2004/Jul-Dec/List/Featured Announcements

July

 * July 03 - Gaia Social event at Anime Expo 2004. It was Gaia Social on Sunday, 11:00am, and held at the courtyard between Hilton and the convention center.
 * July 07 - Gaia Online Staffs Would Never Ask For Passwords. Arwen informs Gaians "Don't Loan Any Of Your Items"
 * July 07 - Gaia Store is now open
 * July 20 - Database bugs and rollback of user accounts.
 * July 20 - Hairstyles and Items Update ^www^ (7/19) - Two new clothing sets and two new hairstyles had been added.
 * July 21 - Hipster Shades Fixed
 * July 22 - Gaia Guild Network released
 * July 23 - Gaia Friendslist is now active!
 * July 25 - Donation Items: Steel-Plated Ninja Band [[File:0704-Steel-PlatedNinjaBand.png]] and Kitsune Mask [[File:0704-KitsuneMask.png]]
 * July 26 - Concerning Kitsune Mask Donation Item. There was a minor glitch with how the masked equipped.
 * July 26 - Concerning Site Lag and Connection Errors. While debugging the database system, the site was experiencing connection errors associated with the install of the new system.

August

 * August 10 - July Donation Item Issues resolved. People who were missing their July donation letters were told to report.
 * August 11 - System Downtime on Thursday Night, August 12th. Lanzer informs Gaians that Gaia would be down, due to moving to a new service provider. A couple of servers every month to keep up with the demand for traffic.
 * August 13 - Server migration complete
 * August 16 - Growing pains
 * August 20 - Items Update 8/20 ^__^
 * August 23 - Regarding Banner ads on Gaia
 * August 24 - Donation Items: Golden Laurels [[File:0804-GoldenLaurels.png]] and Winged Anklets [[File:0804-WingedAnklets.png]]
 * August 25 - Green Sparkly on Golden Laurels Fixed
 * August 27 - First GAIA Olympic Event Coming Soon... Friday, August 27th at 6:00pm PST, Gambino's Mansion was open for all to enter.
 * August 28 - Hold Yer Horses, GAIA OLYMPICS ARE COMING
 * August 29 - Gaia Event: Gaia Olympics 2k4 hosted by Johnny K. Gambino.

September

 * September 02 - GAIA FISHING PREVIEW
 * September 03 - Site downtime today at 11:00am PST
 * September 03 - Regarding items lost due to trading - Lanzer announces; Regarding items lost due to trading. There were some issues with trading and how items went missing after trades were completed or canceled. For those who had encountered this problem, they were told to report it.
 * September 07 - An incremental "roll forward" occurred.
 * September 22 - Items Update! ^^ (9/22) - Two item sets and two new hairstyles.
 * September 24 - Gaia Journals are here!
 * September 24 - Donation Items: Bani Clips [[File:0904-BaniClips.png]] and Goti Clips [[File:0904-GotiClips.png]]
 * September 28 - Thread Subscription & Subnavigation

October

 * October 11 - No banner ads for donators ^^
 * October 18 - Introduction of G CORP.
 * October 20 - GST :: Gaia Standard Time
 * October 26 - Delay for donation item
 * October 26 - AVATAR System 2.0 In Public Testing
 * October 27 - Donation Items: Staff of the Angels [[File:1004-StaffoftheAngels.png]] and Demonic Pitchfork [[File:1004-DemonicPitchfork.png]]
 * October 27 - Halloween Items Update!!
 * October 29 - Password Retrieval System - Jakobo announces; that this would allow Users to retrieve their passwords by answering a security question. (Note: This system has since been removed from Gaia altogether.)
 * October 29 to 30 - HALLOWEEN/GINO's BDAY BASH HAS BEGUN! - Johnny K. Gambino invites Gaians to a Halloween Bash on Saturday, 10/30/04 starting at 12pm PST (12am GST).
 * October 30 - Gaia Event: Halloween 2k4 hosted by Johnny K. Gambino, during this event Gambino Mansion was blown up, and Gino Gambino went missing.
 * October 30 - Gaia 9 Action News appears, introducing Cindy Donovinh.
 * October 30 - Important Notice about Jack and Trick or Treating - VO Informs Gaians that Jack hates the broad daylight, so he won't show up on broad daylight hours on Gaia.

November

 * November 01 - Halloween: Trick or Treating has been extended!
 * November 01 - Regarding the Halloween Event and Site Problems
 * November 13 - Gaia Redirect.php To Help Protect Against Scams
 * November 17 - Item Recovery Claims for Sep 02 Rollback. (see Sept 3) Gaians were told to report if they had any items missing, only 6 total could be reported.
 * November 19 - GAIA Fishing!!! This marks the introduction of Old Man Logan.
 * November 19 - Regarding Fishing and Site Status. VO informs Gaians that due to fishing being a new game, there will be bugs and losses of fish as it works for the first time with multiple people. He advises Gaians to buy the cheapest bait, fish at Bass'ken, master the basic fishing rod, and to be patient.
 * November 23 - Items Update (11/23) - Thanksgiving themed items.
 * November 24 - Banning Due To Recent Fishing Store Glitch. The fishing store had a glitch which allowed a user to gain a very large amount of gold from typing in false data.
 * November 25 - Donation Items: BTK Hat [[File:1104-BTK.png]] and Ice Gauntlet [[File:1104-IceGauntlet.png]]
 * November 30 - Fishing errors resolved; lost fish granted.

December

 * December 04 - Marketplace 2.0 Released!
 * December 08 - Fishing errors resolved; lost fish granted. kaia9 warns Users that exploiting glitches for the Fishing Game, would lead to Accounts being banned.
 * December 10 - Concerning Hair items/wig exploit. There was a bug; the announcement warned Gaians to not attempt to equip/sell/trade/vend or anything else with hair items, until the issue was addressed the next day.
 * December 11 - Gift Wrapping feature is back - jewelry engraving was also fixed.
 * December 17 - Winter Holiday Items Update!! (12/17)
 * December 24 - Gaia Christmas Caroling Event Is Here! - Gaia Caroling event. The caroling event had been extended till Christmas Day, so everyone who spent time with the family will have more chances to collect on that year's items.
 * December 25 - A GAIA Xmas story starts noon on Xmas day! This marks the reappearance of Gino Gambino.
 * December 26 - Donation Items: OMFG Hat [[File:1204-OMFG.png]] and Fire Gauntlet [[File:1204-FireGauntlet.png]]
 * December 28 - FISHING EXCHANGE IS OPEN - The Gaia Fishing forum was also added.