Gaia Online - Game Guide

Gaia Online is an anime-themed social networking and forums-based website online virtual community. Originally named "Go-Gaia.com", it changed to gaiaonline.com.
Gaia Online originally began as an anime and eventually got itself a small community but, the website moved towards social gaming.

Users of the site, known as Gaians, create a customizable avatar and a customizable virtual home for which they can purchase items using what is called gold. Users can also send cash and pay online for the extra additions.

Guilds
Gaians can form guilds, which are clubs specially devoted to certain topics. These include hangout guilds, role playing guilds and guilds for particular anime. While some guilds require a payment to join, others are completely free.

Avatars
Members of Gaia Online receive an avatar when they sign up. Users can customize their avatar in many ways, including skin tone, eye style and color, hair style and color, gender and attire. Numerous items, accessories and items of clothing can be purchased, with gold or Gaia Cash, and used on the avatar.

Avatars appear next to posts in the forums and profile comments, and in Towns and several other environments, the avatar appears as a movable character that can travel from place to place, interacting with the environment (catching bugs, shaking trees for gold) and other users.

Gaia Online Battle
A battle based MMORPG is in BETA test to be released soon and allows users to play quests and battle monsters.