There is an issue with Lowest Buy Prices being inaccurate (not reflecting the actual lowest listing). Some items show a listing available when there is none -- like a ghost listing. This could definitely cause issues with "mispricing" an item, when a seller is unaware of its actual Market Price, and goes by the "lowest buy price" in the pop-up window when selling their item.
So far, I have only seen one thread related to this in the Bug & Glitch forum: here
Is there any way to fix this issue?
Thank you very much for your hard work!
Thanks for bringing this up. It's a known issue we're currently looking into.
Narumi Misuhara
Nanzzy-chan
Features Any updates on increasing the wishlist cap?
None at this time.
Narumi Misuhara
BlGBANG
Shops - Specifically Marketplace (Auctions)
Are there any plans to update the Auction system, specifically with regards to bidding? I am unable to bid no more than 1 gold at a time without receiving the message "Invalid Bid amount", it is difficult to bid, during the last few minutes without constantly updating and adding measly 1 gold.
No updates planned at the moment. This is due to the seller setting a bid amount of 1 gold. :/
bluealaris
Nenanah
Features
Can the amount of gold earned by shaking tress, rocks, and bushes from either towns be increased?
Question is originally by ( Nenanah )
We are looking into increasing gold payouts for our Flash space interactions as well as potential item drops.
Narumi Misuhara
Nenanah
Shops
Outfit shop - are there any plans for this feature? For example, if my avatar is human, I cannot see how the outfit would look on my paw avatar and vice versa. In the marketplace, the base is adjusted automatically as needed. Will there be a chance to filter the outfit shop, the paw outfits are greatly outnumbered by human outfits and being able to display only paw outfits would be great. And maybe a warning could be added, like in the marketplace, that the price is much higher than the outfit is worth - it is hard not to see, but a warning would make it a bit more safe.
All in all - the Outfit shop would use some TLC.
Question is originally by ( AishiSo )
There were no plans but this should be looked at, I'll bring it up to the team for review.
Zero Omega
Niccolo Ammaniti
features Attn staff: I donated a prestigious mimzy to Flynn and I have yet to see it in the shop. Why?
Not every Flynn donation might make it into her shop. xd
Narumi Misuhara
avarcoe1
Question Category Shops/Marketplace
Question: There are some weird things going on with the Marketplace and listings. Basically, it lists a higher or lower price on the search page, than is the actual lowest price. It is being replicated in the Notices on the My Gaia page - with notices for items that have no listings or at vastly different prices. (And these are items that have not been sold in the time between the notice and going to the item in the marketplace.) There are occasionally items listed for sale but are already off the market (having been sold or expired) - when you click to buy, it gives you an error. I know some of this has been looked at over the past few months, but it still seems to be happening. Is there a way to fix this? It makes buying and selling a bit complicated sometimes...thank you!
Finally, I really enjoyed the Christmas items this year - thank you to the artists!
Yeah these are known issues currently be addressed by the team.
Narumi Misuhara
Diosu
Feature
Can we please get a total worth page for our items? It could show how much you are currently worth, and also list every item you have with prices (average buy price and lowest market price) next to them. This would be very handy since looking up each item one at a time takes a long time.
Not sure about a dedicated page but at least your "value" could be displayed on the inventory page.
Narumi Misuhara
Shilshadu
FEATURES!
ok so last week i asked about being able to bold items in the mp so that we could tell off the bat if we had a certain items without having to click through listings.
you stated that it would get costly...
Narumi Misuhara
Though this is a good idea, I'm not confident in the feasibility of it because to do this would mean we would need to load your inventory to view the marketplace. That operation would get costly very quickly.
so my question is this:
Does the mp not do something similar when we look at an item in mp and it tells us if we have the item ( and if we do it tells us how many)? -curious- and further, what did you mean by costly? In what way would it be costly?
It does however when you are looking at a specific item it only does this once. To implements as suggested it would need to check over the inventory for each item. This is costly in the sense of reading and iterating through the data from the server. One person, no big deal, but a bunch of people all looking at the marketplace and for each of them it's doing this becomes expensive to the system.
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2015 9:40 pm
February 23rd, 2015:
Finni
Nanzzy-chan
Items Re-releases of Angelic Furniture, beds in particular, still very much needed, plz send help, mayday mayday gonk
I'll pass on the request. heart
While you wait for Angelic Furniture re-releases, please enjoy this bunny assisting its owner in some spring cleaning. 4laugh
Narumi Misuhara
Happy _Tropical_Flower
Features/Games
Hello Gaia Staff!
I have a question/request.
Please consider raising the Booty Grab cap. It would be a lot better if Booty Grab were capped at 10 million gold to 20 million gold or maybe even a higher cap amount. My argument for this is several reasons. Seeing how you could just buy a Cash Shop item and sell it on the marketplace for billions of gold beyond what the Booty Grab cap is now is one reason. You can also get around 30 million gold in a pink link compared what the Booty Grab cap is now. You can also sell a crafted GoFushion item in the marketplace and get hundreds of thousands of gold to billions of gold from the item compared to the current Booty Grab cap. Some past event items also sell for more than 5 million gold in the marketplace as well. You can also sell your Charms to make more than 5 million gold because each Charm goes for more than 5 million gold in the marketplace. The inks you get from the Daily Chance, depending on which ones, sell for more than 5 million gold in the marketplace. Some fish from the Fishing game sell for more than 5 million gold in the marketplace. And some Alchemy ingredients sometimes sell for more than 5 million gold.
After all these given reasons, would you please at least think about raising the Booty Grab cap? If not, then please explain to us why capping Booty Grab at 5 million gold is a safe bet for everybody. I'm curious for your reasoning of keeping the Booty Grab cap at 5 million gold.
Thank you! C:
Done.
Narumi Misuhara
Nenanah
Games
I was playing the Pinball game and well the payouts are very low. Like I won a whopping 8 gold total one round, (yes I know I suck at the game but that's not the point.) Would you please consider increasing the gold payouts to this game so that it's worth playing again?
Question is originally asked by Nenanah
I don't know specifically for Pinball, but I know some of the games we can't simply because they are so old they would require a rewrite.
Finni
~ Aki - Fairy ~
Items/Shops – tags/item descriptions
I’ve been compiling a list of [Animal] items that have tagging issues and/or wrong descriptions (and also ones with problems with the little paw icon) and was hoping some of them could perhaps be fixed..
Description Errors
[Animal] Buche de Noel Social has the Strawberry Social description [Animal] Coffee Social has the Californian Social description -the human equivalents are fine-
[Animal] Tag Errors
North Star Penguin – doesn’t have penguin in the tags Furmiliar Comfurt – has ‘fumiliar’ rather than ‘furmiliar’ Prefurable Furmilliar Comfurt – there’s an extra ‘l’ in ‘furmiliar’ than the other two versions have, also has ‘fumiliar’ instead of ‘furmiliar’ A Little Devilish/Diabolical/Fiendish/Beastly – ‘little’ is a broken tag so it’s hard to find them without knowing the individual names; perhaps an alternative would be to do ‘alittle’? First Day Fashion – none of the name is included in the tags Very Odd – doesn’t have ‘odd’ in the tags; also, ‘very’ is another broken tag Widow/Ribbon Spinner – don’t have ‘spinner’ in the tags; would be kind of nice to have ‘biter’ in their tags as well so that all the spider skins can be pulled up in one go
Broken Tag Words
Very, Under, Little, Nobody, and Wonder all seem to be broken words that, even if included in an item’s tags don’t pull anything up
Paw Icon Errors – all items are [Animal], obviously
No Icon: - Towny Hat - Pretty Paws Transform (all three) - Inquisitive Teal Eyes - Chicken Wing Nom Boundary/Frontier Scout – no icon on the mouths Deep Rose Swirl Ponytail – the icon’s in the center of the item instead of the corner
Please make a thread in SF with this information and quote myself and our resident paw artist Neko! We'll be able to look into it further after AtS (which is rather hectic!) Thanks.
Zero Omega
Castiel Lover
Events
How about that itemsink kickstarter? And closing all of the goldshops for price revamps during it?
Just think about it.. Sinking 5000 items for a chance at a ticket. How lovely our trimmed inventories would be~!
No updates at this time on either fronts! Sorry about that!
Narumi Misuhara
Livixis
Features
Hello! Would you guys consider making something so that we can track our gold revenue? The closest thing we really have is our store log, and that's only for the market. Would it be too much trouble? emotion_kirakira
It's possible, but not necessarily a feasible system to have in place. I can say at this time we would not consider putting it in.
bluealaris
Aurora De Staria
Items
Is there any chance that the Golden Lucky Spin items will ever return for another brief period?
Thank you so much again for raising the Booty Grab cap! All of the aquarium community is really loving it! I am curious though... Since in the Staff Update announcing that the Booty Grab cap has been raised, Narumi Misuhara did not say what the new Booty Grab cap was. I was wondering if you can tell us what the new Booty Grab cap is. Someone has gotten over 30 million gold from playing Booty Grab in a day and was still not capped yet. We are really curious what the new Booty Grab cap is since it may be an amount you cannot earn in an entire day of playing Booty Grab! : O
Thank you! C:
Definitely higher smile
Narumi Misuhara
Memoirii
Features
Is it possible to create a feature that would automatically compare the gold amounts of 'bought vs. sold' as in a profit calculator in the marketplace? In other words, it would be like the existing store log but it would compare the totals we spent versus how much we gained including tax ?
This is doable but can't say something we would likely get in place soon.
Narumi Misuhara
Ziporae
Features
I was wondering if it would be possible to add items to my Wishlist directly from the Customize Avatar page? Maybe it could be added in the dropdown under "Remove"? I like to create my dream avatars there and think this would be very helpful!
Interesting idea, we'll take a look at this as a possible future update.
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2015 4:58 am
March 9th, 2015:
bluealaris
Happy _Tropical_Flower
Features
Are there any plans to update the Overseer and the Aquarium Lucky Chest in Aquariums? The Overseer could really use an update because the gold it gives out is barely anything in the current Gaia economy these days and minus the gift boxes it gives, some of the items it gives out need to be refreshed. Plus an update of the items in the Aquarium Lucky Chest would be awesome! An update to the Overseer would be awesome as well!
Thank you! C:
I think we can do some updates to both of these features in terms of payout, thanks for the suggestions!
milkbun
The Iron Magus
Items There's a problem with the Ash Face April Fool's day item. It only has the tags from its original joke name, Phoenix Up! Which means you can't find if if you search for it by the item's real name.
Can you update the tags?
Considering Diedrich's birthday is coming up, you ought to make it easier for his fans to find the item that tells of his origin. xp
The tags have been updated. Thanks for letting us know.
bluealaris
Ramjobs
bluealaris
Nenanah
Items
Okay Gaia, we need to talk about your Pokemon themed items.
Pokemon is a very popular series among Gaians, so making some items based on it is a no brainer. However, the current way you're distributing them is broken. A majority of them you've sold through the Cash Shop, which I (and others) could live with if it weren't for the fact that you charge so much for them and have so few made available.
Let's look at one of your most recent releases, Synchronous Moonlight, which you sold at 799 GCash ($7.99 USD) and made 799 of them available. They sold out before the announcement of their availability was made. Naturally, the next day a recolor (Bold Synchronous Moonlight) was made available. Fine, except for the fact that you sold them for 999 GCash ($9.99 USD) each and made the number available exactly the same as the original item, even though there's a clear massive demand for the item, so it sold out as fast, if not faster.
Likewise with Tower Haunt, you put up 799 of them for sale at 799 GCash ($7.99 USD) each, and it sold out quite fast. The next day you released a recolor (Cursed Tower Haunt), and sold it at the same price as the original, but instead only made 699 available.
Similarly, with RIGs and CIs that include Pokemon themed items, the Pokemon themed items are among the rarest of the grants.
This is just insane. You're making it so that only the most dedicated, richest Gaians can have items based on this hugely popular, beloved series. And that just isn't fair.
Feedback is originally by "soren_alenko".
Thank you for feedback Soren, the purpose of LQIs is to ensure users a set that has a limited quantity, guaranteeing rarity and collectibility. Releasing items that sell out very quickly is very rare but not our intended purpose. Suggestions for limited time LQTs as opposed to quantity are being considered, and may be used in the future, so long as the rules are carefully outlined. The items can be re-released after 6 months, so users that are patient and really desire an item can get another chance at it.
That's a poor excuse though. There's absolutely no reason why Gaia couldn't stick a few of these highly desired items into Loyal's so that users that can't afford to spend so much money in the cash shop may have a chance at owning one. It's that kind of could shouldering that's causing a lot of your long-time users to quit Gaia. You need to hold a meeting about getting your sense of community back. :/
We have and will continue to put some LQIs and exclusive recolors of LQIs into Loyal's, though they may not be released on the same day.
Narumi Misuhara
Nenanah
Features
Why can we not search 'beyond' in the marketplace?
This has been broken for quite some time, making it difficult to find any Beyond/Black/Crimson/Royal/Lavender/etc items in the MP
We've been busy working on some higher priority backend updates but this is on our list of backend changes to address.
Zero Omega
itZz-Nikk
Shops
Question: At Flynn's Plunder, if the item will be expiring soon, will flynn accept the bid as soon as possible? or Flynn might cancel the bid..
Flynn will accept the bid as soon as the timer reaches 0.
bluealaris
Curious_Levy
Games
Dumpster Dive is pretty much empty so i was wondering if we could bring back some of the old items no one has anymore and put a few of them in the dumpster therefore if a new player got a rare item they could sell it and get started easier on the game because there are thousands of items that are listed in the market place that hardly anyone owns and they dont have to be 100bil + items but just old items that no one has that way the market has more goods going through it than just the brand new items
We encourage any older users to dump their unused content into Dumpster Dive for newer Gaians to raid and treasure. We did raise the cap for what can be donated, and we can look to raising it again so that items aren't barred from being donated!
Zero Omega
omg tbh
Shops
I was wondering why the marketplace taxes are so high/what are you doing with the taxes taken? when the items are listed for so much the taxes can take out quite a large chunk out of the profit. thank youu!
The Marketplace tax is so high in order to serve as a gold sink. When the taxes are taken out, the gold is just sucked into a void and never seen again. Completely deleted.
Any chance we could 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 billion mythrill coins? :0
Thanks!
Yes, we're looking into making some in higher denominations. They'll probably be available through Loyal's!
bluealaris
Reginald Orius
Features Has any more thought been put into the idea of crowd-sourcing the tagging system?
Yes, we actually have a system in the works that allows moderators to add tags, we're just finalizing implementation to allow changes to be saved to the backend. In order to allow all Gaians to help, we'll probably be creating a Guild. We'll be releasing more information once its done. 3nodding
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 12:12 am
March 23rd, 2015:
Zero Omega
angie_sash
Items/Features(?): Flynn's Plunder
Last AtS, someone requested for Flynn's Plunder to be stocked with wings, and this request was granted. After the current auction in Flynn's ends, can Flynn's be restocked with nothing but rare fishes or even just a huge number of durem fishes? Please? This would greatly help those who are pursuing the alchemy backwings quest, since the rare fishes are so inflated right now.
We will more than likely not be restocking Flynn's exclusively with rare fish as fish are a way for the fishers on Gaia to earn their gold and enjoy Gaia. However, fish will occasionally make an appearance for you to bid on.
Zero Omega
Ranas94
Features/Items I'm really excited about the project regarding the tagging system, where gaians will be able to modify/add tags through the help of moderators (or something like that, I've read it some time ago on another AtS). So my question is if we'll be able to name/rename specific shade of colors and combinations?~
With the current system we have, no, as the ability to create new tags will be restricted. However, what we can do is create a thread where users and group together tag suggestions to go into the database.
When I click on wishlist items on profiles, is it possible to go straight to the marketplace listing? I'd like to try on and see the marketplace price for it before wishlisting something.
Good idea. We will take a look into it.
bluealaris
ElegantlyLuminous
Items Yes, I'm back to wreak havoc with the same totally insane, long-winded question. You're probably not even surprised anymore. I'd ask if you have this post memorized, but I know it's only one question per post and I'm not that curious. (Attempting for the nineteenth consecutive week! I will also be hitting below the emotional belt towards the end, as usual. Fair warning.) Sorry! It's only because I care about the community and love the site. (That means I love you, too, even it doesn't seem like it.)
In response to my question at the ATS on 10/27/14 (Why can’t you remove gold generators?), you said that the major reason for not removing them was that gold generators are popular (read: people like them!) and that they help to fund your site. I have no quarrel with the second portion of this argument. I like this site and I would like for it to be here for many years to come.
I do, however, have to heartily disagree with the idea that people like gold generators. As I mentioned previously, the current statistic is that 90-92% of those polled (by Gaians) hate gold generators. (Many of these polls are linked here but I'm sure there are more recent ones that can be found quite easily.) That means that only 8-10% of your population likes them. There are multiple petitions begging for the removal of gold generators, here (2,600+ votes*) and here (1,760+ votes*) to list two of the larger ones. There are even two that I've seen asking for Gaia itself to be deleted or reset entirely. (I believe these threads were deleted.) In the past, there was also a poll here with people predicting Gaia’s imminent downfall (82.1% believe the outcome is either grim or destined for failure). Likewise, many users have vowed not to purchase GC until things change (though the OP isn’t editing her first post to reflect the numbers, there are ~175 pages of signatures). And, honestly, you can't go more than a day in the Gaia Community Discussion without seeing a post that essentially says "Hey, I've just returned from hiatus. What's going on with this ridiculous inflation?"
If you get a moment, please also check out the results of this related survey. Many of the comments reflect that we want gold generators to stop. (Other common points include hope for a greater focus on the community, less emphasis on the cash shop, and honest, more transparent communication with the user-base.) There was also recently a poll here in Site Feedback rating trust and our willingness to spend money on this website. On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being the lowest, 88% rate you as being untrustworthy to some degree (adding up 1, 2, 3, and 4).
So I don’t buy the premise that “people like them.” It could well be that people are buying them because they feel they have no other choice. Not everyone understands vending and not everyone has the patience for fishing. And, let’s face it: the output from the other games is worthless nowadays. (With the sole exception being Booty Grab.) Gold generators are pretty much the only way that some people have to get the items that they want on this site (if they want to pay with gold) and that’s not right, considering that they’re what wrecked the economy in the first place.
The actual question is this: Have you considered having a neutral third party conduct a survey requesting feedback on gold generators and feelings about the state of the site in general or hosting a poll of your own (without any cop-out neutral answers) and then sharing the results of that survey with us?
Your sales might reflect that these items are popular- but that might be for the reason I mentioned above. Or, worse, it could be because the item descriptions in the cash shop are vague and some people don’t know what they’re buying until after they open the item. It could be because they are usually on sale or have some sort of increased chance at the bonus prize. There are tons of conspiracy theories out there- I won't list them all. (I've wasted enough of your time.) Hosting a poll and having solid proof that you’re willing to share with the community could not only help to weaken one side’s argument (I don’t even care if it’s my side), it could also show the community that you care about our opinions and are genuinely willing to listen to us about matters other than recolors… something that some of us feel isn’t present at this particular moment. (If you frequent Site Feedback, that is, or if you take a look at that off-site poll.)
I understand that you're going to continue to sell these things regardless of whether or not we like them -- what I'm begging for here is for you to give us some sort of table-scrap, some little tidbit, to show us that you've heard and considered our feedback on this important matter. I do sincerely apologize if this comes across poorly but, as I said, I care about us, about this community, and this is one of those issues that a good many of us are deeply concerned about. We want to be heard, listened to. We want to know that you care about us. Your lack of response, of acknowledgement regarding this glaring issue, hurts everyone who wants to know that we still matter to you as more than a dollar sign.
Thanks in advance for any answer!
*Note that these signatures are not regularly counted and so I cannot account for the accuracy of these numbers, although I do check frequently.
Hi Elegant!
This is a very long question, and I must be briefer than I would like to give everyone at ATS a fair share of time. First, the gold economy is of great concern to us- I realize that a lot of gold was sold in the past year, and we are working on incrementally decreasing the overall amount in the general economy. This is currently being achieved through a variety of methods, but we will probably continue to release limited amounts of gold (we are currently using an LQI method) to curb their effects on inflation. We are releasing surveys in the near future, hopefully by the end of this week, for Gaians to respond to, but I'm not opposed to having 3rd party surveys done as well. Feel free to PM if you have a service in mind.
bluealaris
E U R Y D l C E
Items Can you re-release Loyal's Wildcard in LB? Or another similar item? I loved how that deflated so many items.
We'll be releasing a new Wildcard and also some new raffles in Loyal's soon! heart
bluealaris
Kid Jak
Items
Could we ever by chance get a Ticket or two in Flynns plunder? would love to see that much gold sunk.
Yeah, that's a diabolical idea, I like how you think!
bluealaris
Lirilei
Features
Pretty sure this would fall under feature... might be more Misc though...
But anyhow...
Just last week my oldest child was able to sign up for Gaia! He's thrilled about this!
But you know I did not realize new users got a paltry 200g for verifying their email account.
200g. That's not a whole lot in this economy gaia. Oh sure the Welcoming Fairy gives them 3k a day...but that's still a low amount.
So the whole point of this is maybe that 200g verification award ought to be bumped up slightly because that's just an absurdly small amount these days.
Thank you for this suggestion! We are aware of some pretty glaring gold inequalities in regards to new users, and we'll be patching those up hopefully within a month.
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 7:59 pm
April 6th, 2015:
Narumi Misuhara
Nenanah
Features
Change the way to notify us about a wishlist item in the mp? they only send me a notice after the item appears in the mp AFTER it already has been sold! or they send me a notice and the item hasn't been sold/appeared in the mp for months or years!(they send a notice about the last price and the item hasn't been in the mp recently). getting a notice and running to the mp only to find out it hasn't been in stock recently or to find out they already sold it defeats the true purpose of the notification.
Question is originally by demonic_angelkynd1
Sounds like we need to, that's pretty funky.
bluealaris
Asexual Sex Goddess
Misc
Since the marketplace is finally deflating to an extent, is there a plan to reduce the amount of gold we currently make from Daily chance, forums posts and the like by say... half? I mean, there's really no point of having a semi-normal economy now if we can easily just make it back.
Not yet! The payouts aren't super generous and we want Gaians who come back on a daily basis to be able to buy off the Marketplace without mortgaging their inventory. Payouts will gradually change as deflation occurs, but for now they are just right. 3nodding
Narumi Misuhara
Shrimp_Man
Features
Can we get some exclusion filters for the mp? I hate having to look things up sometimes because auto, game, and Zomg items will show up and with some searches, that can be 90% of the items coming up.
Currently, when you view a zOMG item, like Twig, in the marketplace, under "Store Price" it says "Not sold in stores; only available in zOMG!" complete with a link to the now defunct game. Can you change that to indicate that these items are now found in grab bags sold in Back Alley Bargains, or at least remove the link to the game?
Yeah, we can do this.
Narumi Misuhara
Tall Dark and Snarky
Items
Can Game items be made to be wishlisted? Sometimes people who are looking for inks, bugs to make inks, or fish, or just game items in general must continue to look up items each time, and it's a bit of a hassle when one can't just access them from a wishlist!
Yeah we can try to get this in.
Zero Omega
Sheepity
Items
Can somebody (or a couple people) spend some time fixing the tags in the marketplace?
Since you guys reuse tags for recolors, some tags can be inaccurate (Sadistic Dealer, for example, has the tags toxic, green and lime despite being a red/black recolor).
Furthermore there are still some broken tags that you cannot even search for. For example, Nobody yields no results when there are two separate items (Reds Nobody and Shibuya Nobody+ all their recolors) which use that as their main tag.
Would it be possible to devote some time to touching the tagging system a little bit? Maybe putting in a "Report/Request Item Tags" button on the marketplace listing for items? At least a thread asking what items need to be re-tagged would be great.
Could you also be a little more diligent in tagging items in the future?
We definitely have some ideas for what we want to do with item tagging, keep an eye out in the future for an update regarding item tagging.
Narumi Misuhara
Tall Dark and Snarky
Items/Features?
With the current standard of gold and prices, it's become crucial for people to begin taking commas into account to make sure they aren't entering the wrong value for an item in case one accidentally misprices/overprices.
That being said, I've noticed that commas cannot be entered into a number when trying to enter a bid for auctions, especially in Flynn's auction. Therefore, sometimes, people may accidentally end up bidding tens, hundreds, or even a trillion more than they intended because they could not see commas in their values when they meant something else entirely. Is there any way commas could be implemented into bidding values in the Marketplace?
Yes, this has been brought up before and is a good idea, we just haven't gotten to it yet.
Zero Omega
Kid Jak
Feature/Items
Can Paws get an Auction from Flynn themed for us?
Posssssssiblyyyyyyyyyyy...
Narumi Misuhara
Sleet Tempest Snape
Feature
I know we can now send more items in a trade, for which I am grateful, but I was wondering if we can just like send say 200 sunflowers if we wanted. Like it stacks in inventory if we can't get it where items can stack in a trade. It'll make sending trades much easier to people of like flowers, garbage, and other crafting things one person might be sending to another to help them.
Possibly, we'd have to investigate the details of how the system is handling trade grants.
Finni
Akari Yui
Items
This more of a bug really than a question. Leviathan's Rampage was accidentally leaked last week and fix was put in place to "remove" it. But it has created a different problem. New items, today for example, the body pillows released in Loyal's are showing up like this: http://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/itemdetail/10145359/
Deliberate or faulty?
This is a temporary situation to prevent leakage; unfortunately it means that for the time being, a staff member has to manually tag each item as released when everything comes out, and sometimes not everything gets caught. If you see something that has been released that has this tag, please post about it in SF! Someone will turn it on so that you can see it in the marketplace. We should have a more permanent solution soon.
P.S. This item should be fixed now for viewing on the Marketplace!
Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 1:02 am
April 20th, 2015:
bluealaris
Nenanah
Features
Can you increase the old given out by the overseer in our tank, along with the items that are earned from it? The daily prizes from the overseer are pretty cheap compared to our daily chance rewards that we have now...
Question is originally asked by Nenanah.
Yes, we would like to do that soon.
bluealaris
Gypsey_Girl
shops please turn the gold generators back to unlimited, i spend most of my money on that since u no longer have zomg (and r nevr bringing it bakcrying). w/o the gold generators, i cant get stuff off my wishlist(s)
Many of the gens that we release are unlimited and have an option for gold/items. They are in La Victoire as we speak.
Finni
Tsukita-chan
Items
it would be possible to add again the tags to the adventure time items? a lot of them don't have the AT tags and is so hard to find them!!! crying they used to have tags related to the show
That's weird, the tags disappeared? O__O I'll look into that after AtS, thanks for bringing it to my attention!
When are you going to raise the First Post Bonus of 125 gold and the First Vote Post of 15 gold to reflect the rest of the posting and voting that is in the thousands??
Yup, this is something we'll adjust.
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Items
Last month, there were two announcements with RIGs that featured the brand new and "exclusive" Fervent Fawndant and an unknown Millennial recolor. However, the marketplace links haven't been activated yet despite them being known to be on the site for about a month. Any chance they'll make a reappearance in a new RIG with better odds in the near future or could you please activate the links for item collectors have a chance to play with them?
We can go ahead and activate these so users can see them!
Narumi Misuhara
The Iron Magus
Features
Oftentimes, when I buy an item for myself, I forget to take it off my wishlist. Would it be possible to add a prompt to remove an item from your wishlist when you buy a wishlisted item?
Great idea! We'll add this to the list, may be a little bit before we can get to it though.
Narumi Misuhara
PandasKitten
Shops
in the marketplace i notice it always say avg buy price on my wishlist items ... why not just give me the current lowest price??
do you know how disappointing it is to see 3,500,000,000 and then click on it an the LOWEST price is 27,000,000,000... i wouldnt have bothered clicking if i had known that to begin with..
so maybe we could just get REAL sale projections?
Depending on the item, the lowest buy price could be changing multiple times in only a few minutes. It is far more accurate to take a rolling average than to only take the lowest buy price. For example what if a person wanting to get rid of an item quickly lists an item at 3/4 the normal market price and that value is what gets pulled while you are looking at your wishlist? How disappointing would it be to save up your gold then see you need much more! sad With an average, though the above could still happen, it would be far less often.
Finni
Snow Danger
Items/Features
Unwavering Shade of a Beast has the ** not released ** glitch on the last pose. I think a few other items in my inventory had this issue too, but I can't seem to find them. Is there anything that users can do to help with these glitched poses, other than reporting in the item glitch thread in SF? i.e. would listing the item in the marketplace help, or something like that?
Right now we have no better way of being alerted and fixing these things than checking SF! crying Maybe an official thread specifically for **not released** glitches might help? I've asked Zero Omega to set one up after ATS!
This is something that should be seen much less frequently in the next week or so; please be patient with us while we maneuver around the changes in the Gaia item database back end!
(I fixed Unwavering Shade of a Beast btw! Thanks for your patience. 4laugh)
bluealaris
The Iron Magus
Items/Features
What conclusions regarding the community's feelings toward gold generators can you draw from the recent survey, and what do you plan to do to address them?
I will try to address this as concisely as possible but I have a tendency to ramble, so please bear with me. It’s extremely simple to say gold generators will never be sold again, but that would actually cause more damage than being helpful, and here is why:
Properly balanced Gold Generators allow us to make a certain amount of revenue that frees up our art and developer resources to work on features, new art and fixing old bugs. This is what it all boils down to- resources. We can easily say that given the survey results, we should only make black Fantasy items – but we won’t, we will make girl items, boy items YES EVEN YELLOW items. Simply looking at the Cash Shop at the only limited quantity items to sell out- most of them are GGs, and this conflicts with the message that users want them removed.
We have to look at situation as a domino effect. If Gold generators are no longer sold, it would mean we would have a harder time hitting our daily / monthly goals. With goals not being hit, cuts will need to be made, either in art, features, or updates to the site. In the past, we set a wrong standard of things by not limiting the amount of gold that can be purchased. We understand that introducing gobs and gobs of gold into the economy is bad, but looking at the overall data, we have remained steady over the last couple months, and even a decline of gold in the economy. We have been consistently updating Loyal’s with LQI items, and since the start of this initiative, combined with the Loyal’s Gate series we’ve sunk over 3 quadrillion alone- trimming more than 1/3 of the gold economy. We are keeping a close eye on the economy as a whole and making adjustments as needed to balance and sink more gold out.
We are also trying to address the disparity from newly returning users and users who do not have the option to purchase GC by giving more ways to earn higher gold payouts- Switch-em, Booty Grab, Daily Chance and Pink Links have all been updated and we won’t be stopping there. Not all Gaians will agree with the measures we’re taking, but at the end of the day, our goal is to provide you with the best possible items, and new features. We are almost on the cusp of releasing a Chat system, Avatar dream builder, Pet RPG, Mobile app updates and Guild renovations, and we hope that when these come out, combined with a stabilized gold economy we can all have fun on the site that has brought us all so many great memories.
Posted: Mon May 04, 2015 10:25 pm
May 4th, 2015:
Narumi Misuhara
The Iron Magus
Features
Would it be possible to get an "Advanced Search" feature in the marketplace? For instance, searching for exact phrases using quotes, and the use of Boolean operators (AND, NOT, OR)?
In a future update perhaps. There are currently no plans to do so.
milkbun
Gentlemanly Swindler
milkbun
Gentlemanly Swindler
Items With TekTek gone, I found it very helpful to try to look at an item's realease date to help me find where it came from. A lot of stuff is cheaper from bundles, tier packages, or whatnot so knowing where something came from can save a lot of money. My question is why are so many of the dates wrong? I don't mean off by a day or two, I mean anywhere from a few year off to items that apparently come to us from 1,000 years in the future.
It's not a occasional 'whoops' or anything either. It's very common and happening with increasing regularity. Just looking at the first few rows of a friend's wishlist and about 40% of the items have release dates I know are wrong because they haven't happened yet. I have no idea about the accuracy of the ones with plausible dates.
We had to use a work around method of adjusting the dates of some cash shop items for a few months. Luckily the dev team was able to work this bug out and items no longer have to come from the future. I know there were quite a lot! If you or anyone would like to compile a list of items in Site Feedback we can adjust them.
I can sure try, but what information do you need? Do you just need a list of items that are off, or do I have to know when they were really released?
Just a list of items would work! smile
bluealaris
Mayviline
Features
Question There has been items that never showed up in the listings but when they do appear, we are not online to grab them. Instead most of us have to wait for that same item to appear in the market place and it may even take more than a month or two. Can we have a catalog or an order base feature to make an order for that item instead of waiting? That way the item can make a come back and appear more often in the listings as well as being able to buy the item in a quick process. It would also help a lot in our pockets since some items have cheaper generations than the expensive generations but hardly come into the market place.
That's a really good idea- it would require a good deal of coding to set up, but I do like the idea of catalogues. 3nodding
Zero Omega
Niccolo Ammaniti
Items Can we get an Easter Egg or two up in Flynn's? It has been a long time since we have seen one. D:
It's possible one will be seen in the future!
Narumi Misuhara
Queer Mishel
Features
Could any Admin/Staff (or those who previously acknowledged the issues, Zero Omega & Narumi) give updates on these 2 serious Marketplace problems, and how their fixes are coming along? Or will I need to PM you?
• Issue: Markeplace item LBPs displayed do not match up with the actual lowest listing price. • Status: Not fixed • Acknowledged by Narumi [AtS - Feb 09, 2015] • Narumi:"Thanks for bringing this up. It's a known issue we're currently looking into." • Staff: Please make a Dev Announcement informing users of this issue and let us know when it has been fixed.
2. Duplicate Listings
• Issue: Marketplace contains items with duplicate item listings (same item, different item number/URL) • Status: Not fixed • Acknowledged by Zero Omega [AtS - Dec 01, 2014] • Zero Omega:"We'll take a look into this and see what we can do to address it."
As is, the Tycoon achievement allows us to sell 20 items in our stores in the marketplace. Would you perhaps consider another Achievement like it that would allow us to sell even more? Say, 30? Maybe even 40?
I like this idea. 3nodding
Zero Omega
Nazolene
Features...?
How much gold did the Pandora's Gate kickstarter take out of the system?
yes i finally remembered to ask yessss
105,470,003,103,271 gold.
Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 11:40 pm
May 18th, 2015:
bluealaris
Nanzzy-chan
Features/Alchemy
While on the subject of alchemy, let's discuss something else; the crafting costs. Some of the higher-tier recent items take 1bil, 5bil or even 10bil to craft; while for some people in this economy, that's peanuts, there are others like me who either can't, or won't, out of principle, pay more than a certain price for items, be it 1bil or 2bil or 5bil. For people like that, that automatically makes the item overpriced, and that's not even taking into consideration the amount of time and gold that goes into gathering all the components. I get that alchemy is supposed to work as a gold sink, but making certain recipes only available to the richest people like that is not a good idea; not to mention, what will happen if everything deflates? What if we ever get back to a state where 1bil is way rich again, and there's still formulas floating around that require 10bil in crafting costs?
If the Gaia Economy gets to a point where prices are unreachable at the 10 billion price point, we can adjust them accordingly. As it is, its not an impossible feat through some regular Switchem playing, trash collecting/selling and saving for several days.
bluealaris
Yuekazehime
Shops
H&R Wesley was the only store updated to more "current" pricing. What other measures is Gaia looking to have in place before updating the other stores?
Our Gold Shop Updates are meant to reflect prices that are more useful for sinking gold, but they could certainly be higher.
bluealaris
404011xz
GAME
It appears to me as if the payouts in switchgem have been drastically reduced... Is this an intentional change or a glitch? Thanks for any response.
That's interesting, they're not supposed to be changing so it must be a glitch. We'll figure out what's going on.
hi features Easter egg in Flynns? Also, WHY ARENT MY MIMZIES IN THERE Q_Q
Maybe. MAYBE NOT! (Yes, it'll happen eventually).
Also, ewww, Mimzies.
Narumi Misuhara
OtherWorldShukumei
Features
Is there anyway to add page numbers/links to the top of inventory and MP selling pages? If I want to go to the final page to look at or sell something, I have to scroll all the way to the bottom to do so. Would be easier if it were available at the top, too (like it is in the forums).
Definitely possible, will pass this on to our UI team.
Narumi Misuhara
pseudo optimist
Features – Trades & Marketplace Shops
Way back in early December 2014 many users experienced a phenomenon known as the serial_not_in_owner_location bug/glitch which caused issues that includes one or more of the below:
Causes gifts to lose its ability to be opened. ← I believe this one was fixed. Causes a trade to lose its ability to be successfully completed. Causes items in marketplace shops to lose their ability to be purchased. Causes the items above to disappear and never return to inventory once it expires. Causes some avatars not to be able to dress and save.
Tickets were filed, some tickets were cancelled by CSRs [which caused the users to have to reopen them or just give up trying], no resolve has been found, and tickets are still untouched. This issue has been brought up in the appropriate place and overlooked for months. With June fast approaching and this issue having been consistent since early December, it feels under rug swept. I am now seeing new cases of it being reported in the Bug Report & Technical Support forum. Can those afflicted please get an update of the status of the issue? The bug is a very severe hindrance and we have been waiting very patiently on an announcement concerning the issue for half a year. Thank you for taking the time to read [and hopefully] respond.
These are not being swept under the rug but I understand it is taking much to much time to get it fixed. For those who submitted tickets and had them closed and the isue still unresolved. Please resubmit them. We are presently addressing as many of these as we can. (ex. http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/site-feedback/5-month-serial-owner-locatoin-problem-resolved-akslda-fd/t.96469199/)
codemonkey37179
nallan
Features:
Hello Gaia staff! My question is: Will the gold payout on current Gaia mini games ever be increased? With the minimum payout being preferably being at least 50 million gold. Because I feel that 100k for completing a level on Switch Em is like rewarding pennies. Thank you for taking the time to read my question!
No plans at this time, but will consider it in future.
Narumi Misuhara
Nerpin
Shops
Hey babes, I love you guys~ Is there any chance that the marketplace could get an extension of how much you can sell?
.. when you suddenly have 4000+ items to sell, 20 at a time starts getting . . . not enough.
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