time to time to do mini versions of this.


biglanky14
dart_fox51
I have a question i have not been able to play monster galaxy for the past 3 days it stops at the changing the zodiac will this glitch be fix soon.

yup - something has been screwy for some users for a little bit. We're on it.
biglanky14
Seasick Hearts
For the last few days, whenever I've tried to open Monster Galaxy (i use it through gaia, and not facebook, if that makes a difference), it will not get past the "charging the zodiac" loading screen.

im not sure if im the only one having this issue, or not, but i'd appreciate if it were looked into. i miss my little rascals. gonk

Yup - we're working on getting this fixed.


Narumi Misuhara
Mizuki_ZOMG
Is there a way to stop the animation on your avi.?
For the item: Premium Cat Food?

No, it doesn't have a non-animated pose.
carbonphyber
Any viewer can stop the animation of an item. If you are viewing your own avatar (in the header, the /avatar/ page, or in a "preview" pane) or all animated avatars (like in forums, guilds, etc.) you can opt to change an account setting of a checkbox (in /avatar/ and "preview" panes).


biglanky14
GuinAoiichi
In the manga is Gino finally going to Man up? Or get super powers? And become an item with Sen? Will you bring Meili back to life?

The only thing I can answer is that Meili will almost certainly not be coming back.


lanzer
xX undefined life Xx
First time ever asking something in AtA second time, first time I asked too close to the thread closing I guess >< but anyway I have the question I tried to ask then and its a layering question I guess?

I made a pokemon trainer avi on tektek using items I own. Now, there is one layering problem on gaia that stops me from actually wearing the avi.
The way I would like to wear the boots and pants is like this User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show. BUT in reality on gaia I can't and have to wear it like this User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

I would actually like to wear those boots over a few other pants I have but they always layer under. So I guess my main question would be, are you eventually going to make it so gaian's have a choice in the layering of certain items? (not sure if anyone has asked this kind of question yet so sorry if they have I haven't seen it)

Oh, that is a tough challenge since the boots were made to go under pants, and we don't have an option to specifically layer items. I can look into potentially introducing a second pose at a different layer.


Narumi Misuhara
biglanky14
A Random Act of Terror
Question for any of the devs/artists at the live drawing thing:

WHY YOU NO DRAW MY MARSHALL CHASING SWARF ON A UNICORN?

And a question about zOMG!
:

After bug fixing is done, is there any plans for Bucaneer Boardwalk full, in terms of new animated?

Or any chance of adding alchemy-related loot to it with the current animated? ninja

Ha - Martial would've had to be ON the unicorn horn.

Unfortunately, nothing major. Although I'm not sure if we have some stuff lurking around that's already built and just not released yet.

...it's not the same Marshall -_-


biglanky14
Darth Mudkip
I've asked this before and every time I come here but do you ever think you guys are going to update the old inventory arranger?

Yes - it's a very big project and it'll take some time. But it is on our list of things we want to do.


milkbun
Mizuki_ZOMG
For the CrosStich contest in the rules what does it mean by supplying a valid e-mail address. There's no spot for that gonk

Email associated with your Gaia account. You don't have to input it again in the form as it's tied to your account.


codemonkey37179
Duck Nuggets
codemonkey37179
Duck Nuggets
Why NOBODY answering my question!!!!! I came here for answers not for people to ignore me and answer stupid ones

Sorry it is very busy tonight. What is your question? I may or may not know the answer.

Well sorry I had to b mean about it but it seems that is the o nly way for people to reply and it was a long time ago u had an update for security I got hacked about a week ago and they changed email but not password so I got in and changed e mail land password and I remembered for my account I had it set so to change an email I have to say yes to it on my email but I didn't even get notified of the changing email

Let me send this to customer service. I don't have the tools to help you


biglanky14
Duck Nuggets
Hello, I have one question. for gaia cash I use my phone it has worked before but it now says there is a error in my order and I have taken this to the phone company they say that nothing is wrong but I'm wondering if its maybe because of a change on gaia or my phone.

-Duck Nuggets

Great ID!

PM me this to remind me, and I'll have our billing team get in touch with you to figure this out. Thanks!


lanzer
Aura Koimizu Of The Blade
Hey, Admin! First off I like to wish you guys a Happy Independence Day as well and also to thank you for everything you have done to make GaiaOnline such a wonderful place.

I have a question for you guys regarding the Journals...I use journals all the time and the only thing that bothers me about them is the "Previous" and "Next" functions. When you click on "previous" you go to a more recent entry and when you click on the "next" you go to an older entry. May I ask why that is?

Another question I'd like to ask this evening is: are we going to have a Charity CI sometime soon?

Thanks and have a great day. n.n

The logic assumed that a user would always start from the latest post, so the next post you read would be an older entry, not "next" as in chronological order. Sorry for the confusion.

We'd love to. We're busy with events during the summer, will probably put time into charity CI a bit later.


siskataya
EletroShocker
siskataya
EletroShocker
Hello There im here to have assistance of admins.
Me and a lot of Alchemists are having problems of time,we bought all components that we need to craft the Philosophers Cache,but when we start to buy Pankakes we have a big problem,to do a cache you need 10 Pankakes but to do a lot of them this is much bad cause on the shop dont have the choise of want how many Pankakes you need. But on Fishing Shop have how many baits you need.
Please admins and developers,fix it to help us dont lose more time!
Thank you.
And About the May Prize,of nintendo wii,the winners that won the prize are people guest and dont log in much on gaia! I in on gaia all month and dont got nothing! I want Justice! Have a guy: DEMOLIDORGATO that won mini wings but he are a guest and never more in on gaia!!!!!!

Heya!

Thanks for the post! Ok, look, I'm totally with all of you on the pancake thing. I feel your pancake pain, I do! Right now, a bundle isn't feasible, but I've got a work around for all the serious alchemists out there. I will personally start selling pancakes in bulk to alchemists who need them for formulas! Wheeeeee - Sisky, the Pancake pusher gonk I'll make a thread about this tomorrow in the Alchemy Forum and Sisky's Pancake Shop will be up and running!

Sisky

You Gonna Put how much we want buy? And about the prizes of nintendo wii? Can answer me?

I'll sort something out with the pancakes and post in my thread about it tomorrow. As for the Wii, sorry you didn't win - that was a completely random draw of all people that logged in. Sometimes a person that logs in lots will win and at other times, someone may login a few times and win - just luck of the draw! We wish you the best of luck in future draws though biggrin

- Sisky


lanzer
Krissim Klaw
Alchemy is coming up on its 1 year b-day, any chance we are going to see any new formulas?

Also I have seen some users suggest alchemy as a way to re-release the 05 grombie skin. It seems like it could be a win, win situation of releasing the skin for those who lust over it while making it something you have to put effort into getting. Is there any chance we may see the 3 grombie skin potions make an appearance in alchemy? It could also be a possible place to release the overseer skin. ninja

That's a great suggestion, I'll pass it down, and also ask if other Gaians are okay with old event items being re-released.


lanzer
Sky of the Night Light
Not sure if this has been asked or not however I am curious if there will be another Black Friday sale this year or any plans of it. Trying to save up on gaia cash.

We haven't decided yet, please check back with us later.


Narumi Misuhara
009D
i think you guys might have missed my question since its been more than
10 pages since i posted it...so i hope you guys dont mind me posting it again >,<
i just really would like an answer its my first time here >,<

okay im not sure if this is a good question or idea but is it posible that you guys
would ever make another game to release for the public, i mean like the kind of
mini game you guys released in 2009, for Xmas, wich i still have and love to play
sometimes it has gone down through 4 computers in my house having saved it
from broken ones and i still have it today in my desktop.
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so yeah is it ever posible that you guys would do something like that again?

It's possible but for the moment unlikely. Those games were by an artist who was using their free time to make the games at home for that event. They were made in a program they were learning outside of their normal Gaia responsibilities.


biglanky14
Clair Featherwalk
Hey admins...I opened 62 alchemist cases and um no quest formula does that sound right? Just wondering if I'm just super unlucky or....

Also sidenote: when I equip marionette and saint ciel agape hair cut and try and put on the demon vassel pigtails it doesn't let me...it'd be super awesome if you could fix that ^.^

Hi Clair Featherwalk,

We're not aware of anything being funky with quest formula distribution, but we can check on it. On a separate but related note, we're looking to release a change in the next couple weeks or so that will hopefully help address some of the formula rarity issues going on.


lanzer
Waffles is getting tired, so it's time to wrap up
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Thank you for joining us for this week's ATA. Happy 4th of July and we'll see you all next week!


DARKNRGY
Zidane of the Wildfire
Greetings Gaia Administration,
This has had me troubled for some time now. I've been around in the Virtual Hangouts on Gaia and have been seeing tons of trolling. Many aren't afraid of being reported because nothing is being done to them. Many of these trollers have had many reports against them and nothing has been done to them. Is there a way to make reporting more efficient and the consequences madea bit more a swift?

Thank you for you time and consideration,
~Zidane of the Wildfire

We'll be experimenting with a new self-moderation system in the new towns. If it works we might be able to use it across other features. I know this doesn't directly answer your question but I wanted to let you know we were aware of the problems and have some strategies we want to try.


biglanky14
i am body electric
hey admin and gaia staff,

i was wondering if any of you have felt personally victimised by regina george.

no, really, i want to know if any of you have felt a bit upset because of something someone commented on the forums about something you developed, created, drew or otherwise had a part in launching that was biting. have you ever felt hurt?

cheers!

Hi i am body electric,

Being in this business, you get used to criticism pretty quick. But still, everyone here is human, and it's not fun to get raked over the coals for something you worked hard on. I'm sure everyone's felt bad at some point, but honestly, it's far outweighed by all the awesome comments we get on a daily basis too.


biglanky14
Thanks to everyone for showing up! As usual please don't be offended if we didn't get to your question - we try to answer as many as we can, but there a lot more of you than there are of us.

Hope you join us next week, and have a fantastic Fourth of July (wherever you are)!

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July 6th

biglanky14
[topic title: "Do we have a name for my Friday Chat thread yet? Here we go."]

Maybe the "Breaking the Law" thread?

In any case, two big things:

-Did anyone do anything super-fun for the 4th?

-Remember how the Codemonkey song was a popular topic of conversation in the office a few weeks back (mainly b/c I wouldn't stop singing it, but inserting "BigLanky" into the lyrics)? Well, this picture I took of our own Codemonkey pretty much blew my mind. No Tab or Mountain Dew though, unfortunately.

BigLanky like you......

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Zero Omega
biglanky14
milkbun
Let's call it the "Biglanky can we leave work early because it's Friday?".

Ha! Unfortunately no. This is a "extra long hours" Friday. Didn't you see that memo? smile

MUTINY! scream
pyawakit
biglanky14
pyawakit
BOOOOOOOOOOO emotion_zombie

Sorry. I also forgot to add that for Py, it's a "work Saturday and Sunday" weekend too. Although she does that normally anyway smile


cat_crying cat_crying cat_crying cat_crying cat_crying

sad but true
codemonkey37179
milkbun
Oops I completely forgot about that memo! Part 2 was how you declare you're staying late with us in solidarity. Part 3 was about you buying us dinner if I recall.
yes, I recall that too!

biglanky14
Wow, you definitely did miss a lot of that memo.

You also forgot Part 4, which was "just kidding about Parts 2 and 3", and Part 5, which was "Give me whatever's in your wallet."
Zero Omega
biglanky14
Zero Omega

And that part about raising all our salaries.

Ooooh - I hate to have to tell you this in public, but that development didn't apply to you. We're actually using your salary to raise everyone else's. Sorry about that.

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

LANKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! scream


biglanky14
Magus
What's Ling eating back there? Can't tell.

Wow, good recognition!

It was pre-made sandwich day (which got a lot better after they started including BLTs on the menu), so she's probably got one of those.


biglanky14
Antiq
biglanky14
Antiq
The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul........oh wait, that's Sunday.

How about just Here We Go. Again. xd

Ha - maybe "Most Boring Recurring Chat Ever"?

Oh no, not at all. We're perfectly capable of being far more boring all by ourselves lol

How about, since you mentioned it, BLT (biglanky's thread)

Holy crap! I LOVE LOVE LOVE that name! And it implies I get bacon! There's seriously not one thing wrong with that suggestion. I might have to get that tattooed on me somewhere, I love it so much.


codemonkey37179
biglanky14
Dehumanized Tanks
I like your glasses. They look like my aunts kinda.

I'll tell him. I'm sure being compared to your aunt will make his weekend rofl

Um, Yeah, I'm thrilled.
biglanky14
Dehumanized Tanks
biglanky14
Dehumanized Tanks
Oh my, my bad. D:

LOL - that was perfect. Now I'll just call him Aunty Codemonkey in the office.

L ol! I am quite sure he will appreciate that.

Oh, he will. I'll make him appreciate it. B/c nothing makes a good joke succeed like re-using it so often that you run it into the ground.


biglanky14
Mermaid Eater
biglanky14
Mermaid Eater
Lanky, baby, how are you?

I am quite excellent. Although having a mid-week holiday is just bizarre. I'm still not sure what day it is smile

Gosh i hated it... i hate fireworks, too loud. gonk

But its friday! EI reports are the best. smile

Ok, guessing you don't like the really percussive ones smile

Those are actually my favorites - our area sounded like a war zone on Wednesday. But yes, the EI Report will apply a cooling salve to any festering wounds.....
biglanky14
Mermaid Eater
I get bad headaches cry

Aw, I'm sorry. Maybe sparklers?


biglanky14
One Who is Not Loved
biglanky14
One Who is Not Loved
Hello, hello!
So did you guys have to work on the holiday?
Setting off fireworks in the office?
Sparklers, at least?
Or at least snakes?
o wo

No - Wednesday was an office holiday, which was quite nice. I won't complain about a day off, although having it be on a Wed is still odd. I completely thought Tuesday was Saturday, and was confused when I couldn't find the Sunday Comics in the paper (yes - I still read the paper b/c I'm 108 years old, and our Sunday Comics come on Saturday. That makes perfect sense).

Oh! Cool!
Yeah, I always dislike holidays in the middle of the week.
It's like, the start of the week, you look forward to the holiday. Then you enjoy it. But then you have to go right back to school/work the next day, so it kind of bums you out!
Why not move it until Friday?
That's what my school does. Makes it much better that way!
n wn
Paper comics still exist!?
o wo;
I never even glance at a newspaper! Not that I really read the newspaper ever before...
But I never seem to find the comics anymore!
Even on the Sunday edition!

For me it's more a force of habit - I'm a huge sports nerd so I still like reading box scores in the morning. Reading them online at night instead over a bowl of cereal doesn't have the same appeal. As I said, I'm 108.

So let me ask you (and everyone else a question): is it better to have a holiday on a Monday or Friday? Siskataya and I have argued about this for years. I say Monday b/c it's like two weeks of specialness - you're looking forward to the long weekend the whole week before the day off, and then have a short week afterwards.

What does everyone else think?
biglanky14
One Who is Not Loved
biglanky14
One Who is Not Loved
It's okay!
My mom and grandpa do the same thing!
Reading the sports scores over a cup of coffee every morning.
And I'm glad they wake up so much earlier than me.
Or else I'd be woken up almost every morning to hear my mom screaming if her teams did poorly.
> w>;
And I think it's better to have a holiday on a Friday!
Because, Friday's seem kind of like half holidays, don't they?
You go to school/work, you come home, and you have the rest of the day to do whatever you want!
From my experience, I have more things to do on Friday than a Monday.
Even if Monday is a holiday, Friday is the party day!


I like your mom already!

That's a pretty decent argument (must not let Sisky see it). There are more fun things to do on a Friday than a Monday, in general. But I still am not completely swayed. It's the anticipation thing. With a Friday, it only positively affects one week. With Monday, it's two. If I've done my math correctly, that's more.
Hm, that's true.
o wo
And Friday is the last day of the week.
So the anticipation pays off faster, but it doesn't feel as good?
Maybe something like that...
If the holiday was on Monday, then you'd go on Friday, knowing that next week will be shorter, because of the holiday?
And shorter weeks are always a good thing!

Yeah, that's the theory. That you get the anticipation of a holiday on the full-size week, and then a short week which is always great. We need to convince Sisky of this.
biglanky14
One Who is Not Loved
biglanky14
One Who is Not Loved

Yes! We must!
We must move all weekday holidays to the closest before Monday!
It will be a lot better that way!
Then everyone can pretend to have extra time off!
A whole Monday to rest and relax or do whatever they want!
It will be revolutionary!

I like the way you think!

You should send a PM to Siskataya with this smile

Of course!
Since you were the one who made me see the error of my ways and made me realize how awesome it is to have holidays on Mondays instead of Fridays!
n wn
And alright! I will!
I just need to think of a fancy, attention grabbing title...
Something that will show that we're serious business and that this subject is very important!
While also not being too threatening or intimidating!

Oh, you can be threatening and intimidating. Tell her I Okayed it smile


biglanky14
adorabah
biglanky14
Scobre
Live long and prosper day? Oh why doesn't the CEO ever come to the atas?

Hey Scobre,

I'm more of a Star Wars guy than a Star Trek guy, so it'd be more accurate to be "Great shot kid, that was one in a million" day.

Honestly, I'm not sure he'd be able to answer all that much. He's running the whole company, so while he could talk about some big picture stuff, the staff that does run ATA are able to answer detailed questions much more easily (even if the answer is "we're looking into it" wink xd

emotion_donotwant

Whaaaaaaa? SW RULES!
biglanky14
adorabah

ST TNG > SW talk2hand

I enjoy Riker's beard as much as the next guy, Picard is awesome, Worf's head looks like a fanny (reference, anyone?), and Wil Wheaton is hilarious. I enjoy TNG. But it's not even in the same ballpark as SW. SW is mint chip roll cake from Baskin Robbins. TNG is the gross blue Otter Pop.
biglanky14
dozenrats
He doesn't have time. He only has time to update his Facebook page.

Yes, and that too.


biglanky14
sometimesalways
biglanky14
sometimesalways
Hey gang!

My 4th? Utterly boring. Spend most of it watching my nephews and helping my sister unpack. They just moved to a new apartment. Thank goodness they have central air.

Hopefully she at least bought you lunch or something for helping!

I HATE packing/unpacking. We're actually moving right now, and I basically stand around saying "wow, we have so much to do" while not actually doing too much and hoping my wife does everything. Unfortunately, this strategy rarely works.

She bought me dinner so it was all good.


If I had to move right now I'd probably take all the good stuff and set fire to the rest. I can't stand packing. Even for traveling.

Yes! That's effective AND fun!

I'm the exact same way. I procrastinate until it looks like I won't get my stuff packed until my wife gives in and helps. It's really weird - I'm one of those people who gets things done early in almost everything I do, except for packing. I think it's a genetic deficiency, perhaps one that you and I share.


biglanky14
eeech
Please post a picture of Panagrammic.

He is so completely good looking that simply posting a pic would destroy the internets. Thus, sadly, I cannot.


biglanky14
Samuel Elias Carswell
I'd not have thought us GCDers interesting enough to prompt repeated visits, good sir!


Absolutely - I couldn't tear myself away if I wanted to. Although one of these days I'll probably have to branch out into other forums to do this, mainly to confuse everyone about what I'm doing there.


biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore
biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore
Lanky's Lengthy Linguistic Lollygagging?-lol-

Me Likey.

Anyway, Happy Friday, Lanky...been busy in the office today?

I smushed muh hand. Caught it between a 40 pound case of laundry soap and a steel conveyor belt. The swelling's mostly gone now, but it still stings.

BTW, can you thank Milkbun for the bunny bbq pose! It was really nice of her to give us one on 4th of July.

Now if we can get a bunny cake on Sept. 10th.... ninja

I'm sorry about your hand! If you let go of the box while it goes down the conveyor belt, it works better that way. But seriously, that sounds awful. If that happened to me I'd be in the ER and probably 25 pounds lighter from all the crying.

Absolutely on milkbun - she rules (as do all the other artists).

And my brain no work - what's the 10th?

Sept. The 10th?

It's not a very important day for others...But i personally rather like it. I'll have gotten to experience 35 of them.-smirks-

Oooooohhhhh - I get it now. It's the new day that Christmas got moved to?


pyawakit
Ridley Starsmore
pyawakit
Ridley Starsmore
pyawakit
SO HOW ABOUT THAT NEW SAILOR MOON?

BEST NEWS OR MOST BEST NEWS?

bestest news.

Wait...new?

I am...intrigued.

last nights sailor moon 20 event they announced a new anime for the summer 2013 season! yay!!

PRISM AND I ARE IN HEAVEN.

n n
OAO- Please let it not suck. Bunneh wants a GOOD translation from the manga, damn it.


its being based off the manga, and there going to release it online with subs like they do for one piece. SO WIN WIN.
pyawakit
milkbun
It's gonna be the best thing ever.
The only bad thing about it is.... we have to wait till 2013 ;_____;

WHO KNOWS IF WE'LL EVEN BE ALIVE BY THEN!!

fffff yes that's right.... +shakes fist at the Mayan calendar +


biglanky14
adorabah
biglanky14
adorabah
did I actually catch this thread before it had 345234523 posts?!
I do believe I did

HAY LANKY! emotion_kirakira

Hey adorabah!

I think you're referring to ATA, which is actually popular and has lots of interest and replies. This one is just me (and sometimes some other staff) basically just having fun and mingling with our users - easily the best part of the job.

Nah, I just tend to be srsly late to the party. By the time I see "OH A STAFF THREAD....oh.. yea it's probably over now.. emo "
That happens when I have to work all day, I miss all the good stuff. xd

I know - I hate work! smile

Ok, not this work. This work pretty much rules (well, not all the time, but most of it). What do you do?
Zero Omega
adorabah
Something to not be proud of. gonk

I work in Customer Service at our local Wal-Mart. Never have I ever wanted to strangle the general populace of Plano Texas. emotion_facepalm

Edit: My dream job would be to work for Gaia. emotion_kirakira Maybe after I go to school that'd be possible. xd
You guys make it sound like you have soo much fun there. I'm jealous. xp

Wal-Mart? Did you like your local Wal-Mart so Pitbull can come visit?
Zero Omega
adorabah
W-who? And by "like" you mean on FB? No thanks LMAO

Oh just a music star who is doing a promotion. xd Whichever Wal-Mart gets the most "likes" on FB he'll come visit.
biglanky14
adorabah
Something to not be proud of. gonk

I work in Customer Service at our local Wal-Mart. Never have I ever wanted to strangle the general populace of Plano Texas. emotion_facepalm

Edit: My dream job would be to work for Gaia. emotion_kirakira Maybe after I go to school that'd be possible. xd
You guys make it sound like you have soo much fun there. I'm jealous. xp

An actually serious-for-once answer from me:

There are definitely jobs you might not like, or things that would be better. But never be ashamed of the fact that you're working. Even if you're not where you want to be long-term, you're working, which is putting you on a good path.

My first job was at McDonalds when I was 16, mainly b/c my parents knew the manager and said I had to get a job (and me half-assedly applying to places like Home Depot didn't cut it). I was mortified b/c of the rep at first, but looking back it was a great experience. The people there were actually really cool (not many egos b/c after all, we worked at McDs), and it helped me figure out that I didn't want to do that for my life, which can be a motivator for later decisions (such as how hard to work/study). Everything you do informs later decisions.

Gaia is a pretty cool place to work at - fun people, a great product, and a Community that really cares. But there are bad parts too, just like any job. No job - not even mint chip roll cake taster - is a utopia. Find the parts of your current job that you like, pay attention to how your managers operate (so you can learn what to do, or what not to do), and learn everything you can possible. You never know when it'll help.
biglanky14
adorabah
My first was at a McDonalds as well. I know where I'm at isn't the best job in the world, but yea.. it does get my bills paid and allows me to give you guys monies too. emotion_kirakira
I don't see myself here long term but for now it has to do. 3nodding I do plan to attend some college courses soon to get better at what I want to do in life, that way I can do what I enjoy that just happens to pay bills, and not a job that only focuses on paying bills.

Also.. I was thinking.. when you said "not even mint chip roll cake taster".. how could that NOT be a uptopia?! Then I remembered.. calories.
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Good for you! Not every job rules, but most have at least parts that are ok-to-good. Just focus on those as much as possible. And taking classes is great - what do you want to do long-term?

As for cake, yeah, calories - and you'd probably hate mint chip roll cake after awhile. Well, I probably wouldn't, but a mere mortal would.
biglanky14
koolknight
biglanky14
koolknight
speaking of which... my first job sucked i worked in a giant food store and i understand the wanting to strangle the public.. and since ive had about 3 other jobs and some better than others, but currently i am almost kinda proud to say i work for a company like home depot because they are a very organized and friendly company.. never have i felt more at home then there no pun intended...

that is one thing, but i also run my own business and being an salesman on my own is pretty sweet! running my own company lets me have my own hours, and besides who wouldnt want a job where all you are required to do is post on social media sites like pintrest and facebook and you have no real limit as to when you have to do it its all on your own time smile
Very cool - running a social media consultancy on the side?
ACTUALLY its a 90 day health challenge!!

its the body by vi challenge! smile

i just really use social media as a tool to get leads and have challenge parties and stuff! smile

That's very cool - you should actually PM Siskataya and see if you guys could work together on something for the Health & Fitness forum. She's become our workout guru around here.


biglanky14
Buki
my 4th was alright despite my bf being sick ;o; he said i should at least drop by to one of the parties which i did. 3nodding

also illegal fireworks were going off virtually almost everywhere around here! D: it's like you don't even need to be at the designated hot spots to see fireworks anymore.


Glad you got to hit a party despite his illness. And yup, this area does seem to have become fireworks central. But I'm not complaining about that (since I didn't start any fires, nor have to have one put out on my house).


Buki
Mermaid Eater
... *creeps up on Buki*

So hows that Galactic Soldier re-color going? emotion_kirakira

I'm still working on other things that need my attention which means i haven't touched any sprite stuff yet :s someday~~~~


pyawakit
biglanky14
pyawakit
i spent my fourth playing gamezzzz

dragons dogma, resident evil 6 demo, walking dead episode 2 and the new spiderman game.

resident evil 6 come out now please? ktnx

also calling my folks and wishing them a happy 32nd wedding anniversary! d'aww

Awwwww - congrats to them!

And how'd you play Walking Dead episode 2?

TY~~

Its an adventure game that's released episodic on XBLA. Different cast from the comic and series, but still a really amazing game.
pyawakit
koolknight
i totally misread this and thought it said there was an adventure time game on xbla and i was about to go crazy.. o.o

x3


btw ello py! biggrin

Yeah its made by telltale, its excellent! super intense game!


biglanky14
Krissim Klaw
biglanky14
Krissim Klaw
YOU!!!

How dare you show your face in the GCD after blocking my mantis attempts in the artist drawing thingy last week. Pawn was so upset at being called scary that she ripped off all her skin in shame. She is now resting beneath her old exoskeleton while letting her new one harden. You better tell her she is the adorable bug that she is or I'm bringing out the pitchfork! scream

If I wake up with molted mantis skin in my bed tomorrow morning, I'm going to pretty sure who did it!

I repeat. Pants. Poopingly. Scary.

(Although being able to just create a new exoskeleton whenever you want is pretty sweet).
Don't worry they won't leave you their precious skins. You may however wake up with mantis turds up your nose and in your mouth. ninja pirate

Would I even feel those? They have to be tiny, right? Although they probably poop up pure evil, so maybe it manifests in horrible ways once it's in your system.
biglanky14
Krissim Klaw
biglanky14
Krissim Klaw
Their poop could be highly toxic... should you happen to be allergic to them and judging by your reactions, you seem like you would have a mantis allergy. Our revenge shall be sweet. emotion_dowant

Does stating they are most closely related to cockroaches help my claims of their cuteness? I mean roaches are super cute too, plus they will survive the nuclear war that will kill off all the humans. emotion_yatta

I'm starting to doubt that you are an actual human, and are instead an alien bug-person ready to take over the world. Didn't I see you in Starship Troopers? smile

I do have a slight allergy to beestings, so maybe mantis poo would be similar. Let's not find out.
[strikes out first paragraph]
Shhh you know nothing and saw nothing. ninja

I've never been stung by a bee. In fact I would like to have a little bee colony as a side project. Free honey, plus a swarm of fuzzy bees to watch all day. What could make a better yard pet? emotion_kirakira

Hmmm, I dunno. ABOUT EIGHT THOUSAND DIFFERENT OPTIONS!!!!
biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore
User Image

They can be small and cute....

NO!


Zero Omega
Maggot
Any staff play Minecraft? I'm posting while I wait for a Skeleton Grinder to fill.

Only on the X-Box 360, my PC game time is filled with League of Legends.

My Fourth was spent playing League while watching repeats of the Summer X-Games.
biglanky14
I know some do, but I don't personally. I have become quite good at the Army of Darkness tower defense game on iOS though smile


biglanky14
Finial
biglanky14
Finial
Hi! I don't think I've ever actually met you! What do you do for Gaia, are you a dev? eek

Hey Finial,

Nice to meet you! Nope, I'm not smart enough to be a dev. I basically am responsible for what goes on here, so I let the smart people do their thing and try not to screw it up smile

Oh! Great! Nice to meet you! I love what you have done with Gaia! I haven't been on the site for a while but when I came back I was surprised at everything that changed!

Yeah, I like to think that enough has changed to make it interesting, but we haven't messed with the heart of the site. Others may disagree though smile


biglanky14
Druddigon
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Druddigon
Hey there Lanky my 4th of july was a BBQ manage to have one before it rained xd

Lanky I have a big question on who made the Hidden Ace?It's the only EI that was never revealed who the Artist was (The pixel work looks like Buki tell me it's you Buki ; ~; )

Friday chat should be called "Friday's with Codemonkey and Lanky"

No, no - we don't want to give Codemonkey too much credit, b/c then he'll demand even more and more Fritos. And we can't handle that many Fritos.

The Hidden Ace's secret will die with me, or at least until the artist decides to reveal themselves.

And glad you got your BBQ in. BBQs are the absolutely best. I recently discovered Pineapple Sausage from Everwood. They're sausages, with pineapples BUILT RIGHT IN! Man it's good.

Then let's call it "Friday with Lanky and a bit of codemonkey chat" see what I did there? ninja

No! the artist must come clean one day and tell us who it is!

Sausage with Pineapple? Hmm....Salty and sweet does go together.

I rarely have Sausage to eat,Only time is eating out for breakfast.

They do sound good now I want some emotion_drool

You a pizza fan? Try pineapple and pepperoni. Same concept that you mentioned - the sweet of the pineapple combined with the salty of the pepperoni is FANTASTIC!
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Druddigon
One time in little ceasers I did it was a hawaiian pizza only with ham instead of pepperoni still pretty good xp

Ah - around here pineapple and ham is the standard Hawaiian pizza. I usually swap the ham (or Canadian Bacon) with pepperoni.


biglanky14
Denham
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Denham
          We should call it "Biglanky's clever ruse to stall the weekly EI report." I'm onto you. Search your feelings, you know it to be true ninja

"That not true! That's impossible!"

<falls down random huge silo onto metal plates where impact would kill any normal person BUT NOT LUKE OR BIGLANKY and then slides onto upside-down weathervane so can talk telepathically with sister who I just kissed about 40 minutes earlier in movie which is gross>


          I'll get you next time my pretty, and your little devs too.
          Yeah I cross-referenced emotion_dealwithit
          Also, I see you're still wearing your same base, I thought you were planning to switch it up! Instead I see it has just gotten even more bonkers.


I know, I know <hangs head in shame>. I think I added three things to it. I'm trying to break the record for tackiest, most cluttered avatar ever.
biglanky14
Denham
biglanky14
Denham
          Well I have seen some REALLY cluttered avatars but I don't think I've seen any tacky AND cluttered at the same time. Although I have no idea what you can add to it to boost the tackiness hmmmm.

That, sir, sounds like a challenge!


          I expect to see you with a new tacky item within the month. No disintegrations excuses!

"As you wish"

(Bonus points for that reference by the way. Badass. Now my motivation to become tackier is even bigger).


biglanky14
Mermaid Eater
Hey Biglanky will you change your avatars skin to a vampire... for me? emotion_kirakira

Only if it'll make everything even more tacky for Denham.


biglanky14
RaeMeian
biglanky14
RaeMeian
I didn't get to launch my own fireworks, but lots of people in the area usually do. My house is in a little valley, so by sitting outside, I could see my neighbor's fireworks and even some being launched on the mountain!

Also, hi Lanky (and other staff that might be lurking)!

Hi RaeMeian,

That actually sounds pretty darn awesome. As long as the mountain doesn't catch on fire. I bet you could get some wicked bottle rocket action firing them off from on top of it.
No worries! The firefighters nearby are usually ready and waiting when fireworks are going off. Launching them from the top really is awesome and aside from a few trees, it's just a lot of open space that can be used for fun stuff like that.

That's awesome. And does it snow where you are? Can you make really small snowballs and roll them down the hill so that the become giant snowballs and make anything they roll over stick to them like in cartoons? B/c that would be pretty sweet.
biglanky14
RaeMeian
biglanky14
RaeMeian
It snows, but mostly up on the mountains. They get around 6 or so inches while the valley only gets 2-3. I've never tried to roll them off the mountain, though. I'll try it this winter and let you know what happens. ^-^

Ha - awesome. I am already looking forward to that report smile
It'll be a fun experiment, that's for sure. I might also study how well snowballs explode on impact when launched at high speeds towards certain targets... like trees and snow forts made by unaware family members. *starts making a snowball launcher*

I WANT IN ON THIS PROJECT!
biglanky14
RaeMeian
Welcome to the team, Lanky.
We might be able to launch a few at the staff and users who aren't paying attention. ninja

Damn straight. Can we have it ready by Thursday?


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adorabah
Im curious, any staff here play any F2P MMOs? emotion_kirakira

Not I, unfortunately. I am a gaming have-not.


Buki
Anyone watch competitive cycling? I just got into watching it this year since Tour of California and Le Tour De France. I've never been this excited over it before ninja


pyawakit
Kain-Senpai
pyawakit
Kain-Senpai
Which Staff members have a PS3? Who is getting Persona 4: Arena? I demand names, so I may challenge you all! Muwahahahahaha. lol


I'm not joking. emotion_dowant

already have it pre-orderd!

getting the 360 version tho;;;;


you following evo?

Evo is going on? That tells you how much I know. XD Well, I might as well. I saw some pictures from Skullgirls, so I think there is a tournament for their game, too?

X360? emotion_0A0

Yeah there's a side tourney for it!

yeah i like the online service better for the 360. sweatdrop
pyawakit
Kain-Senpai
Mermaid Eater
im big into fighting games, so im considering getting it...

It looks good, from what I've seen. Plus... Atlus did the story and Arc System Works did the battle system. Considering both companies are pretty solid with their IP, it is a good merger.

Getting it for PS3? We should exchange PSN names! emotion_hug

I'm gonna main aegis or chie.

TEAM MOE! cat_scream
biglanky14
Kain-Senpai
Which Staff members have a PS3? Who is getting Persona 4: Arena? I demand names, so I may challenge you all! Muwahahahahaha. lol


I'm not joking. emotion_dowant

I do! But I don't get to play it much (stupid family responsibilities taking away from fun Lanky time!!)


biglanky14
Magnificent Moonbeam
biglanky14
Magnificent Moonbeam
Hello, Lanky and everyone. *rubs head from headache* I hope everyone had a good fourth of July..

Hey MM,

Good to see you, although I'm sorry you have a headache. Headaches SUCK!
Good to see you too, Lanky. Actually it's more of a migraine than a headache... I already took Ibuprofen, but I hate the fact Excedrin's not around anymore. That really helped with my migraines...

Yuck - migraines are the absolute worst. I can't even make a snarky comment like I do to most things b/c they suck so much. All I can muster is that I hope it passes quickly.
biglanky14
Magnificent Moonbeam
biglanky14
Magnificent Moonbeam
Thanks. I know they are worse...I used to have them a lot when I was a teenager in high school. gonk My fourth of July was okay, couldn't see the fireworks because I had to get ready to get to my work assessment the next day. But hey seeing three fireworks for games before the fourth was really worth it.

That is pretty awesome! Do you work for a team? I think you've mentioned seeing fireworks shows at games before.
Yes, it's usually for baseball or some other sport. 3nodding I work for 4 weeks in factory work, but I'm on laundry duty like folding stuff fresh from the dryer. sweatdrop

Ah, nice! I can't fold a napkin, let alone any clothes.


biglanky14
koolknight
biglanky14
koolknight
Greetings lovely gaian family!
howeth are you all doing this evening? smile


OMG I FORGOT TODAY IS EI DAY!!! User Image User Image User Image

Hey KK,

Good to see you. I ameth doingeth fineth smile
good to see you as well good sir!
and i am glad to hear!!

did you enjoy your 4th festivities? smile

Quite! I ingested much pig fat (brats) and corn, so my stomach was very pleased with me as well.

And setting off legal* fireworks in front was awesome as well.

*not actually legal


biglanky14
Scobre
Sorry forgot to say hi Lanky. Maybe you can come to Mavdoc's dev meat today in 40 min, but it's ok if you are busy. Looking forward to the new games.

Unfortunately I won't make it today (finishing other stuff before leaving for the weekend), but say hi to the crew for me!


Narumi Misuhara
biglanky14
Narumi Misuhara
biglanky14
Narumi Misuhara
Oh look, the village idiot leader.

razz

You're fired.

*stare up into the sky*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry. It had to be done.

Oh, and your paycheck will now go to me. Standard operating procedure.

*shakes fists*
biglanky14
milkbun
If we get fired can we leave early? Cause I think Narumi is a few steps ahead of the rest of us.

Damn your devious planning!

Maybe I'll fire everyone, and then rehire everyone on Monday.
biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore

Since he's fired, can I have his job?

I can plan the heck out of some events.-lol-
Hmmmm - I'll have to consider this. Maybe we can go half-sies on his salary smile
biglanky14
Narumi Misuhara
biglanky14
Narumi Misuhara
O.O can you code them as well?

I hope you can, b/c Narumi sure can't!!




BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!


Sure can't what? Code as badly as you?

Joke's on you, b/c I can't code at all!


BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
biglanky14
Narumi Misuhara
question question question ...what are you, in third grade?

YOUR FACE IS IN THIRD GRADE!!!!!
Narumi Misuhara
Kain-Senpai
biglanky14
Kain-Senpai
Narumi Misuhara
Sure can't what? Code as badly as you?

Now, that, my friends, is what you call a burn. Lol. burning_eyes

I refuse to accept said Burn, seeing as how I'm not a Dev. Besides, my nonsensical reply was a way better burn.

Because you can't code? Bah! You can code html in notepad, and I bet you know a thing or two. Easiest coding. A 10 year old can do it. heart

Hahaha interesting enough I had to help him write some html/css a few weeks back razz
Narumi Misuhara
Ridley Starsmore
Narumi Misuhara
O.O can you code them as well?

Possibly. I'm a fast learner, at any rate. I usually pick up visual learning by the second try. It's why the military liked me as much as they did. Made sub tracking pretty easy, to be honest.

The 93 asvab score didn't hurt either. sweatdrop I'd have done better, nut...well, to be blunt, I was not in the best condition to take the test at the time.

That was back in my "let's get smashed and wasted before a huge test" phase. Glad I grew out of that.-lol-

That's pretty awesome!
biglanky14
So "blunt" was a great pun in that story? smile smile


biglanky14
The Abuse of Love
biglanky14
The Abuse of Love
Hello, hello!

We celebrated on the 30th on base. The had a wonderful fireworks show on the beach.
For the 4th we went up to a local island and spent the day relaxing on the beach....



Then our car broke, boo.
Thankfully we have a plan and my family is awesome. cat_3nodding

Hi abuse of love,

I'm assuming you mean "base" as in that you or your sig other is in the military? If so, that's awesome - and seriously thanks for your service!!

All that beach relaxing sounds sublime. Although the car problems suck. Hopefully it wasn't b/c you drove it on the beach too much.

My hubby was in the Navy he recently exited and joined the reserves. And thank you!

It was fantastic, hot but beautiful.
Nah we don't drive on the beach, we've seen too many cars get towed off it.

Edit: Sounds yummy, I love brats and grilled corn.

Are you guys stationed in Hawaii based on your island reference?

I have a huge respect for anyone in the military. Partly b/c my dad was drafted to fight in Vietnam, and partly b/c they do a job that I (and most others) don't want to. Regardless of the politics around whatever war is going on, I personally feel anyone in the military deserves a big thank you.
biglanky14
The Abuse of Love
No we're in Florida. There are quite a few islands around here, but Amelia Island is my favorite. Very small town feel, wonderful downtown, and lots of beautiful beaches.

Thank you, my hubby appreciates that. Its been rough sometimes but being a Navy wife is an experience I wouldn't change. Thankfully now that he's in the reserves we've got two years before he can be deployed again. I love having him around for so long.


Yeah, that's great. Any chance you watch Wipeout? They did a special Military version this week.


biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore
biglanky14
Denham

"That not true! That's impossible!"

<falls down random huge silo onto metal plates where impact would kill any normal person BUT NOT LUKE OR BIGLANKY and then slides onto upside-down weathervane so can talk telepathically with sister who I just kissed about 40 minutes earlier in movie which is gross>

-still laughing- Ah, George, what would we do without your gaping plot holes?
biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore
Oh hey, new bundle...

-looks...-

Writer stuff. Neat. If i bought many bundle items, that is.

-sighs- Wish it was an epic old school style EI....

Buy 18!


You go buy 18, My GC goes to EIs and MCs, thank you very mucho.

(And before you ask, I have my two envelopes already. And yes, I cash buy my EIs. I prefer a set price, and work for a living.-lol-)

I love the whole Bespin scene. Partly b/c the exchange with Vader is so awesome, partly b/c the scene I just described is just ludicrous, and partly b/c I have an unhealthy mancrush on Lobot.

And thank you for buying stuff smile
biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore
biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore

What can I say, if I like the site enough to wanna work there, buying stuff from you guys isn't that difficult.

Plus, with the two new MCs, it puts my MC count to 184 different MCs out of 190, so that's something.

And that reminds me, I really should put the finishing touches on my resume. I'm not sure what I'd be qualified for, but who knows.

Holy crapola, that's an awesome collection.

You'd be surprised at what you'd be qualified for smile What do you want to do?


To be honest, I'm not sure. sweatdrop

That is to say, I don't know what the job would be. I work well with the public, and do a pretty decent job at writing promo work.

But the thing is, I've had an assortment of odd jobs.

I've been a manager for a dozen different food chains, customer event coordinator for another (Planing events for birthdays, sporting events, kids days, you name it. Usually had to have a degree, but I impressed my boss with my announcing voice.), Im also a former Navy personal, as a sonar technician. Repaired passive sonar systems, as well as looked and listened for Subs. And currently, I work for Le Target as a trainer for our store's logistics team, and cross trained for..well, everything else.

Sounds like you could do just about anything. Especially Narumi's job.
Narumi Misuhara
biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore
Actually, wouldn't mind working WITH Narumi. I have ideas for events and such, but I'm not always sure they could be pulled off.

I have an idea for a Halloween one involving the candy imps from the Trick or Treat Tote that would be a nifty revisit.

Jokes aside, you should PM them to him. Obviously it's not terribly likely we'll be able to do any of them for a variety of reasons, but a good idea is a good idea!

Good timing too, I plan to start the meetings next week.


biglanky14
The Abuse of Love
In honor of the cute bunny BBQ pose, did anyone have great BBQ on July 4th?

I did - but I didn't BBQ bunnies (that I know of). We had brats (my favorite), grilled corn on the cob, chicken, and multi-layered jello. Doesn't get much better than that.


biglanky14
Kain-Senpai
biglanky14
GOT A PINK LINK! SWEET!

You are one lucky b*****d guy! 5K inside? emotion_kirakira
I haven't looked yet - letting the anticipation build up.


biglanky14
Nayulecrise
biglanky14
Nayulecrise
Hi-Ho! How is Capt Lanky doing? Let's call this the Biglanky thread of epicness. cool

Hi Nayulecrise,

I'm doing pretty well - and I like that name too. I'm going to tell my whole team that some people thing I'm epic smile

Yay! And you ARE epic. They better star calling you Epic Lanky at HQ. Haha. :'3

I'm putting that on my business cards smile
biglanky14
Nayulecrise

Hope the others don't get jealous on how awesome sauce they're gonna look. emotion_awesome

They're already jealous of me. Now they're just going to be jealous-er. smile


biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore
biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore
biglanky14
Ok, I finally have to give about a 10-15 minute warning before I have to head out of here. Then the GCD can go back to something actually productive smile


We were being productive?

WHERE WAS I? DID I MISS THE MEMO?!

Oh yeah, smashed my hand, took the day off. sweatdrop

That's productive - you got a headstart on your weekend! Albeit with a little pain, which does suck.


It actually doesn't hurt bad now. I took an aleve and used a bag of frozen veggies on it, so now it's just the impact cut on it. And besides...I work weekends.

On Saturdays, we have a shipment unload, and sundays are the ad set days, which I got informed I might be in charge of starting in a couple weeks.

So the guy that is in charge of it now can have sundays off.-_- I'm not entirely sure how i feel about that.

So you basically just got his responsibility handed off to you? Fun.


biglanky14
Anasui
biglanky14
Anasui
My boyfriend and I got to go to a river on the 4th... It rained like crazy, though. And we were in our swimsuits... So yeah... We got to hug each other so we could keep warm...

Swimming in the rain is awesome. And it sounds like you ended up smack in the middle of a romantic comedy.
It was a lot of fun, though. But when we had to head back to his place, I stepped on a barb wire, and he stepped on some glass. I kinda cut my pinkie toe, so it kinda hurts.

Yikes - now it went from a romantic comedy to a slasher film.


biglanky14
MrsrachaelSnape
Do we have red fairy wings? no? No title for thread!

That's all it takes???


Jak Bauer
Narumi Misuhara
biglanky14
Narumi Misuhara
biglanky14

YOUR FACE IS IN THIRD GRADE!!!!!

You fool of a Took, my face is in a grade all of its own!

YOU.......SHALL......NOT.......PASS.......


third grade.

...is that what your daddy told you as a child?

Pwned. Hard. smile
biglanky14
And with that magnificent burn of Narumi, I have to head out.

Thanks for hanging out with me today, and have a fantastic weekend everyone!!

Eloquent Informer

37,875 Points
  • Winged 100
  • Balance Begets Creation 500
  • Waffles! 25
TROLOLOL You probably thought that was today's transcript emotion_awesome

To quote myself,
Platonix
My transcript of this (AtA) is gonna be late due to spotty internet access this week. (It'll be this week, it just probably definitely won't be tonight.)

[Goes back to transcribing Lanky Friday]
By the way, despite usually leaving post styles in for Lanky Fridays I actually had to remove some of it to make that transcript fit in a single post. emotion_jawdrop I may start getting more aggressive about only transcribing posts with useful information.

Eloquent Informer

37,875 Points
  • Winged 100
  • Balance Begets Creation 500
  • Waffles! 25
July 9th

lanzer
Hello everyone!

Hope everyone had a great 4th of July, we had a big BBQ and watched "Independence Day" afterwards. The movie was amazing, and not in a good way. :]

Here's a little update on the zOMG bug fixes done so far:
* Alastor quest bug that was preventing people from continuing to Kamilla
* General Mayhem broken on the normal and hard settings in the Village Greens
* Gnome HQ guards respawning bug
* Clutch behaviors in the mini-event
* Village gnome loot bug
* UnderseaCliffs safe not unlocking.
* SealabX fixed, leaders will talk more now.
* Broken badge grant for The Lawnshark badge

Welcome to ATA!


Harbinger of Pandamonium
codemonkey37179
Mashed Potato Jones
Hello folks! I'm just here to lurk...may have a question. How are you doing today, Admin and Developers...and how can I forget biglanky?

I don't know. How can you forget bigLanky?

Really? Anyone?
biglanky like fritos! biglanky like tab and mountain dew

/codemonkeysong
Harbinger of Pandamonium
Ridley Starsmore
codemonkey37179
Ridley Starsmore
Gratuitous amounts of scotch? sweatdrop

I could try that, but if it worked, I'd have no idea who it was firing me for being intoxicated at work.

Yes, but with enough, you won't care.-lol-

If you drink enough, will you imagine that your ears are white? eek
Harbinger of Pandamonium
Ridley Starsmore
Possibly. I'd be more likely to just hold a convo with them.

"hello left ear, how are you?"
'fine, fine, just hanging out, and you?'
"Pretty hammered. How about you right ear?"
"YOU DON'T OWN ME! I VILL RULE ZE WORLD! FIRE ZE LAZORS!"

"....ok, right ear is off his nut..."

at least it would be interesting
biglanky14
Lots and lots of people try smile
codemonkey37179
OV8ION
codemonkey37179
Mashed Potato Jones
Amnesia maybe?

You've been doing well lately, codemonkey?

Been coding like crazy for the Olympics. Rejected Olympics that is. The real Olympics don't recognize coding as being worthy of their games. Those %*#%&!!!

Ah, well, you see, the coding competitions are held in secret locations with Wil Wheaton as an obnoxious judge. They are the Hack-Offs, an unfortunate name, which gets them even less recognition. mrgreen

Oh, he would make an obnoxious judge. Think I'll skip it and just hang out here at Gaia.


Narumi Misuhara
Pirate Captain Sushi
Narumi Misuhara
jonjon21428
Hello people o3o

I have a few questions and another from someone else:

1)
How's the 2012 summer event going? Are we going to see a launch soon?

2)
Any progress on an update of the old inventory arranger?

3)
Any results from that June Wii giveaway? o3o

4)
A Random Act of Terror
Lol, 3rd time's the charm I guess o3o

Any chance you guys make the zOMG! loot part of alchemy, like "gold" or "iron ore", but like an obscene amount of them (like 10k) since they are so easy to get? o3o

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edit:
5) After reading the OP will people who have gotten the 2nd lawnshark badge but not the 1st one ,because of the bug, be able to get the 1st badge?

1. Soon smile

Soon as in Valve-time?

*takes a shot, runs away*
biglanky14
2) You guys won't see any changes for awhile. It's going to be slow going b/c of everything else we're working on.

3) We've got the names pulled, and I believe we've notified the winners and are waiting to hear back.

4) Unfortunately, probably not - at least not in the short-term.

5) I dunno, so maybe Lanzer will answer this.


biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore
Good afternoon Gaia Guys and Gals!

Looking forward to the upcoming CI release here likely this week, as many GCD folks do. Here's hoping the theme is spectacular. And now, on to five simple questions:

1. I'm sure you noticed someone found out what the supposed Achievments for the new Summer event are going to be. (subject to change, I am sure.) But I was wondering, what some of you think of users finding out that kind of info and spreading it out so far in advance?

2. For many of us, we have a dream item we wish could be made for our avvies (White Dander Ears, evolving swords, what have you.) Any of the staff, do you have an item you would love to see made for Gaia that for one reason or another just hasn't been made yet?

3. Could we possibly get a hint towards what the theme of the newest CI would be?

4. There are two EIs left that have yet to have their MP listings for the Alchemized versions triggered: Reve Rouille (sp?) and Masqurade. Would it be possible to trigger those listings, or have an MPC sell one of each of the alchemized versions to finish the listings off?

5. And lastly, a silly-ish question to everyone reading: The Dark Knight Rises comes out in 11 Days. Are you gonna see it in the theaters, or wait till the home release? (I'll likely wait for the home release. I love going to the show, but going costs me like 50 with no snacks and drinks. I can wait and get the bluray for 25-30, and be comfy.)

Anyway, it's a lot of fun hanging out with you guys every week, and I can't wait to see your answers!

(PS.: Lanky, I sent off the email to your HR dept last night. As well as shot a PM to Narumi about event ideas yesterday morning. Hope he likes those.)

-Ridley

1) Achievements leak? What achievements leak? smile

2) A tattoo of my name for under my eye like Todd in Soldier (I have a Kurt Russell obsession).

3) Maybe

4) Can you send me this in a PM? I'm going to have to ask around.

5) THEATER!
carbonphyber
Ridley Starsmore
But I was wondering, what some of you think of users finding out that kind of info and spreading it out so far in advance?
Disinformation is just as easily spread as information. wink
lanzer
We definitely believe that most of what we do are more fun to find out as a surprise, but at the same time we don't guard it with our lives and focus more on making things fun and exciting. Some Gaians love news in advance, while some don't want spoilers, so it's always a wash.

This is a tough one, as we've just had a Waffles event already. Maybe more astronomy items

sorry, no news at this time

There is no plans for those items at this time. Will let you know if that's changed.

I'd be scary to think that anyone would consider waiting to watch Dark Knight at home.


siskataya
worlds suckiest vendor
Just checking up with alchemy, do you have any news or anything?
And for the past week i was trying to solve a problem i had with alchemy, and it turns out i had too many pancakes in my inventory. D:
Is there a limit or something on items that you can have in your inventory at a time? surprised

Heya!

How many pancakes did you happen to have?

Sisky
carbonphyber
worlds suckiest vendor
carbonphyber
We have a limit in the item system so all features will only rad the first ~200 items in your inventory unless the developer knows to skip that limit and ask for all items. So if you have plenty of pancakes, but you also have a very large inventory and your pancakes are at the bottom of your inventory, some features might not recognize all of your pancakes.

Can you tell me which feature you were trying to use?
The /alchemy/ page?
The part of that page that shows "ready" formulas?
Were you attempting a conjuring?

Gotcha, but every time alchemy would load the screen would just turn white after it was done loading.
And i am just trying to craft caches, nothing special. xp
I do have most of my pancakes at the bottom of my inventory...

"White pages" are either fatal errors in our code (unlikely) or they are "out of memory" errors. It's likely that OOM errors could occur if you have a large alchemy inventory and the page is not coded to only load what is needed and instead blindly loads your entire inventory.
Your item count is not too high -- features tend to break when users have 2x-3x the number of items you have.

I had no issues conjuring a PhiloCache with your account. It was slow-ish to load the page, but it didn't time out and it didn't "white-screen" for me.
biglanky14
worlds suckiest vendor
biglanky14
I think that's the first time we've had a "too many pancakes" issue, since it's usually the reverse smile

Honestly, I'm not exactly sure where the boundary is, but it sounds like you found it.

We've got a change that we're working on right now that we think will help address the issue of not enough formulas being available, and are hoping to have it out sooner rather than later.

Well i still dont have enough. xp
But it would awesome if you could make it were you buy pancakes in bulk like fish bait! biggrin
And sounds good to me!!
Would that be happening this week maybe? surprised

I don't think it'll be this week, but we're hoping for not too long after. Not trying to be infuriatingly vague on purpose, but it involves a lot of work so while we think we'll be done soon, I don't want to accidentally throw anyone under the bus by overpromising.


codemonkey37179
Sinsario
codemonkey37179
Sinsario
So how are the wife and kids?

And what's the most random thing that happened in the office this month? Or ever.

Will anyone answer this before my sims game loads up?
LET'S SEE.

Hmm. Well we had the fire marshall in the office last week.

Apparently our in-office 4th of July weenie roast and firework display didn't go over so well.

Yes...good good...
Did anyone blow up?

P.S. Sims still hasn't loaded so you guys won.

The fire marshal blew up, but not in the way you mean.


Harbinger of Pandamonium
Captain KyuKyu
Harbinger of Pandamonium
Maggot
Will we ever get a facial hair shop? crying

Never. We don't believe in manly things. mrgreen

lol

How about in certain RIGS? Can the artists look into it?

NEVER EVER EVER

blaugh


Zero Omega
yes i know im sexy
Zero Omega
yes i know im sexy
Has anyone ever gotten the 3 halos in a row in slots?

Yup! Many times!

What is the possibility of getting the 3 halos in a row?
What are the possibilies of catching a rare fish these days?

Those two I do not know, sorry. xd


lanzer
II Pomy II
Evening guys,

I have a question and a request concerning IMG codes via the Alchemy feature.

Over the past few weeks I have casually been collecting each of the Backwing quests level IMG codes.
It hasn’t easy been finding these, since the only source for them is through completing a quest.
I’ve had to hassle the few users working on, or have finished these quests to get what I have now.

So, I was wondering if there were any external/secondary sources to find these codes?
If not, can one of you please provide me with the ones I am missing? I’d be forever grateful.

Current Progress


Angelic Quest

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Demonic Quest

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Risen Quest

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Fallen Quest

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Celestial Quest

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Devilish Quest

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The progress were meant for Gaians to find out and share, so we have not been proactive in listing them out in the past. Perhaps it's better to talk to those who had completed the quest?


codemonkey37179
2sarahgate
will gaia's scripts ever be optimized for 64-bit systems and the browsers installed on them? everyone i know who gets nonresponsive script errors and crashes on gaia only has a 64 bit system. firefox, chrome, opera. all don't work right.
browsers on 32 bit systems work fine. domokun stargate

I'm running a 64 bit system, as are many of the devs in the office. I haven't had any issues.

What parts of the site are you having trouble with?


biglanky14
Sweet Angelic Kitten
Since faustine's bottle and faust's bottle have poses that fausto's bottle doesn't have, will we ever see those extra poses in a purple/blue color scheme of the original?

Can we get the headers for various chance and events as artwork to use for facebook covers? I love the headers and I'd like to be able to use them.

Hi Kitty,

I will never say never.

As for the extra artwork, we are trying to gather a bunch of stuff we've put out and make it available for download. Don't know when we'll get that finished though.


Zero Omega
J3st3r124
Why do you have to have so many reports what if there arent any to be made but you want to be a moderator?

We want our moderators to be a dedicated part of their communities and show that they have a passion for wanting to help the site. I'm sure if you look hard enough you'll find enough to report in six months!


codemonkey37179
PlMPED
I hope this hasn't been answered already,
but can we expect a bigger better inventory arranger / organizer?

It was answered a couple of pages back, but I'll answer again.

Yes, we are planning to have a new one in future, but right now are flooded with other projects.

No idea when it will happen, but we all agree we need a new one.


Zero Omega
Death Before Dish0nor
Hello Admins~

• Where might I apply to work for Gaia as an artist?

Be sure to check our jobs site:

http://corp.gaiaonline.com


biglanky14
The Undead Suitor
Narumi Misuhara
The Undead Suitor
It took you guys two weeks to make two pages?

Geez, you guys are slow.

Would it go faster if every page had sherlock on it?

Slow and steady wins the race!

No, Jet engines win the race

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I dont know what backwards bizarro world you come from

One where we're really slow.
biglanky14
They'd just be sexier.


biglanky14
-BlondeSwag-
Can we have better chance items in the Daily Chance? sweatdrop

There is some really good stuff in there - it just has a low percentage of being given on any particular attempt. Just keep trying!


Zero Omega
Lady Lizzy Connor
Zero Omega
Lady Lizzy Connor
Are there any extra requirements for being Featured Avatar?

Nope! Just post in the GCD sticky.

emotion_donotwant But rich and good looking avi's are always picked.

Well... We could always feature an avi that is wearing nothing but the basic underwear... xd


biglanky14
Fallacy Angel
Did you enjoy your holiday?
I got to light up some fireworks.

Yes - so did we (which may or may not have been gained in a manner which may or may not be viewed as legal smile


biglanky14
Wolf Ookami Woof
biglanky14
Wolf Ookami Woof
Just a curious question. Should people report someone if they perceive something being a possible threat to something in real life even if they are joking or trolling?

Someone posted, "f I had the chance I would Go AND BLOW UP THE STUDIO!!!!!"

It's an unfortunate part of life today that we have to take these threats seriously. If you see something that's a specific threat, please report it and we'll deal with it appropriately. Thanks!

I reported it, but I didn't know what to report that under. So I just reported it under trolling. Since it was trolling to. Thanks.

I have another question,
If someone has posted they are underage for whatever reason, what do you report that under?

Reporting a video? Use this link to report a video.
Spamming: Posting material that is nonsensical or irrelevant to the forum/discussion.
Signature Size/Content: Inappropriate content in their signature, or it's larger than our limits.
Offsite Trading: Trading, or attempting to trade, any non-Gaia-related material for Gaia Gold/Cash, or Gaia-related materials for real-life money.
Offsite Advertising: Advertising a site, service, or anything outside of Gaia.
Trolling/Abuse: Posting inflammatory material intended to offend or provoke an individual or a group.
Password Phishing: Attempting to get other user's passwords, or otherwise access their account.
Inappropriate Content: Posting excessively violent or gory images, copyrighted material, or any other violation of our Rules & Guidelines (except for sexually explicit content, which is covered below).
Sexually Explicit Content: Posting or requesting material that is sexually explicit or pornographic.

Those are the categories and it's hard to know which one to pick because it isn't explained very well. Then you go to the help and there are no topics about it. ^.^'

You're right - there isn't a clear path to report those. You can put it under Inappropriate for the moment. And shoot a PM to Siskataya if you don't mind asking her about putting in a Help article.


lanzer
Serene Rainstorm
Good evening ATA!
Just a couple of things I want to say.
1. Did everyone have a good 4th of July?
2. Has the weather been hot over there? What are you guys doing to beat the heat?
3. Does anyone watch or heard of the show Dan Vs.?
4. Why don't we have melon pan for our avatars to on Gaia? I know we have that awesome melon pan mood bubble, but I thought it would be cool if we could hold some. They even come in different flavors! I always wanted to try chocolate chip melon pan!
5. Wouldn't tie-dye shirts be neat for our avatars to wear? They would look so cool with the Flower Power item!
6. Is it possible we can have a recolor of the Ultimate Rival in the future? Maybe in red? sweatdrop

Weather had been incredibly nice here in San Jose thanks to the Pacific Ocean. We were able to have nice BBQ outside as well as other activities without catching a heat stroke.

I'll gladly watch a show called Derek Vs. but not for Dan smile

Thanks for the item recommendations!


codemonkey37179
InsaneCrayons
Hello!
I Have quick questions! When is another event going to get started? and Will it have anything to do with H & R wesley burning down? (if not will there be an event for it?)

Summer event will be coming up soon. I'm not sure if it will have anything to do with H & R Wesley burning down or not. I'm not in the loop for that one.
Narumi Misuhara
The summer event will be starting soon but for the most part it is unrelated to the shop.


biglanky14
malkin7gr89
biglanky14
malkin7gr89
Can Gaia have a contest for like meme making? biggrin

Ha - I like the idea. How do you envision it working?

And is your username a tribute to Evgeni Malking, or is my hockey-loving brain just looking for hockey stuff?
I don't know. Maybe you guys can come up with a better idea xd
I know Evgeni Malking but Malkin really is a part of my name. lol 3nodding

LOL - awesome smile


biglanky14
Uesugi Ankit
Forgot about AtA. crying

So.. the listing for the Leathery Egg component has yet to be fixed, and it still has no purpose so far. D:

http://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/userstore/11833185

Yup - haven't been able to get around to it yet. Sorry!


Zero Omega
Linshon
Zero Omega
Linshon
Dear Admins,

First let me start off by saying that I love what you guys have done with the game and community as well as how it is setup, truly amazing.

One thing that bothers me however is the amount of hacked accounts and items are around, now I know hacking is going to happen and theres only so much you can do to stop it, but for players like my friend that has recently been hacked, to wait 4-6 weeks in order for everything to be restored to her is quite hard to break down especially since to some people they have been on Gaia for 8 months.

Aside from filing for hacking reports like she did what else can we give you guys to help speed up this process when we have hacked accounts? I know all the safety tips and guidelines but is there anything extra we can do aside from those?

On a more personal note, is there anyway that I can bring your attention to her case? She has been a well dedicated player of Gaia since the beginning and has been hacked once more in the past (She lost 50mil in items this go around) and I can only imagine how hurt she is by this and how it's effecting her.

(If you want any specifics about her usernames or plan to investigate it personally (which if you do many of hearts to you <333) you may pm me and I'll do my best to assist)

Have her shoot me a PM with her information and I can take a look into things. Sorry for the trouble, that's certainly a very strange anomaly as our Hack Report processing speed is actually fairly fast.

Well it wasn't to long ago that it happened but defiantly had some age in it's pain. Just for her anonymity (She isn't online right now but should be soon) I will send you a Pm with her username and what not just so you can know who to expect. Thank you a ton Zero, I appreciate your special attention to it and as always, Gaia never ceases to impress.

Not a problem at all!


lanzer
WideEyed
Hi Everybody! blaugh
Hope you all had a great weekend, and were able to either escape, or at least enjoy the heat! sweatdrop
I have two zOMG! related questions this week...yeah I know...what else is new? wink

Question 1.) Would it be possible for whoever is currently working on the zOMG! bug-fixes to provide us with some sort of routine update/status report?
I was thinking something along the lines of this would be really helpful...

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And so on, and so on.....

This could be Posted in Swarf’s Glitch Topic in the z!F, and would provide the benefit of confirming to the users that the Glitches they have reported have indeed been recognised and replicated by the Devs who are working on them, thereby reducing the number of repeat reports, as well as the routine questions to the ATA. It would also serve as a reminder of what has already been addressed, and maybe shut us up a bit. wink

Question 2) Server lag in zOMG! is still routinely at game-breaking levels. I know my Crew ended up having to give up on our weekly run last week because the Servers were days old, and it was virtually impossible to play.
I understand and appreciate that there is currently work being done on automating the Server Cycling process, but until that project is up and running, would it be possible to make cycling the zOMG! Servers part of someone’s routine on alternating days? I don’t presume to know exactly all that is involved in cycling the Servers, but I can tell you from first hand observation, that, unless they are cycled every other day at least, zOMG! becomes increasingly laggy. If cycling doesn’t happen for three or more days, zOMG! becomes unplayable, and that isn’t good for anyone involved.

As always, thanks for your time.

***EDIT***Darn I hate when they've spoken to my issues before I could cut and paste my question in here! wink

We'll look into having more updates, as far as server lag goes, we are trying to have a way of restarting the servers automatically but it's still being worked on.


Zero Omega
ilover1508
Hello Admins and Gaia staff!
Hope your 4th of July was as joyous as mine and many others!
My question is, When is your ban over if you were banned for three days?! My friend was banned but i'm unsure why, just want to know when she may possibly be back?!

The ban for a 3/14 days is the literally 72/336 hours from when the ban occurred. So if an account was banned on July 7 at 2:30pm for three days, it wouldn't be unbanned until July 10 at 2:30pm.


Zero Omega
The Second Choumaru
I still am getting this account notice.

"Our attempts to send a message to <My email here> have failed. That address is now blocked.

To resolve this you can either change your email address or try to remove the block.

If you think this is a mistake, please contact us."

I was told it was a glich in the system, but that was months ago. Will it ever be fixed?

It's strange you're still getting that, could you shoot me a PM with this information?


biglanky14
Awenliya
biglanky14
Awenliya
Can the admins do a daily giveaway, where anyone can sign up and everyday, someone's name is drawn, and that person gets one item of his/her choice, of any item ever put on gaia? I ask because some items are no onger obtainable through the marketplace, a nd haven't been available to obtain for some time, and I believe I and other people really want those dream items, but only the people who can program the item to gift to others at any time (admins) can do it.

In reality and virtuall, I have nobody and k ow nobody... so I can't ask anbody to loan or donate or trade any tiems. crying

Hi Awenliya,

We probably won't do a giveaway exactly like that, for a variety of reasons. However, we do try to run contests once in a while that give people access to some older items. For example, our monthly giveaways for May and June gave away really old MC items, and we'll probably do something similar for August as well.

Can you do my items soon/

Sorry if I sound selfish, I'm just desparate.

Sorry if I was unclear - I meant those are contests, which only have a couple of winners. We unfortunately just can't hand out old items to everyone, as it would destroy their value (which is really important to a lot of people).


Zero Omega
Ma Ajmala
Gaia staff i'm going to be going to my first anime convention Otakon and convention in general. If I go there and talk to you, CAN I GET MY ANGELIC HALO!! emotion_donotwant That is if you remember me

You know if VO will be at Otakon this year?

NO HALO FOR YOU, EVAR! scream
lanzer
Vo won't be at Otakon, it'll be just me and DJ Helsing.


biglanky14
Exstatistic
So i've been meaning to ask this but I missed the last ATA. Anyways, are gaians allowed to suggest any future items/ideas/rigs? If so, where do we? 3nodding

Absolutely. ATAs aren't the best place b/c we're too busy trying to answer questions to remember requests like that (same thing for bug reports). But we have a Petitions forum, and Site Feedback is another good place.


siskataya
Mayakashi Minshuu
Well there ever be Alternative Piercings in the shops?
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It's possible - anything is possible! I'll forward along your ideas to the team that handles/creates items. I cannot guarantee these will be made, but at least I can put your suggestion forward biggrin

Take care!
Sisky


Narumi Misuhara
Shanra the Dragon Bard
Narumi Misuhara
Shanra the Dragon Bard
I would really like to have a definitive answer on what is happening with the Spotlight. I was told by DJ Helsing that it was being fazed out, but without the Spotlight, a lot of us with charities, shops and guilds will have no other way to get the word out to the masses about our events. I really feel that we are being let down by the administration, simply because no one is willing to take on the responsibility of overseeing this vital part of the Gaia community. I've continued to see Moderator run events and help desk types of things in the Spotlight, but what about those of us who submitted email requests to have our events Spotlighted? Nothing, that's what happened. And our events tanked, because there was no way for us to get the information out there. Is there something else in the works to take the place of the Spotlight?
Thank you,
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These are the types of things that would go on the new Events page when it's ready to launch.

I'm guessing it would then fall under this category?
Quote:
Gaian created events (green square placeholder)
Events submitted by you guys! The current thought is that you guys would submit potential ideas for events to us and if approved they would be added to the events calendar minus a gold fee.

If so, it sounds as though we are being asked for ideas, and not for information on our actual event. My Pink Bunny Slipper Club of Gaia has been holding bi-annual events since 2009 when the slippers were released, and every single time I requested the event be Spotlighted, it was. Up until last year, when I never heard a thing back from DJ Helsing about my request, and again this Easter. Is an established event such as this going to qualify for placement in the Calendar? This is what was unclear when I first saw the thread about it.

When it launches those decisions will be left to the admins or mods. If it's an event that is consistent and liked by the community then i see no reason why it shouldn't always make the calendar.
Narumi Misuhara
Shanra the Dragon Bard
Thank you Narumi. I had given up hope of ever hosting another Gaian-wide event with the Club, but now I tell my members, and other guild captains that there is hope. Any idea when this new feature might be released?

No, no set date yet. Personally I want to get it out asap since it would be a very usefull feature.


siskataya
Dexigone
Do you think I should learn how to cook? I'm going to be going to college next year (I turned 17 last week). What should I do?

Hello!

I definitely think you should learn to cook. It's a great skill to have, and an awesome way to treat yourself and others. Mmmm, yummy food! biggrin

Sisky


biglanky14
Thirteenth Rose
How many signatures does it take to get a petition passed by gaia?

There's not a magic number, as we simply can't do some of the things in petitions, or won't do for one reason or another. But the higher the number, the more likely it is that we'll give the idea strong consideration, factoring in how long it'd take to build, how many people we think would use it, etc.


Harbinger of Pandamonium
OV8ION
Will we ever see DC screens like this?

No item grant, just a message.
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50 gold deducted.
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I'd be amused, but I suspect we'll probably want to keep DC positive. xd


biglanky14
Alicia007
Thanks for your commitment to your fans, this thread will be spammed with tons of questions

Take good care of yourselves alright? ^__~

One question tho....what games will be here IF backyard monsters, resort world and soul crash is gone?

You're most welcome!

We're obviously at the mercy of the game publishers, but right now we don't have any plans to remove Resort World or Soul Crash. We're looking at a replacement for Backyard Monsters right now, and will be adding another game we're creating (the Fantasy game referenced around here) in the near future as well.


biglanky14
Sweet Angelic Kitten
Is it true that some alchemy formulas like candy mountain aren't in cases anymore?

That's not true, from everything we can see in our systems. But we do have a change coming up that we think will help address this problem anyway.


codemonkey37179
Lmfao Perla
Well are you guys gonna do anything with the empty shop in hollywood? the one infront of the pool. Or is it gonna be empty forever?

No plans for it right now, but it probably won't be empty forever.


biglanky14
Memory Manipulator Namine
When will the Monster Galaxy loading issue be fixed? I won't load for me on Firefox and safari.
Yet Google Chrome and IE work fine.

Hi,

We're working on this with Viximo (whose platform we use to host the game) right now. If you can PM the specific info of what you see when you use each browser, that would be really helpful. Thanks!


Uncle Kenny
Memory Manipulator Namine
Are you guys in charge of the Monster Galaxy loading glitch or is that a third party issue?

When will the glitch be fixed? Since we get bonuses for logging in everyday it's a problem when we are unable to access it.

Will you guys at least send out updates on the progress? I know a lot of people are wondering the same things as me. I was browsing the glitches thread yesterday and saw at least 5 threads with the same issue. MG not loading

thank you for your time!!

We're actively working with Viximo to get the game back up and running at 100%. Once we have more of a solid update for you, we'll let you know.


biglanky14
Pusheh
I must know this and now...
when is the next CI coming? gonk

<shrugs shoulders> smile


Zero Omega
uncorrupt lion
Zero Omega
uncorrupt lion
my item went missing and trying to fill out a report on here will take me years the name is hollowed gentlemen it went missing when i went to go sell it and my rings aree disaperaing on here please reply by quote

Have you filed a Hack Report at http://www.gaiaonline.com/hacking?

whats the point you guys take for ever to reply my other acc u guys didnt even try to do anything and how am i know who the fck hacked me oh yeah let me hack my comp to see who ******** hacked me no im not somew phycic i had an onxe sword thing and lost it and i heard even if i am replied to they never give me the items i worked really hard on gaia should stop having ask the admin and try to make an unhackable system and make gcash sellable cuz what am i ganna buy from the cash shop with only 22 gcash i mean i would sell it for like 1-5k for each gcash

Unfortunately we cannot process a recovery for an account without a hack report. If there was a hack case you believe didn't get a response, then send me a PM with that information so I can check into it. Believe it or not we actually do get some cases where the report never went through in the first place, so we actually had no idea the account in question was hacked.


Narumi Misuhara
RAGING HELL BEAST
I generally dislike this entire website and the entire staff of this website...what do I do about that?

Change your opinion razz
Narumi Misuhara
RAGING HELL BEAST
Harbinger of Pandamonium
RAGING HELL BEAST
Harbinger of Pandamonium
I suggest trying to smile. Then give someone close to you a hug. Then smile some more. Then scream. Then run down a hallway while screaming. Then repeat it while waving your hands in the air like you don't care.
I tried that actually, didn't work as well as I thought it would.
Well, might I suggest adding alcohol to the mix? Just don't start doing math after that.

Remember, don't drink and derive. 3nodding
So you're a part of the administrative staff of Gaia Online and you're suggesting that underage people use alcohol....hmm...not sure that looks good from a customer point of view.

...You're not underage...unless you're lying about your age... o.O
Narumi Misuhara
RAGING HELL BEAST
I am 19, and the legal age for drinking is 21...so I am underage.

Oh snap! Well then, don't drink son, not good for your development.
codemonkey37179
RAGING HELL BEAST and Calelith
Calelith
Leave?

[argument about how Calelith isn't Gaia Staff and so "isn't qualified" to answer a question at AtA]

Ok. Leave?
Zero Omega
Explode?

That's typically what I do when things don't go my way. Just. Explode. Lots of fiery flames everywhere. Allows for good s'more making. Then everything goes back to normal and the world is in a state of peace.
siskataya
Heya,

Thanks for the comments. We're sorry to hear that you aren't really thrilled with Gaia. At this point, your opinion has been noted. If you have any specific reason for your grievances you'd like to share, I'd be happy to discuss them in a pm with you.

Thanks,
Sisky


Zero Omega
space crawfish
Zero Omega
space crawfish
Oh good I finally ended up making it to one of these things!

I stopped doing Gaia offers for cash because so many of them were obviously scams (fake software), had a lot of viruses in them, etc. So many of the users here are underage and may simply not know how to identify these offers as being malicious or may not have up-to-date virus software.

Is there any kind of screening process that these offers have to pass and do you guys plan on improving the quality of Gaia offers so we don't have to worry about getting viruses or getting scammed?

I don't know off-hand if we actually have a screening process (not my area or department), however, I know that if you find these types of offers you can send an e-mail to usertalk [at] gaiaonline [dot] com with some information about the offer so we can review it.

Thanks, I appreciate the response!

If you guys don't have a screening process, it might be really helpful to implement one (even if it's something simple like using a throwaway VM to download these offers). As it is right now, it's not a very good reflection on the site as a whole that users can (and are encouraged to) download malicious software and complete suspicious forms in order to obtain website-specific currency. I hope this would cut down on a lot of email you guys receive, too, from buttheads like me reporting offers lol

Yeah, totally understand. Don't quote me on whether or not we have a screening system because it's actually something I really don't know. xd It's not my area to ask about so I've never had a reason to ask whether or not we do have one.


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Eloquent Informer

37,875 Points
  • Winged 100
  • Balance Begets Creation 500
  • Waffles! 25
.edis pilf eht no deunitnoc tpircsnart sihT

July 9th, some more

Zero Omega
Secret Duckie
Zero Omega
Secret Duckie
Will you ever do an account cleaning?

I, personally, have had two accounts banned (one that I found unbelievably unfair, but I've attempted to fight it and been told it's "too old" to be worried about, since she was banned in 2004, but that's besides the point), and I've been told I won't get them back, so why not just delete them? Even accounts that haven't been banned, just sitting around.

As Gaia had a hayday as being one of the largest forum sites I've seen, lots of people created accounts and never touched them again. It's very frustrating when you're looking for a certain name. I tried to look up a name I really wanted today, and it's taken by someone who was around in 2004, for one month, with 28 posts.

Will we ever wipe accounts like that? With enough fair warning (including an email or something of the like) you wouldn't be liable for people whining about losing and old account, but those of us still here (and those of us who've been here from the beginning!) would love to be able to get some of those names, too!

We don't completely delete accounts because we might still need then for actual investigate purposes (old cases that come up, etc), there might also be some server stuff that is tied to accounts within our databases which might harm us if we deleted the accounts (dev might have to confirm this for me!)

That being said, is there any way that we can release the names for those accounts? I think that's the thing that makes Gaian life the most difficult!

Also as far as investigation purposes, as I mentioned, apparently accounts get to a point where no one will look at them anymore for unbanning. If this is the case, then how would it be helpful to an investigation if we're talking about an account from 5+ years ago?

You'd be surprised at what we can find if we're lucky. I once recovered a user from a hacking in 2004 but it was one of those very, very, very rare circumstances that we were only able to do because all the stars aligned.

We typically don't remove the name off of a banned account because the idea is that if you're banned, you have done something to violate the rules and forfeit your right to that name, profile, etc. Could that change in the future? Potentialllllyyyyy~ But that wouldn't be my call.


lanzer
Castiel Lover
Hello, everyone. I hope you all had a great Fourth of July.

arrow Waffles 'I am' Companion in a gold shop! (Money sink + happy Gaians = good for Gaia Online)

arrow Suspicious Eyes Glitch. I know there is a layering problem and it isn't an easy fix, but couldn't the current item files be replaced with ones that don't have a layering problem? Could they be remade just like all the other eyes? I don't understand why they're different from all the other gold shop eyes, to begin with..

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

arrow Anything you can share about the cat game (even if it is old news - I haven't heard anything)? Is it a face book style game, or something refreshingly new?

We've just got to fix the glitch with the Suspicious Eyes, please check back in tomorrow!

The cat game is still being worked on, need more fixing to make it more fun!


biglanky14
Ramiele
I have a couple questions.

1. When will guilds get all the cool things that the forums have? Youtube tags, quick reply, things like that?
2. Would the CEO ever be involved in future ATA's? I could be wrong, but I've not seen him do much with the userbase.
3. I had a ton of fun at the meet-up a little less than a year ago in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. Any plans on having anymore meet-ups? Looking forward to the next one if there is one!

Hi Ramiele,

1) We'd like to, but it requires a bunch of work, which means we wouldn't be able to get the stuff we're working on done. Hopefully at some point.

2) Probably not too likely. He's got a lot of stuff to worry about running the company overall, and honestly the people participating now are better suited to answer detailed questions anyway.

3) We have a calendar on the site, although I don't think we're doing too many more meetups this year sad


Narumi Misuhara
purplegnomes
Will there be a manga/comic coming with the summer event? biggrin

Yup.


siskataya
sugar peachie
So where is Darknrgy and Panagrammic today?

They are off doing top secret things! ninja It's all very hush-hush!

Sisky


Zero Omega
Anarchy In The Soul
I have a question.

Why are you guys so awesome at making this website the best social website on the internet?

( aside from FaceBook but they kinda suck razz )

Because I'm here. cool


biglanky14
-Lustful_Lullabies-
Have you guys thought of any new RIGs lately I'm so alone without new RIGs, I guess I'm inpatient. But Digital Rainbow isn't doing it for me.
emotion_kirakira
On a side note, how much time do you guys get off a year? To personal probably, but a job is a job, you get time off>>

1) Maybe smile

2) It varies by how long you've been around, but it's pretty standard - a few weeks off a year for vacation, and sick time. Although anyone who works here has the immune system of an ox so we never get sick smile


biglanky14
MademoiselleTokita
What is your favorite item here on Gaia? :3

Waffles face. B/c it faces forward even when you're turned around in Towns, like the Exorcist. It's so freaky.


Narumi Misuhara
EliteDanneh
Gonna be my third ATA in a row asking this.

It's been a LONG LONG time since any new animated items. Are there any on the horizon? The usual "I can't answer that at this time" response is fine if you still can't say anything.

Ol' Danneh here is hankerin' for some new shinies.

No to my knowledge, these are hard because making them requires the help of people not on the Gaia Online team.


Zero Omega
-Lustful_Lullabies-
Zero Omega
-Lustful_Lullabies-
Dear staff,
I love you, but you don't seem to love me :C All you ever do is ignore me. WHY YOU NO LOVE ME!?
Love, Lulla

Not enough gold in my account.

How can you love gold more then me? Why don't you do that rumored staff trick with gold! Where you can have all the gold want. Or is that not really real? LOL

LOVE IS BUT A WORD THAT IS ONLY THROWN ABOUT BY FISH! scream


Zero Omega
Shad-O 1315
Dear Admins,

how much training does a moderator receive before being assigned the title of moderator?

I had an issue the other day where my breedables pet shop interest thread was moved form pricing and suggestions to the main breedables forum and when I asked them why they responded that interest threads don't belong in the P&S forum... Well, I quoted her the B/C forum's rules where it specifically says that interest threads to not belong in the B/C they do belong in P&S so I'm just wondering if these users have to pass a test or something.

By the way, i sent her the quote of the rules and asked again why my thread was moved form the right forum into a forum where the rules say it does not belong and i have yet to hear back.

And question two : Will we be seeing more of Waffles and all his adorable catness?

Can't give out the full details of our moderator training program, but we do make sure that all our moderators have extensive training before being allowed on their own. If you have appealed the move with that moderator and they have rejected it, you are free to take your appeal to another moderator or file a ticket at http://www.gaiaonline.com/help


biglanky14
Areweeffingserious
Is someone actively working on Gaia On The Go?
I keep pointing out flaws, and I keep being ignored.

First off, I love the username.

Like everything on the site, we have to pick and choose our priorities for gets worked on next, and right now we have some stuff we want to get out before Gaia on the Go. But it's definitely not being ignored - we know that mobile is important to our users (hence all the Android requests), and are trying not to fall too far behind on it.


biglanky14
ChimbIey
Idk if anyone has asked this yet but do your chances of getting one of those really expensive items from the CIs increase with each one you buy?
Or is it possible to get a super rare item on the first shot?

Hi Chimbley,

All the CIs have the exact same odds on every attempt - you can get a super rare on try 1. They don't escalate with your purchases because we've been very loath to mess with that system at all.


biglanky14
Mrs Casil
When are they going to announce the June Contest Winners?

and

When do you guys think you'll make another item with long pink hair? heart

Hi Mrs Casil,

We're contacting the winners right now, and will probably announce them when we kick off the next contest (I'm guessing that's likely to be August).


carbonphyber
Black Death Goddess
I have a question for the Admin that I hope gets answered. My question:

Why do the Pumpkin Fluff and Easter Fluffs not show up in our invo?

It doesn't look like those are items. Are you talking about the plushies? The recipes? What are the exact names of the items?

Using this page as a reference,
"ZOMG" type items should show up in the zOMG tab in your inventory. "bottoms", "items", and "special" should show up in the correct inventory tab(s).

You should be able to see any item in your inventory by using the "inventory search" feature. That feature (and the inventory feature in general) usually requires the item be of a certain type and that it be located in your "main inventory" -- this means not on your avatar, not in your house or suitcase, not currently sitting in a trade or for sale on the marketplace.

Hope this helps!


codemonkey37179
Brandon Baker
codemonkey37179
Brandon Baker
Is the event going to be amazing this year?
surprised
&
Does it have anything to do with the plot?

Yes!, and I'm not sure. I've been falling asleep in meetings a lot.

Sounds like you need more sleep, or more coffee!

Yeah, I do need a bit of both. I'm afraid I'm I tune out a little, if it isn't about my project. There is so much going on here all of the time. And big Lanky just goes on and on....
codemonkey37179
OV8ION
codemonkey37179
Brandon Baker
Maybe sleep and coffee aren't the resolution to the meetings....
A mute button is! emotion_awesome

That's the same as tuning out. I just keep playing my modified song in my head. "All Big Lanky wants to do is eat your brains.."

>: Bring a bag of pretzel M&Ms...I think he likes those. And will finish the meeting sooner if you tie them to a stick near the door.

Good idea!
codemonkey37179
Brandon Baker
mehh. but a mute button would be more fun. emotion_dowant once it's installed you could just mute him whenever emotion_awesome

sounds like an amazing song. i expect it to be for sale in itunes soon. I could see Mariah Carey singin it. lol

It is a Jonathan Coulton song. Same guy who did Code Monkey.

Of course I changed it a bit, to fit Big Lankey. It is called Re:Your Brains, and very funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6vnM9I7HIo


biglanky14
Lmfao Perla
I been wondering this for a long time...

Well I have a question about Meebo, since its shutting down, do we have to go back to private messaging and commenting ? o; Or is there gonna be a new system to quickly reply?

The Meebo Toolbar, which is what we use (along with a bunch of other sites) is the one part of Meebo that's not going away. So nothing should change for that unless Google (which now owns Meebo) switches direction.


codemonkey37179
Deep Dark Desire
codemonkey37179
Deep Dark Desire
How old is the oldest gaian admin? I've ALWAYS wondered that. eek

I'm not sure, but I'm in the top 5 I'm guessing at 43.

Yes! That means I can be cool forever! crying Thankyou so much!

LOL. That made my day. Thank you!
Zero Omega
Ridley Starsmore
Zero Omega
Six BILLION years old.

Should you really be telling people your age?

What's that?

... GET OFF MY LAWN!


Narumi Misuhara
Whimsimaru
also crystal overdrive 2 pls
when will the RO event start?

when I want it to... or
"Soon"

smile


Zero Omega
blackghost15
I for got the password to one of my mule account:ghostking15
And i would also like to change to email that it is currently under as i have forgotten that password.
Can you help me?

For these type of issues, file a ticket at http://www.gaiaonline.com/help . We'll ask you some basic verification questions and if we believe you owned that account, then we'll help ya out.


biglanky14
Bella of Venus
Well I've never attended one of these but I took a break for about a year and came back and it seemed that inflation had hit. So i guess I don't really have a question, just a concern. It just seems that new items are hard to get unless you spend money to buy from the cash shop.

Hi Bella of Venus,

Welcome back!

I guess it kinda depends on your point of view. Inflation is actually quite a bit lower than it was even a few years ago. That doesn't mean that it's easy to get what you want (as you well know), but that the overall rate of inflation in our economy isn't too bad. We hear both sides - some people think it's way too hard to get gold, and some that it's way too easy. Anecdotally, we take that as a sign that we're in a relatively good place.


siskataya
Tsuki_Kirkland
-BloodStainedLies
How does one delete their gaia account?

You can’t .

We don't delete accounts fully, but we will block them for you so they are not longer active. You can file a ticket through our Help Center to request your account be closed, and we will be able to help you out.

Take care,
sisky


lanzer
Manny The Lone Kitsune
Lanzer Is There Gonna be an anime base Chance item?

If it's based on a specific anime, like a sponsorship, then maybe, but usually we offer straight up items instead.


biglanky14
Odd Cinderella
Can we have more Towns Memorabilia?

Hi Odd Cinderella,

What'd you have in mind?


codemonkey37179
HeIIraiser
HeIIraiser
Why did Gaia decide to screw over half of its members out of ever owning backwings?
emotion_c8

Oh dear.
Looks like I was skipped AGAIN.

=O

It was never decided. I don't have anything to do with Alchemy myself, but from what I've seen and heard there were some technical issues, which a lot of staff here took a lot of time and energy to address.


Zero Omega
Bedophile
Zero Omega
Bedophile
ermm... Idk if this ended or not , but I tried updating my "About Me " and this is what I got .

Authentication Error
You do not have permission to edit this forum.


I tried posting in the Questions and Assistance forum and the Bug Report and Technical Support but no answers... Help ?

Weirrrrrrrddddddd~ Send me a PM with this and I can check it out and help ya with troubleshooting.

Screen shots? Im new to this , im honestly new to these so Im extremely confused . >.>

Just a PM right now describing the problem so I know to get back to you about it, then we can troubleshoot later (but if you have screenshots, that'd be great to add).


biglanky14
HugzCx
I did a sponsered offer for 1000+ GC or so, to sign up for some online game, and with a purchase of no less than $0.99. I did all of that. I spent ACTUALLY $2 at the site and STILL haven't recieved my GC?

Hi HugzCx,

Sorry to hear about that! There should be a link to contact the Offer provider on that page so you can check in with them. Good luck.


Zero Omega
Leader Clair
What is your guys favorite video games?

Xenogears~ heart

That and Megaman X/X2
siskataya
I have always liked the Resident Evil games (except RE:Survivor that first-person fiasco), Silent Hill, and Tomb Raider. Tomb Raider is my favorite biggrin I was a sad admin this year when I learned they bumped back the release of the new Tomb Raider game sad

- Sisky


biglanky14
XiaDoh-Ichii
Will you guys ever add other " worlds " to zomg??

You could make it that the HIVE portal gets fixed. And then Gaians have access to other planets. No? ce la vive? nes pa?

Hi there,

Unfortunately, most likely not. We're going to keep the game available, and will do bug fixes and small updates when possible. But we're not going to be doing any further major development on zOMG.


lanzer
Mimi Sparda
Hello there!
I've been meaning to ask,how old is Waffles?
Also can we get some more fluffy/fat cat items in the near future?

Waffles is a little over a year old

Hopefully, whatever Waffles want, Waffles get!


biglanky14
An Ultimate Arse Head
Man this thing moves fast ever since you guys started sending out alerts about it!

Any way, is there a chance that the Gaia Merch Store will ever be restocked with old favorites (OMG hat) or be given new items?

Hi,

Unfortunately we don't have a relationship with the store anymore. Long story short, they haven't paid us for inventory sold for years, and haven't returned the stock either. Suffice to say, we're not very pleased about the situation.


carbonphyber
Stoner on Bare Mountain
Will the forums ever go back to the way they originally loaded?
When Booty Grabbing it makes the analyzers and Booty Grab Glow Indicator load incorrectly. And when browsing the forums I like to watch my gold go up. Now I can't fully enjoy my riches.
I may create an opt-out preference to suppress the quick-loading feature. So far only a few users have been having issues.

I'm also planning on updating the header numbers/bubbles on every quick-load.


biglanky14
koolknight
Ello Gaian Family! smile

Sooo... BIG question(s) of the day...

since otakon is right around the corner...

will gaia be attending? and who will all be there?!? smile

BTW i got the pic of us from last year on my profile lanzer!

Yup - both Lanzer and DJ Helsing should be there smile


siskataya
zieLiz
Hi hi! First time I manage to get to an AtA (I think, anyway). I recently started doing healthy and yummy smoothies, do any of you have favorite recipes that you can share?

I'm suspecting that Sisky might. biggrin

Heya Liz! Glad to see you around!

I'd be happy to send you some tasty recipes! How about you send me an email and let me know if you are allergic to anything. I can find some super tasty and healthy stuff for you to nom on biggrin

By the way, I am working on a book of recipes too, so maybe once that is done, I can send you a copy.

Sisky


biglanky14
Leader Clair
Boop. Haven't been in an AtA for while.

What's your guys favorite show?

Modern Family smile


codemonkey37179
THeSLuSH
Along with quite a few others, I have a number of items locked in my Housing inventory. I personally have been trying to find help in getting an answer or a solution to this problem for over a month, but others have been trying for much longer and it is starting to seem like no one cares to acknowledge this issue. I assume that this is a glitch that occurred during a housing update that has been left unfixed. It is understandable that things do not get corrected immediately, but as I have some worthwhile items frozen in my housing inventory, I would just like a little reassurance that this issue will be addressed, if a solution cannot be offered.

Thanks for your time.

That is something we need to address. Can you send me a pm, so I'll have a reminder to look at this in the morning.

And to the good people who pm'd me about the table I haven't forgotten you. I've just been super busy with Olympics.


lanzer
Marytanna
Oh dear XD. I'm back with more awkward questions XD. -coughs- Back to tutorial in zOMG.
Quote:
We were getting a lot of people dropping out during the tutorial -- when we removed it, we actually had a higher percentage of users play the game.

Thank you for the answer cat_4laugh

I am not meaning to be disrespectful, just curious. Do older player are expected to serve as that tutorial cat_4laugh ? I just fail to see how they will learn to use rage or know some things that were used in that tutorial after you stopped the train (Sewers Quests).

I have to admit, I don't really remember old tutorial that well. I just remember it was good for me cat_4laugh

P.S, ty for fixing some bugs cat_4laugh

That's right. We thought that as something where a user can spot other users doing on later levels, as beginning level does not rely on rage to win.


biglanky14
Seresute Kitomoto
Hello. I was wondering... I really like this item, Azrael's wings, and I was wondering when they would appear on Gaia again so I could buy them or something?
Also, is there something where if a Gaian doesn't go on for a while say, 1 year? Does Gaia delete them?

Hi,

We occasionally rerelease old CI items so that users can play older ones they liked. But certain other items (like MCs) we won't release in any mass fashion b/c we've pledged not to.

And nope - we don't delete accounts at the moment, even if they've been gone for awhile.


Zero Omega
Mizuki_ZOMG
Can you pm using an id number?

Yup! If you have someone's user ID then you can PM them with that instead of their username.


biglanky14
Gyptoega
Dear Admins,

I have an important question for you. I have a petition ready to be submitted to the developers of Resort World and Viximo Scott about the future of the game since there's little convincing to keep Backyard monsters. However, there were a some people who wrote things that I believe you should take a look at as well. How can I submit this forum to you and who would be the best person to present this to in your company?

Basically, I am interested in the person who distributed these games. I want them to see how these games being removed on gaia online really effects the community in a negative way. I really believe that back yard monster leaving gaia online is getting hit the community very badly that I can't even reason with certain people in the thread there.

I humbly thank you for answering my question. And taking the time to read my question.

Gaia player,

Gyp Toega

Edit: Sorry, I really meant email to as opposed to present this to.

The problem is that Viximo is just a distributor, and we're the host. The company that actually created the game decided to pull it down, which is totally their right. Similar to if we decided we didn't want MoGa being used on Yahoo Games anymore or something. So the best thing to do would be to contact the creator of the game (which escapes me at the moment) with your message, in hopes that they'll allow it to stay.


codemonkey37179
dragonmonkey
codemonkey37179
I've been waiting all night for some questions. *sigh*

I think I asked you about the numbers in your name and what they stood for but it wasn't a serious question. My former questions, however, were more serious in nature.

The 37179 is an old zip code I had.


biglanky14
Edgecrusher Asakuun
I didn't get to read all of the pages sweatdrop , but is there any progress on the Monster Galaxy loading problem? It was mentioned at some point a while ago, but I never heard anything about it afterwards...

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

Hi there,

We're slowly working towards it. The problem is that we can't reproduce it regularly, which makes it uber-hard to track down. Keep posting any info you can when it happens to you.


lanzer
killafrog
1. Will there be a brown body dye?

2. will there be a recolor of gro grain?

3. Will there be a blue grunny/prunny like creatures?

4. How you all doing anything new u could urm spill ninja

I doubt it happen but would be fun xp

Not likely, we went with as dark as we could get with skintones already

Not unless we have another event related to that

Grunny's always green, though Diedrich has many colors apparently

Keep your eyes on Narumi's posts!


Zero Omega
Scorpio Twins
I got skipped too. Too many people asking chit chat questions >: (

Darknrgy actually addressed some reasons why we may not answer questions:
darknrgy
Reasons why we might not answer questions:

1) it's obviously a loaded question meant to antagonize us
2) we answered questions like it a bunch of times already
3) we're avoiding it because we don't know yet or don't want to deal with it
4) we think someone else here is better qualified to answer it
5) the wording pisses us off

The list goes on and on :] We're here trying to create a positive experience for everyone, including ourselves.

Personally, I think I saw your question but just didn't have an answer for it. sweatdrop Someone might be able to pick it up, we always have people going through the thread looking for something.


biglanky14
xX undefined life Xx
Was wondering something. Is there a limit to how many items in general you can have in your inventory? Or for a certain item is there a limit to how many of them you can have in your invo in general? (not asking about a specific item in general just wondering)

And hello everyone one c:

I actually have no idea on this one - great question. Wish I knew the answer.


codemonkey37179
Lei_Trigar
How's Towns 2.0 coming along???

Also, I have discovered some glitches on the Main Alchemy page, any idea on who I should send a PM about them too?

I'm not sure about the Alchemy. You can try DarkNrgy, but he is out of town this week.

Towns is coming along. There will be a preview of one of the towns shortly.


siskataya
dragonmonkey
Any chance that another skin changing formula/potion being a part of a EI? I like the idea behind the GIMP formula and like that it's not just the skin but other things attached.

Another thing, when will we be able to attain sleeves, JUST SLEEVES, in gold shops? Most, but not all, sleeves come as a part of a set attained in RIGs, MCs, REIs and EIs.

I would like to see something like these sleeves: User Image available in gold shops.

I'll admit to liking the corset too but one thing at a time. 3nodding

Heya!

Thanks for the ideas - these are pretty cool! I'll definitely pass along the ideas to the team that makes items. Again, I cannot guarantee they will be made, but it cannot hurt to ask, right? I know some of the sleeves I consider to be super-fantastic have actually been user designed and are in CrosStitch. Who knows! Perhaps one day we could have a sleeves-only design contest of sorts. I'm just musing aloud here, but you never know - anything is possible smile

Sisky


codemonkey37179
Ridley Starsmore
codemonkey37179
I've been waiting all night for some questions. *sigh*

OK, I have one...would it be possible to incorporate a link to zOMG in the new towns? Like, you leave your hose and you can wander around, or head out the gate into the Greens course.

That's a good question. No. Sorry. However, we could do that with Hollywood and Rallies eventually. Expect more events to be held in the new towns.


lanzer
Come Inside
My goodness! Only an hour today!?

Anyways, I'd like to know how items are initially conceived and brought onto the table. Do you guys hold a meeting to discuss new items to be put into a new RIG? Do you guys give each artist artistic freedom to make anything they want?

Furthermore, do you know who is in charge of recolors? Because I have a few suggestions that I would like to give them. Thank you!

We used to have big meetings to come up with items, but lately we allow individual artists to be more creative about their ideas and go with it.

Re-color is tricky, usually it's done by the artist who made the item, so I wouldn't say there's one artist to talk to. My suggestion would be to ask for it in the feedback thread.


Zero Omega
Leader Clair
Who's the awesomest Gaia Admin? emotion_awesome

Sisky. cool


siskataya
Tsuki_Kirkland
Got a few questions for you.

1. Is mecha neko going to open to the public as a new shop without the FMA items in it or vanish now that I guess the FMA sponsorship is over?

2 . Can I have a hug? pleease?

*Huggggggggggsssssss* 3nodding


biglanky14
skyterra47
I have a question for y'all...
Will there ever be a tektek style system on site? I hate how I can't combine items from my inventory with multiple non-inventory items.

Also, Will the meebo bar or chat be disappearing?

Hi there,

Not in the near future - they do a pretty good job already smile

The Meebo Bar is the one part of their service that's not disappearing, so unless Google has a change of heart, it should be sticking around.


siskataya
Ridley Starsmore
OK, this is too cute not to share...got a message.

Apparently, I now have a bunny named after me.

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

Isn't he cute as it gets?!

Awwwww, cute! I have a bunny too 3nodding

-Sisky


Zero Omega
Tsuki_Kirkland
Oh I had another question

WIll you all ever do another drawing thing where users suggest the drawings like you did not too long ago? I really enjoyed that and would love to have it happen again

Potentiallllllllyyyyyyyy~


codemonkey37179
Zealand_Aquarius
codemonkey37179
Zealand_Aquarius
HI, I see you answered my question but I can't find it but thank you anyway!

I can't find it either. What was the question? LOL.

I mind of feel special now

Was just wondering why I can wear some leg mods with the GIMPI skin but not others I assumed that the leg mods would be the same layer?

Also was wondering if there is plans for a Dev alert when DMS ( Deadmans Shadow) will be opening/ closing ? It would save some problems for those that do not have the bloodstone items.

Thank you again!

I answered that question? I don't think so.

I'm afraid I have very limited knowledge outside of my own areas (Towns, Events, Housing)

Sorry

Wish I could help. Big Lanky? Lanzer? any ideas?
Narumi Misuhara
Zealand_Aquarius
rofl

I think ATA is a but tipsy tonight!

I can provide a screenie if you like showing that it said you answered me, although it explains why neither us could find the post!

Of couse, Tipsey is my last name after all wink


codemonkey37179
Yeata Zi
WHERE IS THE LOVE?!

She's at home. Thanks for asking. I'll be leaving shortly myself. I'll give her your regards.
siskataya
heart heart heart yum_bacon yum_bacon heart heart heart

Here you go! I threw in bacon too, for good measure!

- Sisky
Zero Omega
WHAT? IS? LOVE? BEEP! BEEP!


biglanky14
Prelude to Hell
So I don't know if this has been asked before or not,
but I'll go ahead and shoot for it anyway.

These days, everyone is making an app for Android and Apple products -
Have you guys thought about doing something like this? I believe it would open up to a whole new world of users and possibly make some money off it.

For someone like me, I'm a very dedicated Gaian and I enjoy this site immensely. I've met so many people and spread out my talents to the community. The website is compatible enough with the browser on my phone, but it would be even more splendid if there was an easier accessible application that I could log into without having to deal with the fat-finger syndrome, zooming in, zooming out, page not loading, etc etc. (Perhaps with options like My Gaia, Account, Market, Forums. Something easy.)

Anyway, let me know. cool

Short answer: Yup, it's something we really want to get to, but haven't had the time to put it together yet. Hopefully in the near future.


lanzer
mynick9999
Dear lanzer,
This site was my first site, but i do have a question,
where did you get the idea off of coco and kiki?
Are they like your cats? just wondering.

No we had Waffles many years after Coco and Kiki. Kiki one of the first "pet" MC items and we chose a cat for it's our favorite pet animal. Didn't know Kiki would be so popular, and eventually we introduced Coco due to popular demand.


biglanky14
the_MoViEmAn001
how do u get rich the legal way smile

Buy a diversified stock portfolio, save every penny.....or just win the lottery.


biglanky14
blackghost15
Is it possible for me to become admin?
I am currntly 17 and I will be getting ready for college this time next year.

Once you're 18, I hope you apply!


carbonphyber
fierstar123
Alright this one affects me and a few other people.....

Is it possible for gaia to make a mobile version of meebo due to the website shutting down.....Its been exreamly helpful for a lot of us and would be a shame going back to Pms and profile comments.......

The Meebo Bar is not going away. 4 of their other lesser-used features are, but nothing bar-related. Users are reporting bugs and we are passing those bugs onto the Meebo team.

To clarify: Google bought the Meebo company. They announced that 4 products are being removed/discontinued. None of these 4 discontinued products is on Gaia so the Gaia - Meebo Bar experience will not change.

Keep posting in Bug Reports if you continue to have Meebo Bar issues.


biglanky14
shayla_kitten
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have been a proud supporter of Gaia for years now and I do have fears of where the direction is this site is going. I do have a couple questions / concerns about the Site. They are:

1) With a few of the Games pulling out of the Site and the direction seeming looking like you could only play the new ones on Facebook, what is the point of playing the ones on the site, in general. The former OMGPOP games were fun, for the most part, and I'm hoping that similar types can be brought in to go along with the Cards and Slots.

2) As much as I like zOMG, I am not a fan of having to buy a special item to get into a new area. Is there a serious plan to open up these new areas up for all to play in the near future permanently?

3) Staying on zOMG, there are pieces of plot where you can open up newer areas such as Durem off of Bass'ken Lake where the Daily Chance is. Will that ever be developed to be played as I think it would be a great area to fight robotic animated in that area?

4) Final question, in the inventory, there seems to be a bug of some sort when it comes to some of the items that I have where they show the same item on 2 separate pages (ie: 20 Silk Boxers on Page 1 and 5 Boxers on Page 2). Is there a way to correct this to relump all the items into one as it should be.

Thank you all for your time and hope to read your reply.

Hi Shayla,

1) The games that have been pulled actually have nothing to do with Gaia itself. They're distributed to a number of sites (ours included), and their creators decided to take them off of everything (OMGPOP b/c they got bought by Zynga and that's not how they do business, and Backyard Monsters for an unknown reason). We recently made MoGa playable on Gaia without FB, and will have another game coming on soon too.

2) Possibly. It's not straightforward b/c of people who bought the amulet, but we're trying to find some way to compromise here.

3) Probably not - we're not going to do any large-scale development on zOMG going forward.

4) That's weird - do you mind posting in Bug Reports so our devs can take a look?

Thanks!


lanzer
Thank you for joining us on this week's ATA! Have a great week everyone!


Zero Omega
Ridley Starsmore
Zero Omega
I SMELL A RABBIT IN MY OVEN IN FIVE MINUTES!

Ok, seriously, have you ever eaten a rabbit?

We's not very filling. EAT MOAR COW.

I have! Bwahahah~!
codemonkey37179
When I was a child I was given rabbit. I didn't really care for it.


biglanky14
Thanks to everyone for coming out tonight! We apologize to everyone who didn't get their questions answered, but there are unfortunately far more of you than there are of us.

We hope you'll join us again next week!


carbonphyber
Infamous Anarchy
Why are all my cash shop items locked in my inventory?
If you put the mouse over the "lock", it will tell you why.

There are blue locks ("frozen" items), and golden locks ("soulbound" items).

Loyal Genius

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i have a few questions myself
1.How old do you have to be to work at GaiaOnline?
2.How much do you get paid? Real Money [ ] Gaia Gold [ ] Gaia Cash [ ]
3.What happens if you work by internet if they pay you in real money does it go in your bank account?
4.What will you do about hackers they do everything they even change passwords because they know your old one im just thinking that you should change password by mail. also if you want to change email you first send it to your first mail and if that doesnt respond probably 1 month or 2 then it wont be change because still wouldnt be fair.
5.How do you get to be a ''Admin''?
6.Do you work daily or some parts later...?
That's most likely my questions and i forgot ONE more...
7.Will you still allow cussing or filter. can you change it in ''Account setting''? by the filters and all.? (: i think that's about it. if you can help me with '' how to be a admin '' pluse if your a admin do you get most likely the things you want for free or like % off? xD




Also I think you do a good GOB! biggrin

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July 13th

Today is my first serious experiment with what I talked about doing last week; getting more aggressive about compiling only thing that actually include useful information. Of course, since the GCD is a home for various fanthreads as well as people who genuinely care about the folks on the other side of the servers, my definition of "useful info" includes info about Gaia Staff that isn't relevant to the site itself...even so, I drew a line that eliminated things like biglanky finding out about a restaurant right near his home that he didn't know existed. If you want to see more of biglanky chillin' with Gaia, remember the dates on these posts are links to the original threads! smile

biglanky14
[thread title: Condensed Friday the 13th Chat Version!]
Anyone around for a Friday Lanky Spam chat? smile

Or as I now will call it, the BLT: BigLanky Thread (thanks for the naming suggestion last time)!

I'll be around for about a half hour if anyone else is as well.....


biglanky14
oo_Prelude_oo
I believe it's much more interesting to focus on Friday the 13th superstitions instead of this ridiculous bomber thing.

That's why we give the opportunity to do either one! smile


biglanky14
Lisette Love
biglanky14
Lisette Love
Hello! I'm new to the site, so I'm not sure, but I'm guessing you do a friday chat sort of thing often? surprised

Hi Lisette,

Welcome!! Yeah, as often as I can. We do an "official" chat on Mondays called Ask the Admin, where we take questions on site policy, changes, etc. (although I won't be here this Monday). So I like to come out and just chat with folks when I can, which usually falls on Fridays for whatever reason.

That's really cool! A site as big as this, it seems easy to grow apart from your userbase...it really makes me happy to see you guys care about us. ^^ Can I ask what your favorite part of Gaia is? I'm still trying to figure that out for myself!

Yup - we're reading the forums CONSTANTLY (trust me on this one), but we all have a lot of work on our plates so it's easy to just read and not participate. Trying not to fall into that pattern.

And honestly, for me it's the forums. I love the fact that at pretty much any time I can come out and just randomly talk with folks.
biglanky14
Lisette Love
I'm just glad to see you guys making an effort. Keep up the good work!

So far I like the forums a lot too, especially GCD. People have been very friendly and generous to me in the last 24 hours...it really gives me hope that I'll stay on the site for a long time.

That's awesome - we hope you do too smile

And GCD is indeed a pretty cool place. Except for Krissim Klaw's freaky mantises (if you don't know what I"m referring to, it probably won't take long) smile


biglanky14
tea bakeries
biglanky14
tea bakeries
this is gonna fall off the front page in three, two, one.

so uh.
did you guys plan the harassment of innocent users and spam-bucket the gcd has become?

Honestly, we never really know exactly how folks will react to different things. That's why we try different things as often as we can.

yeah... But what about the users being harassed into quitting?

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking - are you asking whether we intentionally planned that (and being honest, that's a pretty extreme example)? Of course not. But please link me to where you're seeing that and we'll look into it.


biglanky14
Johanna Faust
biglanky14
Johanna Faust
єιηѕ, zωєι, яєι
Pretty Friday the 13th, isn't~?
Hello Lanky~

Apparantly, i'm glad i'm not the only one who thinks the current state of the GCD is rather... unpleasant xD

Hi Johanna,

It won't last too long - and this is a new type of event/contest we're trying, so we'll learn from it and make tweaks in the future (if we do something like this in the future).

oh god, i hope this will be the first and last time we got such kind of event haha xD"
or maybe remember ppl beforehand not to spam a whole Forum about it owo"

It's okay though, since, as you said, this won't last long haha

Sometimes it is interesting to watch how ppl react on something new.
There are good and bad things about it, i guess.


Yup - it's all experimentation. It's fresh right now b/c we made the announcement, but it'll die down (doesn't mean that it was the perfect way to do this, but I do think the way this has unfolded has been pretty good overall). Just need to figure out how to reduce some of the forum disruption.


biglanky14
Flz
Happy Friday the 13th! Time to break out the horror stories for everyone to watch together twisted

No way - those freak me out.


biglanky14
Magnificent Moonbeam
biglanky14
Magnificent Moonbeam
Happy Friday the 13th, Lanky. How are you doing today? I've been well, just got out of work for the weekend. Next week's my final week of assessment.

Hey MM,

I'm good! Hopefully you have something really good planned for this weekend, and best of luck with the assessment!
I don't seem to have anything planned for the weekend., And thanks for the luck. I'm really happy with this RIG so far, especially in one guild I'm in went crazy happy when they learned Stein was in it. xd

Excellent! Yeah, we think this is a pretty cool one too.

Plus there's some other stuff coming up soon too. But I'll leave it at that teaser.


biglanky14
Sorry guys - I have to run to a meeting. I'll try to stop by again for a few minutes again after it's done, but I can't make too many promises on how long. If I don't catch you guys again, have a fantastic weekend and hopefully I'll have some more time next week!


Buki
hello! smile


Buki
aijinniex
Buki
anyone into biking as much as me? well, not like... super spandex carbon fiber level but just generally enjoy it. X3
Can't say I am, but I do have to ask... Buki, when will you be giving us a gold shop update centered on mori fashions? emotion_kirakira

that would be super super sweet! but i'm working on something totally different and non-sprite-y which I cannot say what it is quite yet? i've been working on a lot of summer and olympics related stuff


biglanky14
Btw - I'm back for a little bit smile


biglanky14
Antiq
Maybe you guys should make a forum for this bomber hunt and dump all these threads innit biggrin

The issue there is that then we're making it extremely easy to figure out who they're looking for by corralling it that much.


biglanky14
Tear of Fate
any special friday the 13 items guys?

Maybe - although I'm guessing you haven't gone back through the thread yet smile
[Grant link somewhere on this page; as of Monday night it's still active!]

biglanky14
7obias
You should know by now that whenever you make these threads, Gaians will line up to participate in your spam threads lol x]

How's everyone?

Hi 7obias,

Unfortunately I'm on way out, but thanks for stopping by anyway!!


biglanky14
Alright folks - I have to run for good now.

I won't be at the ATA on Monday b/c I'm gone for a couple days next week, but the rest of our more-than-capable staff will still hold it.

Have a great weekend, and see you guys later!

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July 16th

lanzer
Hello everyone, the summer Olympics event is right around the corner. It's going to be an awesome event! Last week we've released more alchemy changes as a part of our effort in making things more accessible. How do you like the changes made?


siskataya
Pandy Belle
Just wondering..when will the fishing top 10 winners of June receive their trophies?

Heya!

Thanks for the heads up - I'll get to those this week biggrin

Sisky


lanzer
.~.Lady_Aji.~.
Evening, Lanzer and staff.

- First off, thanks for removing alchemy formulas and components from the giftboxes, caches, and cases and putting them into the Bifrost. However, what possessed you to turn EIs, REIs, RIGs and other cash shop items into formulas/components? This makes no sense. All this does is cause these items to become artificially rare or non-existent. This is unfair to users who just want the items for their avatars and not for alchemy. Also, about Ania’s Wedding Gown. This is an affordable gold shop item. Why did you make an alchemy formula for it? This doesn’t make any sense either.

- zOMG!: PLEASE, CYCLE THE SERVERS!!! They’ve been lagging badly for the last couple of weeks.

- I find the new way that pages load annoying. When I refresh a page, it takes a while for it to load, it doesn’t show my current gold amount, message bubbles don’t appear or go away if I’m on another tab and the drop-down menu under our avatars sometimes don’t work. Can you either fix this or give us an option to turn the new loading feature off?

In hind sight we don't think making EI/cash shop items as part of alchemy is a great idea mainly because it wouldn't make sense to craft alternative versions of those items with free components, otherwise the regular EI/cash shop items will be de-valued, but then having them as a requirement also has its own downside.

Ania's Wedding Gown cost 100k which is not affordable to many users, hence the formula.

I'll get the server to reboot ASAP.

As for the new page load, there will be more changes coming to enhance the feature.
carbonphyber
I'm still troubleshooting the forums quickload errors that some users are getting. I'm setting a timeout so pages that take more than X seconds to load will automatically go to that page (as if there was no QuickLoad). I'll evaluate how that works and decide if more is needed.


Zero Omega
Contest and Guild
I Have 2 questions for this weeks ask the admin i was going to ask them like 2 weeks a go but i kept forgetting and missing the time.
Well what i would like to ask is why have devs and admins given up on zomg really all u needed was to hire a few more flash devs or u could of got intern flash devs to help u out till the money was there to get full time flash devs.

My Next Question is why is the number of site mods in the computer and technology only 3 i really think that u should try to maybe move around a few mods from other forums only like 2-4 more mods would really be needed.

I look Forward to what the admins/devs at gaia have to say about the 2 matters i am asking about.

well Lanzer i think i can happily say i am doing good.thanks for asking.

With regards to the Site Mods in C&T, we typically do not have a lot of moderators in low traffic forums. The reports in C&T can usually be handled strictly by a small amount of mods. If we see a need for increasing the number of mods, then we can review it.


DARKNRGY
Ridley Starsmore
DARKNRGY
Ridley Starsmore
Hallo, Gaia Peeps!

This week is gonna be Alchemy Week from me. Because I know you love hearing questions about Alchemy every week. emotion_awesome

First off, is there anything new with Alchemy coming up the pipeline? And surprising us isn't a fun answer, at this point, we ALL want to know what's coming. lol

Second, had an awesome Idea this weekend. You know those little formulas you have in the cash shop for 1gc? Want a way to have them sell more and help promote more zOMG use?
Add another craft line to them: 10 Orb Agragates. And wait to release the formulas till each CI is out of the cash shop. This way, you make more microsales, you boost zOMG popularity, you generate more items to be used on the site and in Alchemy, replenishing stock, it's a pretty decent gold sink as well, and encourages folks to try alchemy more.

Third...a new formula Idea for Bifrost, a level one, for 100 gold and 100 orbs: a new CI. Called Second Time Around. All it contains is the freebies that have been granted, but used up in Alchemy. Starmony, double rainbow, what have you.

Fourth...Seriously gotta figure out how to compensate for component consumption in this. I honestly started working on crafting the Angelic Wings today, and started crunching the numbers. Component count is in the high hundreds just from Caches. And while I know the users set the price in the MP, 100k a pop per component is....rough for most users. I would imagine. Just those alone I am looking at a quarter of a billion in gold cost, and that's not including cafting fails.

Let me read that off again. 250,000,000 in gold cost just to gather Caches, if I was really lucky and got what I wanted every time I opened it.

My foot is not that lucky. sweatdrop

I know you guys want the items to be awesome and such, and that's great. But the numbers for many of the formulas make it cost prohibitive to, well....damn near everyone. Because, and this is just me, but Alchemy is not worth my MC and EI collection. Not even close. I'll still craft my wings. But it'll realisticly take the better part of the decade as an average user. sweatdrop

Last thing. As a favor to those of use willing to craft the wing quest chain...maybe a bundle in the Bifrost with all the formulas you'll need, save for the wings? Buying all of them took me hours, man.-lol- And their IN THE SHOP! rofl

Anyway, enough ranting out of me, I'll let you guys get back to doing more things awesome!

-R

Right now we're waiting to see how our changes to formulas will pan out for the alchemy chain. We've got a couple more ideas we can try but we need to see the effects first.

Are you saying that it took a long time to buy the formulas because you needed so many of the same kind? We want to update more of the gold shops to handle quantity purchases so Bifrost might be a good candidate.

Exactly.

Formula 1: Cephalopodian Artifact
Formula 1: Unicorn Blood
Formula 1: Pegasus's Feather
Formula 1: Bottled up Sunlight (10) 10
Formula 1: Bottled up Moonlight (6) 6

Formula 2: Starseed Oil

Formula 3: Ectoplasm (15) 15
Formula 3: Amphithere's Hypnotic Eye (3) 3
Formula 3: Griffin's Fiery Feather

Formula 4: Angel Imp's feather (4) 4
Formula 4: Enchanted Water (2) 2
Formula 4: Red Mercury (7) 7

Formula 5: Sunstone (8 ) 8
Formula 5: Moonstone (5) 5
Formula 5: Phoenix's Feather
Formula 5: Angel's Tears (3) 3

Formula 6: Angel Blood (11) 11
Formula 6: Uranium biscuits (7) 7
Formula 6: Demon Blood
Formula 6: Demon's Curse
Formula 6: Celestial Glow (11) 11

Formula 7: Ambrosia (8 ) 8
Formula 7: Ankou's Strand of White Hair (3) 3
Formula 7: Quantum Particle (7) 7

Formula 8: Spice (5) 5
Formula 8: Eldritch Horror Tentacle

Formula 9: Soul Crystals (3) 3
Formula 9: Dark Matter (6) 6

Formula 10: Hero's Heart (6) 6
Formula 10: b*****d's Heart
Formula 10: Philosopher's Stone
Formula 10: Divine Feather


That's a lot of formulas, man.-lol-


hah! Ok, got it.
lanzer
We never stop talking about Alchemy ideas, and yes there are more ideas down the road, but we don't know which one we're doing first so no hints just yet. Sorry!

I read about your concerns regarding the Angelic Wings crafting, and yes I want to make sure that we can do more in terms of making things more accessible, to focus more on the factor of time versus the factor of gold. We're still discussing potential changes at this stage, and we're still listening.


siskataya
weirdfrog10
Regarding this weekend's Bomber event, did you guys actually expect as many users to try to confuse everyone by dressing up as the bomber as there were?

Oh yes XD We figured some pranksters would have fun throwing people off the trail by dressing up! It made things more interesting though, don't you think?

Sisky
Narumi Misuhara
I was counting on it.
Zero Omega
Totally.


Zero Omega
sometimesalways
Zero Omega
sometimesalways
So I'm curious how many people participated in the bomber manhunt? Like how many tickets got filed?

Taking out duplicates, there were 3649 tickets filed.

Wow, that's rather impressive for a very brief event. It was a lot of fun playing detective I must say. smile

Glad you enjoyed it! Think I even saw your ticket as I was reviewing the number that came in.
Zero Omega
sometimesalways
Oh cool. It must have been one of the first ones sent in. I think I did it just after it was announced on Friday. biggrin

Oh yes! Now I remember, I think you were one of the first to get it right. I was checking to ensure that all our checks were in place and that things were filtering correctly.


DARKNRGY
Whitescarver
Howdy Admin, long time no see. ^^

Just a curious question because I never join in on the AtA fun.
I recently found myself a Pink Magical Giftbox floating around the other day and was curious, does the staff have any plans of bringing the Giftboxes back to their magical glory with a more up to date list of magical gifts?

Not a bad idea :]. I can't really say for sure how feasible this is since it needs to remain balanced, but I'll pass it along.


DARKNRGY
jonjon21428
Hello lanzer! ninja
Unfortunately, I bring news that some of the zOMG! bug fixes from last week are not really fixed sweatdrop

Not all the zOMG fixed have been pushed up to the main servers. I can double check that we're not too far behind.


Narumi Misuhara
Magnificent Moonbeam
Hello, Lanzer and everyone. I only got a few questions...

1. The others in The Feeders fo Stein guild asked me to ask this to you all.

Will Stein be in future events, I mean I am aware he might not be included in this event, but sometime in the future?

2. Since we got stuff of the Seven Deadly Sins on here, like the poses in The Nightmare EI, an event from long ago and even the Maleficent Seven MC. Have you thought of a RIG that focused on it and the Seven Holy Virtues? I do have an idea for that theme RIG. I mean since a lot of the NPCs may share the virtues and sins as a lot of us like Nicolae being Greed and Alruna being Lust as the Sins example and Ciro as Temperance (like in Arcana Break and is the opposite of Gluttony) and Stein being Diligence (opposite of Sloth) as examples. I know this seems more appropriate for the SF, but I haven't made a topic in 2 years. sweatdrop

Thank you for this RIG and I love the Sweet Frosting hair and thank you for the big alchemy change. I hope you keep going in the right direction in Alchemy.

1. It's possible, we try to add NPCs to events that make sense for them. We have so many sometimes it takes us a while to get to them.

2. Don't know the answer to this one XD


carbonphyber
Contest and Guild
Well what i would like to ask is why have devs and admins given up on zomg really all u needed was to hire a few more flash devs or u could of got intern flash devs to help u out till the money was there to get full time flash devs.

Software doesn't work like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_law

We have one experienced developer that knows the code base on contract working on the outstanding bugs. If he has to stop to teach interns (which are actually really hard to hire right now), we wouldn't get any work done.


Narumi Misuhara
Zealand_Aquarius
Hi just wondering something about your statement in last ATA to me, is tipsy REALLY your middle name?

No, it's my last name... and it's spelled Tipsey smile
Zero Omega
Stalker. gonk
Narumi Misuhara
carbonphyber
I thought your middle name was Danger...
Dangerously awesome.
Narumi Misuhara
Ridley Starsmore
Funny thing, Lanky mentioned you used to work at Golfland in Sunnyvale!

Were you there when Capcom vs SNK 2 hit cabinets?

Because, and this is the funny...you MAY have seen me. I wouldn't expect you to remember me, but I happened to be in there around the time it was released.

Terry, Akuma, and Dan for the lulz, yo.

Hmm that feels like so long ago now. XD

Lets see..... I started there in.... 2003


DARKNRGY
Sweet Angel Mary
gaia has been going out and lagging since saturday, is there an estimate of when it'll be fixed?

Since you released titles with achievements, there are some achievements that are event only and that means certains users may never get those titles. Any plans to repeat titles on future achievements?

Can we get kitten as a title in achievements?

There was a hardware failure at the data center today. It rebooted a couple times and finally the ops guys swapped in a replacement. I didn't hear about problems on Saturday but it might be related. Should be completely fixed now.

There are some achievements which will not be repeated. They have special appeal because of their exclusivity. We haven't made any hard rules about reusing titles yet but I don't anticipate that we would duplicate titles - also because of the special exclusivity some will have.

If we make an achievement in which kitten is an appropriate title I suppose? :]


lanzer
CioccoLatte
Hello ATA!

Congrats to the cool event which made me go @.@!!
The perp has finally been caught Yay!

With the Rejected Olympics coming up, i suddenly thought of a question:
To which town do the following NPCs belong?

1. Kanoko
2. Brennivin
3. Radio Jack
4. Nicolae
5. Cresento
6. Stein of CrosStitch
7. Murasaki of MechaNeko
8. Saiph
9. Hatsya
10. Mintaka
11. Rigel

Users can answer too if they know...thank you

These are the ones that I know of:

1. Kanoko - Barton
4. Nicolae - Barton
5. Cresento - Durem
6. Stein of CrosStitch - Durem
7. Murasaki of MechaNeko - Aekea

The others are either part of a side story or I haven't been able to ask the right artist. smile


DARKNRGY
Jisen Meizuki
Hello Gaia admins,

I have some questions I'm curious.

1) How often does the Gaia artists look at people's suggestions for the items/RIG/CI/etc? There are some items being suggested that are older than a month ((Like VO's item suggestion)). >>;
2) For the Achievements titles, there are some that seem unfair to those such as members who don't have BETA titles, Alchemy stuff, or titles related to race ((aka: Elf, troll, etc.)). Are you planning to add more titles?

On #2 - I'd like to do more achievements and more titles. We have a new dev starting soon and this might be her first major project (after some weeks of rampup). Not set in stone yet.


Narumi Misuhara
Castiel Lover
Reposting, now that I've finished my questions at my comp. :3
Castiel Lover
Happy early bday to Zero and me.

arrow Waffles companion!

arrow Any new sponsor stuff coming up? It feels like forever since we've had a movie or game or any type of sponsor with an item or two with it. Why the dry spell?

arrow Can you tell me what the cat game is about? Is it FB style or something different? I know it isn't ready, yet.

arrow Do you think the recent changes to alchemy made a huge difference? Will there still be more tweaks to come, or are you satisfied that you've done enough? (I haven't checked into the changes, yet, since i'm still a low level alchemist... Should it be a lot easier to level up, now?)

Actually there will be a sponsorship soon.


Narumi Misuhara
GuinAoiichi
Narumi Misuhara
GuinAoiichi
@ writers of Gaia Manga :

Are you guys going to include the winner of the mini event into the manga??

Most of the writers are out of town, but no they won't be in the manga.

aww. sad

What about the artists? What they drew the winner in into the background or as a bystander? That be neat no?

Neat? Yes. Going to happen.... no.


siskataya
* just hangs out in AtA and sells pancakes at the pancake shop*

Oh pancakes....!

Sisky


Narumi Misuhara
GuinAoiichi
Will Gaia have any Zurg related events for this summer??

That can tie into zomg ! ?

*shakes head no*


lanzer
Sweet Angel Mary
So do you think we can get the purple hair with cat ears (from the acchi kocchi anime) as an item?

The booty grab tanks never load for me, is it a problem with my computer or something?

Zomg used to have a glitch that only showed how much gold you made in zomg, can that be brought back as a feature?

There's a fear that some items used as components in alchemy may become extinct. Is there any plans to rerelease cash shop items in the future?

We never had any hair with cat ears, so that would be pretty cool. Though more likely we'll have cat ears that people can mix and match with.

Have you tried on another computer? If not, try upgrading your flash plug-in or try installing the Chrome browser which has it's own flash player.

That's kind of tricky, I don't think we can have that added as a feature easily now that we've changed how the counter works.

We're talking about it now, hope to address that in the near future.


Zero Omega
scullylam
Harbinger of Pandamonium
Ridley Starsmore
Matlock's boring. I WANNA WATCH PONAYS.
Zero loves ponies... unhealthily. ninja
does that mean he has a pony collection at his desk? i bet he looooooves fluttershy. she and her shyness. biggrin

No ponies here.
Zero Omega
Harbinger of Pandamonium
I see an angry bird.

Yes, I do believe that is the one you got me. See, it survived the cubical move.


lanzer
Kill Hybrid
Wanted to say thanks for really upping the quality of MCs lately.

Is the Soul Crash gold redemption going to be fixed? It seems very picky about when it wants to grant gold for leveling up or exp. (won't grant for nearly a day, then lets you redeem 3 or 4 times in a row)

Any news about the zomg mini-event loot? Not sure why they were removed in the first place, especially if some loot is used for alchemy formulas.

it's a weird problem that seems to be working on and off, which makes it much harder to fix. We'll look into it more and hopefully have it fixed soon.


DARKNRGY
Castiel Lover
I just checked to see if Suspicious Eyes were fixed, and they are. Thank you!

BUT, there seems to be a new problem. Equipping items doesn't want to work right. I click on an item, and nothing happens. Click on it again and again until it finally equips, then click another item, and it doesn't go on. Click a third item a few times and finally the second and third show up.

Is this part of the suspicious eyes glitch-fix, or is it happening to other people?

There does appear to be a slow dns issue internal to the data center which is effecting some database lookups and avatar rendering. Not sure of the status of this other than ops is aware. Sorry! I thought things were all fixed but maybe not quite.


lanzer
Zealand_Aquarius
Hello

First off the zOMG bugs that where fixed are not fixed there talk in the zOMG forum about this.

Second of all: Why can't we have a Dev Notice for when Deadmans Shadow is open? It makes sense.

Third: Why can the Gimpi Skin ( and I assume the Imp skins) can only wear some leg mods?

Looks like there are certain circumstances that still make the bug appear... we'll look into it definitely. Thanks for letting us know.


Zero Omega
Mage Ragepunk
Evening, Lanzer and Admins. I've got a few things I'd like to address this week.

First, not a question, but more of a statement.
from AtA 7/9/12
Here's a little update on the zOMG bug fixes done so far:
* Alastor quest bug that was preventing people from continuing to Kamilla
* General Mayhem broken on the normal and hard settings in the Village Greens
* Gnome HQ guards respawning bug
* Clutch behaviors in the mini-event
* Village gnome loot bug
* UnderseaCliffs safe not unlocking.
* SealabX fixed, leaders will talk more now.
* Broken badge grant for The Lawnshark badge

The bugs you mentioned that were "fixed", I took some time to check them out, and for the most part, a few of them are still broken. sweatdrop The ones in question are:

1) Alastor's Quest Bug
2) Zen Gardens Clutch Event
3) General Mayhem Normal Glitching

Through some testing, those ones remain broken. I can confirm that the Lawnshark Badge Granting is indeed fixed. As for the other 4, either I didn't notice a significant difference from before, or haven't actually understood what was broken about them. sweatdrop

Second, I have a real question now. I notice that the zOMG! Forum is lacking in a few Forum Moderators. As of late, there have been many issues with Spam topics, and irrelevent threads, and outright Trolling. I've been reporting as necessary, but it doesn't feel like enough is being done. Could we possibly have another Forum Moderator or two assigned for the zOMG! Forum?

Finally, I love what you've done with Alchemy. It's an excellent update that will definitely allow more users to level up, and make the items that they wish to have. The only foreseeable problem is that some items used in Formulas (Fausto's Bottle comes to mind) may run out. Will you be re-releasing ways to get said items in mass quantities again, or another RIG-like pull?

We can see about getting an extra mod or two in there if the forum needs some additional help.


lanzer
RyanJakobi
Hi. Been gone a long time, so I got a big question to ask:

Do you think there may be new Alchemy recipes to go with some of the existing Town and zOMG component items in the near future? And come to think of it, there are small component items I still have left over from some of the Christmas and Halloween hunts (batteries, Overseer worms, things like that). Will those be used in Alchemy recipes?

We're still talking about various changes to the alchemy system right now so it's unlikely that'll happen soon, but as we move forward we might be able to include zOMG items in the future.


Narumi Misuhara
Flz
Oh and where's Lanky tonight? O.o He's usually here for these things.

You guys scared him away. razz

He has the day off.
codemonkey37179
He is off for a few days, moving house.
codemonkey37179
sugar peachie
I was wondering where Codemonkey and Panagrammic are.

I'm here, but there wasn't any question that was in my area.
Panagrammic
Lurking, as usual. smile


lanzer
WideEyed
Hi Everybody! blaugh
Sorry I'm late, but I was up to something and well, ...
Ah ferget it. You don't want to hear about my problems. wink

Anyways, I've been wondering for a long time if Gaia's Artist's ever engage in some friendly competition with regards to who's Items sell the best in the Gold and Cash Shops?

Oh, and poop on it being Dr Kale... sad
I was sure it had to be someone else because he seemed so genuinely upset by the accusations, and not as cool as I had expected one of Don Kuro's boys to be.

Guess I'd better stick with my day job, wink

Hope everything's okay on your end. :O

Gaia artists engage in all sorts of competition, particularly on anything related to shooting nerf darts. smile We have no competition to see who's the "better artist" though.

Glad you have fun at the event!


lanzer
Thank you for joining us on this week's ATA! We'll back next week with the usual extended hours. Enjoy the summer event!!

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July 20th

biglanky14
Hi everyone,

So I've started doing "Keisha Fridays" here at the office, b/c I fully admit that I really like "This place about to blow." I'll play it really loudly in the office on Friday mornings, much to the chagrin of everyone around me. That usually is followed by "Codemonkey" and maybe "Sweep the Leg" by No More Kings (I like Karate Kid). I'm basically the most annoying coworker on the planet.

Any quirks you guys have like that? And even if you don't have any, I'm willing to just chat with you anyway smile

Spoon: Doing anything fun this weekend? (No Batman spoilers!)


biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore
biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore
DUREM!

HECK YEAH!

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Anyway, enough of that, heya Lanky.

I am bothered...by yet another alchemy issue...would you care to hear it?

All our conference rooms here are named after Gaia things (the Towns, groups within the company, etc) and Durem is the one right by me that I always use. So I had to represent the black and red.

And sure - I'm always willing to hear Alchemy gripes. Able to do something about it in the short term? That's another story smile

Well, it's not a real big deal...I mean, it is, but you may not see it that way.

Great job gettin the formulas into the Bifrost. But doing so created another issue.

A severe lack of caches/components. Almost all of them jumped in a matter of minutes in cost. It's not even making alchemy a decent gold sink, since gold's really only changing hands between players, and not with the site.

Way i figure, if you want Alchemy to be a wicked gold sink?

Place both the Philosopher's cache AND the Alchemist case in the Bifrost. As they are now. Still randomized, but at a cost more reasonable. The formula for them is 5 and 10 thousand...ditch those and make them direct buys at 10 and 20 thousand. And watch Alchemy take off like a zubat out of Moon Cave. Save for a select few venders and players, (Myself included, I've spent several million so far) It'll really help everyone get involved.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll send it around to the team to consider, but you've kinda highlighted one of the reasons we don't make a lot of knee-jerk changes to Alchemy (even though we know it can be frustrating and users would like us to do more). Every time we plug one hole, we create another b/c everything is interconnected, so we have to really think through what we're doing.

Just so you know, the rationale behind the formulas in Bifrost wasn't just that users were asking for it (although that WAS a major reason). It's also because we had made the balancing job harder on ourselves b/c we were trying to balance two sides of the equation - the supply of both formulas AND components. It was kinda like trying to balance a teeter-totter. This way, we don't have to worry nearly as much about the supply of formulas, and can just focus on the other stuff. That doesn't mean we'll get it perfect, but we're hoping it'll make a difference.
biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore
-nods- Oh, I get it, which is why I'd suggested both the caches and cases...covers supply and demand for both. And makes them more accessible for the average Gaian.

Plus, you know, massive gold sink, which I think you guys have been looking for for years.

Anyway, enough of that mess. I take it the move went well?

Nope, totally appreciate it. I don't think we'll make another Cache or Case-related move for a bit, but that definitely doesn't mean we never will.

The move went mostly well, but as I was complaining about before I really really hate unpacking, so I'm in full-on procrastination mode. Boxes everywhere smile


biglanky14
EliteDanneh
biglanky14
EliteDanneh
Just Mass Effect 3, honestly. Being ranked 11th in my country, I gotta keep them credits rolling in. *Gonk.*

Remind what country that is again? But unless it only has 16 people, being 11th in anything is pretty freaking awesome!

I'm across the pond here in the UK, unemployed ICT security professional with insomnia and nothing better to do = No lifin' it on games.

Ah, that's what I thought, but also figured I might have it wrong since being 11th in a country that large is amazing.

The insomnia part really sucks (my mom had it, so I've seen how it can wreak havoc on people), so I'm sorry to hear that. But at least you've found something fun to do during that time!
biglanky14
EliteDanneh
biglanky14
EliteDanneh
At the risk of sounded like I'm bragging, my insomnia spans from a high level of intellect. I'm supposedly a genius with an IQ of 179 and as of such, my brain is all like "LOL DUDE, Let's do ALL the things ALL the time." and it doesn't shut the hell up. I'd give away a few numbers for a bit of peace and quiet at night, I swear. emotion_sweatdrop

Any games you spend a little time with when you get the chance? Also, whilst I hate to bring it up when I get to be pally-pally...Are animated items broke right now? I've only noticed them working in two very select locations. Narumi's halo in dev notices and the rain AI on the featured avatar.

I'm glad to hear that you aren't turning to substance-related solutions like some people can for that type of problem.

My video game time has been cut drastically since the little ones came along, but I was always kind of a weirdo anyway. I don't like playing coop or multi-player, and am content to just do solo play for most games. But when I do play, it's usually sports (the NHL series is my favorite) or Modern Warfare. COD 2 is still the best, Black Ops was interesting settings-wise but not perfect, and I like MW3 but started to feel repetitive. I also really like the Lego games, mostly b/c I'm a HUGE Star Wars and Harry Potter nerd so playing both of those was fantastic.

I haven't heard anything about AI's but I can check. What's the effect you're seeing? Error messages? Or just not animating (i.e. the item is static)?

The CoD series is pretty darn fun for the single player. I can't stand the multiplayer of those games on the flip side. Far too many immature kids throwing about insults and trash talk. I could never get into sports games for some reason, perhaps with the exclusivity of racing. I played the hell out of Gran Turismo 2 once upon a time, that's by far the most satisfying racing game I ever played outside of Rollcage 2 and Wipeout 2097. The last time I actually enjoyed a 'true' sports game was FIFA '96 (OH GOD, MY YEARS, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY YEARS?!)

I'm currently squeeing like a fan girl for Borderlands 2. Ever tried the first one? Such an amazing experience!

As for the AIs, 99% of them are static. There's a few posts about it in the bug report forum but none have had responses. The only ones actually animated are Narumi's halo in the dev notices and the storm of the featured avatar - This leads me to believe it may be a site wide issue, given that only certain locations/items are loading correctly. That said though, I did recently upgrade to the most recent Firefox and the Flash Player plugin for it memory leaks more than Windows ME.

Thanks for the info on the AIs. It might be browser-related, but I'm not smart enough to really know. I'll ask around on that. I do know that we have some issues with them on Preview pages, but it should work on normal site pages. If you don't mind doing me a huge favor, it'd be awesome if you could throw a few of the links to threads you're seeing my way in a PM, and I'll shoot that to the right devs to look at.

I played FIFA 96 too! Loved that game. I've watched my buddies play multiplayer Halo in the past, and they had the same problem - got tired of hearing 11 year old smacktalk.

I haven't played Borderlands, but there's a big push here for me to get into Assassin's Creed. I just haven't done so yet.
biglanky14
EliteDanneh
biglanky14
EliteDanneh
I went ahead and dropped you two PMs. One with the story you asked for and one with the requested links. I would have forwarded my issues straight to Carbon, but, honestly, it's rare I ever actually bring stuff up like that with my friends as I can't help but feel like I'm abusing their position for 'personal gain', even if that is a fix to an ongoing issue. I'll check how my avatar looks in *Shudder* Internet Explorer though, just to be sure.

Edit: No dice. Seems just as broke in IE.

Ok, thanks for the info! Although Carbon is fairly likely to end up taking a look at it anyway smile

Poor Carbon, he must get tired of me, we quite extensively discuss security when we do chat, it seems something we're both rather passionate on, so, getting more computer related discussion from me must be groan worthy for him. sweatdrop

Ah well, so, listening to anything good right now? I've had Pink Floyd's "Good bye, blue sky" on repeat for about 5 hours. DAT GUITAR.

No - I don't usually use headphones at work b/c people are pretty constantly coming by with questions or need me for something, so I only listen when I turn the external volume on. That means I only do it in the morning when not as many people are here - pretty much Sisky's team who I harass with impunity anyway smile

And go ahead and bug Carbon to your heart's content - I approve!


biglanky14
Flz
biglanky14
Flz
Hey Lanky. No plans for this weekend. Just trying to practice driving this weekend.
And I can't think of any quirks that I have. My obsession with ATLA may be one though xD
I'm pretty sure my friends get sick of me talking about it all the time ninja
How was the move btw?

Hey Flz,

Remind me what ATLA stands for again? And are you learning to drive an automatic or a stick? (I ask b/c I've never learned to drive stick and find them confounding).

The move went well, for the most part. We got all our stuff in the new place, so now we just have boxes everywhere. I HATE unpacking (I must have some sort of genetic deficiency that prevents me from doing it), so they may stay there awhile. But I did make about 7 trips to Goodwill with carfuls of stuff, so that was pretty cool. Hopefully someone else can make use out of stuff that's accumulated in our cupboards for years.

Avatar: The Last Airbender. And Automatic. I wouldn't last if I had to do stick xD

Wow, sounds like you're going to have fun this weekend. How many boxes do you have left to unpack? And that's good! And one man's trash is another's treasure. I usually go on a clothing give away spree once a year and give some away to the Salvation Army down here.

Ahhhhh - should've known that. I actually don't know a ton about it myself, although I hear good things.

Not really on this weekend smile I do have one excuse to procrastinate on our computer room b/c the desk I use in there hasn't been moved yet, so I can put off opening up those boxes (although they're generally fun b/c it's books and my Star Wars toys). But overall, it's probably still like 15 boxes, mostly clothes and stuff for the garage. Putting clothes away is the worst, so right now I'm living out of a few duffel bags that I haven't unloaded yet. In an unrelated note, the stuff I wear to work is much more wrinkly than usual.

Good on you for donating stuff as well. It feels good to get rid of stuff, and even better when it can go somewhere useful. One of the best ideas I heard from another parent was the concept of "reverse birthdays," which I'm blatantly stealing with my kids. Since they get stuff on their birthday, on their half-birthday (6 months out) they have to pick a toy that they want to donate to a less fortunate kid. Perfect combo of reducing a little bit of clutter while also trying to instill some social responsibility. And makes me look like a competent parent, even though I'm just cribbing other people's ideas smile


biglanky14
Scobre
biglanky14
Scobre
Thanks so much for the event. It's my favorite so far after being on this site for over 2 years. The games are really addicting and the new towns is very beautiful and colorful. I love gaia flash spaces that are colorful, makes me happy. I was happy to read your latest status since I came up with that silly name.

I guess I have a family quirk I do in which I say sorry a lot from my mom's side since my great grandma was like Trunchbull from Matilda book. Basically say sorry no matter what she taught my grandma and has passed down to me. From my dad's side I get the sayings "It's not on schedule" and "I don't know" that I say a bit.

My family and I love singing the big butt song even though it's too dirty to put on my profile. I try to keep my profile music clean.

I'm going to a gathering this weekend with friends at a park. I did have fun last weekend hearing Chicago and the Beach Boys live in Lake Tahoe. I'm sadly a year older this week.

A couple of things:

Happy Birthday!! When was it?

Tahoe must've been beautiful. I'm actually bummed I'm not there right now, b/c they have an annual golf tournament that a bunch of really famous athletes play in. It's designed to be super casual so you can walk around and see everyone, and most will take pictures and generally interact with friends. I'm not nearly as starstruck by them as I was as a kid, but it's still cool to be able to exchange a couple of words with the guys you watch on TV.

And the whole "Sorry" thing happens in my family too! But in mine, it's my brother who says it. Anytime he says anything that he thinks could be remotely controversial, or makes a joke that might not be funny, he follows it with Sorry before anyone else can respond.

Finally, are you referring to Sir Mixalot's "I like big butts"? That's a classic from my childhood smile

It was yesterday, I'm 25 now. Tahoe was very pretty. I went there for my cousin's funeral. Just wish I could have had a few more days there. Tip before you go there. Research the hotels very carefully because ours was kind of bad especially the bed was hard. It is a shame you can't be there now. Yes I'm referring to that song. It's like one of those songs it's so dirty, but so catchy. Quite a few of those from the 90s I like. xd So why don't you like having mini-me equipped?

Right now I'm on a challenge from Denham to clutter my avatar as much as possible. So I'm trying to live up to it.

Tahoe is gorgeous - we try to go up once a year to my buddy's cabin, typically in the winter. I haven't stayed at an actual hotel there for a long time since we're relatively close. I'm very sorry to hear about the reason why you were up there though - hopefully your family is doing ok in a tough time.
biglanky14
Scobre
Thank you biglanky. Yeah was a tough weekend, but was nice and my first time seeing the lake. She died last year and her children didn't come to it. I lost 4 relatives and a cat last winter. I wasn't in a good emotional state then and felt bad for my friends who had to crew with me then. I was pretty down in the dumps. You are doing a good job so far at cluttering, so gl with it. My brother had 63 items on his avi once. He loves cluttering and going to virtual hollywood with it.

The lake is an absolutely beautiful place. Truthfully, when it's my time to go, I'd love to have my organs donated, and then my ashes scattered in the lake. Or to be cooler, give me a Viking funeral smile

I've always liked cluttering it up, which basically translates to "I have no sense of style whatsoever." But I've embraced this character flaw.


biglanky14
Antiq
biglanky14
Antiq
I suppose my annoying quirk is really bad puns xd

Unfortunately, any mention of Batman just makes me thing of today's horrible news cry

Yeah - that is just awful. There's really no other word for it. Without getting too heavy, it's yet another reminder to find and enjoy the good things in life while you can, b/c they can go away at any minute.

I'm going to see it on Sunday, and there's no way to separate the event from the movie now. I'm guessing that the mood in the theater will be more somber as well. It's amazing how one hellacious act from a lunatic can affect an entire country.

And so it should, we should never get desensitized to it.

Absolutely. I generally don't like when decisions are made out of fear, especially irrational fear, so whenever something like this happens I always wonder what the overreaction will be. But that's not to say we should ever forget, or try to forget, the emotional toll this takes on people, especially those who lost loved ones.


biglanky14
Mermaid Eater
biglanky14
Mermaid Eater
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Lanky~
how are you doing on this wonderous friday, darling~?

Hey ME,

I'm doing great (outside of the Batman thing). The Olympics are going well, and people seem to enjoy them quite a bit. The weather's nice out here, and I've got a couple of fun things going on this weekend (daughter's 4th bday, mainly).

Plus....it's Friday! smile

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Awww i have a nickname. emotion_kirakira

Yeah the batman thing was horrible... my mother was telling me about it this morning.
I am going to see the movie with my dad on sunday nonetheless.
I love comics an superheroes. (batman is so sexy in the comics)

Awww wish your daughter a happy Gaian birthday from GCD~ hehe~ heart

Thanks - she'll appreciate it smile

I usually don't type out people's full IDs unless I don't recognize them, so I could go with ME, Mermaid, or Mer (Eater by itself sounds weird). I'm actually not really into comic-inspired movies that much, but Batman's been the big exception. I still haven't seen any of the Avengers movies except for Iron Man 1.


biglanky14
7obias
Lanky, you gotta talk to Lanzer about this, you can never stay for long talk2hand

Yeah - stupid Lanzer smile

But we have all-company meetings on some Fridays, and this happens to be one of them. So I gotta be there.

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July 23rd

lanzer
Hello everyone! How are you enjoying the Olympics event? Which town are you a part of? We'd love to hear more feedback about the event, as we have more events to come. Meanwhile, the actual Olympics is coming this Friday. How many of you are more excited about the actual Olympics? biggrin


biglanky14
Uesugi Ankit
Question from Constipated Trillionaire, he couldn't make it today. ninja

Want to thank you guys for several things. biggrin

-Thanks a bunch for getting all the Cri items back into the shop, will make it a lot easier for those who continue to work on the back wing quest.

-Additionally, I want to thank you for the case change! Really helps out immensely having those formulas in the shop and it helps making some of those formulas that were impossible to find, like the quest formulas, a little easier for people to get a hold of.

Couple things I want to bring up too:

-Would it be possible to change how failing a formula in the crafting process works? Make it so each time you fail at crafting it increases your odds of succeeding the next time on that particular formula. I imagine that would be more difficult to implement than how you have it currently set up, but would really be nice. Failing 10+ times on a low formula that cost 1,000,000g a try is pretty painful!

-Pankcakes, can we just remove them from the caches/case formulas? Add in some extra grade a fish baits if you want. But when you have an Admin setting up a shop so they can grant you a large number of pancakes at one time it kinda makes it obvious that there is something wrong with how things currently are.

-As far as the quest formula odds in the cases, is there a reason that Risen and Angelic seem to be the most common ones pulled? Do all 6 quest have an equal chance of being gotten from a case, and currently people are just pulling angelic/risen more than the others, or are those two suppose to be more common?

Overall though, alchemy has vastly improved from where it was months ago. Now it is much more accessible to everyone, the wealthy and those that don't have much gold but want to put the time and effort into it can all access it. It's not perfect by any means, and I don't think anyone expects it to be. However, it really has came a long way. Thanks again!

Hi Uesugi,

Thanks! We appreciate it - like you said, we know the system isn't perfect, but we're trying to make it better.

We are kicking around some ideas on the fail system, but there's nothing very concrete at the moment. We definitely do get the frustration though.

I believe they're all the same odds, but I'm not 100% sure on that (since I don't set them myself). I can ask around though.

And I hear you about the pancakes (Sisky's solution is nice, but not exactly scalable). We've gotta figure something out for that at some point too.


codemonkey37179
Scobre
This event is my favorite since joining Gaia over 3 years ago not counting the zOMG! events. I am looking forward to watching the Olympics too. Sorry following questions are mostly glitch questions:

1) Can anything be done to reduce the lag in flash games? Ex. Moga, Resort World, zOMG!, Booty Grab, and Fishing

2) I've had a pack of powerup revives stuck in my inventory for 6 months and haven't been able to use them, so could someone fix that glitch please?

3) I keep getting stuck at the frog leap game below the frog's tongue, can glitch be fixed?

1. Are you have lag problems in the new towns too?

2. I'm not sure about this, does it show as locked. Was it in your house before the update?

3. Really? Can I get a screen shot please?


DARKNRGY
Happy _Tropical_Flower
Hello admins and devs,

I think I have had gold glitches happen to me in the past. One time, I was selling an item in a shop and I remember the gold I got back from selling the item added up more than the sell back price of the item itself. And another time, I received 50 gold from daily chance and I remember it adding up more than 50 gold to my gold. I don't know if I read the adding up of gold wrong in both of these situations or if these were glitches that happened to me. I am just wondering if it still okay to spend the gold that I received that might have contributed to these possible glitches that happened to me.

Also, some of my fish I think died too early so I was wondering if it was okay to open up the drops they left behind anyway?

I am asking about these issues because I am just concerned is all. sad

Thank you!

There are no known gold glitches at this time. All kinds of things can happen to make it look like you have more or less than you should, but the system is transaction-based and has worked very reliably except for the occasional exploit or bug. Any time we find a glitch I usually stop everything I'm doing and work non-stop until it's fixed and we've done damage control as much as we can.

*waves hands* you are totally fine to spend it


Panagrammic
Sasune
Can you tell us what the current odds are for the formulas and quests in the alchemist's case?

Also, what happened to the fantasy game beta testing? I got a PM from Panagrammic late June that it would be coming within a week of that message, but I haven't gotten anything yet.

Does anyone here play Team Fortress 2? I've been playing it a lot lately instead of working on alchemy.

I sent out a message July 15th as well, telling everyone that we had been delayed a bit but that we would be coming out soon -- you should have gotten that message.


codemonkey37179
B r i t a i n N u t
How are our team points converted?
And when is the new game coming?
Are the rumors true, that itll benefit large teams?

The new game will be out tomorrow.

I think it will benefit large teams, but that's only my opinion.

You can not play it alone, and if you only have two or three people it won't score very high.

The ideal team is 11.

Not sure about the conversion. Narumi?


biglanky14
Castiel Lover
Hello all. I had a good birthday. How about you, Zero?

arrow Waffles companion. And when it finally is released, I hope there will be a pose with him laying on his back sleeping emotion_bigheart

arrow Cat game. Can you tell us anything about it? What kind of game? Is it a face book style game?

arrow So, you often answer much-requested things with "it's on our list, but we have more important things to do, first." Why not make a list (or lists, based on the type of person that does each thing: artist, dev, admin, etc) that shows what is being worked on now, what is next, and all the way down to what is last on the list of things that will be done. It would help with the whole "when are you going to update inventory arranger??" type of questions you get every ATA. Frankly, I dont know what could be higher on a list than that, since EVERYONE uses their inventories. But maybe if we could all see the list, we'd be a lot more patient and understanding of what needs to be done.

arrow On a similar note, instead of a "spring cleaning," that feels like it is never finished, why not have us rank our priorities of what we want finished first, out of a list of, say, twenty things that are pre-approved as something that will some day get done. I think Gaia could really use this information on what it's users want first. Perhaps a couple different polls based on who does what type of work, like I mentioned above this. Prioritizing based on what the users want would keep a majority of the users happy.

Hi Castiel,

Ha - we'll see on Waffles.

The cat game is going to be a mobile game, but that's about all I can say about it now, other than the fact that it should be available for beta test sooner rather than later.

I like your idea on the list in theory, but it's a double-edged sword. Priorities change all the time based on a large variety of factors, and simply keeping a list like that updated and maintained is work in itself. And even if we do keep up with it, it can be a source of misinformation because we might punch something small out that's less important than something else simply b/c it won't take much time, or any number other examples.

However, that said, I think that we could do a better job of talking about the big stuff we're working on so that people know - for example, we are officially starting work on an Android App smile


lanzer
Crystal Sparda
Hey admin, I'm baaack! ^o^
I've been having fun and taking my time on the event!
All is nice so far, including the user-menu update!
Can't wait for this new game to come out so Durem can rightfully claim another place other than 4th. emotion_awesome
Anyways, on to the questions!

  • Why are there 4 items when there are 5 games for the Oympics? ;___;

  • When are the winners of Stein's hat contest going to be revealed? emotion_kirakira
    I'm dying for the just right theme to be chosen so I can submit my first idea!

  • I have to give a little thanks for this random burst of philosopher's caches that I've gotten!
    I've gotten 3 recently from Daily Chance, but I've sold two, as I'm only looking for the chicken fletchlings...
    Anyone wanna buy a Sapphire cache from me?

  • Just a small question, but why doesn't the [list=1] tags not work for numbering?
    It used to number things, but now it doesn't. '~';

  • Can we remove the bomber sticky from the Q&A now please? emotion_kirakira

  • Has there been any talk of updating profiles? Like, just some ideas thrown out?
    V2 profiles are beginning to get a bit buggy when wishlist items are clicked.~

The event items aren't exactly correlated to the number of events, or else the last olympics would have dozens of mini items! biggrin

We'll announce the winners in about a month or so

We re-worked the BBcode system a while back and the number system might be taken away. Sorry.

Profiles are still on the wishlist of features to update, but not at the immediate moment.


biglanky14
bluecherry
biglanky14
bluecherry
Have there been any changes to the odds in the Alchemist's case after the dev alert was made about adding lots of formulas to the shop and changing the odds of the formulas which are still in the case? Rare formulas like the quest formulas are of particularly high interest to hear about. Speculation has gone on about the possibility of another change since the first day or so people were getting much better stuff much more often than what has been popping out of cases after those first couple days or so.

Not that I'm aware of!

Is work on the alchemy system something you are pretty well informed on? :3 (Wondering if the fact that you've heard of no such thing carries much weight or if you don't hear much about the alchemy behind the scenes stuff in general.)

By the way, side note, my proposal thread in my sig now has over 7000 cookies. emotion_dealwithit

Pretty well informed. I'm not an expert by an means on what is in each formula, but I generally know when changes are made. It's always possible someone did something on their own, of course, but that doesn't happen too often.


codemonkey37179
Anolis18
Regarding the Rejected Olympics 2012, I have enjoyed it thoroughly, and find it to be far more team oriented than the 2008 Rejected Olympics. This event shows that everyone plays a part and you can hurt or help your team based on your participation. That said, I'd love to see some active links to the old minigames just for entertainment.

I'm afraid there are not any link to the old games. There are some videos on youtube.

I'm glad you are enjoying the RO, still more to come.


biglanky14
Ridley Starsmore
Heya Gaia peeps!

Ok...I have come to an important observation.

Alchemy is Disney Evil. Looks pretty, fun to watch, will steal your soul and wallet.

No question there. Just making the statement. The whole thing is just....rant inducing. Seriously, this was me yesterday:



Crank the volume and share with the office.

You wanna fix Alchemy? Put the actual case and cache in Bifrost. As is. 10k for a cache, 25k for a Case. Do that and people will FLOCK to Alchemy. And it'll no longer be one of those features that was broken and never fixed.

Plus, it's a nice midrange gold sink that way too.

Anyway, I'm better now, so here is my questions:

One) Can We have a muffin button for our avvies? Press the button, AWESOME stuff happens. Just sayin'.

Two) Did Waffles eat the real Diedrich or a clone again? Because if he ate the real one, that would just be fantastic.

Three) I finally got around to watching the nerf war and duels you guys had back in...April? Anyway, that looked like a lot of fun, and glad you all had a great time, but here is my question:

I am just wondering...I know DJ helsing is kind of the 'mouthpiece" for Gaia at events. Would he like a color commentater? I'm good with a mic, and on rare occasions, I can be funny.

Sometimes even haha funny. Depends on how much Red Bull I've had that day.

Oh, and on a side note, Dude, how tall are you, Lanky? Or is the art staff just that ...ummm...'vertically challenged'?

Cause ya look like you tower over most anyone...

Well, that's enough out of me for one post.

Everyone, have some cake.

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.

AT AT Cake RULES!!

And glad your rage is over smile

The muffin button would be hilarious if we could figure out a cool way to pull it off. And DJ Helsing does a pretty good job of getting the word out himself, but if there's ever an opening, we'll let you know smile

And I'm 6'4. Our art team is generally, um, not so tall, so I look enormous by comparison.


DARKNRGY
PhAkE_Lovenote
DARKNRGY
PhAkE_Lovenote
Hey guys just had a few question this round. smile

1. How come durems score is so much lower then the others and is there a chance to bring the score up?

2. is the security code on booty grab just to protect from bots or is it used for scammers also?

1. The score is mostly related to how many people have chosen the team. There's always a chance that someone will recruit a whole bunch of people and turn the score around.

2. Just to prevent botting.

so durem needs more members for the score to go up? i thought it had to do with the points we earn playing the games sweatdrop ok good to know. and thanks for answering my security code question smile

It is based on the points earned but what I'm saying is that there are more points when there are more people playing on any particular team.


biglanky14
Princess-Orphelia
Hi all you sexy people . blaugh I made it to the AtA today. whee

Just a few questions today.

1 .. I know I've probably asked this before, or if it wasn't me, it may have been someone else. But can we please have more storage savers? 20 just isn't enough for people who change their Avi so often. sweatdrop It's craziness I tell you! gonk

2. ... Favorite all time movie? You can put the 'why' in there if you have time.

3.. ..Sexiest person on the planet, and why do you chose this person?

4.. Loved the comics and the Pizza Mum. rofl That was awesome.

PS. Lanky or whoever this is meant for. . Dun do it, don't sent out the Announcement. We'll be doomed. gonk

Thankies. biggrin

Hi Alyssa smile

1) It's probably going to stay at 20 for now, but maybe more in the future.

2) Star Wars. Easy.

3) Alyssa Milano and Gina Gershon tie. But both from 10 years ago. Today, maybe Mila Kunis.

4) smile

5) Too late.
lanzer
Yeah we've been thinking about expanding more storage but we'll have to do a lot of work on the interface. Can't get to it right away, sorry.

All time movie? Dark City? Big Fish? Hard to name one. Many of the recent movies are so good.

Chris Hemsworth

Pizza Mum is awesome.


codemonkey37179
scullylam
codemonkey37179
7obias
Hey guys,

I was just wondering about the Towns 2.0, if it will look like the towns we enter with the R.O., will we be able to enter places there? There are a load of buildings, which all look great, but it would be even greater if we could actually enter them! Would that be possible?

It is certainly possible, but how probable I'm not sure. The artist still have 3 more towns to draw after Gambino is finished. It would be fun though!

And yes that is Towns 2.0 that contains the RO

if the art goes well in towns, can we have zomg updated more? like add in gambino since it is to be after buccaneer boardwalk? (has too much hope but it was worth a shot to ask)

I'm afraid we are not updating zomg.


codemonkey37179
Lea Florens
Hello there!

I've a question about sounds in Towns. Is the inability of sound effects to be turned off something that can be fixed?

Because I tend to turn on my own music when I'm in towns, and the splash in frog jump just covers everything.

I'll see what I can do.
codemonkey37179
marshmallowcreampie
Also, regarding Towns 2.0... It's nice and I do like it, but would it be possible to get an option to turn off sound effects as well as the music? There's a mute button, but that only turns off the music.

I'm thinking it over.


biglanky14
Contest and Guild
What i would like to know from the admins in this weeks ask the admin is this.Have u forgotten about the AnimePlayer is there any thing new coming to it ever,do u have any plans to bring more shows to it.

If u want to bring more shows to the player and cant fit the titles on the list begin with making the titles box that u have all ready a bit longer so the ones all ready there fit.Then i do not know if u can but if u can make a second page to the player or the list like after u fix the box size.Then there can be a page 2 button under Noein on the title list that will then bring u to the same page layout as page 1 but that title box will have like 1-2 shows if u can get the rights to new shows that is.

I have more questions my next question is one i asked last week but never had one of the admins or dev say any thing about but it is an easy question.
I would like to know if there is any plans ever to get the rights to halo and the rights from roosterteeth to make some red vs blue items but not in the cash shop more like in the gold but only for a limited time but u can iron out the details.This is where i stand on this if u were to make it a cash shop i would most like want to buy it.

i look forward to what the admins and devs can share on this topic

Hi,

We're talking with a couple of anime companies about possible ways to bring more content to the site, but nothing's really imminent.

We'd need to have a business relationship with Halo and roosterteeth in order to sell items (and b/c they don't just give their property away, it would almost certainly have to be in the Cash Shop). But right now we don't with either property, although we appreciate the suggestions.

Thanks for joining us!


siskataya
Shanra the Dragon Bard
Good afternoon Devs and Mods. I have two outstanding issues that have yet to be resolved:
1. I can't seem to add my moble phone number to my account again.
2. Why can't crew members send out guild announcements, when we have them approved to do so?

Both of these issues have been forwarded up the chain, but there has been no progress on either.
Thank you for your time.

Heya!

Thanks for the post. Have you filed a billing ticket about your mobile phone issue? If not, you can file one through our Help Center and our billing team can help you out.

Sisky
DARKNRGY
PM me your phone # and the account that you want it added to. I can fix today or tomorrow. Make sure it is PM and not posted publicly!! :].

I'll ask around on the rules for announcements but my recollection is that you have to be Captain or Vice Captain.


biglanky14
scullylam
hi guys!

go team barton! might as well stick with tried and true. xd and i am excited about the london olympics. who all going to watch every event? okay, maybe not every event.. >>

also, gaia it is awesome you made the redbubble shop. i ordered a tee and it came in today. it's so much win. biggrin

oh and, can we have more zomg related sdplus dolls? i want a marshall doll. or how about a swarf doll?

Go Durem!!

I'll watch most. And glad you had a good experience with redbubble - we're basically testing it out right now.

I dunno on the dolls - maybe smile


biglanky14
BF-dragontshd-40
As usual, who wants cookie?
Too much sad stuff happened lately sad
Professor Sally Ride just die, Aurora shooting, Beijing flood

Not really excited about London 2012, not a sport person
BTW, may I ask, how do you guys celebrate Gaia staff's birthday?

We tie Lanzer to a pole and throw stuff at him. It rules!


milkbun
Uriel Ledon
Okay so I've never been to one of these before. Do I just post questions here?
Well I'm in Durem, and I love the items.

So my question is when do you think the CrosStitch Hat Contest results will be in?

Most likely next month.


biglanky14
Hoshina Utau120
Any chance of new bidblast items coming out soon?

Yes - hopefully very soon.


lanzer
Tear of Fate
Question some time ago I remember during ATA, someones mentioned that the SDplus Rigel and Mintaka dolls were not done... that we were suppose to get another pose for, What Im saying when shall this get done if ever?

Sorry but I haven't heard of any plans for them yet.


biglanky14
siriustoast
I'm Team Barton. The event is great, but there aren't very many rewards for it. But I'm content.

And this shouldn't really be directed towards Lanzer, but when the housing system updated ages ago, it ate all my items that were inside my house and stuff. I legit cried when I found out because I had at least 20 Water Meats in there. Which I earned in the actual zurg xmas event.

That's not good - PM Codemonkey (I forget the numbers on the end of his name, but he's posting in here) to let him know. He might be able to help.


biglanky14
Edgecrusher Asakuun
biglanky14
Edgecrusher Asakuun
:3 Question - why are messages from Monster Galaxy not showing up properly when clicked in the Mail system? I get all these random symbols and numbers... sweatdrop

Is that within the PMs?

Yup! =)

Hmmm - definitely post in Bug Reports if you haven't already. That's weird.


DARKNRGY
Venephobia
Why does my internet Crash when I visit aquariums..? My Flash is up to date.

Hard to say from here but the general strategy is to try and isolate the issue. Make sure your browser is up to date, try removing plugins, clearing cache, try a different account, try a different computer, that sort of thing. I hope you figure it out :].


biglanky14
Faebella
when will there be more guild updates?
there are a lot of things that could be updated,

such as the option to select multiple threads when
deleting/moving threads.

or the possibility of deleting subforums.

this thread has more ideas too.
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yup, we know they could use some work. We've just got a lot of other stuff we're working on in the meantime.


biglanky14
Troy the confuzed
Can I get a confirmation on whether Faris is dead or alive?
I think he's dead, but many think he's still alive, so I just would like an official word one way or the other.
Nope!


lanzer
Corinth Maxwell
cat_ninja I'm an Aekean to the end, not particularly concerned about the "real" Olympics. cat_xp

cat_stare Now, then......The horse seems to be dead & buried, but I'm going to keep punching & kicking it & whacking it with bats, clubs, and lead pipes until I get some results, dammit. cat_whee cat_scream
Quote:
Here's a little update on the zOMG bug fixes done so far:
* Broken badge grant for The Lawnshark badge

1. Will the above be granted retroactively, or is it impossible to determine exactly who amongst us has already obtained enough points to actually get the badge? cat_whee

2. When can users start getting facial hair (beards, mustaches, goatees, etc.,) that isn't included within an MC, EI, or RIG-based item (i.e., another purchasable feature in Salon Durem)? cat_ninja

I'll check and see if there is a log of grants, so we can retroactively grant the items.


DARKNRGY
Shinsua
I know it's brought up at least once every session, but I'm a diehard for applicable information:
Do you have any plans to, at the very least, update Guilds BBC to match the Public Forums'? Perhaps develop a method to have the two coding networks share a setup? Aheh, well, thank you for reading, and even more thanks if you respond.

If we do mess with guilds that would be our main goal - to make it look like Gaia Forums and to bring in the functionality. We're not working on guilds right now but it's on our radar.


DARKNRGY
rinlee
Zero Omega - My message to you is still sitting in my outbox.
Did you skip it to get back to it later or did my message not reach you?
It was sent July 9th...

He's on vacation right now. He's getting back tomorrow so try sending it again in case it got lost.


biglanky14
Artificial Shadows
Hey ^^

I'm not usually online for ATA but I've had something I've been wondering for a while now. Are there any plans to improve on the App? Its nice right now, being able to check things easily when you're away from a computer, but it still feels really lacking. I DON'T mean in ways like the noobs say who keep asking for towns and stuff to be on it. I know thats not going to happen. What I mean is things like push notifications. It would be really nice to be able to get notices when you're quoted or when you have PMs and stuff pushed to your phone when you're not logged into the full site. 3nodding


and please fix the app PM glitch already... Its been how long now?

Hi Artificial Shadows,

Yup, it's on our list of things that we want to get to. Push notifications would be really nice, but we've chosen to work on some other things at the moment. Hopefully we'll be able to get to that at some point though.


lanzer
ryry Kenny_McCormick ryry
I have feedback regarding the recently-fixed zOMG! glitches. according to research done by people in this thread, 3 glitches are still broken.

arrow The Alastor quest is still broken. The only way to activate Kamila's first form now is by getting somebody who does not have the quest yet.

arrow Unless something has changed, the normal and hard difficulties for the Gnome general are still broken. however, it used to be broken for full crews, but now it's the exact opposite; i'm not sure if the amount matters, but as far as i've heard, normal/hard still glitches for a crew less than 6. sweatdrop

arrow (not in the thread, but have heard this from others) Unless something has changed, the clutch fly-by event is still broken; as in, neither the clutches nor purses spawn.

I would appreciate it if you could please look into these glitches. thank you 3nodding

To answer your questions:
> I'm on team Gambino; people are really nice there and nobody takes it too seriously, so we have a lot of fun.
> Love the event, i mostly do Frog Jump now. it's a bit difficult to land a 20; i've earned almost 10,000 poitns off of it and only gotten 5 20s. this could be an issue to people wanting the achievements for the event. other than that, i would LOVE an option to turn off the commentators. at first its funny, but after a while you just want to kill them. stressed
> eh, i probably won't end up watching the real olympics much. sweatdrop

We'll keep looking into it. We probably fixed it in one situation but not another.


codemonkey37179
K4M
siskataya
K4M
Thank you soo much for the rejected olympic uniforms

I know it maybe alot to ask but is there any chance of getting some rejected olympics team underwear or speedos or maybe short shorts or briefs?(Waffles themed briefs!)

Which do you guys prefer, tea or coffee?

COFFEE!!!! eek

No tea drinkers at Gaia HQ? emo

also as for my first question! is there any chance of something like that being released this summer?

I have a nice box of imported typhoo tea sitting on my desk. I do drink coffee as well.
codemonkey37179
K4M
codemonkey37179
K4M
:O I thought you d be more of a PG tips tea person =P
or maybe its just the monkey

I haven't had PG tips. It is hard to get a decent tea in this country.

D8 madness!!! I guess tea isn't a big thing over there as it is here =P

Ever since that unfortunate incident of insurrection the selection of comestibles has waned!

Are you an Archers an by any chance?


biglanky14
AmmaOkami
Hello everyone :3

Do you think the old Cash System page will be returning? The new one now isn't very good, I can barely get any cash from the videos, and some of the videos don't even give out the cash when I watch them. Not to mention that when I go to the free cash page, some of them even involve paying for. Most of them require downloading, and many say that I have already completed the offer when I have not. It's very frustrating. :c

Hi AmmaOkami,

Most likely not. I'm sorry to hear about the issues you're getting, and if you're not getting paid out for videos watched, can you PM DJ Helsing to let him know? It doesn't make it any better for you personally if you're having issues, but so you know why we changed, we're seeing people complete way more offers successfully with the new system than with the old one.
DARKNRGY
ArrancarYoruichi
DARKNRGY
Our most recent evaluation is complete and we're going to stick with our current setup for the foreseeable future. The current selection of offers is pretty similar between the different providers, though. They change over time. So you might have seen the same stuff either way. I'll keep an eye out for videos not paying out though, that shouldn't happen.

The selection is nowhere near what it use to be. The "free" offers, as stated above, are ridiculous. Some of them are NOT free, including one I've seen that's under the free tab but says "there will be a $12 shipping fee". How is that free? At least with the previous cash tree, my free offers were actually....well...free. And there's hardly any selection of surveys anymore, which is what alot of people did with the old cash tree since that was a decent way to make or rather earn cash.

Yeah that is true. The surveys are definitely lacking and I hope we get more of those. I have to be real here though - our decision was based on a combination of revenue and user experience and the old set of providers were just not delivering. No international, redundant offers, less revenue, etc. We ran them head to head and picked the winner. Sorry it's not as good for you :[.
DARKNRGY
ArrancarYoruichi
First of all, thank you so much for your response heart It's refreshing to hear an actual answer and not a generalized "we're looking toward the future and better things" response which answers nothing.

I really hope that you can get more surveys too. I really enjoyed doing them, earning cash, spending it to get items for myself and for others. If I had spare cash, I'd always buy an item a friend wanted from the cash shop since I did surveys. But now I don't really have that privilege anymore. It would be really good to get more surveys.

Is there any way that you can remove or otherwise weed out the faux "free" offers? The ones that are under the free tab but actually do have a cost or fee associated with them? Or is that solely and only controlled by the sponsor?

Ugh, this is why I hate these stupid offer companies. They're all shady one way or another. No, we don't have any control over the content. I can bug DJ Helsing to harass them about it.


siskataya
B r i t a i n N u t
Question : Why dont you admins do this more often?
For all the times I had questions and no one to ask..
Oh and how do you become an admin or moderator and such.

Hey there!

Hope your week is starting off well! If you are interested in becoming a moderator, you can read the Moderator Application FAQ to learn how! That thread is located here: Moderator Application FAQ - Check it out!

Hope this helps biggrin
Sisky


Narumi Misuhara
.~.Lady_Aji.~.
Evening, Lanzer and staff.

- Rejected Olympics: So far, the event has been fun. The games are easy to understand and gaining points isn’t a pain in the a**. Good job.

- Rejected Olympics Uniforms: Love the uniforms. But why did you make the Barton uniforms brown and not yellow/gold? On top of that, instead of admitting you made a mistake, you created another uniform in the correct colors and passed it off as an additional item. That just seems like bad customer service and makes some users less likely to spend money on this site.

- The New Cash Offers Page: Not really liking the new offers. Some days, I either get a few videos or no videos at all. I preferred the old cash offers page. The old one provided more videos, which gave me more gaia cash. Can something be done about this?

- The Angelic/Demonic Alchemy Achievement: With all the angelic and nitemare/demonic items on this site, why only link this achievement with the back-wings quest? Considering how difficult this particular quest is, I feel like that was a jerk move.

- zOMG! Glitch Fix Update: What’s the word? Did you get around to re-fixing those glitches that you said were fixed, but are still broken?

Quote:
Rejected Olympics: So far, the event has been fun. The games are easy to understand and gaining points isn’t a pain in the a**. Good job.
Thanks!

Quote:
Rejected Olympics Uniforms: Love the uniforms. But why did you make the Barton uniforms brown and not yellow/gold? On top of that, instead of admitting you made a mistake, you created another uniform in the correct colors and passed it off as an additional item. That just seems like bad customer service and makes some users less likely to spend money on this site.
We know the town colors but we wanted to make that item a color we felt looked a bit better. Since some in the community wanted the Barton flag style gold, we made a version of that available for purchase as well.


DARKNRGY
ll Agonia ll
I was pondering.....
Can you guys possibly make a change in the size of the media player for Gaia profiles?
Currently, it is too small to play some of the Youtube media (according to their new regulations) I believe anything smaller than 200x200 is denied.
Your response is highly valued!
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
e ~e
It can get overwhelming with all the questions you must weed through.

Hmmmm. I don't think we'll be changing profiles any time soon. Those windows are a bit difficult to change because they work in groups. If we change one of them we have to change all of them.


This transcript is wastin' away again in Margaritaville, searching for its lost shaker of salt. Some people claim that there's a Lanky to blame, but I know it's Narumi's fault.

Eloquent Informer

37,875 Points
  • Winged 100
  • Balance Begets Creation 500
  • Waffles! 25
This transcript blew out its flip-flop, stepped on a pop-top and cut its heel, so it's cruised on back home.

July 23rd, some more

codemonkey37179
CoolQueerLeader
Are the rejected Olympics going to take place in 2016 again?

I don't know the answer, so I'm going to say "YES"


pepper-tea
Phegrethian
Dragonboykin
Dear Gaia Admins,
I would like to ask why aren't my animated items working anymore?? Its not just me with this problem but alot of people have been affected.

Yes, I too am dying to know the answer. The rain you see on my avi should be moving. Others have bought blessed steralite and are also not having their items work.

I can't answer why animated items aren't working, but I can say that you shouldn't have to use stellarite anymore. That has been re-purposed into an alchemy item. Any more specific info on the non-working animated items would be useful though!


biglanky14
Anolis18
On an unrelated topic to the events, I would like to see improvements in the Guild Forums and see the forums in guilds brought to the same updated version that we use in the public forums. The post rate is far more limited, and the formatting is now outdated compared to the other versions available. I want to see updates and improvements in the guilds.

So do we. But it's a very large amount of work to do so, and at the moment we've chosen to take care of some other things first. But it's on the list of things we hope to do at some point.


DARKNRGY
Gyptoega
Since, we truly lost monster galaxy, how many games are you planning to introduce before the end of this year? So far, it seems we lost more games in the course of this year.

Monster Galaxy is still available through Facebook or through Gaia if you do the migration.

You should see the option to migrate on this page:

http://www.gaiaonline.com/viximo?v_selected=monstergalaxy&v_source=gaia_games_page

Not sure on upcoming games at the moment.
biglanky14
Hi,

I'm not sure you mean Monster Galaxy - it's just fine and playable from the Games tab.

The biggest issue is that many of our games were provided by 3rd party creators, so it's up to them when they go away. OMGPOP was bought by Google and Google didn't want to continue their distribution, so it went away. Backyard Monsters' creator also decided to take down the game. It sucks, but there's not much we can do about it.

That said, we'll have another Gaia-specific game coming out soon, and we're working on replacing some of the games lost with new stuff too.


Panagrammic
lanzer
Meeki
Hello Lanzer,

I am absolutely loving the event! Team Gambino all the way, for Johnny K! Really amazing event you guys have. I do have to ask, is Waffles a Scottish Fold and if not, what breed is he or she?

Sincerely,
Meeki

Yes Waffles is a Scottish Fold, which explains the floppy ears. biggrin

"Scottish Fold" is apparently a polite way of saying "mutant cat." biggrin


biglanky14
yachiru kusajishi7
What are the sacred keys for?
Why are the alchemy components so hard to get?
And when can we expect new achievements?

The sacred keys are part of alchemy, and we've recently made some changes to make the components easier to get (namely changing the way the Philosophers Cache works).

You'll likely see new achievements come out periodically as the year goes on.


biglanky14
AKB0048
Can the Halloween Event be a robot overlord invasion?

Ha - we'll take that under consideration smile


warrior_of_boognish
The Undead Suitor
Hey, so now that Aekea is winning, does that mean we can get more scifi and robot stuff????


I mean, you guys go off whats popular, and Aekeas popular right now!

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Only if its all magical girl desu~


pepper-tea
Zealand_Aquarius
ON the off chance this gets answered.

How come I can only wear some leg mods/feet mod and not others?
Will you ever do an earlier ATA for those in another timezone?

I can sort of answer part of this XD

The reason you can wear some of those mods and not others is based on layering system limitations. Some are categorized the same as shoes, which would be the ones you can't wear. The ones categorized the same as bottoms should work fine. Usually it would be a difference on whether it is just the shoes or if the rest of the leg is included (like if there are a pair of pants attached.) The latter ones are the ones that you should usually have no problem equipping. Our system really has no other way to tell whether a pair of shoes is a mod or not, so we wouldn't really be able to make those wearable by imps at this time. I hope that helps!


siskataya
Hurpes
Why is there a age limit on being a mod or a artist? Im 15 and wanna be either one. I really enjoy the site but am sad bc there is a limit gonk

Heya Hurpes,

Great question about the age issue. I can speak for why moderators have to be 18 to, well, be mods! This is for 2 reasons, both legal:

1) Mods have to be able to sign an NDA document in order to be on the team, and this requires one to be 18 to sign.

2) Most importantly, some of the content moderators have to handle is, unfortunately, not appropriate for Gaia, let alone people under the age of 18. We cannot, in good conscious (or legally) ask members under 18 to be responsible for removing/handling content.

Hope this makes sense why the age limit is in place for mods. In the meantime, please report any inappropriate content you find on the site. Reporting is actually a great way to learn how to tell violations apart, and prepare yourself for when you are old enough to apply for being a mod biggrin

Be well,
sisky


biglanky14
Haruchoo
Can you guys release more guy items/unisex items. I'm fine with all the girl items, but it's a lot harder to make a nice looking guy avi than girl avi, as we're a lot more limited. >.<

Also, for MCs, don't like the one guy item/one girl item system. Can't both be used for both genders? I liked the blue in devoted spica, but I couldn't use it at all. ;-;

Next up is agape. I love the haircut pose, but the supply is running out, and the price is getting way out of reach. Is a 3rd gen. coming out, and if not, could there be an item release of just the scissors?

Hi Haruchoo,

We do tend to release more female-oriented items than not, but try very hard to keep it pretty balanced. We definitely will release more of one side or the other when it gets too much out of whack.

For MCs, maybe. There's no "one way" it has to be done.

Don't know - we don't typically talk about upcoming item releases for a variety of reasons. Thanks for understanding!


DARKNRGY
SUSHI Multiuser Server
DARKNRGY
SUSHI Multiuser Server
A few questions.

1.) Would Gaia ever hire an out-of-office developer? If not, would they accept beta testers, people that could help with snippets of code, or other things of the like? I'm just wondering.

2.) Would GAIA Interactive ever let in a moderator under the age of 18, with parental permission or something of the like? Because I know its illegal for a minor to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

3.) Is Gaia ever planning on upgrading Sunshine? I notice lots of activities that appear to be bots, i.e. people playing slots, inhumanly fast, without talking. They also play for ~6-10 hours. Is it just that you've come to the line where you can't tell the difference between humans and bots for some things, or have you just not put too many resources into discovering bots?

Thanks, I'm just hoping to get my questions answered this ATA after being ignored last ATA.

~SUSHI Multiuser Server

We don't generally hire developers straight to remote. It takes quite a bit of training which is best done in person. We haven't done SCAS testing in a while, but that was our way of alpha/beta testing with the public. If you see stuff that you think would help out feel free to PM myself, carbonphyber, Narumi Misuhara.

What is Sunshine? We try to jump on botting issues when we see them and when we have the right resources to fix them. We usually resort to captcha when we can implement it. I'll see what I can do about slots but unfortunately it might be difficult to resurrect the code.

I'm extremely sorry if I got it wrong, but I had been told that there was something called "Sunshine", which was Gaia's Bot Detection System. I believe I've seen error messages for it before, but I'm not 100% sure. Maybe a Sunshine Server or something similar?

Again, I'm extremely sorry if I have the name wrong.

We have a tool called Sunshine and Rainbows which internal only razz . It works mostly on a per-account (or per-serial) basis though so it's not really useful for looking at aggregate data. We have all sorts of scripts that do the sort of thing you're talking about though.


pepper-tea
sailornorthstar
Did DJ Helsing deliver the brown plush grunny head to the HQ from Anime Expo. Asks the person who made it

Yes he did! It is so cute!


Panagrammic
Squee Nii
Is there going to be some way for those of us who weren't around and/or weren't interested in the original achievement system to obtain titles that are now unavailable? I understand the allure of them being 'exclusive' and whatnot, but since the new title system came out so long after the achievement system I never had a chance to make up for my initial lack of interest. Perhaps we could use achievement points to 'buy' expired words? Also, I think the words should be interchangeable, IE, you may click and drag so that the noun comes first or you can use adjective only. Customize it to your liking. That would be excellent incentive, I think. And would soothe my disappointment.

If it's any consolation, the vast majority of the achievements are still available. However, I strongly suspect that we would not make it possible to get every achievement (i.e., event specific) -- it's another way to incent users to log in and do the events.
biglanky14
Right now we don't have plans to essentially create an achievement/title marketplace. Doesn't mean we will never do it, but there is definitely the aspect of a reward for those who have been around and participating for a long time that we'd have to think long and hard about.

I agree that it would be cool to swap the two around. But that makes it much more complicated to code, and we wanted to get it out there more quickly. We might be able to get around to this in the future, but to be honest it isn't super high on the list of priorities.

Thanks for the feedback!
DARKNRGY
From the feedback I've gotten I think I'm going to allow adjectives only. Probably will not allow reversing. I've thought about reusing titles but I'm sort of on the fence. Some things should stay exclusive for sure but I could see reusing some event-based achievement titles. No real decision on it at the moment.


codemonkey37179
BlackStarTheStrong
Hey, This is my first time doing this, So i guess i should say thank you, the community here helped me learn English and understand it, It surely made my life easier when i moved over here to America from Russia.

Other than that i have one Question for you guys. When is the next game for the Rejected Olympics going to come out?

I've been waiting for it because the bouncing game was really hard and i gave up on it after i got 17 points.

The next game will come out in the morning.

Uncle Kenny
Black Death Goddess
Hi there back again with another question, when will we get to play the next Rejected Olympics game?

Start hitting your refresh button tomorrow morning wink


biglanky14
ladyamerias
Dear Gaia, i have been a loving fan and member here for many years and i want to thank you so much for doing all the wonderful things you do for us. i have a small question. recently i have noticed something strange on here. hard to explain. i will point to some links about money or gold or gifts and a linking box appears out of nowhere and advertises about me winning a ipad, or getting free gifts if i do a survey. it is very annoying. was this meant to happen? sorry for complaining, and trust me when i say that i love gaia. wishing you all well, with love from my heart. heart heart heart

Hi ladyamerias,

Thanks for the kind words! As for the weirdness with your links, that's almost certainly something with your browser (an add-on or some other tool that's been turned on). We don't do anything like that on the site naturally.


biglanky14
Patzu
"Howdy Admins."

"Just a little curious as to why the Animations from the Animated Items went poof? It makes a good deal of my avatars look a lot less alive, which is why I bought the animated items to begin with."

"Is this a bug, is it known about, and does it have anything to do with the Rejected Olympics event?"

We're checking into this, b/c it's definitely not meant to happen (or associated with the Olympics or anything). It's been a little hard to track down though b/c it doesn't appear to be happening to everyone.


biglanky14
Death Dealer Kayako
Hey. I got a question to ask. Will there be an event to help Louie restore the H&R Weasley?

Maybe smile


biglanky14
Black Death Goddess
Hello all Gaia Staff and Adminsters! I'd like to start my time here with a question about a thread I'd like to make. Well, actually it's more like where does it belong? Chatterbox? General Discussion? Supernatural?

You see it has ghost stories, as well as haunted locations, urban legends, cryptids in it and I don't know where it is supposed to go. So if you could tell me where a thread containing all these belongs, it would really help me out.

Sounds like a role play thread - if so, Barton is your place smile


siskataya
i love her ox
lead admin does that meen wen a admin retired you will take there place

Interesting question! It means I lead a team of Admins. We do various jobs, and have a few teams that work on projects. Admins that lead these teams are called "Admin Leads". Make sense?

- Sisky


biglanky14
queen margy
Hello biggrin yes the event is nice and not glitchy and i am thankfull for that ... i never used that thread before but, this time i really would like a reply ... for 2 things :

1: i have a thread for several days in bug forum about the glitch in the games ... i am getting my seahorses from the luck trunks by playing to tiles ... i would like that it's not bugged ... i don't know if it's only a matter of server switch but when there is the summer event the games are bugged ... it's server disconnecting all the time ... i even PM a mod and i still had no reply ...

2: cash trees ... i am sorry ... but me too i have to comment about that ... i have this account and my charity account and ... it's not fair at all ... some days it works on one and ... some days it works on the other ...

i really would like to know what will happen about that for the two things please ...

Hi QM,

Thanks for making the thread in Bug Reports - that's the best place to talk about bugs (unfortunately we're trying to answer so many questions here we don't have time to look into them). Keep adding info to the thread when you have it.

Same thing - I'm not sure what you mean by it working on one account and not the other. Every account will now see the same Cash Tree stuff.


codemonkey37179
Erogenous Jones
codemonkey37179
Erogenous Jones
Hi Guys!
Thanks very much for the Rejected Olympics Event!
I've had a blast so far, and I'm really looking forward to the next two Games. blaugh

One little blue dragonfly in the ointment though, is that a number of people, myself included, are not getting credited with playing and beating Frog Jump.
I've gathered 1000's of Overall Points from it, and have got about 20 Perfect Scores (half of those before the nerf! gonk ), and still haven't received the Item, or the Event Score....

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And I'm not alone in this.

Any chance of this being fixed any time soon?

Thanks!

Items are granted based on score, not by event. The max score a player can get is 100, or in other words 20 a game. If you got a 20 in frog jump already, you personal score is not going to go up. It does contribute to your team's score.

I was referring to my Event Score.
I have already got my 20's for Thing Lift and Space Drop, as well as the Items for both Events, but have received neither for beating Frog Jump.
I should have 60 Event Points now and should have also received the Paintball Shirt Item.
I'm concerned that not having the Frog Jump Perfect Score grant will mess up my other R.O. related Achievements, and as I mentioned, I'm not alone in having this problem.
I POsted about it in the Bug Forum, and noticed while I was there, several other people Posting about the same issue, or one very similar.

Thanks for clearing that up! We will look into it.


biglanky14
Meeki
Also have to give a shout out/props to those the made the flash games possible. They are terribly addicting. Cumulative score is 175,991 and going strong! Absolutely LOVE that Gambino got a Johnny wooden statue in Thing Lift so double props to whoever was behind that. heart

smile

Thank Codemonkey, Edy, Narumi, Buki, Milkbun, Pyawaki, Peppertea....pretty much everyone had a hand in them smile


biglanky14
carolina2blue
Hello Admins

I have a few questions....

1) What days are DMS free where anyone can go in???

2) Are there going to be more quest to come in zOMG and new monsters to fight???

3) Is it possible to bring some of the items from 2003 back???? To where People can buy them who didn't get then when they 1st came out.....

Thank you

Hi carolina2blue,

1) That can vary - you just gotta keep your eyes out.

2) Maybe some small ones. We're going to keep the game available and make small fixes where we can, but we're not going to do any large-scale development on it any longer.

3) Probably not, unfortunately.

Thanks for your understanding!


siskataya
Uesugi Ankit
@Sisky: Thanks a lot for helping with the pancake issues for alchemy! redface heart heart

You are most welcome! Sorry I get so busy at times, and the pancakes are a bit slow off the griddle. I am just one woman serving up thousands of pancakes! crying


biglanky14
Boner Magnet
Hello lanzer and gaia staff!
Nice to see you.

I'd like to say I enjoy playing this game, lots of fun. zOMG is by far my favorite of all. My question is; Can you cycle the servers more often?

Saturday evening and all of Sunday seemed to be laggy for me. I know you all are more focused on Monster Galaxy due to the profit you make off of it. But I love zOMG, and i hate to see it go to hell. But is it too much to ask to have you fine people cycle the servers more often?

We're looking into how we can try to automate this so that it happens much more often, although I don't know where we'll officially land on that.


DARKNRGY
HeIIraiser
So I was pretty pissed along with others that the titles Angel and Demon are granted specifically to those that complete those backwings formulae.

Can the not hardcore enough Gaians, get an alternative like Angelic or Demonic?
It really is a d**k move for those titles to be monopolized by those ridiculous quests.

We're going to stick to the titles as-is for demon/angel but we're going to continue to work on making Alchemy more accessible.


biglanky14
Angry Loganbeard
When are you guys going to come to the South-East?

It's hard for people who live in the South-East to travel all the way across the country, just for an anime convention.
There's a convention center in my town, with an anime convention every year. Why can't you guys come here?

We'll be in Baltimore this weekend - which isn't really southeast, but it's at least somewhat-kinda-sorta-not really there.

We can't hit every convention, but ping DJ Helsing with the info and he might at least be able to send over some stuff.


biglanky14
Lisette Love
Waaah, I'm nervous, this is my first time being around for one of these. whee Um, first of all, I'm really enjoying the Rejected Olympics! This is my first real event since joining and it's been a blast. I love the immersion of walking around the town to play the games, it feels like a real place! Frog Jump is my favorite...hopefully my fellow Barton teammates enjoy it too and score big points!

As for my question, I was wondering. Sometime down the line, would you ever release similar achievement titles to the limited event ones? I don't mean exactly the same, but an example would be "Lunar" rather than "Moonlight" or "fan" instead of "cheerleader"? That sort of thing.

Yup - quite possibly (and I remember you from my chat the other day smile ). Releasing exact copies of older titles is complicated b/c there's a pretty major question of whether that's fair to longtime users, so I don't think that'll happen anytime soon. But doing similar titles might be - we're hoping to release new ones periodically as time goes on.


Uncle Kenny
Anguished
Uncle Kenny
Anguished
Are you guys ever going to bring the whole story on Gino into an event? Like Halloween. cat_cool

Maybe wink

Why do you tease us? cat_gonk

Thank you for answering though. cat_razz

We tease because we're trolls we love.

A more accurate answer would be that we simply don't know exactly what we're doing for Halloween yet. We've got some ideas we're kicking around right now and incorporating the event into the storyline could definitely be the route we take. We don't like promising one thing when we're not 100% set on it though so just keep your eyes open as Halloween draws closer. It's possible we may sneak some tidbits out before the event comes around. cool


biglanky14
Shaizic
OMG I TOTALLY FORGOT!!!

DUDES! And Womenfolk as well: are there any plans to FIX, REWRITE, or anything with the Inventory Organizer? Having almost 10k items, I've had to resort to multiple accounts in order to try and organize them. Would love to have it fixed or completely overhauled.

Would also love to see a Wishlist Organizer too.

Yes. It's a big project and probably won't be finished anytime soon. But we are looking to start working on it very soon.


Narumi Misuhara
Contest and Guild
I have one more question this week for the gaia team.

I really liked the Halloween Event when u had to fight the ghosts do u think that a system like that that u need to fight npcs to do the event will ever be used again i think that is one of the best events gaia has ever done it was so much fun.

Actually most event code is rarely re-used, just because most of the details of what an event needs to do are too different from previous iterations to make such code re-usable. Most likely we will have events where you need to fight NPCs in the future, those kind of events are definitely fun. smile


DARKNRGY
savvycrazy
*shivers in the presance of greatness*
Hello... I was wonder that the name of your item(s) you are wearing are called?

NASA Node 3
White Zoot Suit Tramas
White Zoot Suit Shirt
White Medical Gloves
White Medical Shoes
Space Bubble
Go Phones (Bounce)
Silent Night (Starry Night)
Black Cross Belts
Lawl and Order Belt
Chairo Cache Shades

Nothing too fancy but I do admit that I talked an artist into making the shades :]. They're based on a real-life pair of 7-11 sunglassses I own.


biglanky14
Little Miss Matty
Dear lovely gaia Admin,
I know some members are having issues with their animated items [Astra's] only working in the dressing rooms, but not on the actual site. Sadly I am one of those people. crying Is this a site issue? Do we need to buy the thing we used to have to buy to have animated items? Or is it something with our computers?
-Warm Regards,
Little Miss Matty ♥

Hi,

Thanks - yup, we're trying to track this one down right now.


Uncle Kenny
VBS Cookie
I was wondering when the missing neighbors problem being experienced in Monster Galaxy is expecting a fix released?

We're currently looking into this with Viximo so sit tight for now. We'll likely put up a Dev Notice once a fix is out.


codemonkey37179
hotelite
you do realize that towns is just people cybering

Not everybody, but we do want to make it a better experience for those who want to have fun and chat with friends. We are going to introduce a lot of things in towns 2.0 to help make that happen.


biglanky14
Its All Gleek To Me
Hello Admins,

First Question Is. Towns Is Having Trouble Loading, Is There Something That Needs To Be Activated On OUR END such as the latest JavaScript In Order To Make It Run Smoother. I Absolutely Hate Not Being Able To Play In The Games. ( I Was On The LeaderBoard... )

Second Question: Can You Confirm The Date For The Next Game: Or Any Clues... I Run A Guide Thread To Help Out Other Gaians... Would Love To Give Them Some Information smile

By The Way I Love You Guys smile User Image

Having the latest JS will help, for sure (or at least I hope it will).

And yes - I believe it's tomorrow smile


codemonkey37179
Sabishisa
Sabishisa
Out of curiousity (I've asked this many times with no answer) when are you all going to do something with zomg? Or fix those accounts glitched from....is it now two years ago? I now have three accounts, two of which are inactive because I can't play zomg on them. (And now you've screwed with the gold grants to where I don't even want to play.)

If I get an answer, I might actually die of shock.


I'm going to assume this got lost.

Also: How can I make Gaia towns smaller? The thing automatically loads big as hell and there's nothing I can do to make it smaller which makes it impossible to play when douchebags sit in front of the only timer I can see and still click the thing to make me sit and stand.

If you are still getting the larger size, I am not sure why. Also there should be a timer on the score box where no one can block it.
codemonkey37179
Sabishisa
codemonkey37179
Sabishisa
You overlooked an important part. If I want to see the little circle so I can sit and stand I cannot see that box (believe me I've seen it and that douche kept pointing it out even once I said that I wouldn't be able to stand if I could see that one-and he was on my team). That's how big it loads.

Do you know your screen resolution?

Nope, but this is the only website I have any problem with for some reason.

And with certain pages on here too beyond just the game, but that doesn't bother me.

I'm going to suggest trying to change your resolution to at least 1024x768


biglanky14
savvycrazy
*random dragon flies in*
This is the first ATA i have made it too..
I am with durem and i am playing alot on the games.. cant figure out why we are so low in points.. sad
oh well.. I was wondering about zOMG!... When are you guys going to open Deadman's shadow up to the public?
When are you going to finish bucceneer board walk?
Are you guys going to keep working on zOMG????
_____________________________________
Thank you for fixing the things you have been! blaugh , i have noticed you guys have been working the main part of gaia ALOT! I am just wondering if you could get back to zOMG! anytime soon?
___________________________________--
Not really related to this but i was wondering if you could tell me an easier/ faster way of getting siku the white wolf? Been questing it forever and no luck.. sad
____________________________________
THANK YOU FOR WORKING SO HARD ON THIS SITE! Gaia Is my favorite and i am never going to leave!
~savvy

Hi savvy,

I'm Durem too smile

For zOMG, we're going to make small fixes/updates when we can, but not any more large-scale work. We might open DMS more often though, although we haven't made a final decision on that.

Thanks for joining us!


biglanky14
L-Junice
I have a question about the Cash Tree, ever since you changed it I haven't been able to make any Gaia Cash at all from the video offers. SocialVibe Activities doesn't work for me and the only one I have left is Volume11 which only tells me: "Sorry, we are all out of videos today. Check back tomorrow!"

- Will you add videos to the video offers which will be available for most of the countries in the world? (I'm a citizen of an european country).

We are definitely trying. We get a lot of promises from companies that "they have a ton of videos for non-US users"....and then it doesn't really happen. We're not going to stop trying though.


DARKNRGY
Jenny Sniper
Forget the real Olympics. They rejected us again, and our Olympics are better anyway. talk2hand
Seriously though, the event is really fun. Space Drop is my favorite Gaia game now, despite the glitches.

Anyway, thanks for making the summer event so fun this year, Gaia! 4laugh

Also, I'm having some achievement title issues. I know I just made the thread a day ago, and that you guys are really busy, but I figured it couldn't hurt to bring it up here. If it seems like I'm nagging or being too pushy, then I'm really sorry.

I found the issue - "Junior" is granted for two different achievements and in different slots. I fixed it but it will take up to 24 hours for the cache to clear. Try again tomorrow :].


Narumi Misuhara
Pirate Captain Sushi
I'm not sure if this was asked already or not, but I just want to ask out of the sake of asking:
Are the scores of each team pre determined or are they actually the scores of each team? c: *Notagainsteither*

Second question, this one is for Narumi~
In the Space drop game description, you say "Darn Zurg!". Are we to assume then that the Zurg are the ones who left the outer space toilets orbiting the atmosphere?

1. They are the actual scores, I personally am not a fan of 'faking' data.

2. That or Gambino went through a lot of toilets.


biglanky14
Death Dealer Kayako
Oh, will there be any update for the Mecha Neko shop?

Yup, at some point we'll have another update for it.


carbonphyber
I've just found the issue that plagues animated avatars. I submitted a code patch to our testing team.
I'll post a DevNotice when the fixed code is running so you can re-save your avatar.


biglanky14
Gendocide
Hey everyone!
Hope you all had a good weekend and are keeping cool this summer

I've been having trouble accessing things through Firefox. I've tried to enter towns, zOMG, fishing, and the different worlds and none of them are loading. Using Chrome I have no issues but everything runs slower. Not sure if you were aware of this but it's an issue I've been fighting with for at least a month now

Hi Gendocide,

Mind PMing Codemonkey about that? Not sure if he can help, but it'd be worth a shot.


biglanky14
Hi everyone,

There are a ton of good questions today - way more than we can get to this evening. We appreciate your understanding as we try to get to as many as we can, and hope you'll join us again next week!


Narumi Misuhara
anadentone
WIll Edy return to the manga or a shop?
and will Lex have his own shop?
also will their be any mangas about the olympic with the npcs?
and will the royalty manga be finished this week?

and how old is Nicu? emotion_kirakira


Quote:
also will their be any mangas about the olympic with the npcs?
No.
Quote:
and will the royalty manga be finished this week?
Should be.


biglanky14
R I K U the ninja
oh wow fianly got to be apart of one of these ok got 3 quiestions.

1.Are you guys planing to do some sort of memorial thing for the BATMAN SHOOTING that had happened during the premier in Colorado that ended up with 12 dead?

2. Couple years ago one of the devs said you guys where looking into the sinister scarf recipe or something not being granted and that it was slowly being looked into but i still have not got it. So is that still being looked into?

3. Do you guys like my AVI. LOL

Hi Riku,

That was a horribly tragic, senseless event. But we don't have a tribute planned for it.

Unfortunately I'm not sure what you're referring to, so I can't really help you much there.

Absolutely smile


Narumi Misuhara
Soul of Kyr
Soul of Kyr
1. Why'd you have to go and make the games easier now?? Those of us who played the games when they were harder are kinda pissed about this....I mean we worked our tails off to get the scores we did and newcomers can just do it easily....

2. Also....When will we have long double pigtails in colors such as purple or orange or green?? What do you have against those who don't like pink or white or red or blue??

I'll take any Admin/Dev/Gaian Worker to answer me!!

1. The goal was never to make them extremely difficult, we made adjustments after launch once we were able to see how the games performed on the live site. Some adjustments weren't to make them easier at all but simply bug fixes that made the games playable the way they were supposed to be.

2. N/A (to me)


DARKNRGY
What did you guys do to biglanky14? He just decapitated his Justin Bieber doll and stormed out. Oh well, I guess AtA is over then. It was fun. Thanks for participating. See you guys next week!


carbonphyber
Vampy David K
4. How do we create our own outfit pieces so that they are sold in shops?
I've seen pieces created by other users. As an artist, I'd like to try this out.
We've run contests where the best user-designed items are created by Gaia artists and sold in the CrosStitch gold stop. Keep an eye out for announcements advertising a contest!

Vampy David K
5. Layering articles of clothing?
Will we ever be able to layer our clothing, perhaps something shows over the beard that you'd rather show under it... Or gloves you want under shirts and not over?
Unlikely. We've discussed this and it's simply too complex.

Eloquent Informer

37,875 Points
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  • Balance Begets Creation 500
  • Waffles! 25
July 26th

biglanky14
biglanky14
Hi everyone,

I'm going to be out of the office tomorrow, so I'm out here a day early (and I'm sure everyone is thrilled).

I'll be around for about an hour - anyone around to chat? (Almost) any and all topics weclome.

Uh, like how I apparently can't spell "welcome" correctly. Whoops.


biglanky14
Lisette Love
biglanky14
Lisette Love
...I could go for a sandwich.

You just described my constant state of being. Preferably an Italian combo, or turkey/cranberry.

Turkey and Cranberry, a classic combination! So do you have a favorite avatar item?

Hmmmm - I have a couple. I'm a huge Star Wars nerd, so I love the blaster item I have equipped. The Waffles head also cracks me up, and also scares the heck out of me when I'm in Towns and it faces the front even though my avatar's back is turned.

I also really like the hot dog emoticon b/c I'll eat hot dogs at any point, especially if they have bacon, BBQ sauce, tomatoes, and cheese.


biglanky14
Yen Quest
biglanky14
Yen Quest
Lisette Love
...I could go for a sandwich.

And I was like, "There's a special sandwich/burger today? emotion_kirakira " ...until I read the OP of the thread... emo

Ha - I'm guilty of false advertising. I'm using the lure of bacon to get people into my thread. smile

(But for those who don't know, I asked for what I should call these awhile back and someone suggested BLT - BigLanky Thread).

My brain was pretty much screaming both "Crispy Chicken BLT" and "Big Lanky Thread's BLT" when I saw the thread's title. The next thing I thought of the title is how disappointed I am about today being a Thursday (take out the trash for Friday day). Man, it was so obvious too. I mean, I did read your username on the forum's page. Somehow my mind flip over toward the sandwich instead. emotion_facepalm

I dislike bacon, but I do love lettuce and tomatoes in my sandwiches (with a bit of mayo too). emotion_bigheart

So you just like LTs? That's like having a burger, but holding the burger and just having mustard.

And I know about the Friday thing - felt weird to do this today too. But it's also kinda fun to switch things up a little bit, especially if someone who isn't usually around on Friday is around today.


biglanky14
Crystal Sparda
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            Hiiii~ Love these BLTs!
            Y DUREM NO WINNING? crying


Hey Crystal!

And I dunno! I'm quite disturbed by it too! Guess I need to do more weightlifting.


biglanky14
0-DCB
biglanky14
0-DCB
So, how hot is it where you are? It's gotten over 100 degrees with humidity where I am...with little wind, so the water in the air just sticks. gonk

Yuck! Where are you located?

Today was super weird. On the drive into the office, it was very gloomy and overcast - definitely felt like it was going to rain. But then the sun came out, and it was probably high 80s for most of the day, and will stay in that rough area for another hour or two.
I'm in Louisiana.

80 degrees sounds like Spring to me. xD
Also, this past weekend, it stormed three days in a row. Thank goodness I didn't have to drive in any of the storms!

Nice! Where in Louisiana? I spent a week in New Orleans (with a brief stop into Metairie) and had an absolute blast. We were just doing the tourist stuff (fan boat tour, cemetery tour, obligatory stops at Cafe du Mond), but I don't think I've ever eaten that well. In fact, that trip pretty much turned me into a seafood lover.


biglanky14
Crystal Sparda
biglanky14
Crystal Sparda
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            Oh, and yeah, on days like these where there is so much humidity,
            I like to imagine that the gaia staff all wear their swimsuits under their clothes,
            then the moment the clock strikes 5 PM, you rip your clothes off and
            take a dip in a super awesome dumpster pool behind the building.

We really should get an awesome dumpster pool. I'll see if I have it in my budget smile

And I think our HR department just shuddered at the mere mention of "the moment the clock strikes 5 pm, you rip your clothes off...."

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            Yes, dumpster pools look awesome... cool
            You should throw gold dollar coins in the bottom and Dumpster Dive for Gaia Gold.

            Tell HR they're welcome to join in on the stripping. ninja wink

Dude, I love that idea. The diving part, I mean. Not sure that will convince HR though smile


biglanky14
Magnificent Moonbeam
Hi, Lanky. How are you today? I've been good, waiting for the next RIG to arrive and OMG the sun's out while it's still raining! eek

I LOVE it when it's raining and the sun is out. When I was younger I basically lived in my front yard shooting hoops or playing baseball, and that was the absolute best time to play. The rain kept you cool, but the sun kept you from getting too cold. Plus it just looked cool.
biglanky14
Magnificent Moonbeam
biglanky14
Magnificent Moonbeam
Yeah, I was searching for a rainbow when this happens. 3nodding I did have a RIG idea in mind, but the characters I wanted to display in my idea keeps changing. sweatdrop I posted the idea when you were gone and the theme I had it was of the seven holy virtues and the seven deadly sins. I mean we did have a mini forum event for them, a MC on the sins (Maleficent Seven), poses in the Nightmare EI (With the sins' latin names) had the FMAB Seven Sins (the Homunculi item which was also based on the seven deadly sins), so I thought a RIG would complete the set maybe. sweatdrop

That's an interesting idea! PM one of our artists smile
Sure. Which artist you want me to refer this idea to? I'll copy the question idea I had in the last ATA to there as well. whee

It changes around, so you could send to pretty much any of them. Pick your favorite smile


biglanky14
Maggot
biglanky14
Maggot
Paint Splat is making me rage. classified_fu

Ha - why is that?
It's laggy, glitchy, and full of my Durem teammates.

Can't do much about your teammates (I'll try to avoid your room too), but we're working on the lag and other stuff right now. In fact I can see Codemonkey and Narumi reviewing some stuff right now.

We of course don't want any of this stuff to happen. But these games are way more involved than most other stuff we've done, and we never know exactly how it's going to react when a bunch of people start playing at once.


biglanky14
Guardenia
biglanky14
Guardenia
Are you also a big fan of Waffles?? Have you met him in person? emotion_kirakira

I actually have! He's very cute, but also a slavedriver. He comes into the office and makes us do extra work. He's the true CEO of the company, you know.
Oh no! Well I hope the extra work just involves petting him, playing with him, and generally giving him attention. lol

Did you ever have time to try swtor? Jedi or Sith? ninja

No, if I don't finish his TPS reports on time, I get canned. We get 3 minutes break a day to use the restroom, and another 6 to eat. That's it. Apparently he likes to time things in increments of 3.

I haven't played swtor yet, but a bunch of other people in the office do. From what I can tell, we lean pretty heavily Sith smile


biglanky14
Kain-Senpai
Maggot
Paint Splat is making me rage. classified_fu

Not the only one! classified_fu emotion_donotwant

Lanky, are you going to Otakon with Helsing? >.>

No, I'm not unfortunately. But Lanzer will be there with him.


biglanky14
Hi-Potion
biglanky14
Hi-Potion
Do you like subway, Lanky?

YES! A basic ham and cheese on honey oat with everything but onions and peppers.

But actually, the most underrated part of Subway is something they rarely talk about - the cookies! I don't know what they put in them outside of cancer-causing ingredients, but they're phenomenal.
Do you go to Fanime? 8D IF you do, next Fanime I can treat you to a subway meal. 8D

Ooooh I love the cookies too. Theyre so soft and chewy, I sometimes walk there /just/ for a cookie or two!
Yup, I've been there the last few years (I even answered a question at our panel this year smile

And I might take you up on the Subway offer. You can also join us as Zero Omega tackles the Vermonster from Ben & Jerry's, which he claims he can finish by himself. No. Way. In. Hades.


biglanky14
-P i n a y z u k i n
...so when do I get my BLT?

-stomach grumbles-


Just keep waiting by your mailbox. I've sent one. If it doesn't come by dinner, just keep waiting.


biglanky14
AwakenedSolstice
biglanky14
Meromictic
Flz
And I also like the new game very much emotion_dowant -cracks evil laughter-

I liked it until it sent me to an empty layer.

The feeling was worse than when I get an empty layer on zOMG xd

And then the whole thing crashed my computer >o>

Really? That's not good.

Btw - can't promise anything b/c we're just looking at some ideas, but for zOMG, we are seeing how we can be more efficient at cycling the servers.

OH OH! that makes me want to ask, Do you guys use a windows server? or a linux server for gaia? cause I hear Linux servers don't have to be cycled as much, but you need to know how to use the LUI

That is an excellent question that I do not know the answer to. I am a technology "have-not" smile


pepper-tea
AwakenedSolstice
How come the gaia staff doesn't play the games very much? if they played them more they could see the problems and fix them without everyone else having to complain to fix them... Although i did see Netgear playing the bowling game.


I've been playing T-T
11585 points for Durem!
biglanky14
We actually do play them quite a bit - it's just at odd hours since we're working on other stuff during the day. And trust me, the team that works on them is constantly tweaking and trying to make them better.


biglanky14
Flz
biglanky14
Flz
And I also like the new game very much emotion_dowant -cracks evil laughter-

Excellent! It's my favorite of the bunch too.


You should get some of the staff to join so we can hit you guys! >:3

That's not a bad idea. I'm out tomorrow so I can't really organize something soon, but maybe we'll try to get some of us together next week and go crazy on everyone!


biglanky14
hendre
yum_bacon yum_bacon yum_bacon
Sup Lanky,
I don't really care for subway sandwiches
(bread is gross imo) but I could go for a BLT in general.
Or something from the bakery near me, like a custard tart...
Seen any good shows lately? I'm just watching Buffy, as is my morning tradition.

Hi Hendre,

I just started watching Game of Thrones, and am already majorly sucked in. I'm only 5 episode into Season 1, and I'm obsessed.


biglanky14
Ok guys - I have to run. Hope you have a great Friday, and see you guys again next week!!

Eloquent Informer

37,875 Points
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July 30th

lanzer
So the real Olympics is finally under way, and I must say that the opening ceremony was less than spectacular, or maybe the last Olympics set the bar just a little too high. How many of you remember the last Olympics ceremony?

On the Gaia side, looks like Barton and Aekea are neck to neck. How are you liking the Gaia Olympic games?


biglanky14
Hi everyone,

We're missing a couple of our usual responders today (darn those scheduled vacations), so we're going to be a little shorthanded. Have no fear though - we'll do our best to answer as many questions as possible in the hour or so we have together.

To help, here are some answers/updates to some very common questions:

You guys working on an Android app yet?
Yes! We have finally started building one. I have no idea how long it'll take to make, but we're officially working on it.

What's the latest on zOMG?
I can't promise anything (cue all regulars taking a drink of their preferred beverage), but we're officially exploring ways to get the servers recycled automatically. I don't want people to get too excited b/c we might not be able to, but we're at least officially putting effort into it.

When's the next manga update coming out?
Incredibly soon (maybe tomorrow). In the meantime, I'll see if I can post a very quick snippet/preview/something.

Also, here are a couple of tips to increase the odds we'll respond to your question:

Be specific in your question. "Why does X suck?" doesn't really give us much to answer or help us make it better.
-Be brief. I can tend to ramble myself, but when we're looking through hundreds of questions in an hour, it's very easy to skip those that are two paragraphs asking 5 different questions.
-Don't focus on a bug you found. It's totally fine to tell us about one if you want, but we're too busy answering questions to look into them during ATA. It's much more effective to use the Bug Reports and Technical Support forum.
-We don't typically talk specifically about upcoming item releases, or whether we'll eventually make a certain item smile
-Don't ask something that's already been asked/addressed multiple times.
-And finally, please don't keep re-posting your question over and over. I get that everyone wants their question answered, but seeing the same one repeatedly is tiresome for both us and other attendees, making us less likely to answer.


biglanky14
CioccoLatte
biglanky14
CioccoLatte
biglanky14
And here is a little teaser from the manga, just so you know we're actually working on it smile

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Spoilers!!! Thank you so much!

i was just about to ask something related to manga...

such as: why the storyline wasn't linked to this year's Rejected Olympics...?

or rather, maybe why a side story was not made for it?

But just the same, thank you and i hope to see a conclusion manga or mini-comic for this year's Rejected Olympics

Hi CioccoLatte,

Honestly, the manga storyline and the Olympics weren't going to go together all that well, and we really didn't want to just cram them together for the sake of doing so. That's why we left it as an independent event. That said, we definitely are looking to tie big events into the story whenever we can, so hopefully in the future they'll go (mostly) hand in hand.

Quite understandable! Thank you very much for the reply!

Already looking forward to the Halloween event >.<

The work just never ends, does it?
I hope there are times when you enjoy what you are doing though!
Thank you for all your efforts...

Oh, and who composed the music for Space Drop?
It reminds me so much of Katamari Damacy...so much so that i wanted to bump into everything, roll it all up, and turn it into a planet... o 3o

I legitimately like the vast majority of what I do, and it's because the site (generally) makes people happy. Even when we're getting yelled at, it's still neat to be part of something that means so much to people. But no - the work never really does end smile

And I don't know who did the music, but it is pretty sweet.


biglanky14
Krissim Klaw
Some of us users that have been hoarding away our wing stickers in hopes there might be some big ticket items down the line. Is there any chance you plan to release some items that might cost 100+ tickets in the future? It could be a another opportunity to say release old event skins like the overseer or grombie skins that users have been lusting for. Since the tickets are soulbound it makes the saving process special and could be a great way to reward loyal, active members who show up for all the events.

Another option would be perhaps having alternative pathways on say the backwing formulas that use massive amounts of wing stickers over alchemy components. It could create another way for users to quest the wings that would take time yet wouldn’t require tons of gold.

Hi Krissim,

Since we're early, I thought of you this weekend. I was on a very short family trip, and we passed a nursery that had a giant mantis on the top of their building. I immediately thought "That's freaky but Krissim would like it."

Interesting idea - we'll file that one away. In general I'd say that adding some big-ticket items there could be cool, and we'd just have to figure out what exactly we want to offer.


codemonkey37179
Crystal Sparda
Didn't have my post premade, so here's a few questions from off the top of my head. sweatdrop

1.) Narumi, will you pretty please remove the bomber sticky in the Q&A forum? emotion_kirakira

2.) I seriously doubt Durem is doing a shitty job in the Olympics.
Why does the score say otherwise? confused
And will Durem still get an awesome trophy for levels of awesomeness?

3.) I'm so excited for Towns 2.0 to come out! Hurry up you guys! 4laugh

Narumi is out of the office today. So, I have to let questions 1&2 go by. Durem is awesome, yes.

Since we didn't plan on releasing towns 2.0 until the fall, I think that we did hurry! We are redoing some housing things right now. I've no idea for a time, but the rest of the year you should expect frequent updates.
Uncle Kenny
1) Narumi is out today but I've gone ahead and moved that thread out of Q&A.

2) The score reflects exactly what the team is doing scorewise, nothing more, nothing less. To my knowledge there aren't any issues with the scores displaying incorrectly either.

3) We know, we're excited too. We've got codemonkey working 24/7 with only a 30 minute food break in the day to get it done (not really). It's coming along though so just stay patient 3nodding


DARKNRGY
Ridley Starsmore
DARKNRGY
Ridley Starsmore
Hola Gaia Staff!

It's been kind of a busy day here. I won't go into details, but suffice to say, work today was less than fun.

Anyway, on to questions.

1.) What is he possibility of an 'adults only forum? Not to do naughty things, but there are some subject that I am not up for discussing with kids (could be a number of things. Parenting issues, job issues, marital questions).

Maybe something like the Heaven forum, but age specific. Still bound by the rules on Gaia, but where more 'adult' subject matter can be discussed?

2.) As a show of support for a couple of fellow GCDers...can we have more snakes, mantisii....and possibly those white dander ears? Pleeeeease? emotion_kirakira

3.) The video options for cash earning is nifty. But why doesn't the social one (pink logo) work? I can click it for days, and nuffin. Also, can someone tell the guys at the last one, v11? Banner ads to sign up for crappy games are NOT videos?

Thanks for your time!
-R

We discussed adult areas in a previous AtA. Look for "adult-content" on this page:

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/gaia-community-projects/asked-the-admin-answer-compilation-news-6-23-btw-vo/t.30840637_601/

SocialVibe doesn't have as much inventory as the others. I usually get a message explaining that there is no more videos for today. Do you not get the error message?

I don't get anything from them at all.

You might try a different browser, disabling extensions, that sort of thing. It opens up in an iframe so we don't have much visibility into issues they have on their end. Send me a PM if you know about other people with this issue.
Panagrammic
Ridley Starsmore
1.) What is he possibility of an 'adults only forum? [...]

We did look at this -- the difficult is the age verification. The age verification services we looked at all require some nominal fee (say, $3 - $5) to verify age.


biglanky14
Tear of Fate
Something i must ask, the the alchemy case formula items be reduced a bit, it takes 4x the flower/bug/trash then the cache when at the beginning both formulas took the same amount of golden boxes, not asking for the same jut a reduces in the amount a bit.

Hi Tears,

Thanks for the feedback. As always I can't say that we will do it, but we definitely appreciate the suggestion.


lanzer
Maggot
I asked Lanzer about a facial hair shop over a year ago and this was his response:
Lanzer
Maggot
Any chance that there will ever be a shop for facial hair? Maybe an extension to the Salon?
Yes we have a lot of designs and we wanted to have a facial hair shop. There are some hiccup and we need to make some major changes to the avatar system to properly support facial hair the way we wanted it to work, though in the near future there might be some facial hair items available.

Great talking to all of you today. I'll see you all next week!

Us men (and some women) have been waiting for a facial hair shop for years... When are we gonna get one? gonk

Sorry but we still have to make some big code changes to support all the facial hair styles that we've made. The current system makes it hard to support facial hair the same way it support regular hair so we'll still need more time.


Panagrammic
Stained-Underwear
Panagrammic
Stained-Underwear
Any possibility of a Gaia bank?

This is in the decided issues thread, I think. An interest-bearing bank isn't something we're considering.

Where can I find this thread?

Here.


Zero Omega
KingKentling
Would gaia someday uplift permanent banned accounts preferably the ones that doesn't involve hacking/phising or maybe change it into a year or so ban?

Not any time in the future, if you did something to violate the Terms of Service to the point you earned yourself a permanent ban from the site, then odds are the accounts will stay permanently banned.


Uncle Kenny
HeIIraiser
Hi, Admins.
I was wondering are we going to have a new batch of achievements coming our way anytime soon?

At least one? I'm not part of plans for others currently so there could be more but there's at least one. When? Soon.
DARKNRGY
I'd like to do more achievements and more titles. We're in the middle of prioritization and don't have it scheduled yet.


Zero Omega
IIII Aveox IIII
Someone told me before that wearing the item called "Box of Totally Innocent Objects" can get you banned. Is that true? or just someone freaking me out?

That is not true, we wouldn't have made it otherwise! However, if you intentionally create an avatar that is sexually explicit using our items, then we might have to resave your avatar and ask you not to do it.


carbonphyber
Princess-Orphelia
Firstly I'm experiencing difficulty when I try and go through pages in the forums and the guilds. Each time I press a page, it freezes while it's on loading. And also when I try to type in the number in the search bar, that does not work. I hear many people are experiencing this too. I started a thread about it in here, clicky this sweatdrop
I'm trying to evaluate the best course of action here. It might be an opt-out or I might turn it into a labs (opt-in). I really don't have enough information yet to be able to reproduce the issue. We've only seen it once here in Gaia HQ in the ~ 4 weeks it's been enabled.
Princess-Orphelia
Secondly, Is there any way to exceed the limited amount of friends we can add? For eg: If we have 500 friends or more, we can't send out any more friends requests, but people can send it to me. Is there a reason why it stops at this amount? This means that I can't add you as a friend. Because your rules don't allow it. rofl
The limit is there because the friends list doesn't scale well. We can't just raise the limit to 2500 and expect that the servers won't slow down and that none of the pages will break. It's probably a larger project.
The simple way to bypass that limit is to have users with less than the limit friendrequest you. You can accept an inbound freidnreq if you are at the limit, but you can't make new outbound friendreqs.


Zero Omega
Seasalt Gummiez
gaia_kittenstar Hello! I have some questions~
1.How much could one make doing 1 round of DMS? Im wondering if I should buy a bloodstone....unsure. emotion_kirakira

2.I've been speaking with a mod on a hacking incident that happened to a mule of mine, they said they granted the items back, my invo on the mule still does not have the items, an they wont PM back, did they just stop helping because they thought it was solved? emotion_8c

2. Item grants and hack resolution is ultimately the decision of the admin, as we grant the items back. What the mod probably did at this point is submit the case to us for review and it's pending a review. At this point, the mod can't really do much to assist you, that's probably why you haven't gotten a follow-up reply. When an admin reviews it, you'll notice it because the mod will either get back to you, or you'll see the items back in your inventory.


biglanky14
Contest and Guild
biglanky14
Contest and Guild
I have a question for anyone on the staff at gaia on any level not counting the mod levels.Can u tell me the ways that zomg over time and at this time bring revenue to zomg.This is about something an artist posted sometime a go that i found this week.
I also just got to thinking of how many ways over time and now zomg uses to get money for gaia.

Sorry i am late.

Hi Contest and Guild,

Thanks for joining us. If you're asking how zOMG makes revenue, it's largely from in-game or game-related purchases. But if you're asking how much it's made, we unfortunately don't/can't share those number publicly. Thanks for understanding.

I understand but that was not my question. u helped me with my question all ready so the items like the head start ticket where how u made money.

What about the ads u used to run when zomg was new why not do something with ads again to help pay for zomg.

Unfortunately that wouldn't be enough sad


codemonkey37179
Blooming Shadow
When can we get a new Rejected Olympics type of event? It was very fun.

2016?

Seriously, one of the reasons for redoing towns was to be able to events and sponsorships in towns. It wasn't really feasible with the old code. I can't say when it will happen, but it now definitely CAN. We will focus on making more space in towns first, but expect more to do, especially at event times.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.


Uncle Kenny
Eye Laws Dug Aim
What is the feasibility of implementing a customizable layout, including but not limited to previous layouts used by Gaia Online?

I loved the site layout we had in late 2005, and I would love to see it's return.

Layout changes are usually made to create a better flow, fix bugs, highlight new features, etc. and we typically remove code from the previous layouts once we fully migrate to a new one. So, long story short, I wouldn't hold your breath for this. It's a neat idea but probably not one we'll be working on.
DARKNRGY
Eye Laws Dug Aim
DARKNRGY
Fully customizable layouts would be a huge undertaking and I don't see us doing it. You can do some minor changes with some of the Gaia Labs section.

What about release of coding for the old layouts? I know some browser add ons such as Better Gaia support layout customizing to an extent. Would that be something we could expect, or would that pose too high a security issue?

It doesn't really work like that. Our templates run server-side so it isn't really meaningful to "release" them. They're also long gone and would no longer be functional against all of the changes we've made even if we did resurrect them :].

Better Gaia modifies CSS and some other things and you are welcome to use. It works client-side and is always going to be somewhat limited in the scope of what it can modify.


Zero Omega
Pandemitron
Zero Omega
Pandemitron
If an account with high Gaia economic value gets perma banned, would it be viable to redistribute these items through bid blast, random give-aways etc? Considering the market place economy is very unstable.

We do not take items off of banned accounts because there is no guarantee the account will stay permanently banned. Anything can happen to the account after it's been banned and it just may be unbanned.

I understand the exceptions of cases that are pending, but what about the accounts that are for sure never getting unbanned ever. I am assuming its the same answer, but our gaia economy is somewhat a toxic environment.

Unfortunately it wouldn't be done through taking the items off banned accounts, however (I am taking a completely random guess, do not quote me on this), if I were to guess (or do it myself), my solution would be to grant an item based on how many banned accounts they are on.

Ex: If there are only 5 Halos in existence that are all on banned accounts that I know aren't getting unbanned, then I know I can grant out 5 Halos and things will balance out.

Again, such a thing isn't my decision to call, but this is how I'd imagine I would do it.


codemonkey37179
The Atheist Angel
Hi! There are two things I would like to ask about, first, do you plan to fix the strange glitch in towns that does not let you accept friend requests. Second, I was wondering if maybe you could include a button in towns that lets you permanently change the time of day in towns? For example maybe a moon shaped button to make it night, and a sun shaped button for day, and a half sun for morning/afternoons. That would be really nice because the 12341234 thing does not work during afternoons.

In a word, No. In more words, we plan on it happening in the new towns.

We have not discussed time in the new towns yet. Fortunate for us, the Olympics occurred during the time of year when it is always light in Gambino.


biglanky14
-Shiny_Tsukkomi-
Since zOMG is indefinitely in maintenance mode, would you mind sharing a few of the plans for zOMG's development and storyline?
I heard they were going to be awesome... ninja

Great job on the Rejected Olympics. Despite some of the mishaps and glitches along the way, I had a really great time. Also, the team scarves are really awesome items. ^^

Hi Shiny_T,

I actually wish I knew what Qixter's plans were as well - I'm intrigued! Unfortunately I've never seen them, and don't know if they're still lying around here somewhere. I'll have to ask the next time I see him.


biglanky14
Mermaid Eater
Yo admins will we ever get a Vampire related event/storyline again?

perhaps smile


codemonkey37179
Man I Jizzed v2
Hey lanzar, hope your Monday has been good for you. smile

Quick Question:

When do you think Towns v2 will be done where we can have houses in it?

Also an idea for the Halloween event:

I would love it if we had another event where Sentient and Overseer came back.

Quick Answer:I'm thinking about 2 months before we have houses. When will it be done completely? Probably always a work in progress, what with events and sponsorships.


lanzer
.~.Lady_Aji.~.
- zOMG! Glitch Fix Update: What’s the word? Did you get around to re-fixing those glitches that you said were fixed, but are still broken?

- The New Cash Offers Page: Not really liking the new offers. Some days, I either get a few videos or no videos at all. I preferred the old cash offers page. The old one provided more videos, which gave me more gaia cash. Can something be done about this?

- The Angelic/Demonic Alchemy Achievement: With all the angelic and nitemare/demonic items on this site, why only link this achievement with the back-wings quest? Considering how difficult this particular quest is, I feel like that was a jerk move.

- The Use of Cash Shop Items in Alchemy: Here’s what another user suggested when it comes to alchemizing cash shop items.
Quote:
Maybe to make cash shop items instead of using up the already limited supply of EIs and such they should change the formulas to use special ingredients in constant supply from the cash shop, or sold only for GC from the Bifrost? That would keep GC Alchemy items from being free, and not take away from the dwindling supply of older CS items before they vanish from the site.
I think this is a good and fair idea. You’ll be making money and alchemy will be less of a headache to do. The original post can be found here.

Sorry we didn't get to work on the bugs last week, but we're still looking into fixing the major issues.

The offers often aren't related to how the page was setup but what the providers give us. What we're doing now is to be able to consolidate multiple offer providers so things should be better in the long run. Unfortunately the offers are in a first come, first serve basis.

Darknrgy and others spent countless hours putting together achievements that are easy to obtain, and while there might be a few that are hard to obtain, the fact that they exist should be seen as a jerk move for fairness's sake. We could potentially rename the quest but that'll just be for technicality.

The suggestion is a wonderful one. It's one of the things that we want to do.


Uncle Kenny
Teh Betho
Random question:

Is there ever going to be an update for the guilds? I'm a captain in a well-known guild and I can see there are things that I would like seeing done within the guild itself.
Hope to get a reply heart

Long story short, don't expect an update soon. There may be a couple bug fixes but actual overhaul won't be happening soon. For more details, check out my post here.


Zero Omega
Angri Rahmanto
Zero Omega
Angri Rahmanto
hi Zero Omega!
I really enjoy to being featured avi today! And thread my fans nicely 4laugh

i wish you allow me to being featured avi for next 3 days, so i can chat with them more longer
give them advice, chat, build friendship. etc wink
i really love them whee

Glad you enjoy it! Great avatar! We only allow a featured avatar once a day to give more people chances though, sorry!

ough... gonk
but. did i allowed to being forum asistant? I love this job 4laugh

Forum Assistants are selected out by the staff, so there's no formal way to apply for the time being. Just keep being a good Gaian and reporting!


codemonkey37179
emorexic-pimp
Hey staff! I just wanted start off by thanking/congratulating you all on an amazing event. (Go Gambino!)

Now then, on to the questions!
Can we get some statistics released after the event in maybe a journal? Out of my own curiosity, I'd love to know the standard deviations and end populations for each team if possible.

Can we expect another town-based event anytime soon? I really liked the Olympics and the old water-balloon festival, and would love to rep the islands more often.

That's all I have at the moment.
scurries off to go back to watching the olympics while stalking the thread

We certainly will consider town vs town events. We had a lot of people participate in the RO, and it was a lot of fun. So yes, expect it, but right now the priority is on building more on Towns 2.0 itself.


Zero Omega
rainbowsandcrap
Hello, i have a question. When a person gets banned, why dont they get a notification email? Ive known alot of people who never did. As a user who has spent almost 200 dolars on this site, i would be beyond upset if i was banned, and you didnt tell me why i got banned. How would i go about repealing my ban if i was unaware?

All users should receive an e-mail letting them know what they were banned for, a lot of the time we find that users actually do not have control over the e-mail they registered their account with, and thus, don't see an e-mail come in.

You would know if your account was banned though, because upon logging in you are notified if you are banned.


codemonkey37179
Existential Existence
DARKNRGY
Existential Existence
The music in Towns 2.0 ain't working for a lot of people. I think it's been broken since Paint Splat was released.

I just want to hear the Paint Splat music before the event ends... smile smile smile

codemonkey says he accidentally left the music off in his latest push and says he'll have it fixed in a minute.

Okay biggrin Thanks a bunch

Also, we are thinking of leaving a version of the paintball after the Olympics is over. Need to see if there is any interest in that.


lanzer
Anne Packrat
Hey, guys! What town team is Waffles part of? Is it Barton? He's wearing our colors!

Me and Waffles are with Barton. I'm playing the games and Waffles just follows me around.


biglanky14
Anne Packrat
I've got a stupidly personal question, but it's been bugging me for years now. About fifteen or more years ago I was part of a website called Knights of the Anime Round on Geocities. I was the only out of state one, everyone else was in San Jose, California and went to the anime club there.

I know it's a huge longshot, but given it's the same area, the same age range, and how creative those guys were and tech savvy I was wondering if Lanzer, Fleep or any of the other founders of Gaia are the same guys I knew back then? I'd love to catch up if you are.

Anyway, thank you for entertaining such a silly question. sweatdrop

Sadly, it doesn't sound like it (well, at least Lanzer wasn't and isn't aware of any other Gaians who were part of the site). Sorry!


Zero Omega
rinlee
It's been mentioned that Omega Zero is back from vacation, he's been online, and my message to him is not longer in my Outbox. One week and no reply?

Admins, why has my message not been addressed since it has been read? Omega even asked for the PM.

My PMs are actually pretty backlogged right now, but I haven't forgotten about them! I'm currently working on trying to catch them up, so I'll get to your PM soon. Sorry about the wait.


Zero Omega
Vyeru
Wanted to stop in and say hi because this is really cool n-n

1. Is it against the TOS for a user to raffle off all his items and say he'll split up the gold earned from tickets to multiple users in a gold raffle, and then give the gold to a mule of his? This happened to me on Sunday, and while I have no proof it was pretty suspicious that the winner of all of the gold made their account the day the raffle ended.

2. Also, what are your guys' favorite items on gaia? biggrin

3. And in addition, do you guys have to buy your items on the marketplace, or can you just make them appear for you eek

4. And lastly, how would one go about becoming a mod once they hit 18? sweatdrop I've been a loyal member of Gaia since 2006 and I've always wanted to become a moderator!

1. Correct. If a user hosts a raffle of any kind, his mule cannot win it.

4. Apply here:
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/questions-assistance/moderator-application-faq/t.46243481/


biglanky14
Madkool
Hi everyone! My question for the admins this week is will we be seeing the drop rates of rare formulas go up? Some of the most requested formulas (such as the angelic, demonic, celestial etc) still remain virtually missing in the market.

Are the changes to alchemy happening as quickly and effeciently as you had hoped? And if not, what further plans do you have to make it work better?

Also, will we be seeing Gaian's Gone Wild again this year =) ?

Hi Madkool,

It's possible, but we don't have any plans for it immediately. And to partly answer your second question, I think that we'd all love to have the silver bullet that "fixes" Alchemy and makes it the most beloved system in all of the internets. But overall I'm pretty pleased with what we have done to it so far. Every change we introduce creates unintended consequences elsewhere, so we can't move too quickly, but I do think our last two major changes have made the system much more accessible for folks. There's always more people want us to do, and we'll keep looking at it, but given where we were awhile back, and where we are now, I think we've done decently.

Unfortunately, the softball version of GGW is probably over. Because so many people are required every week (and because so many of the other teams take it way more seriously than we do), it was getting really hard to field to a team. But we might take a different form, such as bowling. How awesome would it be to see Zero Omega falling over the fault line on a bowling alley? smile


This transcript cannot be continued because it's stored on a cassette tape and the tape just caught on something and got pulled out of the cassette. emotion_donotwant

Eloquent Informer

37,875 Points
  • Winged 100
  • Balance Begets Creation 500
  • Waffles! 25
Okay, I got a pencil and used it to manually turn a spool in the cassette and pull the tape back in, so now it's usable again. Transcript continued.

July 30th, some more

lanzer
QueeniePMonkey
I was wondering if there could be a clarification on the difference between cosplay arena and originals arena. Thanks.

Cosplay arenas is where you choose a character from a familiar movie, or TV show/anime that people know of, and try to dress up as such.

Original avatars are not based off anyone, it's simply your own awesome design. smile


carbonphyber
Sir Twitty
Ive never been to an ATA when its just starting emotion_kirakira Im always at work.
Is it just as ungodly hot in Cali as it is in minnesota? gonk

It was really nice this weekend (Gaia HQ is far from the hottest parts of CA).
My cousins in Dallas are melting right now.


Harbinger of Pandamonium
Pindarus
I've a simple question. Let's a user feels a site moderator is abusing privilege. Who's in charge of the people in charge?

Send an email to usertalk@gaiaonline.com explaining the whole situation. Please include all relevant usernames and so on.


biglanky14
TattooTanith
Completely random question, but I was wondering if Gaia will be making more Moga's available for purchase (like with Moga Huey, etc.), because I was really looking forward to a few. Kinda random, but I've just started with Monster Galaxy, so I figured I'd ask now.

Maybe - there's a team that run MoGa, so I'm honestly not sure what they have planned. But I'm glad you like the game!


Zero Omega
fallen678
hiya
Is it against Gaia's ToS to make a forum about an artbook you're planning to make?

I'm a member of a group that wishes to set up an artbook in order to donate the gained profits to a charity.

Can I make a thread in the forums about it
this will contain info about the price, where and how, to pre-order, the artists that participate, previews of the artwork, link to several deviantart accounts, the theme and so on...

and in case i can what forum section is appropriate for it?

I would imagine this would be okay, you would probably want to make it in the Promotions subforum of the Art Discussion forum. I'm not entirely 100% certain though, so you might want to PM an Art Discussion mod and ask them.


biglanky14
koolknight
ELLO staffers!

i had a BLAST at otakon this past weekend, and i had to leave the panel a little early, but i wanted to possibly know (i didnt remember if it was said) but when can we expect "HOC" to appear?

i am completely stoked for this game it looks amazing

Hey kool,

Limited Beta is just about to start, I believe, so that's a big step. After we check out the feedback from that, we'll open it up to a larger audience - so you should hopefully start seeing it sooner rather than later.


pepper-tea
Discords
@Thread:

Hello, everyone ninja

I'll make a thread about this later, but my legs (Vampire Sound) glitch in flash spaces (green goo glitch/second set of white legs), any chance this can get looked into? ninja

Hello! I can't see what you are wearing to see what is causing the white legs, though it is probably another item you are wearing... maybe a skin? A new update to our system does let me see that item does have a green goo glitch on its own in the back view. It looks like there might be a glitch with the shadow too, but that is probably due to the other item you are wearing @_@

Sorry, I can't help with about half of that without knowing the items you are wearing. Could you make a post in the glitch report thread for the white leg issue? I'll let someone know about the regular green glitch on the back view!

Thanks for letting us know those glitches are there!


lanzer
Marytanna
Will some users get a chance at the integrity ring?
For example... those who joined Gaia after the event.

Usually items aren't re-released after the event, but for zOMG items we might make exceptions. I do need to check on that though.


biglanky14
Sorceress Djana
Hi I was just wondering when The Rejected Olympics event ends?
Pretty much right around the end of the month.


pepper-tea
Black Death Goddess
I do have a question but I don't know if the artist Milkbun is here today or not. I was wondering if we will be seeing different colored versions of her Lady Jayne and the Mummy item?

Sorry, she isn't in today. I don't really know the answer to that question, but I imagine it has just as much chance as any other item! XD

Not a very useful answer, I fear...


biglanky14
jonjon21428
Lately, like once every 5 times, when I change the page in a thread, it is stuck loading. Is this an issue everyone else is facing, or just me? o3on

Hi,

Yup - we're looking into this right now. Thanks!


lanzer
OMG Maureen Cox
I don't know if it's just mine...but whenever I check my tank to feed my fishies and get the overseer stuff, it's extremely laggy.

Other than that, how are you guys? 3nodding

Does that happen only in aquarium? What about other flash features like Towns, or fishing?

It'd be good to try another browser such as Chrome, or try upgrading flash plug-in.


codemonkey37179
dizziedobsession
codemonkey37179
dizziedobsession
Is Towns 2.0 going to be in Gaia Labs once the RO is over? (if it's not already...?) Even just for the sake of collecting junk & bugs until houses are ready to be implemented?

Edit: or is ANYTHING in the planning for Labs?

We are going to keep it live, and roll out the changes.

How will it be accessible? Will there be a separate Towns and Towns 2.0 link in World?

I'm not sure. We will get that worked out. You can bookmark the link for now.

Eventually it will replace the towns link in the world menu.


DARKNRGY
Countless Dracula
DARKNRGY
iWintre
Hello admins

You do realize the captchas don't really work and bots still get in right

which captcha are you talking about? Captchas are effective at forcing human interaction but it has to be implemented correctly to be effective in its purpose. Is there a bug somewhere we should know about?

I remember quite a while ago when registering via either Facebook or Refferal link you did not have to enter in a CAPTCHA like you usually would, and in the request it said something along the lines of 'skip' (not exactly sure) , instead of the hash that would usually be there.

Someone could manipulate this CAPTCHA skipping feature and enter it into their bots, although I never tried this as I'm not a botting type of person. Although it would be good for you to test it just in case that is the deal. Then again you've recently switched CAPTCHA systems for most features...

I certainly hope that's not the case. It's unlikely that it would apply to all of our captcha requests because each page has its own request handling. I will indeed check it out, thanks!
DARKNRGY
Countless Dracula
If it isn't the case then it's both good and bad as if you knew how they were doing it you could remove the skip function from the PHP file / request file.

If it isn't the case however, they might be using some sort of mass database of codes to match with words ( I remember about a year or so ago they were talking about anti-captcha / captcha decrypting programs via mass databases they bought/downloaded from a website which stores and compares hashes to plaintext.)

But like I said, I've never really dabbled into any of that so I wouldn't know the full story.

It sounds like you're sort of guessing. If you have concrete information about exploiting captcha on gaia, let us know. Captcha is constantly evolving and there are no reliable ways to exploit for any length of time. Big database of words won't work because the images are generated dynamically. However, there are services that farm out captcha resolution via spam. It's not typically something that is available to someone who would bother trying to crack gaia's captcha.


biglanky14
Scobre
I liked the last Olympic games' ceremony and liked this years' one too. I'm enjoying the event a lot and got all the achievements. The items are pretty nice from it too. It's a lot easier even than the Easter one and more entertaining, so nice job.

1) My zOMG! inventory bar has a pack of revives not showing in the game zOMG!, so could this glitch be fixed since I've had the problem 6 months?

2) When the contract for halzy ends, will there be any devs or anyone still caring about zOMG!?

3) What is your favorite sport in the Olympic games?

Hi Scobre,

1) It definitely can go on the list, but I don't know where it'll be prioritized at the moment.

2) There will always be people that still care. But as for actually working on it, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

3) I personally love watching table tennis b/c it's amazing how fast they play. But other than that, probably beach volleyball smile


biglanky14
pinochi
Will you guys every make hunger game items like the walking dead items? emotion_kirakira

Hi Pinochi,

That would depend on whether we can do a partnership deal with them. I'm going to guess that it's unlikely, but it would be awesome if we could.


biglanky14
zavor_eklar
Any plans for a full scale RPG style Gaia game? Like what ZOMG! offered, except actually going of stats and exp. I would love to use my avi and grind senselessly to level up. I love ZOMG! but I want exp and character levels that increase as such. A engine similar to Dragon Quest would be great. Where gaining levels would require a lot of effort. Perhaps, crossing ZOMG! into it could work to. Such as Rings offering access to special skills and/or abilities. So that they could be linked at least in some way. To make both worth playing together, to truly have your character grow.

Hi zavor,

That would be a cool game, but that would be pretty far outside our capabilities right now. Plus, I'd want it to be more like Shining Force smile


lanzer
Kawaii Chiisa Neko
I was just wondering if you guys will ever come anywhere around or in Spokane, Washington.

I've always wanted to go to one of the offline thingies, but they're always too far away emo

DJ Helsing will be going over which conventions to visit by the end of year. Is there a specific convention that you would like to suggest?


codemonkey37179
ZLubinski
I would like to know when the homes will be fixed they still lags horribly and it saddens me that a once thriving hot spot for my friends to gather is now completely unusable.

I would like to know at what point of the list of important things to fix this issue is at.

I was working on it today. It will be done, when we have housing ready for towns 2.0.

It is a much lighter code. Are you having any issues with towns 2.0?


DARKNRGY
Chibi Halo
Quick question for sisky here. Have you guys found out what's going on with the Playspan and Autocash issues yet? I'm asking more out of curiosity because I'm starting to wonder what the issue could be and if it's something that needs to be addressed to the community or not.

Playspan had some scheduled maintenance over the weekend. Are you having trouble with it right now? If so, please PM me details about what's not working.


lanzer
Kimiko Doll
gaia we do not need a higher fee and higher prizes in arena. i hear that your making a new arena and goona jack the prizes up for the old arena. it will not solve the issue in arenas. why does the fee have to be higher? pretty soon it's gonna make people not even want to enter the arenas. if you want to keep interest with people, leave the fee alone and the prizes. it will only make people dv even more in the arenas. i suggest creating something that reveals a person's name and their vote publicly to scare off downvoters.

We'll try to launch the new arena area this week that will offer something that has higher commitment and higher payout, while the current arena areas will remain un-touched, so hopefully that won't be a problem for current arena users. We had also implemented something to target downvoters, but it works in the background and no, it doesn't reveal their identity. smile


Zero Omega
Loubao
I will ask this for another user who has not gotten a response because this has happened to me as well; twice. :

How do we report malicious IM's from meebo? Two of my friends had sent me phishing-attempt IM's; and then it turns out that they got hacked within a couple days. On top of this they did not send the IM's from their own consent (Thus them getting hacked). I found no report feature, so therefore I ended up blocking both of them.

I believe Meebo should have some sort of report feature, but the best way to help us would be to get screenshots of the incident and then file a report or contact a moderator.


biglanky14
Valkyrie Gauge
I've been wondering, we've had the select few towns for a while now. Will the world of Gaia be getting a lot bigger than it is now? By this I mean will there be more places to explore, possibly some a bit more exotic and foreign? I was excited to see the city in the sky. I think some new places and NPCS to go along with them would be great!

It might! We don't have any immediate plans to expand b/c we want to make what we already have a lot better. But as the storyline and site grows, you could definitely start seeing some expansion.


lanzer
IIII Aveox IIII
Can I get a fan sign from Lanzer? emotion_dowant

I'm always there to sign stuff at the conventions I go to. biggrin


biglanky14
alanliu12121
Will there be ZOMG on iphone?

Unfortunately, the iPhone doesn't support Flash (which zOMG is written in), so no.
lanzer
Don't think so, as the system actually require a lot of other parts of Gaia to work properly, it'll not only be a port but it'll require a lot of new features to be built (from shops to trading and dressup), and I'm afraid that will be more work than we can afford.


codemonkey37179
Anne Packrat
Will there be trash to pick up in the Towns 2.0? If not what will happen with the exchange system? Will my day job as a picker be forever gone?

Yes to the first question.
DARKNRGY
Towns 2.0 will have trash/bugs, it's just not there yet :].


biglanky14
Darkly_Doomed
I love these things. Okay, so questions...hm...
Should we be looking for an update to Towns soon or is it still a ways away? Old Towns is still having issues with the random towns button--trying to leave the town to which you were transported using the directory doesn't work unless you move into a different room with the arrows first.
Are you guys considering working on revamping games like Blackjack? (Some new methods to cheat and new opponents would be nice)
Are more houses going to be available? Whenever I look around for vacant houses, there aren't any. It doesn't much matter to me since I have a house, but I imagine that the newer users are a bit miffed about missing out on Houses.

Thank you all so much for having these sessions! whee

Hi Darkly_Doomed,

To answer a couple of your questions at once, we're more or less re-envisioning how Houses will work. You won't have to go looking around for a vacant house, and it'll be easier to get to a particular person's. We're aiming to have more updates later this year (Fall/Winter), so I guess that's either soon or far away depending on your expectation.

We're not working on Games right now b/c we have a lot of other things going on, but we would like to add/expand Games when we can.


carbonphyber
dizziedobsession
Anddd for Carbon...annyyy update on wishlist issue...any at all?
Still can't reproduce it. =(


biglanky14
iBatuhan
Would you care to make items of those new imps that we've been seeing at the olympic games such as "space drop" and "paint splat" ? i've seen too many people would like to have one of those, i'm just too lazy to make a petition.

Quite possibly - they've been pretty popular.


carbonphyber
Ralus
This is a question to everybody.
What is your favorite sport in the Olympics? Mines 100 meter hurdle. emotion_dowant

I like to watch anything I did in school:
100m sprint
200m sprint
400m
800m
Long jump
High jump
And some of the bicycling events


biglanky14
Castiel Lover
Waffles companion item.

The Rejected Olympics is pretty fun, but I seem to like the 2008 games better. They didn't rely on teamwork, so your effort directly correlated to the outcome. I assume that we won't be keeping any of the games as site games once the event ends?

We've heard both sides of that one - that some love the fact that these required teamwork, and some don't. Personally I like to err on the side of teamwork b/c it encourages socialization, but I get the other perspective too (especially since I ironically prefer to just play video games by myself and not in coop).

Don't know about the second part - we've talked about keeping them, but haven't arrived at a firm decision about that yet.


Zero Omega
Forever ADrone
So I was wondering what takes so long for the admins to get back to us after we file reports? I have filed a few reports and it has always taken months to hear back from you guys.

It depends on the report. Some reports the staff can get back to immediately, and some might take a little longer based on various factors. Send me a PM with some information about your reports and I can do some research.


biglanky14
oOo Vintage Sailboat oOo
Is it possible that old MC's will be re released but in different colors or alternate poses?

We've pledged not to release old MCs, so while I wouldn't rule this out completely if it's a pretty different variation, it's not overly likely.


biglanky14
PinkShadowStarlight
The leaderboard in the Rejected Olympics has been glitched for a while now and I'm wondering if this will be fixed soon? People have been bumped off the board when someone passes their score. And in order to get back on it you need to pass someone but it seems the bottom 2 people never get bumped off.. Thanks

Hi Pink,

Can you PM Narumi Misuhara about this? He's not in today so I'm not sure if he's aware of it already or not, but that would be really helpful. Thanks!


lanzer
HeIIraiser
One more question for you guys.

I've posted in the bugs report about this, however I think it would be more effective to get your opinion.

I've been experiencing horrid lag with Booty Grab.

Like whenever I tap the tank the game loads slow and the music is not in synch with the game.

Also at the end of the game I get the score bubble popping up three, sometimes four, times.
Along with the victory sounds.

Is it just my computer or browser?
I'm using the latest firefox.

Booty grab takes considerably more computing power than aquarium. You can try Google Chrome browser and see if it makes a difference, but otherwise it might be a problem with the computer being not fast enough.


biglanky14
Sabin le Rose
Is there ever going to be some kind of option for Canadians to do the daily cash thing again?

Hi Sabin,

We're working on it - it all depends on whether the video providers have inventory that's designated for Canadian viewers. A lot of companies have told us they have "all sorts of international inventory" but then it doesn't quite work out that way, so we're still looking.


codemonkey37179
PinkShadowStarlight
I would like to know why some people are answered many times with many questions and yet I asked a question on page 11 and nothing? Why is it some are answered when asked a question after me? crying

We get flooded with questions, and when we reply we are taken to the last page of the replies and it is easy to get lost.


biglanky14
Mashed Potato Jones
Good evening folks, how are you doing this evening? I've actually got a question for you guys this week, one site related, one a bit more off topic! So!

Site related - Any chances that there will be some form of integration with Spotify with profiles...would love to use that kind of system for sharing my eclectic taste in music with my fellow gaians!

Off-topic - What are you guys doing to stave off this awful heat wave? Ice cream, pool, old fashioned block of ice and melting yourself into it to make a chair?

Site related - probably not in the short term, although that would be pretty nifty. That assumes they'd be interested in doing that with us (basically anyone besides Facebook) smile

Off-topic - that's a very relevant question b/c our air conditioning automatically goes off a little after 5, so we're sitting here roasting while answering questions. So if anyone gets a grump answer, that's why smile


lanzer
BF-dragontshd-40
As usual, cookies and cakes for this time only for everyone.
@at your question: the only thing I remember was the big, red double bus.
Congratz on Herald of Chaos.
My question was, what is the ratio of zOMG's servers to Gaia's servers? What is the connection (I meant literarely) between the two clusters of servers? It's proven during purple crash that zOMG's server isn't affected by it.
Is there any astrophile among the Gaia staff?
Why is [NPC] Kloken under the "Bloodlust" quest in the in-game PDA while [NPC] Alastor is under it in the on-site section? I mean he's all the way from BR.
Since there is not enough people under the QA section of zOMG! development would you consider calling people from universities nearby to test it?

zOMG runs a JAVA based server while Gaia's servers are PHP based. zOMG has less servers than Gaia and Gaia's servers are more powerful so technically Gaia can handle a lot more traffic.


biglanky14
Runzu
I was wondering when you guys are going to add more outfits to the closet? 20 isn't enough. sweatdrop I like to change and make outfits a lot. I'm willing to pay for it. heart

Hi Runzu,

Probably not for a bit, unfortunately - not because we don't want to, but b/c we're working on a lot of other stuff at the moment.


biglanky14
u_be_trollin
I would like to know about the achievement points, specifically, will anything more happen with them(i.e. earn gold through them, or items). They seem like a pretty useless thing any other away, thank you!

Hi,

Achievement points are a way for you to show off your experience on Gaia since they can't be bought (just earned). Achievements themselves also now unlock Forum Titles for users to play with too.


biglanky14
-pelvishake-
When will the next Gaia convention be. Will it be near Washington State?
also.
I was trying to buy a MC through my Home Phone... but it said this;

'We are unable to use this phone number for billing. We cannot bill mobile numbers, nor certain third-party telephone providers. If you are purchasing from a mobile phone, click 'Change Order' and try our mobile payment option.'
Why won't it work? D:

Hi there,

It's possible it's b/c the service that provides your home phone doesn't play nicely with the one we use to handle home-phone payments. Shoot a note to billing@gaiaonline.com with the details and that team will be more than happy to try to help you figure this out. Thanks!


biglanky14
Pixel Trap
Hello!
My question for you guys is, are you guys going to eventually start paying more attention to the gold shops instead of pushing out new cash shop updates?
Mind you, the cash shop items are nice and all, but it would be nice to see the gold shop get a little more love, and I'm sure that with more gold shop updates, they will become more successful gold sinks.
Thanks for your time!
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Hi Pixel Trap,

We actually do pay quite a bit of attention to the Gold Shops, and usually do at least an update a month.


biglanky14
Kri Berry
When will zOMG have near-lagless servers? crying redface

If we're able to do more server cycling (as in my OP), hopefully that'll go a long way towards helping the issue.


biglanky14
Aurasong
Hello,

First time at this, but I want to ask a question.

Will you be getting rid of/changing the </3/<3 button in threads? I feel like, this is my opinion, that it could just be used as a method of anonymous trolling/hating.

Hi Aurasong,

Thanks for joining us!

We actually are working on a way to tweak this. It won't completely change the entire system, but would go to more of a blended, algorithmic way of showing popular threads. That way it's not as easy to turn into a hatefest (and by the same token, still surface the good stuff). Don't know when we'll start testing it, but it probably won't be too long from now.


lanzer
Sifen Yamishi
Dear Lanzer and company:

Hope you're braving the summer heat! Just wanted to know what the status on the PSAs are concerned. I especially wanted to know specifically on the LGBT slur one, as I personally asked about this at this year's Feedback session at A-Kon.

Also, as A-Kon is moving to a new hotel next year, have you guys gotten the heads up about that?

Last question is pertaining to the Avatar Arenas. Any idea when we can get a fix for this feature to prevent downvoting, etc.?

I'll check with the moderator team about the PSA.

I'm sure DJ Helsing is always up to date on the changes, thanks for the news

We implemented changes that would make downvoters have much less influence. We can also tweak the feature depending on the outcome.


lanzer
Thank you for joining us on this week's ATA thread. Have fun at the Olympic games and we'll see you all next week!
biglanky14
Thanks again to everyone for showing up today! Sorry to everyone who didn't get their question answered, so hopefully you'll join us again next week.

Have a great rest of the week - and go Durem!

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