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PostPosted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 2:36 pm


October 1st, 2019:

Lanzer
Shallotte
Features

Any updates on Towns 3? Has development started again yet- or has it been postponed?


Towns 3 is currently postponed due to resource restrictions. We should be getting some resources to resume our effort pretty soon.


Lanzer
Kinmaera
features
The original towns is how I collected garbage and bugs for ink. I haven't been able to do that in quite some time. Is there another method? Really want white body dye and it feels impossible to obtain.


We will tweak towns 2 or add additional methods of gathering bugs around the site.
PostPosted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 10:25 pm


October 22nd, 2019:

Lanzer
its high noon
Events

Will there be a Halloween event in the forums/flash spaces? It's getting pretty late into the month, so I was just curious.


This year's event will be more of a stand alone event, with trick or treating at the shops and zOMG's halloween component making a return.


Lanzer
SL33PY X3
features: cars / aquarium

any chance these can be made html5 or just html so users can use them again, there essentially no longer useable at the moment


Unfortunately Aquarium is not likely to get an HTML5 treatment since all the fishes are animated in Flash and it won't work in HTML5 easily. Cars uses a simplier system, will look into it on a later time. First we need to release the HTML5 version of Towns.


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 17, 2019 1:56 pm


December 10th, 2019:

Lanzer
Violent Clique
Features.

Any updates on what's going to happen to flash spaces when flash has gone? Is there an update on towns 3? Or will Gaia be strictly forum based?


We're gonna work with a contracting team to finish the work in converting Towns 3 to HTML5. Resources are tight so things are taking longer to do than expected. Some other games will follow, but there will be some games that will face sunset as we can't convert everything by end of 2020.


Lanzer
Nicci141
Is there any update about cars not showing up in the garage bays? I still can't see mine

Thanks for all of your hard work everyone heart


We did some house cleaning today and some data were archived by accident, the cars will be back very soon. Sorry about that.
PostPosted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 9:10 pm


December 23rd, 2019:

Lanzer
PizzaNyah
Features
Do you have any update on Towns 3, and will you make Towns 3 compatible with season-themed updates (like for example Christmas-theme/Winter-theme with snow, quests, and achievements), just like many MMORPG games?


We are getting programming resources aligned to work on Towns 3, but we definitely want to have event based themes for Towns 3.


Lanzer
Raenora
FEATURES

I’m not sure if staff is aware that towns 2 flash servers have it to where people are still able to join flash spaces well past the limit of 40 people per room. Sometimes there will be 41/40 to 45/40 in one room at once. Not sure if it is a bug or there is an exploit but it might be possible to Increase the limit since this is the case?


That's odd, not sure if the server settings were changed when we upgraded them. Will check on it later.


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:36 pm


December 30th, 2019:

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cars/garage

a lil bit ago it was posted by admin as finaly fixd but now it only shows up as a white blank page. so my question is, was it only fixd fer those useing a specific cpu ? or is it just still broken/worse than before ??


Sorry, looks like something must have been changed since we fixed the bug and now. We will have the feature fixed later today or tomorrow. The feature should be working for everyone.

In addition, Gaia auto now runs on "https" secure page rather than "http", and your web browser might need to have flash enabled for "https" on your browser to avoid seeing a white screen. We will see about adding some messaging to avoid white screen moving forward.
PostPosted: Sat Feb 08, 2020 5:47 pm


February 4th, 2020:

Lanzer
Captain Damnit
Games

I have no doubt this has been asked before and I apologize for the repeat but hope you answer.

Is revamping the games (including towns and such) to work on a platform that is not flash a priority? I really feel if they weren't broken, people would play them and kickstart having people come back - hopefully.


Yes, converting current flash games to HTML5 is a priority for us, and Codemonkey is back making Towns 3, and other games after this. Progress had been slower than we'd like but we definitely want to be able to play some of these games on future browsers as well as on mobile devices.


Lanzer
Captain Damnit
Items

Will there ever be an easier way to obtain game items and possibly more uses for them? ex: gathering flowers in towns and using them for bouquets.


When Towns 3 have bugs and flowers we'll make sure they appear more often.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 6:56 pm


February 11th, 2020:

Lanzer
Cheap Whine
features
I can still reach the vday cafe in towns through my favourites but there's no other way there as far as I know. With Valentine's coming up I was wondering if it would be possible to add it to the map or if there's a link to it so other's can reach it?


Oh yeah we added the map many years ago, let me check on the server and we can probably add a link to the landing page.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:32 pm


February 25th, 2020:

Lanzer
Purrsuasive
Towns

Any news or updates on anything surrounding towns? c:
I really miss those kinds of spaces!


Yes we are currently testing Towns3 with the SCAS testing team. We have some UI elements to update, then it will be released to everyone! Hopefully within a week or 2.


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 17, 2020 3:44 pm


March 3rd, 2020:

Lanzer
Operation Katana
Features

Do you think we can ever get Cinemas an the Prommegaden spaces back again? Least have it reworked?


After Towns 3 makes a return, we can probably add back some of the older spaces such as prommegaden, but Cinemas require integration with Youtube and some hefty programming work. So unlikely for Cinemas.
PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 7:18 pm


March 31st, 2020:

Lanzer
Operation Katana
Rally 3:

Hello. Are we gonna get fixes for rally three? There's quite a few bugs.

-Arrow keys don't work like in regular rally.
- White and black squares take over all the environment of some avatars.
-When you click on chat history it moves your avatar elsewhere.


Definitely, we will have more updates coming soon
codemonkey37179
I'm working on it. Expect an update soon. Sorry for the delay.


codemonkey37179
2sammygate
codemonkey37179
2sammygate
features - new towns

disappointed that it doesn't work on older browsers like kindred does ):


Which browser?

palemoon 27.7 mainly. i kind of expected my firefox to be wonky cause that's even older.


It is not likely to work on browsers I've never heard of, sorry.
codemonkey37179
2sammygate
it's a firefox variant, i only use firefox-based browsers.

the thing is, kindred works just fine on all my browsers but that's HTML5 too.


Kindred is using a different JS library. It uses CreateJS and Rally uses Phaser. We often debate the merits of each, cause, you know, we are geeks.


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PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2020 6:58 pm


April 14th, 2020:

Lanzer
PizzaNyah
Features

Do you have any update about Towns 3? If you released Towns 3 before summer, you could combine it with the summer event.


Yes once we have more resources we'll be expanding on Towns 3. Probably next month.
codemonkey37179
Rally 3 has been released. I'll be adding keyboard controls and cleaning things up a bit on Friday.


Lanzer
Prince of the Rainforest
Misc

Would possibly making an online album of the zOMG! soundtrack as well as tracks from the various holiday and promotional events, as well as chat world music from along the years be a possibility? Huge Gaia Online fan.


I'll look into putting all the MP3's in the download section
PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:52 pm


April 21st, 2020:

codemonkey37179
Hi Everyone,

Sorry, I'm late. It is another beautiful day in Thailand. 6 am and it is already 82 degrees.

I worked a bit on Rally yesterday for the keyboard controls and cleaning up a few things. I know I'm behind on that, but I'll get the improvements out asap.

Now, what did I miss?


codemonkey37179
What Happens At Night
Misc

Would you guys consider expanding the towns maybe adding in the zOMG content/themes of the different towns?


We did that with towns 2, so it is possible.


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