Something really cool happened last night in the GCD. Lanzer posted this thread. I figured that I would take all the questions that were answered and post them for the AGA!! In hindsight, had I realized this would take an hour to do I would have just posted the damn link!! Read and enjoy!
Lanzer - Admin Lead
Hello everyone! It is ask the admin day! I am with Gaia developers, artists, and other staff members here to answer your question. Ask us whatever you want!
-Lanzer
Q: New header out when?
A: We're hoping it'll be out in August!
Q: Any plans of new games? Besides from the Battle system of course
A: Yes! We are working on having a lot small games. We are more spending time building a framework so that other people can make games for Gaia.
Q: What is the weirdest thing you have seen and/or done with/on Gaia?
A: For April 2005 fool we had a joke that made some people's gold count display as 9 million. A turn out that was not so funny...
Q: When will the new furniture be released? Will there be a ninja set like the one featured in this picture of the full set of under water furniture from Otakon? Link to picture: http://www.gaiacast.com/trisk/ota07/IMG_1593.jpg will there be a magic the gathering quiz quest like the one someone leaked today? When will the plot continue, if you can’t say the exact date, will it be this summer? Will the plot be connected to the summer event?
A: We are hoping for next week. Got real busy with fixes. We have plans for ninja furniture set. That might take time though. As for the quiz, things are still being discussed. The upcoming plot will continue later this year, after the summer event
Q: Any possibility of bot stoppers? Also, can we get that semi-nude Louie as a poster? Or something?
A: We actually stopped a lot of bots already, but we will add more to stop botting still. Every month we would stop thousands.
Q: Will you ever re-release the H2K5 zombie skins ever, in whatever way?
A: Yes, many of us are zombie fans so we're definitely working towards bringing the zombie skin back. Though we are still thinking of how to add zombie into the Halloween storyline..
Q: I heard rumors that the manga will be stopping and you all are going to animate the storyline.
I was wondering if you guys were replacing the manga with an animated version of it.
Or will there be like a Cinemas thing?
A:
Many of us at Gaia are comic book artists, so I don't think that the comic format is going away. Though there is a good chance for a Gaia animation coming out later. We're actually working on it.
Q: Personals back soon please? GD isn't funny anymore, and if I recall correctly, those were always funny.
A: The old personals aren't coming back... although we have plans for the same building.
We're still thinking of making a new area that can carry the spirit of GD. More info to come once we have a solid plan.
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Yup. It's tough being an admin, I can't use our status to help earn gold!
• Someone asked for Louie's picture. Let me look for it...
• Right now you can get Gaia Cash through Paypal, but very soon you might be able find Gaia gift cards from places like department stores or drug stores.
• There will be an option to pay with Gaia Cash when you buy MC
• Gaia Cash will not go down in value, because they are tied to US dollars. One dollar = 100 points, etc.
• If you have 10 dollars worth of Gaia Cash, you can choose to buy an MC anytime you want. Say, one MC a month for the next 4 months, etc.
• Can't say much for weekly comic... we kept getting pulled off to work on projects!
• Guild is about to go through a re-write. Hopefully after the marketplace re-write but we'll still need to plan more.
• MC's will usually lean towards being "special" while normal items will be available for gold. That's the general direction, until we find an idea with regular real life item that we think is really, really cool
• Thanks for participating to the thread everyone! We'll be back tomorrow at around the same time. Stay tuned!
Crazy Spork i am - Developer
'lo theres :3
Q: Just how fun is it to be working for Gaia?
A: i find it a lot of fun actually. normally i don't like working fulltime jobs and prefer contract or freelance work to avoid the general 9-5 atmosphere. but here at gaia i have a good time doing my work here because of all the co-workers and the projects that we get to work on :3
Q: Is it hard working for GAIA? Seeing as the users can be so whiny at times.
A: sometimes, especially when i've worked for on a project for a couple of weeks and then checking out SF afterwards
Q: Do you ever use the Ideas in Petitions? I have yet to something used. Anyway, great job.
A: yes! Often it's a great source or beginning point to inspire and motivate when it comes to conceptualizing those ideas out
Q: Do you as admins and whatnot ever feel like the Gaian community is under appreciative of your hard work? Does it make you upset enough to just drop what you're doing?
A: I don't think it'd make me upset, but it can sometimes be a downer after i've spent like a few weeks of hard work in contributing to a project and then seeing how it's received in SF. but for the most part i try and glean something from the comments that i see, both good and bad...and save it for future reference :3
Q: What is your area?
A:
i came on board and joined GHQ around march, so i've only been here for a short while. the projects that i've had the opportunity to work on are ring effects and animations for battle, the artwork and items for gaia: cars/rally, some of the recent MCs, and some other misc. work that involves art :3
Q: Do you really care about the small users thoughts, questions, and ideas?
A: personally i can say i do. i find it fun and sometimes helpful to see users' contribution and participation to the site :3
Fulltimefailure- Developer
• Hello all!
ijustworkhere- Developer
• Hi! I'm ijustworkhere. I help to design the user interface and look and feel for the website and features.
• We're moving this to towns. Go to the fountain at 1000. (Now unfortunately Towns was VERY lagy at this point and impossible to record questions answered. The only think I have to go on is the thread that still exists in the GCD. Sorry Guys!)
• We LOVE cookies! XD
• We totally do cubicle wars. One is actually starting right now. We all have nerf guns
Sagger-AT3 - Developer
• Hi! I'm Sagger, an intern in Gaia.
• Actually, instead of posting here, we'll have the running of the bulls in towns 1000, running down. Catch us!
• We're following the forum as well, but more slowly
Q: How do you handle farting in the office space?
A: We have got wireless. A mobile work environment helps you deal with all sorts of things
Q: Would you please do us all a favor and make an announcement explaining international copyright laws so that people stop getting so butthurt over not being able to do anime quests?
Would you at least send small delegations of staff to the other "big" American anime conventions like Anime Weekend Atlanta?
A: About the copyright law - it's complicated... but we're trying our best.
Check out the Kiki tour, we'll be visiting all sorts of places outside of the convention tour.
Q: Boxers or breifs?
which came first the chicken or the egg?
will you answer all of the questions on this page?
A: 1. Commando
2. Egg.
3. No
Q: Do you actually look at all the petitions or only the most popular at the moment?
A: We all hang out on different parts of the site. We try to read as many petitions as we can, but we're bound to miss some of them
Q: Are you going to have 'ask the admins' day again after this? (ooh...question about more question...it's like the genie told me not to do <3 )
A: Maybe we will, maybe we won't. We're so mysterious
Q: What are you guys going to do to reduce the amount of botting and to stop more from being made?
A: Our moderators are doing the best they can. I'm going to get me a new banhammer...
Q: 1.) How do you guys deal with all of the bitching that we do? =P There's always a ton of it. x3
2.) Will we ever get back the old mouths and purple eyes? D:
A: 1. Bitching means you care, so we b***h a bit about it, which means we care as well
2. More eyes and mouths are in the making.
Boxed Lunch - Moderator Assistant
Info of stuff he posted in towns:
Things Learned from lanzer/other admins in GAIA Towns:
1. Snacktopia is refilled every TUE/THR
2. GAIA homes update soon but not sure the date.
3. Battle info coming up next week
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