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Lanzer:
• Marketplace will come after the new layout.. should be soon after. Definitely in August.
• No, Gaia will not become a pay site.

Q1: What is the hooplah about the new "summer festival" thing?
Q2: Will the forums look any different in the new header?
A1: The summer event is really cool, tons of things you can do with water.
A2: Forum for now will still look the same. We have plans to re-work the guild and forum systems though

Q1: First and foremost, when the Daily Chance was created, word about rare Daily Chance only items abounded. However, a year later no Daily Chance rares have appeared. I was wondering if DC only items would ever be released.
Q2: Also, certain items, such as the contacts, or single horn were leaked. Is there ever a chance of them being released, or are they doomed to remain simple curiosities in the wish lists of Gaians?
Q3:Oh, and one last thing, will there be more Werewolf stuff in the future? What about a Lunar pin? (Because the little moon from the Lunar items would look great as a brooch or pin.)
A1: Thank you for reminding me. We'll add something to daily chance this week. Juno and Fleep will be working on that.
A2: As for the other items like contacts, they weren't released because they had compatibility problems. We might release similar items in the future that would work with all hair/eyes.
A3: Werewolf? Well everyone will need to hang out longer and find out if we'll have them.

Q: will we have owl items in the future?
A: One of our artist is a big owl fan, she has a giant owl sitting around. O_O So the chance is very likely.

Q: Are there more games to expect in the future? If so what?
A: We're trying to expand our varieties, so there will probably be more puzzle games, arcade action games, adventure game and music games. We're still building a backend system right now so it's kind of far away... More news when Halloween comes around probably.

A: Any plans to make any new emotes anytime soon?
Q: Yes, we'll be making some Gaia unique ones

Q: What do you think of www.gavsim.net, www.tektek.org and other sites that make useful tools for Gaia Online?
A: We know these sites for a long time and think that they're awesome.

Q: In the future will Gaia recycle old usernames?
A: Yes, we are planning to recycle old usernames. Though there are still a lot of issues to address, such as how inactive users can retrieve their old accounts.

Q1: What's your take on the Gaia/Myspace comparisons? IS that where Gaia's going?
If not...Why the apparent turn away from the forums as the centre of the site?
Q2: And last thing; will the AT EVER get an avatar simulator subforum? Have you seen the mess they make of AT?
A1: There is a great distinction between a social network like Myspace and Gaia. We don't exactly have a category, either as a virtual world, forum, community, gaming site, or social network. It's easier just to call ourselves a "hangout".

We're headed towards being the number one hangout, it's a place to visit, for the community, for games, for roleplay, or for anything else that you do at Gaia. We're just adding more stuff to do.

At the same time, we're actively improving core features like the forum. A ton of work had been done to re-write the backend forum system, then we'll re-write the guild and forum system.


Crazy Spork I am

Q: What experience in Flash animation do you have? Does the flash developers have? Because while we have evidence of great actionsript skills(Towns, other flash games you have), there is very little in animation. Hell, none.
Any examples of work some of your Devs have done?
I bet you use After Effects, too.
A: kirby and i have had experience in doing flash animations, although it leans more towards motion graphics than like animated segments. with the gaia cars kirby and i put in some background animation to add more to the environment like the steam rising out of the manholes and having moths around the lights in addition to making lights flickering. Hopefully in the future we'll have more opportunities to do stuff like that :3
and yes, we like to use after effects too

Q: Where do you guys get inspiration from?
A: Personally, i lurk in the forums and petitions for ideas and inspiration