August 25th

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Welcome Back!

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Games

When will the Sealed Kindred Certificates unlock?

Soon! We would like to unlock them before September.

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Items/ Features

Philosopher's Cache:
I do not know who is effected by this, but opening a lot of them at the same time takes really long.

Even worse;
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You have 100 more of Philosopher's Cache remaining. Would you like to keep going?
Play Again

Close
One will be deducted from your inventory.


^ This feature doesnt seem to work.
This is the v response I get.
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Item Details
Data Validation Error
The item was not found in your inventory.


There is about 3.7k caches waiting to be opened, a cumbersome feet even with the Play Again feature.

Can this be caused by having to many caches? and can the Play Again be fixed?

Sorry about that! We'll have to take a look into this and see what we can do to fix it!

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Features

I left GaiaOnline for quite a time, and I'm not sure what these "Kickstart Chance" gates are. What does it mean when it says you "recieve discounted temple gates"?

It means that you will receive the Temple Gate item gold shop item ahead of its release into Loyal's Bazaar and you are spending less gold on it now than you would when it enters into the shop.

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Items

When are you going to bring back choosing what bundle we want, instead of leaving it up to chance like with the new Creative Cosplay? It's very inconvenient to users who only have a certain amount of GC and want exactly what they want.

We have several different methods of bundle purchasing. Some we put directly into La Victoire, some are in Bundle RIGs, which means that they are a chance reward. I would recommend if you want a bundle, but you don't want to take the chance on not getting it from a RIG, to purchase it off the MP.

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Items

Loyal Mystery Box - do we need to open them until we have the tickets directly in our inventory for them to be considered for the raffle?

No, you do not need to open them.


Zero Omega
`Hydro
Features
Previously we had a KS that was noted to have removed 1/3 of the active gold from Gaia's economy?

Can we have a rough estimate on what percentage of gold this KS removed from the system?

P.S. Can we expect another KS soon? emotion_kirakira Cause Meido Achievements....

We don't have that number right now, we may release it once we have everything sorted out! You guys did sink a toooon of gold though.


bluealaris
Nenanah
Events

This achievement for the "Talk Like a Pirate Day" event has only been released once.

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(Salty, Scurvy, Lily-livered, Swashbuckling, Pirate, Deckhand, Wench, Bilge rat)
50 Points
"Awarded t'ye scurvy dogs that prove yerself t'be a pirate" "Arrr, ye truly be a pirate, me heartie!"

We earned it by posting in a special event forum.
Since this is a popular internet holiday that happens each year and has a huge following, can you please re-release this achievement this year?

In case you're wondering Talk like a Pirate day is on September 19. emotion_awesome

Question is originally asked by Nenanah.


Yarrrr, this be a great idea!


pepper-tea
Litenguax
Item

When will the Pegacorn Fluff have a use as pet item?


Have you checked on it recently? ninja


Narumi Misuhara
Yuekazehime
Features

Any updates on when the inventory worth calculator will get its own page with item list? Even if it was trimmed to 500 items per account, it'd add a lot more functionality to figuring out true account worth.


Not yet, but we'd like to get to this soon after the new item tagging system gets released!


bluealaris
Nenanah
Games

Lots of people are complaining about how long it takes to level up in the Lake Kindred game.
A lot of us are busy with jobs, school, and family.
Do you think that it would be possible to give us double experience weekends for the game?
They do it with Call of Duty, I know my boyfriend raves about it or did when he was actively playing that game. You could probably give out cash discounts for Kindred items and stuff to so you make a profit and it adds to the hype.

Question is originally asked by Nenanah.


This is something that we're happy to implement once it is possible. Lake Kindred is still a young and sprouting game and we'll continue to add not only more Kin to it and levels but more features as well. Something like EXP weekends would be included in an update in the future.


Zero Omega
Yuekazehime
Features

How is the tagging system coming along? Any idea when we might be able to vote on tags for items? biggrin

Still in progress, but we hope to have it in a state for SCAS testing soon.


bluealaris
`Hydro
Features

Alchemy: Are you all still planning the SDPlus Box Formula?


Yes! Alchemy will keep getting updates of not only sets, but also for super premium content like SDPlus Boxes and Golden Fragments.


Narumi Misuhara
Sahri
Features
Question: As I'm a pretty avid user of Gaia Chat I couldn't help but notice that after a while the chat gets pretty laggy for
a lot of people, sometimes even for me. This is likely due to the amount of old messages loaded in the chat. Is it possible to
implement a script that clears the chat daily at midnight PST/PDT? I think this would alleviate the lagginess of this feature
quite a bit for many people.


We'll take a look and see what can be done. smile


pepper-tea
Princess of Cakes
Items

Why isn't there an [Animal] version for Kin items such as Stagony, Phantom Stagony, and Bunnykit? sad


Just like regular items, not all will always be available for both bases. That being said, in many cases on the kindred items, it is just that it takes some time to convert them!


bluealaris
Yuekazehime
Events

The Taru/Kitsuko pets will go away after the event right? How long they stay is a little unclear right now.


You will be able to keep all of the Kin collected during the Event - the only thing that is going away are some of the rewards and the achievements/Wing Stickers/Charms.


Narumi Misuhara
Nenanah
Features

I have a suggestion/question for the ignore list feature. I've noticed that when I put someone on my ignore list I can still view the guilds that they own and they can still view mine. If I have someone blocked they don't really have any business with trying to join or view a guild that I own. I tested this out with my mules, I set a mule to ignored but I could still look the the guild that they owned. Anyway I'm pretty sure that trying to join a guild that is owned by a person that blocked you would fall under harassment but why cant we just n** it in the bud... Would it be possible to make it to where that if you have someone on your ignored list they can not view any guilds that you own or submit join requests to them? It would probably help cut down some of the harassment reports and onsite drama.

As someone whose been cyberstalked in the past, I would love to see this happen.

Question is originally asked by Nenanah.


Yeah we can get this addressed, this sounds like an area that was just forgotten when the changes were implemented.


bluealaris
Sahri
Games

And another question about Lake Kindred. I have noticed that only the event Kin you got from the event can generate
points for the team but a lot of people have multiple Kins they want to use for the event. I understand this rule was to
prevent anyone from (ab)using their lv 50 Kin(s) for this event but wasn't it possible to make this restrictions a bit more
lenient? And by that I mean only the Kin caught in the Zen Temple can score points for the team the user is on. Or a list of
Kin that are exempted from the event restrictions.


Hello Sahri! We can look into it, Coding-wise it might not be something we can implement bug-free by the time the event is over? We will see if its possible.


bluealaris
xcrimsonlegendx
EVENTS:

Is the zen temple in the Spirit of the Smackdown event the same one in zOMG's zen garden or is it a completely new "undiscovered" and unrelated temple at an entirely different location?


It is meant to be the ZOMG Zen Gardens or a temple off-shoot very nearby. Where everyone has gone and why it has become overrun with Formerly Animated Kindred is a mystery yet to be solved.


Narumi Misuhara
Deus F
Store

I'm tired of posting the same question for months and months and months without getting a simple yes or no answer.

CAN. YOU. ADD. COMMAS. TO. AUCTIONS. TO. MAKE. BIDDING. EASIER?

YES/NO

seriously Gaia, it's not that hard to answer it and honor me with a response.


Yes.

I believe we even already have the code to do this, it just needs to be called for the auctions.


Zero Omega
snowkitten12345
Question Category

Question: Is the LEAD ADMIN a NPC?? you all know her smile the girl with the glasses that is pretty much the queen of gaia since she dose everything lol .i would really like to draw her for the upcoming art contest and turn her into a kin but if not please let me know!! gonk gonk gonk gonk gonk gonk

categories: Art

She is an NPC. xd But you can still do fan art of her and send it in!


pepper-tea
Cajanic
Items

Will there ever be more male items in things like RIGs and other generators? Items have always been weighted more towards female, but these days it seems almost exclusive.


That certainly isn't done on purpose, it just turns out that way sometimes XD
We aren't going to stop making and releasing male items any time soon!


pepper-tea
Cutie Moon Rod
Items:
Can we please get a human version of the wand item from the [Animal] Moonlight Miracle (Animal)? We have a different version from the Moonlight Guardian, so it would only be a matter of re-coloring it. The colors of the Moonlight Miracle one are a lot nicer.

Thank you!


Thank you for the suggestion!


bluealaris
Zanethemayor
Events!

Hello again gaia staff! The new lake Kinder game has been a ton of fun to play and I've noticed that the last two events have been the center of it and as usual, you've done a great job with it! However, I was wondering as a few other gaians if the game will continue to be the center of the up coming events! (Like for Halloween and for Christmas!) So will the game continue to be the big center or a big part of these events or will it be more of a minor thing for those events. (Like during the event a few new kin will be released for the holiday and that's going to be it.)


Lake Kindred won't be the only thing that we update exclusively for Halloween and Christmas, we would like to involve forum games, caroling, candy collecting, ect and other updates to events. However, it is something that Gaians enjoy getting rewards from and can be improved upon in many ways, so we will be pushing these updates as well.


bluealaris
Jisen Meizuki
Item/Feature

Now that Temple Gate is opened, can you give us a hint if any of the items are going to be used in Alchemy?

Because if they are... gonk


Well...there aren't any bees in this one. But you know we'll always use gate items in alchemy. ^ _ ~


Narumi Misuhara
Platonix
Narumi Misuhara
Blacklacekitten
Shops/Alchemy

In alchemy when you check a recipe to see what ingredients you need, the "X" to close the pop up sometimes does not work. Can you please fix this?


We'll have to take a look to see what is happening but yes this should be fixable. Anyone else also having this problem?

I can tell you exactly when it happens: It happens any time you open a second formula (including the same formula a second time) without refreshing the page. (Moving to a different page of the formula listings counts as refreshing the page.)


Ah ok. thanks Platonix!
A large number of other users also chimed in saying they had experienced this problem; it's been around since the release of Alchemy.

bluealaris
XonyMudd
Items/Misc

What’s the difference between an LQT and LQI, if any at all, and do they use the same rules? A link to where the LQT rules are at would be pretty helpful if the rules are different. Thanks!


There's no difference at all.

LQT: Limited Quantity Ticker
LQI: Limited Quantity Item

Its just a difference in acronyms but they are the same thing.


bluealaris
Grrumps
Features

So what exactly is being planned with bitcoin? Will there be any other types of cryptocurreny to be accepted in the future?


As we have announced in our Staff Update, we will not be offering Bitcoins as a means to purchase Gaia currency.


bluealaris
Litenguax
Items

Can the Stagony eggs be unlocked as an item so that users that missed out can still get one?


Yes.


bluealaris
basselope7
Items/Games

Can you please add a sellback value for the zOMG-inspired Kin? I have TWO extra [KINDRED] Ghost Lanterns on this account and at least one on another account, and I would like to get rid of them like I can get rid of extra regular Kin.


These should have a sellback added now. 3nodding


bluealaris
Csilla Silvana
Event/Features/Items

If current drops for the new area will remain the same could we have some alchemy formulas involving the drops that give us zOMG item recolors? Like recolored Kokeshi Kimonos.
Mostly I just want recolored Kokeshi kimonos in every color, this would be a really neat way to get them.


Cute idea! We'll see what we can do!


pepper-tea
Pink Japan Dragon
Features/Game

Not sure where this question goes. I love kindred game backgrounds. I was wondering if we get for are backgrounds for our computer?


Haha! I'll see if the artist can upload some wallpapers.


Narumi Misuhara
Lumbee Wolf Lady
Item

are there any plans to fix the glitch with aquarium snowflakes not allowing users who have them in their inventory/aquarium to not booty grab or let other players booty grab in their aquariums?


Not in the near term but is something we do want to get back to.


bluealaris
Suudonym
Games

Could we have some more transparency on the changes and updates made to Lake Kindred? There have been a LOT of changes made since its inception, from potion drop rates to skill effects, etc., but your official updates thread doesn't even cover as much as has been announced in the staff alerts (and the staff alerts definitely don't cover everything either).

Even if only going forward, it would be really nice to have a single dated log of all the changes and adjustments made - not just mass bug fixes or event updates. Sure, there's a booming community surrounding this game, but it's a little weird to have your userbase discover and spread word of changes in place of the game's developers, yeah?


Sorry about that, I've been meaning to keep it more up-to-date. I'll post updates that we are pushing out with more regularity.


bluealaris
CreativeVision
Games/Lake Kindred
I was wondering if we would get a new temple boss soon for this event. That would be really great, one just as challenging as sycamorte ^^


Or MORE challenging! ninja


Zero Omega
Th0tday
Features/Other

On the "About Us" section that you can click on the bottom, one of the facts listed is such:
Over 190 million "Gaia Gold" is exchanged every day in our virtual economy. If each Gaia Gold Piece represented one dollar, that would be over 190 million dollars, which is an utterly fantastic amount of money. Okay, we admit that this one was pretty lazy...

Did you guys mean "trillion"? It must be trillion lol

It's not an inaccurate statement! "Over 190 million" Gaia Gold is exchanged every day! *coughs* >_>


Narumi Misuhara
Sahri
Games
And question #3 about Lake Kindred xD My ranks are slowly filling up and it's a bit of an unorganised mess now. Could you please look into the possibility of letting us arrange our Kins by dragging their icons in the My Kins screen? emotion_kirakira


Agreed, this is something we want and plan to do.


pepper-tea
Th0tday
Items

Killing myself even thinking about it, but...

Maybe more Cria recolors? emotion_kirakira


None in the works right now, but it probably isn't unlikely XD


bluealaris
Mr Bunny Brigade
event

grunny egg

how come this grunny is set to level 7 to use magic it takes for ever to win a battle

while prunny starts at level 2


Hm, thank you for bringing this up, I will see if the Grunny is missing a skill?


Zero Omega
Castiel Lover
Features

Can Flynns plunder be updated daily with shorter auction times? It would get more gold out of the system and more items that are wanted and rare back into circulation.

We'd love to do that in the future, but right now we have to manually list each item in Flynn's which is a lot of work. If we move to a system where we can automate it, then we'd love to have Flynn more often.


bluealaris
ChaosTrooper
Games - Lake Kindred

Will the [KINDRED] Wealthy Nyaruma be obtainable in game at some point?
Since the Kin can be battled in game, the egg should be obtainable as well! ; u;


Wealthy Nyaruma is very very rare, but is obtainable in the game. They are extremely lucrative and are equivalent to winning the rare drop in a GG, so we are keeping them extremely limited.


bluealaris
Hop Step Instant Death
Items

I'm not exactly sure if it's okay to ask this, but will there be any more new item Chance Items during this month and if so, how many?


We have more coming out this month! Beyond that, I cannot say. 3nodding


bluealaris
Crystal Sparda
Items

I see the Babydoll shorts have been released. May I ask where/how can we obtain these? Is it purely from the Daily Chance?


I believe they are rewards in the original Kin for leveling.


pepper-tea
Halloween Network
items

Question:

Baby Golden ticket

I can make a original BIG ROBOT like Nano-C (Heavy battle suit)?

I'm not the expert on these things, so I could be wrong... but I think that sounds like it would be ok!


bluealaris
K i n g X u m o t - XVI
Features:

Can Gaia hold a sale to support Cecil the lion? And all (or 50% proceeds) go to wildlife conservation efforts or other divisions like in Africa that help protect lions?

Maybe have a lion fur for the [Animal] community and a lion (like Tidus the Lion) for the humans?

Or even a halo that has a little scruff or main around it to represent Cecil (or lions in general)?

This would be amazing if Gaia could support efforts like these.


That's a very touching idea. We will see what we can do!


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Features

I think this falls under Features... sweatdrop

Anyway, will the Google Play cards ever come back as a way to get Gaia cash? That was my main way of getting cash since I don't like using my bank info online. Using the gift card converter is a nice substitute but since you don't get the full amount I see it as a rip off so I don't use it often...

We'd actually love to implement this again! We miss having it too. We're taking a look into what we need to do to fix this, additionally, we're getting users' thoughts on mobile Gaia as a whole, so if you could, check this survey here!


Narumi Misuhara
Blacklacekitten
Features

Is there a way to choose where out kins are in relations to our avatars? I believe my Taru is being covered by my partner's name under my avatar.


Not presently but is something we would like to get get to.


bluealaris
Queer Mishel
Shops

Quite a few AtS' ago, a staff member said that the [animal] OMGs/AFKs/Halos/Ponytails/Braids were accidentally removed from Loyal's Bazaar. Thank you for returning the Ponytails and Braids, but when will you return the others? They've become grossly overpriced in the Marketplace. Some 100m items selling for 25b+ because of their unavailability.


We will put them back in. Thank you for the reminder.


pepper-tea
Esdella Vie
Items

Hello! Can we get more magenta colored items, hair specifically? Amaranth is pretty, but it's not the best pink if you're using a dark base.

P.S.
Will you wish me a Happy Birthday?
emotion_kirakira


We recolor things all the time, so I am sure there will be more some time in the future!

yum_cupcake yum_cupcake yum_cupcake Have a Happy Birthday! yum_cupcake yum_cupcake yum_cupcake


bluealaris
Th0tday
Shops

I know it isn't a priority ninja

but PLEASE larger mythril coins! gonk Even 5b would be a huge difference! Any consideration is appreciated heart


Out of curiosity, what purpose would they serve?


bluealaris
Magically Clueless
Games
Why is Stagony still dropping its own eggs? I thought they were limited edition kins that would be removed after the first event. If this is a mistake, letting you know that... Stagony is still dropping its eggs.


WHAT.


pepper-tea
XonyMudd
Misc/Manga

Is there an update in the works for the near future in the manga, like as in a storyboard being sketched out, or even a script scribbled somewhere on some scrap piece of paper or something? Just curious as to if anything's been done, even if it was just a session or two of spitballing ideas around that turned into a literal spitball fight xD


We haven't forgotten aboutit! The continuation of the current story arc is currently in the works. I don't have anything to show you right now, but hopefully the wait won't be too long!


bluealaris
Strideer
Games

For the Summer of The Smackdown achievements, do you have to beat enemies with your starter or does it not matter? I'm asking this because I've beaten numerous Kokeshi, Somber Kokeshi, and Nyarumas.


I believe you can beat them with any of your Kin, only the point accumulation needs to be done with the Kindred Starter. I will double check to make sure.


bluealaris
lilloulou
Items

Loyal's recent gate items are rather nice. However, some of them ended up in several copies in most inventories (those with higher drop rates probably).

Is there any plan to add alchemy formulas using some of them like last time? If so, any chance we see them before the end of August?


Yes and Ayeeee!


pepper-tea
Woo Mee
Items

Firstly, thank you for the Spring Kokeshi doll, it's nice to have a green Kin (who I called Woo Meelon)
Just wondering if we can have some more melon recolours soon o3o
As it's been left out of recolour rigs and RBGs lately emo


I think that color scheme is part of the summer collection, so it won't show up as often, but that doesn't mean that items using it won't appear here and there!


bluealaris
Catalyste
Game

Currently there is no sellback for any of the Ghost Lanterns, just a Close option.

I'm wondering when that's going to be added?


The Kindred Ghost Lantern should have a sellback option now, but the items they drop don't. I'll test them again to make sure.


bluealaris
Blacklacekitten
Shops

Would there be a way to make our own bundles to sell in the Market Place?
For example, if someone wanted to craft an item in alchemy, but didn't want to open a bunch of caches, they would have to but each component separately. If we could make our own bundles we could sell everything someone would need to craft a recipe all in one place. Kind of like the outfits idea? Where you can see all the items that are included.


That's a Verrrrrrry clever idea, I'm not sure the dev work that it would involve however. Still, very neat concept!


Narumi Misuhara
X_Gokai-Okuzuko_X
Features
Any chance we could, like, get weekly developer updates again? I thought that was really nice, but it's been a long time since anyone's done one.


Yeah, we had stopped because for a long while all the updates were all behind the scenes changes that were not visible by you guys, but yes we can get this back in.


bluealaris
Prisym
Games

About Lake Kindred, when can all of the eggs be unsoulbound? I would love to have the chance to give my extra eggs to those people that don't have the kin that I have far to many extra of. WHilst also looking to get kin that I have none of.


Most soulbound eggs won't be 'un-soulbound', but they do have a sellback value if you don't want them clogging your inventory. Also, some may be used in Alchemy in the future.


bluealaris
Runeis
Hey guys I'm wondering two things.
1: Are the Kitsune and the Tanuki from the events going to have evolutions.

2: Pegacorn fluff at LAST but.

then this happened.

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Wellllllllllll :goes off to fix:


pepper-tea
Ella-Maie
Items/Misc

While there have certainly been some fantastic animal designs in the past year, are any of you feeling particularly inspired by animals that haven't been Gaia-fied yet? emotion_kirakira

I'll just leave this here... ninja

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


So cuuuuute!

Who knows what will inspire the artists making the animal items XD


Narumi Misuhara
lurks beneath
Features

Sorry if this is a dupe...

User Image

A few days ago, special items started appearing misaligned. Is there an ETA for this fix?


o.O We'll have to take a closer look at this.


pepper-tea
Galphath
ITEM

Hello, the latest loyal's gate came with the brave hind of avalon but the icons preview are from another avalon and also some male and female poses have different colors the tail for example.


That was fast! but the colors on the female item are still wrong for the tail and upper body part


I am told that we are waiting on the servers to catch up XD


bluealaris
CreativeVision
games/lake kindred
I was wondering if there could come something like a challenge world/battle tower/colosseum, each stage (based on level) would hold a mob wave for you to slaughter, where the kindreds come at you one after another without leaving the battle scene, so that you can't get back your health instantly. At the end of it, if you managed to survive you get some better prizes, perhaps even points for completing a stage that count towards a weekly/daily competition with a hall of fame.


PVP would be sweet and we're definitely looking at making that possible.


Narumi Misuhara
Blacklacekitten
Narumi Misuhara
Blacklacekitten
Features

I put the wrong user number in Avatar Builder and locked myself out. I tried clearing my cache but that didn't help and it didn't reset last time you guys took Avatar Builder down for maintenance. Is there a way for me to reset it when it comes back on?


I don't think I fully understand the problem your having, can you elaborate a bit more? What do you mean by you locked yourself out?


I get a message that says invalid user data or something and could not find user, but there is no way for me to go back and put a different user data in. Whenever I click on the avatar builder that is the only message I get.


Sounds like your data somehow became corrupted. I've completely removed your ava from the builder database but you may have to wait for the data to cache bust before you can use it again. That may take anywhere from now to 24 hours. :/