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Pet Peeve: Intercontinental Travel

One thing that has always bugged me about Glitch is how we're able to walk directly from one continent to another despite the fact that there's a large body of water separating the continents. That's like if in real life I walked towards the shore of Japan and somehow wound up in Antarctica! It's not the fact that I'm able to travel between continents that bugs me, it's just the fact that there's no rhyme or reason! At least Ix could be accessed by jumping down a hole that dropped through Ix's cracked sky. That was pretty cool, but the other continents still have no excuse! For the other regions, I'm just happily prancing through Groddle forest, and then, POOF, I'm in Shimla Mirch! I'm not asking for any major changes, I just want some form of transition between the continents! Perhaps a boat, a portal, another hole, maybe the signposts are magic, I don't know. I'd at least like some sort of explanation.

Posted 18 months ago by Letter Jeigh Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Boats. Boats for sure. Ferries.
    Posted 18 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • HOORAY! Seriously though, are the singposts magic?
    Posted 18 months ago by Letter Jeigh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The signposts are *convenient* ;)

    But, later: boats.
    Posted 18 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I never really thought of them as continents, rather an extensive network of suburbs. It's a lot like wandering around a big city, you have neighborhoods with a distinct look and feel and then on the next street you have a totally different look and feel. I'm fortunate to live in a place with a huge amount of diversity, in the land, the people, the cultures... so changing streets can often feel like you're on a totally different planet.
    Posted 18 months ago by Travinara Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Boats are cool! And ferries. Boats and ferries. Awesome.
    Posted 18 months ago by Hburger Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Do we get pirate hats with the boats? Monkeys? Peg legs?
    Posted 18 months ago by Violet Faulds Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Submarines are also pretty cool. I'm just saying.
    Posted 18 months ago by annapeee Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I want a life vest if I gotta get in a boat or ferry
    Posted 18 months ago by MzMunchken Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Gondolas. I want moustachioed Frenchmen in little striped shirts and berets and thin, black slacks. :P
    Posted 18 months ago by Cerulean Subscriber! | Permalink
  • maybe if you had the right skill, you could swim across. a "swimming" skill perhaps?
    Posted 18 months ago by Alexis Hex Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think that's what's already going on, is that we're swimming across, haha. You know what would be really cool?! A GLITCH PASSPORT. I want to see the stamps I accumulate!
    Posted 18 months ago by Cerulean Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hmmm... can we look at the map while the game is offline? I don't recall seeing any large bodies of water between "continents" (which is not the word I would have chosen.... I don't even know if the Glitch Universe has plate tectonics, or if the plate boundaries are what divides the different areas... if so, we should totally have earthquakes...)

    Sure, there is water visible in Alakol, for instance, but I always thought we were just wandering around the mountains near the water, and didn't see a problem with land-masses connecting the different regions... I'd check to make sure, but, again, I don't have access to the map right now (don't tell me to go to the wiki... you can do that and let me know what you discover ;) ).
    Posted 18 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "The signposts are *convenient* ;)

    But, later: boats."



    One of the things I enjoy about beta testing this game and reading the forums is the odd bits of poetry that comes from out.
    Posted 18 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Lord B-o, you've made my day at least once today....
    Posted 18 months ago by jasbo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Boats.... i love boats. Sailing boats that is ... 
    Posted 18 months ago by Bibiri Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I want Daniel Craig to pick me up at the shore in an overpowered speedboat. He would be wearing a tux. At first. [hope is is at my new house when the game reopens!]
    Posted 18 months ago by Mac Rapalicious Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Zeppelins.
    Posted 18 months ago by Yaya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Trebuchets to hurl us from one continent to the other!
    Posted 18 months ago by Merek Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i guess with the subways set up now, there doesn't need to be any other way to move continent to continent.

    might be a fun experiment.
    Posted 18 months ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think it's less about having ways to get from continent to continent and more about making sense of travelling from one to another when it's from the end of one street to the beginning of one on another continent.

    I look forward to the boats :) I wonder what sort of boats they'll be...
    Posted 18 months ago by Millie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Mac Rapalicious -- I want the same but I want my Daniel Craig to be naked, lol.
    Posted 18 months ago by Cerulean Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I want a magic teleporting treehouse! Or maybe a magic treehouse that acts like the subway. So cool to have Groddle flashing past the windows.....
    Posted 18 months ago by KitkatCat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for trebuchets!
    Posted 18 months ago by mintimperial Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I want tiny tapirs in straw hats to push me on a raft, paddling with their little feet.
    Posted 18 months ago by knitmeapony Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Where there's boats, there's water. Where there's water, there's swimming as far as I'm concerned. So, um, I can haz a bikini, sunglasses, straw hat and inflatable crocodile pleeze??
    Posted 18 months ago by Tricky Woo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • + 4, Tricky Woo :o)

    I should like a swan paddle boat please. One that can navigate rapids by deploying multi- color balloons inflated by helium to rise safely above boat smashing rocks.
    Posted 18 months ago by Poney Tails Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I want an inflatable duck :-)
    Posted 18 months ago by Atlantis Subscriber! | Permalink