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Q1: Any chance any more NPC’s will be available for friending? A lot of minor NPC’s have normal users on their friends’ lists, so I was just wondering~
Q2:And... Any favorite console/PC games? Mostly asking Lanzer but if any of the others come out of the woodwork and answer that's cool too.
A1: Adding NPC as friends had been on my wish list.
A2: Favorite game? Uhhh... D&D Shadow of Mystara by Capcom, and SF2 of course.

Q: Mister Lanzer; have you ever played Gaia, liked posted for gold and dressed up your av and all that stuff, or are you not really interested since Gaia was your idea in the first place?
A: Almost every idea are features that we think is fun and cool, so definitely, I had been building features that I would love to use and play. The problem came when I could not get any free time to "play" Gaia like a regular user... When a free minute come up, I'd rather try to answer another PM than to play around, etc.

Q: Will users under the age of 18 ever be allowed to join the Moderator team or will we all have to wait between 1 to 4 years to have a chance? Or if not moderators could users under 18 be mod helpers of part of the staff, maybe a junior police?
A: We're just starting with the process, so we're starting with the safest and fastest route. Very soon we'll be reviewing the process again and making changes. Can't promise anything yet, however.

Q1: Why has the battle system taken so long from the first time it was promised?
Q2: Any chance of refraining from exclusive pay content? Exclusive, as in donation letters that cannot be given to others or special games.
Q3: Any chance of game rewards that cannot be traded? Stuff that you have to work for by solving puzzles, battling really hard, etc.
Q4: EDIT - Why was that Magic: The Gathering item sooooo crappy?
A1: It's taken us a long time to release battle because we haven't done an MMORPG like game before. Nor where there any flash based MMO in the market that we can easily learn from. On top of that, our entire team was about 15 developers (we now have more), and only some of them can work on battle, while others build features or keep the site running. Many RPG games have a team that's bigger than Gaia's entire staff count.
A2: We're not inclined to make items that cannot be traded, unless it doesn't make sense. It's still being discussed right now.
A3: We put a lot of thought into the items, and we thought they are pretty good..

Q: How often do you guys look in the Site Feedback & its sub forums? I'm just curious, there’s some really good ideas there.
A: Definitely we frequent the site feedback forum. It's my most visited forum actually. Also, don't be surprised to see Tetris on Gaia.

Q1: Will the rest of the new team members, who applied for the summer be announced soon?
2. How do you decide which conventions to attend? Is there a way to suggest a con, and if so, how?
3. When planning for item updates or MCs, what are the main things you take into consideration? Basically, what influences your decision to create what you have made thus far?
4. Does the sponsor decide on quest items or is it up to the admins/staff or both?
5. Last but not least, does Gino wear a thong? Francisco Bagels (Kiki) is dieing to know

A1: Setting up profiles and stuff are totally voluntary for our staff members. We'll be adding more as they get their profiles done. Though we might be having a staff page soon, showing more info.
A2:The convention forum is where you can suggest which con we should visit. That's the reason we setup the Kiki tour. It's our effort to reach out to more users in different places.
A3: The main determing factor for MC is the genre. After brainstorming for ideas, we then group the ideas into what type of items they are, and we make sure that the two or three items go well together for this month's release, and we also make sure that we have a good variety of themes and styles throughout the year.
A4: It's usually our call though the sponsor do have requests at times, or sometimes the decision revolves around copyright issues, etc. It's a collaborative process that is different in every case.
A5: Gino? Thong? Dear god!

Q: Can I PM you and have a conversation?
A: Yes you sure can, and anyone is welcome to PM me. Though I only have time to read PM and hardly have time to reply these days. There were times when I answered every PM, though I only get around 30 PM back then. Used to be scolded for answering PM and not working on features.

Q: Will there be any more towns like durem, barton, etc?
A: Yes, once we got all the server problems fixed we will roll out other Gaia Towns with more features. I'm very lucky to be talking to the head of the gaming division of Sun Microsystems today and they're happy that we're looking into their game server technology. We'll be getting more help from the cool guys at Sun and hopefully we'll soon have a scalable and rock solid game server up and running!

Q1: Why won't you spiffy up your avatar? It needs change add an MC or something honestly.
Q2: Any new cities (like Barton, Aeka etc.) coming soon?
Q3: DO you guys like to read our crackpot theories in the GCD and laugh at how wrong we are? (I'd like to) Is the plot completely planned to every detail, or do you think as you guys go?
A1: Heh, I keep my avi plain because I really don't have much time to shop, and I'd like to just be recognizable while letting our users show off.
A2: New areas will be added with the addition of the battle system.
A3: We love reading the threads in GCD, in fact, sometimes we change the plot according to some of the threads posted!

Q: If u had a chance, would u play Dungeons and Dragons?
A: Definitely! I first learned about D&D from playing MUD and playing Capcom's D&D arcade game. Then I finally played traditional D&D followed by Magic.

Q1: What sorts of skin might we get in the future?
Q2: do you enjoy these ask admin threads? getting to know us small folks of Gaia?
A1: We wish to open the possibility for all sorts of skins, starting with the most requested skins like animal types.
A2: I definitely enjoy talking to everyone, otherwise I wouldn't be here! Though there is a secondary goal, which is to help introduce everyone to other admins and developers of Gaia, and let everyone know that Gaia is the creation of a lot of people's hard work. Those people deserve a lot of support from the Gaia community also.

Q: Um will there be a muscle body released in the future? like Logan and gambino's avatar.
A: Nothing in the Gambino size yet, though check out the Spartan set that are trickling out...

Q: HI lanzer will there be any other Video Game quest like the upcomeing Blue Dragon?
A: Possibly, depends if any video game sponsors are interested in working with us. Personally I think it's much more fun working on game related sponsorships. Though it all depends on the title I guess.

Q: Who are you looking at for the Presidential Race of 08?
A: I'm secretly hoping to see Al Gore in the running, though it's probably because of all the big media influences. I'm still Canadian so I can't vote actually.

Q1: Is it possible for you to show us the Zhivago pic that was released at the con, dearest Lanzer? Haijin and all the other fans of that lovely vampire would so love it if you did.

Q2: Also, if you were a superhero, what would your power be? Would you run around in spandex? Oh, and what soda is your favorite? The world must know~!
Q3: Also, are any of you into Rocky Horror? 'Cos that'd pretty much be awesome.
A1: I'll hunt for the Zhivago pic tomorrow
A2: My favorite power is lightning speed. I could get to shop in Japan every weekend. Hey could probably get more work done.
A3: Favorite drink is this weird orange soda called Orangina.
A4: I love horror flicks though I missed out on a lot of the Rocky Horror shows...