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glitch housing too.............easy?

maybe we should pay to get our houses? or we could build them? or we could pay rent to the demigators? i just want it to be less instantanious.

Posted 4 months ago by Hell's Bartender Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • It's funny, I sort of feel like I did pay for my house, since I had already purchased two others (no, not simultaneously) and then got evicted from my "expensive" one and got put into a little box that I had to expand with imagination. Yes, I got currants and iMG when the eviction happened but it still feels like I paid for the new one. Understandably, new players will not feel this way but, then again, they will not have to experience the stress of pouring over the real estate listings in the hopes that someone (anyone) will list what they've deemed their "perfect" house for sale.

    Perhaps because of the new housing mechanic, newer players will feel less connected to their homes. On the other hand, they might feel more connectedness to their home knowing that (in time) they can do anything they want to with it (I want an Egg Plant - I'll plant one in my backyard, I want some sparkly - I'll imagine a node, I want herbs AND crops - hooray I have room for both!), whereas we were limited to what our housing choice offered and had to cajole friends into letting us plant crops OR herbs in their yards.

    Okay, maybe I'm not sure how I feel about all this, but I have learned to love my new "free" home and (without the burden of perspective) it may not be too bad that new players have a little place to call their own right away...
    Posted 4 months ago by foolbunny Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Shortly before TS locked down invites to institute the new housing, I started an alt.  Then, when the housing started, I started playing that alt.  What you get in the very beginning is not very impressive.  It's nice!  But you can't do much with it.  And, I've found that when you're starting from zero, it really takes a long time to build something out of it!  I really don't think it's too easy, it's all just spread out over lots of little victories, rather than just one big one.

    Now, it might be nice to have a big victory again, to replace what we used to work towards before imagination...

    But, guess what!  We have that!  In the form of towers!  Those are pretty significant and take a heck of a lot more work.

    So, maybe what might be nice is something more...

    Well, TS has made a list, which is around in these forums somewhere, and on that list are other big things like the towers.

    So, maybe we just wait a little?
    Posted 4 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think if we could build it would be so cool but I guess for a new player that would take a lot of things and too much time, like towers do, so is a good thing they can have a home right when they sign up and be able to drop items there since their money are short in the beggining to have that many bags for storage.
    Posted 4 months ago by Lila Clemenceau Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Considering the amount of effort and imagination I have had to put into my "easy" housing, i long for the days where all I had to do was drop 50K currants and BAM! i had a house. 
    Posted 4 months ago by Papa Legba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't think it is too easy.  I think giving everyone a home base and a street is a good thing.

    Consider all the work a new player still has to do:

    1) They have to work for the img to expand the yards and buy things to put in their yards 

    2) They will spend a long time learning the skills or earning the currants to build/buy stuff to expand the house and get other furniture

    3) They will have to choose between upgrade cards and yard purchases.

    No matter how you look at it, they are still going to have to work for what they want, probably harder than they did when they could mine or harvest meat for a few grinding days and get enough currants to buy a house.

    And the fact that it requires IMG and not currants means that a lot of it will have to be an individual effort, not something someone else can help them with or buy for them.
    Posted 4 months ago by RainCat Subscriber! | Permalink