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Platonix

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PostPosted: Mon May 04, 2015 11:50 pm


May The 4th

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Welcome Back!

Quote:
Items (Features?)

So we know TekTek has been shut down. Unfortunate, but understandable. I liked being able to piece together avis from items I don't even own - all at once. I've also heard word of a "dream avatar creator" that Gaia is planning on creating. There's one thing TekTek lacked and I'm hoping you guys pick up in this possible pending update, animal dream avatar creators. Can you confirm or deny if we'll have the ability to build animal avatars? I've always wanted to get an animal avi going, but since paws are new to Gaia it's difficult to figure out what exactly I can do to put together a nice one. Thank you for your time, and I'd be very excited if paw items will be included in this feature!

Yes, this is definitely something we are keeping in mind and plan to implement for this feature!

Quote:
Items:

Would it be possible to separate human and paws items from rigs/CI's/etc permanently?
Maybe even code in a choice between what kind of item (human or paw) the same way you would item or gold?

We don't currently have any plans on separating these two permanently. We will occasionally have human only and paw only CIs, but we don't have any plans to stop releasing CIs that would have a mix of the two items.

Quote:
Games

Question: Is Switchem going to be a permanent part of games now? I really, really hope so, because I love it & it's a good way to make gold while having a bit of fun!
Just want to say thank you too for leaving it up!


Switchem is going to stay up indefinitely! We're glad that you like it.

Quote:
Features and Shops?

For the past few years I've been seeing more Gaia cash announcements than other announcements. While it is nice to see some virtual items on sale for real money and that you folks are getting compensated for your artwork and coding, it seems like the GC store is getting more attention than the GG stores. Being a hard working adult like you folks, you can understand why the GC isn't an option in this economy for those with bills and stuff. So my question is this, are there any plans to update the gold shops or anything else that isn't making me choose between food/gas for this week and this site in the works for the near future?


As a general rule of thumb- we try to update our gold shops at least once, but usually twice a month. Additionally, we've added switchem as permanent feature due to its popularity- it is a free feature that allows Gaians to earn gold. Beyond gold shop updates, and events that award free item grants we also have features that are in the process of being created. These include a site-wide chat, and an Avatar Builder that allows users to preview and quest items on the site, along with new games in the works that are set for release this summer.

Quote:
Items

Unisexing: Is it still being worked on? With the throwback event going on, and me trying to recreate some old lady avis for my now male base, I found out that some items I have still aren't wearable by the guys. Example that I found in my inventory was the Grecian sandals.

This is definitely something we would like to continue to work on in the future.


milkbun
The Iron Magus
Items

It would appear that User ImageSlippery Franco the Fish was meant to be released alongside User Image Glistening Franco the Fish in the recent Darling Doll Trunk CI. However, it never quite made it in.

Now that we've received confirmation of Franco's unfortunate passing, will this item be made available in his memory?


Looks like there was an issue with that hair dropping from the Chance Item. We'll note it down and add it into a future hair/feature Chance Item.


bluealaris
Happy _Tropical_Flower
Hello, Gaia Staff!

This question is for bluealaris, but anyone can answer it. In last week's ATS, you explained what the users' money that buys gold generators go to at Gaia. You can see the post here. If you received my private message from me already, I thanked you for giving all of us an honest answer having to do with where the money users give to get gold generators goes to at Gaia. If you didn't see my private message to you, please look in your inbox! C: Anyway, since the users' money spent on gold generators goes towards fixing some things on Gaia, I was wondering, to "soften" the blow gold generators have on the Gaia economy, I was wondering if you can add updates to Staff Updates to tell us what glitches and other things that were fixed on Gaia using users' money from them buying gold generators? I know you guys are keeping us updated in the Staff Updates on what has been fixed, what is coming up in the future, and other things as well, but I think including bugs and other fixes to Gaia from users' money from buying gold generators would be absolutely awesome to be included as well. The people want to know! : O Well, I do at least. sweatdrop

Thank you!


This would be very difficult to define, since we don't necessarily pick and choose what we will make in place of Gold Gens. I will say that most of this event probably benefited from those sales- since an artist who is both beautiful and talented created more than 31 amazing free items for both Paws And Humans. Sorry I haven't gotten back to your PM, my inbox has been pretty busy!


Zero Omega
Fibonacci To Infinity
Features/SCAS Guild

Any word if I got in yet?
Please let me know!
Also I have to change my email that I used to apply for the SCAS is that okay?

If you have not received an e-mail yet, then we don't have a decision yet. If you change the e-mail, make sure you still have access to it because that's how we'll be contacting you is via e-mail.


milkbun
The Iron Magus
Features/Items

I feel like once the story of an Evolving Item has been told, it's lost to the mists of time forever. I realize that we have an EI museum, but it... does not work so well. It's glitchy, it lacks such basic features such as the ability to search by item name or view all posts in reference to a particular item, and it seems to think that our oldest EI Report is a chatterbox thread about Runescape. sweatdrop

In addition, there's no indication on the items themselves that there is an accompanying story, so many users may be entirely unaware.

Are there any plans to make each EI's story + history more accessible?


Thank you for the suggestion. We'll note it down to revisit the EI museum in the future.


bluealaris
Fibonacci To Infinity
Items/Alchemy

User Image
These guys.

Don't get me wrong, these Golden Fragments (Which I & a few friends have been calling them Jiggies for nostalgia's sake.), are a great thing.
However...
The rarity of them is way too extreme for the cost of them & what is needed to make tickets.
I'm trying my hand at making one because I REALLY REALLY want an item made, but with the forced rarity of these things makes it extremely hard for someone who doesn't always have the funds for them.
They are only being offered in coupons & in the CI's in the Cash Shop.
This isn't very fair to those who don't always have the money to even try their hand at getting one.
Also it seems like they are getting more & more useful in Alchemy, such as the new options with the Dark Eclipse item having them for an option.

I understand the need for rarity of these Fragments, but if they are going to become more prevalent in Alchemy then they need to be more common than they already are.

So here's my options on fixing the solution:


1. Have them as a more permanent feature in the CS or The Bifrost for a relatively decent price. (Even if they are worth GCash)
2. Have a crafting option to make these much like the Golden Giftboxes we had a while back.We're allowed to make other components by crafting, why not these too?
3. Have them as a rare drop in Caches or the Alchemy Grab Bags. Granted a very rare drop, but one none the less.


Thanks for this suggestion! We are planning to release the Golden Fragment via. Alchemy and through chance drops as well.


Zero Omega
Lemon Emperor
Zero Omega
Lemon Emperor
Features / Other

As you probably know, I'm in the progress of making a fan site.
I put the domain as .tk -- forgetting it's blocked.
I was wondering if you could whitelist it?
It's this:

http://www.go-gaia.tk

Thank you!

Unfortunately we don't have any plans to whitelist the .tk top level domain. :c But the fansite is looking great!

Is there any way to specifically whitelist that exact URL? >.<

The blacklist on the .tk top level domain would supersede any white listing.


milkbun
Sheshira
Characters

I'm just about done with my panel for NPCon (see Surl E. Dean panel here) but I would love to know the deets on Surl (deets include height, weight, blood type, favorite foods, favorite rule etc).


He's a surly height, surly weight, blood type surly and enjoys only the most surliest of foods!

(I don't believe this information has ever been set or made available, sorry)


Narumi Misuhara
The Iron Magus
Features

Would it be possible to get an "Advanced Search" feature in the marketplace? For instance, searching for exact phrases using quotes, and the use of Boolean operators (AND, NOT, OR)?


In a future update perhaps. There are currently no plans to do so.


milkbun
Hallelujer
Items

Would there be any new fox items coming out other then remakes of Sumi?


I'm sure we will revisit the fox theme in the future. wink


bluealaris
The Iron Magus
Features

In the recent site survey, an updated site/shop UI was more heavily requested than a fishing update, yet was not mentioned as one of your high-priority updates. Are you planning on any site/shop UI changes? Why or why not?


We do have site/shop UI updates planned, however we have a good deal more time and work to put into this kind of update so its a long, slow burn type of project as opposed to fixing/adding to a game. However it is on our to-do list for this year. 3nodding


milkbun
The Iron Magus
Items

We have six different potions to turn us into Dark Elves, but zero potions to turn is into... regular elves. I know we have equippable elven ears, but it's just not the same!

Have you ever considered recoloring the Dark Elf potions in the the A through F human skin tones, and releasing them as Elf, High Elf, or Wood Elf Potions?


Since this is already possible with elven ears I don't think we will be looking into making them any time soon especially as they would look and work the same.


bluealaris
Nenanah
Features/Item Alchemy

Since you decided to re-released a lot of items from the past Gates in Pandora's Gate, would you mind releasing something interesting Alchemy formula for items such as Beyond Magent and Deep Blue Sea and the other re-release items?


Question is originally by Kitsunen


Sure, we have quite a few Alchemy formulas about to be released- feel free to send me suggestions.


Zero Omega
Yeata Zi
Events?
Love the Labtech homage!

Can we expect a smilar spotlight for the Zurg event?

Also, if members of Paparazzi wanted to try to interview NPCs, is this something we could set up? Like, could I assign a paparazzi member to ask an NPC 5 questions via private message?

I dunno! It's something I've wanted to do for a while!

Zurg event? Is this a user run event? If so, we could totally help you spotlight this. As for wanting to interview an NPC, which one? We might be able to help you out!


codemonkey37179
sup-qt
codemonkey37179
emotioneater
Games

Is gaia going to add more games (and hopefully a MMO like zOMG)? A shooting mini game would be nice.


No plans for an MMO at present, but planning to add to our game collection.

*in regards to adding games*
Could we eventually get the turkey shooting game back? That was fun x]
(maybe there should be a section of the games page dedicated to event games) ninja


Gobble Gobble Bang Bang will be returning as a seasonal treat every Thanksgiving.


Zero Omega
sup-qt
Features/NPCS
When you go to Moira's profile

There is one piece of fanart showing on her account, then she mentions that if we want to contribute to click the link underneath, however the link doesn't go anywhere!
Would this either be able to be removed, (as to avoid confusion) or updated with the correct link?

(also can moira send me a friend request? ninja )

We can go ahead and remove that link.

Maybe... Who knows! ninja


bluealaris
The Iron Magus
Features/Survey

When will you release the results of the recent NPC popularity survey? Did they play into the way you have planned Throwback Month at all?

I'm burning with curiosity. burning_eyes


We did create the survey to help make decisions around which NPCs would get grant items for this month- however we did mix it up to include some lesser-known ones as well. If Gaians are burning with curiosity we can release the survey results- but keep in mind that it won't necessarily effect which grants everyone will be receiving.


milkbun
Gentlemanly Swindler
milkbun
Gentlemanly Swindler
Items
With TekTek gone, I found it very helpful to try to look at an item's realease date to help me find where it came from. A lot of stuff is cheaper from bundles, tier packages, or whatnot so knowing where something came from can save a lot of money. My question is why are so many of the dates wrong? I don't mean off by a day or two, I mean anywhere from a few year off to items that apparently come to us from 1,000 years in the future.

It's not a occasional 'whoops' or anything either. It's very common and happening with increasing regularity. Just looking at the first few rows of a friend's wishlist and about 40% of the items have release dates I know are wrong because they haven't happened yet. I have no idea about the accuracy of the ones with plausible dates.

Here's a sampling in case you were wondering what I mean.
User ImageDate first appeared on Gaia: 2066-03-03
User ImageDate first appeared on Gaia: 2050-02-11
User ImageDate first appeared on Gaia: 2066-02-25
User ImageDate first appeared on Gaia: 2026-04-04
User ImageDate first appeared on Gaia: 2900-11-20
User ImageDate first appeared on Gaia: 2020-01-29
User ImageDate first appeared on Gaia: 2017-03-22
User ImageDate first appeared on Gaia: 2018-10-05
User ImageDate first appeared on Gaia: 3000-11-18
User ImageDate first appeared on Gaia: 3015-03-26


We had to use a work around method of adjusting the dates of some cash shop items for a few months. Luckily the dev team was able to work this bug out and items no longer have to come from the future. I know there were quite a lot! If you or anyone would like to compile a list of items in Site Feedback we can adjust them.

I can sure try, but what information do you need? Do you just need a list of items that are off, or do I have to know when they were really released?


Just a list of items would work! smile


Zero Omega
ElegantlyLuminous
First question—did you miss my borderline harassment? Kidding. wink

I have returned from the cold, bleak land of final exams… to ask a question for Darc Nightgale, who can’t be here tonight:

Events

User Image

The purple once should be Chad, right? And the points should be more than 50 each.
Just wonderin' if these achievements are ever goin' to get fixed. Thanks!

Should be fixed!


bluealaris
Pengaana
Features

You haven't forgotten about using zOMG components in alchemy have you?
I noticed since picking alchemy back up that I'm getting A LOT of zOMG caches
and there really isn't that much that seem to use them
just something that would be great to keep in mind
what with all these new formulas popping up this month


We really haven't forgotten them. There will be formulas coming out all month and some will definitely include Zomg components.


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Misc

This sticky is outdated, can we get rid of it?

This is not the thread you are looking for. *Jedi hand wave*


bluealaris
Sinfulcraft
Items/Features

Are there any plans to add certain components like Leathery Egg to the current Philosopher's Cache?

As it stands Leathery Eggs only come from Enki Drop. Which you only get from Enki when he dies after 4 months. Even then, it's only a chance to get the alchemy component. New alchemists and old alchemists alike probably don't want to spend 4 months waiting for a fish to die for a chance at a component they need.
This also brings up other random components that come from Enki's Catch and Fish Drop [lite]. These components are harder to obtain because it requires a lot of waiting. It would be nice if we could get a Cache dedicated to these components, like the zOMG Cache was made for the zOMG items we needed.
The new formulas you're adding are nice. We just need more ways to get the components is all.


Thank you for mentioning this! I will keep it in mind as I continue to edit Ye Olde Forgotten Trunk. 3nodding


codemonkey37179
basselope7
Events

Can you please confirm whether or not Throwback Spring Party is going to pre-empt there being a Summer event later this year?


There will be a summer event later in the year.


bluealaris
Nenanah
Features/Item Alchemy

Is it possible for you to check what the most populous items in gaia are and make new Alchemy formulas based on that? I'm sure the servers will love it if some of the most populous items can be transformed into something new (and with value). Alchemist will also love all the Alchemy updates <3

Question is originally by Kitsunen


We can- there will be a lot of fishing rod recipes. eek


milkbun
Akari Yui
Items

Will there be a paw rig this month?

And thank you awesome updates to alchemy as well as the super dooper event!


I don't know if there will be a paw ONLY Chance Item this month, but we will have paw items in most new CIs. There will be a paw ONLY something else though... something that evolves... in a somewhat weekly fashion.... eek


bluealaris
seoulie
Features

Hi quick question. So you guys won't be doing the whole LQI being used as an alchemy component again, right? That was a pretty eh move.


For something very precious, something of equal value must be sacrificed.
emotion_donotwant

milkbun
Twisted Lady
Features

In the Project Custom forum, could we get a sticky that just lists all the different kinds of tickets and what they do? It's a real pain sometimes trying to remember which tickets do what and searching out the individual threads for them.


Thank you for the suggestion. I definitely plan to clean up the stickies and make ticket types easier to find as we have so many now.


bluealaris
OtherWorldShukumei
Item/Feature

With all of these Tickets flying around, have you considered a Project Alchemist Ticket? Let a user design a formula (components and gold required, level & chance of success) for an already-existing item.
There are exceptions, of course, so that a user cannot design a formula for an item that is limited quantity, Monthly Collectible, already has a formula, and other restrictions.


Hmm, I think that this would be best utilized if the user also had a unique item created along with it, since releasing an item that has already had its worth determined by the general Gaian populace would lead to astounding displays of greed (aka. 1 angelic halo = trash + common CI drop + cache item, that would take an extraordinarily amount of time to curate).


codemonkey37179
Yuekazehime
Features - Games

Are there plans to have any of the new games grant tickets (or updates to streamline token use in current game updates)?


We will be taking a long look at all the games, but at present bluealaris has swamped me down with other projects.


Narumi Misuhara
Stanford Condition
Features (Forum)

There's a glitch I come across when you click the borders of opened spoiler tags an achievement window pops up with gaining the Beta Treasure Hunter achievement.

Any chance of a fix?


Yes, we'll add this to our bug list.


Continued next post
PostPosted: Mon May 04, 2015 11:51 pm


Continued from last post

bluealaris
The Iron Magus
Events/World

We know very little about the geography of Gaia. We know, based on what the Zurg say, that "Gaia" refers to the planet we live on, but what's the name of the country we live in? Is it also called "Gaia"? Do countries even exist in Gaia? Does the world of Gaia have states/provinces? Is there a unified world government? Are the towns of Aekea, Durem, Barton, and Isle de Gambino independant city-states? eek

What are the political boundaries?


This canon is vaguely established- there are definite boundaries between towns, since otherwise it would be impossible to show 'town pride' and each area has specialties and aesthetics that unique. Gaia is the term used for the whole world, although the term Gaia also applies to the conglomeration of densely populated areas in Gambino/Barton/Aekea/Durem, since this is where most Gaian's reside. There are extremely magical and wild areas outside of these towns however, and it makes Cresento and his Airship exploration pretty badass, since one never knows what is out there.


Narumi Misuhara
The Iron Magus
Features

When we pick our titles from the Achievements page, the various titles in the drop-down menus are listed in the order we obtained them, which leaves them in a bit of a jumbled mess. Have you considered sorting them alphabetically, to make each title easier to find?


We have not, but is something we can look at doing.


bluealaris
filthy religion
Shops

Loyal's Bazaar!

▪ Please release more fairly-priced permanent items
▪ Please release Limited Time Items rather than Limited Quantity Items

Read more user opinions in my Site Feedback thread. Here's the poll as of today.

Should Gaia increase the quantities of their lower priced LQIs?

Yes 91.8% [ 112 ]
No 8.2% [ 10 ]
Total Votes: [ 122 ]


Thank you for this feedback! We'll take it into account for our next update.


bluealaris
ll-Frantic-ll
Items

Can we get the gold shop rigs (like barton grab bag) in bundles? Maybe 10, 25, 100, etc? It's tedious buying in bulk one at a time.


Sure, would you like bundles made of the current ones, or just in the future to keep that in mind?


Zero Omega
sup-qt
Features/contact/tickets

I would like to implore you to change or update the way your tickets are handled.
I feel like if you updated the FAQ it would help greatly, especially in regards to hacked accounts.

I'm asking because last year my account was banned as it was hacked. (I didn't know till I got an email saying as much)
I then went through the process of logging a hacking ticket. However these don't get saved to the system the same way the normal billing inquiries so it makes it hard to keep up to date.

Because they don't have a separate ticket, I can't go back and see that action taken when my account was unblocked.
Apparently I was sent a message to this account (the one that logged the ticket) with instructions on how to unblock the account and get my trading pass back.

I either didn't get that message or was so excited, I didn't see the part about the trading pass.
Now due to this, I have logged a ticket on my other account, requesting the trading pass to be enabled, however I haven't received any updates since Jan when I logged it. I even asked a mod about it but they said that I had been sent a message with instructions. (as said previously I dont have this message/anymore, and now have no clue wtf to do)


TLDR; mule was banned due to hacking, when it was unblocked the trading pass was disabled. logged a ticket with no response.
Question: will you look into updating the hacking reports so we can see the updates on these tickets like the other tickets?
And will you look into making a FAQ about logging a hacking report IE, how long it can take, who to contact if you dont get updates and what to do if you dont get any info at all.

Creating a new system where users can see the status of their report is certainly an interesting idea and it's something we can keep in mind.

As for the FAQ, it's definitely something we plan on updating in the future, so keep your eyes open for that.


bluealaris
AishiSo
Feature: Alchemy

Hi,

would you consider increasing the drop rate of Philosopher's Cache: Gold?
It is really rare and that makes crafting components really hard. I know that Alchemy shouldn't be too easy, but there is grinding and there is G-R-I-N-D-I-N-G (once I have opened 200 caches to find 2 gold ones, maybe it was my bad luck, but the odds are still not in our favour) wink
Please, make it a little easier for us. Especially now, that the new formulas like the Aria one require A LOT of gold caches.


Done! Raised the chances slightly. 3nodding


Narumi Misuhara
sup-qt
Shops
A while back I asked the following:

Quote:
Shops
would we be able to have an option (like in the account settings) where we can choose the preferred base for shops?
So that animal only users can choose 'animal' and in the shops it will automatically go to the animal items (instead of having to click on the button and reload the shop)

And that human* only users can choose 'human' and in the shops it was automatically go to the human items?


*By human I just mean our normal avis.

Which was answered by Narumi Misuhara saying "We'll have to look into this but it is a good idea."

I was just wondering if someone has had time to check if this would be do-able?


Yes we did, unfortunately due to the way the data is loaded this was not as simple of a change as we hoped. We have not entirely given up on the idea but it will need to be part of a larger update before it can be fully implemented.


milkbun
Lady Twilight Rahl
Items

Was wondering when to contact someone about my project ticket status. Been just over a month since it was approved and I've heard nothing back.


You can always reply to your original email though I don't always have a specific answer. It takes us 30 to 60 business days to complete an item and mocks may be sent any time in between (but usually around the half way mark). I can tell you that your item has been picked up from queue and currently being worked on so I should have mocks really soon~


bluealaris
Mayviline
Features

Question
There has been items that never showed up in the listings but when they do appear, we are not online to grab them. Instead most of us have to wait for that same item to appear in the market place and it may even take more than a month or two.
Can we have a catalog or an order base feature to make an order for that item instead of waiting?
That way the item can make a come back and appear more often in the listings as well as being able to buy the item in a quick process. It would also help a lot in our pockets since some items have cheaper generations than the expensive generations but hardly come into the market place.


That's a really good idea- it would require a good deal of coding to set up, but I do like the idea of catalogues. 3nodding


Zero Omega
Niccolo Ammaniti
Items
Can we get an Easter Egg or two up in Flynn's? It has been a long time since we have seen one. D:

It's possible one will be seen in the future!


bluealaris
ll-Frantic-ll
Items

Can you maybe change the way LQI's work? It's really broken and unfair at the moment because the cheaper ones, popular ones, or the ones in Loyal's sell out really quickly and most people don't even have the chance to see the announcement before they're gone.

Maybe make them limited duration instead? Like have them up for a 24 hour period with no quantity cap or something but still have the rest of the rules the same (not back for 6 months, etc).


We have had limited duration LQIs as well- we will continue to release some in this format as well. 3nodding


milkbun
The Muse of Life
Art
Will Peyo ever get new shop art? His manga appearance looks much older then his current shop art.


It's possible though most of the time when we've updated an NPC it was tied to a story or event so there was a reason for the change.


Narumi Misuhara
Queer Mishel
Features

Could any Admin/Staff (or those who previously acknowledged the issues, Zero Omega & Narumi) give updates on these 2 serious Marketplace problems, and how their fixes are coming along? Or will I need to PM you?

My Bug Report & Technical Support Thread with further details and screencaps.

1. Lowest Buy Price

Issue: Markeplace item LBPs displayed do not match up with the actual lowest listing price.
Status: Not fixed
• Acknowledged by Narumi [AtS - Feb 09, 2015]
Narumi: "Thanks for bringing this up. It's a known issue we're currently looking into."
Staff: Please make a Dev Announcement informing users of this issue and let us know when it has been fixed.

2. Duplicate Listings

Issue: Marketplace contains items with duplicate item listings (same item, different item number/URL)
Status: Not fixed
• Acknowledged by Zero Omega [AtS - Dec 01, 2014]
Zero Omega: "We'll take a look into this and see what we can do to address it."


1. No update on this yet.

2. *pokes Zero*
Zero Omega
No update yet for duplicate listings, sorry!


bluealaris
Orange Wanderer
Games

Could we possibly see an exploration game in the future? Perhaps the game could make collecting Go-Fusion charms easier, and also perhaps give out locked alchemy items so that recipes that require LQI's or old items that don't exist anymore could be filled out. Locked that is to anything but alchemy. I really like alchemy, I just hate not being able to do half of it. As well as with Go-Fusion, I'm too afraid to use any of what I have on me for fear that something better might present itself later. So, could we get a game for helping out with this stuff?


Yeah! We do have some games in the works that will allow for you to do some exploring and earning of charms. 3nodding


bluealaris
xcrimsonlegendx
Features/Events

This Halloween is the 10th anniversary of the H2k5 Grunny Invasion event,
is there any chance we could see a throwback event themed the same?
Perhaps a prunny invasion event, with prombie skins and lots of LabTechs?!


Hmmmm, an interesting suggestion. ninja ninja ninja


milkbun
Azura Cantarella
Items/Features?

You've released custom item tickets in gold CIs before, namely the Citrine Ticket and the Blank Pillowcase. Would you consider releasing a "Project Fandom" (or "Project Cosplay", if that wording suits it better) ticket in which a user can request a homage item for their game/anime/manga/etc. of choice? surprised

(It would be best for it to be a gold CI ticket because that would skirt the copyright issues...right?)


While we can't do anything too close, parody is allowed so any of our golden tickets can be useable in this case.


bluealaris
The Muse of Life
Shops/Items
While I understand why lqi are priced how they are in Loyals do we have any chance of seeing a nice non-lqi/non-gate update in the future? It's such a great shop idea but it seems like we don't see any mid-price/cheap items like when it first opened and that is a bit of a bummer.


Yes we do have some Loyal's updates planned that are low/mid tiered as well. 3nodding


milkbun
Sinfulcraft
Shops

Any plans to change the name plate under Louie?
Not sure if this was brought up before, so I apologize if this is a repeat question!

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WHOOPS yes, noted down to get fixed!


Narumi Misuhara
Shaded Penumbra
Features

I'm not sure if this has been asked for before, but could you guys implement a search feature for gold shops in the future? It's sort of a hassle sifting through gold shops with tons pages worth of stuff when you're looking for just on specific item, especially if the store doesn't have items sorted into different categories (like the Bifrost).


Though not exactly what your looking for I think, the avatar builder will allow you to search individual shops or all shops and will give you a link to purchase the item from the marketplace. In a future update we could possibly also looking at adding a link to purchase items directly from the shop.


milkbun
Parexus
Items
After sending an email for a Custom Doll is it to late to change the avatar for one of the poses. I haven't received my initial reply for mine yet.


Never too late, just reply back to your email with the updated order form.


codemonkey37179
Karmeii
Features
Are there any plans for a new instant messaging system for Gaians to use to communicate with users on their friends list? Also, when will the forum text posting be updated to RTF (rich text format)?


Yes, mostly built, going into testing soon. Not sure about the RTF.


bluealaris
S3xy Pantz
bluealaris
S3xy Pantz
Features/Items
Hi there recently you released some alchemy formulas that require currently unavailable components.
Formula 1: Unhallowed Cirlce - Requires 10 Leathery Egg, this item is currently not available in the current caches or other means of acquiring alchemy components.

Formula 2: [Animal] Lady Chimes Reprise - Requires 5 =Bibbles' Silky White Cat Fur This component was only available during the Summer 2k11 Pie Hard Vengeance Event.

Formula 1: Formula 1: Astra: Dancing Flower Party This formula was removed from The Bifrost. Was that removal intentional? Or is this formula supposed to come back?


Wheee, another user did inform me the difficulty of obtaining Leathery Eggs, you can find both Leathery Eggs and Bibbles' Silky White Cat Fur in Ye Olde Trunk.

Thank you for the response. Is there any word on the Formula for Astra Dancing Flower Party?


I'll put it back in if it's gone.


Zero Omega
Xx_Rosalyn_Desrea_xX
Shops

I was just a couple of days away to being accepted into Loyals bazaar. Then you guys changed to logging in a certain amount of days to these token thingy's and now I have to start over. How come you guys decided to start everyone over that worked so hard to log on all the time and were almost there?

This was an oversight on our part and we apologize for that, file a ticket and we'll be able to help you out.


Narumi Misuhara
Pirates Ballet
Features

Do you think the forums might ever get a great update? I mean, if it's not broke, don't fix it- I get it. But for someone who's pretty much on the site purely for RP, I think it'd be great to have some features aimed toward the Barton section of forums, y'know? Like make preset post styles, a "spoiler" button, a "list" button, etc?


I would certainly love to, but I don't see such an update in the near future.


bluealaris
X_Gokai-Okuzuko_X
Features:
Saw last week that you had a bit of a talk here about item lists. I'd like to put in my two cents.

What about something the lines of [x] amount of time after every RIG (not CI update, just RIG), a staff member posts a new list thread with the entire contents?

Something that's been on my mind for a while is that I feel like list threads should be community resources. No matter who you are, you should be able to access them. However, because I'm pretty vocal about taking zero bullshit, I'm ignoring/ignored by several prominent GCD personalities and cannot see threads they make. This is usually a good thing, but it also means I can't look at their list threads. So I have to go onto a different account, load all the items I want to examine, log into a different account, and reload every single tab. That's quite a bit of dicking around for large RIGs.

There are some other users that make lists that I really don't want to see any other content from, but I can't block them because then I won't get to see item lists without tons of unnecessary bs.

A staff member posting the list in a new thread would be completely accessible to anyone, because you can't block staff as far as I'm aware. Lock the thread so that only staff can post and have a link in the relevant post to the day's update thread in the GCD. Doing it that way won't kill community fun or discussion.

It would also have the benefit of making it so that people who run list threads don't have work on them stretched out over days (or months when rereleased). I did an item list for that bikini recolor summer event and it was annoying the way items were distributed/found because it was a week-long commitment to updating that, and I know some of the ppl who blocked me had to unblock me to see the list (that's when I started thinking about all this). Heck, you could even just copy and paste what the daily thread already had, credit the user who did it, and add any items we hadn't found yet.

So I guess, my question is, would you please consider having staff threads that post and confirm the content found in RIGs x amount of time after the RIG's release? I believe it would make the whole thing much more accessible and fair to every user.


Goodness, how many people have you blocked? Honestly, though, the staff does its best to make sure user lists are complete for CIs but otherwise we just don't have the time to maintain master-lists of CI content.

bluealaris
Marquise S Mindfang
Features

Is a Club Verge shop/guild update in the works? I know you guys have a few things going on so I'm wondering.


There is! Its still ongoing. heart


bluealaris
Shrimp_Man
Items

Would it be possible to remove the gc cost for the Gift Boxes in the Bifrost, especially since 99gc a piece is a little steep for something that will be destroyed. If not removing it entirely, could you at least reduce the cost?


I'll take a look at those, thanks!


bluealaris
x L i g h t x S o r a x
Features/Contest/Art/Items????

In the pass few Ask the Staff ago, a staff member (sorry I forgot who) said that we might see a CrosStitch contest coming out soon. My question is will the prize money and the entry fee going to be bumped up to match this economy. Since the entry fee is only 10,000 gold and the winnings is 20,000 gold. I mean winning back double your gold entry fee is fine but maybe a bumping them up will give people motive to enter again. 3nodding


Yes, the entry fee was changed recently, and we'll be raising it again, along with the prize.


bluealaris
Stanford Condition
Feature
You've recently added the open next feature to Caches and the Ye Olde Trunk of Forgotten Things.

When you reach the last one it gives you the 'go to shop' button. This links by default to the Cash Shop. If I accidentally click it, I think have to wait for it to give me a pop up saying 'this item doesn't exist' before I can close the window.

Any chance this could be addressed (either by correct linking or not making me wait for the pop up)?


We can look into it. 3nodding


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Features

Can you give us options to hide our post history from the public?
You give us privacy options for our profiles, equipped item list, and journals. You even let us hide the guilds that we are in from being viewed in our profile.
I don't really see why we cant we have these same privacy options for our posting history... Obviously we cant hide our history from mods, staff members, and forum assistants. But I don't see why we have to be forced to have the option to allow other random regular members to look through our entire history in one sitting. Like it's one thing when you find a post in the forums but I don't see why we have to have the "view post history" buttons available to everyone.

Like give us options to make it to where friends only can view our entire history in one sitting, an option where absolutely no one but the staff/mods/FA's can view our history in one sitting, and an option to where we can keep it public if we want too.

Question/Suggestion is originally by Nenanah

Unfortunately we don't have any plans to implement a way to hide your post history. The forum is a public forum so we don't necessarily have a reason to hide your post history when users could find it, additionally, there are valid reasons why users would want to check your post history that we feel it's not worth taking from them. So I wouldn't expect this to happen, sorry!


bluealaris
Parexus
Items

Can we have a re-release of the backwing formula's into the cash shop again, they were sold last year for $10 each in the cash shop. It would be nice to see them return so people can purchase them to craft wings. Most of the formula's are extinct in the MP.


Yes, I will put them back in.


bluealaris
Madam Ace
Features/Alchemy

First, thank you so much for all the Alchemy updates lately. It's awesome seeing the feature getting some much needed love.

Next, is there any more plans of using crafted components you can make from Bifrost Formulas (like Angel Blood, Celestial Glow, Hero Heart, ect.) in other future formulas?
And if you are planning to make Golden Fragments craftable, would they be made from cache only ingredients... but like in insane amounts? (Like... 100 Philosopher's Stones for 1 Fragment?)


Yes, we are planning to use crafted components in high-level sets like Dark Eclipse in the future- and also to put in recipes that allow users to craft Golden Fragments. 3nodding

Thank you for all the lovely suggestions lately. heart


bluealaris
aboriginal_kumquat
Games - Booty Grab

bluealaris, THANK YOU !!!!
Thank you for the fish update in PhinPhang ! emotion_hug
You are our hero and we're working our tails off to resuscitate the GA and promote the game.
Having more fish available is wonderful and I want you to know your efforts and understanding are appreciated. heart
Now if you could just look into improving the chances of getting better fish in the strike packs ... wink

Thank you so very much! whee


Just keep your eyes on Loyal's! heart heart heart


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