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Visiting Stones!

Did I scoop this excellent new thing?  Did I did I?

www.glitch.com/snaps/PHVP4B...

Posted 3 months ago by Pale Queen Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I saw one too in Kottima Cast!  but I think you got a scoop on the forums! :D
    Posted 3 months ago by Cosmogrrl Subscriber! | Permalink
  • :O
    Posted 3 months ago by Sororia Rose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, you scooped it Pale Queen :)

    Stoot provided a link in the general forum to the one in Kottima Cast, and he explained that eventually they would appear in other dead-end streets.  I was wondering whether that included the Ancestral Lands -- and now I know. Thanks for sharing!
    Posted 3 months ago by Splendora Subscriber! | Permalink
  • SOME FACTS:

    FACT: Visiting Stones are now placed on most dead-end streets all over Ur.

    FACT: Anyone with a butler and a few cultivated items can "opt in" to get visitors from them.

    FACT: If you choose to visit a street from it, you'll be taken to a Home Street randomly selected from those who have signed up for visits, drawn just from the lowest quartile of streets when ordered by the number of visitors (that just means the Stones send you to visit people who have the fewest visitors).

    FACT: We'll probably make this a thing you can do from the website too (like an "I'm feeling lucky!" button or something).
    Posted 3 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanksss Stoot! :D
    Posted 3 months ago by NightDraconis Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is AWESOME.  Thank you!
    Posted 3 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • First place the Visiting Stone took me: Stoot's street. :)
    Posted 3 months ago by dm Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Stoot u are my hero
    Posted 3 months ago by Frowning Flounder Subscriber! | Permalink
  • cool:):)
    Posted 3 months ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is wonderful. I really like having a tangible connection between the homestreets and Ur.
    Posted 3 months ago by Sheepy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ooooooh, nice! I'm looking forward to trying this. :D
    Posted 3 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love the implicit redistribution of wealth (for values of "wealth" that include attention, curiosity, and time).  Thanks stoot!
    Posted 3 months ago by Pale Queen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What a fantastically fun idea!
    Posted 3 months ago by Knitomaton Subscriber! | Permalink
  • dm: was that right after the first one was placed? Or a bit later? If you get me, it's definitely a bug (I already get way too many visitors).
    Posted 3 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • funtastic! very fun:)
    do the stones work globally? do we get visitors that go to the stone where we asked or we can get visitors from all the stones over Ur? and the other way too: can we randomly visit, no matter what stone was asked for visitors? (am i making sense??:)) thank you:)
    Posted 3 months ago by mira gaia maia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes — it doesn't matter where the stone is located: it's all one global pool of stones and players.
    Posted 3 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • How do we "opt In"? My butler doesn't show the choice.
    Posted 3 months ago by GreyGoose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ahhhhh ... I haven't been able to play for more than a few minutes all week, and even then mostly hung around the house.  Can I get some idea of what this is?
    Posted 3 months ago by Kaelyn Renai Subscriber! | Permalink
  • GreyGoose: you need to go to a stone to opt in.
    Posted 3 months ago by Kopek Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh, these sound awesome!! *rushes off to find one*
    Posted 3 months ago by kastlin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks, Kopek! On my way.......
    Posted 3 months ago by GreyGoose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I got sent to your street the very first time, Stoot.

    Also, whoever wrote the text use the wrong "to"

    It says "I know just the street to send you too."
    Posted 3 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like this.

    I think it'd also be kind of cool to have a stone that sends visitors to our streets BACK OUT to random streets.  Some sort of optional, purchaseable lawn ornament similar in style to the visitor stone.

    Sooo, say you stumble upon a visitor stone, and it sends you to some glitch's place.  When you're done, if you're still in the mood for adventure, you can pop back out to some random corner of Ur, too!

    Completely randomized Glitching.

    I don't know why it would be cool, but it would be cool.
    Posted 3 months ago by Kipple Subscriber! | Permalink
  • WHY!? Why Big Lick? Why remove a historic sparkly that brought so many together, only to replace it with a stone? Save Big Lick! Preserve our heritage!
    www.glitch.com/snaps/PHFEKE...
    Posted 3 months ago by Epilady Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Awesome idea; I was sorta hping something along these lines might be placed on the dead ends. That, or some other reason to go there that can't be found on main streets.
    Posted 3 months ago by Moehr Ossum Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Find your favorite visiting stone.
    Visit a random street!
    Poke around, do stuff, leave a package and note... (and get credit for visiting a new home street towards the Gregarious Gunther badge!)
    Return to world (which will take you right next to the visiting stone you last used).
    Lather, rinse, repeat... and no energy lost!

    I could do this for hours.
    Posted 3 months ago by Eleanor Rigby Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like it. 
    Posted 3 months ago by emdot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Kipple: we have something like that planned, except not sending you to random streets … more like permanent teleportation points to the street owner's favorite places around Ur.
    Posted 3 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oohhhh I def approve that message.
    Posted 3 months ago by awesome sauce01 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Stoot: Nice!  Works for me!
    Posted 3 months ago by Kipple Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is so wonderful. Best new thing. The whole of Ur has been renewed.
    Thanks, devs. You're the BEST! (and I haven't even "entered" yet.)
    Posted 3 months ago by Patricia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So kewl. I love visitors at random. 
    Posted 3 months ago by Eye Wonder Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love this new feature :)
    Posted 3 months ago by Splendora Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Stoot -- What I would love to see is a button that takes you to the street that you have not visited in the longest. I get stuck visiting the same ten or so streets a day, there's streets I hit for the completest badges and then never returned to. The other day I hit a street I hadn't been to in 281 days and found a ghost on it. :) With the world as large as it is I think it would be rad to have an easier way to find places you might have forgotten about.
    Posted 3 months ago by JohnaMarie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So I can't keep my boxler and opt in to this? :o(
    Posted 3 months ago by dfmchfhf Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Very nice feature!  I went to a street I had never been to before and from there on and on and on!  I had a great tour of unseen streets and finished up among my Friends!
    Posted 3 months ago by Brib Annie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!! O LOBE GLITCH EVEN MORE NOW!!!!
    Posted 3 months ago by Misty Power Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Am I imagining that at some point, they were placed but not implemented? I'm new, so I had no idea they weren't there before, but I thought I tried clicking on them and there was no blue glow. Or was I just up too late? (Or both?)
    Posted 3 months ago by ZenMonkey Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ^ Similar looking stones exist in some streets in Alakol.
    Posted 3 months ago by San Serif Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Awesome! Does the effect for people going onto your home street go away after a while?
    Posted 3 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you for fixing the typo.

    And they're still awesome. I'm going to spend hours bouncing to people's houes, I just know it.
    Posted 3 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Are we able to opt in to more than one visiting stone at a time?
    Posted 3 months ago by N2ZOrtolanaBlue Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Once you opt in to a visiting stone, your street is part of the universe from which destinations are selected for all stones, so there's no need (and no ability) to opt in to more than one at a time.
    Posted 3 months ago by Eleanor Rigby Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ah! And, duh! Thanks, Eleanor:)
    Posted 3 months ago by N2ZOrtolanaBlue Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Stoot: It was a moment or two after the first stone was placed up in Aranna. Bug or not, it was fun to jump right to the CEO's office.
    Posted 3 months ago by dm Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i was going to say: please have it send us back out to ur when e're done, but i think you already have it covered, in concept at least.

    so carry on. 

    thank you.
    Posted 3 months ago by flask Subscriber! | Permalink
  • flask: Just type /leave like you would from your own yard.
    Posted 3 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Turns out the rules have been tweaked and it now works like this:

    • divide the pool of people who have opted into four groups (quartiles) ranked by the number of visitors they've gotten over the trailing week, and …
    • 60% of the random visits go to quartile with the fewest visitors, 20% to those in the second quartile, 15% to Q3 and 5% to Q4

    We might tweak these later.
    Posted 3 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oooh, quartiles!!

    That's exciting :)
    Posted 3 months ago by diaveborn ♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It would be even cooler if, when you return from visiting a home street(s), you return to some other random visiting stone in Ur.  
    Posted 3 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
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