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Real image Now, look closely at that and tell me what you think. I sort of saw this instead: u callin me a looser???

So before I state my ever-so-wonderful opinion on this new image they may (hopefully not) use, I give you a post from somebody who might be even more awesome than myself: TEH NOOBZORZ 7869 (by the way, did I ever tell you that story about how my cat brought home a sandwhich? No joke, he came home dragging it with him one time, still in the plastic bag razz ).

So then, notice anything about that guy? I'm gonna take two shots at Gaia in one here (why? Because I'm stating my opinion, not trying to be mean). See how TEH NOOBZORZ man is dressed up? Notice the pose? Notice the eyes? Notice the overly baggy shorts? Those are all things about Gaia that make the avatars look stupid. And the guy is doing a good job showing that if you want to make yourself look like an idiot there's ways to do it here.

I don't mean buck teeth and clown nose, I mean really weirdly drawn avatar parts sweatdrop They really stand out as poor design to me, being somewhat of a pixel artist and having spent so much time in the mini shops ordering avi edits by amateurs.

Oh, why not a third one while I'm here? (and again, I am not trying to be mean, I am trying to say these things make a person look stupid, and I'm not the only one who thinks so. So if it quacks like a duck...)



Read that part again, "Seriously, that's just what we want: Inflation due to mass demand and miniscule supply, n00b hell." Yeah, see what I mean? We don't want n00bs to run around freely annoying everyone, yet there's nothing to encourage new users to use proper grammar and spelling before they enter the forums. They just get eaten alive because they weren't expecting Gaia to have people who hate it with a passion.

Secondly, (or fifthly?) "yeah, we want inflation due to mass demand and miniscule supply." Seriously, why isn't the quest system out yet? It will solve ALL the economic problems from what I see, it will slow inflation down to mostly natural again. If you have players in a game with a massive advantage over others for 3 years... uh, I think you need to do something a bit sooner than 3 years after so much damage is done under the claims of "But it's a donation item! It's holy! You must not touch!"

Enough with the childish approach to avatar design, the community and the economy please sweatdrop

"You're not grateful for all their hard work!" Is that so? If a government builds houses, roads, creates jobs, you say "Great, you've done you're job," and they suddenly forget a number of other things that affect people, you say "Dude, wake up and do the rest of your job."

A programmer does the technical work for the site. An admin runs the site and makes decisions. So glitches and technical problems should only weigh down the programmers. Other problems are solved by discussion between mods, admins and users.

Gaia's spent too much time trying to appeal to a larger audience that they forgot about the people who already signed up. So for all they've done right lately, I just can't figure out why they still make mistakes like this.

To make myself totally clear, take the new mouths for example (because we were talking about avatar design too). BEFORE you release them, just ask people if they look really stupid or not, okay? If people say "We want something more than huge and goofy or straight lines," then maybe you can listen instead of give it to the entire population of Gaia all at once and have them wonder how on earth you thought something like this, like shrunken avatars, "Tropicana kids" or other goof ups were a good idea.

You've done plenty right (especially lately) but still a few things wrong. Just work on those next before you make anymore huge changes to Gaia. Please.