I had joined the Sentinel, and my team won the war but I didn't like how Jack did the Deux ex machina and turned both of them mortall.... Speaking of which does anyone like Dr Singh and Timmy show? :3

Lucky you, Cyrias. I'm still pissed about the potato skin.

Fffft, they're all soulbound? Bastards. Why in seven hells are they bound?

Interesting note about those soulbound tobacco items.

The Overseer still gives them out (should I call that mermaid thingy the Overseer anymore? After H2k9, I always wondered if I'd get my pretty rainbow clammy back in my tank... Fucking Jack.) and they now sell for the price that you normally bought them at. I know of only one other instance in which the admins did this for items (that is, raise the sellback price to the retail value by doubling its cost) and that's when they phased out the garden trowel and bug net at the Flowershoppe and Fishing Shop.

So effectively a cigarette costs 2000 Gold instead of its original 1000 Gold, for the purpose of selling it from inventory to get 1000 Gold instead of 500. Since these are Gold shop items, you can sell them despite the soulbinding. I think they're only soulbound so you can't do anything but equip or sell it to the shops. The same holds true for zOMG! powerups, rings, materials and recipes (everything but a recipe sells for 1 Gold, where recipies have fixed values). Soulbound doesn't always mean stuck in inventory.

The Gifted skins, however, can't be sold because they have no sale value. Which is a shame because I told Chani I'd totally trade her my SIN skin for her Potatoverseer skin.

(It's a potato, I guess, Chani. That's what everybody is saying, anyway.)

Yeah, I'm a member of Gaia but I rarely ever go on anymore, because the forums are ridiculous. I used to hang around ED, but just... ick. It's a good way to raise my blood pressure.

I still stop by my guilds once in a while to see what's going on. And I like the drawing style for the original Gaia characters. I thought the Vampires vs. Humans Halloween event was a lot of fun. And oddly enough, it helped me realize my vampire kink I so wanted the Halloween comic that year to have yaoi in it.

All is not well in the Gaian ladder. Most users think Lanzer still has the say in everything.


He doesn't. He can try but it's not quite his call anymore. There are peeps or a peep that's above him to make some choices. More then likely, an anti-smoking thing was going to give Gaia money. So in return what's the most logical things to remove? The smoking items~. Of course it seems like now not all the devs and admins are aware or agree with this. Many of shown their own disapproval.

Gaia has become a company. Not the privately-owned forums many of us oldbies miss.

It seems like the ban is gonna be lifted. Woot. This is just like when Gaia banned the word 'pedo'. Mass QQ of rights and all that jazz got it changed.


...Other note, I hang around the GCD/SF. I co-run a large GCD guild for friends and regs with a very good friend of mine. Guilds on Gaia can be the best place ever. I recently opened one myself for RPing and for a place to post fanfics/drabbles~.

Oh, get this, everyone.

Apparently Sentinel and Overseer are trying to make the best of their mortal situation. They're spearheading the Xmas campaign for 2009, from what I've heard.

I don't know about you, but I'm thinkin' "Demonbusters 2: The Battle Continues" whenever I dwell on that one.

I think the admins have run out of ideas now. We've had the zombie war, the vampire war, the Alien war, the battle royale, the demon war...what's next? The Easter Bunny is in hiding for sending mail-egg bombs to everyone in '08, Santa's back to normal and they killed the cow, Jack had his day in the spotlight with the Halloween event...seriously, what's next!? I'd love to hear everyone's suggestions.

Werewolf war? Or maybe something with Steampunk Faeries? xD

Soukougnan wrote:

might i just add that i feel like a monster for voting Timmy into adulthood, and am completely surprised that he did not drink the special kool-aid...

You sicken me. Knowing that the admins would do such a horrible disservice to Timmy if he were forced to grow up faster than a Chryssalid (they mature from an egg within less than ten minutes, FYI)... Am I the only person I know who voted to keep him as a child, because I knew what the admins would pull?

I kid, I kid. I figured all the fangirls wanted him to be a shiny bishie, and the admins knew that, so they gave us the reverse. I think Timmy's status as basically a human Evolving Item is pretty cool, if you think about it. First being sealed in a can of toxic waste, then turning into a smooth jazz player, then turning evil, then being separated from his evil, then being turned into an adult, then going to jail, then going on a journey of enlightenment...

Also, while Dr. Singh is an okay enough character, I wouldn't call her to watch my kids for the evening. I don't know if I'd ever see them in one emotional piece when I got back.

That's why you find a Guild that shares a couple of your interests, winksniper. Guilds are about the only safe zones these days. If you're bothered by netspeak and leetspeak (and I assume that you know which is which), you can usually find a literate guild that runs to your tastes, but know that many of them are hidden guilds, meaning you don't get to sample the wares unless you join. I run a guild only because it's the only guild of its type in Gaia. It is a literate guild, and is private as opposed to hidden (you can look, but no touching) but has no join fee (I paid for all the subforums myself when arranging everything; anything else would be a waste of Gold). However, we do perform background checks regarding your post history before we accept your join request (this is to cut down on trolling and TOS violations), and we don't support netspeak or leetspeak. Even if you don't know the subject matter (and to be honest, only perhaps one person here on IRG would grasp it immediately), we're willing to educate through the power of HTML Magic!

I'd pimp my guild out here, but not too sure if it'd be such a wise idea. We only have two crew -- me and my Vice Captain. Which makes sense as we only have four members (including Crew). If you are interested, though, look up my profile on Gaia -- I'm as much BioKraze there as I am here. It'll be listed under my profile, and you'll get to know a few things about me that I haven't revealed to IRG. Neat, huh?

I joined Gaia some time ago, in about 2004. Back then it was easier to find forums to chat in and feel particularly...I don't know noob free. It's been through a lot of changes since then, and has expanded to it's current form. I'm more of an on again/off again gaian.

I seem to be getting caught in guild drama as of late. Not that I'm actually apart of it, more like the people around me seem to have been divided into factions and I'm one of two or three in the grey area...  There were a few forums I remember lurking around in the past, that I wished were still up. There was the Le Gasp! lgbt forum  I was silently fond of, and I used to like surfing around gaia's ED

Lurk-surfing again, but thought I'd surface to share an easy (if very expensive IRL) way to get oodles of Gold without using horrible emotionless bots and time. I realized all I really do on Gaia is stay for the avatars and see what I can pick up to make new ones. I only use tektek's avi creator to model things I want in big batches, and for individual items I use the fancy new preview feature added to shops and Marketplace.

Okay, enough rambling.

Step 1: SAVE YOUR MONEY IN REAL LIFE. Seriously. The best way to do this is to have at least $25 USD. If you can score $50 USD, you're good to go. If you don't live in America, you'll probably have to do this online, either through Paypal or other methods. I'm not joking in the least when I say this will be expensive; your wallet WILL take a hit if you do it this way. Try to aim for no less than $30 and no more than $100.

Step 2: If you have access to Gaia Cash cards here in the US of A, go buy some. If you don't, go buy some GCash online. Don't overextend yourself IRL, because nothing's worse than having millions of Gold and no money to pay the bills with.

Step 3: Once you have all your shiny GCash, go hit the Cash Shop. Look for the newest, shiniest Chance Item Generator (henceforth called RIGs) and look for the 9-pack one. It will usually cost 999 GCash. If it does, buy one for every $10 you have in GCash. If not, wait until one with a price of 999 GCash shows up.

Step 4: Go to your inventory and unpack the bundles. If this is your first time using Paypal on Gaia, you'll have to wait several days for the confirmation and such. Very annoying, but prices rarely fluctuate on Marketplace during this time. If you paid for your GCash through card redeems, you shouldn't have this problem.

Step 5: Scope out the prices on individual RIGs from the bundles you unpacked. This is very important! Individuals sold in lots of nine return a greater amount of Gold than if you sold them while still bundled. General rule: BUNDLES NEVER RETURN MORE WHEN NOT UNPACKED. Adjust your price for selling off all these RIGs for slightly lower than lowest buy price. Knock a couple thousand off, don't be a douche and just knock 1 Gold off.

Step 6: Take those shiny unpacked RIGs and sell them. Remember you have a hard limit of 10 items in your store at any time, so make sure to stop once you have 10 items listed. As items get sold, you can go back and put more RIGs up for sale. Never allow bids to be made, always set to BUY ONLY.

Step 7: Wait a few days to finish selling your RIGs because it WILL take a while. One option is to check in every three or four hours if you can, and see if anything sold. Keep track of how many RIGs you have to sell total, and check that number against how many messages/notices you got (provided you have notices set to show for selling MP items).

Step 8: Once all has been sold, look at your shiny dragon's hoard of Gold. Now you're free to do with it as you please. Whether it's sitting on it, giving some to friends or just going hog-wild in the shops, find a way to enjoy and appreciate it.

And now those who tread this thread know my secret. I never said it would be cheap at all, but if you have a burning need for Gold in a hurry and some real-life money you can affort to part with, this is your golden secret. And best of all, it's totally legal by the site's standards to do so. The only reason you wouldn't want to spend more is because there's a hard limit of $200 USD in GCash and Gaia Store purchases every month. I'm not yet sure if GCash card purchases in stores count against this limit; if I do manage to find out, I'll let everybody here know what the verdict is.

For those of you who have Gaiaonline accounts, feel free to add me there! My username is Ebony_Memories