January 12th

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Hello and welcome!

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Features/Games (?)
GoFusion is an interesting system and has been since it was announced last July, but I was wondering how the feature tied into the site as a whole. Alchemy was introduced by NPCs, has been featured in the manga, has its own shop, and uses items found all over the site. GoFusion, on the other hand, uses charms, the origins of which have yet to be explained. Is GoFusion tied in any way to the greater Gaia world, and if so, any chance we could learn more about it?

At this time there are no plans to incorporate GoFusion into the overall Gaia story!

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events / manga
Will we get a conclusion for Bitter Slumber (manga page or at least an announcement) this month?

The conclusion to Bitter Slumber in the form of a manga page will be released this week. Stay tuned!

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Features(?)
Can profiles be updated? The system is quite old and is broken so easily. Either a new version (Classic, V2, V3?) or just repairing the two we've got now, please? There's just so many issues that users have been forced to find workarounds for bugs and glitches in the system.

We can certainly address the current issues. Keep an eye out in the BRTS forum for a dedicated thread so we can get these bugs fixed.

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Items
I personally was never a fan of the tiered spending events due to the extremely limited time they typically last and the rather high amounts to spend for them. However what I really hate the most of them is the exclusive items that you can only get during these events and they often stay inflated long after the event's end and often never or very rarely see the light of day in the marketplace. My question is that would it be possible to see these exclusives start to be treated like LQIs where they are exclusive for the event and then return in the future either for direct sale (either in the CS or Loyal's) or as part of a deflation RIG?

Unfortunately at this time we have no plans to change how the exclusive item tiers work, sorry!

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Event
Will Snowflake charms ever be un-soulbound so people who don't want them can get rid of them and people who want/need more can get more?

Nope, Snowflake charms will not be unsoulbound. We will be adding something into GoFusion that will cost one Snowflake charm and additional charms so that can expend your excess Snowflake charms that way.


Finni
Ren Orenji Doragon
Hello AtS! I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaack! emotion_dowant

Items

Since Marshall got one, I am requesting a SDPlus Kamila. Possibly with her Bloodlust form as well. Please? emotion_kirakira

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Items

While I'm at it, can we also get SDPluses of Deva and Alastor? emotion_kirakira


I'll put in a request, but unfortunately no promises!

I know being patient is hard, so please enjoy this picture of some bunnies in a field. emotion_kirakira
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Zero Omega
Kid Jak
Features

How long should a Ticket be in the "Work in Progress" stage before you should contact a staff member about it?

Shouldn't be more than a week, if it has been, definitely contact any admin or mod. We'll take a look into the status.


Finni
Pie
Items

Could we get a Project Custom for designing our own hairstyles?

Just think about it -- you could release it in standard colors at normal drop rates through a CI, while the user gets to pick the six special colorations to be released as a premium, ultra rare drop.

I would covet it!

This sounds like a great idea! ninja I think it would be really popular too.

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Narumi Misuhara
Corinn
FEATURES

Can the graphs in the Marketplace be altered to either include all the zeros for items in the billions+, preferably with commas, or have the segments labeled like 1mil-10mil-20mil, 100bil-150bil-200bil? I have a lot of trouble making out how much the fancier items have cost over time because sometimes prices are cut off.


We'll look at doing something a bit better for the display. We know the number presentation is not ideal.


meemsalman
Kid Jak
Items

Will we ever get a Paws ticket in a Loyal's RiG? Like Citrine Paw?
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That's a good idea! We will definitely look into that =)


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!


Finni
its a curse
Items/Features

Salon Durem update, ever? sweatdrop

Actually, there's one in the works! Look for an update in Salon Durem maybe during February. 4laugh

While you wait, enjoy this bunny who is expertly playing the drums!
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meemsalman
Spiritual Black Mail
Events

My question is farely vague, sorry ahead of time.
Are there any events coming up that the staff is excited about?


There are several events currently in the works, but we are looking forward to our Gaiaversary next month heart biggrin


Narumi Misuhara
Terriah

Features

I raised this before Christmas.
There was an issue with the inventory arranger. I've not seen an announcement or anything, stating it will be fixed. Although I did see one saying the fix will be delayed. Is this resolved yet?
If not, when will it be resolved?
My inventory is getting larger, yet I can't sort anything yet.


The lead for this was out of town, now that they are back, they will be addressing some of the inventory issues that have come up since the holidays. Expect some updates via staff notice in a weeks time.


meemsalman
~ Aki - Fairy ~
Items/Shops?

Are you handing out the Loyalty Crown again this year with access to Loyal’s and if so, is the name adjusted and the colour perhaps a bit different to separate it from the 2014 crown? Also, any chance that there’s an [Animal] version this year?


We are looking into having a Loyal's update for the New Year, keep your eyes peeled for updates in the coming weeks =)


meemsalman
Glitched Existence
Items/shops(?)

Question: might there be another batch of charm bundles added to shop (maybe bifrost/bargain?)
for go fusion?

(If this was already adressed...sorry ^^; )


We can definitely put some GoFusion charm bundles back into stores! biggrin


Narumi Misuhara
Enricox
Just a thought

Like aim,msn,or any kind of messager. I like to see if there is a gaiaonline messanger that would be for smartphones as well.

Just thinking for my most lazy ways to communicate with my gaiaonline friends, then walking to the computer


We are currently working on a new messenger and we are keeping mobile in mind with it's design. It may not go out at the same time as the web version but at least we won't have to reinvent the wheel on it's infrastructure for mobile. smile


Zero Omega
Barnbrat
Features

In recent weeks there has been an increase in viruses and other malware attached to ads aroud Gaia...are you aware/ working to fix this?

We know that there are some ads, particularly with Safari, that have been causing issues and we're looking into getting rid of those. This is actually something that a lot of other big websites are also having issues with. We are working with our third-parties to take care of this. Once we have an update we'll be informing the community.


Finni
~ Aki - Fairy ~
Items

[Animal]s (desperately) need headbands and other accessories (necklaces, belts, mittens/gloves, bracelets, little collars, etc.. - all those finishing touches to complete an outfit kind of things). Is there any chance we might see this in the near-ish future?

We are continuing to work on making more items for paws. Unfortunately, artists are not robots and we cannot work around the clock! Human avatars have had 10+ years to collect its vast item inventory, and naturally will have more access to items than paw bases do. Please be patient, and rest assured the request for more paw accessories has definitely been seen.

I know waiting is hard and it's easy to get frustrated and impatient! Hang in there. heart
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meemsalman
Andranis
Shops

Can we have a gold shop JUST for Paws items? :3 It could even be run by a cute little animal NPC ~ The first stock in it could easily be a redirction of existing gold shop items for Paws into it, much like Junk in the Trunk ended up being the place some older stuff was redirected into heart

Unless there's already a shop for Paws and I missed it, which IS possible xD


That's a great idea, but unfortunately we don't have any plans for a Paws only shop at this time. =( heart


Finni
~ Aki - Fairy ~
Items

Is there going to be a 2015 Loyal’s t-shirt to go with the rest of the set?

One will be added soon! heart

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Finni
Pie
Items / Events

I was poking through the other threads in the Contests forum, and I found one that speaks to me on a deep, personal level. However, I couldn't help but notice the rules state:

[NPC] Rina
If my pie idea is picked as a winner, what will I win?!?!
Another awesome question! This contest will have 3 grand prize winners of a "Sweet as Pie" prize Pack. Not only will one of our fabulous artists create your pie as an item for the Buttercup Cafe shop, but you'll also win the following...



However, I don't think these pies were ever actually made, were they? Maybe for the next Pi Day, this could be corrected?

Oh man, let me follow up on that for you. Sounds like a great update for Rina's cafe on this year's Pi day, which is 1 decimal place more accurate than last year! Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
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Zero Omega
xChibi Cannibalx
Items
What are all of the rules and limits on naked avatars now? I know the rules changed to allow toplessness, but how naked is too naked? What is considered sexual? What is considered too explicit?

We do allow for naked avatars now. However, we do not allow avatars to put themselves in obviously explicit poses. Explicit poses would be defined as any pose where there is something obviously going on of a sexual nature. Anything you would see in a porn film, for example. A good rule of thumb is, if you have to question whether or not your avatar is too explicit, it more than likely is.


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.


Narumi Misuhara
Ensavondel
Features/Art/Arenas

When will the arenas be updated or when will we hear anything about it?

It's been asked in almost every AtT and it has been ignored everytime. It would really ease arena goers and make up more confident in Gaia if we could hear a yes or no or any kind of answer.


There are currently no plans for major update to this system.


meemsalman
PlumaDeTerror
Events
could we have the fan art contests more often, the punk one was really fun


I'm glad you enjoyed the contest! We are definitely going to be holding more little contests like that, so keep your eyes peeled for them in the future =) heart


Narumi Misuhara
cinamorolI
Misc

When I'm on gaia on my phone, gaia keeps redirecting me to different sites
or the app store. Are you aware of the issue and would you be able to fix this?


We are aware of this, we are currently investigating and hope to have this addressed soon.


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Misc

Last week I raised some issues regarding the Religion and Morality forum. I just wanted to know if you have had a chance to look over the rules yet and if so are you going to make changes to make it harder for others to bully people with opposing beliefs.

We haven't had a chance yet, but it's definitely something that we will be addressing!


Jak Bauer
jodikara
Jak Bauer
[posted after the mid-session thread closing]
Hi there,

OK, that wasn't that long now was it? OK, we are caught up, ask away!

Again, make sure to follow the format or your question will not be answered!


Not all questions are awnsered even if they are in proper format. isnt that kinda unfair to ask us to ask questions when alot are not awnsered? this happens alot and several people are upset that they are ignored.


Hi there,

There are a few reasons why a question might not be answered. Here are some of the most common reasons why that happens:

There are questions that are asked that have been asked and answered previously and the answer given there hasn't changed, therefore we don't answer that.

There are questions that we simply do not have an answer to at the moment.

There are questions asked in a format other than the one that we recommend you post in.


Finni
Mama Gen
Items

It has always bothered me that the layering of glasses and smoking items never work out. I want to add a pair of glasses to my avi a lot of the time but I love my sinful spice too much to let it go off an avi. As someone who smokes and has glasses in real life, why is it not possible for these to be worn together? Yes I understand the technical details of it but is there any way to fix the layering so these types of items can be used together?

We have a lot of glasses and a lot of smokes! Can you PM me after AtS with a specific list of which specific glasses and cigs are conflicting? I can follow up with you afterwards.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Please enjoy this pair of bunnies playing the drums together. 4laugh
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Narumi Misuhara
Aura Koimizu Of The Blade
Question Category: Features

Question- would you guys consider putting back an event calender on the Gaia Home page like you done several years back?


...o.O screenshot?

...I don't remember there being an event calendar on the homepage.


Jak Bauer
Nenanah
MISC

Someone on Glassdoor mentioned that "The creative, nerf-gun shooting office culture was let go". Do you still find time to have nerf gun battles and have you taken part in one within this year?

Question is originally by ( Alexius08 )


Hi there,

I personally have multiple nerf guns at the ready just in case and even have extras for any visitor who might visit ninja biggrin 3nodding


Finni
HM04
Items

Any chance of Gold Gen item icons becoming equippable items?
There are so many pretty icons that are now wasted.

You've made other game/special items equippable before.

This is something I would like to see too! Which ones are your favorite? emotion_kirakira


Narumi Misuhara
BlackFireKitsune
Features (Random Number Generator) (I think this counts as a feature; my apologies if it's not!)

Recently, my friends had cause to use Gaia's RNG to roll for a raffle, which is a common enough occurrence, especially in the BC forums. However, there were so many tickets that Gaia's RNG couldn't handle them - it caps at 1,000,000,000 (1 billion) and gives an error if you try to put a higher number there. Needless to say, as the number of tickets exceeded the RNG's capabilities, it took some time to figure out an alternative and rolling was delayed quite a bit, and the whole thing was just one big headache for everyone involved.

TL;DR Would it be possible to increase the cap for Gaia's RNG to something higher than 1 billion?


I would assume so, we'll take a look.


Finni
Pengaana
Items

So I see you started adding the Pawstamp tag to animal items (we love it!)
how goes this process and when/where can we recommend items that are missing said tag?
example: the entire X-mas paw sets (12 days and caroling) don't have the "Pawstamp" tag

I'm glad you noticed (and love) the new tag! emotion_kirakira
Right now we're still going through the process of adding everything retroactively with the pawstamp tag. If the paw community would like to start a list with a simple thread in SF or the Paws forum and quote me (or PM me the link), I will gladly pass it onto the art team, subscribe to it myself, and try to make sure everything gets tagged properly.

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Narumi Misuhara
Bella Doe
Features - Header

Could there be an option to disable animated bits in the header for users with slower pcs that cannot handle this?
This would also appeal to users who just do not appreciate them/the drain on their pc.


Likely not, but we'll keep this in mind.


Zero Omega
Fabbbyyy
Features
Can we get some updates on the gaia cash offers, some are really old and you can't do them more than once. Same with the daily treat, I'd like to be able to do them all instead of getting a measly 20,000 gold.

Unfortunately the offers displayed are controlled by our third-party, they display what is currently available for the day. It's possible they just have a lot of those offers to go through, which is why they continue showing them.


Narumi Misuhara
mama_bearr
Items:
Thank you so much for the past free wardrobe save. That was awesome! Any chance of getting a few more? People would happily pay for more saves. I would love to see a total of 50.


Yes, we are working on expanding the wardrobe space.


Finni
Ensavondel
Items

Is there any way artists would look into having more head items and accessories layer over the Object of (T.V. head) items?

The Object item series' heads are meant to de-equip all other head items since it is a head replacement. Sorry!


Zero Omega
The Muse of Life
Shops
Any eta on the new Loyal's shop requirements. We where told originally there would be multiple ways to enter the shop and then in a past AtS you said it would be looked at. Any updates?

No updates at this time! But we're still allowing you in if you file a ticket with us.


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. =(


Zero Omega
Castiel Lover
Features
Flynn's Plunder has been empty for a while.. Please put items in in that have NO listings in the mp. For example, orange cat mood bubble and some back wings formulas.

Expect an update tomorrow with some items! Can't guarantee what will go in it though!


meemsalman
Castiel Lover
Event suggestion
Can you please consider an ITEM kickstarter? Perhaps when you close down more shops to redo the prices, close all of them at once and do an event for deleting unwanted cheap items. The event page could have a place to 'buy' junk to throw for gold, so it'd still be a gold sink and would have a way to be played by people who aren't packrats like me. Also, with a lot of junk being tossed, maybe it would raise the value of some of it, too, which helps the newbies.


That is something we can consider, thanks! heart


Finni
Nenanah
Items

Thawed Daughter of Snows currently doesn't show up in the MP if you search for it by name. Could the proper tags be added to it so it is easier to find?

Question is originally by ( rimedragona )

You should be able to find it now! Sorry for the inconvenience. gonk

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Zero Omega
Cosmic Fantasy
Shops
Loyal's Bazaar, the days for me keep increasing and then decreasing for me. Everyday is always different. Can you fix?

File a ticket! We'll be able to help you out!


meemsalman
Flint Jakobs
Misc.

Just wanted to give you a heads up that there's still a Concert Ticket ad revolving on the logged-in homepage from time to time, even though it's been pulled from the Cash Shop.

Hope y'all are doin' well. :]


Thanks for bringing that to our attention! Pesky thing must have slipped under our radar, well get that sorted out! heart


Finni
Madorka
items

Can we get a green princess of the world
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A green Princess of the World might be a good idea for a future update later this year in Loyal's Bazaar! ninja

...and maybe the Prince too....


Zero Omega
Bella Doe
Features - Ask the Staff!

I've just been going and discussing with someone in here about this, so I thought I'd make a proper question to make sure it gets seen.

I just saw.. Jack I believe, answering a question about why some questions don't get answer.
Can we please add his response to the first page every week?
It would hopefully reduce confusion and anger in users that don't get questions answered if they read when they're learning how to submit questions that said questions might not get answered.

So sort of a fine print to AtS, if you will.
A mock-up in my brain:

Please be aware that all questions in Ask the Staff may not be answered.
That doesn't mean that your question wasn't appreciate or not read, likely we didn't respond for one of these reasons:
- Your question format did not follow the guidelines we set forth here.
- Your question was asked and answered already this week or in a previous week (There are archives to look back on if you're curious!)
- Your question was not something that were able to get to
- Your question was not suited for Ask the Staff

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Just a thought guys.
Just a thought.

I believe something like this is already on the first page, but we can look into updating it or making it more clear.


meemsalman
Squirrelette
Features
So is there ever a possibility of getting a coversion of gaiacash to gaia cold? Some of us have say 24gcash left and have nothing to use it on... maybe say you trade in 24 and you get 24bil or 2.4bil... i think it would encourage people to buy more gcash... i mean if i got 1000 gcash and got 100bil from it i would totally buy more gcash.


Unfortunately, this is not something we have in the works. Thanks for the suggestion though! =)


Finni
MeloNeko
Items

Furst of all, Thank you all SO VERY MUCH for the most recent Paw rig! it is so very much appreciated.

Secondly, the actual question: Can we expect more RIGs like this (and the Original Great Race where you could choose Animal or human) in the future? Possibly on a more regular basis?

Shops

Not sure if this has been asked ib the past but will there ever possibly be a shop just for Paws?


Hi there! A lot of paws were originally upset with The Great Race because not a lot of the paw items were put into the marketplace as a result of the choice mechanism. We decided to release them as randoms instead based on the feedback. However, this recent Poof to Paws CI was much more fun! We plan to do a few more like this in the future. 4laugh

We've also seen many requests for a paw-exclusive shop, but again unfortunately right now we do not have any plans for one, since we are limited on resources. Sorry!

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Zero Omega
Amethyst Wallflower
Items

What can we do as community members of Gaia Online to reduce inflation?

Work with other users to encourage them to spend their gold on gold sink events, lower the price of items they are selling on the Marketplace, and spend their gold on various other items, games, and features! Spend that gold. Spend spend spend!


meemsalman
SilverFoxThief
Events/Items

The frozen fafnir is very pretty, but literally required almost 1,500 charms to make in the end. It seems like such a waste to dispose of so many charms for ultimately a single item, so in the future would it be possible to have dragons and other items require far less ingredients?


We can definitely look into the crafting ingredients required for future items. =)


Narumi Misuhara
Darth Daddicus
Narumi Misuhara
Darth Daddicus
Items

Question:
This is in regards to your offer for a Custom Gaian SD Plus doll you currently have going. My wife would like to spend to that amount if I'd allow her, but I've put a stop to her because it would only build my evil Sith army by one miniature version of myself. I would perceive it as a viable option and worth every penny if my 50,000 Gaia Cash went toward a larger amount of these dolls. (Honestly, if you check things out, I'm quite fond of giving things away in my temple to other Gaians and this would be perfect!) Would you consider changing this from one SD Plus for 50,000 Gaia Cash to, perhaps, 25 of these things? I will sell one of week's worth of vacation time to my boss to get it if you would. Guaranteed. Once again, thanks for bringing back the Banggai Cardinals in Phin Phang.

P.S.
I'm pretty sure it's reasonable to assume that the leaders of Gaia are more than willing to surrender to my army, so just go ahead and place your two-week's notices in my mailbox and we'll consider it a bloodless coup.


....Huh?

I want to spend up to 50,000 Gaia Cash to earn the new tier prize of a Custom Gaian SDPlus doll. 1 doll isn't enough incentive for me because I need enough to hand out as prizes for games I run throughout the year. I won't be selling them on the Marketplace, I just give things out. Is it possible to prize 25 copies instead of 1?


Ah gatchya. We're looking into the policy of how the dolls are handled, this can be better answered once that is done. We'll post a staff alert once it is.