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Whimsical Wednesday - Houses Release 3
The game is now open! Check the new thread for feedback: http://www.glitch.com/forum/general/20792/
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The game is currently closed until sometime Thursday morning, Pacific time. The conversion process is running slower than anticipated, and we want to make everything goes just right, so we will not be open until we are ready.
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Good morning campers!
Today brings release 3 of the new housing system, marking a full reset of houses.
The game will be closed for a few hours while we perform the reset.
Do not be alarmed! Only houses are being reset.
After the reset is complete, your house will have been reset to the starter size, with no cultivated items and no furniture. Any upgraded furniture in your house or your furniture bag will be removed. You'll be given a small set of starter furniture in its place.
When you enter your new house after the reset, any items that you had in your old house or your testing house will have been moved into your new residence. Just unpack your moving boxes to get started.
A single moving box will contain multiple boxes for the old house, your test-house home street, test-house backyard and each floor of your test-house.
So that's what the reset entails, but what about new stuff? Well...
• Furniture can now be crafted by players. Get building!
• Your new houses will now have their own web page, linked from your profile. You'll be able to easily visit other people's home streets from there (as well as from their "info pane" in the game client).
• Once you've chosen/purchased a furniture upgrade, that choice is 'sticky'. If you upgrade a chair to style A, then switch it to style B, you'll later be able to switch back to style A at no cost. The same applies to your house chassis.
• The initial furniture we give you is soul-bound. This means you can't give it away to other players. Other items may gain this property in the future.
• Furniture can now be traded - either by using the 'give' verb, dragging it to another player or using the player-to-player trading system. You'll get an extra warning when you try to trade upgraded furniture. Auctions for furniture will be added in the near future.
• Furniture should no longer drop through the floor when you're placing it on your 2nd floor. Or your 3rd - houses can now be 3 floors tall.
• All street styles now have music.
• Furniture items all have their own web pages, as do the upgrades. You can browse and bookmark your perfect setup while you're waiting for the reset.
• The furniture bag is now sorted, to make finding your furniture easier. And it'll now be accessible anywhere in the world, to allow your to trade your items.
• The old houses are fading away. Visit the abandoned apartment blocks to reminisce.
There's probably some more stuff hidden in there too, so take a look around, kick the tires and lets us know what you think.
update #1: The housing FAQ has been updated.
update #2: The reset is taking longer than expected - the game will be closed until Thursday morning, pacific time. We are being EXTRA careful with the migration since no-one wants the movers to lose a single precious item.
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- Woot! yay new stuff to do!
- Thank you guys!!! <3
- woohoo!
- Whoot! Can't wait! Thank you TS!!
- Squee! Thanks for all the work to get us to this point!
- http://i.imgur.com/dNmMm.gif
- Oh my. I'm so excited.
- Coolio approves
- soooooooooo excited! thank you guys for always making Glitch more and more awesome.
- Yay, Can't wait to play!
- Nervous about my stuff.
- Kinda sad, kinda looking forward to it!
- YAY!!
- SWEET!!!!
- \o/ Yay!
- :D
- Great timing on the info post. Tires will be kicked :D
- YAYAYAYAYAYAYA! This is gonna be so much fun! As Usual!
- Holy. Cow.
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Query: Does traded upgraded furniture retain all upgrades it had?
Say I make a chair. I upgrade it with "Style A." Then I change it to "Style B." And then I trade it. Can the new owner select any of those states? - Love love love this. Thank you for all your work..to the wee small hours of the morning and beyond!
- Gonna miss my 50k mansion!
- Squeeeeeee!!! (and I don't normally make that silly sound) ;)
- Thanks for all of your hard work! This is going to be so cool--you've again made my day (bringing the total # of days made by TS to a whopping 17)!
- Wonderful! I am so excited! And after a quick browse even without being able to convince my wife of a subscription before now, I'll be able to keep my log cabin-ish look. Now I just have to add some onyx highlights. Oh no, I'm turning to interior design....
- Houses fading away, that makes me very sad :(
- no basements? where will I do my creepy experiments?
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There is a goodly amount of free furniture. I hope to spend some money in the future, but right now this makes me very happy.
EDIT - I mean free upgrades. I understand that we build the basic furniture. - I'm glad I was on the toilet when I read this, or else I'd have crapped my pants.
- Nooooooooooooo.........."Hangs onto balcony for dear life".. :'(
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Allowing people to give/trade upgraded furniture that's been paid for with credits... that's a loophole that's just waiting to be exploited.
I like the concept of "soul bound" items - I'd argue that plain furniture needn't be soul-bound but anything that you've put credits into should be.
And can you trade subscriber-upgraded furniture to non-subscribers? - What about the animals? Will they fade away too? Nooooooooooooo ...
- How are we being reimbursed for our old houses? Imagination? Currents?? Credits???
- I am guessing, yes. They are your credits, after all. If you choose to use them to upgrade furniture then trade to other Glitchens of your choosing, I don't see why they would stop you. Though I suspect there will be market forces at work as far as what people are willing to accept in trade for items they paid for with RL money.
- Hooray! Thanks for your hard work, devs! Can't wait for the game to reopen :)
- I'm excited about the THREE FLOORS, yay!!
- Very exciting! You might even distract me for long enough that I forget about my old house - oops!
- What about like..stuff we had put in our new house in the fancy storage boxes or cabinets? I am guessing it will just be dropped on the floor or some such? lol
- Wall segments.
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"Does traded upgraded furniture retain all upgrades it had?" - yes
"no basements?" - well, not yet!
"There is a goodly amount of free furniture." - and we'll keep adding more, just like the wardrobe
"I'd argue that plain furniture needn't be soul-bound but anything that you've put credits into should be." - plain furniture is soulbound because it's worth quite a few currants and we don't want players creating multiple accounts to get (more) free furniture
"can you trade subscriber-upgraded furniture to non-subscribers?" - yes - Oh man. The economy just got crazy.
- Tanit - any items that you had in your old house or your testing house will have been moved into your new residence. Just unpack your moving boxes to get started. I'd expect all the items in the SDBs to be in your storage boxes
- OMG Tanit, I hope not. I won't be able to get in the door! ;-)
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"What about the animals? Will they fade away too?" - they'll be in your moving boxes
"How are we being reimbursed for our old houses?" - currants (the amount you paid originally)
"What about like..stuff we had put in our new house in the fancy storage boxes or cabinets?" - they'll be in your moving boxes
"Wall segments" - uh, what? - Well it looks like the basic furniture's all from IKEA, i think i will keep that look for a while and give some thought this time to how I will design my house without rushing in this time........this is going to be lots of fun thank u!!!!!!!!!!! The Glitch staff are doing a fantastic job in Beta , and keeping us informed constantly. Be proud of yourselves :)
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Everything will be put into moving boxes, Tanit, which you will find in your new house.
I'm just glad I didn't have to pack all my stuff. -
Wheee! Fun times!
Does this mean that any changes we make to our houses now will be permanent? :D
And does this mean that we'll be able to expand our houses infinitely now? I can't WAIT to put a third floor in!!! :3
Edit - I've been looking through the decorations and oooh I love all the Firebog stuffs. :> -
"worth quite a few currants and we don't want players creating multiple accounts to get (more) free furniture"
Aha, pretty sneaky, sis. I mean Bees! :) - If you have to go to my house and pack everything manually then no one need expect the game to be back up till next week :-p
- Are there multiple moving boxes? Or is my computer going to suffer and perish when I open it up?
