November 24th

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Items/Events (?)

So, that Mystery Black Box for the Black Friday Sale...if for some reason it remains sitting in someone's inventory unopened or is still for sale on the Marketplace after the sale is over, what will happen to it?


The black box will have the last item to be released via. Black Box from the Black Friday Sale inside it. The only way to obtain the previous sets is to open on the day that the particular set is released.

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Games

With the recent increases in gold granting for Booty Grab, are there any plans to increase the gold granting for any of Gaia's Older games?

That's the plan but some may need to be rewritten.

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Features

Will the Favorites feature ever be released? [staff alert about it from forever ago]


Sadly no, this project was discontinued.

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Events

Is there an ETA on when the winners for the zOMG! Best Memory Contest will be announced? There was a lot of love poured into those entries, so it's cool if you're simply taking your time with going through them all... but for those same reasons, please don't let this be put off or forgotten.


We’ve been taking a look at the entries! We’ll have a winner before the Thanksgiving holiday! The entries have been so incredibly that it’s very difficult to pick a winner. Thanks for your patience!

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Items

What is with the original Bloodstone Amulet being put in the DC after the original FAQ about it clearly stated that only 5000 of this item would ever be released? There is no loophole in that statement to exploit and justify releasing this item in the DC. Could you consider making a recolor of it instead to hand out through DC?


The Amulet was removed from Daily Chance due to user feedback. No additional Amulets were won when it was in Daily Chance. We will be reviewing what we should do with the Amulet.


Princess Angelishia
Parexus
Items

Is there anyway we could get more musical related items made? I would love to have an electronic keyboard like the one pictured below made!
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Cute! We can definitely pass your suggestion along.


Zero Omega
Kid Jak
Items

With the Tailored Stylist Patterned Ticket Can I chose an [animal] Item and have the change be the Animal it is focused on?

Could I for instance Change Fafnir's Spite from Dragon to Diamondback Lionfish?

Best answer for this might be to check our FAQ which should have the answer to your question:
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/project-custom/tailored-stylist-pattern-ticket-rules/t.94928343/


Princess Angelishia
Salathielly
Events (?)

Not really a question, but I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed having the NPCs posting/responding to users in threads about the mint tickets. It was a lot of fun, and I'd love to see it happen more often!


Yay! Glad you had fun! c:


Princess Angelishia
Odd Cinderella
Question Category Items

Question
This is more of a suggestion...PLEASE! Make ALL the Knighted Princesses Planets?! gonk In turn, can we also see male versions? ninja


Good suggestion! We an pass it along. c:


Zero Omega
~ Aki - Fairy ~
Items

A lot of users have reported being unable to buy the zOMG Grab Bags and then for those that can buy them and open them up, the contents can't really be sold on the MP, they're said to not exist/not yet have been listed, even when people have put them listed.

Could you guys maybe fix this or do people need to start filing tickets before anything is done? (I keep an eye on the Bug Report forum and it'd be nice to know what to tell people to do about the problems they have with these items)

We'll be taking a look into this issue, trying to isolate the problem, reproduce it, and fix it.


Princess Angelishia
Serenicus
Items

I have a question!

Would you guys consider giving us this?

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/site-feedback/create-astra-project-custom-ticket/t.94897847/


Ooh, cool suggestion! We'll pass it along.


Zero Omega
Awe Electrohop
Zero Omega
Awe Electrohop
Question Category Misc

I can't get into the Alchemy page for like 3-4 days already. All I see is a blank page. I checked with another account, it can access to it within seconds.

Also my aquarium doesn't show up the fish so others can do booty grab.

A large inventory might be what is preventing you from being able to access the alchemy page. Might want to see if you can shrink you inventory a bit and see what happens.

Category Misc

Only for alchemy items or all my inventory? Will it be an update for this in the future?

Entire inventory, unfortunately.


Princess Angelishia
Ricey-san
Shops

Can we get some of the LQI in Loyal's Bazaar in like different colors? It'd be nice to be able to afford the cute/cool stuff too after a while. Like maybe put the recolors of some of the originals in there like Kikila or one of the March (teddy recolors) items.


Good suggestion.


Zero Omega
Beary Kisses
Forums

Question:
Since the tip amount in forums has gone up to 10,000 Gaia gold per tip,
will the amount for posting on threads go up as well?

Yup, this is something we will be planning on doing.


Princess Angelishia
King Lolfrey
Items

Question: Now that platinum tickets are becoming a "gaiafame item" which is honestly ridiculous its almost impossible to obtain one. Do you still have plans to release rigs or even other things where its a chance to get a platinum ticket or other project's planned in the future. The platinum ticket is probably the most sought after ticket on Gaia. Is it possible to make it easier to obtain?

In addition out of the 61 win gaia bundles that were opened all of them contained rainbow tickets. Is it even plausible to receive a golden ticket or a platinum ticket from one? Because from what I have noticed you said there is a chance, but yet there never has been one won.


It's possible! And yes, there is a chance.


Zero Omega
Ricey-san
Feature

Can we please have an lgbt forum?

We currently do not have any plans for this forum, but it's something that we can consider.


Zero Omega
Noble Link
Events

Do you guys plan any Christmas events this year?

(Sorry if it's been discussed.)

Keep an eye out for a Christmas event in December!


Princess Angelishia
Doctor Frost PhD
Princess Angelishia
Doctor Frost PhD
Misc.

Do you love me?

On a more serious note: Can I disable notifications? They're bugging me.


You can disable Staff Notices but not Announcements.


Any hope for change?


No, Gaians who read those announcements and purchase GCash support us and allow us to keep the site free to use. We have no plans to make them able to be disabled- as they are our main method of supporting the site.


Zero Omega
A Tale Untold
Events

There have been quite a few people that have had trouble buying Gaia Cash,
having the money taken out of their account, but not receiving the Gaia Cash.

Will you be able to possibly extend the Black Box tier for us until we get the Gaia Cash we bought weeks go?

Yup, simply file a billing ticket and we'll be able to help you out with this.


Princess Angelishia
Ame Kirisame
Items

Is there a new inventory arranger in the works, or are we stuck with the old one?


Here you go!


Narumi Misuhara
One Rainy Night
Features

I don't personally have an issue with the new tip amount, I think it's great, but I've noticed that a lot of users were concerned about it.

How feasible would it be for you guys to give us options for the tipping amount? Such as 1k, 10k, and 100k.


Also, I think it would help if you would update the post grants and game grants before you go raising the prices of tips and shops and other features on this website. I feel like this would make more sense.


It's not overly difficult but not something we currently have planned. In regards to raising the payouts of games, recently we increased the payout of Booty Grab by 500x. In one game it's fairly easy to get 50,000 gold, you would only need to collect 100g in a single game. Over time we will also be updating the payouts to other games and of course forum posting/surfing.


Zero Omega
Diamond Wales
Features

Okay, I have a question since it has been bugging me for a while now. Is there any way to make it so that you can actually see the size of the images/gifs that you are going to use in a signature? I mean, I have been flagged twice for it and I had no idea that I had a large image size until then, and couldn't figure out a way for me to tell how big the file size was until I literally had to go to another site and use the same image to find out. It wasn't like the images were offensive or anything, just the image sizes were too big. I think this would help to cut down on the number of people having large gif/image sizes if we could actually see that they are too big or if a warning popped up when we were previewing the signature in question.

You can check the size of an image by right-clicking on an image and clicking "View Image Info" or "Properties" (depending on your browser). This will tell you how large the file size is and what the dimensions are.


Princess Angelishia
H0peh
Misc

Hey hey I'm guessing the black friday sale will start on wed, since thats when the boxes are set to open. When will you show the schedule? tonight? tomorrow?


It all begins Thursday!


Princess Angelishia
Nenanah
Misc...

Is the word "donation" still applicable to our purchase confirmations, reward tiers and "ad free" advertisements, aren't these now considered purchases instead?

If they are in fact considered donations than many should be able to take a tax claim for any year that they "donated"
Logically we are not getting anything, and we are not paying for a "service" because its already free.


No, they are considered purchases!


Narumi Misuhara
~ Aki - Fairy ~
Features - Towns/Housing

The robot in housing commission is still set to let you "place"/"move" your house in Towns. But, with the whole that not being an option anymore it's been causing users some problems.
Could you guys possibly update that, remove the option, maybe provide a little info-guide on how to place houses in Towns 2?


Yes we are currently working on an update to that, I wouldn't expect it to be released until after the holidays though


Zero Omega
Konani_NTH
Forums/features

So i have noticed this sub-forum on the site,
it's named "In the Queue"
and is located in the "Bug Report & Technical Support" forum,
and "In the Queue"- has the description;
"This forum contains verified bugs in the bugbase that we are tracking. You can subscribe, up vote, and down vote to help us prioritize."

-so my question is;
could you please utilize this forum?
i think it would be very appreciated by many users,

or- alternaly since it's not being used,
could you please remove it?
so that the few who stumbles upon it,
won't feel unnecessary hopeful?

We'll be removing this forum.


Narumi Misuhara
Nenanah
Features

This question deals with the old item engraving feature.

Engraving the items with a message was always an extra special way to show appreciation to those we were gifting. It also helps several of us discern the difference from that extra special gift we got from someone and any other multiples we may have in our inventory.

I know that an issue with this was that people were writing rude things on the items.
Maybe you could create a word filter to filter out any crude language or put a report item message button to report rude item messages to the mods.

Anyway this was a great site feature and I'm sure that many people would love to see it make a comeback.
It also has the potential to be a great gold sink too.

My question is...

Is there any chance that Gaia could reintroduce engraving to items?


I'll be honestly, highly unlikely.


Princess Angelishia
Seiji-ojisan
Items

Will we be seeing another Right to Bare Arms in the near future? And will we ever see bare legs items?


Stay tuned.


Zero Omega
Lural
Item:

Years ago, Gaia released a laptop item (I think it was the G9 laptop.) It used to be able to be placed in houses. But now it doesn't appear in my home inventory. Was this broken? Was it taken out intentionally? Is there some way for it to be able to be placed BACK in our houses?

I believe only housing specific items might be able to be used for housing now, but we'll find out for sure and if you are supposed to be able to use it in housing, make sure that you can.


Zero Omega
Zero the hunter
Events

Any word when we could have another mini forum event like the "There be dragons" or "Sentai vs Mahou shojo", how about one related to the Black and White kingdom?

I like the idea. ninja


Princess Angelishia
Maddy-Mazey
Princess Angelishia
Maddy-Mazey
shops

Will there ever be OFTEN updates of gold shops like it used to be? where it seemed like every 3 months there was something new in Ruby's Rack, ect.? I know that Gaia has no shortage of item ideas, as they always find new Gaia Cash items.


We update the gold shops monthly!
Really? Like, with new items available through Gaia Gold and not Cash? o:


Yes. We've been updating them monthly for years. c:


Zero Omega
Bella Doe
Events/Features

I've seen several notes about people wanting more partnerships/sponsorships and I agree.
These events can be fun for all users to participate as they don't require them to spend gold or cash in order to partcipate.
You've had tons of them in the past, from exclusive collections from Macys and Christiano Sirano in the shops, to watching movie trailers to get an item based off the movie.

Has your promotions department disappeared or merely forgotten about the outside world?

A lot of companies nowadays have moved away from doing sponsorships with virtual worlds like Gaia in favor of mobiles apps and games. We miss them too! We're always looking though.


Zero Omega
egotrash
Misc/Profile

Will there ever be a time where we can have JavaScript on our profiles? I would love to have some cool effects on my profile. Like leaves falling for autumn or snow falling for winter.
This would be really cool to have.

More than likely not due to the possibilities of security issues.


Princess Angelishia
AsterKurayami
Misc

Have all the winter invitation/ mint ticket's been found yet or more aptly how many are left?


Yes there are some left!


Narumi Misuhara
Leadery
Booty Grab
First off, thanks for increasing the payout, it's nice to see the community back to life.

Are you going to release more fish or re-release older ones with better payouts? (Increasing older ones to a higher tier for example)


We'd like to but considering how long it took just to get the existing code to compile, I'm no sure we could commit to that at this time.


Zero Omega
Astra Green
Item

This might show how much of a wrestling nerd I am but is it possible to do wrestling parody items? Like have an item like the Diva's Championship belt (the pink/purple butterfly) and the different poses it can be worn (maybe in conjunction with the Fighter series of recolors)?

I suddenly have a mighty need. To make an AJ Lee avi.

Sure you do
Nikki Bella


I like the idea! Can pass it along for consideration!


Princess Angelishia
lost in the rhythm
Features

Is there the possibility of increasing the number of items a user can sell in their markeplace store?

I have recieved postive feedback in a thread I have created in Site Feedback;
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/site-feedback/increase-marketplace-slots/t.93530623/

I think a lot of users would be happy to have the chance to sell more than 20 items at a time in their store.


It's a possibility for the future!


Zero Omega
minghii
MISC
I don't have time to look back on the entire thread because I've got to write an essay, but I still wanna ask: will there be more NPC interactions? The bit we got was nice but they never really replied much ; w ; the paparazzi threads needs some juicy updates!!

Stay tuned~


Narumi Misuhara
-l- Rosalia -l-
About the Games:

Have you guys ever considered bringing back the gold lotto that used to be here? I'd love to see it come back, so those of us who can't afford Gaia Cash can use it and have a chance at winning a hefty amount of gold.


We have actually, we have a working version of it still in test only environments.


Narumi Misuhara
King Lolfrey
Narumi Misuhara
Darc Nightgale
Events

3 Weeks ago I asked about the 2 missin' achievements for the Halloween event. You guys said that they would be granted to the people that earned them. I have yet to see them. Again I asked last week, and never did get a reply. Can you please shed some light on what the achievements are. I would really like to know if I would be gettin' them or not. Thanks!


>.< Sorry we keep dropping the ball on this. Offhand I don't know what they are but sending an email right now for this to get completed!!!


in addition to this was the double rainbow ticket for that old kickstarted before halloween even given out?


Yup


Narumi Misuhara
Nenanah
Features

Please give us a gold bid confirmation window.
Something that will preview the amount we are bidding before we provide our password and finalize it. There are no commas available when typing in gold amounts, a preview will help us not make mistakes when bidding.

My Question Is...

Would you please consider doing this?


Yes, this sounds very useful.


Zero Omega
y8
Items

If we donate to [NPC] Flynn, is she going to put it on auction in her shop?

More than likely, yes!


Zero Omega
Pandy Belle
Games

Hello,
I wrote about this last week in AtS about users not being able to access certain lakes in Fishing. This is still going on. If you look in Bassken room Vathilia III my account is p0 and wont leave. It has been over a week now. However, I did find out if I change my username or move that username to another account I can access Bassken lake but when I returned the username to this account I am still locked out. It is the same for another user. Then few other users are just stuck in the lakes loading server. They arent in rooms but are unable to access certain lakes. I saw Narumi Misuhara visit a fishing room early last week but I have yet seen any progress to fix this situation.

We're still looking into it. Sorry for the delay. :c


Zero Omega
Seiji-ojisan
Features

Any news on increasing the amount of saved outfit slots?

Planned, but no other updates at this time.


Narumi Misuhara
Nenanah
Misc...

What are the chances of Gaia online taking on volunteers for various projects. There are so many things that could be done with our beloved home here and we understand that at times staff falls short of being able to address every issue or request, yet there are a lot of talented people in this community who are capable and want to do it just because they care. Of course the only payment would be nothing more than a qualification reference for job applications and portfolios or credits. Just an idea.....
I mean getting good references from Gaia Interactive would be amazing for some just starting out on their career path. Who knows, maybe you will find a few new permanent hires or outright geniuses,while getting issues and silly update demands resolved.

My Question is...

Would you consider taking in volunteer devs, artists, or admins?


The hunt for great people never really ends. People can send their resumes to gaia-jobs@gaiaonline.com

We require, however, that people be able to come in to the office.