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Catapult!!

Okay, so this has probably been suggested before, but what if there was a Catapult we could load one or more items into, activate, and it would fling the item(s) into a random street into the region.

A Super Catapult would toss items anywhere in Ur.

This would be a great way to spread random cheer to fellow glitchen, and it would give another incentive to explore dead-end streets, especially those with minimal resources and low frequency of visitors.

Grab some musicblocks, whip up a dozen Awesome Stews, or harvest a bunch of purple flowers, and then sling them to unexpecting glitchen half a world away! Fun!!

Edit: And what if, after the item(s) have been catapulted, the person who launched them gets a couple of iMG when the item is picked up? As a little reward for sharing, and a trade-off for the energy spent catapulting. It could even be a variable amount of iMG depending on the street value of the item.

Posted 7 months ago by dm Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Wheeeeeeeee!
    Posted 7 months ago by NO DELETIN BACON>:O Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I really really really like this idea. 
    Posted 7 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I also like this idea.

    I would add a Catapulting skill. Depending on level, you can increase your accuracy (although never to 100%... most lessen the possible distance from your target).
    And be able to place Glitchen (including yourself) into the catapult.

    (A trebuchet may be slight more Glitch-y)
    Posted 7 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1

    Imagine standing on a street and watching as a rain of foods and other Glitchen come fluttering down....
    Posted 7 months ago by Aglet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1

    Brilliant idea!
    Posted 7 months ago by Freddythefish Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Then I could finally get my revenge on the steamers on glitch...*gets duct tape*
    Posted 7 months ago by NO DELETIN BACON>:O Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Please!!  +1
    Posted 7 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'd sling myself! +1
    Posted 7 months ago by I Love You TS Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That would be a catchphrase.

    Oh, go sling yourself.
    Posted 7 months ago by dm Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You Glitchen can go sling yourselves for all I care. =P
    Posted 7 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 7 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Would be fun to launch pumpkins during Zille-o-ween.
    Posted 7 months ago by Rook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Lord Bacon-O: TrebUrchet, perhaps? :)
    Posted 7 months ago by dm Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 
    Posted 7 months ago by Ancale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Flying Yells of Glitch 

    Ohhhh the sound effect of a glob of jellisac landing on the street !!!
    Posted 7 months ago by BlackWolf Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love this idea!
    Posted 7 months ago by starrkittyface Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1!
    Posted 7 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would be excessively amused to be startled by random Glitchen, food products and/or piggies raining down on my head.

    With sound effects, of course. I'm hoping for something like Goofy's "YAAAAAA-hoo-hoo-hooey!"
    Posted 7 months ago by Jennyanydots Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is the exact reason why I have saved up a million shiny objects. I think a test catapult should be put in Guillermo that could help us travel from one side of the screen to the other ala the old Amiga game Lemmings. Mind you I did end up killing most of them...on purpose. Hmmm
    Posted 7 months ago by Cleops Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Not only do I love this idea, but I love that people are thinking of ways to make other people
    happy (and many people support it)!  I'm always amazed at how awesome this community is.

    In any case, my suggestion is that it can be randomly slung or aimed (perhaps aiming is an upgrade or a special skill or better item or something), and when randomly slung it always lands somewhere with at least one glitch on the street.  Also ditto on having more powerful ones that can go anywhere, or can go just to the area you're in (or again, that's an upgrade/skill/etc. that you can pick whether it goes anywhere or the current area).
    Posted 7 months ago by Sicupocalypse Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cleops, how could you?! You killed Lemmings?! And I thought you were my friend...

     ―  Mal'akhPrimate of LemPrimus Inter Pares of the Orthodox Church of the Giants of UrHubby of ArannaShriner of Mullangi Meda
    Posted 7 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 and another +1 for slinging ourselves around!
    Posted 7 months ago by Xacau Feera Blin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1, definitely!
    Posted 7 months ago by Mocha Maid Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 We're gonna need some helmets though.
    Posted 7 months ago by Lilu Cheng Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think it would be best if catapults were a public item, like mailboxes, scattered around Ur.  Not an owned or crafted item.  

    You could put things in them and choose 'launch'.  Those things would fall into random streets regardless of population.  People hoover the streets as it is so this would not be a problem.  

    You could also choose 'climb in' and find yourself standing in the bucket.  Then choose 'launch' and you would fall into some random street somewhere, completely unpredictable.  
    Posted 7 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • WalruZ, that's what I was thinking - a public item that would be individually interacted with even if multiple glitches simultaneously click on it.

    If you chose "climb in," it could cost more energy — not as much as a teleport, since you don't choose where to land — but more than launching an Awesome Stew. But it wouldn't use a token or count toward your map teleports, either.
    Posted 7 months ago by dm Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 7 months ago by Palindrome Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1337
    Posted 7 months ago by Taco Assassin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This must be saved! Go sling yourselves!
    Posted 6 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • only if its made from real cat
    Posted 6 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ Subscriber! | Permalink