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Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 4:01 pm

so what d'you think might happen now? maybe it'll be an evolving item like no other or something or an extra special new item for free! heart

oh, maybe there should be a new sub forum for non free items, but i'm so exited, it don't really matter right now.

i just hope it's not another chance item...that would suck with my luck:

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agi 22
luck 1

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Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 4:18 pm

In one of my other guilds,someone said the url for it has "RIG" in the address.

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Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 4:56 pm

For the Rose is a Beautiful Flower

I don't see 'rig' in the address.
Also they're officially called Chance Items, or CI now.

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http://www.gaiaonline.com/blog
Looks like they added sparkles to premium items to reduce scamming.

Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 12:22 pm

ahh, i see...still, with that comic here... something's coming.

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Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 1:21 pm

It's actually for security measures. It's a new feature to avoid scams.

You can read about it here.

They got us all hyped for practically nothing. gonk

Edit: You mentioned a new sub-forum for non-free items. Perhaps you should read the rules? All topics about general items go into the Chatterbox.

Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 4:01 am

Aw, well, it looks pretty anyway.

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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 12:26 pm

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It's actually for security measures. It's a new feature to avoid scams.

You can read about it here.

They got us all hyped for practically nothing. gonk

Edit: You mentioned a new sub-forum for non-free items. Perhaps you should read the rules? All topics about general items go into the Chatterbox.

Which is both annoying and a really lame answer to 'scamming'. All you have to do to see if a winter rose is a winter rose is hover over the item in the trade window.

What Gaia needs to do is improve the trade window so accidents like winter rose are much less likely to happen - not add more distracting 'sparkles' everywhere the premium items can be viewed.

1. Make the gold trade digits a larger font to minimize the change of typos.
2. Add proper categories for stuff being traded (e.g. currently there is no unique category for aquarium items.
3. Show the text name of the items in the trade window along with the pictures.
4. Don't allow locked items to be put in the trade and show the locks down below when you are selecting the item. (Or just don't show them at all.) Currently if you are trading fish for example you can not tell which ones are in your tank and which ones are just in inventory to trade. You just get an error AFTER you try to send the trade.
5. Add two total boxes (one for each side of the trade) that shows the total value of the trade by adding gold and current AMP (or better yet LMP) of the items being traded. Worth is in the eye of the beholder but it would be a huge heads up if you thought you were getting something worth 1 mil and the total window shows 10k.
6. Related to 5 - have some option for items in the trade window of showing the same info you see when you click on an item in your inventory.

Not unique to the trade window - don't make stuff that looks like each other in the icon and don't name stuff so similar. There are items on Gaia where the ONLY difference in the item name is a period at the end. One is worth a LOT more than the other one. How confusing is that?

Anyway, yeah, sparkles are not a free item or a new EI but IMO worse than either.

Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 1:46 pm

yea, some good ideas there, but they really need to overhaul item categories in the market first. like for instance add a cash items category or most of all, a bouquet category. i'm pig sick of looking through god knows how many bouquets looking for a little known item or something i just can't recall the name of.

i mean, if i didn't mention, say, the legion armor which goes extremely well with the infernal spirit EI, would you ever find it among the thousands of bouquets?

i typed in bouquet in the market's search box and got back 137 pages. it's just not right

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Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 3:22 pm

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Which is both annoying and a really lame answer to 'scamming'. All you have to do to see if a winter rose is a winter rose is hover over the item in the trade window.

What Gaia needs to do is improve the trade window so accidents like winter rose are much less likely to happen - not add more distracting 'sparkles' everywhere the premium items can be viewed.

1. Make the gold trade digits a larger font to minimize the change of typos.
2. Add proper categories for stuff being traded (e.g. currently there is no unique category for aquarium items.
3. Show the text name of the items in the trade window along with the pictures.
4. Don't allow locked items to be put in the trade and show the locks down below when you are selecting the item. (Or just don't show them at all.) Currently if you are trading fish for example you can not tell which ones are in your tank and which ones are just in inventory to trade. You just get an error AFTER you try to send the trade.
5. Add two total boxes (one for each side of the trade) that shows the total value of the trade by adding gold and current AMP (or better yet LMP) of the items being traded. Worth is in the eye of the beholder but it would be a huge heads up if you thought you were getting something worth 1 mil and the total window shows 10k.
6. Related to 5 - have some option for items in the trade window of showing the same info you see when you click on an item in your inventory.

Not unique to the trade window - don't make stuff that looks like each other in the icon and don't name stuff so similar. There are items on Gaia where the ONLY difference in the item name is a period at the end. One is worth a LOT more than the other one. How confusing is that?

Anyway, yeah, sparkles are not a free item or a new EI but IMO worse than either.

You should make a thread in the SF (Site Feedback) and suggest this.

Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 8:13 pm

I hope you are right. I hope this sparkly thingy gives something nice!!! I am excited to see what happens!

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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 4:35 am

well, they say Lanzer hinted at something in the future. but for the mean time, here's what sparkles mean what just to clarify:

Teal is premium aquarium items.

Blue is premium evolving items.

Pink is premium monthly collectible items.

Yellow is premium cash shop items.

Rainbow is premium chance items.

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 10:51 pm

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What Gaia needs to do is improve the trade window so accidents like winter rose are much less likely to happen - not add more distracting 'sparkles' everywhere the premium items can be viewed.

1. Make the gold trade digits a larger font to minimize the change of typos.
2. Add proper categories for stuff being traded (e.g. currently there is no unique category for aquarium items.
3. Show the text name of the items in the trade window along with the pictures.
4. Don't allow locked items to be put in the trade and show the locks down below when you are selecting the item. (Or just don't show them at all.) Currently if you are trading fish for example you can not tell which ones are in your tank and which ones are just in inventory to trade. You just get an error AFTER you try to send the trade.
5. Add two total boxes (one for each side of the trade) that shows the total value of the trade by adding gold and current AMP (or better yet LMP) of the items being traded. Worth is in the eye of the beholder but it would be a huge heads up if you thought you were getting something worth 1 mil and the total window shows 10k.
6. Related to 5 - have some option for items in the trade window of showing the same info you see when you click on an item in your inventory.

Something else useful would be -- in addition to your 1st item -- for commas to auto-insert with a certain amount of zeros.

So if you type in 10000 (instead of, say, 1000) it auto-converts to 10,000 so you can see that you typed in a zero too many.

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Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 10:00 am

that can be true
cuz idk why ther are sparkles that magically appear on certain items lik MC'S,evolving items,etc.

Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 2:06 pm

i thought it was gonna be an event xD
but i guess not

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Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 2:13 pm

Ayoo Crazii-x

that can be true
cuz idk why ther are sparkles that magically appear on certain items lik MC'S,evolving items,etc.

i did already say, but i'll repost

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Teal is premium aquarium items.

Blue is premium evolving items.

Pink is premium monthly collectible items.

Yellow is premium cash shop items.

Rainbow is premium chance items.

i'll keep an ear to the ground [translation: i'll go on facebook more] and let you know if anything else comes up about it

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