May 15th

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Welcome Back!

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Games

It's been over a year since the last time Fishing trophies were granted. Any word of any progress? Thanks.

We'll follow up with the team to get an update on this!

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Shops

The old gold shops don't seem to have caught up with the new currency yet, because an item's price in GC is like 10x its price in platinum. I'm pretty sure their prices are swapped. And when I buy an item, it gets added to my inventory but no GC or platinum is detracted from my account (I've tested both currencies).
Some items are missing the animal item sign, and all items are 1 platinum on the display page. So far I've seen this with Barton Boutique, HR Wesley, and Durem Depot, and I'm guessing the other stores are the same. It's a shame bc the gold stores are where I go to find pretty detailed and themed items.

Any plans on revamping the gold (platinum?) shops?

The gold shop does deduct gold, but because the amount is so small, you won't see the difference when you've switched over to platinum. The only way to "fix" this would be to increase the price of all items to above the 10M gold mark. It's something that we should do down the road.

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Games

Hello, my question is based upon Rally and the Racing mini-game. Since adobe is phasing out flash , I'm well aware that Gaia Staff are working on a Towns v3 to take the place of the current set up. Is there going to be a new Rally/Racing game as well?

There will be a new rally as it uses the same engine as Towns2, as for racing, it, along with other iconic games such as Fishing, will be converted one by one.

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Aquarium

Ok short version- Are some of the aquarium fish not available in stores going to be made available again (Aquarium Seahorse)?

Long version- There are many alchemy components that are only available from fishdrops. many of this fish drops no longer have fish you can purchase (Seahorse Scepter). thus making that formula completely useless. it's the long way around, but allowing the fish to be purchased to plat would be at least a start. or make the items available for direct purchase.

If there are any specific fishes you would like to see in the shops, please let us know. We will be looking to add Seahorse Scepter into the shops after checking with the team.


Jak Bauer
AvatarRoku05
GAMES:

You mentioned following up with the team to get an update on Fishing. Will you please send out an announcement about it with info when you do? In just 5 days, 83 people have come together and shown support/care for this issue with the trophy backlog. Thank you!


Hi there,

We can make sure to make this info known when it's done.
Lanzer
Zero Omega is not here today but I'll be sure to check with him to make sure that the trophies are handed out in a timely manner.


Lanzer
aquito
Games: zOMG

When is the Abuse/Integrity event? I want Integrity ring redface

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I'll be sharing more information soon!


codemonkey37179
2sammygate
Lanzer
castiel lover
Games

So Switchem was taken down after a flaw was found that allowed users to steal a bunch of gold.. Is this game going to be fixed? Re-written for html5 eventually? Or just scrapped? And what about the power-ups some of us still have?


Codemonkey is working on finishing the mobile inventory project, then he'll focus on Towns 3. We will work on converting the existing flash games to HTML5 after that, I would expect games such as fishing to be converted sooner than Switchem though.

i'm guessing that maybe last priority on that list would finally be bringing back frontier skies?


It wasn't. It may be now. Lots to do to get through the list, then we will see.
codemonkey37179
2sammygate
codemonkey37179
2sammygate
i mean, the more games people have to play means people are happier. happier people spend more.

also, when you convert fishing can you PLEASE add an option to save a disconnected bucket? why the devs back in 2004 didn't think of that i have no freaking clue.


Wow! Yeah! They really should have.

Um, what's a disconnected bucket?

if you lose internet connection for even 5 seconds while fishing a bucket, you get "OOPS! you just lost your connection to the game server! stupid game server". and when you reload the game, it only gives you an option to start a new bucket. your disconnected fish are lost forever.

what should happen is we get the option to type in a CAPTCHA to save the partial bucket that we disconnected during, or start a new one (some extremely pathetically a**l filterers lose a bucket on purpose if they accidentally catch junk).


It may be possible.


Jak Bauer
castiel lover
Jak Bauer
castiel lover
Features

Since GoFusion has been abandoned, can we at least have all the items ever put into it back in it? And maybe even some new rigs to trade our charms in for?


Hi there,

Not quite sure what it is you are asking about. It is still working isn't it?


There are items that were taken out to be "rotated in and out" of the item list available to fuse. Things like the 2014 winter sweaters User Image and such.


Hi there,

We can check into that for you.


codemonkey37179
AvatarRoku05
Games/Features:

I think I remembered seeing Flash was no longer being updated in 2019. When is Gaia estimated to begin work on moving their games to HTML5?


Several months ago. Lots to do!


Lanzer
aquito
Games: zOMG

Can we have another zOMG summon in cash shop or in Back Alley Bargains? Please emotion_kirakira
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Sure! Please check the store later in the day.


it amy
castiel lover
it amy
crii bby
i p much get ignored every week but i'll keep trying

features
can we please get less club verge stuff on the daily spin?
i shouldn't be getting items i can get with gaia gold in a gaia store day after day after day
i have too many horns, yo


Verge items were highly requested before this last Spinami update, another update is in the works and I can pass along "less verge items" — but this seemed like a good way to get these items back in circulation as the store is no longer around.


I think the problem is the wheel is disproportionately spitting out the same verge items over and over again. Not sure if it's an error, or if some items on the outer wheel just have a higher odd of getting? But let me show you my verge pulls from the wheel (aside from a couple wings):

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Aiiiyaahh, I will have to say my luck is very different than yours—my friends and I do get verge items, but not at that rate. I'll pass along all of this!


Lanzer
castiel lover
Features

First of all, Spinami is still broken in which there are repeat items on the wheel and the same few items are being given out (I can get the same item 3 times in one day on my five accounts).

Now my question: Can you please monitor the items' values that you put into spinami and other forms of distribution like daily stamps, kindred rigs, and random chance events? When there are 10+ listings of a rereleased item that are all 1 plat in the mp, the market is over saturated with it. Your methods of rerelease are ruining the values of items. Can you please put someone in charge of watching these things and switching things out when necessary? Even the daily stamps haven't been changed forward for the new year, and it's been 4 months. Stirring Spooks, which hold only obsolete astra items, are still dropping excessively in Lake Kindred. Things like this are important in the overall economy of the site, and it's making poorer people even more poor with items devaluing so much.


I'll ask the team about the rarity of the more common items in Spinami. It would be better to have all unique items in the wheel. I'll also ask the team to swap out Stirring Spooks. Daily stamps is in need of update also. That might take a bit longer as I know that the team had been trying to get resources for an update.


Lanzer
Pianette
Hey staff!

Features - Runway
Museum Favoriting

A while back, favoriting was implemented for previous runway museums. Which is great! Except
It hasn't worked since it was put in sweatdrop
Trying to favorite something through it results in this:
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And the favorite is NOT added.

It's probably a really neat feature! Just wondering if it'll be working anytime soon ah ha.


Uh oh, I forgot to add that to my bug list. I'll have the bug fixed shortly. sweatdrop


Lanzer
Angels Alibi
Items

Any update about Hero's Journey? Been a while since Lanzer got any news for us


Sorry I'm still waiting for an update myself. Will let you know as soon as I hear anything. sweatdrop


Lanzer
Throttle Kitty
General

I have been curious about how Gaia is doing in terms of progressing through the Project Customs backlog? I'm not looking to complain, nor to just get the boilerplate response, just curious about the general progress the staff have been having with this hurtle!


I'll check with the team this week on the progress. Please check back with us next week for an update. Thank you for checking in.


Lanzer
Jasette
Events/Manga

Hey dears! Any idea when the next plot update will be? Any plot will do!!! Gimme dem stories please!!!

P.S. I'm finally done with my first year of law school!! heart


Congrats on completing first year of law school! I'll ask the art team to see if Reapersun or anyone else would work on the next plot update.


codemonkey37179
bluecherry
codemonkey37179
bluecherry
features

The new boxed inventory includes the ability to search for items while excluding things from the results that contain various terms. Could this function please be added to the market place and the avatar builder?


I'm working on an avatar builder that uses the box system, and then a shopping program. These will implement the new search system.
Really? That's very intriguing. By any chance, will the new avatar builder system allow for the creation of boxes of items even among items we do not personally own? And could we put items in more than one box? Like, what if I wanted to put one item I don't own but that I like in a box of favorite blue items and another box of favorite shoe items? (I'm presuming the shopping feature will involve a "Cart" function, as it has been often requested and stated that it was something Gaia was interested in doing.)


No, only items you own. Items can only be in one box. There will be a wish list though. I would like to try adding a shopping cart, but nothing has been decided.


codemonkey37179
Happy _Tropical_Flower
Gaia Features/Gaia App

Aimed at Codemonkey, but how is the Gaia app coming along? I'm so curious, haha. emotion_kirakira


The boxed inventory was the first step. Working on the avatar builder next. The inventory was the toughest one. The next will be much faster.


Lanzer
Knight Yoshi
Really annoying bug

So when will this, https://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/t.94479163/, ever be addressed?

Screenshot of it here:
https://screenshots.firefox.com/zFHxowmbr6UFhIdc/www.gaiaonline.com

I mean really... It's annoying.


I'll look into this issue right after ATS. Been wanting to fix it but got sidetracked. Sorry.


Lanzer
a ghostrick
GAMES

The avatar arena has been down for some time now. Is Gaia planning on getting rid of it or revamping it at some point?


It's been a tough problem to fix, but we do plan to re-activate the avatar arena as soon as it's ready. Sorry for the downtime.


Lanzer
rnammon
Features

Is there a possibility of implementing a page navigation ("jump to page..." ) option similar to the forums, into avatar builder?

Also, I've noticed this issue with Avatar Builder, where navigation to a previous page via "back 10 pages" and "first page" would refresh the whole site page. But I digress.


That sounds like a useful feature, let me add to the to-do list.


Lanzer
The Gustaff-Z
Items

Hey Gaia, I need some clarification on this post that was made a couple of days ago by an artist.

In This thread, warrior_of_boognish stated that the reason why Gaia hasn’t been making any robot or sci-fi items is because of lack of interest from the users.

Is this true? Does the rest of the the staff agree with what was stated here? Because if that is the case I am VERY concerned.

Please respond this is extremely important to me.


I don't know if it's true or not on the statement about robot items, though I do know that the art team often prioritize items based on how popular certain items are, meaning that more popular item types get worked on more often.


codemonkey37179
Lucid Hallucinogen
Features
This has likely been asked before, but is there any possible way to create some type of feature to trash multiple items at once? I have been trying to clear out my inventory of junk items (e.g. house items granted from the daily chance), but it's been such a long process having to click and trash every single one. I apologize if the question has been asked many times before.


Yes, in the boxed inventory!!


Lanzer
Lanzer
2sammygate
features

HEY LANZER! you said you were gonna fix the visual glitch when upgrading rods in fishing? i heard from a few n00bs i helped that it still says it costs like 10k platinum on the final confirmation even though it only deducts 1.


There should be a patch that will fix that. Sorry for the delay.


Oh wait that should already been fixed. Please provide a screencap if the problem persist. Thank you.