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Shops - Marketplace
I understand the Marketplace is a beast of its own, but would it be possible to have a feature that allows users to refine search results to omit animal base equipables or human equipables only?
I understand the Marketplace is a beast of its own, but would it be possible to have a feature that allows users to refine search results to omit animal base equipables or human equipables only?
Marketplace - search filters can be added, the next feature we'll work on first would be inventory filtering, after that it should be search result.
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Games
Question
Are there any rules or applicable restraints on users who dump ENORMOUS numbers of a single item into the Dumpster for the sole purpose of aggravating other users? For example, one user has had the dumpster locked up with alchemy caches for THREE ENTIRE DAYS in a row (so far).
(Reminded here of an Orc from LotR complaining: "We ain't had any meat for three stinkin' days!" )
Another user (or possibly the same one) did the same thing with basic rods (which only lasted a full day, as opposed to three) just this past week. Annoyed, as was apparently intended, I followed one such user to his profile, where he "explained" that he enjoyed pi**ing people off in this manner, and that everyone should just suck it up, basically. I suspect that it's a couple of people operating this way, under different mule accounts...and they have been doing so for some time now.
It just seems to me that this kind of behavior/intent to peeve/detract from the pleasure of the Gaia experience, is, or at least should be, against the TOS. But perhaps I'm wrong?
In any case, I guess my question is: Is there any support for the concept of capping the number of any given item being dumped on any given day into the dumpster dive game, so that people could actually have a chance once in a while to get something new and exciting?
EDIT: same item, all day long, from same user....fifth day.
Question
Are there any rules or applicable restraints on users who dump ENORMOUS numbers of a single item into the Dumpster for the sole purpose of aggravating other users? For example, one user has had the dumpster locked up with alchemy caches for THREE ENTIRE DAYS in a row (so far).
(Reminded here of an Orc from LotR complaining: "We ain't had any meat for three stinkin' days!" )
Another user (or possibly the same one) did the same thing with basic rods (which only lasted a full day, as opposed to three) just this past week. Annoyed, as was apparently intended, I followed one such user to his profile, where he "explained" that he enjoyed pi**ing people off in this manner, and that everyone should just suck it up, basically. I suspect that it's a couple of people operating this way, under different mule accounts...and they have been doing so for some time now.
It just seems to me that this kind of behavior/intent to peeve/detract from the pleasure of the Gaia experience, is, or at least should be, against the TOS. But perhaps I'm wrong?
In any case, I guess my question is: Is there any support for the concept of capping the number of any given item being dumped on any given day into the dumpster dive game, so that people could actually have a chance once in a while to get something new and exciting?
EDIT: same item, all day long, from same user....fifth day.
If there is actual evidence of users doing this for the sake of trolling the rest of the community, then it is something we can look into at least warning the user and asking them not to do it again. However, with no evidence we can derive intent from just an item dump. Is it more than likely a way to disrupt the community? Sure, but without hard evidence suggesting so, we have to act on the fact it is simply just an item dump.
We'll need to bug Narumi to make some tweaks to Dumpster Dive to rid of the pesky single items. But when do dumpster diving come with a menu and a waiter taking orders? smile We'll keep bugging Narumi for you.
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Features
I can't find the thread to report these in so I am here. BBCODE PM bugs have gotten worse. Now not only is there a double box around each quote within quotes making conversation chains hard to read, but now the text box is wider than the window it's in, even at full screen requiring scrolling to read each line! I hope this is addressed soon.
I'm using a desk top with Windows 7, the latest Firefox and Flash versions.
I can't find the thread to report these in so I am here. BBCODE PM bugs have gotten worse. Now not only is there a double box around each quote within quotes making conversation chains hard to read, but now the text box is wider than the window it's in, even at full screen requiring scrolling to read each line! I hope this is addressed soon.
I'm using a desk top with Windows 7, the latest Firefox and Flash versions.
There is a dedicated thread in SF for collecting bbcode bugs. Lanzer frequent the thread and will definitely have it fixed.
excitable sloth
S3xy Pantz
Features - Alchemy
A while back some ticket formulas were available in the Bifrost they were pulled for a time and later re-added. When re-added the formula for the sapphire ticket was left out. Was this an oversight (in which case can it return to the shop) or was it intentional?
A while back some ticket formulas were available in the Bifrost they were pulled for a time and later re-added. When re-added the formula for the sapphire ticket was left out. Was this an oversight (in which case can it return to the shop) or was it intentional?
It was likely left out intentionally, as sapphire tickets are meant to be kept incredibly rare.
Lanzer
Alexius08
Games: zOMG
Lanzer, are you working alone on fixing zOMG, or is someone else helping you on that?
Lanzer, are you working alone on fixing zOMG, or is someone else helping you on that?
I'm working on the code right now. The work haven't gotten too technical yet so I can actually manage. If it's becoming too much work then I'll need to ask for help. eek Wish me luck!
Lanzer
bluecherry
Features
Favorites
Lanzer, would you please reconsider allowing people to delete avatars from other people's favorites or prevent people from favoriting their avatars? People's avatars are public. Everybody can see them already anyway. Favoriting is simply a much more convenient way to do something people have already been doing for ages - saving and hosting images of avatars they come across that they like. Removing avatars from favorites or preventing them from being favorited just means now we can't keep everything in one place anymore, some avatars have to be screen-shotted again, which is a big deal for keeping pictures of favorite avatars, keeping them together, not having them all scattered about. If you can't save some avatars with favorites, it's back to the drawing board, pain stakingly screen-shotting and uploading everything so you don't lose avatars or have them all over the place and hard to keep track of. Being able to prevent people from favoriting your avatar strikes me like asking that you be able to prevent people from subscribing to your threads. I don't see anybody upset that their threads can be subscribed to and asking for a way out of that. Or getting their posts tipped either. I don't mind people not wanting to use it themselves, it's just thwarting other people from favoriting avatars that I'm opposed to. I am in favor of people opting out of ranking if they want. I have no problem with people wanting to turn off notifications, have an account setting to hide the heart symbol from showing up next to people's avatars, and remove the "favorites" thing from the drop down menu bar under "my Gaia" in account settings too. I'd even go so far as being ok with letting people have their username hidden when somebody favorites their avatar, though even that seems a bit silly as your username is publicly shown with your avatar already. I just want to be able to save any avatar I come across into my favorites and have it publicly viewable.
Right now, this feature is dead to me and that's such a shame because I really, really loved it. I've already stopped using the feature altogether because though I can't be prevented from adding stuff so far, anything can just suddenly poof out of my collection at any moment and get lost. I'm back to just manually saving images and uploading them.
Favorites
Lanzer, would you please reconsider allowing people to delete avatars from other people's favorites or prevent people from favoriting their avatars? People's avatars are public. Everybody can see them already anyway. Favoriting is simply a much more convenient way to do something people have already been doing for ages - saving and hosting images of avatars they come across that they like. Removing avatars from favorites or preventing them from being favorited just means now we can't keep everything in one place anymore, some avatars have to be screen-shotted again, which is a big deal for keeping pictures of favorite avatars, keeping them together, not having them all scattered about. If you can't save some avatars with favorites, it's back to the drawing board, pain stakingly screen-shotting and uploading everything so you don't lose avatars or have them all over the place and hard to keep track of. Being able to prevent people from favoriting your avatar strikes me like asking that you be able to prevent people from subscribing to your threads. I don't see anybody upset that their threads can be subscribed to and asking for a way out of that. Or getting their posts tipped either. I don't mind people not wanting to use it themselves, it's just thwarting other people from favoriting avatars that I'm opposed to. I am in favor of people opting out of ranking if they want. I have no problem with people wanting to turn off notifications, have an account setting to hide the heart symbol from showing up next to people's avatars, and remove the "favorites" thing from the drop down menu bar under "my Gaia" in account settings too. I'd even go so far as being ok with letting people have their username hidden when somebody favorites their avatar, though even that seems a bit silly as your username is publicly shown with your avatar already. I just want to be able to save any avatar I come across into my favorites and have it publicly viewable.
Right now, this feature is dead to me and that's such a shame because I really, really loved it. I've already stopped using the feature altogether because though I can't be prevented from adding stuff so far, anything can just suddenly poof out of my collection at any moment and get lost. I'm back to just manually saving images and uploading them.
I understand that this is a heated subject with Gaian on both sides who love and hate being seen. I'm working on the next update for favorites on the side right now, and will add some user preferences at the same time. I'll add a privacy option so users avatars, when favorited, will not be shown to public, but Gaians can still keep a private collection, not any different than saving the actual image.
excitable sloth
toufu-time
ITEMS
Will Hero's Journey ever see a finale?
Will Hero's Journey ever see a finale?
It will! It is being worked on as we speak. <3
Lanzer
Excites
♡ Are you guys ever thinking about bringing back the old Rally? ♡
The one we have is old enough... biggrin Most like we'll build a new one that doesn't run on Flash.
excitable sloth
Woo Mee
Items
Hello. Yesterday you released Purity of Gaia. I was actually really excited about this item until I found out it gave me GG pasties on the female base.
I really don't see why there was a point to adding those??? The 'skin' / body mod was exactly the same on both bases and could quite easily have been a welcome mod to give the female base a male body / chest. Many Gaians would LOVE to get MORE mods that give the female bases flat male chest mods, because some of us use the base because it is nicely slimmer than the bulky male base.
We have MANY boob mods that give the male base cleavage, I don't see why it can't also be the other way around.
If it's a problem of displaying 'nips' on the 'female' base, then just don't add them.
Hello. Yesterday you released Purity of Gaia. I was actually really excited about this item until I found out it gave me GG pasties on the female base.
I really don't see why there was a point to adding those??? The 'skin' / body mod was exactly the same on both bases and could quite easily have been a welcome mod to give the female base a male body / chest. Many Gaians would LOVE to get MORE mods that give the female bases flat male chest mods, because some of us use the base because it is nicely slimmer than the bulky male base.
We have MANY boob mods that give the male base cleavage, I don't see why it can't also be the other way around.
If it's a problem of displaying 'nips' on the 'female' base, then just don't add them.
I will go forward with this as a discussion point to the artists!
Lanzer
Auriga La Shock
Features: Achievements
For the longest time, Gaians have been accumulating points from achievements. Will we ever be able to trade the points in for anything? Like a shop or something of the sort. What was the original purpose of putting points in the achievement system anyways?
For the longest time, Gaians have been accumulating points from achievements. Will we ever be able to trade the points in for anything? Like a shop or something of the sort. What was the original purpose of putting points in the achievement system anyways?
We have plans for areas that are for Gaians with certain points or above, or items that can only be equipped with certain points. it's something I'd like to create down the road.
Jak Bauer
Dogoda
Features
When are you going to get around to streamlining the help center tickets? It's been backed up for a while and it certainly needs fixing. Improving customer service would put the community in higher spirits.
When are you going to get around to streamlining the help center tickets? It's been backed up for a while and it certainly needs fixing. Improving customer service would put the community in higher spirits.
Hi there,
Most of the ticket issues have been cleared up and you should be able to submit them as usual. We are working away at clearing up the backlog of tickets A.S.A.P.
Lanzer
Dogoda
Feature
Can we get a fix for the thread movement glitch? It's been around since 2014, it has it's own sticky dedicated to it. Anyway it's knocking people out of being able to apply to be a mod and while they can PM a mod to be put in a queue to be cleared so they can apply. I think it would just be best to fix it since mods are already overworked and swamped. We should be making the moderator's job easier, not harder for them.
Can we get a fix for the thread movement glitch? It's been around since 2014, it has it's own sticky dedicated to it. Anyway it's knocking people out of being able to apply to be a mod and while they can PM a mod to be put in a queue to be cleared so they can apply. I think it would just be best to fix it since mods are already overworked and swamped. We should be making the moderator's job easier, not harder for them.
This bug is on my radar. My hands are pretty tied right now but I'll get to it pretty soon.
Jak Bauer
Renaissance
Ticket Submission
Question: is there anyway to check on your merch ticket? I submitted mine on the 13th and I do not want to miss the deadline due to mailing errors.
Question: is there anyway to check on your merch ticket? I submitted mine on the 13th and I do not want to miss the deadline due to mailing errors.
Hi there,
Responses to your e-mails will be sent this week, if you don't get a reply before Friday, feel free to contact us and we'll make sure things get properly settled."
Lanzer
lilly_pad_princess
is any one getting this pm?
Let me be the first to welcome you to Gaia Online! I hope you enjoy your time here! To get started, check out our FAQ / Guide for New Users. It might answer some of the questions you have about how to play!
In addition, for the next 30 days you will be receiving private messages with tips and tricks about how to get started on Gaia Online! Make sure you log on each day, because each of these private messages will also include a link to click that will give you a generous amount of Gaia Gold!
Enjoy!
The Welcoming Fairy
Get 10,000 Gold!
Let me be the first to welcome you to Gaia Online! I hope you enjoy your time here! To get started, check out our FAQ / Guide for New Users. It might answer some of the questions you have about how to play!
In addition, for the next 30 days you will be receiving private messages with tips and tricks about how to get started on Gaia Online! Make sure you log on each day, because each of these private messages will also include a link to click that will give you a generous amount of Gaia Gold!
Enjoy!
The Welcoming Fairy
Get 10,000 Gold!
Yes I've heard about that. It's a strange script that seem to have a life of its own... I'll need to hunt down the welcome fairy one of these days. When's fairy hunting season?
Lanzer
OV8ION
Items/Game
Are Venomous Jack 2k16 items going to be generated in the Surprise Bags for all time, or will the items change before Christmas 2016?
Make that before Halloween 2017...
Also Christmas 2016 items still being generated in Land of Sweets.
Please end the seasonal drops as they are out of season.
Are Venomous Jack 2k16 items going to be generated in the Surprise Bags for all time, or will the items change before Christmas 2016?
Make that before Halloween 2017...
Also Christmas 2016 items still being generated in Land of Sweets.
Please end the seasonal drops as they are out of season.
I didn't know anything about that, but will pass it down to the art team. Thanks.
Lanzer
hxe
Games
Is my zOMG account gone forever?
Is my zOMG account gone forever?
No we haven't touched anyone's accounts. Just taken the servers offline.
If we can get the servers back, your accounts will still be here.
Lanzer
Queen of Memories
Make some sort of feature that you can view items in your invo that might be on your friends wishlists. It would make gifting/invo cleaning easier.
That's a great suggestion. I'll add it to my feature list
Lanzer
Razer
Games
I was wondering if the password feature for fishing rooms will be fixed eventually?
I was wondering if the password feature for fishing rooms will be fixed eventually?
Probably, but most flash related feature are gonna take longer to handle.
Lanzer
Alzaion
Any predictions for when zOMG might be back, if ever?
1 to 4 weeks. It all depends on how much problem the new server has with the zOMG service code. I just started working on it last weekend.
Lanzer
Sifen Yamishi
Features
Regarding Favorites, some users and myself have noticed that we're unable to see some of our own avatars in people's collections/our own tagged avatars. Is this a glitch?
Regarding Favorites, some users and myself have noticed that we're unable to see some of our own avatars in people's collections/our own tagged avatars. Is this a glitch?
Most likely. If there are specific ones, please provide me the URL of the collections and I'll look into it.
Riyokuma
mama_bearr
Features:
In Private Messages: I like to save certain messages for future reference. Would it be possible to have the option of marking certain one with tags such as "important", "save" , "do later" or even highlight the message in a color. Thank you
In Private Messages: I like to save certain messages for future reference. Would it be possible to have the option of marking certain one with tags such as "important", "save" , "do later" or even highlight the message in a color. Thank you
When you have the PM open there is a button up near where Reply is that puts messages in your save box. There isn't a flag feature but I didn't know if you knew about this hehe <3
Lanzer
Zero the hunter
Features: Go Fusion
Any ETA for an update for the Go Fusion? It has been ages since an update.
Any ETA for an update for the Go Fusion? It has been ages since an update.
I haven't been briefed about Go Fusion, but for the time being I don't think I can update it. Probably not till spring time. Sorry.
Lanzer
Pianette
Features- Runway
Themes
Could the Runway forum get a thread where users could suggest themes to be taken out of rotation for a while since they're getting stale? Like REALLY REALLY STALE. Maybe it could be held to a vote as well so themes aren't taken out unfairly/before they've been fully explored.
Themes
Could the Runway forum get a thread where users could suggest themes to be taken out of rotation for a while since they're getting stale? Like REALLY REALLY STALE. Maybe it could be held to a vote as well so themes aren't taken out unfairly/before they've been fully explored.
We're in the middle of making it so that mods can help manage new themes. Sorry for the wait.
Lanzer
iheartshrooms
Items/Games
Certain items are still super low, price-wise. Example: Tokens are still 1gold per, and fish bait is still 25 each. Any chance that this will finally be balanced out?
Certain items are still super low, price-wise. Example: Tokens are still 1gold per, and fish bait is still 25 each. Any chance that this will finally be balanced out?
Yes I have a project in the work that will unify all gold granting. It's part of a bigger initiative that I'll get to share as we start working on it.
Lanzer
drakokatze
features
so, i kinda made a thread asking users what features they'd like to see. I know that a LOT of them will never happen, but in case you guys are bored and want to take a peek, might have some things that could be done <33
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK BTW~ xd
so, i kinda made a thread asking users what features they'd like to see. I know that a LOT of them will never happen, but in case you guys are bored and want to take a peek, might have some things that could be done <33
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK BTW~ xd
Thanks for putting it together. I'm working on the last item on the list as we speak. smile
Lanzer
polemistis
Features
Can we get the ability to add tags to items for the purpose of searching our own inventories ? So many items have missing, inadequate or incorrect tags, searching for a specific item or theme can be a problem at times.
Can we get the ability to add tags to items for the purpose of searching our own inventories ? So many items have missing, inadequate or incorrect tags, searching for a specific item or theme can be a problem at times.
Yes, we do have plans for a tagging system. A little lower in priority below fixing the economy but it should be here soon.
Lanzer
OV8ION
Features
Any ETA on this nuGen/TC saga coming to a head? it's just noodling around right now.
Any ETA on this nuGen/TC saga coming to a head? it's just noodling around right now.
The nuGen saga will extend till the end of March from what I've heard...
Lanzer
The Noble Mr Bong Along
Recently there has been something wrong in towns (technically towns 2) where the server will slowly lag out then eventually freeze for some users. At first I thought it was an internet issue until I saw the same thing has been happening with a few of my friends and everything else connection based working just fine. It happened to me twice already. It starts as slow chat lag, to horrible chat lag, then just eventually a full freezing of the client. Has the staff been informed of this issue already?
Looks like a few servers need rebooting. I'll need to check on the servers to see what's going on.
Lanzer
Sagebomb
A week or so I asked about comparisons of Kindred gold vs everything else.
I think I described the question badly.
So...
Do you know what the daily/weekly or monthly (and is fine) gold generations of kindred is.
and
Do you know what the total overall generated gold per day/week or month is.
And if so can you share? (I did like the Kindred vs gens percent released).
Thanks in advance.
I think I described the question badly.
So...
Do you know what the daily/weekly or monthly (and is fine) gold generations of kindred is.
and
Do you know what the total overall generated gold per day/week or month is.
And if so can you share? (I did like the Kindred vs gens percent released).
Thanks in advance.
I don't have the exact numbers but LK is producing majority of gold on Gaia today. It's something that we'll be changing soon so that everything else on Gaia will be giving out a proper amount of gold.
Lanzer
Neshira Namea Returns
Features - Guilds
Are we going to be seeing an update to guilds at all in 2017? They're painfully outdated and I know a lot of the features need upgrades and would generate more interest. For example:
-Ability to delete subforums
-Mass move/delete options (via checkbox) for threads
-"Delete all threads in this subforum"
-Raise the prices for guilds and subforums (gold sink!)
-Make sure quoting works 100% in guilds (it doesn't always)
-Allow us to set alerts for guilds the way we can set alerts to be notified if our subbed threads receive a new reply
-Guild look update (Let the captains change the guild backgrounds and such)
And so much more that can be done! <3
Are we going to be seeing an update to guilds at all in 2017? They're painfully outdated and I know a lot of the features need upgrades and would generate more interest. For example:
-Ability to delete subforums
-Mass move/delete options (via checkbox) for threads
-"Delete all threads in this subforum"
-Raise the prices for guilds and subforums (gold sink!)
-Make sure quoting works 100% in guilds (it doesn't always)
-Allow us to set alerts for guilds the way we can set alerts to be notified if our subbed threads receive a new reply
-Guild look update (Let the captains change the guild backgrounds and such)
And so much more that can be done! <3
With so much on our plate, I don't think I can do a complete re-write for guilds, but I can sure do a couple of updates to keep it working better. I'll be collecting some feedback on what do people want the most and tackle them one by one.
Lanzer
Juni Yosei
Features •
I've been dealing with people randomly adding me over and over again after declining their request and even telling them please not to add me anymore even though my add request thing is off.
This however; doesn't work in flash spaces.
Is there a way of stopping that aside from filling up my ignore list?
I've been dealing with people randomly adding me over and over again after declining their request and even telling them please not to add me anymore even though my add request thing is off.
This however; doesn't work in flash spaces.
Is there a way of stopping that aside from filling up my ignore list?
I can probably add a flood control, especially for those who don't get invites accepted. Will look into it next month.
