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Feats are back

All the details are in this blog post: The Epic of Feats!

Posted 62 days ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Having no luck finding QQs. :-(
    Posted 62 days ago by ℙℎօⅇьⅇ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Look harder?

    (But, seriously: this particular feat will be much easier for newer players. That's ok! Others will be much easier for older players.)
    Posted 62 days ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ah, the force is in balance. :-)  Good for the newer players!
    Posted 62 days ago by FlatEarther Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Super exciting!  Pray tell, is the 5-QQ-per-day limit in place for oldbies?  I seem to remember it was, then it wasn't, then it... was?  I don't mind if the limit is there, I just don't want to keep charging around looking for QQ's that won't spawn until new day.
    Posted 62 days ago by Pale Queen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Pale Queen: yep, there is a limit of 5 qurazies per game day from streets you have already explored (streets you've never visited still always give you a quoin).
    Posted 62 days ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Diane's gonna be famous! :)
    Posted 62 days ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Fun! This actually got me back into world for the first time in a while. I really like how the Feats have been tweaked since the tests.
    Posted 62 days ago by Aurora Dellaterra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I really like the new changes here. This makes much more sense. And I really like the petrified rock idea. Great job TS!
    Posted 62 days ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, that means it's a good time to visit all the streets in Firozi!
    Posted 62 days ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was wondering if there is a way to check if we have completed the quest 'The Last Pilgrimage of Esquibeth'?

    I just want to make sure my actions are counting towards the feat.
    Posted 62 days ago by Brzum Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Brzum, have you received your conch yet? You get that at the completion of that quest.
    Posted 62 days ago by MaryLiLamb Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Brzum: there is currently now way to check if you've completed a particular quest, but: (1) you'd probably remember it, (2) you'd probably still have the conch and (3) when you make your first contribution to the feat, you are notified in-game and (4) you can go to the feat page and see if you've made a contribution (your head will show up in a smaller circle beside the large circle which shows current progress).
    Posted 62 days ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • How long after completing The Last Pilgrimage of Esquibeth does it unlock my feets? I was sorta hoping it would be instantaneous but it's still saying I didn't do it on the site and my quoins aren't quounting in the game. I've been slamming refresh and blowing on this conch for darn near 15 fifteen minutes now.
    Posted 62 days ago by fizz Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is the longest I've played in this account in a long while now!

    Totally enjoying this feat and it looks like this one may last for awhile - ty, TS!!
    Posted 62 days ago by sgjo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Question: If only 5 QQ /day count how to get over 200 as per the top glitches and feat only been opened for about 2hrs? Am I missing something?
    Posted 62 days ago by Jeasilver Subscriber! | Permalink
  • fizz: it should work right away, but it can take a few minutes for contributions to show up on the feat page. Submit a help ticket if it doesn't show up after about five minutes. We're investigating a couple of related cases now.
    Posted 62 days ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Jeasilver: You always get a QQ when you first a street for the first time, without any limits (so, people who visit 200 streets for the first time and are on the ball will get 200).
    Posted 62 days ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • uh, "much easier for newer players" is kind of overstating it. Many of us are capped at 5 a day. That's pretty frustrating.
    Posted 62 days ago by Niqster Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Niq - it's already been stated that there will be future Feats that are weighted in favor of older players. This one's for the newbies (and agoraphobes who haven't done any exploring). This is only one Feat of many. It'll balance out.

    Patience, grasshopper.
    Posted 62 days ago by Aurora Dellaterra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ok thanks Stoot. Nice for the new players, it will be fun feat to get them out and exploring the streets. Can't wait  for next day to roll in. Woo hoo!
    Its all fun:). I haven't seen so many players out on Ur streets in a long time.
    Posted 62 days ago by Jeasilver Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And it's 5 a day per each area you haven't been to in a while, still alot to be had.
    Posted 62 days ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm assuming that you have to have the conch on you to do the feat, that simply completing the quest isn't enough. I wasn't notified about participating and have gotten 5 already. I hope you're right muncey.
    Posted 62 days ago by bored no more Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Won't nerfing advanced users just encourage alts?
    Posted 62 days ago by E D D I E Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't have the conch on me and I have contributed 5 QQ toward this feat. :)
    Posted 62 days ago by JohnaMarie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I had the conch on me and just got a QQ. no notification, no circle. I'll send in a report
    Posted 62 days ago by bored no more Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm not seeing the feat on my updates anymore...Where'd it go?
    Posted 62 days ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • omg I broke it. sorry. bring on the next one.
    Posted 62 days ago by bored no more Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What happened to the feat?
    Posted 62 days ago by 2020smoke Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This feat seriously depresses me.

    *mumble mumble Bartle's 4 types of gamers mumble mumble intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation mumble grumble*

    Those of you who enjoy it, enjoy!  I'm hiding from Glitch until it's over.
    Posted 62 days ago by Meromorphic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hey all- did the feat vanish from the home page? It did, and we are working on it!

    [Edit: We fixed it!]
    Posted 62 days ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've alrealy completed "The Last Pilgrimage of Esquibeth" quest, but I still can't participate the feat! What should I do? Please help...
    Posted 62 days ago by Gulpy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • this feat is starting to depress me too. I missed the last one and the first only got a little bit in. was looking forward to this one until I heard about the cap and now I can't contribute at all.

    whine whine whine mumble mumble
    Posted 62 days ago by bored no more Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Gulpy: You need to blow the conch you get from the quest. We've updated the copy to make that clearer.

    bored no more: Whatchu mean cap?
    Posted 62 days ago by Myles! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • the cap on how many QQ's you get a day. and I just found out about having to actually blow the conch. wish I had known that earlier. woulda saved some grief and standing around.
    Posted 62 days ago by bored no more Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ah, yes, at most five qurazies per game day on streets you have already visited, yes. Like Stewart said above: "this particular feat will be much easier for newer players. That's ok! Others will be much easier for older players."
    Posted 62 days ago by Myles! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I can't resist offering a little thought experiment of sorts.

    There are those, in real life, who like putting up a world map on one of their walls and marking places around the world they've traveled to by pushing in a pin. Suppose now one of these people gets offered a small amount of currency and unlimited airline tickets to visit as many airports around the world in as short a time as possible as they can. Greater rewards are hinted at, but only for beating everybody else doing the same thing.  It's a perfect storm of temptation, hitting multiple weak spots at once: the tangible reward, the technical challenge of it, the thirst to explore, the lure of outdoing the other players...

    The person accepts and goes on a whirlwind tour of the world's airports, great and small.  The pins pile up and pretty soon the old world map on the wall begins to look like a pincushion.  It's fun but, after a while, airports and competition and prizes start to become a little tiring and maybe even a little bit tedious and eventually she decides that a lot of what she really liked about the map in the first place was the meaning imbued in it by virtue of its association with the pure joy of exploring the world, and dreaming about exploring it, in the old way she used to.  So she decides to dump all of the new, comparatively meaningless pins and go back to they way things used to be.

    But the pins won't come out.
    Posted 62 days ago by Meromorphic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Newbies, oldbies, us mid-levelers just can't catch a break!
    Posted 62 days ago by Itsatrap Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Won't nerfing advanced users just encourage alts? Posted 60 min ago by E D D I E | Permalink

    I'm not a cheater, but this one is just way too easy, eddies question is on the spot.
    Posted 62 days ago by Electric Wizard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Meh, I'm an oldbie, but that meant I had burnout from the game, which meant I hadn't fully explored any of the areas released since Foxes. I'm on the leaderboards right now, though just in the names section, not the pictures. I have a few more streets left, but I'm stuck playing on a burning hot laptop because we don't have Glitchable computers any more, so I'm not going to them any more since I am out of TPs.

    It's too bad for completists, but there will be other things you can do next time. For now, many nice new newbies will get some very valuable items.

    Edit: I actually wanted to do this feat on my pre-existing alt, because clearly I could have done much better with my less experienced account. But I hadn't done the quest that gets you the ability to do the quest you need to do to do the feat! (lol)
    It's not cheating to do that, guys. We're allowed Alts. You would just need to keep any profits you made from the feat within that account and not trade them over :)
    Posted 62 days ago by Biohazard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • E D D I E & Electric Wizard: Well, someone could definitely make an alt in an effort to get to the top of the leaderboards and then give their rewards to their main account … but, we'd delete that alt account and any ill-gotten gains so it'd be several hours wasted :)
    Posted 62 days ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Good!
    Posted 62 days ago by Electric Wizard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Luckily, I haven't set a foot in Firozi. And some quoin streets. 
    Posted 62 days ago by Kristabel Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Aurora Dellaterra & Biohazard: Yeah, I think the right way to think about it is this: every feat will be "unfair", but they'll all be unfair in a different way and there will be many of them. So sometimes you'll have an edge and sometimes someone else will and it all comes out in the wash.
    Posted 62 days ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • but it must always be MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
    Posted 62 days ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • shhexy corin: That's the spirit!
    Posted 62 days ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Whilst I missed out on the first two feats too, and can only complete five QQs in this one, I like the change up in feats.  This one is a good welcome to new players and with them being able to obtain some of the rare items from this challenge it will even up the economy a little bit more.  I also like that the feat itself is catering towards a different subset of players as it makes it more interesting.  I also really enjoyed exploring Ur again. It had been 320 days since I had been to a street in Salatu lol

    I also like that you have addressed the problems of the first two feats by having it run for twenty-four hours and have added the tiers of goals within the feat.   
    Posted 62 days ago by Oristia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *woke up in a European country, checked Glitch on my phone, discovered a feat was actually active in my timezone, leaped out of bed with excitement, fired up my laptop, discovered I'd only be able to contribute 5 QQs, went back to bed and pulled the covers over my head, whimpering softly*
    Posted 62 days ago by Agnes Snatchflannel Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Booo booo whine whine so unfair, why does it last only through the weekend, why no consideration for people who work on weekends, we're important too, wah, waaaah.

    :P:P JUST KIDDING! Glad to see more Feats rolling out, even if I won't be able to play much at all since, yes, I work on the weekend. ;) And I've explored most of the world already anyway, so I might have gotten, what, ten, twenty qqs max, and that with having to walk and walk and waaaalk.

    By the way, the feat page says I contributed 6 QQs. I definitely got two in when the feat rolled out early yesterday, so maybe those counted, but the rest were from an Upgrade Card, I remember because I was trying to see if they counted, and thus they shouldn't count. Bug?

    Pros I can see, after experiencing the conch-playing feat:

    + easier for Nekkid Newbies and harder for Pro Players in a non-contrived, game-natural way
    + encourages exploration
    + IMG from QQs is its own reward (if we get to keep it?)
    + lots of extra badges can be gotten while working on the feat
    + not likely to create lag and mass assembly of Glitchen in one place (HUGE PRO)
    + not a Clickfest!!!

    Cons:
    - ...actually I can't see any from out here, so I'll let the people who get time to participate sort those out. 
    Posted 62 days ago by Cefeida Subscriber! | Permalink
  • discovered I'd only be able to contribute 5 QQs

    per game day. 
    Posted 62 days ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is the first feat that I am taking part in, the others I missed cause of a glitch break.
    I love it, I love that TS listened and made it last longer. 
    I love that TS made glitchens run around in Ur again.
    I love it although I can only contribute 5 QQ per game day.
    I feel kinda sad that so many glitchens feel left out, because of that, and kinda look at a feat in kinda of a selfish way. Like: what can I get out of it.
    Aren't feats to be for the world of Ur, not for yourself?
    I don't care that it's only gonna be like 5 or 10 QQ that I can contribute. I am just happy that I can contribute.
    Posted 62 days ago by Ancale Subscriber! | Permalink
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