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PostPosted: Sat Apr 20, 2019 10:54 am


April 16th, 2019:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Games: Lake Kindred

For about 2 months Lake Kindred has become unplayable in the browser Safari (for Mac). The game loads and everything seems fine until you hover over your kins in the “My Kins” tab and everything in the game become un-clickable.

I started a Games Bug thread HERE, and there are a handful of other people having this problem.


We will look into the Lake Kindred problem. Hopefully we will be able to fix it this week.


Lanzer
ElegantlyLuminous
Games / Lake Kindred

Will we be getting any new kin for either the coming update (woot woot!) or Easter? If not, as a small suggestion, perhaps we could re-enable the drops for [Kindred] Piopio. Temporarily, of course. gaia_bunny Might be fun for new LK players to find.


Not on Easter, but we are working on an update. Will let you know once we get closer to release.


Lanzer
MissJewelsOfChrist
Feature Games
will we ever get lake kinderd on moblie app?
(not lake kindred origin but actual lake kindred) so we can play it off desktop/ on the go mobile? it be nice to play when i cant go on real computers to earn more gold/plat and rigs 3nodding


We'll look into it. It's HTML5 so hopefully it's not too hard to put inside an app. Though we still have a lot more features to add to the Gaia app.
PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2019 12:59 pm


April 23rd, 2019:

Lanzer
2sammygate
games - kindred

can you change accuracy and resist amulets to a solid number rather than a percent? they're out of 100, and if the kin has a low value the percent doesn't increase much. ):


I will ask the team about this. We're in the middle of making more updates.


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PostPosted: Wed May 22, 2019 8:05 pm


May 7th, 2019:

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Lanzer
ElegantlyLuminous
Games / Lake Kindred

I know the capsules are a new feature (an interesting one) and I don't expect anything to be done right now. But from what I'm read in the official update thread, this change was done to make future updates easier. So, are changes from here on out going to be on a schedule or just random/based on feedback? Always nosy.

P.S. Lanzer, I hope your fingers and hand are feeling better!


We do have new updates in the works, though it's taking a bit longer than expected unfortunately. Hope to see it soon

Thanks for the info (and the coming updates)! Just wanted to clarify my question: I meant, are capsules going to be updated with different RIGs on a set schedule? It'd be a good way to re-release older items that people have been requesting. You know, if they're in preexisting RIGs. If you don't know right now, no worries! I know it's a new feature... just something that I was wondering about.

They'll be updated in the future, we don't yet have a set schedule but I can always double check with the team!
PostPosted: Fri May 24, 2019 8:11 pm


May 14th, 2019:

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Games : LakeKindred

Can you stabilize the Lake Kindred Capsule drop rate please ?

For me : they drops like there is no tomorrow . And I have talked to people who have not gotten a single drop at all . Even people who barely get them to drop at all . But they are dropping too often for me . I have over 300 already . So can you please fixed this ?


We will revisit the drop rate to see why there is such a difference reported


Lanzer
kdgalaxy
Games: Lake Kindred

Since February, when I click the My Kins tab (and hover over the pictures of kins at the bottom) the game freezes. This is only happening when I use my Mac with Safari. On my Mac and Chrome, it does not freeze. The game is still playable, as long as you don't need to use the My Kins tab. It seems when I try to play early in the morning (PST) it doesn't freeze. It might have to do with server traffic? When there are more people trying to play LK, it freezes? Because a hour or so later it will start to freeze again. I asked about it 4 weeks ago in the pre-ATS, and was told you hoped to have it fixed that week. Do you have an ETA on when that might be fixed? Thanks!

Bug Thread


Sorry I haven't been able to reproduce that bug, give it another shot tomorrow and try a different test account.


it amy
Castiel Lover
LK Rigs

Any chance of updating what drops from rigs like A Touch of EVERYTHING? I'm pretty sure I have 20 of everything possible, and I have 388 unopened rigs. sweatdrop It could really use a revamp to change out items in each color scheme.


Unfortunately, the chances of me changing the contents within those exact CIs are very low—it would be more efficient for me to just create brand new CIs/lists.


it amy
Hologram Style
Can we get something for Lake Kindred

I'm glad we've been able to have a couple new Kin this year already, but the capsules are the latest edition! We do have more plans for LK in the future


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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2019 4:13 pm


May 21st, 2019:

it amy
~Lovers Lost~
Items

I am unsure if it's been asked before, but is there going to be a way to get Narwheel kin now that the Narwheel is gone?


It is eligible for re-release, there isn't any current discussion for it to be re-released immediately at this time.
PostPosted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 8:43 pm


May 29th, 2019:

Lanzer
ElegantlyLuminous
Games / Lake Kindred

Any news on the coming update? (If not, no worries. I just like to check in once in a while.)
I'm certainly excited about it.


We planned a bigger update so it's taking longer than expected. It might ended up being a tie in with the Summer Event.


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 7:44 pm


June 26th, 2019:

Lanzer
Your Neglected Sex Toy
Games - Lake Kindred

As an avid Lake Kindred player and one who spends a lot of playtime in Fafnir's Peak I find myself to be stocked up with kins' egg which have no real use outside of the game. Me and other players find ourselves in situations where we're sitting on a pile of Rosepea, Flyvern and Vulcarus eggs and the only real options that we have as of now are either sell them back to the system for 0 platinum (!) or trash them. I don't count selling them on marketplace as these eggs are very easy to obtain in-game and there's little to no demand for them on the market. There used to be craftable items such as Rosepea Style, Flyvern Style and Vulcarus Style, but the recipes for them have been taken out of the game and honestly they're not that popular within the community anymore.
I would like to propose an alternate route of dealing with the eggs, similar to what we already have when we want to acquire an Elegant Chirpette egg. It is a must to exchange 100 Chirpette eggs in order to get 1 Elegant Chirpette egg. So why shouldn't we have a similar technique applied to Rosepea, Flyvern and Vulcarus and get one recolored kin egg for a hundred of standard eggs? Basically like this:
100 Rosepea eggs -> 1 recolored Rosepea egg, same for Flyvern and Vulcarus.

Benefits of such a change:
1. Exchanging 100 eggs into 1 egg would help with decluttering user's inventory from all the additional eggs that drop.
2. It would establish a better economy on the marketplace for the eggs, meaning more incentive to play in specific areas.
3. Collection value: new kins which you could add to your personal collections.
4. The procedure would involve another site's feature - Alchemy. We'd have to pay a small amount for a formula to create a recolored kin egg + a small fee for the alchemy procedure.
5. The Kins would come free (apart from the small fee of Alchemy/Bitfrost formulas) and would be obtained solely through playing the game (meaning more playtime required for the eggs).
6. Most importantly! the models and animations are already in the game. Thus the only treatments that this change would require would be to recolor the three kins and probably twitch their in-game statistics a bit so they differ from the standard Rosepea, Flyvern and Vulcarus.

I believe that 100 eggs is a fair amount of eggs required in order to obtain a 1 new egg, not too easy, not too hard. I'm focusing on Fafnir's Peak, because the area is the only one that has no real use for eggs outside of the game, but some users suggested they'd like to see a similar feature implemented in other areas (more recolored kins).

The suggestion was met with a positive feedback from the LK community (basing on a thread which I created in LK Forum) and a lot of people expressed their support for the idea both in the forums and in the poll provided.
(question: would it be a good change? 26 voted for 'yes', 0 for 'no', 11 for 'i don't know').


Thank you for the suggestions. We do have an update coming and we will look into what we can do, either before or after the update.
PostPosted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 9:03 pm


July 2nd, 2019:

Lanzer
DarkRybrin
Gaming - Lake Kindred

Many months ago, and I believe for the first time about a year ago, I spoke with staff in an ATS about changing a very frustrating aspect of Lake Kindred, since the fix was supposedly an easy one: Daily Chance Timers.

Summary: Daily Chance Timers, available from your equipped Kin at your Campsite, are automatically set to 23:59 when you claim the gift. This is extremely, massively inconvenient compared to how the rest of the timers are run on the site (the rest reset every day at the same time, super convenient and predictable.).

My Suggestion: In ATS a very long time ago, I suggested that either:
a. Timers be set to 22 or 20 hours so that you could adjust the time they came up, instead of always having to collect your dailies later and later, without feeling frustrated or missing drops.
b. Timers be set to the same clock as the rest of the site, resetting at Midnight PST every day.

Response: You said these things sounded easy enough, and you'd pass it along to the Kindred resource individual.

Seeing as LK is about to get updates, and has gotten some small quality of life ones, I want to gently and hopefully remind you that we spoke about this matter, and that I'm not alone in wanting to see this changed.


Sorry that seemed to have fell through the crack. I will work with Lionheart to make sure we'll make this change later this week.


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:22 pm


July 23rd, 2019:

Lanzer
Vah Nabooris
I've heard rumor of a new LK map. When's that gonna happen?


Summer event with new LK map and kins will be released in August. Sorry we don't have a solid date yet. sweatdrop
PostPosted: Tue Aug 13, 2019 3:04 pm


August 6th, 2019:

Lanzer
2sammygate
games - kindred

ever since about a week and a half ago, kindred no longer loads at all for some people on some devices. it just shows a black screen.
please undo whatever backend change caused this. ): i miss being able to play on my phone...


Updates are coming soon as well as ability to play LK in the mobile app. Hopefully things will start working for you again.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 19, 2019 3:09 pm


August 14th, 2019:

Lanzer
2sammygate
Lanzer
2sammygate
games - kindred

for the past 3 weeks or so, kindred has been blackscreening for certain people on certain devices. what this means is the game does not load at all. screenshot of dolphin on my iPhone (though none of my many browsers work, not even trying through the reddit app)

when i saw kindred was in the app now, i immediately updated only to be crushed by another blackscreen.

a few other people have been having this problem. what could possibly cause the game to not load at all?


We will need to run some debug when the problem is occuring to find out what the cause would be. Please open your browser's console log (if on desktop) and see if there are any errors in the error log. Otherwise we will need to reproduce it on our end to fix the issue. I will talk to Lionheart about this and see if he has any other ideas.

it only happens on my phone, so i don't have a console (works on all browsers on my computer). >< check the threads in the games bugs and event forums about it!

maybe undo whatever change you made 3 weeks ago? it happened instantly after that.

EDIT: https://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/lake-kindred-miasmal-summer/lake-kindred-still-blackscreens-on-phone-both-browser-app/t.106732845_51/#51
see the thread linked here


Lionheart thinks he know what the issue might be and will be making some changes soon. Thank you!


it amy
Auriga La Shock
Events:
Given the shenanigans that's happening with the summer event and drop rates, can we get an extension for the event?


The event is going on until September 2nd, and there's still more to be discovered. Once the other phases are released, it won't make the past phases disappear, so there will still be opportunities to participate in this first phase etc.
Lanzer
We should have made it clear that phase 2 and 3 are released on week 2 and week 3 of the event, so the current bugs should have no effect on the speed of completion. Please keep your kins in your inventory and the achievement will be triggered when it's fixed.


Lanzer
ElegantlyLuminous
Events -- Lake Miasmal

I have a couple questions, but I'll post them separately. (The new kin are adorable, by the way. I love Terra.)

For two of the achievements, we need to have 4 or 8 kin. Do all of these kin need to be gotten in-game or can we get them through the marketplace, trades, and gifting and still have them count for the achievements?


It should work regardless of where the kin was acquired. ninja


Lanzer
ElegantlyLuminous
Events -- Lake Miasmal

Similarly, in order to meet the 4 or 8 criteria, do all 4 or 8 kin need to be in our inventory at the same time or can we sell/trade/gift them and still have them count towards our totals?


There might have been a bug, please wait for a little bit and try again tonight.

It should work as long as you have the kins when you start LK


Lanzer
Twisted Lady
Event

Has the event been fixed to count activity done in LK Lite yet? I earned two eggs from that version before noticing that nothing seemed to be counting from it, and I'd hate it if those hours of work turned out to be pointless.

Related, could we get an official stat on the drop rate for the event kins? It seems to be pretty terrible for everything I've seen, like not even a 1% chance.


As long as you have the kins in your inventory it will definitely count. We will have the achievements fixed shortly after ATS.


Lanzer
ElegantlyLuminous
Events -- Lake Miasmal

Is this going to be another Gaia Labs where the kin eggs are only available during the event or will the eggs still be available afterwards?


The event kins will be here to stay, as well as the new area
PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 8:08 pm


August 20th, 2019:

Lanzer
What Happens At Night
Features

Would you consider hosting an event for creating a new LK based on user designs??


That could be the theme of one of our art contest. Not sure what the theme of the next LK event would be but we can potentially include contest winners if any entries fit within the theme.


Lanzer
glengrin
GAME/FEATURE

Summer Event

Phase 2 began but the screen to check off battled kin is not working so no way to collect the reward. Many of us have technically won it several times over, so I hope once that is working all kin are still showing fairly easily in battle.

I'm sorry, apparently there is a bug in counting how the new kins were marked, please try again in a few minutes and see if it updates correctly.


Lanzer
Leothalis the Sorcerer
Events/Games

So we just hit phase 2 on the LK event. Fine and fun. However, we're still being plagued by horribly low drop rates for kins, especially since they're required for achievements.
Now, while it was mentioned that there would be other methods to attain these kins come phase 3, we are still 6 days away from that, and there's no promise that this alternative way to obtain the kins will help with them existing - or rather, them NOT existing.
Will a noteworthy drop rate increase be reconsidered? As it stands, some users have reported 500+ kin battles without seeing a single egg, and some users have hit quadruple digits before seeing a single egg from p1/p2 kins.


Thanks for sharing your concern Leothalis, I'll check with the team to make sure the drop rates are and will be more reasonable.


Lanzer
sup-qt
Go Gaia mobile App

If we have feedback/suggestions where would be the best place to post these, still in SF, or on the app feedback page itself, or is there a specific thread somewhere?

Cause I dislike how LK is super zoomed in and I have to zoom it out myself so I can see the entire screen lol


We will implement some resolution detection and better resize LK on mobile. Can you tell me which phone are you using?


Lanzer
Vision Blurs
Events

So... A couple things, really. (I'm so sorry to complain, I really am...)

Checklists are broken again for the LK event. I've fought all the things I needed to on the second list, and none of them are appearing as marked. But also, my Phase 1 checklist has been completely cleared of previous marks.

On top of that... In the 3k+ stamina I have spent on the event with my kins, I have managed one egg drop -- and it wasn't even one of the event kins. It was a Willowcroak

Are there plans to fix this stuff soon? Coz I'm getting really discouraged with this event and the amount of bugs it's had since launch -- not to mention the fact that the information about how the event is/was supposed to play out hasn't really all been there since launch. It kinda sucks to be so discouraged by an event, coz I've been really looking forward to LK getting some much needed love.


Sorry the checkmarks should re-appear in 10 minutes.

The egg drops will significantly increase on Phase 3. I will check and see if we can increase it for phase 2 also.


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 9:16 pm


August 27th, 2019:

Lanzer
Pianette
Event
Just curious if the kin catch achievements are actually active? I've been at 7 caught for several days now and still have never seen a chance to claim the 4 kin achievement. With another way to get kins now it would be nice if those could be claimed :>


The achievement check should happen every time Lake Kindred is started. I will check right after ATS to make sure it's working right


Lanzer
Renji7
Games:
Lake Kindred, Is the Miasmal Lake area going to stay as it is or is it going to be another Gaia Lab's type area.... The new Kin and recolors rock. biggrin


Yes, the new area will be here to stay. It makes the most sense for us to keep the new area after the event, and leave the event prizes and achievements as the event-only elements.


Lanzer
What Happens At Night
Lake Kindred

I just want to thank you guys for doing an LK event. It really does mean a lot to the player base to see some new kin and have some new rigs. That being said some of the rigs seem to have items from other rigs in the game, is it possible to get a switch up on these items? Or maybe have some new drops from the rigs that are from other areas, like hell portals and what not.


You're welcome. We will look into updating the rigs soon.


Lanzer
Albern Puppy
Lake Kindred

Is there a way to stop the game from added reward points once a player reaches Level 100?
Kinda annoying seeing the number keep increasing, even though I'm maxed out.


Oh okay, I'll ask Lionheart about this.


Yuroppa
Galphath
EVENTS:

Hello could a "play again" button be added to the miasmal lake capsules please?
Yes!


Lanzer
DSDragon star
Games : Lake kindred

Are you going to improve the the egg drop rate where they are not so hard to get at Maismal lake ?


The new area will stay after the event is over, so there will be plenty of chances to get more eggs. I will ask about making things easier during the event.


Lanzer
ElegantlyLuminous
Events / Items -- Lake Miasmal

I'm super excited to see our new Sycamorte Seed variant, Eye of a Viperex. I was wondering: is this just going to have kin from the event or is it also going to include other things, like user kin recolors (except for Capture) and RIG exclusives?


We set things up mainly with the miasmal kins and event prizes, and the new boss does drop a new RIG called "Eye of Viperex". Do be on the look out for the Miasmal version of Viperex also.


Lanzer
Princess Kunzite
Lake Kindred

Currently playing Phase 3, and the checkmarks for Miasmal Leafkit and Miasmal Cubdrop aren't working, and I know I defeated well over three of them. Can this please be looked into and fixed? Thank you~ <3


I've just checked on the values. Let me check again and make sure things are working properly.


Lanzer
H3av3n
Features-Lake Kindred
Anyway to have a feature where we can choose to start a lvl with the same kin or not?


We will add that to the to-do list.


Lanzer
What Happens At Night
Lake Kindred

Adding levels past 100 that can't be gained through skill ups would be a really cool feature to have. You could even add rewards once people hit certain marks. It would be cool to see how high people get in LK! Maybe even have an achievement for people who hit 250, 500 and 1,000!


Cool idea!
PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 12:52 pm


September 10th, 2019:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Could you please add the ability to buy more than one potion each time? Would be nice to have bundles too~


We will look into having bundles or quantity purchasing for potions.


Lanzer
kdgalaxy
Games: Lake Kindred

First let me say thank you for removing the charge orbs from the kin drops! I was hoping you could also remove them from the little presents your team leaves for you every 24 hours?

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Thanks!


We should had removed the charge orbs a long time ago. sweatdrop I will look into removing it form the login rewards also.


Lanzer
Mystical Kitty Cat
Games
We were promised (a reply in ATS) an increase to egg drop rate in Miasmal Lake in Lake Kindred during the event once phase 3? of the event was released. Alot of us LK trainers feel we never got the increase for the event. Can we get an increase for all of em tonight for at least a week? (it'd be nice to see an increase to eyes too *wink*).


Looks like we didn't tweak it well enough. We will have another update this week where Miasmal Viperex will be added, and the drop rate will be adjusted up when we release the update.


it amy
Mystical Kitty Cat
Shops
Can we continue to see Kindred egg bundles brought to the CS Shop? (not Cloud 9 though since not everyone has access to it, please...) There was one bundle that was released this summer & all I can remember was it had watermelon slices on the pic. It had 5? eggs in the bundle. I missed out on it & wished it was brought back... These bundles give us a chance to catch all the kin we're missing from our collection. If you brought something like this, I'm sure people would be more inclined to snag more GC and spend it. wink


Of course! Bundles can always be brought back or just new ones can be made—we try and have each bundle have its own theme so kindred are bound to come back again.


Lanzer
ElegantlyLuminous
Games & Alchemy

Thank you again for this most recent event! Had a quick-ish question regarding drops.

While egg drops are still relatively low in Lake Miasmal, many of us found that Miasmal Chiclex was dropping more often than all the other kin. If this continues, could we possibly have an alchemy recipe that would enable us to exchange extra Miasmal Chiclexes* for Eye of Viperex or maybe a new Chiclex recolor?

*I have no idea what the plural of Chiclex is. Chiclexes? Chiclexi? Chicli? Is it just Chiclex in the same way that the plural of moose is moose?


That's definitely a possibility, we will also be doing some balancing once his week's LK update is released.


Lanzer
Mystical Kitty Cat
Games / Shops
I'm not sure what category this would go in, but can we ever expect to see kin related tickets to return in RIGs or in the CS? Kin capture tickets? would be nice too. So many people had dreams of their own kin or a recolor of kin. I know I can't afford a ticket, but I'd love to see em back. Fresh kineggs released in CS would mean more cash bought & spent for you guys don't you think its a good idea? razz


I will ask the sales team about this. For now we're still working on the LK update for this week.


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 20, 2019 8:23 pm


September 17th, 2019:

Lanzer
ElegantlyLuminous
Games / Lake Kindred

I wasn't sure if the update was delayed or if Miasmal Viperex is just super-rare, so...

Could we please get an announcement or staff notice when Miasmal Viperex gets added? You might be planning on doing this anyway, but I figured it didn't hurt to ask. Thanks either way! emotion_bigheart


Sorry there was a delay and I believe it was just released. I will check with the team and give a site notice with an update.
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