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Micro Express Resource Loop - an experiment and potential success :)

Hi there fellow Glitchen!

Firstly I would like to thank the following people, without whom none of this would have been possible: Groist Plobber, Dee Licious, swampfox2222, jazzcrash, epid, forcep, Chinny The Useless, Lil Face, JacquesNorris, Parintachin, Cotu and Hell's Bartender - You guys have made this whole idea come alive and working together with you has been an absolute pleasure! Thank you all!

So.. the route. The idea was to have a mini route with all available resources on it (except for wood and crop/herb gardens) but have just one singular resource per street. Each street would have the maximum possible of that one resource. After much planning and working out the logistics, the final route looks like this:

Mortar Barnacles - Just Willow
Bean Trees - JacquesNorris
Bubble Trees - forcep
Egg Plants - Lil Face
Fruit Trees - epid
Gas Plants- cotu
Spice Plants - Chinny The Useless
Dirt Piles/ Peat Bogs - Groist Plobber
Beryl Rocks/ Dullite Rocks - Parintachin
Firefly Hives - Swampfox2222
Metal Rocks - jazzcrash
Jellisac Growths - Dee Licious
Sparkly Rocks - Hell's Bartender

The streets are connected via the top sign post on each street and complete in a circle. Each street has a gnome with a programmed greeting that's customised to suit each street like so:

"{INSERT RESOURCE}!! To continue on the Express Resource Route click the TOP SIGN - {INSERT NAME} next with {INSERT NEXT RESOURCE}!"

There's also a note at each signpost with the same info, in case the gnomes are being pesky ;)

The order of the streets is deliberate. There are currently 2 types of resource. One is harvest-able "once a day" and the other is "respawning" resources. So along this route you have all the "once a day" resources grouped together, followed by the "respawning" resources. When you get to my street (Barnacles) if you click the bottom sign it takes you back to the first "respawning" resource, therefore creating a mini loop of "respawning" resources that you could effectively harvest perpetually if you chose to. 

This opens up the route for use by glitchen for different purposes. You could do the whole route once a day to get a bit of everything. You could do the route but skip the resources you don't want to harvest and concentrate on the ones you do. You could pick one respawning resource and perpetually harvest that one street. You could do the whole route with a friend or a group, maxing up your harvests for respawning resources. 

There's lots more I could write but it's nearly 5am now and I need to sleep soon lol! I do plan on writing up some statistics like length of route and minimum harvest potential etc but we're still in testing at the moment.

Please leave any questions or comments below and I'll try and answer if I can :)

[UPDATE] Now with slightly crappy pickchur/diagram and new name - MERL
xXx

Posted 6 months ago by Just Willow Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Great idea....  I love full streets,  Sign me  up  I am  full gas >   (that just doesn't sound right)

    Thanks  Pinkie

      
    Posted 6 months ago by Pinkie Pinkston Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So, it's only possible to be part of this route if you have only one type of resource in your yard? Bummer. This sounds like a good idea: I can't deny that. But, I was sort of hoping that there would be a route where there would be multiple resources all over the place (like my yard :)). That way, people who liked to collect a wide variety of resources, but not necessarily a huge amount of any one thing, could contribute/participate in some way. Still, I like the way you've set this up. It makes sense :)
    Posted 6 months ago by Lilycat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have a gas trees also. I would like to do route also
    Posted 6 months ago by Slick R Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Fabulous idea. What a wonderful way to gather the different variety of resources. Thank you all.
    Posted 6 months ago by Harmony MoonLake Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Pinkie - We're all full and building/testing at the moment.. but I'll let you know if we decided to expand at all :)

    Lilycat - the "chaos" route is another idea I toyed with, before deciding on this one. It's possible you could set one up yourself? If you want I'd be happy to help you in any way :)

    xXx
    Posted 6 months ago by Just Willow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Slick R - Thanks for the interest! I'll let you know if we decide to expand :)

    Harmony Moonlake - Thanks!! Glad you like it :)
    Posted 6 months ago by Just Willow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Lilycat: not sure it's the fit you need either, but the HRR Millionaire's route, streets with one of everything, is launching kinda sorta as we speak.  Whenever the curator next logs in, which I believe she said would be tonight, there will be a thread up.  
    Posted 6 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Awesome Just Willow et al....thanks for this specialized route! Might I suggest splitting up the dirt/peat and the beryl/dullite streets into individual streets so as to keep with the specialized, single-resource route theme? (If I say "Mmmm....PEAT" one more time, I'm gonna sound like a broken record, so how about "Yippppeeeeeee!!!!")
    Posted 6 months ago by KitchWitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Lilycat! I was just thinking the same kind of thing earlier this evening. I like the idea of a "chaos" route (great name, too!). I'd be quite glad to work on such a route.
    Posted 6 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @KitchWitch - Absolutely I would have split the streets up, but we didn't have enough people wanting to join the route at the time and I wanted to get started with building it. Hopefully when we're done testing we'll be able to do that :)

    @Lilycat @Flowerry Pott - Saucelah made a good point actually, the HRR Millionaire's route sounds exactly the kind of thing you're looking for :)
    Posted 6 months ago by Just Willow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Just Willow: Many thanks, but the Millionaire's route isn't exactly it. I was looking for something with more flexibility, where route-keepers could have as much or as little of whatever they want (and even change it around frequently if they like). Would you mind if I picked up that ball and ran with it (and can I call it the Chaos Route)?
    Posted 6 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Flowerry Pott - Of course! If you need help setting up and planning etc just give me a shout. I'm totally going to bed now tho (it's 6:30am)  (9_9) , but I'll be back tomorrow ;) Night Night Glitchen! xXx
    Posted 6 months ago by Just Willow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No one would mind at all, I'm sure.  And I'm certain Scarlett would support it in the HRR group (links on the page and stuff like the existing routes) if you want, or not if you don't want. 

    It also reminds me of the Grand Circuit Tour of Ur, which I think is Loki's group, though I don't remember hearing it come back up since the housing reset.  I made a mental note to run it after housing was all up too . . . *wanders off*
    Posted 6 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Willow -- thanks Willow, this is a great route!
    Posted 6 months ago by Rowan Croft Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've just done a picture thingy (it's really not good, but I only had ms paint to work with) that kind of visually represents where I'd ultimately like to go with this route (It's got a shiny new name too - MERL)

    :)

    xXx
    Posted 6 months ago by Just Willow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I actually can't wait for the game to be up so I can play on this.
    You're such a smart lurve!
    Posted 6 months ago by Joan Holloway Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Anya!!!!!! *superflyingtacklhugs* See you in game!

    xXx
    Posted 6 months ago by Just Willow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have a full bean street. Still working out the expansions to one side, but I'd be honored to help out if I can.
    Posted 6 months ago by DanteAmaya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @DanteAmaya - That's awesome! We will be expanding at some point (not by much tho, want to keep it fairly small) so I will be looking for people to join. I'll hopefully do a forum post or something with the requirements and guidelines for the route, and also a more detailed explanation of how it will work.
    Posted 6 months ago by Just Willow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You had the great idea Willow!  All I did was redo my yard to have a yard full of Metal.  I love the whole route!  It'll just get better as we each add more land and resources.  Some of us need more iMG to add to our streets, but the whole route works great now!  Thanks for coming up with the idea and all your help.
    Posted 6 months ago by jazzcrash Subscriber! | Permalink