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Housing price increase!

Just noticed that the price of most houses has increased. Guess that will slow the rush down. Later

Posted 15 months ago by Mater Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Omai~ I was just looking at the old prices like half an hour ago; good catch! Treehouses and Heights-style caves are 4k now, and the fanciest Meadow-style houses go up to 15k.
    Posted 15 months ago by MX Ghostie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • But prices in the bogs dropped...the 5K houses are now 3,500...
    Posted 15 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • aww man, and I just updated the Wiki last night!
    Posted 15 months ago by Skwid Subscriber! | Permalink
  • At least the expensive bungalow homes have 5 patches instead of 3 now.  So maybe this was a rationalization of pricing, rather than a general price increase.
    Posted 15 months ago by Kookaburra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @skwid lol i see your history, that's a lot of hard work man! x.X
    Posted 15 months ago by jenderal.cilik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Speaking of housing rush (and maybe this should be a new topic, but for now I am just posting it here), it occurs to me that a lot of people are hoping to get their old house back--the exact same one they had.  And it further occurs to me that while I have no desire to take a house somewhere that is someone's ancestral home to which they want to return, I will have no way of knowing whose is/was whose.

    I know people will have the right to buy whichever house they'd like, and if someone takes "my" house, I'll just buy another one:  I am not proposing making any kind of *rule* that you can't buy someone's house.

    But I wonder if we could make some kind of a way that people who don't want to sadden a fellow glitch by buying her/his ancestral house could choose to avoid doing so.  Something like a forum thread where someone could post the house s/he used to live in, and then someone like me could just ctrl+F and check whether a house I was thinking of buying was mentioned?  Is there a more sophisticated way to possibly do this?
    Posted 15 months ago by caromalinia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Expensive bungalows always had 5 patches (at least they did months ago when I lived there).

    The apartments are up to 1.5k.

    None of this is too surprising. An adjustment was probably due. I imagine we may find many tweaks across the board, including changes in item prices.
    Posted 15 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • the one I was after has jumped from 8 to 15k :(  bummer.  I might head for the bogs then.
    Posted 15 months ago by icatchm0nkeys Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The expensive bungalow houses have always had 5 patches.  They just seem to have made all the top level bungalow houses the same price (instead of 8K to 10K), the medium ones the same price...the low level ones are still staggered, but maybe they've not changed them yet.  The tree houses and rock houses seem to be more in line with their current prices at 4K, even though that just about doubled their original cost, but they were always in high demand. The swamp prices dropped, probably to encourage more to purchase out there...

    Of course, when we eventually get options to decorate/expand...it won't matter as much...
    Posted 15 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ouch! yeah, 8k to 15k is just 1k off the price doubling D:

    Oh well! Just means we have to work harder to get our houses. I wonder if anything else has changed?
    Posted 15 months ago by Serilyn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • my house has jumped from 9k to 15k! :( thats a pain!
    Posted 15 months ago by JugglesXP Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Kookaburra
    In general, I'd agree with you, except for the fact that treehouses still seem to be best value for price: there are bungalows more expensive than the treehouses that have 1 less patch and 4 less plots, and--in some cases--smaller cabinets, as well. (Don't even get me started on the Andra-style caves.)
    Posted 15 months ago by MX Ghostie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ...interesting.  I was really looking forward to snapping up a $2k tree house, but this makes sense.  They were so much better than the $1k apartments as to make the latter nearly worthless...
    Posted 15 months ago by FlirtyvonSexenhaven Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My wonderful Alakol mansion is still 50,000. ;P What a long way away that is.
    Posted 15 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • great the 50k house is still 50k :D
    Posted 15 months ago by GiaTori Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think the prices seem a bit more consistent with their resources and their demand...they couldn't keep tree houses in stock...and it's nice that the different designs of the meadows homes don't affect the price any longer - all large homes are 15K and all mediums are 10K...hope they change the smalls to be consistent also...but maybe at the lower level they are trying to help those with fewer currants.  Also, meadows homes have always been in high demand as well, so the price increase is reasonable. And making an apartment a bit more than a small bag seems to make sense too since you have unlimited storage capacity with a home.

    Per caromalinia's comment...yes, many want their original homes back, and I am one of them...but I'm also reasonable enough to know that if someone gets my old home before me, then I just have to buy a different one of the same style.  It's not that big of deal...except when I'm constantly banging on the door because I forget it's not my house anymore and I can't figure out why my key doesn't work ;)
    Posted 15 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just made a bug report concerning some housing things: http://beta.glitch.com/forum/bugs/7419/  I'm not sure whether I found mistakes or everything is as it should be.
    If you are bored by waiting for "Closed" to go away, please, have a look and tell me whether you also think, that there are some mistakes in the realty section.
    Posted 15 months ago by Kuki, very sad. Subscriber! | Permalink
  • A truly decadent thought came to me earlier...

    Instead of buying a house with those first, hard-fought, 5000 currants - why not be the first to buy a cubimal instead?!
    Posted 15 months ago by Helium Penguin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Kuki: I figure it doesn't hurt to post the discrepancies we see. If they are planning to adjust them, it might be helpful.
    Posted 15 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Helium Penguin - my new goal is to be the first one with a Cubimal.
    Posted 15 months ago by That Kid Tyler Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Lol Kid, Helium just said that so you won't buy the house he has his eye on ;-)
    Posted 15 months ago by Violet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'll have so many cubimals. I won't need a house. They'll shelter me.
    Posted 15 months ago by That Kid Tyler Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Alas my 2.2K dream has been crushed 'neath the brutal heel of GREED! (Glitch Real Estate Elevation Directorate)

    That said - the rise in prices makes sense. It hurts a tiny bit at first when we're all broke, but before you know it people will be flush with currants again.

    Now if we could just open soon so I can grow my 100 currants!
    Posted 15 months ago by The Cat Face Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Does anyone remember the spam-like messages we got at the end of the last test talking about how housing would be a wonderful investment and was guaranteed to rise?

    Cause uhhhhh....
    Posted 15 months ago by Biohazard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That Pickle is part Nostradamus!
    Posted 15 months ago by The Cat Face Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That Kid Tyler you may have to rebuy all your cubimals, mine aren't in my inventory anymore :(
    Posted 15 months ago by xoxJulie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I had a treehouse and thought that it was ridiculously undervalued considering that it had a 3 patches and a 12plot garden. Quite productive.    The neighborhood was also relatively empty of other residents.  I could log in, water or replant my garden, put the goods up for auction or pop outside to sell to a vendor, maybe use the remaining energy to mine one of the local rocks. Log off, come back four hours later for the next new day.    You could spend a few minutes doing that every four hours (boring, yes) and progress through the game without it eating up too much of your real life.
    Posted 15 months ago by Treesa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Awwww, my house is 15 K. CRAP! (almost typed carp, now that wouldn't have made much sense).
    Posted 15 months ago by Cosmic Carrie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @xoxJulie - I never had any! They were introduced in the 2 months when I was out of the game. But they shall be mine.
    Posted 15 months ago by That Kid Tyler Subscriber! | Permalink