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I am confused about bricks etc

I am confused about bricks etc... I am a relative newbie so please pardon my ignorance but...

Why is the whole brickmaking thing not being emphasized in the new skills? The fireflies? The Crystal?

These are skills and equipment that people have already sacrificed to learn and buy!

Couldn't you go with the stuff we have already worked for before you bring in the new stuff?

Posted 8 months ago by Miss Bobbit Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I wouldn't count those things out until the full release is done. They may be used. We don't have the tools to use the new skills yet, so we can't actually tell what we'll be able to make and what ingredients are required. And they did just make blocks more uniform (changed from AA ratings to simply Urth blocks).
    Posted 8 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There are a lot of changes coming. We have a 'tester' house and we have a few new skills to get ahead of the next few changes. This is not  the end of the changes but the start, just a trickle, a teaser. 

    Fireflies and crystals? I really believe that patience is all that is required and we will have uses, useful uses, for these, and for things we have not yet Imagined
    Posted 8 months ago by IrenicRhonda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The skills will be used. Were you here when we had street projects? They were a community gathering a certain amount of items to build a new street. As I remember we will be having more, or a slight variation of them. This requires brick-making, crystallography and cooking skills. 
    That is why they haven't been emphasized in the skill sets, as they are already planned on what is happening. Hope this has explained why!
    Posted 8 months ago by jjbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Urth Blocks - As LMG mentioned A, AA, and AAA blocks and Bricks have been transformed into Urth Blocks which probably means they will be useful in the upcoming R2 housing update (Home streets will be upgrade-able/customizable and our old homes will be retired.) Previously they had been used for Street Projects, but there haven't been any in a very long time. Soon after R2 we're getting a full UI makeover which will include a different level system (top level will be level 40, not 60) and Imagination which will replace XP (and currants? I don't remember...)Foxes and Sloths will also be introduced in R2 which means new resources to use for the new skills we got!

    In short - just wait, Glitch will be super shiny soon with cool new stuff. Until then there are few definite answers.

    As far as Fireflies and Plain Crystals go - they are useful because you can get up to 500c and favor from giants by making them. They're also good for donating to giants. So unlike Urth Blocks - they're not completely useless!
    Posted 8 months ago by La Mariposa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't think the top level will be 40 necessarily. The top level may still be 60 (or 50 or 70), but the current 60 will be compressed to 40, so that reaching the levels takes longer. Or at least that's the impression I got from the commentary about levels and the relation of 60 in this system vs 40 in the new one. I may not be interpreting that right though!

    It totally will be "super shiny soon with cool new stuff", and I cannot wait! :)
    Posted 8 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh I suppose you're right! I guess the level 40 thing was an assumption. Can't wait for these updates though! I heard this Thursday is R2? Not sure where or when I heard that, it's entirely possible ime making that up, but one can dream!
    Posted 8 months ago by La Mariposa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Stoot said cryptically in a post last Thursday (Weds or Thurs) that "by this time next week, you'll have different ideas about how things work" (basically; I'm paraphrasing quite poorly from memory, since it is like 3am). He definitely said, "by this time next week". So that could mean on Thurs or a little before. So my guess is anywhere between Tues-Thurs. 

    I think he stated in the betting thread that it definitely would not be March. And the estimate we got a few weeks ago for the next big update was the end of March or beginning of April. Sooo... this week would be a good week for a big update, at least judging by cryptic hints and trying to allow for "soon".
    Posted 8 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @jjbob.....
    Why would you even ask if they were here for street projects? They quite obviously said they were newbies. And considering I didn't even know what a street project was until 2-3 months into the game I highly doubt someone who considers themself a newb does... Just saying =/ we dont all know absolutely everything there is to know about glitch history.
    Posted 8 months ago by Clickadee Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think jjbob was just asking to clarify whether street projects needed to be explained, not making an assumption that she knows all about Glitch history. Miss Bobbit said "relative newbie".
    Posted 8 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink