December 13th

[NPC] Gaia Staff
User Image


Welcome Back!

Quote:
Features: Signature

Can the character limit on signatures be increased please? Not the size dimensions, just the character limit, because I couldn't even add color to the words in my Christmas-themed signature I also don't want to rely on tinyurl.com to make all my links shorter because I want people to be able to preview the links when they hover over them and see that the links lead to legit places. Alternatively, can coding not count towards the character limit please?

We actually have some plans for signature sizes, keep an eye out!

Quote:
Features

Roughly how often (weekly? monthly? yearly?) should we expect Spinami to get a different set of possible prizes?

The roster changes every night, and will have new items very soon.

Quote:
Features

Hey is it possible to get a randomize button in either the closet or the avi builder?

Not sure if randomize would give a good result as we have so many items that would just clash in style. I think a recommended feature would work better. Though that's a even bigger project.

Quote:
Shops - Phin Phang - MAJOR glitch

So there's been a glitch in Phin Phang for 3 months now. It makes some fish bundles 10k platinum instead of 100 platinum. I've filed a ticket, posted in the bug forum once and twice, Pm'd some staff and nothing has been done to rectify the issue or even acknowledge it's there.

We'll take a look at the pricing!

Quote:
Features

Can wishlist in Marketplace show Lowest price for items

Explaination

Usually in the market place the wishlist area can be seen and you see the Average prices for each item. is there any way that this an be set to have it an option for lowest price as well. I know when there are no listings for the items it is still possible to see the average for each item. however the average is HIGHLY misleading. I have had wishlist items that average two to three billion and when I go to check prices it is in the fifteen to twenty billion range.

Wishlist feature can be added to the to-do list.


Zero Omega
Auriga La Shock
Features: Achievements
So recently we got an influx of old achievements granted (thanks!). Will the January Birthday Box Achievement be granted before the end of the year as well?

Yup! That will be coming this week!


Lanzer
Twisted Lady
Shops

You recently removed Verge from the shop directory, but someone forgot to move the rest of the stores up to fill the empty slot. It looks all wonky now.

User Image


Whoops, let me look into it. Should be an easy fix.


Lanzer
Paperworm
Features:

When will the Winter Event start? 3nodding


Scheduled date is the 19th. Hope we get all the testing done by then!


codemonkey37179
Meridot
Features/Items

Hihi Team! Merry Christmas to all heart

I was curious about what is going to happen to the Astra items since Flash is being phased out. I personally love the Astra items and feel it would be a big shame if they were gone forever once flash finally gives up. Is there any chance of reworking them with a different system? (I admit don't really know much about programming, and I realise that no undertaking on Gaia is a small task.)

Hope you are all having a great December and aren't feeling too cold.


I don't have a solution to the Astra problem. At least not yet. I've done a few experiments but there is not a quick fix. I will keep trying and hopefully have a solution in 2018.

It is not cold at all here. Is it cold for you?


Zero Omega
I Flavour of Life I
Features

Any goldsink events in the works or coming soon?

Flynn is going to be getting a pretty big update soon. ninja In terms of how often she'll be utilized and what she'll be listing.


Zero Omega
2sammygate
Zero Omega
khionna
Features: Runway

I know that asking for Runway votes outside if the Chatterbox subforum has been made against the rules. Would it be possible to make it against the rules to ask in Chatterbox or ask your friends for votes?

It seems that runway is becoming more and more a popularity contest of the user and not the entry being voted for.

You know, I can't recall why we made the rule that you can ask for votes in Chatterbox when the intention is you vote on the avatar, not the person. We'll confer with the team and adjust if necessary.

because it's chatterbox.

the bigger worry isn't people asking others to vote, it's bots. when even the most offtopic avis have hundreds of votes, you know you have a votebot issue.

Well the intent behind Runway is that you vote on the avatar and not the person, so having a rule that says, "You can't solicit votes. You can solicit votes in this one area." seems nonsensical. There is a reason why we implemented the rule the way that we did, and the admin team ultimately approved it, but I can't recall that reason outside of potentially, "They can solicit votes, it doesn't necessarily mean that someone will vote for them."

In either case, it's something we'll review along with the rest of Runway. I know we haven't been able to show it much support so we'll try to do better with that to make things more fair for everyone.


Lanzer
DemonicOverture
Games

Can Golden Catch be updated already? It's such a fantastic gold sink that I hate seeing it be under-utilized. sweatdrop


We do have an update coming, "pretty soon" I hear.


Lanzer
Shrimp_Man
Items

Can we possibly get a play again button on the rigs that come from the daily stamps? All of the rigs that come from before 2k15 don't have play again buttons and it takes forever to open them.


Unfortunately it's hard to make a change that affects all older rigs. If there are certain items then we can go in and make the changes, but probably not "all items made before 2016".


Jak Bauer
Castiel Lover
Jak Bauer
Castiel Lover
Shops

BUG: After removing Verge from the shop list, we can no longer open Prize and Joy. It gives an error page. On an unrelated note, when will P&J get new prizes to buy?
Hi there,

I am able to get into the shop just fine. Could you take a screen shot showing the issue you are having? Please make sure to show the entire screen, not just the error.



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

OK, I passed this on to the Devs, they will look into it for you.
Jak Bauer
Castiel Lover
~ Aki - Fairy ~
I'm just a user, but I just looked and had no issues opening it? (from either the main shops menu or whilst in another shop)


Really? I haven't been able to open it since Verge was removed.. Are you using Chrome, too?

Hi there,

I opened it with both Firefox and Chrome.


Lanzer
Castiel Lover
Features

Spinami is great, but there are a few things that need to be addressed.

One, the spinami page is cropped so much we can't see the whole wheel.

And two, I've seen an item go from 40b to 1b in one day. There needs to be a system that keeps items that have depreciated to 1b or lower out of spinami for good. Can something be done about the huge depreciation?

Perhaps adding some large-pool-rigs to the wheel would help keep so many of the same items dropping in just one day?


It's a new features that also has new items introduced, hopefully we'll have the rarity aspects managed in a bit.


Lanzer
Princess Kunzite
Items

Last week, Lanzer said he was going to ask the artist team about what's going on with Hero's Journey. I'm curious if there's an update to report about it? It hasn't been updated since April 2016 and many of us are still impatiently waiting for any little sign that maybe it might be finished up soon!


I haven't gotten a date from the art team yet, I'm sorry.


Lanzer
lilloulou
Events:

12 days starting soon or none this year? If soon, will it start properly at midnight so everyone have a chance to get their first day?


I believe we have a different event than the 12 days of christmas event this year.


Lanzer
Lazarus Drake
FEATURE
Any word on the status of fixing achievements? ^^"


Would need to have more information, or threads to the report. I think we've granted almost all the outstanding ones by now.


Zero Omega
emotioNIEL
Events

Will the winners of Dreadful Words!: A Contest to Celebrate, uhhh, Bad Poetry!?! be receiving their prizes soon? In October, Lanzer said they will be granted but no one has yet to receive their prizes.

No idea who was in charge of the grants, but I've gone ahead and granted them out to the winners! Sorry about the delay.


Lanzer
khionna
Features: Shops

Can we get the option of buying in bulk in shops? Buying items for Alchemy or any other thing that required multiple amounts of the same item is tedious. We already have the option to do sell in bulk from our inventory, buying in bulk would be a major help as well.


We definitely want to have a bulk buy feature, it's on our todo list.


Lanzer
Nyota_Spock
Features

Can we get new items for Golden Catch as often as Lucky Catch cause it's been forever?


YES!


Zero Omega
Touhru Adachi
forums
Can we get the forums centered like the rest of the site at some point? It's annoying the ever loving hell out of me, and it can't be that hard to add, I don't imagine. gonk

We did at one point, but there was a large amount of negative feedback about it because it broken existing post styles and messed up post formats for others.


Lanzer
Shrimp_Man
Spinami

Can we get a hover text of what an item is on the wheel or if not all of them, at least the item that we win? It's inconvenient to have to go to your inventory to figure out what you won.


We'll add that to the feature list, thank you


codemonkey37179
Karmas Fate
will gaia ever attend tekko con in pittsburgh PA?


Still planning the convention schedule for 2018.

I love Pittsburgh though! I've spent some quality time there. Mostly around the Squirrel Hill area/Homewood area. What part are you from?


Lanzer
Twisted Lady
Events

I brought this up last month but wanted to post a reminder before Christmas. During events, the stores on the last page of the shop directory are required for caroling but the music note icon never shows up for them. This has been going on every single Halloween and Christmas for years, and whenever a new shop is added the one that gets bumped to the last page loses its icon in the next event. Please keep an eye out for this.


Will do!


Lanzer
2sammygate
features/items

i know you guys hate gofusion, but is it really that hard to put the sweaters back in? ): we'd like the ability to craft a merry stagony again, and it needs one of every sweater.


I'll ask the art team and see if we can add it in later in the week.