Summer 2k11: Pie Hard

Overview
Gaians supported their favorite Gaia character by feeding them pies, after a few days characters with the lowest level would start being eliminating by three npcs a day until there were only six remaining. Those six were to be the finalists in phase 2 of the event.

Event Beginning
The forum "Pie Hard" was created on June 29 and Gaians waited for the event to begin. A hangout was created on launch called the Pie Paradise.

Mini-Comics
Pie Hard
 * Jun 30

Event Happenings
Announcement of Pie Hard launch.
 * Jun 30

Pies Apple Pie, Blackberry Pie, Blueberry Pie, Cherry Pie, Coconut Cream Pie
 * Jun 30

Pies Custard Pie, Key Lime Pie, Lemon Meringue Pie, Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Pie
 * Jul 01

Pies Banana Pie, Chocolate Pie, Pineapple Pie, Rhubarb Pie, Strawberry Pie
 * Jul 05

Elimination Russell Ace Lvl5 / Ron Bruise Lvl6 / T-Bone Lvl6
 * Jul 05

Elimination Edy Lvl8 / Lex Lvl8 / Logan Lvl8
 * Jul 06

Pies Caramel Drizzle Pie, Meat Pie, Mince Pie, Sweet Potato Pie, White Chocolate Fruit Tart Pie
 * Jul 06

Pies Chicken Pot Pie, Flower Pie, Ice Cream Pie, Peanut Butter Pie, Pork Pie
 * Jul 07

Elimination Ruby Lvl8 / Leon Lvl9 / Mirai Lvl10
 * Jul 07

Elimination Dr. Singh Lvl11 / Sasha Lvl11 / Josie Lvl12
 * July 08

Pies Breakfast Cereal Pie, Club Sandwich Pie, Garlic Shrimp Pie, Mac n Cheese Pie, pastrami pickle pie Announcement for qualifying round nearing, including eliminated NPCs up to that point
 * Jul 08
 * Jul 08

Elimination Jinx Lvl13 / Vanessa Lvl15 / Lance Lvl16
 * July 11

Pies Bacon Pie, Chili Pie, Nacho Pie, PB&J Pie, Tuna Pie
 * July 11

Gameplay
When Gaians clicked Buy Some Pie, they would be taken to a screen that was presented as Rina's shop, the Mini Mini Buttercup Cafe. They would have a choice of five flavors of pie to feed a contestant. A slice of pie cost 100 Gaia Gold, while a whole pie cost 500 Gaia Gold. Each slice counted as 1 and it would take six total to complete a whole pie that would mark off on the Stamp Card(s), a whole pie counted as one whole pie, not a total of six.

By filling out one stamp card the first item was received, then by filling the remaining four stamp cards the second item was received. In between this activity, Gaians could earn Gaia Achievements due to the amount of pies they were feeding any given contestant.


 * Gaia Thread: Piehard achievements/items! (all now found!) & Calculations~
 * Total cost of items in gold 62,500; total cost of 7 achievements in gold 6,700. See event guide Event Guide: Summer 2k11 pt3 for estimated cost by Gaians.

Event items: Pie Hard

 * Pies! Pies! Pies! - Scrumptious! Delicious! OM-NOM-NOM-NOM
 * Giant Spoon & Fork - Weapons for attacking any giant pies that may come your way!

Store Items
(The Treehouse)
 * Rina's Pie Print Apron - I tried eating the pies on my apron once, and I found out they weren't as tasty as they looked. :' c

Glitches & Problems
Copied verbatim from Gaia Online thread by Developer


 * Jul 03

Known Bugs


 * The Way Too Many Pies achievement is currently only granting if you fed the same NPC 1,000 times. It should be granting for having fed a total of 1,000 pies (slices or whole) regardless of who it was. A fix will be pushed out tomorrow morning. If you were feeding an NPC that was eliminated fear not, when the fix goes out it will still count those feeds as well. -Fixed


 * On some browsers notably IE (but sometimes others) requests to our servers are failing. The symptoms of this are nearly identical to the last fixed bug but with an easily identifiable difference. Those with this bug are able to continue purchasing pies in quick succession and rarely receive the "come back later" message. If you are experiencing this please note that those requests are not actually being processed and so no purchases actually being made. I'll push out a fix for this Tuesday, in the interim if you experience this I recommend after each purchase you wait 20 seconds and then refresh the page to confirm it went through and your pies are increasing as you're expecting. -A fix for this was pushed this morning. The fix involved some javascript changes, so to make sure your browser has the latest version, please follow your browsers instructions to remove all cached data then visit/reload the event page for the changes to take effect.

Dev Alerts

 * Thu Jun 30

Piehard Event Launching

The Piehard summer event part 1 launch is in progress. Beware bugs, animals, cakes, site glitches, random explosions and strangers. Should you run into any of these, assume the party submission position.

...don't think about that too hard...


 * Thu Jun 30

Piehard Launched

Hey guys, the event is in full swing, be sure to go check it out. There are 9 possible achievements in this event, though not all of them are claimable today, so be sure to check back and keep participating so you don't miss your chance to claim them!

Starting tomorrow the pies will be swapped out around 13:00 P.D.T. and will continue to be swapped out each business day until we have 6 contestants remaining. (Note: The office will be closed on the fourth.)

Starting Tuesday, we'll begin eliminating npc's, so be sure to round up support for your favorite and keep the pies coming.

Not digging the main event? Try just hanging out in the forum. We've added new emotes for the event! There's also some hidden ones, waiting to be discovered...

Edit 17:24 PDT

When playing the event please note that 6 slices make a whole pie. You'll get 1 sticker for every 6 slices of pie you purchase.


 * Jul 02

Piehard Event Bug Fix

I just pushed a bug fix for the Piehard event. This fix addresses the following.

Symptoms
 * Buying pies only to have them disappear when you reload the page. (This also means the NPC would not have registered as being fed)
 * Completing the first or all the cards and not getting the item grant link.

Solution

Added a missing check for data validation before executing purchase code. For some users the system would fail to get their game data but proceed as though nothing was wrong. The event page would continue to update normally while our servers had no data to save.

Now when the system fails to get the users data an error message will be returned advising you to refresh the page and try again.

Notes: Those experiencing this bug would have lost no gold. On resetting the page whatever gold you had before the data failed to save is what you will still have.

Still running into problems? Please continue to post bugs in our Bug Reports and Technical Support forum. I or a member of our Administration staff will address them as we can.

Edit 7/3 8:26 PDT

Found another bug with nearly identical symptoms, a push for it will go out Tuesday, You can read about it here.

1,000 Pies achievement
 * Jul 06

Noticed a lot of post questioning how this works so I figure I should clarify.

The 1,000 pies fed can be either whole pies or pie slices. This achievement means total that you have fed, It is not specific to any npc, feeding one NPC 150 and another 850 will still grant you the achievement.

Trivia

 * There were emotes created as well as the return of the cat emotes from the Meowbook event.

See also & External links

 * Gaia Event Page: Pie Hard
 * Event Guide: Summer 2k11 pt1 // Event Guide: Summer 2k11 pt2 // Event Guide: Summer 2k11 pt3
 * Gaia Forum: Pie Hard
 * Announcement: Gaia's Summer Event: Pie Hard!
 * Announcement: Pie Hard: Keep shoveling those pies!
 * Announcement (Sticky): Pie Hard: Elimination Updates!
 * Announcement (Sticky): Piehard Event Updates
 * Announcement (Sticky): If you had problems with the Stamp card - Updated
 * Gaia Marketplace: Summer2k11 Pie