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TS, can we please get another use for cubimals?

They cost so much and we get so many doubles, triples, and quadruples of ones we already have.
It would be great if they were auction-able or at the very least, donation fodder.

Posted 13 months ago by serfer0 Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I agree.. I just spent 20k on cubimal boxes and every single one of them were piggies. I'm so mad about it, lol
    Posted 13 months ago by mazzy▲ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 serfer0

    Also, it would be nice to set down a cubimal and be able to race it several times without having to pick it up. This would make it more like a "race" if the cubimals could be placed side-by-side, instead of waiting for the text about how far it traveled to determine a race winner.
    Posted 13 months ago by Tonya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Their utter uselessness is what makes them so special!
    Posted 13 months ago by E D D I E Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Assuming that group halls are open to the public, it would be nice to have the in-game materials available to make a cubimal racing track.   A group of Glitches could set their cubimals in slots and they would all be automatically started at the same time and raced down the track.  Glitch grandstands could hold the spectators.   Perhaps you could train, tune or otherwise tweak cubimals to improve their racing ability.   Glitch touts could circulate taking wagers.   Winners could show off with a nice fat Rookswort cigar.  etc, etc. 
    Posted 13 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cubimals purpose is to be a currant sink.  They're to drain excess money out of the economy, to keep inflation from becoming a problem.  IMO that is all they are for, but they're also collectables. 
    Posted 13 months ago by Parrow Gnolle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It'd be cool if you could turn them into their corresponding animals.
    Posted 13 months ago by Captain Man Subscriber! | Permalink
  • How can you have inflation with fixed prices?  If anything, you have deflationary pricing in Auction.
    Posted 13 months ago by CrashTestPilot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If the races were done on an actual racetrack, the winner could win a special item only won during a race.
    Posted 13 months ago by ennuienta Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Think of them as the Beany Babies of Glitch and they are much more understandable.
    Posted 13 months ago by Tsu Dho Nimh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It would be fun to be able to enter them into races for a fee, and divide the amount up into place prizes.
    Posted 13 months ago by Popcorn☺ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, with Beanie Babies, you could see what you were buying before you bought it. 

    Sprinkles - I had the same thing happen, except I got four Chicks out of 4 boxes. Nevermind the fact the first and prior four boxes had three Chicks in them! 

    >_<

    Sell them back to Toy Vendors (prices based upon rarity)? Grind them into elements? Break them down into grain? Use them in a new cocktail/drink? 

    IDEA: A "Cubimal Slammer": 1 ice, 1 hooch, 1 Cubimal (any will do), 5 mangosteens and 5 spinach. Blend until smooth. Gives buff for cubimal racing. 

    If we could sell all these excess chicks for, say, 50c, it wouldn't keep me from buying more and more boxes; it would save the floor space in my house that's slowly becoming a carpet of Cubimals! 
    Posted 13 months ago by blogkitten Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was just thinking about this today. I don't want to be able to sell or donate but i would like to have rewards for collecting lots of one kind.  a badge for each of 100 (or 103) of each kind.   I really don't wish to sell my commons for such a low price as 300 currents so I keep them.  I'll sell the semi-rares to help out others, and the rares I don't have multiples of so no issue there.

    It would be fun to have some game to make use of a hundred chicks.

    Extra emblems used to be useless before they were put to use increasing learning and earning icons.      

    On the other hand,  adding some value to common cubimals may be something not for TS to do but for the community to do by inventing games and/or innovative uses of the common cubimals
    Posted 13 months ago by Treesa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • we could have a war. 

    chicks vs piggies

    :p
    Posted 13 months ago by Treesa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There should be sone way to remove the excess from the game. I have ended up passing them out for free only because I don't want my house to be overrun!
    Perhaps a special cubimal vendor where you could trade in 20+ commons for an unopened box?
    I like the idea of a cubimal racetrack with organized betting/winning, maybe as a special party room!
    Posted 13 months ago by Prophet ð.ð Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I buy 10 cubimal boxes a day, and sometimes more for statistical purposes. I have cubimal bags named 'pigs 1' through 'pigs 3' so I have somewhere between 32 and 48 pig cubimals alone. Recently I've started making starter packs for new collectors to reduce space in my cupboard. As much as I find it amusing racing a plague of frogs or a swarm of fireflies, I too wish the cubes had more function.
    Posted 13 months ago by zZzZzZzZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Crashtestpilot:  Inflation happens any time there is more money than goods in a market.  More money chasing after the same amount of goods --> inflation.  The fixed prices distort this, but don't change the issue fundamentally. 
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    The example of extra unwanted cubimals people have mentioned in the thread is an interesting game aspect.  There are some 'permanent' items for which there is no established way for them to exit the world.   Bags and other containers for instance.  They can't be sold to a vendor or donated to a shrine to make them 'go away' and they are generated by the system any time a player purchases them from a vendor.  Anybody who has had to move and wanted to 'condense' their property down to that which can be carried knows what I mean.  The only choice is to abandon or give them away to others.  That's a good thing as it promotes sociability.  But eventually everybody will have enough bags and we might reach a point where it simply won't be worth it for new players to buy them.  There are probably other examples of items that never leave the game that I am not thinking of at the moment.  Spice Racks, Element Bags, Cubimal Cases are a few.  Right now nothing that is a 'container' can exit the system.  Can cubimals be donated?  I've not tried myself.
    Posted 13 months ago by Parrow Gnolle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What about ... if you assemble 100 piggy cubimals, you get PIGTRON, a bigger piggy cubimal?  Or a stuffed piggy, like an emotional bear, or some other equally improbable toy? It could be just as "useless" as the cubimals are, but it would be a prestige item for those who have taken the effort to assemble the collection.  

    It would be even neater if each kind of cubimal gave you a different kind of toy when you assembled a large enough collection of them.  Like piggies give you a PIGTRON but frogs give you a leaping wind-up frog toy, and so on.

    It'd be like icons, only more kawaii.
    Posted 13 months ago by Scarlett Bearsdale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ Parrow Gnolle: Yes, you can donate away your cubimals, but you don't get favor for them.
    @Scarlett Bearsdale: I love your super-cubimal-transformer idea! It would increase demand for commons.
    Posted 13 months ago by zZzZzZzZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • all these ideas +1
    Posted 13 months ago by Simplin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cubimal jenga?
    Posted 13 months ago by Slippy (Throb) Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I predict  with the coming of Group-Lands, Custom Homes and new skills, soon there will be a skill to teach our Cubimals to do chores like plant/harvest our gardens, pet/water/harvest our tree's and even crush our rocks leaving us more time to socialize and enjoy Glitch.
    Posted 13 months ago by Gomez Addams Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Gomez Addams, that would be awesome. I would love to see a Deimaginator roll back and forth over my chunks of ore to grind them down! :)
    Posted 13 months ago by Xacau Feera Blin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Or instead of new uses for existing toys... how about just some new toys? :-D
    Posted 13 months ago by richi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I, too, would love race tracks for my cubies!  How fun!

    I agree that it's frustrating to open lots of cubimal boxes, only to find a lot of repeats.  My solution to this was to not buy unopened boxes any more.  I only buy opened ones.  I figure the money I spend on acquiring the more rare ones was more than saved up by not purchasing 90 boxes to try to get the specific one I wanted.

    Actually, Vermillion has sold me several!  He's awesomesauce!
    Posted 13 months ago by Wintera Woodswitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I put all my cubey guys in with my other animals xD

    It would be cool if our houses had shelves to display them for people to see like our trophy shelf.
    Posted 13 months ago by PeanutbuttahJelleh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love the idea of combining many of the same cubimal into one giant one! 
    Posted 13 months ago by blogkitten Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yah, I'm just waiting for Cubimal Series 2 Artist Edition XD
    Posted 13 months ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I usually abandon my extra common cubimals in the desert for people to pick up, seeing as there isn't usually a lot of x's around sometimes. 
    Posted 13 months ago by Emleigh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1MILLION to piggytron!
    Posted 13 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink