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PostPosted: Sat Oct 21, 2017 7:37 pm


October 18th, 2017:

codemonkey37179
Kian Suijin
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Kian Suijin
◘ Features

I noticed towns freezes if you change tabs while running it. Any way to look into that? It does it even if I use chrome, firefox or IE


Towns 1? It seems flash is acting very strange these days.

Yeah. Its towns1


Flash and even html5 will stop running if they lose focus, i.e. switching to another tab. I can override in html5, but not flash
codemonkey37179
Knight Yoshi
What? I've left Towns open in the background before, ran fine. When did this start? O.o


I'm not sure. Happening for some time.


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Le Wild Pikachu
codemonkey37179
Le Wild Pikachu
Rally

Rally often freezes when swapping tabs, is there a fix for this or something you guys may be working on?


Does it unfreeze when you go back to the rally tab?

No, I usually either have to open a new tab or Rally or refresh the page completely


Well, that's a kettle of fish of another color entirely. Not sure what's going on but I'll jump onto towns and rally in just a bit and check it out.
PostPosted: Sun Nov 12, 2017 10:57 pm


November 8th, 2017:

codemonkey37179
GodTierCringe
Anything about settings on Towns 2, Like ya'know, The music volume and/or the music being muted?


Click the speaker at the top of the screen to mute.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:32 pm


November 14th, 2017:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Features

You guys fixed the avatar issues in the flash spaces, but towns 1 is still affected. Will that be fixed eventually ?

We'll take a look into the Towns 1 issue, but there's a possibility we won't be able to fix it.


codemonkey37179
Nazune Miku
Features

Question:

I am unable to use towns and towns 2, Vh and rally
It tells me to enable flash

I've made this video of what happens to try and help figure it out (sorry for the music)


Wow, that does seem annoying. Are you getting this problem on any other sites?

Can you try another browser?
PostPosted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:43 pm


January 23rd, 2018:

codemonkey37179
The Fartsy Artist
Feature

Question: Are you completly taking away the teleport feature we were using for towns 2/vh/ rally? because it was VERY efficient and the gaians loved it. A lot are unhappy about you trading it out for what they consider to be a DOWNGRADE by returning to the room servers.
I am one of those gaians as well.


Do you mean towns 2? We didn't plan on trading any features for the ability to choose a server. I had to change things because of a security issue. Some things got lost in the process I'll see what I can do to restore the missing features.


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The Fartsy Artist
features

Question: just letting you know I can't seem to acess ANY of the flash servers now after the header was changed. I hope a fix to this is coming soon.


Can you give me some details? Flash servers? What are you trying to do?

codemonkey37179
VinceXenos
All virtual worlds I cannot enter, even in different servers after header update. Any News the Navi bar is the cause or something else. Is there a server maintenance of any kind that was already announced?


We see it. Thanks. Lanzer is fixing stuff during ATS.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 7:22 pm


February 7th, 2018:

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Lucifer Inlustris
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Lucifer Inlustris
Features

When will teleporting to friends in towns 2 be possible again? I can't even hang out with my buddies there anymore because I cannot find them. When I open my phone in Towns 2 it says they are all offline when they really aren't. This has been an issue for weeks please help.


I was working on this yesterday. The old server put all the players into one bucket and I could get the information of where everyone was. The new server is much more efficient and faster and to do that efficiently it only deals with the data for the people in that room.

That is going to be complicated to fix if it can be done. We are planning to have a new towns soon.


So if I am in Alpha I should still be able to teleport to others in alpha and vice versa with other rooms like Beta, Omega, and etc?


No. When I say room I mean somewhere like the market. If you are on the market on Omega for instance, the server can give you all the info on all the other avatars in the room. If your friend is in the next room, say the docks, I can't access that information.
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Lucifer Inlustris
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Lucifer Inlustris
So that means it might not be fixable huh, also is there any more info on this Towns 3 you speak of? Is there going to be more locations? will we be able to move our houses to it since no one can teleport to our houses anymore if it cannot be fixed?


Teleporting to your house should work.

We have not made any plans. For myself, I'd like to make it a little simpler so we can get a really fast working towns and maybe put it on mobile. I'm sure we will ask for suggestions before the planning. I have to finish a few things before I start working on it, but I'm really excited to start!


Hmm, strange because if that was the case I should still be able to teleport to my friends' neighborhood or house but it seems I cannot, could you look into it? if we could at least be able to teleport to other's neighborhoods and houses then most users could deal with it.


Good idea. That I can do. Oh! on that menu at the ship? I forgot about that. Yes, I had to write a new module to go to houses. In the meantime you should be able to add ?house=xxxxx to the end of the town's url where xxxxx is your pal's user id.




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Avaline Fitheach
Games - Flash Worlds

I haven't been able to use Towns 2 or any of the other Flash worlds for several weeks. All I get when the window opens is a blank white screen beneath the address bar that doesn't go away - no loading pages or universe menu, nothing but whiteness that doesn't go away until the window is closed.

It's been like that for several weeks at this point, and it started around the same time as the server upgrades. I am NOT the only one experiencing this problem. Several of my friends have been posting about it on their status feeds. So, is this a known problem, is anything being done at all to fix it, and can you give us an ETA?


I need more information! are you able to load any of the games like smashblocks?


Now that you mention it, no. I noticed the exact same problem happened when I tried playing zOMG!, and I didn't think to mention it in the first post. Just tried loading up wordblitz and smashblocks - no dice.


So it sounds more like a flash problem than a towns problem. You may have flash disabled somewhere. Are you able to see flash on any other site?
PostPosted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 8:22 pm


February 13th, 2018:

codemonkey37179
-Jade Bones-
When will we be able to transport to friends in Towns 2? When will the phone feature showing our friends online in Towns 2 be up? thank you


I'm not sure. I'm working on a temporary solution. The problem is that we switched to a more modern chat server. The older server lets the program see everyone everywhere, so it was easy to get a location for everyone. The new server only lets me see data for people in the same room. It is faster and more efficient but doesn't allow us to have that feature. As I say I'm trying to think of a workaround.


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 11:29 pm


February 27th, 2018:

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Pokemon Trainer Jess
Features, so i am wondering when will towns 2 be working at 100% again like it did before u updated ur servers? teleporting we want back.


I'm trying to find a workaround for the teleportation. The new servers work more efficiently but don't allow me to find another player who is not in your room. I'll try to get it working by Monday. If not working by next ats, just keep bugging me.
PostPosted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 4:55 pm


March 6th, 2018:

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houjun-san
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houjun-san
Rally

Why are the avis in the rally turned around most of the time?


I don't understand.


Avis are facing the back

User Image - Blocked by "Display Image" Settings. Click to show.


Ok, I see what you mean. I'll fix that today


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2018 8:46 pm


March 27th, 2018:

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will gaia fix the extra places on the map such as lonely island?

What is the issue?
when i'm there i cant see myself and other times when i do enter i'm in the black line around the world and getting there is like impossible, the place between there and the plaza glitches us high up and we cant move, and other places i use to travel too before the servers don't seem to exist anymore so everyone crams themselves in the plaza not daring to try and explore and i cant seem to pull up my map for some reason i hear the sound affect but it wont come up


Hmm.. I'll look into it.
PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2018 12:11 am


April 3rd, 2018:

codemonkey37179
Y00
Rally & Town2

Any plans on Fixing/Bring back the ''typing....'' and 'Afk' Icons?, I don't want to keep talking to myself knowing later that they're not there! sweatdrop


I need to do some fixes on Towns Rally and VH, so I can put that on the list. Probably early next week or over the weekend. smile


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 10:36 pm


April 17th, 2018:

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Sup Im God
Gaming: Towns 2

Hello Gaia staff,

I know you've been busy with so much stuff, but I was curious how and if Towns 2 bug/glitchs have been discovered and worked on even a little bit? From my knowledge the Teleport system is still down and there are a bunch of bugs I've found and have been trying to keep up to date with in a thread I've made.

So my question mostly is; Have what's the sort of progress on glitches/bugs in Towns 2? Have they at least been found?


Transport to friends should now work. The map isn't working and there are few tweaks need to be done.
PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2018 12:04 pm


May 15th, 2018:

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Hello, my question is based upon Rally and the Racing mini-game. Since adobe is phasing out flash , I'm well aware that Gaia Staff are working on a Towns v3 to take the place of the current set up. Is there going to be a new Rally/Racing game as well?

There will be a new rally as it uses the same engine as Towns2, as for racing, it, along with other iconic games such as Fishing, will be converted one by one.


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PostPosted: Sun May 27, 2018 10:44 pm


May 22nd, 2018:

Lanzer
PolyMorpheus
Features

When will VJs be added back?


Not likely, as it ran on flash. Though I would love to build a new version of it eventually!


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Zancuno Heslin
Features
oh it's been a long time since I made one of these

Is there any way to update the feature on the friends window "Your friend is currently doing this, join them", although be it put on the list of later stuff to do?

The reason I ask is because ever since Towns2 got updated to the multi servers, I have not been able to tell where any of my friends are. As of such, I haven't talked to some in a very long time. Also I believe it would help zOMG! out. This is because clicking a link to join them in zOMG! will not only show that they are playing but instantly put you on the right server. I know for overflow reasons, this would mean some extra code to send people to a not full server but eh... (is imagining the code and eye twitches). This is why I say put it on the list of stuff to do later.

It's a small way of bringing more activity to Gaia instead of us being left in the void of not even knowing if our friends are doing something to join them.


You should be able to transport to your friends in Towns 2 now.


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Pokemon Trainer Jess
Games, or maybe features not sure what the towns fall under, anyway CodeMonkey heres a question for you, for towns 3, and maybe u could install this in towns 2 as well, My question is can u please include a AFK mode that it has a 15 minute timer on it, where it kicks people out of the towns servers if they are not active, and in AFK mode for the 15 mins?

this could free up alot of the towns server space since there are so many afk people in towns 1 and 2 all the time and this is just something to think about for towns 3 to hopefully install. and if people want to get back in the serve they just got to reload towns 2, or towns 3.


Several people have asked for this. I'll keep it in mind for Towns 3.
PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 1:21 pm


June 19th, 2018:

Lanzer
Tiny Chibis
Features/Games

Is it possible to either remove the bug catching cap in towns/towns 2 or make the rate for rare bugs higher?
Thank you


We can look into raising the rare bug rates.


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PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 3:44 pm


June 26th, 2018:

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codemonkey37179
Hypnotic Dentist
Flash Spaces

Will there be new flash spaces added anytime in the near future? I love Towns 2 and exploring Gambino island, as well as walking around Virtual Hollywood. I would love to see a flash space for Durem and Aekea outside of the housing areas. I remember there also used to be sponsored flash spaces. Will we see more of those too in the future?


Spaces, yes. But not from flash. My next project in fact.


Really will it be HTML5? And will it work inside the Gaia app? That would be awesome,
then it would work both on desktop computers and mobile devices. Also could you make
some fun mini games inside those spaces (e.g. daily quizzes about Gaia), daily items
and other fun features that will make us want to return to those spaces? That's just
some suggestions, I have more suggestions if you're interested cat_3nodding


Not sure of what features it will have. I am sure it will be HTML5.

I'm hoping to start on it soon, and at first, I'll be focused on the technical features before we move on to the fun creative stuff.
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