[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Games: zOMG!
I thought zOMG! was gone for good so I sold my rings. Will old players have a chance to start over?
I thought zOMG! was gone for good so I sold my rings. Will old players have a chance to start over?
We will grant starter rings to all users who start new, and some rings that we used to sell in the cash shop will continue being available.
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Genkimix Shop
Would you guys be able to sell a bundle/pack/thing of the Birth Stone Kitten Star Pin in the Genkimix shop just like how you sold the 2017 Birthstone Pin Complete Set Presale Bundle in the Cash Shop? Just so I wouldn't have to add on each pin separately into the cart?
Would you guys be able to sell a bundle/pack/thing of the Birth Stone Kitten Star Pin in the Genkimix shop just like how you sold the 2017 Birthstone Pin Complete Set Presale Bundle in the Cash Shop? Just so I wouldn't have to add on each pin separately into the cart?
We can talk with our partner about this.
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features
Will Gaia ever be https:// ?
I'm honestly paranoid about the safety of my computer/ phone/ bank details/ PayPal when I cruise the site these days. Especially with some of the dodgy add that pop up occasionally and things like that. Whenever I consider buying GC I'm hesitant since I don't feel like it's safe, I know it redirects to https but gaia itself holds my personal email and personal info so I just wanted to know for peace of mind.
Will Gaia ever be https:// ?
I'm honestly paranoid about the safety of my computer/ phone/ bank details/ PayPal when I cruise the site these days. Especially with some of the dodgy add that pop up occasionally and things like that. Whenever I consider buying GC I'm hesitant since I don't feel like it's safe, I know it redirects to https but gaia itself holds my personal email and personal info so I just wanted to know for peace of mind.
We have server migration planned late this year. It'll happen before or shortly after that.
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Features/Games
Speaking of lag issues
I have been complaining a lot about how the images in the headers keep causing lag issues. Even with just the two images currently there, the fact that they are constantly moving instead of being static and still, is causing lag for LK. It will be made worse for zOMG on top of any lag issues the game already suffered/suffers.
Are you ever gonna deal with this issue? Seriously. It causes lag even when I am typing up a post or changing a page or doing anything. One active image in the header is bad enough. Two or more is a problem.
Speaking of lag issues
I have been complaining a lot about how the images in the headers keep causing lag issues. Even with just the two images currently there, the fact that they are constantly moving instead of being static and still, is causing lag for LK. It will be made worse for zOMG on top of any lag issues the game already suffered/suffers.
Are you ever gonna deal with this issue? Seriously. It causes lag even when I am typing up a post or changing a page or doing anything. One active image in the header is bad enough. Two or more is a problem.
Typically images are cached heavily on browsers, but optimizations are something that we constantly work on since last December. There will also be header improvements coming soon.
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FEATURES
I would love if there were a page turner at the top of pages and not just at the bottom. Everything from inventory tabs to avatar tabs to guild threads to threads in general; I am always having to scroll down to go to the page I want. Worse, if I return to a tab in avatars if I'm creating a new avi, it always returns to page 1 and I'm usually in a later page so I'm doing a LOT of scrolling.
I would love if there were a page turner at the top of pages and not just at the bottom. Everything from inventory tabs to avatar tabs to guild threads to threads in general; I am always having to scroll down to go to the page I want. Worse, if I return to a tab in avatars if I'm creating a new avi, it always returns to page 1 and I'm usually in a later page so I'm doing a LOT of scrolling.
pagination on top and bottom is definitely possible. We can look into that
Narumi Misuhara
Seraphim Call
Games
Will older games, such as jigsaw, word bump, slots, etc be seeing a update at some point?
Will older games, such as jigsaw, word bump, slots, etc be seeing a update at some point?
Not for now, in the future we will be looking at what we can do with HTML.
Lanzer
S3xy Pantz
Features - Alchemy
The following gift box items are used in Alchemy formulas and were available in the Bifrost. At the present time they have been removed, is there any plan to re-add them or was their removal an oversight?
Black Gift Box
Red Gift Box
Green Gift Box
Teal Gift Box
Orange Gift Box
Silver Gift Box
Purple Gift Box
The following gift box items are used in Alchemy formulas and were available in the Bifrost. At the present time they have been removed, is there any plan to re-add them or was their removal an oversight?
Black Gift Box
Red Gift Box
Green Gift Box
Teal Gift Box
Orange Gift Box
Silver Gift Box
Purple Gift Box
The items were just phased out of circulation because we have too many items in stores. Chances are they will be back part of CI's in the future, so they should be available in the marketplace for cheaper than they are right now.
Lanzer
Qt Patooties
Shop
Do you guys know what Rings you will be re-releasing in the Gaia Cash shaop for zOMG? And when they will all most likely be released?
Do you guys know what Rings you will be re-releasing in the Gaia Cash shaop for zOMG? And when they will all most likely be released?
Whatever was on sale, such as the SweetHeart ring, should be back. I'll ask other Gaians what they'd like to see on a feedback thread.
lionheart720
mimiru_002
Games - Lake Kindred
Any way we can organize our amulets better? As in how we organize in our inventory, that being reflected in game?
Also, can we please get to see amulet traits in trades? Possibly by hovering over the icons like in the marketplace.
Any way we can organize our amulets better? As in how we organize in our inventory, that being reflected in game?
Also, can we please get to see amulet traits in trades? Possibly by hovering over the icons like in the marketplace.
We can definitely look at preserving inventory slot order in-game. I'll make a note to display the properties in trades.
Narumi Misuhara
Cherry Kuro
Feature: Marketplace
Could we get a way to UPDATE your market listing price instead of having to remove it and put it back up?
Could we get a way to UPDATE your market listing price instead of having to remove it and put it back up?
Possibly, we'll take a look.
Lanzer
pokemonboy59832
Can you do an upgrade on the aquarium please?
we'll have to choose carefully on what features we wish to convert form flash to HTML5. We'll be asking for your opinions plus gauging on the difficulty and time required to make the conversion, and also compare that with creating something totally new. No promises yet, but we'll switch focus to those after we finished with the mobile app.
lionheart720
Arcee Gibson
Games: Lake Kin
Can we NOT autoequip new kins if we have a free slot available in our party?
It's very frustrating if you have a ton of kins and have to search for that one random cow or grunny or whatever that has decided to force its way onto your team gonk
Can we NOT autoequip new kins if we have a free slot available in our party?
It's very frustrating if you have a ton of kins and have to search for that one random cow or grunny or whatever that has decided to force its way onto your team gonk
We can look into making an option to disable auto-party when obtaining new kin.
Lanzer
Rusaii
Are there any future plans to bring new rings to zOMG?!
We're still busy putting the game back online, and probably after the game is back, I will make decisions as to whether or not to hire some staff to add features to zOMG or not. As you can imagine, that would depend on how many players are playing zOMG.
Lanzer
Diamondinmyeye
Games: zOMG
Is the zOMG badge system going to be integrated with achievement collecting?
Is the zOMG badge system going to be integrated with achievement collecting?
Most likely not. Both systems are complex and we will sooner focus on new areas than achievements.
Zero Omega
Kuro Kori Ryu
Events/IRL
Are you going to be making it to SakuraCon? Its been a while.
Are you going to be making it to SakuraCon? Its been a while.
It's something we can consider. ninja
Narumi Misuhara
dissonances
Features - Marriage
How 'bout that polyamory thing? cat_ninja
Can this be considered/implemented?
Would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
How 'bout that polyamory thing? cat_ninja
Can this be considered/implemented?
Would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
Nope, just make a decision.
....seriously though, maybe in the future. It will need some rewrite to the backend.
Lanzer
DJ Twissta
Features: Heralds of Chaos
Is there any chance that we will see this fun game return as well? I know we can still play it, but it'd be nice if there were more people to play with lol.
Is there any chance that we will see this fun game return as well? I know we can still play it, but it'd be nice if there were more people to play with lol.
Hey welcome back.
HoC probably need some TLC with the item reward and stuff. It'll be a whole new learning experience much like MoGa and zOMG, and I'm not ready to dive in right now as there are a few big issues (such as inflation) that I need to tackle first.
We spent a lot of effort into animating the game, and I personally would love to see it continue being played.
Lanzer
StarvstheForcesofEvil
Has there been any consideration to open the pool for new moderators, specifically for chatterbox?
We are in the process of adding 7 more moderators to the team, and with another round coming soon. So the process is ongoing and will ramp up more as we have more mods that can help mentor new ones.
Narumi Misuhara
Sirens Requiem
FEATURES
OOH! Can we get a feature where we see the avatar of the recipient when we send gifts? Like how we do in trades?
I know a few people who accidentally gifted valuable items to the wrong people because of a typos. sad
Which is beyond terrible if the person they accidentally gifted hasnt been online since 2006 and probably aren't coming back...
OOH! Can we get a feature where we see the avatar of the recipient when we send gifts? Like how we do in trades?
I know a few people who accidentally gifted valuable items to the wrong people because of a typos. sad
Which is beyond terrible if the person they accidentally gifted hasnt been online since 2006 and probably aren't coming back...
Not a bad idea, we can take a look and add it to the queue if it can be done fairly quickly.
Lanzer
bluecherry
Features
Lanzer recently announced a new account setting for favorites. In the staff announcement he said, "This is a privacy setting that will make all favorites of your avatars not show up in public. Only the individual who favorited your avatar can view it. The decision to not completely disable the feature outright was made because any user can save the graphic of any avatar image, and to force users to go back to saving images manually just doesn't make sense." However, it seems it is still possible to delete one's avatar from the favorites of other people, not just hide them from public view, albeit not through using the new account setting. This just doesn't make sense. If you don't think it makes sense to make us manually save stuff again, then it shouldn't be possible to delete avatars from other people's favorites. If you are going to allow the deletion of avatars from other people's favorites, then what is the point of not allowing the account settings to just prevent favoriting in the first place? Deletion can accomplish the same thing, just slower. Why, Lanzer? What is up with this combination of the setting you went with and the reasoning behind it and keeping deletion of other people's favorites around still?
Lanzer recently announced a new account setting for favorites. In the staff announcement he said, "This is a privacy setting that will make all favorites of your avatars not show up in public. Only the individual who favorited your avatar can view it. The decision to not completely disable the feature outright was made because any user can save the graphic of any avatar image, and to force users to go back to saving images manually just doesn't make sense." However, it seems it is still possible to delete one's avatar from the favorites of other people, not just hide them from public view, albeit not through using the new account setting. This just doesn't make sense. If you don't think it makes sense to make us manually save stuff again, then it shouldn't be possible to delete avatars from other people's favorites. If you are going to allow the deletion of avatars from other people's favorites, then what is the point of not allowing the account settings to just prevent favoriting in the first place? Deletion can accomplish the same thing, just slower. Why, Lanzer? What is up with this combination of the setting you went with and the reasoning behind it and keeping deletion of other people's favorites around still?
Hmm, that wasn't supposed to happen. I'll need to check on the code as I thought I've updated the setting after releasing the option. Will get back to you on this one.
Lanzer
AngelBabis
Games
Hello there team. First of all I want to thank you for all of your hard work.
I was wondering if the gold amounts are going to be increased when ZOMG comes back or if it's going to stay like the other older games?
Hello there team. First of all I want to thank you for all of your hard work.
I was wondering if the gold amounts are going to be increased when ZOMG comes back or if it's going to stay like the other older games?
That's what I'm working on right now. If it's not raised by Monday it'll be raised soon after.
Lanzer
OV8ION
games
are LK and zomg going to be more intertwined regarding drops? Will we get amulets from zomg the way we get charge orbs and orb aggregate drops from lk?
are LK and zomg going to be more intertwined regarding drops? Will we get amulets from zomg the way we get charge orbs and orb aggregate drops from lk?
LionHeart is planning some crossover items, but they will largely be separate as they're different games.
Lanzer
Vigilia
Guilds
I know they are on the docket, but is there an approximate date on when to expect some fixes for guilds?
I know they are on the docket, but is there an approximate date on when to expect some fixes for guilds?
End of this month I'll post another survey on what features you'd like to see for Guilds. Meanwhile, there are a few big ticket items for me to take care of.
Lanzer
Sinfulcraft
Games - Lake Kindred/zOMG
With zOMG coming back will Charge Orbs finally be removed from Lake Kindred?
With zOMG coming back will Charge Orbs finally be removed from Lake Kindred?
Yup
Lanzer
Mr Moons
games
zomg
resell the sweetheart ring please
zomg
resell the sweetheart ring please
Will do whee
Lanzer
SenpaIDGAFv2
Question Features
Question:
Do you guys have any plans of updating the "Gaia On The Go" mobile app to include trading/gifting?
Question:
Do you guys have any plans of updating the "Gaia On The Go" mobile app to include trading/gifting?
Nope, we're gonna rebuild the mobile app from ground up. The old app is awful by today's standard so we're starting new. Will have more info to share starting next month.
Narumi Misuhara
OV8ION
Shops
Can we please have the contents of the Biifrost sortable by formula level??
(alchemy update pls pls after zomg)
Can we please have the contents of the Biifrost sortable by formula level??
(alchemy update pls pls after zomg)
The sort is presently uniform across all shops, we might be able to write in a special hack but can't say when we'd be able to get to that.
Zero Omega
The Nephilim Rosier
Items? Shops? I'm not sure, but it's about the RL tickets!
I was just wondering something about the removal of IRL tickets. In Zero's post about it, it was said if tickets were bought with gold from another user, it would become a gift card at 45% of how much the ticket was originally priced at, however in the example with the Winter Gift Box Ticket the gift card amount given was about 35% instead ("For example: If you have a Winter Gift Box Ticket (14,900 Gaia Cash), then we will give you a gift card to Genkimix for $52.12." ) . Which percentage of the price is what will actually be given?
And also, any updates on when this will happen? Thanks c:
I was just wondering something about the removal of IRL tickets. In Zero's post about it, it was said if tickets were bought with gold from another user, it would become a gift card at 45% of how much the ticket was originally priced at, however in the example with the Winter Gift Box Ticket the gift card amount given was about 35% instead ("For example: If you have a Winter Gift Box Ticket (14,900 Gaia Cash), then we will give you a gift card to Genkimix for $52.12." ) . Which percentage of the price is what will actually be given?
And also, any updates on when this will happen? Thanks c:
It'll be 45% of the actual GC price, my math was probably off. To use easier, round numbers, if something was 10,000 GC, we'd be giving you a gift card for $45. It will be happening in the next couple weeks, we've refocused a lot of the Gaia Box team onto other things, so we're trying to get through the rest of the e-mails first before we lock down all the items and remove them.
Lanzer
FASH10N
Question Category Games : Zomg + Lake Kindred
Will there be any addresment of the issue of charge orbs being too abundant in Lake Kindred and how it will allow for people who play LK enough to dominate and catapult their way up through the levels of zomg?
I guess to calirfy this I mean to say will there be a removal of charge orbs from Lake Kindred at any point in time to make it harder to level up in ZOMG and challenge players?
Or will charge orbs remain abundant and possibly cheapen the experience of zomg.
(and Lastly) Is it possible i missed a memo where there won't be charge orbs used in ZOMG or they'll be coded differently.
Will there be any addresment of the issue of charge orbs being too abundant in Lake Kindred and how it will allow for people who play LK enough to dominate and catapult their way up through the levels of zomg?
I guess to calirfy this I mean to say will there be a removal of charge orbs from Lake Kindred at any point in time to make it harder to level up in ZOMG and challenge players?
Or will charge orbs remain abundant and possibly cheapen the experience of zomg.
(and Lastly) Is it possible i missed a memo where there won't be charge orbs used in ZOMG or they'll be coded differently.
That is an oversight that unfortunately we can't do much about right now. It wouldn't be right to take people's orbs away for we can't tell if they're from zOMG or LK. We will be switching out charge orbs in LK into another item very soon.
Lanzer
QUARAN7INE
Features: Marketplace
Why I can't access my Store Log?
Why I can't access my Store Log?
I couldn't replicate the problem so I couldn't fix it. Please PM me the URL that isn't working for you and I can take another look.
Lanzer
Sinfulcraft
Features - Alchemy
Will Alchemy be getting focused on anytime soon now that zOMG is almost back on its feet?
Will Alchemy be getting focused on anytime soon now that zOMG is almost back on its feet?
The art team has a lot of ideas on what they want to do with Alchemy. It's not the same resource as my programming time so it won't be me working on it, unfortunately. I'll forward your request to the art team.
Lanzer
VKiera
Games
Hello Staff!
Thanks for all your hard work! I had a quick question about zOMG. I know in the past they opened up extra servers during events to handle the extra load, are you planning on doing this for the re release? I just remember in the old days we had to beg someone to cycle the servers to help deal with lag and with the big hype of the game coming back I have a feeling we'll need a lot of servers.
Hello Staff!
Thanks for all your hard work! I had a quick question about zOMG. I know in the past they opened up extra servers during events to handle the extra load, are you planning on doing this for the re release? I just remember in the old days we had to beg someone to cycle the servers to help deal with lag and with the big hype of the game coming back I have a feeling we'll need a lot of servers.
We're gonna open with 8 servers, hopefully that's enough
Lanzer
Yui Ichijou
Features
In the future, can organizing friend lists be made a little bit easier? Maybe drag and drop? Having only a "move to top" button is tedious, and if you mess up a position you wanted for somebody it's even worse trying to fix it classified_fu
In the future, can organizing friend lists be made a little bit easier? Maybe drag and drop? Having only a "move to top" button is tedious, and if you mess up a position you wanted for somebody it's even worse trying to fix it classified_fu
Yeah friendslist is a features that needs work from the ground up. It's be part of the feature request list.
Lanzer
x Kdot
Games zOMG
rings level will remain like before?
rings level will remain like before?
Yes surprised
Lanzer
Kaiden Clovis
Misc: Any specifics or ideas to share on how inflation will be tackled or are those still being cooked up on the backburner for after Zomg is back up and running?
I'm tackling inflation this month actually. More details later.
Narumi Misuhara
koneko66
Features
Inventory Arranger
I'm aware that a while back the inventory arranging page was fixed for most people but that there was still a problem for Safari browser users (and possibly for a few more users as well) and that no immediate solution was available due to coding format.
While I don't mind waiting for this to be fixed as I know other features currently hold the priority, I was just curious if there's any thought to how long this will last for?
A quick summary of the problems is that items can't be moved, the temporary locker is stuck in endless swirl land, and the locker won't open.
Hope this is categorized correctly and thanks for your time! =)
Inventory Arranger
I'm aware that a while back the inventory arranging page was fixed for most people but that there was still a problem for Safari browser users (and possibly for a few more users as well) and that no immediate solution was available due to coding format.
While I don't mind waiting for this to be fixed as I know other features currently hold the priority, I was just curious if there's any thought to how long this will last for?
A quick summary of the problems is that items can't be moved, the temporary locker is stuck in endless swirl land, and the locker won't open.
Hope this is categorized correctly and thanks for your time! =)
No, we are just going to fix Safari!
...no, no update for a fix at this time :/
Lanzer
Arcee Gibson
Games: ZOMG
Will the summon pet things be available to purchase when zomg is available?
Will the summon pet things be available to purchase when zomg is available?
Yes, we'll pick a couple of popular pets for the store on release day
Lanzer
polemistis
Question for Lanzer
What is the umm...creature I guess in your sig?
What is the umm...creature I guess in your sig?
OMG! You didn't know?
emotion_awesome (click the spoiler if you don't get the joke)
The creature in Lanzer's sig is called an OMG. For those who really don't know, it's the 2003 Monthly Collectible OMG Hat, but warped into a scorpion-like creature and given life...and it's one of the most iconic monsters in the game zOMG!.
