March 1st

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Games - Lake Kindred
Hello Staff! I was wondering if there's any news about certain features within Lake Kindred and where they are in the work pipeline at the moment.
Things like: Giving Kin nicknames, Rearranging Kin within the game, a possible rebalancing of stats for Kin...
Those are the ones I can think of at the moment that I've read people mentioning before. Any news?

Hello! We are working on quite a few things at the moment, but:

-Rearranging kin has been fixed, as of today! Rearrange them in your inventory.
-We are working on nicknaming kins at the moment.
-Rebalancing of starter kin will happen in the near future. c:

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Features

Do you have any plans to update the site layout/design so that it is in keeping with current website trends and friendly to mobile users?

It's something we're keeping in mind!

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Items

Loyalty Crowns and Annual T-shirts
Are they a thing this year (keeping in mind that I did see three colour leaks of Loyalty Crowns back when the Avatar Builder was released, so I know they're already made and whatnot), and will they be coming out any time soon?

Sorry, we're taking a look into this!

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Features

Will there be Alchemy formulas released that use the Frozen Gateway items like there were for the last few Gateways? I'd just like to know before I decide what to do with my excess items.

We probably won't see this in formulas, but we'll have a way for you to get rid of them!


excitable sloth
Castiel Lover
Features

The new kin sorting ability is great, but can we please have a way to see their solar/lunar signs in the inventory (even if it's just text in their description)? I want to know which duplicates I can sell off and yet keep one of each type.


I will look into this and see if it can be done! C:


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Ren Orenji Doragon
IRL Events

Is there a schedule for the Convention Tour yet? surprised


This is still in the works, but once the cons start approaching, we'll be sure to release announcements and threads to let everyone know we'll be there!


Zero Omega
Angels Alibi
Events

The achievements for the v-day events are still bugged and not granting
Any word on that? (Ticket was filed, just curious since lately achievements have been having granting issues)

It's still something we're working on, sorry!


excitable sloth
Woo Mee
Events

Can you guys consider using quoting as a major feature during an event only for shorter events? I found the recent Valentine's event quite annyoing, in that people would quote posts I made during the first hour of the forum being up or so, but I never posted in there again.
It was a huge put off for me personally and I know other people found the spam quote notifications annoying as well. o3o


We will keep this in mind. C:
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We'll keep this feedback in mind going forward. Thanks!


excitable sloth
Angels Alibi
Shops//Market

Does staff know about the ABP bug issue?


Yes! We do know about it. We are looking into it.


excitable sloth
Lady Saxophone
Items

Most people have figured out by now that when an item is recolored, it has the "Not Released" glitch happen to it.
Is there any way you guys can prevent this from happening so that we don't have to keep bugging our artists about broken items?


That actually isn't what happens when an item is recolored.
But we are well aware of this issue and are working on it.


Zero Omega
Castiel Lover
Events

Any news on if another item kickstarter is in the works? A lot of Gaians suffer from massive inventories and the bugs that come with it. It would alleviate some of those problems if we could dump all our useless things into convert-o-matic again.

Also, it would cut back on the excessive numbers of certain low valued items, which would in turn raise their value a little if enough were destroyed. To do this, you would have to let every single item have a destroy value.

So, is there an item kickstarter in the plans currently? If not, please consider one soon!

It's something that we're thinking of! No guarantees on when we might actually do something like this but it's crossed our minds.


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Ranas94
Items
I've been wondering about this for a few day, can the items within tier's CIs be re-released? I know most CIs aren't tier exclusives but I don't recall seeing any of them re-released outside of coupons and even less their drops...


As of right now, Tier exclusive CIs are rereleasable in their entirety via coupon or a future tier, but the individual items within are exclusive to that CI. We may reconsider this stance in the future, though!

There are often CIs included in tiers that are NOT exclusives, though, and those are usually found directly in the cash shop. smile


excitable sloth
chriscia
Items/RIGs

I thought rainbow ticket items in RIGS are supposed to be rare / low drop rate?

How come people can get them easily now?
(Except for the last one since no one is buying the RIG since it is mpre expensive)


They are still just as rare as they have previously been.


excitable sloth
MrsAddington0225
Games
What do I do with a sealed restore from Lake Kindred?


It currently has no purpose.


Narumi Misuhara
XVampire_Angel19X
Games

Question: What happened to the dumpster dive? Why cant we get donated items from other gaians?


We'll need to do some investigating on this. It may possibly be due to a failure in our caching system or changes to the item deletion system.


Zero Omega
Chibi Halo
Events

A little while ago, maybe last month, I asked about a possible Rejected Olympics in the pre-event thread and got a very promising response. This time, since we have a new month with a major holiday in it, I'd like to ask about any hints for Easter. Is there anything you can give us regarding who might be running the Easter event this year (Easter Bunny, Bunny Rangers, The Easter Ian perhaps)? Also are there any more hints towards what summer will be or is it too early to tell?

I'll let you in on a hint...

... Easter is in March this year. ninja

That's all I've got for you right now! cool


excitable sloth
Touhru Adachi
Lake Kindred / Items

Since it's now Spring, is there any info on when the Mysterious Kindred Egg will be hatching? gonk


Soon enough! But remember that Spring is a few months of time. So it could be later spring. C:


Princess Angelishia
Castiel Lover
Items

I've noticed Ruby Ticket hasn't been included in the ticket discounted sales in a long time, and it hasn't been in a rig in a long time, either. What gives?

6T / Ruby Ticket. Make it easier by upping the supply, please?


Some tickets take more time to complete than others. This means that we may not run sales on or rerelease these tickets as much as others. But we'll take your feedback into account and see what we can do!


Narumi Misuhara
Yuekazehime
Games

Was Switchem taken down to be worked on, or will it not be returning because of the exploit with it?


If we can get the exploit completely addressed we'd like to bring it back.


Zero Omega
Nick_austin90
Features

Awhile back you guys had a cookie voting-thing going on to see if there are features Gaians would want. I voted for a bank feature but then it was never heard of ever again. I would like your take on this matter. I personally would love to see this feature happening. I like my gold and I want to store it somewhere.

Hear my story. One time I had tried keeping it in a trade with my mule account but for some unknown reason, the trade vanished along with 10 mill worth of gold. This was when 10 mill meant something. Upon checking with my mule accounts, the gold never appeared in either account. See, I did reach out for help but no one could prove I had made that trade. So, could you please consider this featurd again? Maybe the safety feature could be a pin number instead of something complex.

Thank you for your time.

A bank is something we've considered before, but probably not something we're going to immediately do anytime in the future. Sorry.


Zero Omega
Ranas94
Features (signature)
So, the file size limit for the pics in our signatures is only 100.000 bytes, which isn't a lot really. This limit doesn't let us put gifs, as they are almost always heavier than that. I was wondering if this limit has been like this for years or not, since as far as I know most users have better connection than we used to. Have you thought about changing it or is this limit really the best one?~

We have thought about increasing it! Haven't made a decision if we will yet though.


Princess Angelishia
bluecherry
Princess Angelishia
Jave Chiller
1.Are you going to make outfits purchasable by GC?

2.I have another suggestion. The runway Museum...Can you make it to where we can actually buy the outfits in the museum. I see some that I think are beautiful and would love to make them or buy them but dont know what all the items on them are, I would have bought several already if they had been for sell..TIA


1. There is not currently a plan to do so, but it's not a bad idea for the future.

2. That's another great suggestion! Not something that we can do easily right now, but we'll keep it in mind for future updates!

Thanks for the suggestions. emotion_yatta
PLEASE DON'T DO #2. I think you would SEVERELY anger many runway winners and get people to stop using runway if you did this. Gaia may not recognize copyrights on avatars, but maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany users consider it very, very rude to copy somebody else's avatar.


If we did implement this, it would of course be subject to whether or not you had your equipped list hidden or not. If you choose to keep what you are wearing hidden, we have no intention of showing it!


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dreamsk
Features

Would Gaia ever consider building a calendar for past/current/future Cash Shop items/sales? I know a lot of users would feverishly stalk this page, and it would increase revenue for you!


We always try to release a nice visual guide to our annual Black Friday Sale, among other major sales events!


excitable sloth
lepuranya
Rigs/story?

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in the past year or so ive noticed we havent had any major story based rigs, just rigs that are like

character A
{insert description}
click here to claim your item


can we have a story rig, maybe with gaia npcs we havent seen in a while or based off an evolving item maybe??


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Story rigs are really cool, but they are a lot of work too! It is possible to do it in the future, but I'm not sure if we have one planned. c:


excitable sloth
Zanethemayor
Lake Kindred

Hello staff! I'm here yet again. Anyways, I was wondering if there is going to be a fix for the Restore potion. This may of been asked before but, I was wondering if there's going to be some type of fix like if the restore potions are going to have a second use like the poison potions or are the restore potions eventually are going to be having their intended use.


There may be a fix for them eventually, but at the moment there is no fix.


Narumi Misuhara
Mazaryn
Features
Is there a reason for the GCash into Gaia Gold conversion system of the marketplace? It seems counter-productive to me, as not only it wastes GCash without letting the seller get even a penny of it, it pumps more Gold into the economy every time someone uses it as well. If you want to help fix the excess gold in the economy, might I recommend fixing this so that the seller receives GCash directly, or removing the conversion altogether until you can think of a better system?


The purpose was to allow those who wished the choice of what currency they wanted to use for marketplace purchasing. We do not give gcash to the seller as this would become an administration nightmare in the event of compromised accounts.


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ChaosTrooper
Items

Is there a way that this can be re-released via Rococo, direct CS release, or as a RIG drop?
There are great items that can ONLY be found from that bundle, and I think it might be extinct.

I made a request in the Rococo thread, but honestly I don't feel too optimistic.


We do regularly check that thread, but thanks for the extra heads up!


Princess Angelishia
Nymphadora Tonks Airman
Cash Shop/Ticket

surprised ok, my friend said she saw somewhere, where staff has said that there won't ever be a 50% off sale on tickets anymore (she couldn't find where it was said though gonk ) surprised I was wondering if this was true or not crying :: crosses fingers this isn't true ::


Hey there! We are still running some good sales on tickets pretty frequently! They may not be 50% but they are still pretty generous sales!


Narumi Misuhara
kitsunenochi017
Features

In Runway...it seems like when you are voting you repeatedly get the same avi thrown in your face no matter how much you refresh. Is there some way you could make it to either look for an avi or get a more diverse selection to vote on?

(I literally clicked over one avatar like 7 times that kept popping up)


We've been looking at possibly an exclude list for avatars voted on or even changing the voting structure with positive and negative votes.


excitable sloth
Jisen Meizuki
Project / Item

Okay, I had sent an email concerning about the Project Ticket, especially toward Rainbow and/or Double Rainbow. I have yet to get an answer about it. Please answer this since this is quite concern for those who thought about recoloring an item.

Last month, an user was on a quest for Rainbow Seal but wanted to recolor the user kin. The user of the kin had little to no interest in Gaia, making it quite difficult for the user to get permission to recolor, had it not been the creator's friend to help out.

Since we have new people coming in, there's a good chance that the user won't know about this or that the creator is no longer active in Gaia, making it difficult to ask permission. So my question is this:

Can we make like a time period (like the LQI) where once the time passed, users will be able to recolor without asking the creator's permission?

I know this may go against the rule as well as maybe going against the wishes of the creator if they don't wish their items to be used (except for Gaia), but it also put down those who wish to use the tickets to recolor in the color scheme they wish to see and it's quite little to none chance for Gaia to recolor it in their own term of which items will be recolored.


I don't see this happening in the future.


excitable sloth
Zanethemayor
Lake Kindred

Yes, another question about Lake Kindred. So my question will be, is there a "Hit-rate" for kin? I ask this because I have noticed some kin hit the enemy more than others and I was wondering if there's a hidden stat for their hit-rate or if it's just my bad luck.


There is a hit rate, but most of the kin have a very similar one. c:


excitable sloth
Chibi Halo
Items

I was wondering how do you guys decide on what to use for a new color combo around Gaia? I know melty was user inspired but where do you guys get the ideas for a lot of your new combos? I'm curious because I'm hoping one day, even if I have to get a Rainbow Ticket for it, my new favorite personal combo I call Seaglass could become a real Gaia color combo.


We find them a lot of different ways. Sometimes we just try them out and see how they do. Other times a user has a really good color scheme. C:


Narumi Misuhara
2sammygate
features

is anything on gaia expected to break when threads reach an extra digit? we all know how badly programmed everything here is lol.


We have a "Congratulations, you've reached the end of the internet." page prepared.


excitable sloth
Spooty Head Mayzie
Events

Will the upcoming Easter event incorporate Lake Kindred into it like the past several events have? 3nodding


Yes! C:
There will be an addition to Kindred in this next event.


excitable sloth
Solnya
Games - Lake Kindred

Is there anything in the works for using up 'excess' skill points aside from using them to evolve kin? I'm sure I'm not the only one with well over double or even triple the 'max' number of skill points.
For example, if there was something like the ability to purchase one hour stat boosts for around 1k per kin through the in game store. Personally I'd love a feature like this, as it would allow users to play kin they like without them having to be super over leveled if they've got weaker stats, or attacks.


This sounds like it would be cool, but I'm not sure if it's possible in the future.


excitable sloth
Shrimp_Man
Lake Kindred

Could we possibly get the animations turned off by default on the lite version? The animations take up so much time and cause lag that I think should be eliminated from the version that is meant to be played on mobile devices.


This question has been asked, and I can see if it is possible, but as of right now it isn't possible.


Princess Angelishia
Deus F
Features

I was guaranteed months ago that commas would be promptly added to bidding in auctions to make the whole process either. This has not been the case. It has been over EIGHT MONTHS since it was agreed to without a sign of change. People still make bad bids and people still have to file tickets for a problem which could be easily prevented and people still want this change.

So, here's my question: When will the silliness end? When will basic site features be put ahead of selling items? I'm sure the answer is never, as shown by the lack of action. I love Gaia, but sometimes, you make it hard to love.

When things like
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go unchanged for over a year, is that not sheer sloppiness? Come on, friends, "Laywer". Really?

Please do as you promise. Stop the nonsense.

Make Gaia Great Again.


Hello there,

So we are at any given time working on both fixing features and making new items. It's not the same folks who do each.

That said, thanks a bunch for bringing up the typo. We'll look into getting that fixed asap!

I believe the comma issue takes more time to change and is more complicated to fix but we'll definitely add it to our list of things to check up on and see what can be done.

Thanks for loving Gaia enough to point these things out.


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Fibonacci To Infinity
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Fibonacci To Infinity
Items/CIs

Should we expect a rerelease of tier items in the future from past tiers?
I know of the 6 months rule but there are still a lot of items that need to be rereleased in that case.
It would be cool if we could have a CI just for those rerelreases.


As of now, tier items are exclusive so we won't see 'em. We may reconsider this stance in the future, though.

I thought this was recently changed to 6 months when they changed the new ticket rules.
Because there's a lot of tier items that recently were put in the deflation CIs.
Silly Adorkable Bea was one of these items that was in a Tier.
Same goes for a lot of the rainbow items back from a Tier during the 2015 Summer Sale.
o.o


Tier CIs can be rereleased in future tiers / coupon offers, but the tier items themselves are exclusive to tiers at this point in time.

The new ticket rules do not apply to anything that is not a custom ticket item, as far as I know. ^^

If a Tier Item was included in a La Victoire chance item, ping a staff member and let them know so they can remove it!


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OokamixHime
Items

Since we've seen a few of these "Community Picks" bundle contests, if a user wanted to include an item that had once been in a tier would they have to wait six months after the item in question had been featured or are tier items off limits in a Community Picks Bundle Contest?
In case we had one in the future.


No tier items, please~!

But starting with the next contest, user-designed items older than 6 months will now be available to be used, so that's really exciting!


excitable sloth
Meguriuta
Games - LK

This is a bit silly, but I'm wondering if it would be possible to have multiple teams? My kin levels are all over the place and I use different ones for different things and it's a pain to go through my invo to remove from team, get the other one on the team, then put the first one in the team again, over and over and over again.


This is a cool idea, but I'm not sure if it is possible.


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Nekinu
Features-Runway
Can we please have new color themes for the color runway??


We're trying to spice up Runway with some new themes of all types here and there. biggrin


Princess Angelishia
MistyMary24
Question Category Shops

Question: Lately you have been adding tons of new things for the cash shops. Yet I have not seen new things in the gold shops. When will you be adding new items in the gold shops?


We do gold shop updates at least once a month! Same as it has been for a long time now! In February we added a ton of new things to the gold shops actually! (Even more than usual)


excitable sloth
MistyMary24
Question Category Games

Question I apperciate that you made it where we can re-arrange our kins in lake kindred but am confused why the kin are not arranged like I arranged them in my inventory in my lake kindred game inventory. How do we fix this issue?
Plus will it stay where whatever kin I am playing with will show at the beginning of my kin inventory in lake kindred? - i really like that feature.


Have you updated the tab that you're playing Lake Kindred in?
Also, do you have kin in your storage? Those usually go to the front of your queue.


Princess Angelishia
houjun-san
Misc

Are you hiring free lance programmers that can work remotely? ninja


Not currently sorry! Almost all of our developers are in house.


Princess Angelishia
l3eary
So when is Gaia Avi Builder gonna be Enabled


I wish I had a better answer for you on that! We are actively working on it and hope to be able to test it again late this week early next week.


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Diarahan
Items

Any chance old items might get some updated art? There's a lot of old stuff I like, but they look really dull and out of place with the new stuff.


Anyone interested in reimagining an older item could try exchanging the Golden Tailored Stylist Pattern Ticket!


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Ihes egia
Items

Why did you stop selling user-made items at Crosstitch? Now they're sold at La Victoire, which can be problem for those of who don't/can't buy Gaia cash.


User-designed items made by exchanging most Tickets are generally released in La Victoire.

User-designed items that go into CrosStitch are usually created for item design contests! So it's not so much that we're moved user-designed items as that they are coming into existence via different means.

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