1.) Will there be better payouts for games in the future? I know about the gold generators and your enjoyment of them, but a lot of us don’t like them and still want to be able to afford items on this free-to-play site. Some of us have very limited ways of earning gold and would really appreciate it if we were able to earn the items we want if you updated the game payouts. They currently don’t offer enough gold to keep up with the economy at all.
1. Yes
Narumi Misuhara
Kain-Senpai
4)Do you guys have any plans to update the games on the site?
4. Yes.
bluealaris
The Prince of Sweets
Hello Admin.
I love fishing and all i care for now is this. crying.
Are we gonna see a new fishing map with new fishes to collect?
Those 3 maps has been there for 10 years now. It would be nice if we can see an update.
Thanks more power.
We are actively having devs work on updating fishing!
bluealaris
Tsuki_Kirkland
Hello, thank you for doing this first of all.
I was wondering what exactly your plan was for paws? [...] Plus we have an issue in games where our avatars don’t show up, you can only see the top of our heads . Will this be fixed?
As for Game issues, please file a ticket to Bug Fixes and we'll have our QA team and devs look into it!
Narumi Misuhara
spam and ham
TOPIC 1) aye when are you gonna stop releasing new items and start focusing on new content, im still waiting on cool games.
1. One doesn't really affect the other razz
Zero Omega
Pandy Belle
Please give out last months Fishing Trophies emo
We haven't forgotten, we're just confirming that everyone who would get trophies followed the TOS and did not bot the game.
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:57 pm
October 20th, 2014:
[NPC] Gaia Staff
Hello and welcome! Here are the answers to a few of the questions posted in our pre-event thread! Please don't duplicate the questions listed below as the answers we have given are as complete as we can make them at this time.
Quote:
Inflation has gone up 10,000 times in the past year but older games and posting gold awards have not. I was wondering if you might update gold awards for older games such as word bump, booty grab, aquarium awards and posting to better reflect the value of gold today and restore some of the spending power of those sources?
This is something we want to do. It may require we rewrite some of those older games because they were written in ancient, no longer supported code sweatdrop
Narumi Misuhara
Scobre
Features
What will Gaia do to improve and update chat and social features of the site?
I think the beggest thing we'd like to do is get the Gaia chat back in, it's long overdue. In addition increasing the various games we have and making them more social via interaction with others.
Narumi Misuhara
The Muse of Life
Games Will switchem ever return. We where told it would return with every major event but it did not return with the summer event.
ninja (yes)
Narumi Misuhara
Scobre
Features Can the mini-games and flash spaces and events of Gaia get a mobile version for the Gaia on the Go App?
This sounds like an excellent idea. We'll have to look at how feasible this is.
bluealaris
coldheartedangel
Games
Is there any way we can get Dumpster Dive updated so we can donate items over 1bil? With inflation the way it is, it's not hard for items to hit that mark.
Yes, absolutely.
bluealaris
Akari Yui
Items
I'm not sure if this is correct, but can rare insects, furniture and rare fish be added, but especially insects and furniture be added to the Alchemy Fusion Cache?
Insects especially the Monarchs are extremely hard to come by and expensive as all out when they come up for sale.
We are looking at different ways for users to get bugs and rare housing items, thank you for your suggestion!
Games Ever thought of turning Switchem into a game for touch-screen tablets and phones? It would be useful and could be linked to a user's Gaia account. They'd win charms or gold shop recolours that would be in their inventory when next they logged in. I feel that allowing the game to go mobile would give you guys a foot into the rapidly rising mobile culture.
This is a great idea!
Narumi Misuhara
crazybeautiful18
Question Category Games Question Why can't gaia games be iOS compatible? Or when are you guys gonna make it so?
Like blackjack ans such?
Mostly due to the time that will be needed to port them. It is a good idea though.
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 5:47 pm
November 3rd, 2014:
[NPC] Gaia Staff
Welcome! Here are the answers to a few of the questions posted in our pre-event thread!
Games
Quote:
I'm not sure if this can be considered games still but here goes, Will the people who earned the Heralds of Chaos achievements before the game went down ever get them granted?
File a ticket and we will make sure to get them to you!
Zero Omega
Mister Belle
Games
Question Is switchem staying? If so can you make it run faster?
SwitchEm will probably make a return in a later event. We haven't really heard any reports of it running slow though.
Zero Omega
Sup Im God
Games
Will you ever bring back Frontier Skies?
Probably not likely, there were a lot of pretty serious bugs that we couldn't fix with the game. We do bring back the shooting game on occasion so keep an eye out for that.
Zero Omega
Myrielle
Games
Almost two years ago, when Heralds of Chaos lost support, a couple of the developers mentioned that people who still have unused Chaos Cash will get a GC refund at some point. People in Customer Support didn't seem to have too much information regarding this aspect and the issue has been in cold storage for months. I have money locked in the dead game I'd prefer to use in the CS but no way to get it back. $5 is still $5, or even more especially you have to factor in currency exchange rates in the equation.
Please help?
Go ahead and file a ticket for this along with any information/evidence/etc you have of having had the Chaos Cash. We'll be able to work out something for you.
Zero Omega
Mercedes702
Games
lol Me again. . . also, is there any chance that Resort World will ever come back to Gaia again?
Okay... Bye & Thanks again xd
Nope. The partner we were working with had the game removed from us and other websites.
bluealaris
Nenanah
Features/Fishing
Can you add seasonal fish to the game? Like a rotation of certain kinds of fish when the seasons change?
I'm not sure if we'll have time to do a seasonal update this year but its an excellent idea to keep in mind!
I don't know if this has been asked but will the payout for Jigsaw, Word Bump and the other older games be increased?
We are planning on bumping up payouts for some of these games!
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 6:45 pm
November 17th, 2014:
Zero Omega
Pandy Belle
Games
Some users tried accessing Gaia Fishing while Gaia was having site disturbances and are stuck in the lakes servers. Clearing cache/history and restarting computer does not help. For instance, this account has been stuck in a room in Bassken as Player 0 since yesterday morning and I receive a disconnection error that tells me to check back in 1 minute. Will this be fixed soon/ASAP?
Weird. o_O We'll take a look at it.
Zero Omega
its a curse
Events:
Speaking of fishing, when are the annual prizes from this year (July) going to get handed out?
No one was "botting" with those captchas from hell. To take this long to see if people were botting sounds like a huge cop out or laziness on Gaia's part.
Our apologies for the delay, we'll get those out.
Zero Omega
Nenanah
Items
This question deals with upping the shop price on selling back fish.
The fish currently have extremely low sell-back prices. This was ok way back in the day. But now that everything costs a whole lot more, these sell-back prices should be increased as well. Fishing is one of the easier ways for new people to earn gold, but now that the prices aren't matching the economy at all anymore there really isn't any point in even touching the game unless you're in it for alchemy, winning trophies, or trying to get both Angelic rods. Even then it's still debatable because our profits from the game are so tiny...
Examples of how low our sell-backs to the shops are. Not putting every single fish up here, but with just a small list you'll get the general idea.
Seedkins are - 7 gold Pebbo Feeders are - 11 gold Guppies are - 3 gold Bass are - 8 gold Stripers are - 13 gold Tunas are - 17 gold Koi are - 8 gold Goldfish are - 3 gold
See... I think it's time to increase the prices so we can actually make a decent profit here.
My question is...
Would you please look into increasing the sell back value of each fish caught out of the fishing flash game?
Sure, we can!
bluealaris
its a curse
Items
why on earth did you think it was "okay" to put an angelic rod in the newest rig?
You know how hard people worked for those?
I don't even have one and i won 2 bronze fishing trophies in July.
The Angelic Rod was placed in the most recent Gen by mistake and removed immediately. I apologize to all of our users who have earned them- we have no plans for releasing them for cash in the future. Previous aquarium/Housing and fishing items that have been released in the past were done so because a. they were sold for cash prior and no longer available in the store and b. they were essential for alchemy and not available through means of purchasing.
bluealaris
Nenanah
Items
This question deals with the trophies won from the fishing flash game and Paws Avatars.
The other day I was surfing around in the Marketplace, I was looking at the fishing trophies won by awesome people each month. But I noticed that they can only be used by a human avatar. There are no listings for trophies that can be used on a Paws avatar.
Well that isn't fair at all. People that use the Paws avatars should have the choice to choose a trophy for that avatar style. Especially if they go through the trouble of earning a trophy.
My question is...
Would you please make some trophies that are won from the fishing flash game for Paws avatars?
That's a wonderful idea. We'll look into it!
Narumi Misuhara
Torse
Games Apologies if this should have been broken up into separate posts, but I thought it all pertained to one thing: a token rework.
• tokens revised to cost maybe 1,000g each • all games now cost quite a few tokens to play • all games now require more tokens for extra lives/more time/etc (with the option of GC instead) • all games now output tickets
This gives tokens an actual use, and tickets are MUCH more flexible regarding economic changes than gold and its frequent value fluctuations.
(This also implies that Prize and Joy be updated)
(pretty please)
Thank you for your consideration
This is a good idea and one we have been looking at for a while. Aside from general updates the games definitely need standardizing.
With the recent increases in gold granting for Booty Grab, are there any plans to increase the gold granting for any of Gaia's Older games?
That's the plan but some may need to be rewritten.
Zero Omega
Pandy Belle
Games
Hello, I wrote about this last week in AtS about users not being able to access certain lakes in Fishing. This is still going on. If you look in Bassken room Vathilia III my account is p0 and wont leave. It has been over a week now. However, I did find out if I change my username or move that username to another account I can access Bassken lake but when I returned the username to this account I am still locked out. It is the same for another user. Then few other users are just stuck in the lakes loading server. They arent in rooms but are unable to access certain lakes. I saw Narumi Misuhara visit a fishing room early last week but I have yet seen any progress to fix this situation.
We're still looking into it. Sorry for the delay. :c
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 6:45 pm
December 1st, 2014:
Narumi Misuhara
Pandy Belle
Games
I just wanted to say thanks to the staff who fixed the issue in Fishing where users were stuck in certain lakes. Its nice to be able to enter Bassken again =]
Is there any way I can get you guys to speed up updating fishing? I would like my record to be up as fast as possible! THanks!
Sorry about the delay in getting to that! We've been doing scans for bots to ensure that we aren't giving out trophies to anyone who may have cheated to get on the leaderboard. We'll make sure to get the trophies granted out soon!
Narumi Misuhara
Nenanah
Games
There has been a lot of talk about the Fishing game being rewritten to a newer script, and possibly updating by adding new fishing areas and fish. Has there been any progress on this or is it just a rumor that isn't happening at all?
Question is originally by ( Nenanah ) I am using Nenanah's Ask the Staff Question Posting Service.
This is correct, we did start rewriting the game. Currently it's on hold while we work on the Christmas event.
bluealaris
Magically Clueless
Features
Would it be possible to add achievements to Dumpster Dive? Motivating users to donate items thoughtfully and rewarding them would be beneficial for everybody! Also, it would discourage Philosopher's Caches being overloaded in DD if they didn't count towards achievements, as well as a ton of other game items.
Either way, for more info you guys can always check out the thread I made in SF with full explanation and I look forward to an answer <3 Thanks
Yes, this is certainly something we can do. The cap for Dumpster Dive was recently lifted and its going to be fun to see what's in there.
Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 7:52 pm
December 15th, 2014:
Zero Omega
Darc Nightgale
Event
Once you complete level 10 on sitchem it glitches, and you have to start over.
Thanks for the report! Please go ahead and post about it here and we'll start checking it out!
bluealaris
The Insane Hattress
Games
Question: Will there be a new MMO on Gaia?
We don't have any plans to create an MMO at this time, we're looking into repairing and revisiting existing features first.
The Ignore System I feel like it could use some adjustments.
In games: 1)In rally, towns and on zOmg, if we had a person on ignore then we didn't have to ignore again on the game. Fishing, slots, blackjack etc..you have to ignore them again and again. 2)We shouldn't have to see that person's room name. It is an eye sore and what if you accidentally enter their room? You get reported for harassment and possibly banned.
These are just some suggestions I hope you'll consider ^.^
Thanks, some of these look like things that slipped through the cracks or just weren't properly supported to begin with.
Zero Omega
princessxdreamz
Games
When will the Fishing update happen?
Also, When will trophies be given out? October, November and December are in waiting.
No update for the fishing update at the moment. I'll check into the trophies, will have an update for you on that this week. Sorry for the delay!
bluealaris
ChaosTrooper
Items
Since you've released a RIG like the Bug Trap that give out bugs, with a chance at a rare bug; would you consider two similar RIGs, one that gives out ink with a rare chance of a Body Dye, and one that gives out fish with a rare chance at a rare fish?
This could help out A LOT of people, as well as make a better balance on the Marketplace price of the Body Dyes and rare fish.
We'll consider it!
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 9:41 pm
January 12th, 2015:
Zero Omega
princessxdreamz
Items/Games
You know in fishing we win trophies but only regular human avatars can wear them. Some fishers are animal bases and they cant equip these trophies. Will you be making trophies for paws/animal bases?
Unfortunately no plans at this time, but thank you for the feedback!
Narumi Misuhara
Corinn
Games
Will we ever get an update for Jigsaw? Ahile back, codemonkey said he was working on a new one. If not that, then can we get new puzzles in the current version of the game? It seemed like you were going to pay attention to that game when you had the contest a few years back but nothing ever came of it.
We can follow up with Codemonkey and see what happened. I think there was a snag but I don't remember for sure.
meemsalman
Nenanah
Item
Since you have gold generators, item generators, and charm generators... Does this mean that you will eventually make a generator for tickets to use in Prize & Joy? I'm just curious, I mean everything else has a generator now. Except wing stickers and tickets.
Question is originally by ( Nenanah )
At this point we have no plans to expand our chance item offerings to include tickets or wing stickers. Sorry. =(
I'm pretty sure there's a glitch here on the Fishing Trophy winners page where every person is doubled. Will this be fixed?
boop
okay thanks c:
Yup! This is something we're aware of! We're hoping to get a fix for this to ensure we can properly display the correct winners!
codemonkey37179
Corinn
Games
Last week Narumi Misuhara told me codemonkey would be consulted to find out what's up with Jigsaw. Any word?
Yes, Narumi forgot to ask.
That is a game that needs dusting off, let me poke around the code and see what I can do. Please feel free to keep bugging me about it.
Narumi Misuhara
Corinn
Games
Last week Narumi Misuhara told me codemonkey would be consulted to find out what's up with Jigsaw. Any word?
There was an issue with server verifying the game so the project was dropped at the time. We can revisit it and get more details on the issues and see if it's something we can quickly work through.
Narumi Misuhara
Kuroii Panda
Features
Could you please raise the amount of tokens once can buy at once? Right now only 100 can be bought at the same time.
I have a question/request about Booty Grab. This is not about asking for new fish or anything like that.
As you know, Booty Grab is a game on Gaia. Since it is a game, why not have Booty Grab featured in 'Games' on Gaia? Booty Grab would get a lot more attention that way and having Booty Grab featured in 'Games' would really benefit tank owners a whole lot!
That's all I wanted to ask! Thank you! C:
The reason we have not done this is because for the other games it takes you straight to that particular game, but with a Booty Grab, though the gameplay is the same for each game, the game is unique to each tank owner.
Narumi Misuhara
Sinfulcraft
Games/Features
Would it at all be possible to change the saving mechanic in Fishing?
I'm asking this because it becomes a pain when I'm fishing and my net goes out, or the game randomly disconnects.This is really irritating when I have an almost complete bucket. I was thinking that the mechanic could be changed to like Towns' saving mechanic for instance. Pretty much once you catch the fish, it goes straight to your inventory. You could still keep the bucket system and have the captcha just be put in to use a new bucket. I'm sure I'm not the only user that fishes and feels this way about the saving system. It's really disheartening, especially if you're after the Angelic Rod as a goal.
The game as is will remain as is. We do have plans to upgrade it and at the time, saving will definitely be fixed!.
