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New street projects?

Are there going to be any, ever?

Posted 3 months ago by Electric Wizard Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Pleaseeeeeee..........
    Posted 3 months ago by Webbie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm struggling to find appropriate links right now, but as far as I know, street projects (as older players know them) are gone for good. There may be something similar coming (I saw one snap of a public street tree patch with a project sign above it--like you'd see on a home street or backyard cultivated item, but I'm not sure if that was a bug or a taste of things to come....), but no official word yet.

    I hope something like street projects comes out soon :).
    Posted 3 months ago by Bradamus Prime Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Feats" are coming, but we don't know what they are.

    A few ideas were posted a while back on how to create an endgame, that allowed Glitchen to have a real impact on the world of Ur, along with giving folks a chance to earn these trophys & badges.
    Posted 3 months ago by Sturminator IX Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'd sure like a chance to get the street project trophies, they are far nicer than the rest.
    Posted 3 months ago by N2ZOrtolanaBlue Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am still looking for a couple pieces to just finish my darn trophies

    http://www.glitch.com/forum/marketplace/26271/
    Posted 3 months ago by Jessenya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The old ones are definitely not ever coming back.

    We think Feats will be better and more fun.

    Maybe we'll do something about the trophies in the future.
    Posted 3 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Stoot - I would love it if the trophies were changed so that there was a way to get them. Before the reset from Beta where we went live I thought they would not be retained so I dumped all the pieces that I had gotten and now very much regret it. I misread the info and figured they would be lost during that reset, so left them out for anyone that could use them to complete their pieces and combine them into a trophy. I wold love to see a version of them again.
    Posted 3 months ago by Gizmospooky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Gizmospooky!
    Posted 3 months ago by Tradescantia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh! I hope we will eventually get to collect the trophy pieces, again!
    I put off collecting them before, thinking that I could just take my time and enjoy doing so, and then POOF!!...gone and no way to get them anymore - so very frustrating!! ;^(
    Posted 3 months ago by sgjo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would very much enjoy having a chance to earn some of those street trophies :)
    Posted 3 months ago by ennuienta Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +10000 for street trophy pieces.
    Posted 3 months ago by Pii Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Gizmospooky - They WERE lost. I kept my pieces and they disappeared when the game was reset. As far as I know, that happened to everyone.
    Posted 3 months ago by Audaria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Feh, I'm in the top .1% for Achievements for the Odd Jobber (22 players have this Achievement, including me) and Project Enthusiast (25 players have this Achievement, including me) Achievements and I STILL haven't been able to make a full Street Trophy, or even buy or trade to make a SINGLE one, QQ.  -sad face-

    Stats from here: glitchium.com/achievements/...
    Posted 3 months ago by Serra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I proudly display my three street trophy pieces in my house.  Would be nice to finish them someday.
    Posted 3 months ago by Lucille Ball Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Here's a thought that rolled through my head:

    Add 'Construction Offices', small buildings somewhat like the Bureacratic Halls or Machine Rooms, on various streets across Ur. Inside, street maps show the present state of the land, including the future sites 'under construction'. An NPC foreman (possibly a street spirit, but maybe an appropriate animal... you know they could have fun with a Glitchy Beaver) accepts donations toward the new construction. HOWEVER, the limit on donation isn't a finite quantity, it's a limited amount of time: the time until the new street is finished/released (for example, maybe one or two game days). Everyone who donates the appropriate items during that time gets a reward, and after a certain threshold is reached, you get a trophy piece for your total contributions.

    So unlike the previous street projects, you don't have to go to one specific location, deal with lag from the swarms of competitors, try to beat the rush to click on the 'donate' button, or hope to have the right stack of items in your bag at that moment. Yet, you still get to trade hoarded goods for something unique, plus it fits the theme of 'build it bigger'!
    Posted 71 days ago by Rattus Rattus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ooh.. I kinda like that idea, Rattus. :)
    Posted 71 days ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I enjoy going for badges, and am fairly high up on the leaderboards, but the whole issue of street projects and trophies is frustrating. I've made peace with the fact that there are beta badges and such that others have that I will never earn, but there are so many badges for street projects (between the badges and trophies, it's 15 achievements) that it feels like a real, almost prohibitive disadvantage. 
    Posted 71 days ago by Pii Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am ok with the idea that there are some badges, trophies, and rare items that just can no longer be gotten.. However, for that to work, it would be good if new players were able to get some things that older beta players simply couldn't get.  Not sure what, maybe special badges for joining glitch on certain days.    

    I don't think everyone HAS to have the same opportunity to get everything.   Variety is good.   Maybe some badges could be available for only limited periods of time?   Its no good to have an elite class of alpha/beta players who have things that newer players can never get but it is nice for everyone to get the opportunity to have some rare thing that can never be gotten again.
    Posted 71 days ago by Treesa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Treesa, there are a few things that new players get that older players can not. The "Greeter Twig", as I understand it, can not be given or traded.
     Also, the new tutorial is a whole bunch of streets that us street collectors will never be "legally" able to visit. I'll bet there is other stuff that I don't know about, but I'm sure exists. 

    And can I second Pii's request to make the street project badges achievable whenever you "maybe ... do something about the trophies in the future."
    Thanks
    Posted 71 days ago by Squiggle-Squee Subscriber! | Permalink
  • To be clear, I wouldn't want to take away badges from beta players, especially the ones they worked hard to earn! I just think that if there's a whole category of badges that new players can never hope to get (and like I said, there are 15 street project badges) then that is where things start to get unbalanced. 
    Posted 71 days ago by Pii Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Actually, in that category, there are four badges that NO ONE has (at least according to Glitchium)-- Up 'n' Comer, Deeply Concerned Citizen, Elbow Grease Monkey, and Head Honcho.

    Those, BTW, are the only ever-possible achievements that no one has (the other two are Ormonos & Lida Completist).

    Then there are Chore Buff and Workaholist, both had by (presumable the same) just one person.

    That's more than half the achievements in this category. So perhaps this category isn't really all that important. 

    I dunno,

    --Me
    Posted 71 days ago by SchWM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Then there are Chore Buff and Workaholist, both had by (presumable the same) just one person.

    Not quite, Chore Buff is me, Workaholist is someone from staff (Jade, i think). Since staff aren't listed, and no other unobtainable badges actually count for the leaderboards, I have been sharing first place first with Lx and now with Snarkle for ages now - and they actually bothered getting that pesky little absolutely insane I-think-I-would-lose-my-mind-in-the-process-of-trying 10,009 teleports badge. So while I was merely lucky that the last Street Project ever was the one that got me the achievement, there are people more dedicated/ crazy than me out there who should be at the top (according to Glitchium, 5 players have Z-class, and i think it's quite likely the only badges they lack are the Street Project ones).

    Considering this, I would suggest either making those achievements (including the trophies) actually obtainable for everyone again in some way or another at some point OR just "officially" retiring them and make them uncount for the leaderboards like the alpha badges or Hburger's internship one, so people won't be as frustrated about them anymore...
    Posted 71 days ago by Sumi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Really like Rattus Rattus's idea, you should post it in the Ideas forum!
    Posted 70 days ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Sumi: Heh, I suck at math so I could be wrong, but I estimated it as a person who just got N Class (e.g., with 7500 TP's left) as about four months of grinding it for three hours a day. If only camera TP's still counted toward the badge, it'd be a lot less insane. But yeah... expect to see me popping in and out of GFJ, Cebarkul, and the AL's, and not doing much of anything else, for quite awhile now. xD

    As for badges in relation to projects/feats, this is the suggestion I made when I described them in my last review of the game:
    "As a near one-to-one parallel to street projects, participation in feats also rewards artifact pieces, that can be assembled into full artifacts (in street projects, one was given trophy pieces, that could be assembled into trophies). As a badger, I hope to see badges added aside from the artifact pieces, as well as the artifacts behaving as trophies (which also count as badges)."

    Edit: I'd like to point out that this would involve new badges/trophies. While feats parallel projects, they aren't exact clones, and since there aren't "phases" to speak of in feats, you really can't slap those badges onto feats and call it a day. But, yes, as a parallel to projects, the achievement element needs to be there.
    Posted 70 days ago by Jus​tin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Justin: Ah yes, it was crazy people like you I had in mind when writing this ;)
    You will find the time for the odd round of GoC though, i hope? :)
    Posted 70 days ago by Sumi Subscriber! | Permalink
  •  Squiggle-Squee :   ah, I didn't know that.  
    Posted 70 days ago by Treesa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Is the "greeting twig" something that can be displayed on your street or tower?  I'd like to see one.   I'd also like to see a variety of trophies.  Its kind of boring to visit streets and see people displaying the trophies that we all have.   I'd like to see trophies and items that are discontinued, it would make the streets, towers, and tower museums more interesting to visit.    Lots of rare trophies would be cool - trophies you could only get if you happened to be online on particular days doing particular things.    
    Posted 70 days ago by Treesa Subscriber! | Permalink