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 AlexandraH · Wed Dec 30, 2009 @ 09:33pm · 1 Comments |
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Why do people still use the term "questing for ____"? We don't do quests to get the things we want anymore, we just scrounge or buy.
AlexandraH · Tue Dec 01, 2009 @ 06:49pm · 0 Comments |
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It's not as easy as it used to be -_-
Sometimes I'll get 40 or 50 for a forum bump. Sometimes.
no gold for pm's.
4 or 5 gold for rating in the arena.
I haven't sent a comment in a while, so I dunno how much you can make from that.
I've noticed a huge deflation in the value of quested items in the marketplace, my guess is that a higher percentage of users complete quests because of the whole "text message updates" thing, not to mention announcements have switched from being about the major MAJOR issues, like the site going down or trying to get everyone online at the same time, to every ******** day announcing every quest and special item and update. We went from an occasional update, to a weekly update with everything that's going on, to daily updates, to every time any npc profile has something going on, we get to see their ******** diary. But anyways, I blame the deflation of value of quested items on the fact that every user sees that they are available, and so can go to the quest. Then, we have the fact that quests are shallower now than they used to be. Used to be you'd get 4 or 5 stage quests, where you progressed from one item to a rarer item on each stage. And then you couldn't repeat a quest. Now we have 2 or 3 stage quests, and you can repeat quests unlimited amounts of time, which puts billions of the items on the market, which makes them worth less than 1 gold. Not to mention, the inflation of new users has decreased quite a bit. I mean, there are only so many new users on the internet every year. Most "new" profiles are mules or returning users, which further demotes the value of any item on the market.
Anyways, that rant is over, for now. On to what I'm complaining about. The value of gold has gone way down because of cash, cash items that are pretty cheap are outrageously expensive as far as gold goes. So much so that now we have moguls, people who are willing to spend 20 or 30 bucks a month on gaia and can buy these "rare" cash items, and set the prices in gold on the marketplace. They spend 10 bucks, get 1000 cash, use it up, and sell it back into the market for millions of gold. The other half of users save and scavenge and sell and wait until they have enough gold so that they can fuel these moguls even more. This creates a huge gaping hole in between the upperclass gaian and the middle class gaian. I don't know how to remedy it, other than doing what America has done so many times, and that is making "minimum wage" (which in this case would be rewards for daily tasks such as commenting, bumps, browsing, etc) higher to fit the needs of the non-cash gaian. Of course, this is a cycle that would have to repeat every year or even every few months.
Another remedy would be to put another currency in between gold and cash. right now it's like we have pennies, and we have dollars. Maybe the actual ration of value is different, but it's the same general idea. We need to get some quarters in between. My thoughts are that we could trade, say, 2,500 gold for 1 other-unit-of-money, and 200 o-u-o-m for 1 cash, or something like that. Some way to control the growth of the moguls on the marketplace. Because right now, they will keep growing and keep growing because there is no moderation of how much gold one cash is worth. It's up to the discretion of the seller. I understand that this can be profitable for the site, but in the long run there may be user-based complaints when inflation is just too much to handle.
Maybe gaia would like to only have payment-based users, but that really changes what gaia is, doesn't it? a "totally free rp-based avatar site". Well, it's up to them. And user based problems won't arise for several years at this pace, but it's something to think about.
AlexandraH · Fri Nov 27, 2009 @ 08:16pm · 0 Comments |
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oh the wonders of bad days |
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i need to vent publicly where he won't see it, and since I know he hasn't been on gaia in like two months, it's perfect.
Isn't the art of a perfectly awful day amazing? I mean really, it's infinite. every can go wrong. EVERYTHING. but the only thing that can't and won't go wrong, even though you desperately want it to, is for you to die. But no, we're never that lucky. Not on a bad day. You only ever die on the good day that you never want to end.
Take today for instance. There have been 4, count them, 4, instances where i said to myself, I wish I didn't have to go to work tomorrow, that way i could just open the car door and jump out and die. All in one day. Why? well, I slept in so i didn't get to eat breakfast. Went to the wrong class my first class, found out i have a project to do tonight that I have no idea how to do. went to english class just to read a poem about lovers who get murdered, and watch a documentary about one man surviving only to watch his three closest friends in the world die in his arms. then I spent 3 hours in the library doing literally nothing because I had no homework i could do without my flashdrives (did I mention I left my flashdrives at home?) went to the chiropractor, which took way longer than it should have, walked from Rock Branch to Arby's and almost got hit by several cars, got there only to find out my favorite item's been discontinued. ate my food, got sick, went outside and called my gramma, then waited there doing nothing for about an hour. some creepy old dude tried to talk to me. I got home, cleaned up, everything so I could impress AJ, started learning a song, and then found out that he can't come today. So I just said ******** it, don't even bother trying this weekend.
I know none of that is really important, but added on to the fact that i've had <6 hrs sleep each night for the last two weeks, plus nine hour shifts and walking home, and ten hours average on campus, I'm so exhausted it's just unbearable. not to mention he and I had a fight today, and I was informed that I'm not allowed to sleep on the floor next to the couch when he's here anymore.
I feel awful. my head hurts, my back hurts, I just wanna cry.
this week's been awful.
AlexandraH · Sat Sep 05, 2009 @ 12:19am · 0 Comments |
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SO ******** FRUSTRATED!!! |
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how many times am I going to have to apologize for the same damn thing? What the ******** is your problem??? You won't even give me another chance. If you really loved me, you'd give me another chance. That's how I know you never really loved me.
I didn't even know I was doing it when I did it! I didn't even mean to! I wasn't even conciously doing it! That's one of the problems I have. If you'd just give me a minute to explain what the ******** I've gotten through, you'd get it. I wish you'd just give me a chance to explain what I've figured out.
I'm in ******** tears right now. This is so frustrating. I hate people to hate me, especially when I need to explain myself. Maybe it's just because I only took half my anti depressants, maybe it's real. I don't even know what's real anymore.
I can't take this. I've got nothing to live for anymore. I don't even know what matters to me. I don't even know what's real and what's just chemical...
SOMEBODY HELP ME
AlexandraH · Sun Jul 20, 2008 @ 03:08am · 0 Comments |
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This is how you felt?
No, that is how I felt.
I tried to apologize, you wouldn't have it.
I went through what you went through with the first one.
I'm going through my own hell with the second one.
And come to find out that all this time, you were being a back-stabbing son of a b***h... And to learn that you wouldn't even have the balls to tell me what all you had told my friends about me?
You say no one deserves to go through what you did. People do all the time. And worse.
No one deserves to go through what I did, but I don't tell the whole world what happened. I don't complain to everyone my stepfather or my mother or I know of what happened. I think there are only around 10 people in the world who actually know what went down. And only about 3 of us that know what exactly went down.
Maybe if you weren't spending all your time complaining about the past, dwelling on my ONE mistake (which I have more than apologized for), maybe if you would just move the ******** on, instead of being so pessimistic and... just plain old ridiculous about this whole thing, maybe it would be easier to handle!
But no. You're going to try and blame it all on me. Try and say it's because I'm a b***h or a slut or whatever. You know what? Bull s**t. Because would a b***h spend that much time trying to make it better? Would a b***h be so patient to listen to you for 6 ******** HOURS??? No. And you know what? I doubt it makes me a b***h that I would be this upset either. Because you told me not to trust the other people in my life, swore that I could trust you because you hadn't done anything to break that trust. Bull s**t. You spent six months believing that I was a bad person, telling my friends that I was a bad person, basically doing anything EXCEPT confronting me like a decent human. The fact that you said those things pales in comparison to the fact that you couldn't even see me as worth the time to SAY IT TO MY FACE.
So no. I'm going to deal with you any more. Because even if I forgive you, I have a feeling our "friendship" would just be like this. I hurt you, you hurt me worse, I hurt you, you hurt me worse, etc, etc. Which is not something I need.
You know what? You're not the only one in the world that gets kicked when they're down. In fact, I'm fairly certain EVERYONE does, so get off your ******** god complex and get down to earth.
AlexandraH · Thu Mar 27, 2008 @ 04:27pm · 0 Comments |
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TIMELESS MEMORY
LET THE GUILTY HANG
BRINK OF OBLIVION
ALESE SWEET ALESE
STARTS @ 6
$7
BE THERE
AlexandraH · Tue Mar 25, 2008 @ 05:40pm · 1 Comments |
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All I keep thinking through this whole fight
is it could take my whole damn life to make it right.
You say it is much more than just my last mistake
that we should spend some time apart for both our sakes.
The last girl the last reason
to make this last for as long as i could
the first kiss and the first time
that I felt connected to anything
the weight of water the way you taught me
to look past every thing I had ever learned
the last word and the last sentence you ever wrote to me was love
and I don't know where to look
my words just break and melt
please just save me from this darkness
please just save me from this darkness
and I don't know where to look
my words just break and melt
please just save me from this darkness
please just save me from this darkness
AlexandraH · Mon Mar 24, 2008 @ 03:29pm · 0 Comments |
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