Welcome to Gaia! ::

Right behind it? Or a few blocks behind it? blaugh

Right behind it 3nodding

It's been a while...
... since I've updated this journal. Lots of stuff has been going on, tweaking of the fishing system, development of future projects, regular development stuff, as well as planning for future development.

On a good note, we've finally released fishing. On a bad note, users are exploiting specific things about it. I realize that this kind of thing is inevitable, but sometimes it gets disheartening. crying

You spend god knows how many hours working to make something a worthwhile experience to people, and then a small handful of people expose or spread all of the secrets out before things are even released. And because of that, certain things are spoiled, little is left to the imagination, and people are left with an experience that's already laid out before them. sweatdrop

Personally, I find that games with a lot of secrets and stuff are more engaging. For me, it's that moment when you've just discovered something in the natural progression of the game that gives you that "feeling." The one that makes you go "wow" did I just do/find/accomplish that?

For this same reason, I avoid strategy guides like the plague. Who wants to play a game if it's played by just following directions? For me, it's the mystery of it all. To solve something for myself. That makes me want to play a game.

Which brings me to another note. Cheating. Cheating is NOT GOOD for GAIA. Cheating HURTS Gaia. It hurts GAIA, its users, as well as development. As you know, the administrators of Gaia work very hard to ensure that users are treated fairly in all cases whenever possible. When people cheat, we have to react in order to keep things fair for everyone. And whenever we are forced to do that, we lose valuable development time. Please, if you ever find an exploit or a bug, please report it to a moderator/administrator immediately. You'll not only be doing us a favor, but doing everyone on Gaia a favor, including yourself.

But anyways, no massive event will be coming for Thanksgiving. But we hope to give you a pleasant, less hectic Xmas event in December. Hopefully, we will still be able to deliver a few extra surprises when you least expect it. :XP

Um, I haven't heard about any cheats yet sweatdrop What am I missing? No, wait. I probably don't want to know.

I'm here! How are you?