June 11th

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Welcome Back!

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Features
what all do you guys plan to do with the Avibuilder?

No guarantees that this will be implemented, the plan may even change entirely, but we would like to implement a tagging system that will allow Gaians to tag items which would allow you to search for them easier on the avatar builder.

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Question
Will you be lowering the cost of the Bronze Kicopot? The average a user gets is about 25GC-46GC or so and for 10B each ticket isn't a very fair amount for the price. As the earlier released Kicopots were worth the price as the payouts were better. I know its for goldsink, but it would be easier to obtain that Gaia cash through videos. There is a lot of negative feedback as far as I have read over the GCD forums.

We are currently still looking into improving the balancing the the Kicopots. Although we all prefer our Gaians to do offers to get Gcash, Kicopot allows Gaians who have a little extra gold to have a chance to win up to 100,000 GC. The main chase in this item is for the grand prize of 100,000, while at the same time, you are still benefiting from this, and getting a small amount of gold.

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Question Category: Items/Features (it is kind of a mix of these two)

Question:
This is Dog Warz.
It used to be distributed via a link (it was a free item), but the event is no longer active. The item Dog Warz is needed not only for Alchemy, but specifically it’s a necessary component for a formula that grants an Achievement if you craft it (the Abomination achievement). Since there is no other way to get it, I suspect that the number of available ones floating around on the site is extremely low (thus why the item has jumped in value significantly). Can you please create a new way for us to get Dog Warz? As a suggestion, you could put it in the “Old Trunk of Forgotten Things.”

I will say that the number of updates recently to the Alchemy system are very encouraging, and as such I have finally started out on my Alchemy journey.

We can definitely consider adding it to the Trunk of Forgotten Things!

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Shops

Some items were recently removed from Loyal's Bazaar without any notification, most notably the new pillows and Eminent Commander. Were these removed on accident and if so will they see a return to the shop?

Yes this was an accident, so you will definitely see them return to the shop in the future!


bluealaris
Reginald Orius
Items

Are we going to see rereleases of RIGs like Fancy Flashback and Grave of Fairies?


Yes, they will re-appear!


bluealaris
Man I Jizzed v2
Events

Will there be a summer event this year? When can we expect it?


The summer event is tentatively scheduled to be released at the end of this month! Fingers crossed, with testing and SCAS!


Zero Omega
Ren Orenji Doragon
Features

Chat seems to have issues with the ignore and report functions. Ignoring someone will not hide their posts and you must refresh to report someone who may be long gone by the time you get back. sweatdrop Are you guys working on this? surprised

We're aware of this and right now there isn't a way to fix it, however, what you can do is report the person before you ignore them and then proceed to put them on your ignorelist.


Zero Omega
XonyMudd
Misc/May’s Contest

Just wondering, what was the reason for the delay in announcing the winners for the last of last month’s contests and what’s the best guestimate on when we’ll find out who won? I hope nothing bad has happened to cause the delay. Also, might be nice to us a nice little token of appeasement for the extended wait. If nothing else, perhaps a title like, long-suffering xD

Yes! Sorry about that! We'll be announcing the winners of the remaining contests next week. We ended up getting really busy at the tail end of May and coming into the beginning of June. But we promise to get you the winners!


bluealaris
Jisen Meizuki
Events

Any hints as to what the summer event be? ninja


It might be related to Lake Kindred...


Zero Omega
~ Aki - Fairy ~
Shops/Features

With Loyal's change in admittance policy/procedure, a bunch of us received letters letting us know we had met the requirements to enter the shop/guild, though we had access prior. Because of the policy change are we going to be getting this message every 90 days now?

Some people also received the admittance letter multiple times (perhaps paired up with the 'sorry but you've been kicked out' one as well) and it sounds like they possibly had 30 tokens deducted for each admittance letter received. Can they file a ticket to be re-credited the excess tokens?

Bug Report thread on it.

We're going to report this to our dev team to take a look into it and see what's going on, right now we'd like to advise you to not file a ticket on this to recover your tokens as the support team does not have a way to actually credit you the tokens. Instead, please feel free to post in that bug thread and we'll take down your username to look into this.


bluealaris
Fibonacci To Infinity
Items
Can you guys put the Mournful Eclipse in the Parcel Present?
It's super inflated & meets the requirements of being added.

Also I wanted to thank you SO much for the Gravity Falls item!
emotion_kirakira


Perhaps one day! 3nodding


Zero Omega
NoobishBanana
Items

If u had an old account with over 500 bil in gold and over 300 bil in items plus having most of the 03 items like ninja headband, omg hat, and deviltail is there any type of way to get that stuff back i mean i worked really hard and put years into that account it all got lost for nothing i tryed to contact you guys through email and report it but never got any respond so if you can help me with this problem i will really be grateful thank you for your time

You'll have to file a support ticket at our Help Center regarding this and include any information that will help us identify your account. I have checked your ticket history and don't see one that you filed with this account, when you file a ticket, please make sure that you receive a ticket ID at the end, this will ensure that your ticket was filed.


bluealaris
Bubblehead0987654321
Items

Can you make some alchemy recipes that uses Mini Monsters Grunny Sub Cards and other cards to make rare aquarium items and backgrounds, maybe even use them for fish that could only be created in alchemy?

Question is originally by demonic_angelkynd1


Sure we can- we don't have any plans to create new fish at this time, but there are always more ways to use Alchemy.


codemonkey37179
Jisen Meizuki
Games

Mind giving us an update as to how the Fishing game is?

Some of us who are doing the Alchemy are unable to craft because the Fishing game is screwed by the captcha. I wish I can ask for an alternative such as a CI of Fish like how how you did with the Bug Jar in Loyal's Bazaar, but someone told me that will ruin the Fishing game as well as the economy.


We are busy with the summer event at the moment, but hopefully can get to it right after.


codemonkey37179
JessieLovesFoodz
Are you guys working on fishing, or have you given up entirely? It's been about a month and it's still down.


Not given up. It is a complicated system.


bluealaris
Bubblehead0987654321
Features/Events?

I came back to Gaia and recently I've been toying with avatars to submit into the Arenas, and I decided to check out if the prizes have changed. I saw that the prize gold was still the same as it was years ago, and to be honest it's kind of laughable? 50,000g in this economy isn't that much of an impact to someone, and that's if you place in First. Are there any plans to renovate the prize pool in the future?

Question is originally by Sanctuarii


There are- it requires some substantial dev time which we've currently directed towards doing some site repairs, and the summer event. We're looking into fixing payout inconsistencies once these have been finished.


bluealaris
St V-Starr
Features/Alchemy

There are a lot of new formulas out there that need golden fragments to create but too few ways of getting that that either require a ton of luck or a credit card/paypal. Would it be possible to add in a formula for golden fragments to alchemy in the near future?


Yes, we have plans to put out many alternate formulas for the Golden Fragments.


bluealaris
Lord Elwrind
Features/Items

Alchemy
subject:
Goddess Gaia formula

Thinking ahead and knowing full well that the volumes of Memories are finite and will at some point be inconceivable for use in the future for the formula to create the Goddess Gaia item, might there be an alternative route added to it? Just a thought.


This item is supposed to be an event exclusive bonus for Gaians that logged in every day during May, so there will definitely be a finite way to craft it.


Zero Omega
ChronicCats
Misc.

I'm so happy this opened right now, because I have a question regarding my account being hacked today.
I'm really worried about being banned because I warned Chatterbox about the user who hacked me.
I submitted a help ticket and reported the users (there are multiple accounts who are scamming people)
I'm just really worried I'm going to get in trouble. I've been on Gaia since 2007, and I do not want to do anything to lose my account sad Please reassure me.

You will not get into trouble for reporting this user, please go ahead and file a Hacking Report about this situation and include all details possible. Make sure that you have changed the password on your account to ensure that the person no longer has access to your password. Finally, educate yourself on various phishing methods by reading our blog post here!


pyawakit
Shrimp_Man
Misc/Art

Are there any plans for adding more wallpapers to the download section of the site?


Yes! Look forward to more in the near future.


bluealaris
Bubblehead0987654321
Features

When will you increase the overseer's reward in the aquarium?

Question is originally by Furbish Lousewort


As soon as we have some exclusive new content for it! 3nodding


Zero Omega
mewkittyy
Events and/or Features

When will the next round of testing for SCAS members be?

We don't have a set date at this point, but sometime in the near future, if you are a SCAS member you will be alerted to a round of testing via a guild announcement. If you have any other SCAS questions, and are a SCAS member, please post in the guild.


Zero Omega
TtheHero
Events

What happened with the events in the Throwback Forum? Surely the winners had to have been decided upon by now.

We'll have updates on the winners for you next week! Sorry for the delay!


bluealaris
XonyMudd
Misc/Events

Should Johnny K. Gambino have his own month long remembrance celebration? Old Pete got an Appreciation Month after all (even if it was an April Fool’s joke xD).


Isn't Gaia itself a Johnny K. Gambino celebration 24/7? In my heart it is.


bluealaris
Tsukita-chan
Items / Alchemy
Would be possible to update Masquerade formula so we can use lower gens of Little Lucie, like other EI formulas? right now it only allow to use 1st gen.

heart heart heart


Excellent suggestion, thanks!


codemonkey37179
annakratos
Games

Is there anyway you could make Switchem more colorblind friendly? It's really tough for me to play, and I'm sure I can't be the only one...


Let me talk to the artists.


bluealaris
XonyMudd
Items/Alchemy

Since Spider Silk is available via the Emerald Cache, has it been removed from the Ye Olde Trunk of Forgotten Things yet?

Its been some weeks since I last gotten some from the trunk, but I haven't gotten any recently, so if it has been removed, thank you!


Its been removed. 3nodding


Rance Clear
Yeata Zi
Features maybe?

Can I set up an interview with an npc for the paparazzi? (Preferably through private message?) How would I go about doing this? What format would be easiest on the npcs? (List of questions or back and forth correspondence?)

Our first full issue will be next month!


Awesome idea, but I'm not sure it can be accommodated at this time, mostly due to character canon being super duper complicated! This was also a factor in why the Mint Tickets are very scarce.

Here's a counter offer you might like though:
Please send a PM to Cindy with the subject "Ask The Staff" and she can guarantee the Paparazzi reporters a place as a guest reporter in a future Community Update.

You can decide among yourselves which Paparazzi-written article to feature, if you decide to go this route. smile


Zero Omega
Renaissance
Zero Omega
Renaissance
General

I get the feeling I am unliked. Thats fine. I just want to know are you going to let people know you do not want them in SCAS or just let them wait, and only tell those who got in.

We certainly like you, we just don't see an e-mail that you sent to us applying to SCAS. We have also been letting people know when they have not been accepted to SCAS. You will get an e-mail as to whether or not you have been accepted to SCAS as long as you include your username in the e-mail. If you have not included your username in your application e-mail then you will not be getting a reply back. We will post a staff notice when we have gone through all the SCAS application e-mails.

I believe I still have copy of it in my sent mail. It was a long time ago now though so I will have to check. I did send with my username all over it, and a nice long letter as to why I wanted to join. So the fact you say you do not see it is odd to say the least. Thank you for letting me know I will fail. And that others you do not include will be notified.

Nowhere in my post did I say that you would fail getting into SCAS, nor was it implied that you will fail. I looked up your username, Renaissance, in our SCAS application e-mails and do not see an e-mail. Please ensure that the e-mail was sent to apply4beta@gaiaonline.com. Additionally, what you can do is just simply resend your application to us if we do not currently see it.


bluealaris
Master Jew
EVENTS

Recently you guys advertised a raffle using the Tailored Trendsetter CI as an entry.

To my knowledge the item did NOT sell out, and I have no way of knowing if any of the
CIs dropped their main prize (especially since both the Platinum Ticket and Tailor Ticket
have been released in other items as well). Is the raffle going to be held soon or has it
already happened? Tag on question, Does Gaia EVER plan on being more transparent
with their means of choosing raffle winners? They are always announced but we never
get to see how Gaia came about with those specific winners. Do you draw names from
a hat, or just pick the name that sounds coolest, or straight up rig it and pick friends?


Raffle winners are picked from a randomly generated list, though choosing them based on coolness of name sounds like a good idea now that you mention it.


bluealaris
Shrimp_Man
Items

Are there be any plans to make wing quest/DC only items easier to obtain? Especially since you guys added the angel's sweat in a formula this week.


We don't have any plans for re-releasing items that are available though the Gift Boxes, Crystal Boxes or DC- if there's anything like rare RIG drops that are no longer in circulation that's another matter!


bluealaris
Zanethemayor
Events

In the past, there has been many "town" themed events where different towns would go against each other to achieve a certain goal, (Like with the rejected Olympics and the water balloon event!) Is there going be more events like that some time in the future and, my friend will also like to know if (Ugh) Loyal is going to be a part of any events in general.


We don't have any town themed events planned in the near future, since our summer event is nearly finished, but you can tell your friend that Loyal is surely going to be involved in several future events.


codemonkey37179
Generosa anima
Games

Do you guys have a rough idea on when fishing may be working again?


No, but will do everything we can to get it working.


bluealaris
Phantom Drifter
Items:

Will Kurola be re-released in GoFusion soon? It was mentioned quite awhile ago it would be soon but it never appeared.


It will! Keep your eyes peeled. 3nodding


bluealaris
Woo Mee
Items

Will Golden Fragments be made craft-able in Alchemy soon?


Yes, soon. heart


Zero Omega
X_Gokai-Okuzuko_X
Features?

I noticed today that I heard back about my SCAS application. I'm not sure yet if I'm going to go through with it yet, I'm a bit afraid of committing to this shadowy entity. sweatdrop Can you give me a taste of what it'd be like? Here are some questions I have:

What exactly would I be doing as a member? Would I be beta-testing upcoming features a lot? How does this funcationality work (would it be like the closed beta for zOMG!, where there's a clone of the site only approved users can access)? Is there also item testing?

Is my feedback sent to you directly? Do you listen to what SCAS users say and fiddle with upcoming things with their suggestions in mind? Or is it still like the regular user experience with the users shouting into the void in hopes a passing tornado will bring you our feedback?

What exactly is the NDA?? Why do I need to sign it to be a a part of this? Can I leave SCAS at any time? Would the NDA still be ongoing even if I decided to end my time in SCAS? Sorry, I'm so new to all of this!!

All of these questions you should be asking by replying to the e-mail that you received. sweatdrop I'll answer what I can without getting into too much detail for those that have not been accepted.

As we've mentioned before, being a SCAS member entails testing out new features and releases we have on Gaia Online before they go live to the public. By doing this you'll be helping us find any bugs and provide feedback for these features. The NDA is a non-disclosure agreement, a common contract for things such as this. We require any Gaian that gets an invitation to SCAS to sign this to help ensure that they do not leak any of the private information that is posted into the guild. If you have anymore questions, please reply to the e-mail you received.


Zero Omega
Angels Alibi
Zero Omega
Angels Alibi
Features?

For the NDA form for SCAS it asks to electronically sign our names
The best option would be either print it out to sign and scan it
But what if we're limited to a trackpad or mouse?
Would it still be alright to sign that way sweatdrop

Please reply to the e-mail that you received with this question.
I did about an hour after I got it and never got a reply x: I shall try again though~

I see the most recent e-mail you sent and double-checked our e-mails to ensure your previous one wasn't missed. Definitely do not see an e-mail from you outside of your initial application and username follow up. xd


bluealaris
Litenguax
Items

I have a question about the Suspicious Fire Extinguisher. I see that it was removed from Loyal's Bazaar, but it hadn't been for a long time. Was it ever intended to be usable again? Has this question already been answered, and if so, does this mean that the item is just meant to be trashed?


Its an April Fools item only- its not meant to be used in the future and I'll see if its taken out. c:


codemonkey37179
Xashowd
Events

How soon are you guys going to start prep for the Halloween event this year? I'm wondering since I really hope it won't turn out like last year's. Sooo many glitches.

Also Rebuild Halloweentown plzkthxbai.


Sometime after Summer.


bluealaris
super-noob-e
bluealaris
super-noob-e
Announcement/Items

First off, thank you for the new Peyo and Splatoon items!

As for my question, is there maybe a chance of announcements about bundles including a list of all the items in the bundle or at least have all the items tagged with the name of the bundle? It's so frustrating looking at a picture of an item set in a new bundle and not knowing how to find it in the market place without help.


Of course! That should be a given- can you tell me which bundle you're referring to and I can fix it.


Well I was thinking about the one with the pikachu recolored grunny, but really most of them have this problem. For example, the newest Bundle, Summer Skies, only list the names of some of its items in the announcement, and searching for summer skies in the market place doesn't bring them up. As it stands now, I'll have to go find some user made list of items in the bundle, when I think they should just all be named in the announcement or at least tagged with "Summer, Skies" so that searching for it will bring them all up


Ah I see what you're saying. Thank you for the feedback, we'll try to be more diligent.


bluealaris
Master Jew
GAIA

Rumor has it that www.gaiaonline.com will cease operation this fall
and all remaining Gaia Interactive employees will be relocated to the
Tentacl project. Seems a bit strange as Gaia just hired like 100 beta
testers (all non-paid of course!) to keep more updates flowing.

Main Question:

In YOUR opinion, what does Gaia's future look like?


I'm not sure how to answer this, since the Tentacl project was closed months ago.


Zero Omega
ResultsUnknown
Features

Why do we have to wait 3 days in order to use the marketplace as a new user?

This feature was implemented as a way to help curb hackers moving gold and items into new account and a way to stop illegal gold buyers and sellers from bouncing gold around accounts.


bluealaris
Salathielly
Misc.

According to this month's CI, the Wing Scouts and Peyo and Piyo are off to summer camp! Which NPCs are their camp counselors?


Coming soon, more twists to the plot! heart


Zero Omega
Transparent Marshmallow
Features

Could Dumpster Dive be improved? I've actually been using it a lot lately and I often find it empty. Is it possible for there to be an unlimited supply of items in there? If no donations have been made recently, the admin can donate an unlimited supply or papers or something to keep it going.

Mmm... I'm pretty sure this is already a functionality of Dumpster Dive. If no items are inside of it, then admin will donate some paper into it.