April 12th

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Welcome Back!

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Events

So on April 1st, we had a mini-event where Diedrich was being creepy on the header as well as saying we lied to him. But there is one thing that bothers me... ... ...

WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED?!?!

I went to bed because I have work and when I logged on, it was back to normal but nobody knew what happened. I feel like the event ended unsolved and undone. I what to know what the lie is.

Something something tickets darksiiiiiiiiiiiiiide

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Event Items

I like to thank you for the freebies you gave us on April Fool's. I'm aware that the it's are reference to the "Not Release" we constantly encounter whenever we get new items. However, can you make a slight change to the items?

I don't mind whether it's to change the name or place an outline around the thumbnail. But the reason I ask this is because it will create confusion to the community when reporting items that are in "Not Released" form and we don't want to mistake the prank items as the items that need to be fixed.

We'll see what we can do about adjusting the item thumbnail to make it more apparent it is an item, not an "Not Released" issue.

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Question Category: Features (Lake Kindred/Project Custom)

Hello lovely Staff~
My question pertains to the Kindred Capture Seal. Many members of the LK community have a strong dislike for this seal due to its exclusivity of the created user Kin (25 copies ONLY, not 25 to the submitter + 1000 copies LQI CS release as with the Rainbow Seal), depriving many collectors and lovers of the Kin that this seal had recolored a chance to truly enjoy them, as well as making it very difficult for LK guide creators and helpers from providing the most accurate information to other LK players.

Several of us have been wondering if maybe the rules on this seal could possibly be changed to allow for an eventual public release for these Kin - whether through a RIG or a LQI CS release - after a period of 6 months to a year (similar as to how some recolored dolls now have a 6-month wait before being released into a RIG under the new Project Custom rules).

It could raise the moral and happiness of the LK community that are on long (and maybe impossible) quests for these rare Kin, as well as ease the hatred of this seal by the community at large. Please make this a consideration? Thank you very much!

We have not released a Kindred Capture Seal in quite a while, nor do we intend to regularly release these. The Rainbow Seal is out go-to Lake Kindred design opportunity to share with everyone, and Kin created with the Rainbow Seal are released to La Victoire!

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Items

Are all the items released specifically for the Halloween sale, Black Friday Sale and Christmas sale considered a 6 month wait and not just the LQI ones?

Only User-created, Limited Quantity, or Limited Time Items are considered to have a wait time. Many of the items are releasable at the discretion of Gaia Staff, but we do try to give Sale items a bit of an informal rest period prior to rerelease.

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Events

October 19th marks the ten year anniversary of the Zurg event.

Was Lake Kindred the last we will see of the Zurg?

Keep an eye on Marty in the skies at five.


excitable sloth
ElegantlyLuminous
Games: Lake Kindred

On April 4th, the always wonderful excitable sloth posted in the Official LK Update Thread that Piopio had been removed and that a few new RIGs had been found in Kindred. I'm not entirely sure what areas this is referring to, but I've been watching the LK forum for new threads concerning these RIGs and some of my guild-mates and I in the Kingdom of Kindred have been searching various areas for the new RIGs and, in spite of that, we haven't been able to find anything but what was already there. No new RIGs. (Piopio, however, truly has disappeared.) Has this change been implemented yet and, if so, could we please know which RIGs were added or to which areas they were added?

Thanks so much!

(If I'm just obliviously missing something, I apologize for the unnecessary question! Please feel free to ignore me in that case.)


Hello! The RIGs added were not 'new' RIGs, but RIGs that had been taken out of the Bunny Planet area at the beginning of the event. They were added back into the area. c:


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Ren Orenji Doragon
Events

What happened to Easter Bunny? gonk


We haven't seen him out and about, but I bet he's FURIOUS.


Zero Omega
Fibonacci To Infinity
Misc. - IRL Store

I was wondering if you guys ever considered teaming up with Sanshee, the site that handles all the official merchandise for Undertale & Five Nights at Freddy's?
It's a really good site with high quality items.
I think it'd be great for Gaia to look into it at least for some IRL merch.
I know you guys were burned with the last store, but Sanshee is very good with their orders.

We'll pass it along for consideration, but no promises on if it's something that we'll be able to do!


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Nenanah
Items

A long time ago the alchemy formulas would tell us what we needed to complete the formula. Now we have to buy it before we are able to view what components we need and that isn't really fair. Some of the formulas are really expensive and it's a huge let down when we buy them only to see that there are no listing for the components needed or the components are super expensive. Can you please start showing us what is needed for a formula before we buy it?

There is even a thread about this in Site Feedback, here.


We're looking into this system to see why it stopped displaying and how to restore that function. If there's an update, we'll let you know!


Zero Omega
Ren Orenji Doragon
Misc.

If I were to send something (like some fanart) via snail mail, how would I address it? sweatdrop I know you guys have moved several times...

I'll send you a PM with a PO Box


Zero Omega
Leothalis the Sorcerer
Features

Flynn's used to stock on a regular basis, but as of late we've had large gaps between her auctions - even right now she's currently absolutely empty. Is there any reason as to why this has begun to happen/is happening?

Just haven't had the time to update her, we'll be going at it again soon though. Don't worry. Nothing has actually changed about it.


Zero Omega
Fibonacci To Infinity
Marketplace - Flynn's Plunder

Ticket Sale soon?
DX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd3uVFQX3AY


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Features "journals"

I've noticed that whenever we edit or make a new entry we have to do a captcha code. Doing a code for each entry and edit seems a bit overkill, I'm not really seeing how or why it's necessary especially since we don't have to do a code for every post or edit we make in the guilds or forums. Can you make it to where we won't have to do a code for every tiny thing we do in our journals? Maybe you could space the code out to where we only have to do one per every few edits or entries.

We'll take it into consideration!


excitable sloth
ferchitocontri
items

Question
good day
first thanks for all your efforts in the site is wonderfull then .. the question
why ... please why the rate of items is 92 % girl girly overcute items....
there are guys here needs items too.. not only macho or manly items.. casual too, elgant, etc...please gaia remember bnot all the users here are girls.
thanks again for your time


Hello! We often release items that are unisex, having both male and female poses in them.


excitable sloth
Princess Dartanyon
In the department of Lake Kindred...
Is the nicknaming system still in the works?
I asked a few months back and was told it was being worked on, just seeing if there's still a possibility.


Hello!
Yes, it is currently in the works!!


excitable sloth
Sailor Seren
Items (Features/Misc. maybe?)

So, something not covered in any of the Project Custom ticket rules (or at least the Quartz Stub rules specifically) I think is Sponsor Items. Are these items allowed to be recolored with a Rainbow/Double Rainbow Ticket or a Quartz Stub?

I'm looking more towards using a Quartz Stub on a sponsor item hair (thereby removing it from the rest of the set items), but wasn't sure where exactly this fell in the rules of any Project Custom rules.


Hello! I am not positive of this, however I believe that we likely cannot recolor Sponsor items.


excitable sloth
Xhex Hess
Games - Lake kindred - mystery Egg


Asking again, as I try to every Ask the Staff, when will the Halloween crafted Kin hatch?!? Sloth said before Spring. It's spring now and a LOT of us are anxious to see what it is. And I move in a month and won't be on much for most of this month or next because of it.

Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE have it hatch now!!!!!!!?


Hello there! I said it would be hatching in spring.
It should be hatching, very, very soon.


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Misc

I saw in Site Feedback that a person was quitting the site because she was fed up with Gaia letting people cheat in the Runway. Many people have been making threads about the cheaters some have event went as far as to e-mail the site about the issue and nothing was ever done. The cheaters have been getting away with this for months. Why did it take someone to make a thread saying that they were quitting the site before you made an effort to fix this issue? Don't get me wrong I'm happy that this is being fixed but it's pretty crappy that it took someone to quit the site before you'd do it or acknowledge other people in Site Feedback.

Suspected Runway cheating is something we've actually been keeping an eye on for a while and trying to figure out how we want to address, it wasn't just one person posting in Site Feedback. We've seen the Runway community wants it addressed and we are working on ways to address the situation.


excitable sloth
Sinfulcraft
Items/Games - Lake Kindred

Are Sycamorte Seeds ever going to get those promised updates?

Last year, we were promised that the Sycamorte Seeds would be updated with Kin from old RIGs and such. No such thing has occurred.


They may be updated in the future!
AT this point however they will not be updated.


Zero Omega
Evil Cleavage
Features
Is there a way we can unsubscribe from blocked topics? Not asking as a way to view them, but like, "Topics blocked: 2" in big red letters. Cause the blocked topics range from people adding you to their ignore list while you're subbed to their thread or a topic getting removed by you guys for whatever reason. Or like when a topic gets removed or blocked that you're subbed too(for whatever reason it says blocked on the page), you guys maybe setting something up that automatically removes it from the list?

We'll pass the request along!


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Graybles
Events?

Has anyone considered maybe raising the amount of gold that is received from the little flying gift boxes that pop up randomly on pages?


It's definitely something we'd like to do once time and resources allow. smile


Zero Omega
Sinfulcraft
Features/Items

When we sell Kin from our shops, can we see their level in the description, just like we see it when looking at them in our inventories?

This would help people list the correct Kin in their shops and not accidentally list something they were wanting to keep.

Something we'll pass along for consideration!


Zero Omega
Evil Cleavage
Features
Could it be possible to have in the settings area, like past usernames you've had? Like you are able to see all past usernames that you've had? Maybe something like a sort of 'ownage' system? Like when you change your username, if you want to can choose to keep someone else from using that username? Like I enjoy coming up with my own usernames, putting cool/weird words together and I worry every time I change my username someone will just take my old one because they liked it. Which I don't like because it's something I put time into thinking up and creating.

Probably not. If you change your username you're committing to that new username, unless you claim it on a mule.


excitable sloth
Vibrant Seizure
Games: Lake Kindred

Have the kins obtainable from Sycamorte Seeds and Phantom Sycamorte Seeds been changed? Have the drop rate of certain kins obtainable from the seeds been changed?


The kin obtainable from Sycamorte Seeds have not been changed.
They may be changed in the future however.


excitable sloth
Chidori Rain
Games // Lake Kindred
Would it be possible to update Sycamorte's battle animations to include one that makes it obvious when it uses a healing move?

As of right now the only tell we have is a blank animation and a "missed" attack. I know the numbers probably pop up, but since Sycamorte is so huge, you can never see the numbers pop off of it.


At the moment I don't believe this is possible. We're working on a lot of stuff. ;3; But perhaps in the future.


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Lithium Filth
Question Category NPC Shops (probably?)

Question-
(its possible I've missed them) Can we see fragments return to Nicus marketplace shop? I feel like I haven't seen them in over a month, but its possible I have missed them. With a lot more users questing larger ticket fragments are starting to be bought up and it'd be nice to have a place to buy them in bulk for a decent price :'3


They may appear again! I can't give a timeline or guarantee of course, but we don't intend to take Golden Fragments out of the rotation. smile


excitable sloth
Finion
Items

Can you guys please sell the Opal Ticket more often, sell it on sale more often, and allow an option whereby the buyer forfeits personal control of the ticket to let the whole Lake Kindred community decide through multiple staff-controlled votes on every aspect what the new Kin will be and look like -- in exchange for the Kindred having enough power to be on par with the Sakura Pegacorn Fluff? So, the staff would set up a thread where the users would vote on various aspects of the Kin, with the community thereby making decisions about the kin; but one person would have to provide the ticket -- I wouldn't mind saving up for that.

I think this would greatly excite the whole Lake Kindred community and let us collectively create an awesome kin, even if individuals such as me are edoing the buying.

Is this possible? Thanks!


Hello, I don't believe we will be making any kin that are as strong as Sakura Pegacorn Fluff.
It will continue to be the strongest. That being said, you still can have a kin designed by the community!


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2sammygate
items

can gaia make a rerelease RIG of items that really and truly need to be rereleased? a friend of mine was in a bidding war that reached ONE TRILLION GOLD for silvery sea princess. a one billion gold item. why is it so nonexistent on gaia?!?!?

if an item can't even make a graph for a year of sales, it should be rereleased. gaia must have the data somewhere!


We're always grabbing items from this thread so if you spot any items that are in sore need of a rerelease, feel free to post them in there! We can't keep track of the thousands of items on our own, so it always helps when Gaians have some specific recommendations. biggrin


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Wolf Princess of the Moon
Features
((Runway))

Regarding the Runway, The last Item requirement we had was a freebie item that belonged to both Human and Paw avies, yet only the human one was acceptable, leaving out the Paws in that theme. If an item is available for both human and paw base, than why exclude one of them? There are paw specific items, and items only available in the human base so using those I could understand that one base will get left out and that is acceptable; but when it's an item that both bases could use, shouldn't they both be allowed to enter the theme the item requirement is asking for? Some people prefer to use the Paw base over the human base.
Is it possible next time this situation comes up where both human and paw base can use the same item that they both could enter instead of excluding the Paws?


I'll look into this! It may have been an oversight, or it may be a coding limitation. Either way, I'll take a look and next time we do a Runway like this, we'll try and make it more inclusive if possible. Thanks for the feedback!


Zero Omega
Evil Cleavage
Features

Could we get the Thinking Post Style fixed? It puts a very ugly white line through pictures and text.
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And I would love to use this post style, but I can't stand the white line. c:

We'll pass it along!


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Castiel Lover
items

Ruby tickets, please? ;-; There are none out there for sale. They're hardly ever included in sales and they haven't been in a rig in forever. Please don't break my heart, Gaia. Include more Ruby tickets in things ; v;


We love Ruby Tickets just as much as the next guy and will totally pitch some into chance items and La Victoire as soon as resources free up to accommodate them. smile


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vii-Lucky
Items

Are we going to have an upcoming sponsor RIG anytime soon? like adventure time and my little pony

We're always working on new partnership endeavors, but none of that type are currently in development.


excitable sloth
Chidori Rain
Items // Lake Kindred (?)
So as of late, I've been having help from the LK community in tracking what comes out of Sycamorte and Phantom Sycamorte Seeds. While tracking, I've noticed that within 3,952 Sycamorte Seeds and 431 Phantom Sycamorte Seeds, not a single pull of any of the "rare" kin have been mentioned. This has been making many people wonder if they are even in there still at all.

Would it be possible to get some kind of drop adjustment on these kin, or at least some verification as to what kin are considered "rare" pulls from the seeds?


I will see what I can do!


Zero Omega
Rosalind_of_blackwell
Features

Hello all!
This is my very first ATS question, so eek! i finally made it! lol

I was wanting to know what the game plan will be to contenue to bring in gold outside of cash shop items?

Like, are there going to be changes to the sites games, gold grants, daily chances, and voting to combat the inflation so new users who don't have a level 50 kin in lake kindred or loads of money to pump in to gain gold gens or higher end items have a decent chance to earn enough gold?

I know the economy isn't going to fix overnight and i know you all have been trying and i see improvements but i notice the gold amounts granted for posting ans such are a ton lower than what they could be to meet the average norm of billions rather than millions or even thousands.

thank you all!

Welcome to your first ATS!

This has been something that we have discussed before, but we don't have any firm details on or a final answer for. However we do know and understand these are really outdated. So we'll see what we do in the future!


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Arynaria
Features: Status Updates

Are there any plans to allow users to comment on their friends' status updates on the My Gaia page? I think it would be a neat and convenient way to have a quick exchange with someone without worrying about leaving a more public profile comment or bothering with longer PMs. I know it sounds similar to a chat feature, but I'm talking about something more reminiscent of Facebook status replies.


I like this idea! We'll add it to our list of possible updates to consider.


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Hoshika Bayushi
Events

Will there be a Gaia panel at Fanime again this year?????


Yes!! I hope we'll see you there!


excitable sloth
ChaosTrooper
Items

Will the Rainbow Evolution Seal be put into more RIGs in the future?


It likely might!
However it's more likely to be put directly in the Cash Shop. c:


excitable sloth
grim reapleton
Question Category Seals

Question:

So can you allot one more freedom to seal/opal winners allowing them to select element and base move pool?

example: fire element but paralysis moveset
or plant element but sleep moves

(you guys still get control but we get a little easter egg like freedom gem)


Unfortunately this is not doable. :C
Sorry about that.


Zero Omega
Skulls Riot
Features

Can the staff add more gift card entries to exchange into Gaia Cash? I have a Boston Market card that has $20 that I will never use. But it is not listed among the gift cards you accept and I would gladly put it towards the site.

Unfortunately our partner, PayGarden, controls which gift cards they accept according to who they end up partnering with. We can't really control that.


excitable sloth
sailornorthstar
art

Umm I tried for the freelance postion at Gaia and I never heard back. You said in the job offer that you would respond to everyone. So what happened?


We will be sending out responses this week!


excitable sloth
Chidori Rain
Project Custom
Last question for the night and I swear I'm done pestering you guys until next week!

With the current rise in interest for the Opal Ticket (10 known users questing it currently), are there any plans for releasing the Opal in Flynn's Plunder or maybe even in CIs again in the future?

I love you guys, I swear. I'm just a really curious Lake Kindred player!


It will likely be in the Cash Shop.
I'm not sure about CIs or Flynns though.


excitable sloth
houjun-san
Misc

Can we stubs for items please? ( like the quartz stubs for hair)


It's called a Rainbow Ticket, rival. c:<


excitable sloth
houjun-san
Misc

Is it possible/or are you considering kin items be recolored by rainbow tickets? smile


Unfortunately no. They can only be recolored by Rainbow Seals. ;3;


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Ms Miffy
Games

Hello Staff redface
I was wondering if I would like to submit a ticket to change a current gaia item/companion into a kindred, which ticket would I be aiming for?
Thank you~


If I'm not mistaken, you'd want an Opal Ticket for this task!