November 3rd

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Welcome Back!

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Events

Got any hints for the Christmas event? Who it'll involve and what can we expect?

First we have Black Friday. ;D ... It will be a frosty winter.

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Events

Can you consider having events longer than 2 weeks in the future please? With the inclusion of Lake Kindred in them, and especially since the focus changed halfway, it's just way too short.

The lengths of our events will vary. Some will be short and some will be long.

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Shops

I noticed a lot of items in the Cash Shop have recently jumped in price, such as bundles now jumping from their previous price from 1499GC to 1699GC. Is this change permanent?

Items in La Victoire, Mecha Neko, Rococo, and Club Verge are not usually guaranteed a set price unless they are a standard monthly item or we have explicitly stated a standard price for those types of items. The prices of items rely heavily on the quality of the content, the amount to be released, the rarity, and other factors.

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Game/Items

In the Market Place we cant tell what radiant kins are, can you do something about this please?

We are working on a fix for the Marketplace. c:

Forum Changes!
We've briefly mentioned how we're looking at cleaning up and consolidating some of our forums this year, and now we've finalized which forums we'll be adjusting. You can see the list here!


excitable sloth
Dark_Slytherin
excitable sloth
Darc Nightgale
Features/Event

First I wanted to thank you guys for the Halloween, and for all the achievements. whee

As for my question. I was wonderin' if these achievements are goin' to be available or if they are currently glitched? And if we are goin' to be able to get them does the Pumpkin Willocroak count toward the Full Selection achievement?
Achievement hunters were wantin' to know since the event ends today.

As always thank you for takin' the time to answer my questions. biggrin

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Scary Sampling - 50

Awarded to any Gaian who obtained at least one Halloween 2k15 Event Enemy Kin!

Titles: Scary, Alarming, Bud, Chum, Kin


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Full Selection - 200

Awarded to Gaians who obtained one of each normal Halloween 2k15 Event Enemy Kin!

Titles: Kindred, Demure, Toxic, Commander


Pumpkin Willocroak does not count for the achievement. He was a little surprise~.

I'm assuming Lapinkin is needed for this...?

Why is it's drop rate almost non-existent, that is if it is dropping at all.


The drop rate for Lapinkin was increased today.


excitable sloth
Twisted Lady
Items

For the Kindred booster packs, could we get a content list added to the shop descriptions?


I will work on this. C:
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Sure can! Check back before tomorrow morning at 10 AM PST. There will be descriptions. smile


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Niki-Senpai
Hello staff! Thank you for another week of AtS~

Events/Features
The "Available Achievements" section on the achievement page used to update when new events happened. However it hasn't done that for quite some time now.

Could we possibly get that feature back for the next and all upcoming events (especially the Lake Kindred centric ones)? I recall that clicking the achievement through there would show a progress count, if one was applicable. That would be really useful to have if we had to, say, kill a bunch of different enemies x amount of times. ;o


We'll look more into this! Thanks for the heads up.


excitable sloth
Sailor Buffy
Games

The kindred game is nice and all but I am getting fed up with the captchas not loading. Today I used up 4 small heals and 2 singes to kill shadowjack and it gets stuck in loading the image captcha so not only did I lose a kill but several potions that I bought. Please fix this.


We are working on this at the moment.


excitable sloth
Nenanah
Games

Since we have a fishing game I was thinking that it would be cool to have a bug/trash/flower hunting game outside of towns. We could have a leader board and people with the highest monthly scores could get a bug/flower/trash hunting trophy. I think it would be really fun, and it would give us more things to do. Bug/trash/flower hunting in towns can be a pain because we have to dodge houses and trees then sometime rooms get so crowded with people it's hard to find stuff. It would help those who are doing alchemy a lot too because it would give us easier way to get stuff for our formulas and we wouldn't have to deal with that annoying cap in the towns game. Can you look into doing this?


This is a really cool idea~ c:


Zero Omega
Hina Is Not New
Features/Forums

I hope Zero senpai will notice me. emotion_kirakira
Is there anyway you could perhaps make sticky threads in the Bug Report & Technical Support forum for glitches regarding:

Loyal's tokens/tickets being reset without getting membership.
Issues regarding daily treat not granting the right reward.
Achievement lags/achievements not being granted?

These three topics seem the most common in this section and it would really help since members can't really help with these issues.

And it would really help if you updated the "Not A Bug" thread to add that the Avatar Builder is closed when/before major RIGs are released. This seems to be a commonly brought up topic as well.

Pretty please?

Sure! Definitely something that we can take a look out!

Noticed.


excitable sloth
Xashowd
Items

Can you guys please unsoulbind Charge Orbs? With so many dropping from LK and their main use nowadays in Alchemy, there's literally no reason for the Soulbind to remain on them.


I will see if this is possible. C:


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Rhea Byrne
Features

Can we have a necromancer achievement title in the future?


This is a definite possibility once an opportunity to use such a spooky title presents itself.


excitable sloth
Whiskey-Chan
Features

Is it possible you can make it so game items, such as fish and kindred potions can be added to our wishlists?


I will see if we can do this!


excitable sloth
Spacebabie76
ITEM

A gold or silver crown like embellishment topped with either a large twine like loop or a hook that our avatars can wear on our head. When it is equiped it would make our avatar look like an ornament.

I don't know if you have caroling or advent items all planned out yet, but this head item could be one of those.

P.S. Today is my birthday.


Happy Birthday!!
This is a cool idea. C:


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Misc

Remember this onsite advertisement sticky? Some of the info is misleading and people are using linked images to bump threads, some mods are saying it's allowed and some aren't. It's really confusing for myself and others. I was told that these rules would be looked over and possibly updated with a clearer version of the policy but that was a couple months ago... When are we going to get this cleared up?

Yup, that is going to be addressed with a bunch of other forums changes that we'll be doing to the forums.


excitable sloth
Shrimp_Man
Games

If the Kandy and Jack seeds are going to leave the game with the end of the event, could you please add alchemy formulas to make them? Not everyone could play the game all day every day to get the amounts needed for the alchemy formulas. And I specifically did not get any seeds until the last few days of the event so I really couldn't get all of the ones I needed.


I will see if we can do this, but I don't believe so. Sorry. :C


excitable sloth
speed2616203260fan
Features?

With Inventory and Marketplace can we get a new tab for "Kindred" related things?


We are working on this! C:


excitable sloth
Meromictic
Items

Can we please have a longer window to buy the splicing bundle? OR more rounds?


There will be more rounds. C:
It's not going anywhere.


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Jisen Meizuki
Items

Since Rainbow Seal has been introduced to Gaia, what will become of the Capture Seal?

I really hope it got abolish that the more of those two user recolored kins be more than 25. ;3;


The Capture Seal won't be completely eradicated, but it will be significantly less common than the Rainbow Seal from here on out. The Rainbow Seal is just more fun!


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ChaosTrooper
Games – Lake Kindred

Would you consider creating a consumable item that can change a Kin’s radiance?
I made a thread about it here, and so far it has been very positively received.


That's a rad idea. It's a definite possibility for future updates!
excitable sloth
The sky is the limit~.


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Misc

A few weeks ago I asked about you guys creating a sticky where we could request RIG items and other items to be re-released, you said that you could do this. It's been awhile, when will we get this sticky? Lots of items have very few or zero listings and it's causing inflation.

Bam!

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/gaia-community-discussion/what-would-you-like-to-see-in-rococo/t.97850761/


excitable sloth
Hina Is Not New
Games/Items

A candy cane Sakura Pegacorn Fluff recolor for Christmas, maybe?
And maaaybe a reindeer Stagony recolor? ninja


c:
We have plans for many things.


excitable sloth
Castiel Lover
Events

Love the many things to do in the lake kindred events, but when you give us so much to do, please give us a longer time to do it! We only had a few days when the labs were opened to quickly change focus and level TWO event kins for the shard splicing and jack achievements. We need more time. The labs should have been opened much earlier.

No question, but just a request that you consider the time it will take to really do everything in an event and release parts of the event accordingly, in the future.

Other than that, thanks for a fun, albeit impossible to do it all, event.


In the future we will be planning more accordingly.


excitable sloth
Xashowd
Games

Out of curiosity, what kind of plans do you have for LK in November? Being a downtime month, I think adding in some Quality-of-Life updates (like Nicknaming and Kin Arrangement that doesn't require Firefox) would be nice. Though if you guys are just gonna prep for Xmas, I understand.


We are working on many things involving these types of ideas. ;D
We are also planning our next big event, but for now we are working on maintenance.


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Nenanah
Shops

Can Dernier Cri please get monthly updates like the other gold shops? Surely it cant be too hard to put one new item in there each month. That shop is so neglected it isn't even funny and it's a shame because that shop has some pretty cool items.


Dernier Cri is a special shop that does need a little TLC, and we definitely have some plans for things we would like to change or add in the future. I cannot guarantee or specify a time frame or release schedule at this time, but thanks for your suggestion!


excitable sloth
ChaosTrooper
Games – Lake Kindred

Would you consider adding Owlatte to the new Gaia Lab area, with a possibility of it dropping it’s egg?


Probably not. :C
But there may be other ways to get him though!


excitable sloth
St V-Starr
Features/Lake Kindred

Are we still going to be to earn kandy and seeds after the event? These two items are HEAVILY used in many of the new alchemy formulas including eggs and splicing shards and I was wondering if those "behind" on their splicing and egg goals will have to grind our way to get as much kandy as possible before the event ends today/tomorrow.


These items will not be available after the event.
However until midnight tonight they will be bumped up to higher chance. c:
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Kandy and Seeds will not be dropping from Kin after the event is over at 11:59 PM PST tonight. You will be able to get them on the Marketplace from other users.


excitable sloth
IIYOBA
Games

Kindred:

1. I know you guys are working on a way to sort kin, any update on that progression?
2. Also, have you guys considered giving Kindred get its own tab in Inventory? I currently keep mine in the locker since it's easier to find them that way, but it would be nice to just have them automatically stick in a regular spot.

Fishing:

It's been down for quite a while...any idea when it will be fixed or if its being worked on?


1. We are working on it! C:
2. The inventory idea is one that we're working on as well. c:


Zero Omega
Serenith
Features?

Any chance of bringing back the spotlight to bring the community and it's own threads back into the announcements?

We're considering this and would love to do this!


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Nenanah
Games/Items

In my invo the kin drop for the regular Kokeshi Doll kin does not show up however I can still use them in the game. Can you fix this please?... I have some doubles that I cannot get rid of because they are not showing up in my invo... sweatdrop


We're looking into this. Thanks for the heads up!


Zero Omega
Sailor Buffy
Games

Can we get an update on fishing? It has been broken for 6 months now. I miss fishing with my friends, completing my quests and earning an Angelic Rod.

We currently do not have an update with regards to fishing, we have not abandoned the game and still would like to fix it. When we do have an update for the game rest assured that we will make a staff notice to let users know what is going on.


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Elementis_Dragon
items
Is their a reason theirs no November Sealed Letter 2015 Bundle in the CS, the reg 250 one is their but not the 999 bundle? Ive looked everywhere.


No reason at all! It should appear in La Victoire shortly. If it isn't in there by 10 AM PST tomorrow, feel free to drop me a PM and I'll see if it's bugged.


excitable sloth
Xashowd
Games/Alchemy

Can we have older RIG Kin get Alchemy Formulas? Like Blood Grunny, Ember the Fox...ones whose RIGs have left the CS. It would be great to have a method to get them that doesn't involve heavy amounts of luck, and also enable more to be found in Gaia as a whole.


These may be available in the future, but not necessarily from Alchemy Formulas.


excitable sloth
Castiel Lover
Kindred

Any chance in the future we can scrap kin for ally potions equivalent to their level? (perhaps they'd need to be at least level 5)

There are kin that we have leveled and realized were really weak and would rather use that experience on a different kin.


This is a nice idea, but unfortunately no. :C


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Shrimp_Man
Items

So for those of us who cannot purchase the Glowing Shards from the CS or the MP, could there possibly be an Alchemy formula for it down the line? I really want a Venomous Cabochomp and Pumpkin colored kins but I'm not paying 499 for one shard. sweatdrop


This may be a possibility in the future, but I don't anticipate it being in the near future and cannot guarantee it as an option. A good alternative to buying the shards from La Victoire might be to keep an eye on the Marketplace!


excitable sloth
Shrimp_Man
excitable sloth
Shrimp_Man
Items

So for those of us who cannot purchase the Glowing Shards from the CS or the MP, could there possibly be an Alchemy formula for it down the line? I really want a Venomous Cabochomp and Pumpkin colored kins but I'm not paying 499 for one shard. sweatdrop


This is a Cash Shop shard only. Sorry. :C

Wellt hen can you guys at least lower the price of them or add multiples in a bundle? 499 is a lot of gc for one shard and a potion that can be got for less than 25b. sweatdrop


When you buy a shard you are essentially buying a new kin.


excitable sloth
Ridley Starsmore
Event

I know you folks likely have the winter event all planned out. But in case you do not, I'd like to make a suggestion/request.

Keep it simple.

You folks have done a great job promoting LK for the past three events,and we have the huge Black friday 'sale' coming up. This holiday season, it'd be nice to see the event be something easier on folks who maybe do not have the time, with holidays and family obligations, and may not have the time to grind hours upon hours for an event.

So I would suggest an advent calendar, a legit one. Starting on the 1st of December, and going to the 25th. Show up, click your day's box, get the item/ci/kin/whatever. Miss a day? No worries, older boxes can be clicked for 10k-100k gold. Event can float for the week after, so the chances last all month. No saving for crafting one alchemy item, no grinding, just a nice, simple event that everyone can enjoy, no matter the level of dedication they can allow for the event. Let folks focus more on friends and family.


We have the Holiday event planned out. C: And I can say it's more simple. c:


excitable sloth
Hop Step Instant Death
Items

Could we possibly please have a [animal] CI at some point? It's been more than half a year since Purrsonification III happened. emotion_0A0

I was all excited when there were rumors floating around at there having been talk about one and all the usermade paw items, but all of those ended up getting put in the Lucky Rabbit's Foot CI which was otherwise completely human items other than all the usermade ones. gonk


c:
There will be something for Paws this month. c:


excitable sloth
Nenanah
Event

On the last day of the event and future events that have to do with Lake Kindred could you give us double the xp per kill, it doesn't have to be in all areas, only giving the boost in the event areas would be sufficient. The game is fun but grinding through levels to make our kin stronger is very time consuming... A lot of us have school and work that takes up most of our time... Would you please consider this?


Experience, likely not. But we may do like we did this event and up the chances. C:
NOT for every event, but it is a possiblity.


excitable sloth
Whiskey-Chan
Games

Is it possible you guys can take a teeny tiny break from Lake Kindred and work on other games on the website? They seem to be pretty neglected.


Our team that works on Kindred doesn't necessarily work on the rest of the site. :C


excitable sloth
Niccolo Ammaniti
Games – Lake Kindred

Is it possible to get the visual effects of the skills to match the skill itself? There is only like... four different animations (two lazer beams, a cloud burst, and a scratch, really) and I don't see how skills like.... candy crash would look like a cat scratch. ;_;


We will work on this in the future! C:


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Xashowd
Items

How do you plan to sell the Splicing Shards in the future? More specifically, will they always be in Bundles, or can we expect Singles as well? Getting the Shard outright for 199 GC, with a pack of 2-3 Shards being 499, would be pretty awesome.


Due to some complexities in the coding of items like the Splice Items, they actually have to be in the form of a bundle to be released into a shop. We also like to stick with the bundles because it gives us a chance to include other potions or items that may be hard to come by!

We can definitely consider the idea of larger "Super Bundles" including more Splice Items in the future.


excitable sloth
Nenanah
Games/Features

This is a bit of a novel, apologizing beforehand. emotion_c8

Not sure if you've seen my gripe thread over in the SF forum, if not then here you go. We really need a LK tab, those of us with thousands of items are having hell with item organization. I cant move my kins around and because of this I'm not sure of what is a double and what isn't. I like to keep one lunar and one solar of each kin, then it's recolors then I would like to keep my kins in groups that way the doubles are at the end so I can tell what my doubles are with ease. But with this set up you have (or should I say lack of one) we cant do this unless we want to sit at the computers for ages. Sure I could type it in to pull up the LK items all at once but even then it still wont let me sort them and it doesn't tell me if the kin is solar/lunar. You guys really need to figure something out, the organization of kins has been an issue since the game launched. You would think that you would have had something in place when the game launched like you did with zOMG! but you didn't for some reason, not this time. Please would you get something done? You keep shoving out new levels and new kins, now give us a way to organize and actually tell which one is solar/lunar.


We are working on the tab in inventory.
The issues that you address cannot necessarily be addressed by the same people working on the other things you've listed.


excitable sloth
Hillbilly Hikari
Features

Would it be posible to make a feature where we can organize our Kin in-game? Like switch them around in the "My Kin" section of the game so we can have ready access to the ones we prefer to use all the time or the ones we're focusing on lvling up? By type, level, or something? Anything less chatoic than it already is?


We are working on a feature similar to this. C:


excitable sloth
icey bb
Kindred

Bit of a long shot, but a suggestion- would be nice if there could be an option (like in other pet fighting games) to turn animations off? (Like of character entrances, attack animation, bouncing etc.) I feel like it would load better for people on a slower connection. But nbd, thanks a ton for all your hard work!


We will look into this! C:


excitable sloth
Ridley Starsmore
excitable sloth
AntagonizedMismanager
Are the new Kin areas going to stay? Or will they, and ShadowJack, be going away? It would be a shame, given the fact that I know I was struggling to get hands on the seeds for alchemy, and I'd like to be able to keep farming for them.


They will be there to fight, however they will not drop their own eggs anymore.


Gotta say, seeing stuff like that is making me want to play this game less and less. Why would you introduce game elements like that, and discontinue using them/ giving access to them? Seems like a waste of resources.


They are from the event.
You will still be able to fight them.
And I never said they would be gone forever.


excitable sloth
LazyS3x
Games/Lake Kindred

Will there be other ways of getting the Glowing Splicing Shards and other shards in the future? As not everyone can afford the cash to get them sweatdrop


The Glowing Splicing Shard is a Cash Shop card. You may be able to trade/buy them from someone who buys them though. C:


excitable sloth
Shrimp_Man
Games

When you guys update LK again, could you guys possibly make it so that when you're using a potion, the screen doesn't jump back to the first page? With several kins with more than 100 stamina, it's frustrating to have to jump back 6 or so pages to use multiple stamina potions.


I will look into this! C:


excitable sloth
His Kuren
Games

When we level up our kin, could we include in the screen that shows stat changed that a new skill was learned? I'm running a guide and one of the most common issues I have is users who do level certain kin don't give their kins a break from ally pot guzzling to check if they gained a new skill. It would be really helpful to at least have a screen or insert of "Obtained new skill!" so users can know when to check their skills.


I will look into this! C:


excitable sloth
Blood Pop
Items

Is there a specific reason that not all the Pawstamp Kin equip items come with the actual Kin as a pose?
This is just very bizarre to me, and I'm curious about the reasoning behind it~ c:


This is something that we are looking to keep consistent from here forward. C:


excitable sloth
Meryddth
Features

Could you guys add a Lake Kindred Lite link in the games section? A lot of people don't know about it and it's really useful smile


I will see if we can do this! C:


excitable sloth
Paperworm
Games: Lake Kindred

The Game crashes every 5 Minutes with an "oh no" Message on a blank Page. On Chrome. I posted this Issue on the Bug Report Forum a Week ago, but no one knew anything about it.
Same Issue occurs when two of my Friends play.
Does anyone know what is causing it and how to fix it?
The Game does seem to work on Firefox though. So whats wrong with Chrome I wonder?
Can you recommend a certain Browser to play Lake Kindred?


Firefox is probably your best bet. C:


excitable sloth
Fayt_of_Redemption
Question Category Games

Lake Kindred - Can we get an alternative to splicing please? What I mean is, a way to splice if we don't have both a lunar and Solar one. As it stands, you either have to have 2 of a Kin and HOPE they're opposites, or, use a splicing service/borrow from people. This is not ideal, as some people don't trust their Kins to be borrowed by people, or trading over their shards to be spliced. I propose having either a GOLD shop, or a feature within the game where, if you have one Kin, say an Ember the Spirited Fox, you can splice it with a "dummy" Kin as it were. That way, people wouldn't have to worry about having the proper Kin or people running off with their Kin.


Splicing is between two kin.
c:
If people decide to use a splicing or borrowing service, that's their decision.


excitable sloth
Artistic Mutiny
Features/Games

The next time you guys update the game, could you add a Cure Poison button to the screen where you send your kins to sleep/bring them to battle.
That is if you have potions to do it. If not then it will be grayed out. Or just not appear at all for the unpoisoned kins.


I will look into something like this.


excitable sloth
Alice Allusion
Events

Any hints to what the December event theme will be?


Frosty. C:


excitable sloth
IIYOBA
Games

Question! If Kandy and Seeds won't be available after tonight, what about ghost shards ._. will they have a new crafting recipe or will they just no longer be accessible D:


They will have the same crafting recipe. C:
They were event exclusive shards, but more shards with different outcomes will become available in the future.


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Leothalis the Sorcerer
Items

Will Ember the Spirited Fox and Sakura Fluff ever make a return to the cash shop, even for only a little while?


It's a possibility, but I would recommend looking for them in chance items rather than waiting for them to appear in the shop.


excitable sloth
kitsunen
Events

I saw that you said you wont be dropping any seeds and kandy after the event and we need to buy from otehr users in teh MP but this is prone to hoarding.

Can you make Kandies and seeds available as alchemy craftable items atleast?


Kandies and seeds are exclusive to the Halloween event, so the answer is likely no.


Zero Omega
seahaze
Items

The Taru event kin has been unsoulbound. However, the Kitsuko event kin is still locked.

Are there plans to unsoulbind Kitsuko and/or the other Zen Gardens event kins? The event has been over for a while now, and we've had a new event since then that didn't have bound kins in it.

It will be addressed!