June 10th

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Welcome Back!

No pre-questions this week due to the schedule shift, sorry. crying


Lanzer
Hello everyone! I'll be away for two weeks, so I wanted to touch base with everyone and fix any potential problems before I head out.

I'll be in Singapore and Malaysia for my brother in-law's wedding. Looking forward to a lot of good food and sight seeing.


Lanzer
Twenty Two Pilots
Features

I can't seem to delete avatars that I have favorited. When I try to delete it and then refresh the page, the avatar still remains in the collection.


That's odd, I've tested this two weeks ago. Please provide me with the URL for the favorite you're trying to remove, and I'll do some testing.


Lanzer
Knight Yoshi
Feature: New GSI
In order to not slow down the 712 GSI requests further by adding more information returned, would you be willing to add a new GSI that takes an item ID and returns all of it's children items' data, like what gets returned with 712, but for all of the associated children.

Example: I give it the Anima Adamantea ID (#31825) and would returns data for all:
Anima Adamantea (chest gem) (#31869),
Anima Adamantea (metal egg - in arm) (#32337),
Anima Adamantea (glowing bracelet),
etc...

While I can get the parent item data from the item_search table, it is not currently possible to get the child item data.

https://www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/itemdetail/31869
Thus if I were to get the data, I'd have to scrape the marketplace one-by-one, and given the sheer amount of child items there are, that's not practical.


We should have GSI calls to get child info, if not, I can slip that into 712 or make a new GSI call with it.


Lanzer
AngelaCloudMage
Alchemy

There is a bug when we are using the cache. Instead of having access to all items each caches have, we only have access to 5 or 6 items.

Example :
Before, we had access to all items in amethyst cache (maybe 15 items) and now there is only 5 or 6 items per amethyst cache.
Same for gold caches, or emerald cache, etc...

Please, fix this because it make our job, when we do alchemy, a lot more difficult


Oh okay, there wasn't an example so I didn't know where to look. I'll see if it's a database issue or something with the UI.


Lanzer
Twenty Two Pilots
Feature: Media Panel

Will autoplay & the ability to use Youtube playlists on profiles come back?


Autoplay will be an option and will be added soon. I didn't know that the new format doesn't support playlist. I'll look into that.


Lanzer
Albern Puppy
Runway

Can there please be a change in the 7-day runway rewards? In my opinion, anything would be better than getting another Chirpette bundle.


I'll ask the team to put in something better. sweatdrop


Lanzer
HisNekoNeko
Games

When will some of the older games be revamped and fixed up? Towns is not longer functional and Word Bump will never stop loading.


Towns is a bit difficult, but let me fix Word Bump ASAP.


Lanzer
heavens exiled
Moderator App
I brought this up in site feedback. Any news on development on fixing the issues?


Let me look into this once more. I know that many of us have not seen this problem on testing, but it could have been some encoding issue.

Please try again tomorrow.


Lanzer
Corndoge
features/shops

Can we pretty please have a $10 angle sub tier?
Idk if this has be answered before or not, but figured I'd ask.


I'll talk to the team about it. Thanks for asking.


Lanzer
Hypothecate
Features

Updates on trunks and floating gift boxes?


Yeah it's overdue for an update. I'll ask the team to look into it.


Lanzer
Knight Yoshi
Information Query

The 712 GSI returns a thumbnail and thumbfile property. The thumbfile is what's used for the item's icon. What is the thumbnail image for, and how would I access it?

For instance the Angelic Halo (#1404)

"thumbnail":"m_head_69_thb.png","thumbfile":"7620e03a57c.png”


Thumbnail is actually for internal use only. Only the thumbfile is put online. We did not want anyone to dig for unreleased items so all names are encoded. I'll remove it when I work on that gsi call again.


Lanzer
Nash-eoke_ the patcher
I have been having an ongoing problem with Forums / Aquarium .

The Timer on my Booty Grab Thread no longer works . It just shows a Box with a Red Cross in it .

Is there any way this can be rectified ?

Regds

NTP


Please provide me with the URL in which you're seeing the error and I'll see what I can do.


Lanzer
Knight Yoshi
Information Query #2

Game items have a "class" and "subclass" property, some of these come back as numbers. What is the value of the numbers, is it suppose to be a foreign key in your database?


Only class is used in a meaningful way and subclass is always used for sub-systems that usually aren't useful.


Lanzer
Pandy Belle
Games-Fishing

Can you guys find a fix for connecting to server? Some days its harder than others to connect to server. Some gaians still havent been able to fish at all since your server merger back last October.


Hmm, that's not good, for anyone who is still having trouble connecting to fishing or other gaia games, please PM me so I can do more testing. I've been trying to test on more accounts to see what the cause could be.


Lanzer
Purrstel
Features

At any point, are older games going to be updated with better payouts to meet the current economy?
I miss playing games on here and having a reason to grind them.
Puzzles and slots used to be my home.


Those games do need to be updated, I'll see if I can change the currency to platinum as least.


Lanzer
heavens exiled
Announcements
Can you perhaps cut down on announcement spam for angel subscriptions and gaia cash bonuses?


We will do what we can. Sorry for the amount of announcement posts.


Lanzer
Jinglybell
Question Category items:

Question: Guess its more of a request. I would really like to see old rigs (not suuuuper old) in the gaia rewards. Things like 2k16-2k17 party favors, maybe old black friday/summer sale rigs or even the new BFS stuff during black Friday.


I'll ask the team about this. 3nodding


Lanzer
Purrstel
Misc

Are you guys planning on going to something like Anime Expo by chance? Or is that too far for you to travel?
Just wondering since that's the only expo I'll probably be going to sweatdrop


Usually we do Anime Expo but this year I'll be out of the country so we'll be skipping Anime Expo this year. Hope to see you next time


Lanzer
HpIar
Features

would appreciate it if you would make the 'ghost'
link from the avatar drop-down menu open in a
new tab rather than take over the current tab


I'll ask what other users want, it should be a easy change if most people want it the other way around.


Lanzer
heavens exiled
Features - Angel Subs
More dollar options between $20 and $100 would be nice! Also, other perks would be nice as well such as increased shop space, increased amount of items you can put into your trades, and such also!


I'll look into expanding trade item size once more. Hopefully I won't break the UI


Jak Bauer
Ren Orenji Doragon


Hi there,

Can't say when, but we can definitely look into that...


Lanzer
Deus de Charity
Avi builder

you still cant search for paw items.
even if youre base is a paw
you get the entire database if you go through the tabs
but you cannot search anything, it comes up blank.

also, the bug of avis resetting after a random amount of time, is still happening.


Whoops I fixed that for avatar dress up but I'll fix it for avi builder also. I should have it fixed tonight.


it amy
Moonracer
Items

I got a RIG from my Watermeat plush I think it was the Rina Cafe or Rina Winter Cafe...something like that. I opened it and got "Spiced Cider" however nothing else would load. I get a small little image in the upper left corner and the name "Spiced Cider" then below that I have buttons for Gift, trash, donate, close. That's it. Can someone look into this please? I would like to open my "Spiced Cider".

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0


I can look into this!
it amy
Following up, check your CI in about 10 minutes! If there is still an error, PM me!


Lanzer
Yen Quest
Features

I know that you're working hard on the mobile app, but is there anything planned for onsite-features outside of events, like sometime in the near future? Last I remember, updating the header image and daily log-in bonuses was difficult on the back end (probably due to agent coding). And a lot of the fixes were made on broken features high above on the priority list (GC related, or help desk, etc).

I appreciate all the work you put behind the scenes, but I am rather concerned about the website being stagnant.


Last week we released forum battle as a feature, and we have more things planned for the forum and community features in general. If there are anything specific please let me know.


Lanzer
Skittex
Features
Just curious... when do you think Astra animations will be viewable again? (Never actually seen then in action. Figure it's due to flash.)


Current browsers made it very difficult to view because the sizes are small and often treated as ads. We are looking into what we can do with SVG animations which all the browsers support. It won't be as nice as flash but we can have smooth animation effects with it.


Lanzer
AngryAshleyBear
Events

I am still missing 4 tril gold from the mishap with the Valentine's Event, just wondering when there will be any kind of update to how you're fixing this, or when I can expect to get my gold back.
I know I'm not the only one who is still missing gold, that was not granted to us, but wrongfully deducted from us.


I'll look into the issue again and see what I might have missed. Sorry I thought the last update had everyone's gold issue addressed.


Riyokuma
The_Timeless_One
When new project tie dye colors come out, do old requests have to be requested again?
Nope! Your order will remain in queue and will be accepted when it hits the top! We keep track of what orders are submitted when so old orders will still get to use the old schemes. 3nodding