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Getting Started

In order to play Gaia Towns, you must have Flash player 7 or later installed. Download the latest Flash player at macromedia.com. For optimal performance, it is highly recommended that you install Flash Player 8.

Troubleshooting

All users can or potentially should be able to access towns. Some users get a towns screen that never seems to load, why that is we're not quite sure.

If you cannot get anything at all to load, please scroll straight to the bottom link for towns information. Chances are pretty good that if you've never been in towns before or never gotten it to work at your current computer you need to download Flash player. A link to that, as well as more detailed instructions on how Towns in general works is there.



Also, for a step-by step, picture guide on how to clear cache, please use the following link:
How to clear your cache, a complete guide (covers Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari (apple) and AOl (text only).

Navigating and Finding a Blank Spot

Now comes the tricky part. To move in, you need to find yourself a blank spot. Now, this isn't quite as easy as it seems. (See below for some reasonings on why that is). When you find a place that has a 'vacant' or 'reserved' marker, you can move in!

No More Vacant Lots
At the time this sticky is being revamped, there should always be vacant lots available! If there's not then something's a little glitchy. Hang on and hold out hope!

Trainstation

The Trainstation is the entry point to Gaia Towns. The trainstation is where you can learn about how to use Gaia Towns Interface. Talk to any of the NPCs to find out more about specific actions or click on Navigate to start exploring the neighborhoods.

Trainstation


Navigate
Displays the world map of Towns and allows you to quick jump to any locations.

Navigate

World Map


World View
(Shown above) Displays a grid of 100 suburbs that make up one town map.

Close Navigate
Closes Navigate panel.

Zip Code
Shows the current town map zip code.

Next Town
Navigate to the next adjacent town map. The navigation arrow grays out if there are no more adjacent maps.



Find a Place for Your Home
(Shown Above) This green panel shows all areas, and, specifically, which areas have either vacant or reserved spaces in them. If you don't see a number, there are no spaces.

View Population
(Not shown) Shows the current population of established residents on the current town map.

Suburb Map


Suburb View
Displays a grid of 9 neighborhoods that share the same zip code. To get to this from the world view, click one of the sign markers and choose the option 'enter town'.

World Map
Change to World Map view.

Next Suburb
Use the directional arrows to navigate to the next adjacent suburb.

Legend
(See above Town map to see these)

My Home - The location of my home.
My Friend- The locations of my friends.
Vacant - Home plots that are available to move into.
Occupied - Homes that are established.

How to Navigate

To enter a neighborhood, click on a town from the World Map view. From there you will notice town signs in each of the topics. Clicking on these will give you the option to either enter the town or add it to your favorites. You wish to enter the town, of course.

From here you will be in the walk-around mode and be able to see your avatar and explore the town area.

Moving Out

If you decide that you do not want to live somewhere, you can move out for 2000 gold. Simply go to Aekea and click that option.


Reservations

At current time Reservations are no longer available. That being said, the following information is preserved for future reference, should reservations become available again.

Note: If no reservations are available, you will get the following message:

There are a lot of reserved spaces, which makes finding a house right now a bit difficult. Here is how they work:

For 1000 gold at Aekea, a gaian can reserve a block of six houses for themselves and anyone on their friendslist. This reservation lasts for 24 hours. At the time this sticky is being written there is no more space for reservations. If you reserved an area there will be a pm in your inbox telling you what location you have reserved. Keep this pm as it tells you which block you can go to to find your house!

If you have reserved an area when you go to it you will see signs with the word 'reserved' on them. This means that you can move into this area. Also, if you are a friend of someone who has reserved an area, you will see this option.

Additional note: if you move in, the reserved signs will disappear for you. They will still be visible to all of your friends however.

If you go into a reserved area of someone you do not know, you will see a blank area. No signs, no houses, or houses where people have built them but no spaces that you can build in.

To allow someone to move into your reserved area, add them to your friendslist!