What are Gaia Towns?
Gaia Towns are the next logical extension to Gaia Housing. Multiple Gaia Homes are arranged into Gaia Neighborhoods that you can walk around in. As you navigate the neighborhoods, you can strike a conversation with other members and even visit their homes.
How do I get to Gaia Towns?
Take a train to the burbs. The train station is located in Barton Town.
There’s a bunch of non-player characters hanging at the station. Click on them to strike conversations with them (and get some helpful tips on using the site) before clicking on the Location button and heading to your destination.
How do I get around Towns?
Moving your avatar in towns requires the use of a mouse. You simply point to where you would like your avatar to go and click. Your avatar will immediately start moving towards the point on the screen where you clicked last.
Other commands can be accessed via the The Gaia Towns Toolbar - which looks like this:
The Settings button allows you to specify how detailed your world renders. The higher the detail, the better and more detailed your world will appear, but doing so may introduce delays in the form of lag - especially if there are lots of other players on screen.
- The Status button allows you to see if any of your friends are on-line. Also you can click on their address to go to their house.
- BG on/off allows you to turn the background music on or off.
- The Chatrooms button allows you to determine if any of the houses nearby have other people in them. You can use the listing in Chatrooms to automatically go to a nearby house that has member activity without having to walk there.
- The Navigate button gives you a glance of the world map by zip code. Each zip is in turn divided into nine other subdivisions.
- The emoticons can be used to express mood while in Towns.
Is my house automatically assigned a place in Gaia Towns? How do I find it?
Having a house does not mean that you live in a neighborhood (Gaia Towns). In order to have a physical location in towns, you must first obtain a housing permit from the Housing Commission. Keep an eye out on Navigate from within towns to find if any new land has been allocated for houses. If you see a sign that tells you a plot is available, you can place your house there.
The Navigate button will also pinpoint where your house is located by highlighting it in yellow. Those houses belonging to friends will be highlighted in blue. Occupied houses (of people NOT on your friends list) will appear red and finally, green houses are plots where people can place their houses.
Better be quick! Gaia land is at a premium.
Can I move my house from its current location?
Yes you can. Maybe you and a friend want to have their houses close to each other. It costs 2,000 Gold to do so though and also remember that plots are in short supply. The land commission is hard at work finding new land for Gaia to expand into while maintaining ecological equilibrium.
There’s bugs flying around in towns! Can I catch them?
Gaia’s luxuriant flora is host to a number of colorful bugs. You can catch and store these bugs in your backpack. Unlike flowers and trash, you don’t need to compete with other players for bugs — they’re so small that only YOUR avatar can see them.
Your backpack robot will keep the bugs safe and sound until want to transfer them to your inventory (just click on him to initiate the transfer).
When you have caught enough bugs, you can trade them to Moira at the Durem Depot (She has a thing for bugs… W E I R D!) for inks. These can be used to color flowers and papers, which in turn can be made into bouquets for your avatar and your home.
What should I do with the trash in towns?
Pick it up! It’s the responsible thing to do, after all.
Any trash you pick up will go into your backpack. When you’re ready to empty your backpack, click on your backpack robot - who will then transfer it to your inventory.
Take your trash to the Hat Shop and ask little Peyo nicely. For your diligence and environmental awareness you’ll be rewarded with cool paper accessories that your avatar can wear.
Don’t worry - we clean the paper before we make it into clothes… or do we?
What about the flowers, can I pick those? What can I do with them?
Gaia has some of the prettiest flowers around and no fines for picking them! You can take advantage of this and make beautiful floral bouquets for your home and avatar.
When you have enough flowers, Rina at the Flower Shop can help you make arrangements out of your flowers for a fee, or course. (a girl’s gotta make a living) You can also use inks to dye your flowers and wrappings to make even more startling and unusual combinations.