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#### Housing wish list (things that are missing with the new housing system)

So I have been trying to think of why Im not crazy about the new housing (vs. the old neighborhood style) and it dawned on me the things that are missing.
1. I miss the old home exteriors, A LOT! I miss having a groddle style exterior home, and I have yet to see a nice replacement. I miss the Alakol exteriors, and the treehouse exteriors.
2. I really miss the interior options for our homes. Like, the firebog homes had rounded walls, holes in the floors, ladders. The treehouse type homes that were totally rounded out on the inside.
3. I miss having interior walls/separate rooms.
4. I miss some of the old interior designs like the pink striped wallpaper, the crooked grandfather clock, the weird couch i had, etc.
I know I am not alone in this. What do you miss from your old homes?
TS - Are we going to get some of these back, please?

Posted 4 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously | Permalink

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- I want the videogame decor back from the old Groddle Meadow cottages- I didn't live there ever, but since I'm not locked to a region anymore, I'd love to be able to use those.
  I too miss the ladders- I used to love jumping from the top floor to the basement.
  Also: basements. Especially the multi-tiered basements in the smaller bog houses. It'd be great, though, if they loaded separately from the houses, just to cut down on lag a little bit.
  And I've gotta +1 the idea of separating walls... the fully expanded houses are just massive, and it's kinda hard to decorate an entire floor contiguously unless you want lots of duplicate furniture.
  Posted 4 months ago by Djabriil | Permalink
- +1 for all of the above.
  Also, I liked that houses were within Ur, and I miss neighborhoods and having actual neighbors. Street signs don't quite pull that off.
  Posted 4 months ago by frika | Permalink
- I would love it if perhaps we could get a sign on our homestreets to a street in Ur that we could define ourselves... there's not much point to it other than feeling like you're in a neighborhood, but it's an interesting idea nonetheless (and not mine originally, either).
  Posted 4 months ago by Djabriil | Permalink
- I want to jump off of my balcony!
  Wheeeeeeeee!
  Posted 4 months ago by Li'll Missy Brenda | Permalink
- +7 Balcony
  +11 Windows
  +13 Some kind of relationship between the exterior and the interior.
  +17 Ladders
  Posted 4 months ago by CrashTestPilot | Permalink
- I miss my first little cave home in Groddle Heights. I miss having a ladder up into my garden and seeing my chickens climb it! And I miss the old neighborhoodsy feel of the block.
  Posted 4 months ago by Blinkie Pie | Permalink
- I miss having where you lived putting some limitations on what you could grow and harvest at home, so that you had to go out into the world and interact far and wide. I miss a well-designed, coherent environment.
  Posted 4 months ago by Pascale | Permalink
- The Yeti Meadow House Furniture!!!!!!! Especially the polar bear chair. A friend had the house and hasn't been as happy since the change. The furniture would make her happy.
  I miss jumping off my Balcony or off my Tree House to the ground.
  I miss having my best friends as neighbours (the signs aren't the same). I would like to imagine them living on my street.
  I miss living in Ur.
  I love so much about the new houses that I would never want to revert back though.
  Posted 4 months ago by Grackle | Permalink
- I, too, think it would be nice to have a signpost to a place in Ur!! What a great idea.
  I would also like to imagine having a street shared with people!!! Street signs are not the same.
  Posted 4 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously | Permalink
- I miss the alakol exteriors too! I would love to get it back!
  Posted 4 months ago by ℙℎօⅇьⅇ | Permalink
- Balcony and Ladders! I miss them so much. The lift always has this lag that drives me nuts going from level to level.
  Posted 4 months ago by Gwyn | Permalink
- i want all the snocone stuff back including my bunny. and if we could place furniture outside that would be great. and if we could have a welcome mat upgrade on the rugs so i could put a welcome mat outside. add windows too.
  Posted 4 months ago by Sad Pollen | Permalink
- +1 to windows!
  Posted 4 months ago by Djabriil | Permalink
- They have said that some of those things are likely to be back in some form, specifically rooms/interior shapes/balconies and exteriors (like some of the exteriors we don't have yet). Stoot has even posted a picture of a test balcony. I would presume that in time we'll get a lot of the decorating stuff, too. I'll keep hoping anyway. :)
  But yes, I'd love to see some of this stuff back, even though I'm fairly happy with a lot of things about the housing. For me, I'd mostly like to see the separate rooms/interior shapes. I love the exterior I have, though I miss the Groddle cottage exterior I had once. The cottage styles we have now aren't quite the same.
  Posted 4 months ago by Little Miss Giggles | Permalink
- @Pascale, I thought I were the only one who felt like that! I miss having to make choices...
  I do miss ladders too. I feel it's weird that to get into my house I need to use the stairs but I can just walk out to my backyard - just as I think it was weird I had to climb down a ladder to get into my yard when I owned a beehive house that wasn't in a tree, lol
  My alt has a bog exterior and although I don't play with her a lot I would like to see the rounded interior and basement back.
  Posted 4 months ago by WeavingTheWeb | Permalink
- I miss the ladders, and watching chickens scramble up them!
  I miss the rounded walls, of the bog houses.
  I miss having interior walls separating individual rooms.
  I miss having a balcony.
  I don't miss the neighborhood squabbles about trees and roaming animals.
  I hope more decorations/furniture/rugs etc from the old housing will be added. =)
  Posted 4 months ago by ~Scilly~ | Permalink
- i want to also like to have people live with me on my street. ladders and indoor fireflies and garden crops too. balconies too! p bear chair and tree houses, round walls, holes,video games. basements. i would put cabinets and shelves in there. and house numbers. yes. and we can go into our neighbors houses. only friends on our street. we can go in but not take anything.so many things.
  Posted 4 months ago by Sad Pollen | Permalink
- separate rooms with doors too. all access to a house. maybe a button to let all players into your house or not.
  Posted 4 months ago by Sad Pollen | Permalink
- I visited the Alakol Model House last night, and I miss my old Glitch-home!
  My biggest problem with the new housing system is that it feels like "living" in a box. No windows, no balcony, no roof top, no open space. Very claustrophobic. I'm only using it for storage now.
  Posted 4 months ago by Waffle | Permalink
- agreed
  Posted 4 months ago by Sad Pollen | Permalink
- Oooo, The ability to let anyone in, but have locked rooms. That would be cool!!
  Posted 4 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously | Permalink
- I miss the old housing, everything about it. Although there were disagreements about animals and trees on streets, neighborhoods made me feel nice and connected with society. And the apartments and villas were nice and cozy.
  IMO, the new housing system isn't the greatest. Because we can have whatever we want in our house, we're not going out into Ur anymore, and every time I go into Ur, nobody is there, not even in Cebarkul.
  I also miss the furniture from the old houses, like the video game decor and wintery decor. I wish TS would bring everything back, or at least find a way to incorporate some of these things into the new housing system.
  Posted 4 months ago by Megha | Permalink
- You must be going to Cebarkul at weird times. I see people in Ur all the time, and especially Cebarkul.
  Posted 4 months ago by Little Miss Giggles | Permalink
- I do miss balconies and would like interior walls, but those are both things that have been promised for the future, so I don't miss them so much as anticipate them.
  @Watch Bear: the one thing in this thread that we know will never happen is neighbors on your street. To paraphrase stoot, it was either the old housing system that didn't scale well with population increases, or customized housing without neighbors that scaled, no middle ground. But someday we will have group-owned locations, and stoot has suggested that there will be a way to link from there to the homes of the location owners, making a new kind of neighborhood.
  Posted 4 months ago by Red Sauce | Permalink
- +1000 for balconies
  +500 for windows
  +400 for walls
  And my constant request....in the house or in the back yard - a hot tub so I can put my cabana boy to work!
  Thanks for asking :-)
  Posted 4 months ago by MisAdventure | Permalink
- I love the new houses for what you can make them in to. Except the fact they can't be the old houses. I would prefer if they made some more locations that we can visit with all of these examples in them. Why not re-open the model homes and add to them with models of all the old styles in all of their original regions. We could go back and have parties. Even make them party spaces. Now there is a money sink.
  Posted 4 months ago by jiva | Permalink
- I really, really miss the whole interior of the yeti/winter old small/petit groodle cottage.
  That cottage was my favorite and I miss that real yeti rug shaped like a yeti and not just fur. I miss the bunny coffee/side table, the wallpaper, floor from there too.
  I wish we could have more exterior house styles to choose from, like the Alakol one. I really loved that house exterior style, was quite fancy and very modern!
  - I miss the furniture of that retro cottage home, the one that had tv, nice little chairs, stove, fridge, and it also had an amazing ceiling lamp. It's the medium 2 here: www.glitch-strategy.com/w/i... [Oh, this rug in the color red is also amazing, hope we can have more rugs someday, especially the yeti shaped one!]
  I so regret not having any pics of that medium home taken by myself. I really miss it nowadays. =/
  - I miss the windows, those beautiful windows and the ladders too, and again, the separate rooms walls the most, I suppose. Oh, I also miss the room rounded shape of bog homes. It was so much nicer than a simple square.
  Posted 4 months ago by Lila Clemenceau | Permalink
- Mailboxes! I want a Magic Wand. I could wave it and change the Butler into a Mailbox. Balconies and Neighbors on my street are also greatly missed.
  Posted 4 months ago by Brib Annie | Permalink
- +1 Windows
  Posted 4 months ago by Eye Wonder | Permalink
- I like the creativity that we have in the new houses, but I too miss neighbors the most.
  +10 to Alakol style houses they were the best.
  Posted 4 months ago by Holly Waterfall | Permalink
- Being a rl claustrophobe, I want more than anything to have a balcony and/or upper deck and windows.. please?? Windows.. I created fake ones in my lr with the broccoli wall paper: http://www.glitch.com/snaps/PCRGJCBV0GV1ERJ/17659-396311be32/, but some outside view wallpapers would be very cool.. Also (and I know this is nitpicky), I would like those hinges to go away if I can't have a door to hang on them. lol. Love you TS.. just dreamin', you know :)
  Posted 4 months ago by Joni Mitchell | Permalink
- I miss the old housing as well. I miss the pros and cons of different houses, the neighborhoods, and the sense of place. I miss the time when Ur was the whole world- it almost seems like a side feature now. Look at this great game where you can design your own house, tower, and home street! Enjoy other's designs! Collect conveniently clumped together resources, all in straight lines! Oh, by the way, there's a world not created by players, but that's mostly for scenery.
  I'm sorry to sound bitter. The new housing is great, and I love all the opportunities for creativity... But the beautiful Ur that TS created seems to be almost pointless now. Y'know, just for scenery. *sigh* I was so excited when I heard that we'd soon be able to customize out houses! I assumed it would just be our same old Ur-houses with customizable interiors. Now I have mixed feelings... The game is entirely different because of housing, and I'm not sure what to think.
  Posted 4 months ago by Fernstream | Permalink
- Holes in the floors. I really, really miss being able to go from one level to the next through the floor.
  Actually, I miss a ton of stuff about the old housing: a sense of place, neighborhoods in different regions with different esthetics, having to save up to earn your house, shopping around for the perfect place...
  But since we can't have those things, I guess I'll settle for group housing taking the place of actual neighborhoods. At least, I hope it works out that way. I'd really like to have neighbors again.
  Posted 4 months ago by Ozlaine | Permalink
- I would love to have a Framing skill that would allow me to frame and hang my Glitchr snaps. Maybe a specialization off of furniture making?
  Posted 4 months ago by Rathany | Permalink
- +1111 for walls to divide up floors into different rooms.
  Posted 4 months ago by Persephone Pear | Permalink
- Cookie-cutter housing developments are never terribly charming.
  Rathany, I think your idea has been in the works for some time. "Soon," I'm sure.
  Posted 4 months ago by glum pudding | Permalink
- "A sense of place" - yes, I miss that a lot. I have no address now and no location that i can walk to. I still find myself heading "Home" after some time in UR. After traveling a few streets toward my old location in Bortola I realize that I just can't walk home anymore. I really see no way that this could be a possibility for us (just way too many players for that) but I do miss having an address ans a location in Ur.
  I do have hopes that maybe one day we can have Group Streets. These would be similar to Quarters, perhaps. We might be able to choose a Group to live with and all of our Home streets would have a sign to the Group Street where maybe we would have a Group Tower, etc. This way we would have Neighbors we could meet on our street and a Community Tower where we could all sell things, similar to a mall.
  Posted 4 months ago by Brib Annie | Permalink
- I want vines i can climb in my house and tower!
  Posted 4 months ago by Avery♥ | Permalink
- maybe an on-off switch for people being able to pick things up. or if it's there, it needs to be covered more clearly in the tutorial. I couldn't pick stuff up in houses I was in, but someone came in my house and picked up ALL my herbs.
  Posted 4 months ago by Arachne Knits | Permalink
- OMG YESSSS!!!!!
  Posted 4 months ago by Lorris | Permalink
- Arachne: What you were describing in live help (and above) prompted me to post this. I absolutely agree it needs to be explained better!
  Posted 4 months ago by diaveborn ♥ | Permalink
- I still like the idea of having a home within Ur, an actual place that could be wandered into... that said, is the following off topic?
  w/r/t neighbors: I wonder if (the option to) add street signs at each end of our home streets would more suggestive of an actual 2d map, and players would be inclined to make their own islands. I know this sort of thing already happens naturally, but with a single street sign it's just a cluster of related glitchen.
  Not sure if I actually like this idea, just putting it out there.
  Posted 4 months ago by frika | Permalink
- I miss walking out of my house, hopping onto the subway for a bit, and walking over to my friend's house a few regions away.
  I miss having a street to live on with other people, and having an actual address in general.
  I miss having a reason to explore the world, and not having everything I ever need in my yard that I can teleport into whenever I want.
  But mostly, I miss not living in a large, generic box. The old houses were great because they all had their own unique personalities, and reflected where in Ur you chose to live. Yeah, you an dress up the new houses however you like, but underneath all those layers of paint and glitter, everyone is still living in the exact same box. And that's not something balconies or basements can fix.
  I'd actually like to see the current house system scrapped and replaced with something very similar, but still different: Templates. Let us choose one of several house templates that are all laid out differently and have different base (yet customizable) appearances, and then let us upgrade and build those in ways that reflect the template itself. Maybe you have a bog house template, and can choose to dig out new rooms. Maybe you have a modern home template and can add balconies and extra floors. Maybe you have a treehouse template and can build new connected houses in nearby trees.
  People miss the cool things that were unique to their houses. I miss climbing down my tree to reach my back yard. Other people miss their basements or animal pens or balconies. This is an easy way to bring that back. And by having the players make choices, instead of saying "hey, look, you can have everything," you give them the feeling of uniqueness. The feeling that the choices they made separate them from the choices everyone else is making, and make them stand out a bit more.
  The new housing system is great, but it took away the sense of location and uniqueness. And that's what I miss the most.
  Posted 4 months ago by Aeralis | Permalink
- I like that thought Aeralis.
  Oh, frika, cool idea! A separate type of street sign........that would be cool!
  Posted 4 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously | Permalink
- I really loved the hole in the floor of my bog house and had lots of fun trying to aim just right in jumping all the way two floors down to my basement herb garden. It was like a little skill-minigame I created for myself in the spirit of the gamification of glitch ;) And when I had my big bog house I similarly enjoyed big flying leaps off the balcony.
  I also really love Aeralis' idea the more I think about it!
  Posted 4 months ago by katlazam | Permalink
- I miss my balcony too, after we build the 2nd floor we should be able to install a balcony.
  Posted 94 days ago by Ancient Princess | Permalink
- I love the new houses & the ability to customize them this way & that, but I too miss the neighborhood connection & being rooted to somewhere in Ur.
  And it really does feel like there are less Glitchen running around Ur. Personally I still do all my resource gathering in Ur instead of people's streets, and am keeping my own street rather sparse because I prefer exploring the world & not just hitting row after row of resource farms.
  I'm sure the system will continue to evolve and balance, I mean we still are beta!
  Posted 90 days ago by sporks | Permalink
- I would love to be able to...
  ... place furniture on streets, and have other types of decorations for streets: fountains and benches come right to mind.
  ... grow a sloth in a tree on my street.
  ... have bee hives, and fishing ponds as resources we could place on streets (and back yards).
  ... have more than one tower -- with the restriction of having the first one maxed out first before you can build a new one.
  ... have more than one door to the upper floors of my house.
  ... everything others have mentioned before: balconies, windows, and a way to connect more tightly between neighbors other than street signs.
  Posted 90 days ago by Heatseeker | Permalink
- I wish we could have our animals in different colours so they dont all look the same. It could be like cubimals with some colours being rarer
  I wish we could grow Meatballs. All these foods but why no meatballs?
  I wish I could have my own sloth to play metal to me
  I wish the giants would like ME the most
  Posted 90 days ago by Ultra-Dynamic | Permalink
- With the current set-up, I think things could be improved a bit if we could place furniture items a little closer to the edges. Also, there's not a lot of consistency when it comes to where on the floor you can place an item. Some things can go right down front, so your avatar appears to walk behind them, and others only go in the center, etc. For some things, this makes sense, but I suspect it could use a closer look.
  I also feel like I'm living in a shoebox now, architecturally speaking, and would definitely welcome more architectural elements in the furniture menu, if nothing else. I definitely miss dividing walls, and the round walls and ladders of the bog homes were incredibly cute. It's not enough to be able to paint the walls in stripes now, because it's just kind of raw and unfinished looking where one texture collides with the next. Maybe we need more columns and posts in furniture, wainscoting and skirting boards. I really miss my alakol house because it felt so open and breezy, and the built-ins were great (cabinets and trophy area.)
  Posted 89 days ago by Wintera Woodswitch | Permalink

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