June 12th

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Welcome Back!

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Item (rigs)

Even if we get no % chance information. Can we get a solid yes or no for if Hell Portals still drops golden fragments?

Hellportal Hellhound and Future do drop golden fragments

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Inventory

Would it be possible to come up with a function that allowed users to purge or donate more than one item at a time to the trash/dumpster? It's difficult to keep up with a cluttered inventory when the action is so repetitive.
Features
Pertaining to the inventory . I know we can trash multiple items at once, but often I get a bit frustrated having to hit "yes" over and over to accept a "rare" item being tossed out (e.g. the housing item "icecream" or the aquarium item "cuttlefish", etc.) I understand it's implemented as a fail safe to prevent items of higher value from being inadvertently trashed, but would it be possible to see a "yes to all" option in the future?

We can look into finding a way to mass donate or trash. Maybe through the temp storage.

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Site

Can the Hacking, Scamming, and Abuse/Harassment report links be moved from the bottom of the forums page to the top? Maybe in the same area as the My Posts/Topics links?

Some users don't scroll down that far on the forums page and may not realize those links are there. Having them in a more visible spot may help cut down on the number of users mistakenly filing tickets for issues that need to be submitted in a report.

We can certainly look into making that change.


Lanzer
ElegantlyLuminous
Games – Lake Kindred

Will Lake Kindred be included in the Summer event this year? Beach/underwater world and kin, please.


No, but Lionheart is working on a LK themed mobile game right now. It's his first project on mobile so it'll be a small game.


Zero Omega
AvatarRoku05
Games:

Can we please have an update as to what is happening with the Fishing trophies? Last time I asked, I believe zero was not present. Thank you!

Hey there!

Update is that I'm gonna follow up with the team looking over the leaderboards for bots and see what our progress is.


Lanzer
Marcelio Sanchez II
Lanzer
Marcelio Sanchez II
Features & Games - Heralds of Chaos

May we know on your position on having to bring back Heralds of Chaos back on Gaia? Some Gaians are still playing the game on the Main Site (as it is still incorporated on the Main Site(*mainsite.com/hoc), just hidden and the main page for HoC still exist (*mainsite.com/hoc/landing) and some are wanting to see the game back in the Main Site (I've made a Guild dedicated for its revival somehow). Is it possible to have the game accessible on the Games Section and the Drop-down menu like in zOMG!
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Thank You so much! Also can the HoC Forum be reopened again if the game is back on Gaia? The remaining HoC community would be very happy( especially me) to finally be back and get in touch with fellow HoC Players. And the Essence to Gold feature to be raised to the current platinum rates? And the card grants error? And the Multiplayer and the Leaderboard? Thank You very much! biggrin


Unfortunately both HoC and Monster Galaxy uses Viximo as an adapter to work with Gaia's main site, and a couple of years back Viximo was closed and so was the support for having those games on Gaia. I'll look into it again when I get a chance, but don't hold your breath!


Ahhh yes yes. That explains a lot. But if the game is working now in facebook (Thank You very much for the fix!), then how is it able to run also in the main site? I'm not really a programmer myself (still a noob programmer) but I'll leave it to you and your staff to make the magic happen. Thank You very much! heart


Yes, we ended up finding the backup files and restored the database. Glad you can play the game again.

I was just told that HoC does work on the main site, so I'm probably wrong about HoC also using the Viximo adapter. I'll look into HoC and if it works fine then we can certainly feature it in the Games menu.


codemonkey37179
Shrimp_Man
codemonkey37179
AvatarRoku05
Games:

Specifically for codemonkey I guess! Have you checked out an old thread called For the Love of Fish by user Whiskey-Chan? I am curious to see if you all have considered some of these user submitted achievement and game ideas when re-writing for Fishing!


This is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night! Putting out a new version of a much-loved game is a nightmare in trying to please die-hard players. Fishing has a lot of passionate users. I'll be looking at a lot of suggestions when it comes time to make the new game. Thanks for the link!

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Yeah. LoL. I have a lot to finish before deciding the order of games in any case.


Lanzer
Super Skagz
Features

The post action --& display inventory is still broken. It hasn't updated with my current inventory since the last fix a few ATS's ago. And by not updated, I mean, it's displaying items I had two months ago that I no longer have, as well as not displaying items I have since obtained.


That's weird, looks like I'll need to fix it again. Do note that it doesn't work well if your inventory is over 5000 items in size.


Lanzer
Dundaclap
Inventory

So is the inventory beta 2 just forgotten. I really liked the idea it just won't work with my huge inventory and won't trash ... basically anything.

The old inventory arranger pictures are broken. Is there anyone looking in to fixing that.

Also tags are broken are we gonna get a update on if this is being looked at.

Uh oh, we probably need to optimize the new inventory system for large inventories. We're hoping that the new system will replace the old, so we're focusing on the new one for now.

We'll work on tags again after the summer event is out. How are the tags broken and on which features?

PS - Codemonkey did test the system on a large inventory, so there might have been something else going on. We'll get it working for you either way.
codemonkey37179
Dundaclap
codemonkey37179
Forgotten? I just released it! When is the last time you tried it? It was written on a test account of 60,000 items so it was made to handle large inventories.

What specifically are the problems you are having?


ok so I have way more pages then 37... but that is where it stops and won't jump even when I do click it.

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seems the trash thing is fixed it used to freeze. Guess I should have tried again.


I'm not sure why the page thing is stuck. What device are you using it on?

The pages are for the unboxed inventory only. If you put items into boxes then everything will load faster, because the program only has to load limited quantities.
codemonkey37179
Dundaclap
I've tried on my ipad and on chrome on my computer.. I like to start with the back when organizing my inventory so if there was like a jump to end button that would help.

Yes, that would be helpful. Let me see what I can do.


codemonkey37179
Castiel Lover
Marketplace

When the mp gets an overhaul, would it be possible to add a buying section? Users would have say 10 slots to put items they want to purchase and what price they want to pay. The gold would be subtracted from the account until the item is sold to them, or the time runs out. You'd add the item to your buying list from the item's listing, and on that page would be a tab for sellers and a tab for buyers. And hopefully there would be a way to see all the items with buyers that you have in your inventory.

Would this be feasible in the future?


hmm. Interesting. Sort of a "sell it to me now" feature?

I'll keep it in mind for mp when the time comes.


codemonkey37179
rostiaper
Features

Are there any set future plans to make Gaia more mobile-friendly?


Working on it!

We have the mobile forums and the mobile inventory. I'm working on a mobile dress-up system now. Towns 3 is a future project that will incorporate mobile.


Zero Omega
solfef2
Misc./Tickets
this quote is from march- any further updates? i found some very helpful links from Zendesk's own support system on how to import legacy XLSX files into the current Zendesk system, and nothing that indicates this is a Year Long(you announced the switch JUNE NINTH 2017) process. if these links aren't helpful, have you tried submitting a ticket yourself about whatever if impeding this important import? i know i am not alone in waiting for this. if it's futile please just actually be transparent and let everyone in my situation know what they are required to do, by PM AND Email.
Zero Omega

Unfortunately it's not something I have an update on at the moment. We do have the tickets backed up to various XLSX files, but currently no update on the import process itself. For the time being I would highly recommend actually filing a new ticket so there is a new one on file for the situation you are inquiring about.

Thanks for the links! I'm definitely aware of that ability from ZenDesk and we actually do have the XLS files from when we started our migration out from Parature, the issue is we have three different XLS files:

One for ticket filing history/initial issue
One for ticket comments
One for customer/user data (which doesn't actually tell us if they have an outstanding unresolved ticket or not)

Those XLS files don't actually match up to each other, so one ticket filing history XLS may have information for ticket ID 12345, that XLS file doesn't have the ticket comment history for ticket ID 12345 so we have to find a way to combine that data, and then we have to try to find a way actually figure out who filed that ticket because both ticket data XLS files don't have the information on who filed the ticket.

Thus why it's a massive project and we weren't initially sure if we could actually import the data. It's why we've told the userbase that until we have some sort of update, their best option is to actually go ahead and not wait, refile the ticket they had and get into the new queue. So if you have a ticket you are waiting for an answer to from the old Parature system, please go ahead and file a new ticket, that is the best advice I can give at the moment as the actual import project is massive and we don't know at the moment if it is actually something we can accomplish.


Jak Bauer
I Noticed You
features

Hey so the item search feature is still broken for new items, I'm seeing so many confused users saying they are submitting tickets for lost items that were never lost, you cant search for them!

People with large inventories are being forced to not organize any new items for fear of losing them to the void of pages.


Hi there,

For anyone with the issue please submit a ticket for it and make sure to include in the ticket the name of the item you are having an issue with. PM me afterwards with the ticket number and I'll make sure the info gets sent to the Developers.


Lanzer
wasserplane
Games - zOMG

Just wondering, there's a lot of hints dropped in zOMG about possible expansions to Aekea and Durem--is that something that, at this point, is basically dead? Should we give up hope for a zOMG expansion?

I just started playing zOMG for the first time last month and the story is left on quite a cliffhanger.


There won't be an expansion to Aekea and Durem, as we don't have the bandwidth for building the expansion. Though we are planning for some new events down the road.


Lanzer
SEForeverLove
Features - Evolving Item Museum

Would like to know if Gaia will be updating the Evolving Item Museum since it is not updated for a long time. Item such as below are not included in the Evolving Item Museum.
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and there are a few more that I didn't listed such as Embryonic Vial (only 2 out of the 4 are being listed in the Evolving Item Museum), I had a count of 168 total Evolving Item currently existed in the Market. (excluding the Special Item for Evolving Item). Thanks.


We're currently not working on any more evolving items, so the museum haven't been updated in a while. I'll let the art team know of the missing items.


Lanzer
Shrimp_Man
Inventory

Are you guys aware of an issue when buying items that they won't show up in search immediately after buying them?


Oh okay, I was not aware that it happens to newly purchased items, versus items that are newly released.

I'll try testing again on items that are just purchased. Hopefully I can find the bug this time.


Lanzer
Silverstar_Cross
Features:

Have there been any word of progress to have all the games on Gaia have more options to be run with than JUST using Adobe Flash, like running on alternatives to Adobe Flash is allowed by now?


Games that were built for flash won't have any alternatives. If any browser stop supporting flash the only option would be to use another browser that still support the last flash plugin.

We are going to convert things like Towns 2 into HTML5 so the new version will no longer be flash and can run on all browsers, then we'll work on other older flash games, but it'll be a slow process.


Lanzer
Asterisci
Items

Will evolving items ever make a comeback?


For now there's no plans for more EI.


it amy
BM Vivi
Items

What're the chances of actually getting gloves and socks that fit the base instead of being forced to use mods?

I know Global Imports got new socks earlier this year and Gambino got new leggings!


Jak Bauer
Albern Puppy
Misc

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie-roll pop?


How Many Licks Does It Take?
The Licking Machine and Other Scientific Endeavors


codemonkey37179
glengrin
bluecherry
I posted in ATS a few weeks back, but didn't have time to respond to this before the thread closed and have only now been able to catch an active ATS again.

codemonkey37179
bluecherry
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Welp, that's disappointing. The boxes remain useless to me then. I was going to ask about boxing (and tagging) by individual poses, but if something can only be in one box and it only applies to items we own, there's not much point. Except tagging by individual pose, that would still be veeeeeeery helpful, but that is pretty unrelated to boxing.

Is it because you want to try on items that you don't own?


So here's my response finally: Nope! Not all on its own at least that isn't the case. It's already plenty easy enough, in theory, to try on items we don't own. We can try them on in the market place or the shop previews or in invo search in the dress up page or in the avatar builder. The real problem is in FINDING items. So many items exist it is easy to forget about them, or remember them, but forget their name. There's a HUGE thread in avatar talk forum devoted to just the problem of trying to help people find items they remember, but forgot the name for. Tagging is still a work in progress for improving just having all the good, relevant tags added for when you remember an item exists, but that doesn't cover so well still forgetting about things even existing in the first place which means you don't have much of an idea to even go looking for them. We also have so many items that it's practically impossible to simply buy everything you currently or ever may want to use just so you could sort it for easier finding theoretically in these boxes. That's why I'd want to be able to box things in the avatar builder even if I don't own them AND why I'd want to box things in multiple boxes. I'm picturing using the boxes sort of like a personal collection of tags where the sorting/tagging system helps me find things in whatever way I personally find most useful, like in my above example where I may want a box full of shoes I like and a box full of certain blue items I like and one pair of shoes may also be blue, so I'd want to find it whether I was looking for shoes or blue items (or if I could look for an overlap of stuff, look up specifically things that appear in the shoe box and the blue box, that would be great too) and maybe it's an expensive item that I haven't been able to buy yet due to saving up for it or not being able to justify the expense until I find the perfect outfit for it or it's rare and I couldn't find a seller yet, so though I may want to find it later and don't want to just forget it exists, I don't own it yet. Also, as for the wish list, that currently has a 1000 item limit which is a lot of things to look through, but still not nearly enough compared to how many items are on Gaia to fit everything you could want on them that you haven't bought yet (seriously, I've burnt through multiple wish lists, totally full) and the wish lists don't display all the poses of an item either, just the default pose thumb nail, so it's easy to look at the list and forget about poses in the item that you liked or why you wanted something, what particular purpose you may have had in mind, like an item that's good for some cosplay or that has some useful layering or something.
Good suggestions but I'd settle for ANY coherent system of finding items and poses in my inventory without hours and sometimes days of searching at this point. I use a computer rather than a mobile device so I want a system that isn't clunky on it too. Boxes were designed for mobile devices and are not integrated with the main inventory system last I heard.


It depends on what you mean by integrated. It was designed for both. If it were only for mobile I wouldn't have put in keyboard controlls, mouse-overs or mouse wheel actions.

Did you try the latest version?
codemonkey37179
glengrin
I mean I was under the impression from what you'd said in past AtS, you could use boxes or the regular inventory arrangers but the two could not be used together. I was waiting for the new system to further develop and potential bugs to be worked out before I tried it on my very large and fully chaotic inventory (thanks to the shuffle bug of months past). Are you saying that now is the time to do so? How do I access the box system?


No, what I meant was that they didn't interfere with each other anymore. Before if you arranged a box, it would re-arrange your regular inventory. It doesn't do that anymore.

You can access the boxed inventory under the My Gaia tab at the top of this page. Inventory 2 beta.


Lanzer
Le Him
Artist Position

I was told to send my portfolio to Gaia at the email Lanzer provided me last week. Now I'm back to ask, what exactly do I say in this email in regards to my portfolio if it's an online portfolio? I don't want to just say "Here's a link to my portfolio, hire me?" cause that does not seem professional.


A cover letter and a link to your portfolio is fine. We gauge by the quality of the portfolio so that is what matters the most.


Lanzer
MewWhite
Features

Hey there! I'm not sure how feasible this request would be, but I wanted to ask. Is there any way the links for the pages in your inventory be added to the top of the inventory box, instead of it being just at the bottom?


Sure I'll add that to the todo list.


Lanzer
Atlas Van Malice
Almost a year ago now, Lanzer agree'd with my idea to open up the manga section up for other webcomics.

Can someone let me know if that was still happening? And if so, how long would it take for it to be implemented into the site?

https://i.imgur.com/PvypjEU.png


I didn't get a chance to build this feature yet. Though we can host some web comic contest and feature the winners in the manga section. whee