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Development Update 6/9 Whoo, tons of stuff going on, and I'm too exhausted to break it down into cute little vignettes, so excuse the fact-spam: - inventory improvements and speedups will be next week, at this point; they are pretty complicated and we'd like to make sure that we get them right. - Item norm hit beta, the beta testers hit right back! Seriously, the beta found some really good bugs, stuff that it was good to catch, and we (and by we I actually pretty much mean DARKNRGY) are feverishly working to fix it. We're going to roll out pieces of item norm out to the site as we finish them, and hopefully you won't notice any big changes. - Speed of the site is something we're actively looking at. We're switching CDN providers and hope to get some performance improvements out of that; those should hit the beginning of next week. - Probabilistic CAPTCHAs are still in QA, probably hitting next week. - Arenas is in QA. We are trying to get it out this month, so prepare your art, avatar, home, and writing entries for the grand opening on the new arenas soon. - Label My Friends. Actually, I'd prefer not to touch that topic at all, other than to point out that the "new way to communicate friends" that I hinted at a couple of journals back is not, in fact, the Label My Friends feature. No, the feature that is coming is much cooler, will help make battle much better, and should hit QA next week. - We're taking a serious look at the botting problem with the goal of substantially reducing it before battle ships. First up is probably fishing -- don't be surprised if we close it down for a week or so to totally retool the backend and/or add a CAPTCHA. I'm sure I'm forgetting some stuff, but I'll add on later!

Posted by: Panagrammic Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 09:47am

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Commented on: Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 10:06am


	Is this why the fishing game will be shut down today? I want to hope so but maybe there are other things that need to be done this time around.

Commented on: Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 10:18am


	Gaia Instant messaging. Lolol

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Commented on: Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 10:23am


	Once again, what a busy time for your department! So much going on. As ever, thanks for the updates. heart A special thanks, too, to DARKNRGY for the mind-bogglingly-huge item norm project; nearly everything on Gaia is related to items, so I can't even imagine how . . . burning_eyes Uh-oh! I asploded! sweatdrop I'm glad to hear that the fishers will be seeing some love pretty soon; that game is too difficult for me, but there are a lot of Gaians who really love it and will be so glad to say 'bye to the bots. blaugh

Commented on: Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 11:45am


	Thanks for always working on the inventories and equip page. Do whatever it takes to stop the botters, I love my Fishing.

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Commented on: Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 02:19pm


	That you so much for the fishing news! I had the idea of CAPTCHA awhile back for the games to prevent botting. Assuming that the non-botting users aren't harassed as much by them as with the posting CAPTCHAs. CAPTCHA: east gingold

Commented on: Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 03:10pm


	[♠] [♣] [♠] ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ Excellent!! Even though item norm was suppose to kick out this week,after reading DARKNRGY's last journal entry,it must testing on the both of you,but it is good to know that is coming along. Same with loading speed for the site.The Label system seems cool but it's already annoying me (due to my friends trying to be funny) and I have a bad feeling it may get abused.I hope a -no labels- feature is added so I can stop getting them,seriously I've gotten 10 since yesterday. I'll have to check out the Arenas Qand A when I have time,sounds interesting and hooray for beginning to fix Fishing! Fin was talking about that in his journal entry,and since I started fishing again and mentioning it in a few staff member journals,I was seriously hoping it would get looked into.I despise the fact that Fishing is swapped by bots,and it seems many of the ones from the Arena and all have migrated to Fishing.If it gets taken down for awhile,I'll know what it's for.Thanks again Pan <3. Captcha-who muleback(?) That amuses me xd . ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ [♣] [♠] [♣]

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Commented on: Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 03:47pm


	Sounds like inventories and seriously getting some goods. Lot's of bugs in item norm eh? Ouch. Thank god for beta smile Speed doesn't seem to be too bad but boosts are always welcome. Still interested in the captchas. Arenas in QA sounds good. I don't really touch them though. So label isn't it eh? Hmmm. I do hope it's something more than IM, I don't need another one of those. Voice chat could be cool though. Killing bots is good. It'll be nice to see a cleaner Gaia. You guys appear to be working real hard to get battle ready to ship. Thanks for the updates. feet untracked darn. It makes sense.

Commented on: Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 05:53pm


	A Gaia chat service would be interesting. Especially if it was site wide. That way you could communicate from anywhere on the site. In any flash game, or on PHP pages.

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Commented on: Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 06:38pm


	Cube, they once had a feature called hangouts that was a lot like that. But with new steps forward in java and ajax programming, a lot more is possible. Look at facebook's chat feature to get an idea. While I do hope there's more to it than just that, that would make me pretty happy. As for voice chat, that's a lot of bandwidth that I'm sure this site is not going to jump into providing. It's probably just easier to meet up with your friends in a Ventrilo server or a Skype call if you want voice while on the site. Or in Battle. "Survival chances against this OMG are 32.3 percent, repeating of course." "Alright chums. Let's do this. Kuuunaaaaaaaaaaaaaiii Joooooooooooonnes!"

Commented on: Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 06:58pm


	Keep up the good work! I'm looking forward to it!

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Commented on: Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 08:38pm


	Won't bother your journal with the label friends thing. Instead with <3 <3 <3 ^^ Thanks for updating. And Item Norm was fun =3 Still looking forward to when the arenas come out. ^^

Commented on: Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 10:29pm


	If anyone wants to read a great entry on the Label your Friends thing, read Pacifisticuff's newest journal entry (June 13th). I used "Eleventy billion" in an english essay and got bonus marks! Thank you Panagrammic!

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Commented on: Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 11:04pm


	Hm... You don't seem to like the label feature... I can't wait for the Arenas to come out! blaugh I really wish you can get rid of the bots in fishing.

Commented on: Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 11:18pm


	I don't mind the label thing. It should just have Gaia related labels instead of stereotypes. -shrug- It would be better to have Gaia stereotypes that are easily laughed at rather than real life stereotypes that are always annoying to be shoved in. (I was called gothic once. I was wearing yellow so it was a hilarious day for me. XD ) /that I'm so glad you're cracking down and fixing Fishing. It pleases me as it will likely please all the fishing people. I hope that arenas manages to get out this month. I'm kind of sick of the old look, it's just so blah. It really needs the update so people don't think you're just ignoring it.

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Commented on: Sat Jun 14, 2008 @ 12:11am


	Keep working to fix all of the things! We know you work really hard. Hmm.. things to add to your list, blacklisting problem?, other stuff....

Commented on: Sat Jun 14, 2008 @ 01:37am


	Glad to see something is being done about Fishing, and the continued Staff-User communication [Announcement] is great. Hopefully bots will be stopped or slowed down after Fishing is fixed. Did somebody recently increase our PM Inbox space? Whoever worked on that and implemented it, it's much appreciated! I can't wait to see new Arenas! Arenas have needed an update for a long, long time. New Arenas + Arena CAPTCHAs = New & Improved & Awesome Arenas (hey, I might even enter!). PS: Item sell-back from the Inventory Arranger is still broken (same Error). I don't want to be a pest but it makes me sad to not have it. sad

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Commented on: Sat Jun 14, 2008 @ 02:20am


	Quote: I've also managed to extrapolate that the urn's first full evolution will occur approximately two weeks from today. This is definitely an item to watch! Is that a hint towards item norm's release? Urn gonna be the first thing to test it out on? Or is that of course classified XD Wayne Headley Man it's a lot more fun when the Captcha don't make sense.

Commented on: Sat Jun 14, 2008 @ 03:10am


	Hey Pana? Can you tell us if something was changed about pms? I had it at 70% full and now it says 8% full when my inbox still has the same amount of PMs in it. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks

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Commented on: Sat Jun 14, 2008 @ 03:48pm


	Could be one of those "under the hood" changes. I found the logon screen today so I'm guessing something defiantly changed.

Commented on: Sat Jun 14, 2008 @ 05:59pm


	You guys rock. Seriously. I'm thinking the "new way to communicate with friends" has something to do with Instant Messaging or something. And if so I can't wait! I'm glad you're working on fishing bots. Because that's one of the biggest commodities for botters.

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Commented on: Sat Jun 14, 2008 @ 11:36pm


	This is the first time I've read your journal. I found out about it through Pritchard. Thank you so much for keeping an up-to-date journal! I love snooping on you guys! wink Keep up the great work! smile

Commented on: Sun Jun 15, 2008 @ 07:05am


	[♥] [♠] [♥] ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ Hey PinkMeansEvil,the storage space for pms did get increased,about time! That's a good thing too since people will be sending those labels like mad. Lmao @ Kunai I so want you in my group when Battle comes out xd . Captcha-Lililas the Geesh,these things are starting to make sense now. ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ [♠] [♥] [♠]

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Commented on: Sun Jun 15, 2008 @ 10:13pm


	@ Smaddy Have you tried emptying you chase and perhaps cookies from Gaia yet? I recently noticed I had one that was messed up causing some stuff to glitch for me. If that doesn't work than it's defiantly something on Gaia's end. EDIT: Are you guys doing a lot of work to something Pan, or is the "remember me" button broken? I never seem to stay logged in anymore. Also I think I may have found a glitch with the "Hey I've got..." It doesn't notify of new PMs on the My Gaia page but if I go to any other page, it shows up. EDIT 2: Looks like inventories and houses are acting up too, particularly the honorable series. My inventory doesn't seem to be reflecting the fact I've put certain items down and the house app thinks I have more of some items than I do. If I try dragging more of the item than I do, the app crashes and gives me a shockwave runtime error.

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