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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:35 pm
February 21st, 2017:

Lanzer
Pianette
Features- Runway
Themes

Could the Runway forum get a thread where users could suggest themes to be taken out of rotation for a while since they're getting stale? Like REALLY REALLY STALE. Maybe it could be held to a vote as well so themes aren't taken out unfairly/before they've been fully explored.


We're in the middle of making it so that mods can help manage new themes. Sorry for the wait.
 
PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:08 pm
February 28th, 2017:

Lanzer
The Dread Wolf
Features -- Runway

The runway is still desperately in need of new themes. sweatdrop
How is the quest for enabling it so mods can input themes?

btw....the other day we had the theme of orignal characters, which was a themes that we have not seen in a long time. the participation was super high! it would be great to get new themes so we could have a continued higher participation in the runway and more energy and happiness in regards to the runway feature! whee


We're putting together mods to help handle this, now that the engineering side is done. Hopefully we'll see new themes next week!
 


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 15, 2017 9:48 pm
March 14th, 2017:

Zero Omega
The Dread Wolf
Features
When will Runway stop being the cheater's ATM?

[this exact question was also asked by several other users who clearly planned this]

Do you call each other and coordinate on what you're going to wear?

But seriously, we know there are still issues we have to work out and we haven't forgotten about it. We plan on coming up with something that will help mitigate the problem further, but currently don't have an ETA.


Narumi Misuhara
Pianette
Features-Runway
Daily Voting

Now that we have a site-wide daily stamp that resets if you miss a day, would it be possible to have the Runway's stamp system be like that as well?


We're open to it, is there a petition?


Narumi Misuhara
Lovely_pan
Features
I really appreciate that some of the cheating has been looked into when it comes to runway. Do you plan to implement a more permanent solution to the cheating that sometimes occurs?

There have been so many great changes(new themes for runway, return of zOMG) made to Gaia. It has been a real treat these last few weeks. Thank you! biggrin


We'll be adding additional tools that will make it much easier for staff and moderators to catch these things as they're occurring and handle accordingly. smile
 
PostPosted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 10:01 pm
March 21st, 2017:

Narumi Misuhara
waterkat33
items
Can we change the Runway Voting Reward? The market is currently over saturated with Chirpette's and Ally Plus Potions - it would be nice if we could get a new bundle that has maybe 5 potions and a different kin?


We can poke the right peeps for this smile
 


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:32 pm
March 28th, 2017:

Zero Omega
Lya Ness
Art

Art Arenas

Do mythical creatures count under cosplay avatars?

Maybe if the mythical creature is from something you could cosplay from?
Lanzer
if it's based on a story, then technically yes. Though most people are used to seeing cosplay with characters that they've visually seen from TV, Movies, or comics.


Lanzer
Urano Metoria
Arenas

Is it possible to fix searching up arena entries ?
Arenas is really buggy and it would be nice for it to be fixed : )


It's on my to-do list. Shouldn't be hard to fix the search.


Narumi Misuhara
MrTwinklehead
Features - Runway

Would it be possible to add a feature to allow one to choose which way you're facing?

So many items change depending on which way your avatar is facing, so having the runway only allow one direction is actually kinda limiting. Doesn't help too much either that we can't even see these changes until after we've saved into them due to how the dressroom doesn't have that function as well.


I'm not sure I fully understand. The Runway saves your avatar based on how it is right when you hit the submit button. So if you are crouching or turned around, that should be the way the image gets saved. Are you saying this is not the case?
[A couple different users explained that what was meant was left/right, not front/back, but no Staff member replied to that.]

Narumi Misuhara
Amai_Neiko
Features:Runway

Question:

Is there any way to add a link in the museum that will take us to the page we have placed on?

It's really difficult when there's 20+ pages and you have to go through every page trying to find where you ended up especially since votes aren't shown its hard to see where you'd be in comparison. I've gone through page after page and have either given up or realized I've skipped myself early on. A link that takes you directly to the page you placed on would save everyone so much grief wondering how they measured up. xd


This is doable. I"ll add it to our list.
 
PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 11:24 pm
April 12th, 2017:

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Quote:
Features:

Might it be possible to be also able to favourite avatars we see in the Runway, and not just in forums?
I love a lot of avatars I see on there, more so than forums, though maybe that could be because there are Themes set for entering XD

Yes, we can look into doing that.


Zero Omega
Arowan
Features Gaia Runway

With the recent anti-cheating measures implemented, have Admin noticed a change in cheating rates lately? It seems much better lately from my end as a regular user, but I'm curious to know how staff are interpreting the results 3nodding

We have definitely noticed a drop in users using mules to vote on their own avatars and other methods of cheating. It's not a perfect solution, but for now I think has helped and allows us to address Gaians who are concerned about cheating in Runway.
 


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PostPosted: Sat May 27, 2017 12:37 am
May 24th, 2017:

Narumi Misuhara
Dogoda
Features

Remember all of those explicit avatars from the seven deadly sins runway contest and how Narumi needed eye bleach because of how raunchy it was... I was told that you were going to look into a report avatar function for runway because of this, any update on that? I would be nice to be able to report explicit avatars and avatars spamming the runways for not following the theme.


A direct report system no, I did add the ability for "live" moderation of contests so Admins and mods can see and remove entries in a running contest. I do plan to go back and add in a reporting system for you guys.
 
PostPosted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 9:42 pm
June 13th, 2017:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Games:
Since the "Runway" has been moved under the "games" category, it's been available only in the "dropdown menu". Is it possible to add a link to it directly in the "games" page too here: http://www.gaiaonline.com/games/

Should be easy enough to add!
 


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PostPosted: Sun Jul 09, 2017 5:18 pm
July 5th, 2017:

Lanzer
Serafiella
Games

Can we get a Runway icon on the main Games landing? It's only in the drop-down at the moment.


Let me ask the art team for an icon


Lanzer
Pianette
Features- Runway
Since the update to the new captcha system, captchas haven't been appearing at all while voting,
Which, while it's nice not to have to deal with in every 20 votes anymore,
Is frustrating when you can't vote because you have to make a post on the forums.
tldr
Can a captcha be added back to the Runway vote pages again?


Sounds like a bug, I'll get it fixed ASAP.
 
PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 7:27 pm
July 25th, 2017:

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Features?

In Customize Avatar, is there any way that the Runway Voting Stage could be added as one of the backdrop options? A lot of us make avatars just for it and often what looks good against the white lack of backdrop doesn't look so good against the darkness in Runway and it would be nice to be able to see how it looks at that stage, in order to truly put our best foot forward with showcasing our avatar-making skills.

It's something that could possibly and we'll see about it, but it'll be a low priority fix.


Zero Omega
Canicuss
Runway Cheating

First I want to say I do appreciate that Gaia has made an effort to curb cheating in Runway and I know the mods have put a lot of time into monitoring the Runway on a daily basis.

My concern is it seems some people have found ways around the measures that have been put into place. There seems to be some people that win a lot. One of them has placed in the top three 13 times in a little over a month and one of those was with a duplicate avatar they had already won with. We seem to be experiencing a lot of the same problems we did before. I don't know if you are able to do anything about these questionable wins but I felt the need to bring it up because there seems to be a lot of chatter and grumbling about cheating again and a lot of frustration and it really takes a lot of fun out of the feature if you don't feel like you're playing by the same rules as everyone else.

There's still a lot about Runway we're looking into and want to still implement to help stop as much cheating as possible. Sorry I don't have anything definitive right now, but we are hearing you out.


Jak Bauer
jenru
Arena

When entering the arena, you're supposed to use photobucket for reference pics on cosplay.
With the change in photobucket, what will be used?


Hi there,

We just put out a Staff Notice on this very topic!

[Actually, they didn't. The Staff Notice in question is about the closing of Photobucket, but has nothing to do with the Avatar Arena. -Platonix]
 


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:23 am
August 8th, 2017:

Lanzer
Pianette
Heya staff

Features- Runway
Captcha :/

A few weeks ago I asked about having the captcha being able to appear during runway voting again--
Since it had, since the switch, disappeared from the page, preventing voting if one hadn't been filled in.
And I had gotten a positive response (that I would pull but mobile), but nothing happened.
So
Could the captcha be readded to the Runway pages so people don't have to run off and make a post on order to vote?


That should have been fixed. Let me have a look at it tonight. Sorry for the wait.
 
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 10:58 pm
August 15th, 2017:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Features - Runway (rewards)
All the old gold rewards now displaying in platinum are listed at 1plat each - will this be fixed to reflect a person's ranking?
ex: 1st place gets 100plat - 10th place gets 10 plat

Prize Breakdown
Place Platinum
1st: 1
2nd: 1
3rd: 1
4th: 1
5th: 1
6th: 1
7th: 1
8th: 1
9th: 1
10th: 1

There are many little things we need to fix, we'll have it fixed ASAP
 


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 31, 2017 12:04 am
August 29th, 2017:

Lanzer
Tsuki_Kirkland
Features

Is there any way to fix up voting in the arenas. There's apparently problems still with mass downvoting in the cosplay and something should be done as the cosplay part of that feature seems to be dying.


Don't know if I can put time on it this week but I'll add that to the todo list.
 
PostPosted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 11:11 pm
September 12th, 2017:

Lanzer
StarIore
Features

Could Gaia please add an option to Gaia Runway that allows users to change or clear a submitted entry before the deadline? I wouldn't mind paying the entry fee again if I was given the power to delete/alter an entry.


I'll look into that.
 


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 04, 2017 8:56 pm
October 3rd, 2017:

Lanzer
alethea_angel
Runway

When, if ever, will the infamous First of the Month Glitch in Runway be addressed? This glitch causes doppelganger entries by not logging entries, takes users gold and Gcash due to these re-entries, and will not allow users to see their vote count. This happens EVERY SINGLE MONTH. I know Runway is not a priority for Gaia, but many, MANY users participate in this daily, and Gaia has ignored this problem since it first appeared.


Narumi had been busy fixing the bugs from the subscription system right now, he had tried multiple times but didn't seem to fix it. Perhaps I should step in and have a look later.
 
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