July 9th

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Welcome Back!

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Cache Fix?

This has been posted a few times in forums but I thought I'd bring it up again, Caches are only showing about 5 items when opened. This glitch is been going on for over 3 weeks, please fix it at your nearest convenience.


The issue with the alchemy cache had been fixed. Thank you for the heads up!

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Features

Are you able to fix the Runway feature? I got Gaia married and the title won't display under my avatar because of the Runway Model tag that just cannot be removed unless I don't participate in Runway. Please disable the model tag if you can? It's not right that we can't have our statuses show under our avatars and the tag is compulsory. Can we have a choice for precedence please? Thanks


We will talk to the UI designer and see if there's a better way to display runway status with marriage status. Probably make it into an icon instead of a banner.

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Mobile App Security Concerns

As a person that uses secondary authentication, anyone can just log into my account using the mobile app (should they successfully breach it). Could you remedy this security problem at all? It's a terrifying thought as the app features will increase as work is done. I've pointed this out in SCAS forum yet received no response.


The mobile app will support secondary authentication soon, so secondary auth is required everywhere once it's enabled.


Lanzer
xtra smol
Shops

Will the Gaia Cash Tradable cards be back soon, and are they on some set timer or something?


From what I know we are currently phasing them out. I think there should be other means to gift GC coming later.


Lanzer
Albern Puppy
Shops

Is Mecha Neko going to get updated soon? Currently, there is nothing in the shop.


I'll ask the art team about updating Mecha Neko.


Jak Bauer
monsers_inc
Question Category Bugs?

My friend recently locked herself out of her account because she deleted her second auth app. How should she go about recovering her account? Will you offer backup codes so this doesn't happen? People accidentally lose phones or delete apps frequently enough that this shouldn't totally lock someone out.


Hi there,

Please have your friend fill out a ticket in our Help Center
Lanzer
Your friend can file a ticket or contact a site moderator and we can disable secondary auth for that account after some verification.


Lanzer
Castiel Lover
Re-post, but haven't had any reply.

Marketplace

It's time to build a buyer's market to fix usermade artificial inflation and the issue of unlisted items.

Give us a place to list an offer to buy an item (perhaps put tabs on an item's mp listing for "items that are for sale" and "offers" similar to how user stores have tabs for items and outfits.) The offer listing would take gold/plat out of our account like a trade would until the listing sells or is cancelled or times out.

For example, I go to the angelic halo mp page, click on the offer tab, and list my offer for 5 trillion gold that I would buy an item for (and it would add tax at some point, either showing the offer price lower than 5 tril or, better yet, adding tax to the amount it takes from me so it still shows 5 tril on the offer page.) Someone that has the item can look at the offers and decide to click on "sell" to get the 5 tril and send the item straight to me.

This buyers market would help combat the artificially inflated prices by showing what people are willing to pay. It would also help for items that are not listed (esp if you or gaia upgrade lets us see how many buyers listing there are when we click the item in our invo, like it currently shows for how many listings for sale there are).

These offers would have to be in another tab on our store, next to selling and outfits. I don't know if we would need to limit it by 50 offers, like we have 50 selling slots. But I hope we could have at least 100 slots.

PLEASE consider spending time on this, because it would really be a huge feature that EVERYONE would love.


The offer feature does sound like a great feature to have for the marketplace. I will add this to the to-do list and see when we can incorporate into the marketplace.


Lanzer
Odd Cinderella
Shops

Will the Treehouse Trio also have a growth spurt? Will any other NPCs have updated art too? ninja


Maybe not all at once, but if we have an event involving any NPC we will try to update the once involved.


Lanzer
Castiel Lover
BTW, I just checked, and caches still only open to the five items. But now there is a longer buffer symbol before the items show up.


Whoops I forgot to bust the system cache. Please try again in 10 minutes.


Lanzer
Jisen Meizuki
Misc

Sorry to hear about JK's passing. Can I give you a hug for comfort?


You can have as many hugs as you want. We all miss him a lot. *hugs*


Lanzer
glengrin
FEATURE

In the market place, would it be possible to change the filter categories, replacing all the different equipable item ones of hat, tops, bottoms, hand held, accessories, etc with one large human equip item filter? It would be far more relevant and allow us to see items to use for our avies without all the stuff that doesn't apply.


I'll add that to the to-do list. We were going to add some animal based filters too.


it amy
Operation Katana
Registration Page and Avatars

Hi, a month ago I asked this and had a response from Amy and said they were about to implement new avatars for the registration page. Is this still in the works? Also, what about an update for the registration/home page? Could be better to update it to attract new users.


That's still on me sweatdrop I did take a week off in June and ended up spending a lot of my time planning/executing work that needed to be prepped for that week. I'll try and tackle it this month, my apologies!
Lanzer
Oh yes the new avatars should be ready, let me check to see when they can be implemented. We will have other updates soon.


it amy
Leothalis the Sorcerer
Shops

So we got the 'announcement' that GC cards are being phased out for something in the future. Instead of this, would you be willing to make a poll/survey about this and take into account user feedback and potentially change your course of action based on the feedback you receive?


We had a whole bunch of surveys lined up to go out (some already have) and a future one include this topic! Some of us are finishing eating a late lunch and afterward more surveys would be sent out!


Lanzer
smol_burrito
Features

Could a "relist" or "alter price" feature be added to the user stores? Currently, if you want to change the price of an item you have listed you have to cancel it and then go to another page to relist it, which can be quite a hassle, especially if you own more than one of the item so it doesn't go to the end of your inventory.


We will probably need o do some changes to make sure that changes do not get cached for other users, and no one would get the wrong item if someone purchase an item right when it is edited. This might take a small while to implement.


Lanzer
ninthcompanion
Features

hello! have you folks considered connecting gaia to twitter? having even a premade "Check out my Avatar on #GaiaOnline! [link to user profile/etc]" automatic post that's clickable from the my avatar page might secure more pageviews and increase user retention :O most everybody I know is on twitter, these days!

edit: perhaps users who connect their twitter account might receive a small platinum bonus to help incentivize it?


Yes that's one of the features we have planned. Thank you for the suggestion.


Lanzer
Snow Danger
Features

When will new outfit slots be available in the closet? We’re very eager to have them!


We are planning to release more slots. More details later. 3nodding


Lanzer
Pink Mouse Amelia
Features

As far as I can see, there haven't been any new mods who have joined the team for quite some time. As obviously they are volunteers who are very busy and sometimes things will come up in their lives which means they may need to step away from this position, are there any steps being taken to bring on new users who are interested and meet the requirements?


We do have some new mod applications, and once we get organized the training will begin. Separately we are making other changes to gain new members.


Lanzer
SERlTH
FEATURES RUNWAY PRIZE

so right now the total prize for the runway's free theme is 1,659 plat. split between 10 users. was wondering if this could be scaled up a bit to better reflect our economy? cuz right now a user only needs to post twice to make the same amount as 1st place ..which is kinda underwhelming sweatdrop

hope this doesn't sound ungrateful. just looking for ways to improve the user experience, so thanks for hearing me out!

cheers


Understood. We will review the winnings as the mobile version will be released soon.


Lanzer
Nash-eoke_ the patcher
Is Gustav in Bass Ken ( zOMG ! ) realy broken ? ! Only I talked to him . But I had the see Ryan first !

I thought Kin was Broken . Until I visited him at night . I don't remember Kin only being active at night on zOMG! lol lol

I know a few NPC's are hollow avatars , Klaus Clockenmeyer if thats his name. The Von Helloing twins at entrance to DMS and there's a lot at Gold Beach .

But does that mean somebody hasn't logged into their account for a long time and needs to change Wardrobe .

As I frequently see normal Gaian's coming back after a long hiatus and walking around like Ghosly Intermediate outlines . But I just tell them to go to dressup , change something and save . Then start again . Normally that sorts out Hollow avatar's .

Does this also apply to the Hollow NPC's ?


Thanks for the heads up. I thought I fixed all the hollow avatars but looks like some fell through the crack. I'll go fix them right away.


Lanzer
I3efore I3irthday
Event: Valentine's Day

Will the people who were struck buy the faulty reduction bug, who posted in this thread ever be recompensated?


Yes. Sorry for the wait. I will review the case once again.


it amy
bug toots
Castiel Lover
Lanzer
From what I know we are currently phasing them out. I think there should be other means to gift GC coming later.


Please don't do this! Trading with gc is an important part of the economy, as not everyone can afford to purchase gc. And gifting gc isn't a good way to trade and not get scammed, unless it's built into the trade feature (which still has problems with missing game items, btw.)

^^^ this this this!!

I guess Lanzer's statement left room for a lot of imagination; gift cards aren’t being phased out (in the way you all probably imagined), we are just hoping to transition to a different system best outfitted for Gaia Cash and the way people gift it.

Gift cards aren't in the cash shop for various purposes from time to time anyway, I would just see it as them taking a vacation for right now.


Lanzer
Sir Valen Pureheart
Games: zOMG

Old Station/Old Tutorial Comeback Update
How's the progress so far in bringing it back? Thanks!

zOMG Groovy Scripts

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Anyway, I think it has been forgotten already but there used to be zOMG scripts that was released from previous Dev Meats for everyone to see and try to understand. Not every Area Scripts was released (Only for Barton Town, Village Greens and Bills Ranch) and I was wondering if every Area Scripts could be uploaded ? As well as for Rings and Player Stats and User Interface scripts?
It would be nice to make all of zOMG's code open-source and free for all now and release them for viewing for all Gaians to see? Thanks! It would be helpful for finding out and understanding zOMG more! whee


Sorry for the delay. The map itself is ready but we still need to adjust the script for the NPC and other actions so that you don't automatically get bounced off the map.

I kept forgetting but I'll upload the rest of the scripts when I get a chance. sweatdrop


Lanzer
Pink Mouse Amelia
Games - Runway

Are staff aware of the issue with the Captcha on Runway? For some users when the Captcha prompt shows up for voting, it just is the loading circle forever, meaning that they cannot have votes counted past the first instance of the Captcha appearing.

This page has some users discussing the issue in some more detail (together with some other chatter related to Runway).


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


it amy
Shrimp_Man
Misc

You know what would be great? If sticky topics would show up in the new app. Just saying. Lol


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could use a lil more visibility, but they're over here!