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Area: HUD/ User Interface
Summary: Ability to mark maps
Explanation: Like during quests, you see flags upon the PDA. Right next to the "recrewt" button can be a "mark up" button (or any other name) so users can place their own flags on maps. This is a simple, yet useful addition as sometimes you might want to remember a specific farming place or a place to meet a friend.
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Area: Other (Sound/Music/UI)
Summary: Option to use music from the player's hard drive.
Explanation: This idea was actually inspired by another game, called Balloon Duel, on Newgrounds. What that game does is, instead of having its own soundtrack, it allows the player to use music from their hard drive to use in the game. The purpose of this was to keep the file size down as low as possible, but I figure a similar feature in zOMG might help users who experience lag. This would, of course, be optional. There wouldn't be any importing or uploading-- that would defeat the purpose-- you would only need to enter the file path to the song in question (i.e. C:My DocumentsMy MusicSong.mp3); the song would be used in place of the game's default, saving precious bandwidth that would otherwise be occupied with streaming songs from directsong.
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Area: Features
Summary: See clan members on map
Explanation: I think it would be fun to be able to see clan members on the PDA map, like friends and crew members, but in another colour. I can't really see te use of being in a clan if you can't even see where they are. Maybe purple or green could work.
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Area: Other
Summary: NPC in Barton Town that operates a daily chance cart.
Explanation: I've been trying to think of ways to encourage players to return to Barton every once in a while and thought, why not have someone operating a daily chance cart off in a corner somewhere. The cart could only be used once per day cycle and would either be free to use or the player would have to pay a small (5-10 gold) price. The things that the player could win would range from; Common chance items: gold, and common loot, Uncommon chance items: rare loot, or 1 charge orb, and the Rare chance item: a CL 1.0 ring. If implemented you may have to work out some way to limit/stop abuse as a player could make several mule accounts and use them to get tons of items.

Area: Features
Summary: The ability to tell who is Clan/Friend in the RECREWT list
Explanation: The idea behind this goes along with the next suggestion, but I'll explain that one in it's own section. Basically, when you open the RECREWT list, there's a white or other brightly lit "C" beside the name of any member of your Clan that's on one of the layers of your area, and an "F" for those that are on your friends list in the area/server.
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Area: Features
Summary: Quick-viewing of which quests other players are on.
Explanation: Again, in the RECREWT list, it'd be great if we could see some sort of cluster of which Quests the other members have active. For instance, if I'm in Zen looking for people who need to kill the doll, I open the RECREWT list and scan the list of names by either a Quest tab or tiny pictures of the various Quest icons. For the icons, something similar to your Crew Rings setup, where hovering or clicking on one brings it slightly larger and tells you what it is. For the tab, switch over to that tab and it lists Name and Quest.
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Area: Features
Summary: Synthesis badges.
Explanation: Badges awarded for completing a certain number of recipes (10, 25, 50, etc.). I enjoy collecting recipe items and wish that there was more motivation for others to do so, other than just having a pretty item to wear.
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Area: Features
Summary: Kill Count
Explanation: A new stat showing how many Animated you've defeated. It could just be a total, or even go so far as to break it down into types of Animated. The Reasoning: I've been told you get a ring drop every 100 kills. Well, I'd like to know when that will be. Also, you get badges based on how many of a type of Animated you've killed. What if I want to know when I'll be getting that badge?

Area: Other Suggestion
Summary: Just Crewed, An Addition to zOMG and/or GaiaOnline
Explanation: Often times I find a crew that I really liked killing/questing with, and end up never finding them again( I usually forget to add them as a friend or the game freezes and closes itself before I get a chance to write down the names), so I was thinking, why not make a new feature to either zOMG or the Gaia site, where we can view the people we have recently crewed up with?
Pictures and ExamplesNone, sorry, I'm not very talented at editing, and I don't have any photo editors like Photoshop.
To give you an idea of what I mean, or where you could put it, you could make a tab on the PDA, showing who you've crewed with, within the past two or three days. (Of course, the time is just a suggestion, and is really just up to the Devs. )

Area: Features
Summary: PLAYER STATUS
Explanation:
AFK:
If a player is going AFK (Away From Computer), they click a button, or something to that extent, and in big bold letters, "AFK" is displayed above their head, so people who need help don't look stupid talking to someone unresponsive, or when of a friend of theirs goes "HEY! JOE! HOW YA' BEEN?!", they don't get angry and offended and remove 'Joe' from their friends list.
LFC / LFCM(or LFM):
When a player is looking to crew up, or LFC (Looking For Crew) they click a button, or something to that extent, and in big, bold letters "LFC" is displayed above their head.
Leaders looking for more crew members will have a similar option, except they will have "LFCM" or "LFM" (Looking For Crew Members[More]/Looking For Crew Members[More](One term or the other, possibly both!)
*** Side Crew Idea
When people are looking for a crew, they can click player info with somebody having "LFCM/LFM", and they can see who and how many are in the crew.
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Area: Feature
Summary: Barton Town Null Crystal, or escape to Barton town
Explanation: Since Barton town has been declared neutral there should be a way to get there, since there isn't a way in the null Crystal. It could be an item like a map or something, but it should take 100% energy or some sort of cost.

Area: Other Suggestions
Summary: The Adventure Log
Explanation: In Barton Town, you'll find a little girl who cannot travel very far due to an illness. She wants to know about the outside world, and will give you a book to write about your adventures in. This is the Adventure Log.
Pictures and ExamplesThe adventure log is basically a repository of storyline information. It's divided into three aspects: The Story, Locations, and NPCs. The storyline section is filled up as you complete key quests. The Location entry is filled in when you visit each part of Gaia, and the NPC section fills in as you speak with (or do quests for) NPCs.
An NPC Entry might look like this:

And so on. You can return to the little girl's home to read to her. Reading to her with certain entries in your log may unlock quests. (I.E. She might want to know more about Blaze). These quests can be completed at any time. When you complete a chapter, the little girl will give you a recipe relating to that chapter, a good deal of charge orbs, and a badge.

Area: Features/Other (not sure)
Summary: AoE Zone/pinpoint
Explanation: For rings with an AoE, you really should have SOMETHING to tell you where that AoE is. I can't count how many times I've wanted to use my Hornet's Nest on an enemy and, without anything to tell me the range of the effect, miss my target(s) completely. Also, being able to pinpoint the center of an AoE on an enemy you've already selected, instead of having to select a point in space seperately with a mouse click, would be nice as well.
Pictures and ExamplesNone at this point

Area: Others
Summary: Badges Tab In Game, Player Info in Game
Explanation: Please add a Badges Tab in Player Info inside the game so we can see (Visually see our Badges ) I have a hard time sorting through the list looking to see if I have finished the quest. I know they are shown in the completed quest area outside the game
I would love to look at them while in safe areas of the game.
Might be fun to list Badges total to a players stats as well
Pictures and Examples Just imagine another tab with badges shown next to the Collectibles tab

Area: Other suggestions
Summary: A series of zOMG-related emotes
Explanation: It would be nice to have a "camping" emote, for instance, to subtly inform users that you're trying to camp in a certain place. that way other users know that a) as much as it is appreciated, you really don't need any help fighting the monsters b) you're not currently looking for a crew, but thanks and c) it isn't very nice to try to camp there, too. there could be emotes for many other things as well, such as a "looking for crew" emote (and the opposite, a "soloing" one). users could even earn emotes for winning some of the badges, maybe? a "thank you" emote might be fun for thanking all the nice people willing to defib and heal their fellow users.

Area: Features
Summary: Have a "your best record" kind of thing where it tracks how long it takes you to do the Guantlet.
Explanation: Kind of like the Hive where it keeps track of how many spawns and rounds you make it through you can have the option of timing your run through the Gauntlet and try to get the best record. There will be a list available of who has the best time on the server kind of like the Goof thing and maybe a badge or some kind of reward for having the best time.
Pictures and ExamplesNo need for one....

Area: Other suggestions [Rings?]
Summary: Light at night
Explanation: At night, everything goes dark... WAY dark! So the idea would be either a ring that would provide light (although it's not so great, because you'd have to use a space just to have light) or, even better, the character could glow - I know, I know. Glowing is not a good word for it. But still, there could be some light around the character, to light at least the immediate area - maybe the strongest ring lighting the area?