Ask the Admin (7th of July, 08)

Ask the Admin was on today, so I'm covering and summarising main points made from Lanzer and others in the thread.

- The item norm project didn't affect item layering at all. There will be an avatar system update however that will focus on that, presumably giving us more freedom. Lanzer has said that the item norm is half security and performance, and half for feature upgrades, such as forging items.

- The item shading feature when dressing your avatar will stay. It's a permanent feature (for now) and will help see which item you have equipped if you have multiple of one type.

- A "forum re-write" is coming up "pretty soon", in which the forums will be worked around, fixed up, and changed a bit. More formatting options, etc.

- After the battle system is released, the update focus will be on Guilds and Forums (during Autumn). After that, they're also planning a Homes and PM update.

- After the item norm, some items if they were listed in the Market Place and in trades may take a few days to return to your inventory.

- Devs are going to be working on inventory usability and loading speeds over the next few weeks, after all of the item norm issues are fixed.

- The price reductions in the Market Place could be atrributed to the decline of botting now the CAPTCHA system is in place, and the fact that the Bag of Win is now gone.

- Lanzer is allergic to alcohol and likes tiramisu.

The major source for this article can be found here.

Gaia Rally Hack

Recently there have been reports by users that a few people are hacking the Gaia Rally.

They're hacking the Prize Wheel in there, to direct people to another fake Gaia page. On the page the user is asked for their login information. An obvious scam.

At the moment, it appears the hackers must be in the same room as you when you spin the wheel. So the safest way to spin the wheel would be to go to a private room.

It also appears multiple users can hack the wheel in the same room.
Probably best to just leave the Rally alone for a bit until Gaia fix it, or use private rooms.

The major source for this article can be found here.
There is a topic in the GCD regarding this, which can be found here.

Inventory Tab Changes

Recently the Gaia Online inventories have been worked around a bit.

The tabs used to swap between sections of the Inventory and My Avatar section were being made to take the user to a different page, slowing down the process of changing your avatar.

The developers have been messing around with this for a short while, but with the amount of negative feedback being received, the devs are currently deciding what to do about it.
The process involved fixing issues for users with lots of items.

Though since the inventory code is connected to the item norm, we're going to have to live with slow inventory and avatar changing processes for a while (due to the item norm being reworked on Monday morning).

The major source for this article can be found here. It's from the development teams update journal.

Picolitrosso's Urn Mini Evolution

Today the Picolitrosso's Urn has made one of it's mini evolutions we were previously told about.

Whilst it's not a full evolutions, a few extra poses have been added, giving us a small taste of what it could be in the long run.

Market Place - Picolitrosso's Urn

A velvet mantle, velvet hood, and a combination of the two have been added on.

I found this info somewhere in the GCD xD. Sorry, can't remember now.

Gaia Zeitgeist

In a post made in Jakobo's Journal , she announced a small fun feature on Gaia.

Called "Gaia Zeitgeist", it basically just shows the latest posts being made on Gaia. Jakobo has said that there will be no formal announcement made regarding Zeitgeist, but that 'it's just one of those "cool" things'.

Anyway, this is kinda fun if you're just looking to kill some time. Or marvel at how many RP'ers there are. And there's a lot.

The Gaia Zeitgeist feature can be found here.

The major source for this article can be found here.

Battle System Screens

Whilst this isn't the most groundbreaking news, it is kinda interesting.

In a topic found here, you can view some new Gaia Online MMO screen shots.

From what we can see, it appears the MMO is well on the way to being complete.
Hopefully it'll be ready for the Halloween 08 event, which Gaia plans on integrating into the MMO.

The major source for this article can be found here. You can also find the original screens from IGN here.

Cash Cards sold in 7-11?

In some as yet unconfirmed news, apparently Gaia Online will be expanding it's retail availability of Cash Cards to 7-11 stores.

Whilst this news is still quite weak in terms of reliability (the source so far being the child of a 7-11 Field Consultant), it is a possibility Gaia is looking to expand it's availability of Cash Cards.

So far Gaia has made no announcement to confirm this as yet.

According to the source they should arrive by early July, but so far we're not sure exactly what is happening.

Seeing we've had no confirmation from Gaia, this could all be pure rumour.

The major source for this article can be found here.