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Deadman's Shadow is currently open to the whole zOMG community!

Community time has begun! The community meter will now drain back down over the next 3 days. While community time is on you wont need a Bloodstone item to access Deadman's Shadow. However, you will need to have all eight equipped rings at level 10!

To get to Deadman's Shadow

  • Head to the lower left portion of Bill's Ranch
  • Talk to Albert if you've never been into Deadman's Pass
  • Head into Deadman's Pass along the lower side until you find the Von Helsen twins outside a gate
  • Click on the gate!

You should also find a crew to go in with since it'll be plenty dangerous inside!

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New zOMG Bundles
Based on user feedback, a number of the zOMG consumables have been combined into bundles, so you can buy zOMG power ups and get donator status at the same time.

Check the zOMG store for:
  • Double Orb Deluxe Bundle (3 Double Orbs)
  • Ghi Amp Deluxe Bundle (3 Ghi Amps)
  • Supercharger Deluxe Bundle (3 Superchargers)
  • Deadman's Shadow Powerup Bundle (5 Ghi Amp, 5 Supercharger, 2 Revives)

Please note that the orb doublers do not work on the new orbs in DMS -- but will be perfect if you want to level someone up to CL 10.0 to try out the new area.

They are in the zOMG store now.

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ToT Ending

Tomorrow at midnight trick or treating and the final item grant for the h2k11 event will be turned off and the event forum archived. If you haven't already head over to the event page for your item grant. (Available only to those that participated in the Moonrise part of the event.)

After that head on over to shops or Towns to collect candies and claim this years Jack set before it's too late!

The last few pages of the event manga are still in the process of being made, but don't worry, we haven't forgotten it. smile

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Fixing Guilds CSS
There have been some styling issues in certain guilds pages since last week. We're pushing the fix to those right now.

Tracking Speed Issues
We're adding some code that will allow us to better monitor speed issues. Please don't forget to report in Bug Reports when/if you get problems where your browser fails to display images and saiys "waiting for *.cdn.gaiaonline.com" in the "status bar".

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Pardon Our Dust
We're in the process of pushing out the housing update.

Official announcement will be tomorrow, but feel free to go into housing and try it out! The official feedback thread is here.

Note that if you had previously edited your house with the old data, then you should clear out your house the first time you go in with the new editor.

Changes:
  • now based on the latest Flash technology -- should work much better in most browsers
  • changed the interface to be more modern
  • a number of items are now interactive

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Housing Update
Thanks very much for the bug reports in the Housing Feedback thread, they have been very useful.

We have pushed out a few fixes that should a) end the hang at "sweeping floors" (you might even call them sweeping changes, hah!) and b) fixes the black screen when transitioning between housing and towns.

We will be doing more changes tonight and tomorrow morning before doing the final announcement and actual launch of the feature.

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Another Housing Fix
Fixed another problem with housing to fix the problem with being stuck at 100% while "sweeping floors." We appreciate the bugs so far -- we have a developer dedicated to this, so please continue to provide your feedback.

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Miscellaneous Friday Notes
- Additional housing fixes. We believe that everyone should be able to enter the editor (no more hang at "sweeping floors" ). Please let us know in the feedback thread if that isn't correct. We're going to continue to do ongoing fixes in the housing editor, and we appreciate your patience and feedback.
- The gates to Deadman's Shadow have closed again, and only users with Bloodstones can get into the area. Many users have asked for more specifics on what causes the bar to fill up again, so we'll be doing a post on Monday in the zOMG forum that goes into more detail. (Overall, though, ever since the release of DMS zOMG traffic has jumped about 20% overall, and zOMG / housing are running neck-and-neck for the second-most-popular flash space right now; forum traffic has also picked up extensively, what with all the great threads about tactics for DMS).
Minor Dressup Change

We just released a minor change to the dress up page. We now show you the thumbnail of the equipped variation instead of showing you the main item image.

So if you tend to have multiple poses of the same item equipped, you can now easily tell which ones you have on your saved avatar!

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Cash Tree Sickly
Cash tree seems to be having some issues, we're looking into it!

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Miscellaneous Notes
- New Cash Tree is out, but it's not obeying the account settings and is always displaying regardless. We're taking a look at this issue.
- More information on the zOMG community bar measurement tomorrow (originally was scheduled for today) -- we want to tune the numbers. We are possibly going to do a one time force of the bar to 100% on Friday night so that our weekend users get a chance to try out the new area.
- Some reports of problems getting into fishing with IE -- if you're having problems please clear your cache and try again, it should work much better.

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Cash Tree
Known issues with the new cash tree page that we're working on a patch for:
- no longer controlled by account settings
- doesn't properly hide after all videos are used up
- not paying out -- we aren't able to reproduce this bug, and it may be related to geographical region. If you can post in this temporary feedback thread with more information, it would help us track it down.

Description of the changes:

We've added a third provider of videos (Gambit Videos), with the fundamental idea being that we try to show you the provider that has highest paying video. Due to implementation concerns and restrictions in the third-party APIs, we were unable to use the previous interface (i.e., a popup when you click the cash tree), so instead we moved it to its own page where we can put a bunch of the free low-effort offers.

Blue Noodle does show up, but it will only show up if you run out of both SV and Gambit offers (since both of those offer providers pay more per video).

We'd like to track down the "not paying out" bug, and then we'll take a look; at least in theory the new system should make it possible for people to earn more free GC per day.

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Cash Tree Payouts
A number of users were running into problems with one or more of the networks; basically, it would tell them that they didn't have any available videos, but it would also not allow them to see any other videos. So, we've made some changes:

  • added buttons for V11 and Blue Noodle so that you can just pick which network you want to use
  • fixed problem with payout for Blue Noodle videos
  • fixed issue with daily limit for BN videos
  • fixed weird Gaia-within-Gaia error for some people

In general if you have access to all of the networks, you should be able to earn more now per day, but even if you don't have access to all the networks, you should be at least able to use the buttons to go to the video provider of your choice.

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Miscellaneous
- We've talked with V11 (formerly Gambit), and they have fixed some bugs that were causing their videos not to pay out. You might try it out and let us know if they seem to have fixed the issues; when they pay out, their videos pay out more for the user than the Blue Noodle videos.
- Our rockin' ops team has made some changes to our CDN, which means that (hopefully) the site should be responding more quickly for some of you. If you notice the site acting faster (or slower) in the next few days, please let us know in our feedback thread.

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Miscellaneous, Again
- the bad link in the recent dev notice was not a hack -- it was just an internal link that was inadvertently posted. Trying again to a) make sure it's fixed, and b) make sure people get the previous message.

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- We've talked with V11 (formerly Gambit), and they have fixed some bugs that were causing their videos not to pay out. You might try it out and let us know if they seem to have fixed the issues; when they pay out, their videos pay out more for the user than the Blue Noodle videos.
- Our rockin' ops team has made some changes to our CDN, which means that (hopefully) the site should be responding more quickly for some of you. If you notice the site acting faster (or slower) in the next few days, please let us know in our feedback thread.

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