May 14th

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Welcome Back!

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Features:

On "My Gaia" page, can you move the "Daily Gift _____" button higher? That's a lot of scrolling to do for something which is as useful in that column.


Sure we will find a better home for the daily gift button

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FEATURES: GoGaia App

Will the Excitable Emoter achievement be available on the new app?

Excitable Emoter (Hyper, Texting, Emoter, Texter)
25 Points
"Awarded to any Gaian who discovered the secrets of Geemoji!" ➔ ""


Well the new app isn't exactly Geemoji, we will probably make new achievements for features in the app.

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Games : LakeKindred

Can you stabilize the Lake Kindred Capsule drop rate please ?

For me : they drops like there is no tomorrow . And I have talked to people who have not gotten a single drop at all . Even people who barely get them to drop at all . But they are dropping too often for me . I have over 300 already . So can you please fixed this ?


We will revisit the drop rate to see why there is such a difference reported

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Games: Fishing

Will fishing be fixed completely? cause its still down and I really like fishing hence my name will you all fix it soon?


Yes we are currently working on the issue with the Fishing server. It will be fixed soon!


Lanzer
Hello everyone!

Fishing had just been fixed, and we're working on fixing the missing avatar issue tonight.

Guild join request process had been adjusted so that if the requested user is blocked by any crew member, the request will be denied.


Lanzer
mank demes
Features

Would it be possible to allow us to change genders on the dress up page? The current system is beyond annoying to work with. Gender benders ruin the base you have equipped and forces you to go buy new potions and hairs after using it. I don't mind paying a fee for swapping my gender, but it would be great if it can 1.) be done from the edit avatar page, and 2.) not completely change the base.


It's in my to-do list, we get around to changing it in time. 3nodding


Lanzer
Memoirii
Misc.

Y'all got plans to go to Otakon this year? ninja


Sorry no plans yet, we're still finalizing the cons to attend this year.


Lanzer
Morrigan87
How often in a day can you post to earn platinum? Just curious 3nodding


It's not a solid number but a scale that deplete and recover over time, time between posts , or an occasional break will recover that amount.


Lanzer
Vision Blurs
Miscellaneous/Features/????

Okay, since it's been a hot minute since I remembered to ask about this, and I do remember Lanzer saying something about looking into it at one point...

Is there any notable status update type things in regards to the users with blocked threads in their subscribed topics, and a way to get rid of them? We can't unsubscribe from threads that we can't view for whatever reason, and it's kind of obnoxious to keep seeing that there's threads in our subscriptions that we can't access. (I also have no clue if these were threads I was blocked from or threads that were removed or whatever.)


That's still on my to-do list, sorry I haven't got around to it yet. It's not too far away.


Lanzer
Anbu Amala
Games

Question: Are you guys ever going to change the music in Virtual Hollywood where the hot tub is at? The same song has been on for years, Souja Boy....


Let me see if it requires re-compiling the flash client to change songs. Hope I can flip a few switches.


Lanzer
kdgalaxy
Games: Lake Kindred

Since February, when I click the My Kins tab (and hover over the pictures of kins at the bottom) the game freezes. This is only happening when I use my Mac with Safari. On my Mac and Chrome, it does not freeze. The game is still playable, as long as you don't need to use the My Kins tab. It seems when I try to play early in the morning (PST) it doesn't freeze. It might have to do with server traffic? When there are more people trying to play LK, it freezes? Because a hour or so later it will start to freeze again. I asked about it 4 weeks ago in the pre-ATS, and was told you hoped to have it fixed that week. Do you have an ETA on when that might be fixed? Thanks!

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Sorry I haven't been able to reproduce that bug, give it another shot tomorrow and try a different test account.


Lanzer
Sue Z June
Random Question (Cause I don't know for sure which category it goes under) Is it safe to trade items and gold/platinum yet?

Features: Will we ever be able to gift items from our Game and zOMG tabs?

Another Random Question (cause AGAIN not sure where it goes) But can we unfreeze items from our Aquariums, since some of us NEVER use them?


I've fixed a number of trade related bugs so it should be okay. We also added additional logging in case anything happens.

I'll look into gifting for game and zOMG items. As long as they're not soul bound it should be ok. I'll also have to check on the aquarium issue.


Lanzer
kdgalaxy
Marketplace

Here are a couple of ideas I have to make the marketplace a little easier to use.

We have the option to cancel all, but I'd like to pick and choose things to cancel without having to cancel each one individually.

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I'd also like to see the drop down menu under avis in the marketplace. That would allow us to more quickly message or trade with the store owner.

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I'm not sure how easy these changes would be, but I think they could help out store owners and shoppers alike!

There are some great other suggestions over at my Site Feedback Thread!


Great suggestions! I'll add those options in whenever I can. Probably the drop down menu first.


Lanzer
Deus de Charity
Avi builder;

ive heard multiple people complain that they would be making an avi
then suddenly it resets to normal
[and they obviously didnt hit any button that would make it do this]

ive heard this happening for quite a while
is it possible to get this fixed so it doesnt reset?
ive asked if they think anything specific causes it, like x amount of items or x amount of time in the builder
but theyve all said it happens pretty much at random.

that sounds super maddening, esp if youre doing it for a contest, or for personal use.
sometimes you just never find those items again! or really whats the point if it just breaks again D:
could this please be looked into?


I think there might be a server problem with what we use to cache data. I'll change that over to storing data on a database to prevent loss of data.


Lanzer
Knight Yoshi
Feature

Can we get a post limit/timer for new accounts. Today there was an account posting porn in the CB very quickly. While it's not fool proof, it would at least mitigate it to some degree.

In another forum there's a 15min cool down for every 3 posts for the first 3 days. I feel something like this would be beneficial to mitigate spam to some degree.


Sure I can add that in, I'll also block all posts by a new user if its first few posts received enough complaints.


Lanzer
MissJewelsOfChrist
Items/Soulbound items hard to get
i heard that the 2009 sashes are soulbound and were only handed out during feb 2009
and im a march 2009 member and wanted to know how can i get the 2009 '09 sash?
ticket? link to request soulbound? whats the procedure?
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I can look into it.


Jak Bauer
Shallotte
Misc.

Late last week, all(or most) of NPC's profiles have been blocked from user access. Why?

Some of the NPC profiles had stuff on them; like the Zurg profiles and Gambino's Memorial. Now users are blocked off from being able to see the profiles or being able to post comments on them- And that's a huge bummer for a lot of us. Especially when character data and their journals were there. Now we can't access it.

NPC's profiles are always really interesting; and the blocked access just kinda.. breaks the immersion. Because right away there is a barrier there, and they don't feel like interactable NPC's or tangible residents of the site. They just feel like robots that can be turned on or off.

This was especially a problem with Flarn. Once he returned in 2016, his profile access was blocked and his account was botted. And it broke the immersion entirely. I just don't agree with NPC profiles being blocked. I'd like to see the permissions restored.


Hi there,

You should be able to see NPC profiles again!
Lanzer
We increased security on profile pages so that banned accounts cannot keep their contents running, unfortunately we mark all NPC accounts as banned to avoid any chance of those accounts being hacked. That issue had just been fixed.


Lanzer
The Golden Boleyn
Favorites:

The pages are broken, won’t go past seven and with one of my collections having over a thousand favorites there should be more than that.


Whoops, I'll fix that right away. Which collection is that?


Lanzer
2sammygate
features

there's currently a glitch on the inventory and selling pages of paw accounts, paw items have returned to the equip page. see my thread here. they're supposed to be only on the paw tab. people have not noticed cause how few permapaw vendors there are maybe.


I'll look into the issue. Thanks for letting me know


it amy
Castiel Lover
LK Rigs

Any chance of updating what drops from rigs like A Touch of EVERYTHING? I'm pretty sure I have 20 of everything possible, and I have 388 unopened rigs. sweatdrop It could really use a revamp to change out items in each color scheme.


Unfortunately, the chances of me changing the contents within those exact CIs are very low—it would be more efficient for me to just create brand new CIs/lists.


it amy
Deus de Charity
Lanzer
Deus de Charity
star rewards;

its not a 'cute little freebie' when you create sales around limited time offers in the star reward shop. [i.e. golden week]

youre just furthering my concern ive voiced before of this just being a secondary premium currency.

if they were just cute little freebies to give back to those who support you, things shouldnt be priced so high [like 50 stars for a flair!? which their normal price is 2.50$, which is now at 25$?!]
then you wouldnt have limited edition sales to try to get people to buy excess gcash just to have enough stars.
youd have them at very affordable prices, and not have limited edition sales to force people buying more.

this does not help you already having in inflation of gcash and trying to bring the prices in the gcash shop down......................
because then people have excess just because of the stars, and then they dont have anything they wanna spend the gcash on, then theyre just sitting on it
and promoting the problem you were supposed to be trying to solve.


I think the idea behind Star Points is similar to air line miles where you get a free flight after about 10 flights. The flight purchased by miles would feel expensive if you say that the flight cost $5000 (10 regular tickets) to purchase. I will pass your feedback to the sales team and we will keep an eye on pricing items in the star point shop.


yeah but they dont have flash sales of
'hey you have to have x amount of flights to get this deal that is very limited time only'
leading users to go
'OMG TIME TO BUY ALL THE FLIGHTS I CAN SO I CAN GET THIS VERY LIMITED EDITION THING WITHIN THE 1 WEEK'

if it were similar to getting a free flight after x amount of flights

why didnt you do it where you can just get free gcash after buying or spending gcash?
that way it keeps it within your premium currency without creating a secondary currency.
buy 10$ worth of gcash? great here is 100 gcash for free.
that will also eliminate having % sales that inflate gcash even more.
which you said you would stop doing because gcash was being inflated. [its not like 200% sales anymore but its still getting kinda high!]

kind of defeats the purpose dont you think?

if you do like
buy 1000 gcash get 200 gcash for free
then for those who specifically cant buy gcash, have it also be
spend 1000 gcash and get 100 free.
then it can scale from there.

you dont need stars.
its just an extra barrier people have to pay extra for
and it leaves a really shitty taste in my mouth about it.
especially because theyre SO EXPENSIVE.


Stars are just a way to reward people for purchasing GCash/pledges. A simple way to think of it is the Tier System reinvented (it's including purchasing and spending at the same time). Purchase > Earn Points > Redeem Points for free rewards.

Tiers over the years have acted the same way, a limited time offer for free things when you make X amount of purchases. With this new program, we can have items be in there longer so you don't constantly have a 1-4 day pressure to obtain the item. Some will have shorter durations, but for the most part, the things within the store have been a longer duration than your usual tier.

Airlines definitely have flash sales where you can redeem your points for; I have definitely jumped the gun with a couple flights sweatdrop


Lanzer
Deus de Charity
BATTLE FIELD FORUM

I've been running a week long charity battle and have had some time to figure things out
Here are some MAJOR BUGS with the thread, and then some suggestions to hopefully make it more user-friendly!

Bugs:
- You can heal someone and get a point for it even if they're full health
[if youre having a contest like most do for top healer and top fighter, this is really breaking the system, why would you get a point if theyre already healed?]
[i guess this is just to help get heal points if everyone is full health? but it just seems like cheating?]

- Sometimes you 'lose' your team, meaning your icon goes white, instead of ur team icon
when your icon is like this, you cannot fight or heal. but if you post you still get MP
you don't turn into a spectator, u just can't do anything
[this is super super detrimental because the threads have a time limit !
SOMETIMES they come back after a random amount of time [up to even over 24h!]
but by then the thread might not even be going anymore]

Thread Suggestions:
- Gain a heal point for reviving a team mate [maybe also for reviving yourself, because I mean, you have to pay for it! so might as well get a heal point right? and it promotes reviving people and yourself!]
- Names for the team inside the banner with the icon for better clarification
- When the game is over, full player board stat list instead of just top3 [even if it's only viewable by clicking another link. Like there is the top 3 then 'view here for player board' to see everyone else's stats]
- Let the host revive people too? So that way they can promote people coming back, rather than watching as everyone dies and stops playing

also promote this forum because what they heck its like you slipped it in under the rug during the easter event
and literally everyone who came into my battle thread didnt even know it existed.
so try to promote it more??? you put in that work, fix it, then promote it!


Thanks for the feedback! I'll ask our team to look into the bugs and suggestions.


Lanzer
DarkRybrin
Feature- Inventory

You guys have been doing crazy well on getting bugs fixed, the app out, and even with an injury; thank you very much for your hard work.

Is there any progress on figuring out why the shuffle bug is so pervasive? Moving more than one item at once noticeably scrambles many lines of the following pages. One of the biggest quality-of-life fixes would be dealing with that one.

Understandably you're busy and there's a lot else on the list, but you said you'd have another crack at it a couple months ago, and I was just hoping to hear where it was on the to-do list.


My stitches are out so I can type quickly once again!

The shuffle bug is very nasty and hard to fix. I'll spend more time on it later this week to see if I can find a solution.


Lanzer
shellsmachine
Games - Aquariums

I know you have lots to work on, but have you had the chance to address the blank Aquarium glow question?

I had one at 6:40am Pacific today. The most I've had (that I've been able to catch in my own tank) in one day is three. Since Aquariums is my favorite Gaia thing, it cuts into my enjoyment quite a bit! Other people are also affected by this, of course, leading to fewer tanks to grab.

By the way, thank you for fixing the Aquarium in-the-tank inventory problem. Much appreciated!


Sorry getting aquariums to glow on command is harder than anticipated. I hope to find the root cause soon.


Lanzer
Castiel Lover
Features

With the mobile app finally out, bare boned as it is, what is next on the agenda?

Is the app still the first priority, or are there other features being developed now (besides a summer event)?


For the mobile app, we are working on better chat, being one on one or group chat, plus more avatar features and ways to earn gold/plat is on the menu. As well as ways to earn more items.


Lanzer
Paneenie
Why is Zomg gone and there is completely nobody in the other games? Will you be able to reach more people to play this game?


zOMG is running from what I can tell, how is it not working for you?


Lanzer
Haji Demon
Features: Avatar favoriting/Runway

In future can we get to see our avatars that were favorited from Runway museum in 'MY TAGGED AVATARS' collection too? At the moment only ones that were favorited directly from us show up


That sounds like a bug... I'll add that to my bug list.


it amy
Purrstel
Star rewards/Features-

I was wondering, is there anyway to combine stars within your own accounts? For example this account and my other account I buy GC on depending on which one I renewed the Angel sub on at the time and now they both have stars just floating around that combined could help me get items but individually just go to waste. It's a real pain :c

I can bring the idea up to the team, but we currently have no plans for combining stars,


it amy
Princess Kunzite
Items

Could we maybe see a recolor of Her Hymn sometime in the future? This is an older Umami, but it hasn't really seen much love since its debut. It's a rather beautiful item, and I'd love to see some recolors of it!

It'd also be nice if it could maybe also get the "Umami Plus" treatment at some point; the rare version of it is EXTREMELY rare, and it'd be awesome if there was a chance of getting a few more out there in circulation.


I would love to see more past Umami's get the Plus treatment for Angel Supporters! I can pass it along to the team.


it amy
Hologram Style
Can we get something for Lake Kindred

I'm glad we've been able to have a couple new Kin this year already, but the capsules are the latest edition! We do have more plans for LK in the future