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It's normal for the summer to be kinda slow on avatar sites. We've seen the same pattern every year since we launched, and sure as can be activity starts picking back up in the fall. (And we get the same worried comments of "Trisphee's slowing down, what do we do?" every year too.)

We have games in the pipeline. I know we keep saying that, and I know it seems like it's taking forever, but we actually ARE making progress. In the interests of stirring up some wild speculation: The idea I HAVEN'T told the rest of the staff about actually incorporates EVERY game idea mentioned in this thread so far... and the idea that I HAVE told the staff about (that has seen progress on both writing and art fronts) would probably satisfy Kenai.

We've talked about having an auction house / marketplace before. We're not going to have any sort of automated system. If you're wanting to see more user engagement, more automated systems is exactly the opposite effect. What we DO have plans for is a way to track the offers that are currently available in the marketplace forum, so that it's easier to locate other users who have the items you want (and avoid locating offers that are no longer available).