Gaia Gold
From: The Gaiapedia, the community encyclopedia about Gaia Online
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[edit] Gaia Gold, Cash, Tickets, and Tokens
Gaia Gold is the main currency in the online world of Gaia. It can be used to buy items in the Shops and/or Marketplace for your avatar, home, and car.
Gaia Cash is also a unit of exchange on Gaia Online. It can do everything that regular Gaia Gold can except for be used in the Marketplace. However, Gaia Cash also enables Gaian users to buy premium items from the Gaia Cash Shop.
Tickets is the only unit if exchange that can be used in the Prize and Joy Gift Shop.
Tokens are used to play games with betting options such as Slots and Blackjack.
[edit] Methods of Earning Gold, Cash, Tickets, and Tokens
[edit] Methods of generating Gold
- Posting in the forums - A common method to generate income. The more time spent between posts, the more gold is earned. This is intended to encourage well thought out replies. With a gold system in place however, the amount of gold given begins at
75g per day and reduces itself by half with each post. However, it will go up again if there is a long gap between posts.
- Lurking - The most common gold-gaining method of newer or more reserved Gaians involves reading countless threads with no real intent to post. Possibly the slowest method, but by the design of the site, it is recommended for new users to lurk around on Gaia's forums to acquaint themselves while still earning gold. One can also receive 1-7g for "surfing the pages".
- Towns - While walking through towns, you can click on trees, rocks, and bushes to "shake" them, earning you from 1-10g.
- Polling - Some user-started polls have the "poll whore" option for those who are simply voting for gold with no interest in the associated topic. There are some guilds on Gaia Online that are dedicated to such activities. Due to the gold system, the first poll of the day generates 14g, and decreases slowly thereafter.
- Rare events - Obtaining rare/random events. These events happen randomly so are not a dependable source of income, however, they happen frequently enough that many users do obtain gold or items to be sold in this manner. The events that happen with Gaia Users are as follows:
- Brown Giftbox - random uncommon item (not very valuable, but they can't be found in stores)
- Enchanted Wooden Trunk - random uncommon housing item
- Blue Giftbox - random uncommon or rare item
- Pink Giftbox - random rare item (these are more valuable)
- Enchanted Golden Trunk - random rare housing item
- Ancient Chest - Gift from Overseer containing a large host of items which prices range from 100g to 42k
- Treasure Chest - random chest that can be found in place of the Daily Chance or in the Aquarium which contains a rare item that is worth more than the cost of the key to open the chest.
- Selling Artwork - Artistic users can sell artwork for profit. Artwork is often based on the buyer's avatar if sold in the Mini Shops Forum.
- Contests - Users run art, avatar, poetry, or any theme of contests. Official site wide contests are run in the Arenas every week.
- Item Gathering - Collecting game items in minigames and selling them in the marketplace
- Fishing - Gaia Fishing allows users to fish in different ponds using rods and bait that they purchased. Fish can be sold in the marketplace or to the store.
- Gambling - Playing in the games and selling the tickets for profit in the marketplace.
- Gambling - Also, user-run "lotteries" who disperse tickets for a fee, with the winners chosen by an online randomiser. However, some scammers will never select a winner, and cheat a user out of their prize. This is a bannable offence.
- Donations - Receiving "donations" from other Gaia users who are kind enough to do so. However this rarely occurs outside of the charity forum.
- Vending - Many of the richest Gaians make their gold by working the marketplace, similar to how it's done in real life. They buy items low, and sell them higher to make a profit; some even go so far as to buy up a large quantity of a certain item and attempt to control the item's price. This is known as Artificial Inflation (AI) or Market Manipulation (MM). To successfully accomplish a feat like this is extremely difficult, considering the abundance of most items; prices usually drop to normal within hours after an AI attempt. This is due to many Gaians trying to sell at the new, higher price, or there's simply not enough demand for the item. Most Gaia marketers simply find under- or mis-priced items and sell them for a higher value. Monthly Collectibles, which have high demand, and usually consistently raise in price, are popular items to be vended.
- Daily Chance - When a user first logs in each day, a random lucky dip-like chance can be taken by clicking on the small claw-game in the top bar of each main page. As well as varying amounts of gold, the user can also obtain many items: gaming items, clothes, and housing items. The items range greatly in value.
- Selling Items at Shops - items that have been gained in trades or "Daily Chance" can be sold at any store for 'half' of their shop price.
- Aquariums - By taking care of your Aquarium, you will please the Overseer, a small gift-giving clam who lives in your tank. Like the Daily Chance, users get their reward once a day. Items are said to be better for better tank health, this is usualy the case.
Booty Grab - By lurking around in some Booty Grab thread, you can trigger an aquarium in a Gaian's Signature depending on what fish does the user have a mini game called "Booty Grab." The game is the fishes drops gold and you can catch it by moving your mouse in where the gold falls depending on which fish triggered it falls certain amount of gold. (In addition, Giftboxes and Hermit Cats can be obtained.) Currently, this is the fastest and most efficient way to make money (other than selling art).
[edit] Methods for generating Gaia Cash
- Offers: A Gaian may complete an offer such as sign up for another Gaia sponsored site to get free Gaia Cash. However, it is not recommended because most offers ask for personal information which can easily be sold to Third Parties.
- Gift Cards: Anybody can go to a participating store and buy Gaia Cash Cards ranging from $5-$50 (these cards may also contain rare and/or special premium items) and inputting the PIN numbers on Gaia's Cash Page. There is a maximum of 3 PINs per day.
- Credit: Gaia Cash may be bought by credit card.
- Promageddon: Gaia gave away free Gaia Cash just before Promageddon to help Gaians purchase Promageddon items. However, this 40 GC disappeared after Promageddon.
[edit] Methods to generate Tokens
- Daily Chance: This may give a Gaian some Tokens each day, ranging from 5-50 from one Daily Chance.
- Marketplace: A Gaian pay purchase more Tokens if he/she runs out. These Tokens are bought with Gaia Gold.
- Gaming: Play Games to win Tokens.
[edit] Methods to generate Tickets
- Marketplace: Tickets may be purchased if he/she runs out. These Tickets are bought with Gaia Gold.
- Tokens: After obtaining Tokens from Gaming, they may be traded in for Tickets.
[edit] Illegal Gold
Downloading and using Gold Generators or Cheating Devices (aka botting) is Illegal and will result in being permanently banned from Gaia Online.
A Gaia Bot is a program, typically designed by a third-party, destined to simulate actions in the game of Gaia Online. Typical reasons for using a Gaia Bot is to obtain Gaia Gold, GaiaOnline's primary currency.
More recently, Gaia has cracked on Gaia Bots, adding CAPTCHA and improving their detections method. Furthermore, people have started reporting botters themselves. Usage of a Gaia Bot can be considered "unfair" as it allows some users to make more Gaia Gold without the effort.
