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PostPosted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 1:56 pm


October 1st, 2019:

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Features

When will we be able to trade Wing Stickers again? I ask because they are Soulbound again and we can't trade them anymore. I'd like to be able to send Wing Stickers to friends if I can help them out.


Unfortunately Wing Stickers were meant to be soul bound since day one. If you wish to help your friend, you can gift any items purchased by wing stickers.


Lanzer
OHIORABBIT
Games
Hello.

Question: How much gold/platinum does zOMG and LK really generate on the site, as a percentage to the overall generation?
Recently zOMG was capped very unfairly and has sparked outrage from the now exponentially dwindling zOMG community.
I heard a while back from someone that this was asked in a previous ATS which I cannot find, but they claimed that zOMG did not have much impact.
But due to recent events, I think it has become relevant and should be discussed once again, with newer revelations if possible.
Lanzer, please look at the petition and pleads from the zOMG community. Please do not leave loyal players of the game in the dark.
Threads by themselves:
Petition to Change zOMG Cap Limit
What sense does this make
In Regards to the Nerf which is broken rn btw
15k Plat Cap
For those who barely play and support the cap
Petition to overturn/change platinum cap

Thank you.


Last week at Dev Meat I was asked to implement the gold cap, but I forgot to raise the cap to a reasonable value. I will work on that right after ATS. Sorry about this.


Jak Bauer
kaorxi
Features:

Is there any way to access a backlog of pass trades with users? Or create a feature that allows us to do so?

thanks in advance


Hi there,

Not quite sure what it is you are asking. Could you please explain in a bit more detail?


it amy
xXRed Moon VampiressXx
Shops

How are items picked to go into Flynn's Plunder? All I see is mostly the invisibility cloak, but there are tons of other unlisted items that could fill the store up.


Flynn chooses between a some-thousand items to stock the store with, about 50-100 unique items go in at a time. Cloaks are just the ~item of the season~ that cycles in and out the most.
PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 4:03 pm


October 8th, 2019:

Lanzer
Almandaragal
Features: zOMG/Plat Caps

Why is it thought that 50k plat cap is okay in zOMG, which is about 10x or so the cap the rest of the site activity is limited to? Why is it considered okay to give the feature that already makes currency the fastest out of any on the site a cap that is exponentially higher than the rest of Gaia gets?

This basically destroys the point of any caps. zOMG should be in compliance the the same cap as the rest of the site, or you should raise the cap for other site activity to the "around 50k" that zOMG gets. Either you care about inflation, or you don't. Just be consistent/explain, please.


Sorry for the confusion relating to the zOMG gold cap amount is. zOMG uses a different gold granting system written many years ago, and all settings need to be managed separately.

We initially received report that the gold cap was not there, which is definitely not what we want, and so a cap was put in place, and since then we had made adjustments back and forth from both zOMG players and Gaians who don't play and don't wish for the game to grant as much gold. We are still balancing the payout along with Lake Kindred, where any adjustments on both features are a contentious issue.


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 26, 2019 8:15 pm


October 15th, 2019:

Lanzer
H3av3n
Features
Can we please have more than 50 selling slots for Marketplace?


Sorry for the wait. There should be a feature for increasing selling slots as well as out fit slots coming in the near future.


Lanzer
MoodieFoodie
Features

For the Marketplace, could we have a more specific way to exclude items when running a search? For example, exclude Special items, Game items or Paw base items.


We can add a few more filtering options to exclude special, game, and paw items.
PostPosted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:12 pm


October 22nd, 2019:

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Features

Could we maybe get a way to view the Marketplace wishlist data for others' wishlists like we can with our own in https://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/ ?

It would help a lot to be able to see how many listings and what the prices are for all of our friend's wishlist items instead of having to open each item page to actually look. Maybe a separate page where we input the ID of the user and the public items show up? Or just a button in their profiles' wishlist tab? Thank you


I can imagine an item where your friend's wishlists are aggregated in one place with marketplace info integrated. Will discuss this with the team for a potential feature.


Lanzer
Sinful Goth
Feature: Can we ever get an option to click items owned in the marketplace so they don't show up during your search?


We can add that as an option. Might be tricky for those with more than 50k items in their inventory but otherwise it should work.


Lanzer
Annortha
Question Category Features (marketplace)

I've recently encountered a marketplace error.

I had an item expire and it was never returned to my inventory. I tried many, many ways to search for it in my inventory. Used the old inventory, used the search function, clicked on the "all tab", and even tried using the item recovery. So far nothing is working, and I'm wondering how many other items disappeared that expired from the marketplace, either for me or anyone else. I also never received a PM stating that the item expired. It just magically disappeared. I filed a ticket already but I'm worried that it may be affecting other users.

Are staff aware of this, am I not the only one?


Thank you for reporting. Please PM me if there are any specific items that are missing form expired listing.


Lanzer
Galphath
FEATURE

thank you for fixing the arms pose bug on the dress up page, any chance that it could be implemented on the MP preview too so we can preview items without changing the arms to their default pose?


Did the marketplace preview used to preserve arm pose? We can look into it.


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 17, 2019 7:12 pm


November 5th, 2019:

Lanzer
bluecherry
Features/Items?
Has any progress been made on the planned system to recruit people specifically for approving tags on items (since mods are few and spread thin and long to train and thus having them approve item tags is very slow) and if so, how might one apply to do that?


The current setup had been slow and I want to actually open the process up to trusted Gaians to help with approval. Once I setup a good reward structure I'll make that available.


Lanzer
mayuralover
Features/Shops

Good afternoon! I hope all is well with the staff!

Is there any update on expanding search features to the shops? I brought this up several months ago, but I know it's a small issue compared to everything else. It would be nice to be able to search for items we have previously listed and/or bought, rather than relying on CTRL+F.
Oh! And perhaps increasing the number of items we can see per page?


I remember putting this on the to-do list, but please clarify on items previously listed and/or bought. Do you mean being able to search on items inside a store, and the same search would show items previously purchased from the same store besides current inventory? (I assume this is the shops and not marketplace, correct?)

[The asker replied and said they actually meant the Marketplace's Store Log. Lanzer didn't reply further.]

Lanzer
iPaul v2
Gaming/Marketplace

Sometimes on the marketplace, it says there is “1 “ item listed for some items ex) August 2004 letter at 200B
Will this glitch be resolved any time soon for all of MP? This can be misleading to those trying to list items or even searching for them. I understand this might be difficult but I am curious.
This can also cause the Average Buy Price to be Misleading


Hmm, looks like the search result from the search engine does not filter out sold items properly. Will have to fix that. It shouldn't affect average price as that grab statistics from another table.
PostPosted: Mon Nov 18, 2019 8:55 pm


November 12th, 2019:

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Items/Event

Are the Mythril Coins given to you by Fashion Fray event boxes supposed to be under a cap? I opened a 5000p coin from rank B, and was given 1p. It seems unfair that such a big reward be controlled by the daily cap.

Thank you for your time.


Mythril coins should not have anything to do with daily cap. We will check on it tonight and make sure that is not the case.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 25, 2019 8:27 pm


November 19th, 2019:

Lanzer
bluecherry
Features
Two weeks ago I asked about the volunteer tagging system: "Has any progress been made on the planned system to recruit people specifically for approving tags on items (since mods are few and spread thin and long to train and thus having them approve item tags is very slow) and if so, how might one apply to do that?"

Lanzer replied: "The current setup had been slow and I want to actually open the process up to trusted Gaians to help with approval. Once I setup a good reward structure I'll make that available."

To this I replied, but ran out of time to hear anything further: "A reward structure? I didn't even know there was planned to be any rewards involved. If it would make this any quicker to get put in place, I know I (and I'm sure plenty of others) would have no problem working on the tags prior to implementation of any rewards for doing so. "

Time ran out, so I didn't hear anything else after that. I just wanted to know if maybe, to get the system for volunteer tag approval implemented sooner, you could release it prior to the rewards system being finished and just add the rewards later.


True we can push that portion out sooner. I can release it earlier to collect feedback.
PostPosted: Sun Dec 08, 2019 5:26 pm


December 3rd, 2019:

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Shops
The 250,000 platinum mythrill coin still costs 3T (gold) but only sells for 2.5T (gold). Will that be fixed? will anyone who bought it be refunded?


The mythrill coin error should be fixed. We will run a script to refund the amount right after Christmas as we're right in the middle of working on the Christmas event.


Lanzer
Veerah
Marketplace listing expiration bug

Myself, and others, have items disappearing from our inventory when a listing expires. Any idea when this will be fixed? It makes me hesitant to list items.


If you have any specific items that disappeared, please provide with the item expiration date and the actual item itself (name or item id) and I can help look into it. Sorry for the trouble.


Lanzer
mayuralover
Marketplace

*waves again* A few weeks ago, I asked about adding a search engine to the store log of the Marketplace. I replied to Lanzer's last question, but ATS ran out of time for a response. I'm going to put my response again just in case! I hope this clarifies what I mean by the store log and where I would like to see an expanded search.

Quote:
I remember putting this on the to-do list, but please clarify on items previously listed and/or bought. Do you mean being able to search on items inside a store, and the same search would show items previously purchased from the same store besides current inventory? (I assume this is the shops and not marketplace, correct?)

>>I mean the vendlog in the Marketplace! I would like to be able to search within this log itself to find a particular item I have bought or listed.
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Thank you for the additional info. I've updated the to-do list. It's definitely something we can add, though probably not until after the Christmas event.


Lanzer
Haji Demon
Question Category: Event-Bugs

I raised a question about the platinum grant in Fashion Frey just giving me 50 gold. Has there been an update on the situation? I am waiting to know if its safe to open them now without losing any money


Can you let me know when you opened the item? We had checked and verified that it was working properly. I can look at the log and see what might have happened.


Yuroppa
Orchid Dreams
Features - Flynn's

Thank you for releasing the cloaks somewhere besides Flynn's But that being said, will we still see some updates to Flynn's store? I and others enjoyed seeing items we couldn't get through traditional means or lack listings being released through there and trying for them.

Thank you again.
Yes! We have every intention of keeping Flynn's updated.


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 12:14 pm


December 10th, 2019:

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Feature suggestion: Marketplace, Sell An Item.

Would it be possible to add a filter for items that have no MP listings, much like the one that filtered Halloween event items?


Yes we can build a filter to sort or filter out items that have no listings in the MP. Will take some time to implement as we'll need to build a task to keep track of all item ids that have listings and which ones don't. We will add it to the to-do list.


Lanzer
EternalAnge
Features

The symbols from Fashion Fray and the Fashion Fray search option in the Marketplace are still up, even though the event has ended over a month ago. Can you remove them ASAP? Please and thank you!


We actually have plans to expand Fashion Fray after the event, though currently we're quite busy with the Christmas event. We can hide the graphics until the game makes a come back.


Lanzer
Strawbaerry
Features

Where is that Flynn's Plunder update hiding?


We're working on it, sorry for the delay.
PostPosted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 7:04 pm


December 23rd, 2019:

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Features

The "wishlist" page seems broken. I tried to remove items I owned using the "Delete all items you already own" checkbox at the end of the page, however they were still there after I "saved all changes".

Choosing "trash" in the dropdown and "save all changes" do works thought.

Can you fix it so we don't have to manually go through every item?

Sidenote: Directly on the marketplace detail page of an item, removing them from the wishlist works well.


We will check out the wishlist feature and fix the bugs mentioned right after the Christmas event.

Quote:
Features

can you change the Market place wish list so that it displays "lowest buy now" instead of avg? it is NEVER the avg. its like 2,6,10 times more than that. which makes it pointless. either change or remove it.


We will look into including the lowest buy now price in the marketplace wishlist.


Lanzer
The Immortal Prince
Features

Any chance you could add an option to the market to only display items we already own? This would give us an easy way to view our items sorted by value, since market results already have that functionality built in. An option to only see items we don't already own would be nice as well.


We can have filters for filtering out or displaying items you own.


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:45 pm


December 30th, 2019:

Lanzer
Arjoko
Features

Any updates to the outfit shop anytime soon? Would be nice to be able to search specific items or color schemes or even just separate paw and human base.


I'll add the search feature to the todo list. We will have the filter option coming soon.
PostPosted: Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:31 pm


January 7th, 2020:

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Features (Marketplace)

So I've been setting auctions for years. Ever since platinum currency was introduced, people who use gold currency are abusing it by placing the amount less than 1 plat (10 million gold) such as 100 or 1 gold.

Recently I tried implementing bid increment to 1 plat, hoping it will make it easier and fairer to those who use plat. However, even with the bid increment, people with gold currency are abusing it by adding a bit more to the bid increment.

I understand that we will get rid of the gold currency completely in the future, but can we find a way to make it fair for those who are using plat in the auction for the time being? The only way the people using plat know they get outbid is when they see someone's name change as highest bidder despite bidding "same amount."


We will make an update to marketplace so the minimum bid is at least one platinum for auctions above a certain price.

Quote:
Features

I want to suggest a feature for searching the MP: ability to filter items that are in my inventory. (AKA, search only shows items in my inventory, or search only shows items not in my inventory ) . Is this reasonable or too much of a database ******** to bother with?


The "items in my inventory (or not)" filter should work fine for those who have less than 20,000 items. Figuring out how to make it work with larger inventory will be a challenge but definitely can be done. It's on our todo list.


Lanzer
COFFlNS
features:
are we still going to get an upgrade to the mp where we can cancel multiple listings in our store at once?


I think that is also on the to-do list. We got a couple of bugs that need to be fixed, but there should be some MP updates right after. We'll see if that will make it to the next update.


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 6:39 pm


January 14th, 2020:

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Marketplace

Can we get a feature to BLOCK certain users from purchasing from individuals stores.
Giving the seller the ability to prevent those that are actively manipulating and hyper inflating the prices in the marketplace from purchasing from that users store..
I am frustrated in seeing users that have 10, 20+ mules with the sole purpose of manipulating prices in the marketplace for their personal gain.


We can potentially add the ignore list function to marketplace stores. We will also look into any functions that can help curb any efforts of individuals manipulating prices.
PostPosted: Sun Feb 02, 2020 1:44 pm


January 21st, 2020:

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Shops - Marketplace

Would it be possible to add the -Gift- option to the Marketplace?

It would be really helpful to be able to purchase gifts for people in the Marketplace the same way you can in the Gold Shops and in the Cash shops.


Yes we'll add this to the to-do list. Will have to run this through with the mod team to ensure that it cannot be abused by hackers and what not.

Quote:
Marketplace

https://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/itemsearch/?sortBy=81

Tried to find items with a minimum or maximum of 10,000,000 plat or more. I want to be able to see if there are any items in my inventory that are inflated in the MP. This error started occurring after the gc ratio in the MP was changed a few days ago.
Database Error
Cannot contact the search database to provide item count, please try again

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0


We will look into the bug and have it fixed this week.


Lanzer
II Blue Duck II
Games

Will games (Lake Kindred and zOMG) ever be calibrated to reward players with rewards that actually help them on Gaia? The rewards are so low, it's hardly worth the time.

Thank you for all your hard work!


We'll bump up reward after I make some monitoring on gold generation on Gaia.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 5:28 pm


January 28th, 2020:

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Hi, Ask the staff is for me in the middle of the night and I can't stay up that long so I wanted to ask my question here. It's about the jigsaw game.
I have been around and away on this site for ages and I always loved the jigsaw puzzles. But now with the new economy system the payout for an Insane puzzle (or any puzzle really) is insanely low. I would love it if you guys would balance the prize money to the new economy.


We have not updated payout for Jigsaw for a long time, we can check and see how we can up the payout this week.


Jak Bauer
Strawbaerry
Items

Who do i need to contact about a missing item that was not returned to my inventory after it was deemed an "Expired Listing" on the MP?


Hi there,

What item and when did it expire?
Lanzer
I've been trying to hunt down any expired listing issues. Please PM me the item name and I can look into it.


Jak Bauer
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Jak Bauer
Gentlemanly Swindler
Features?

To be clear I am NOT asking for a resolution of my specific MP ban, this question is about the process that triggers it for any user.

I recently returned to Gaia and wanted to support, heard y'all have been in a tight spot.
Last week while I was going for an angel subscription and buying GC I was insta-banned for suspicious activity. I unsubscribed from angel, didn't fix it.

I'm afraid if I/when I do get my trading pass/MP privileges back that making any transactions will ban me again. Is it safe to donate/buy GC and if so what's the limit before we get banned?


Hi there,

I checked and it looks like your trading pass was re-enabled.

One minute before you posted, I just got the e-mail at 4:38 saying I got it back! I'm guessing someone on staff saw this post, and I appreciate it!

My question was is it safe to buy GC/subscribe to angel or will I get a ban EVERY time I make a transaction? It seemed to be something automated and im afraid to make a purchase again. I've seen other people have the same problem in the Q&A forum, and they went several weeks without resolution. I'm afraid of that.


Hi there,

It should be safe, it happened because the system was trying to protect you from possible fraud until we could check to make sure you actually made the purchase. Hopefully it shouldn't happen again but if you make purchases which seem a bit odd the system may flag you again until it learns your purchase style.


Lanzer
Sinister Charity
platinum / cap

i know plat has a couple soft caps - posting, profile comments, and i believe polls
which is fine, i think having a soft cap is good!

however, i think each game should have its own soft cap as well.
because if youre globally capped, there is literally NO reason to play ANY game.
especially on platinum.

LK on platinum is useless, everyone has to switch back to gold to earn anything
and the flash games i doubt have been updated in like a decade to fit anything

i think while the global cap is otherwise fine
each game should have its own soft cap, especially when you remake the games
because itll actually be an incentive to play because you can earn
and because itll have a soft cap like posting in forums, you can still earn without going super crazy with it.

otherwise when you re-create the games or re-launch them, theyll have short winded hype cuz people cant bloody earn anything.
if we are putting our time and effort into a game, we should get something.
so please, let gaming have their own soft cap on plat.
instead of falling under global.
including LK


Thank you for the suggestion. I'll look into how we can split the daily cap so that rewards from games are still meaningful even after platinum is earned from posting.
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