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McBeal Forestry Service

In looking for my part to play in helping make the world of Glitch a better place, I've set upon helping resolve one of the great mysteries of our time -- the rarity of wood trees.   Yes, I realize this is an issue for some Glitchen, both pro and con, as it may relate to territory and other such stuff, but that is not a pool I care to dip my sandaled toe into.  Rather, the McBeal Forestry Service will, in the guise and form of yours truly, wander the many lands seeking to plant wood trees where ever a venue has 4 or more trees in the first place. 

Now, as i pursue my Completist Badges, I'll be able to do my part in improving the world at large, and I invite you all to do the same!  You, too, can earn the right to wear the Official McBeal Forest Ranger green fedora as you plant wood trees far and wide for the enjoyment of all Glitchen, everywhere.

To recap the simple rules of the McBeal Forestry Service:  4 trees or more = Plant a wood tree
It's fun, it's woody, and it's cellulose!

And, to those who prefer to spend their time destroying the valuable resource that is Wood, may I simply say:  Nanny nanny poo poo!

Posted 11 months ago by WallyMcBeal Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Heart symbols don't register *sigh*
    Posted 11 months ago by Rook Subscriber! | Permalink
  • if it comes with a cool theme song and wardrobe like this, I am IN!
    Posted 11 months ago by Snowpea Subscriber! | Permalink
  • you are gonna plant some wood trees, congratulations man. I am even gonna mail you 100 wood tree beans to plant, not because I believe in your cause but because it is just funny to see something so "noble" in intent be so utterly crushed by the greed of man :)

    players run up, harvest. they might water, they might pet, but it takes a lot more of the latter two to negate the single harvest. rinse. soon, dead tree. if you don't fertilidust the trees once they sprout too, they get harvested and cleared, then replanted, usually as something else. again, dead tree.

    maintaining a few in various spots might work, but trying to create a world filled with wood is too big a task for any one man, it is a waste of resources BUT if you gain enjoyment from it and it isn't negatively impacting others, who can complain? I hope you are successful, the 100 beans will be mailed shortly.
    Posted 11 months ago by psibertus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • http://i.imgur.com/jXs9z.png

    I kid, I cancelled it :D
    Posted 11 months ago by Draron Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you so very much!  Psibertus, the seeds will be welcome.  I'm half way through Potionmaking 1 right now so I can make my own poison as needed.

    And Snowpea, I was thinking more along the lines of This theme song!

    Draron, yes, I've done that by accident while typing too fast.  Glad there's a cancel button.

    Rook -  Hearts back at ya!

    So come on people -- Plant some wood trees!
    Posted 11 months ago by WallyMcBeal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just wanted to drop in and say that I absolutely LOVE your zeal and positive attitude!  It's marvelously glitchy ;)  Best of luck with your endeavours!
    Posted 11 months ago by Aurora Dellaterra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "where ever a venue has 4 or more trees in the first place."

    Can't wait until you reach IX.
    Posted 11 months ago by Mablem Tiipot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • pretty sure you can't plant wood in ix anyway

    also, why wood trees? planks are useless. plant spice instead, it's a useful resource yet barely more common than wood (as of time of writing, 39 spice to 33 wood)
    Posted 11 months ago by Negata Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Good point Negata!  I know I have a spice tree at home.  Any other thoughts on this, folks?
    Posted 11 months ago by WallyMcBeal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Despite the numbers, spice feels more "common" to me because I am used to running through Ix whenever I am low on spice. So I think your project is more interesting if you stick to wood.
    And according to the wiki, you can plant wood in Ix as well.
    Posted 11 months ago by Vic Fontaine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Spice is the most convenient tree to harvest because they are packed in one small region even though their numbers is less than other.
    Posted 11 months ago by gamecharacter Subscriber! | Permalink
  • News on the Spice front -- spice trees can only be planted in certain areas.  Not Groddle Meadow, for instance.

    And, so far I'm zero for six on wood trees lasting 12 hours.  Oh well...

    They are just a baby tree!  Please be nice to them!

    McBeal Forestry Service.
    Posted 11 months ago by WallyMcBeal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I will send you ever fertilidust and fertilidust-lite I get Good luck
    Posted 11 months ago by Kookaburra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's good that you are willing to make this a big part of your game effort.  It makes me feel better about doing the 'harvest and clear' whenever the opportunity avails itself.  I often get peat when digging the cleared patch, so it's excellent to find a wood tree ready to clear.

    And you're helping the newbies.  They don't need fruit, or beans, or bubbles.  There are so many uses for wood that new players (those who have completed that one-time 'badge' thing if badges are at all important to them) should all rise up and thank you for helping them along with your little personal quest. 

    "Let Them Eat Wood!" is the new royal proclamation.
    Posted 11 months ago by Razzal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Spread the Wood!
    Posted 11 months ago by WallyMcBeal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is a nice thing to do, WallyMcBeal! Glitchen still need wood trees. I'll be glad to help you in any way I can.

    Plus, anyone who can post "nanny nanny poo poo" deserves all the support we can give.

    Spread The Wood!
    Posted 11 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • there are fewer than three wood trees in that street at the moment, and no signs of patrolly-ness, so currently all the wood trees in the world are enjoying a reprieve from me. a little kindness, even.
    Posted 11 months ago by flask Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you, flask. :)
    Posted 11 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am sure we are all abjectly grateful for the condescension displayed in not killing off every wood tree in Ur, a resource desired by so many avatars, as a noble-minded reward for someone's momentary satisfaction with the tree population on one public street.
    Posted 11 months ago by Dotcom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I hope planks will be required in building our new homes.

    Wally, I would be honored to help you in this missing :)  Count me in :D
    Posted 11 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Planted 30 so far -- 100 wood seeds on hand waiting for their chance to grow.

    Thank you for your support!
    Posted 11 months ago by WallyMcBeal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @negata.. Everything in Glitch has a purpose .. even if you can't find one at the moment.  Feed 20 planks to a batterfly and get 3 guano. 

    PLANT WOOD TREES !!
    Posted 11 months ago by Qizara Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i'm sorry, but unfortunately that certain group are back to controlling there street -for what purpose i don't know- since it has been demonstrated that when they retain control over that street, wood trees everywhere else die.

    i guess it's your choice, but hey. you play how you want.
    Posted 11 months ago by flask Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like the idea of planting wood trees on streets with four trees! A great idea! One that clearly gets a lot of support.

    Flask, why do you have to keep going back and back to one particular public street if what you see there makes you so angry you want to kill wood trees everywhere? And isn't killing wood trees everywhere pretty "controll-y"? Don't you feel a little bad about working to crush someone else's very nice project for reasons that have nothing to do with that project? 
    Posted 11 months ago by Bluella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i feel very bad that one group of bad apples has decided to make rules for the rest of us.

    so as long as theyr'e still at it, there will be no wood trees anywhere. if it was really about the trees for them, they'd see how the math works out. yesterday while there were patrols in that street i simply unplanted every wood tree i could find until about halfway through the day the number there fell and i let the wood trees be.

    so it becomes not an issue of whether wood threes are good, but whether that group intends to carry their small view to the rest of the world. it's a political action. wood trees flourished yesterday at a rate unknown in ur for months until the control group decided to replant all to four and now wood trees are very much on the decline.

    go ahead and look at the data.

    it isn't personal; it's meant to be a manipulation of game choices. if the group persists in "preserving" that street as a wood preserve, there won't be reliable wood trees anywhere. when they stop trying to dictate what can and cannot be planted there, wood trees will flourish everywhere.

    now, you can decide what's really important to you: making a stand for your right to control that street and show us who's boss, or you can opt for wood trees that grow everywhere.

    you have to choose between what you said you were about (trees) and what you're really about (control). i've said from the beginning that what i'm against is control and will use any method at my disposal to stop it. i don't care about trees in particular.

    you choose every day whether to betray your own causes or not. i choose to be true to mine.
    Posted 11 months ago by flask Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @qizara poor example, you can do that with anything.

    Had you said "tinker recipies" you'd have won the cash prize! Even then, not really justifiable to have so many.

    Meanwhile, spice is limited to whatever you manage to scape up in Ix every 4 hours, depending if the bright side has been changed to gas or not.
    Posted 11 months ago by Negata Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Lesse.  Wood's used in tinkering recipes (everybody needs a high-class hoe!), you can feed it to batterflies and pigs, and yes, there were occasional times as a newbie glitch I used it as sustenance.  And there's also splanking -- which is not necessarily nice, but occasionally necesary.

    Plus, street projects, when they exist, use them and it's probably a safe bet we're going to be needing them in house construction and expansion whenever the devs decide to spring that upon us.

    So yeah, as a tinkerer, I like wood trees.  They're useful.  Do I have enough planks to last me until the next millennium at the moment?  Sure.  But on the other hand, not having them when I need them is really frustrating and there's been a few times I've been caught without my stash of planks when I want to make a tool.

    I don't care about the friggen tree wars other than the fact they're annoying.  But I don't like the thought that wood is useless.  The one thing I've learned is that nothing is useless -- we just haven't always seen the use yet.
    Posted 11 months ago by retstak Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I personally see no need for wood trees. I am sorry to report that I may be obliged to kill a wood tree if I happen across one. Why not plant more bubble trees?
    Posted 11 months ago by Anderella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Meanwhile, spice is limited to whatever you manage to scape up in Ix every 4 hours, depending if the bright side has been changed to gas or not.

    Wow. I just managed to scrape up over 1000 spice end of one day and into the start of another (so E/W Spice got duplicated). I think I might need to make a spice run once every other blue moon. Considering you can make loads more currants from spice trees, I'd almost say cover the world in Wood! MOAR WOOD! Not really. That'd be kind of boring. But I would favor wood over spice. Heck, I could sell the wood and buy spice. Woot!

    And not that I really care. Seriously. But all you tree war people have it wrong. Where is the fight for fruit?!

    Fruit trees make cherries. Cherries make oranges. Oranges make orange juice. Orange juice makes rainbows. Rainbows rock. More rainbows! More rainbows needs more fruit! More Fruit! More FRUIT! MOAR FROOT!

    Oh and patches? Who wants a bunch of trees sprouting out of their walking path. Seriously. You're just going along. Things are good. and BAM! right into a tree. PAVE EM DOWN! (but not the froot!) Bonus: we all might be able to get the stupid patch tending badges! Woot!

    PATCHES & FROOT! PATCHES & FROOT!
    Posted 11 months ago by Vera Strange Subscriber! | Permalink
  • oh. also. I fully support a Forestry Service. And I will pet and water the wood trees I come across. 

    But. Uh. If ya gotta choice of killing bean or fruit. MOAR FROOT! 

    ;)
    Posted 11 months ago by Vera Strange Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Negata... I forget that spice trees are so limited as I have them growing in my backyard and really never run out of spice.   I see people feeding meat to batterflies to get guano and then complain because they have no meat.  It was just a suggestion and yes, they are good for tinkering :)  I'm hoping that planks show up with the new housing plan, they were used in "New Street Projects"   so maybe they will again be a sought after product.

     I would never kill a spice tree to plant ANY type of tree.This is a neverending discussion as to which there is no solution but then again such is life :)
    Posted 11 months ago by Qizara Subscriber! | Permalink
  • you choose every day whether to betray your own causes or not. i choose to be true to mine.

    FYI: Glitch already has a GOD.
    Posted 11 months ago by Holgate Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just a suggestion, but to make the trees a semi-lasting fixture you need to come back and regularly tend them with fertipowder. Assuming they are in a low traffic area and the tree poisoners don't get to them, once per game day is usually enough and the 80 planks you get will more than cover the powder needed.

    Let me know if you need a hand.  : )
    Posted 11 months ago by Melting Sky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Flask, get off the cross someone needs the wood. {bah-dum-dum-ching!} /eyeroll
    Posted 11 months ago by Pixieyelsraek Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That was too funny, but they are gonna burn you alive for that for the next 30 pages of postings. Also expect your street to get trashed routinely for a while since that is always part of the deal with dead trees and piggies named after serial killers and such.

    PS  My advice to you is whatever crazy in-game abuses they accuse you of etc. don't get baited into posting again. There will be no end to it.
    Posted 11 months ago by Melting Sky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Anderella wrote: "I personally see no need for wood trees. I am sorry to report that I may be obliged to kill a wood tree if I happen across one."

    Hey, that's a great attitude. Really useful! And so helpful to everyone else!
    It's totally obvious now. If there is one person in the whole game who has no use for something, than how can anyone else possibly need it???? Wow, I'm amazed at how limited my thinking was.
    Thanks for the enlightenment! If I'm feeling hungry, should I check with you first to see if I need some food? If my house is burning down, should I give you a call to determine if a fire department is necessary?
    Sheesh.
    Posted 11 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Please don't plant on Khoul Bheans!
    Posted 11 months ago by lilkitty Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh excellent! Somewhere to send all those fertilidust lites I'm always getting chucked at me by trees. Oh also, I accidentally harvested one of your wood trees when trying to water it *hangs head in shame*, but I did kiss it better!
    Posted 11 months ago by Pomponella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh I agree that a street named Khoul Beans should stay beany. But I didn't think the OP's idea was that EVERY street with four trees would get one wood. I thought the idea was that SOME streets with four trees would get one wood. 

    At least one wood tree in each wood-friendly region? Nearish a subway if there is a subway that goes there? Wood would be good that way, wouldn't wood?
    Posted 11 months ago by Bluella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I strongly encourage everyone to plant whatever they want to plant in whatever areas they want to plant it.  But we all have to recognize that *everyone* can plant what they think is appropriate, which may include killing what we recently planted and planting something new over it.

    When you choose to advertise your personal project as an act of philanthropy in the forums, you will usually find some blowback from people who don't like your idea.  People will accuse you of trying to take over public space and make rules.  Anyone who reads the forums regularly has seen this kind of thing blow up into a flame war more than once.

    I replant trees a lot, and I have nothing against anyone else doing so in whatever way they see fit.  But please realize that no matter how you think trees should be laid out there is always someone out there who agrees with you and someone out there who disagrees.  None of us has any more right to say how things should be than any other.  If someone is killing a tree you planted to replace it, or otherwise interacting with the world in a way you don't like, don't jump to the conclusion that they are being a jerk.  They are playing the game the way they want to play it based on their own ideas of what is best and the information they have available to them.
    Posted 11 months ago by Humbabella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What Humbabella said.
    Posted 11 months ago by Mablem Tiipot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Friends, Glitchens, Aborists -- Thank you for your support!

    And for those who need to harvest wood (as I have in the past), feel free, but please try not to kill it!   That's what fertilidust is for!  There are a fair share of quests needing wood as well as planks for tinkering and such, and who knows what future needs may arise after Beta2 is over?  I'm not saying Wood Everywhere, I'm saying Share the Wood!  That's why I'm limiting my planting sites to where there are already at least 4 trees. Shifting a Bubble or Bean to Wood isn't that much of a loss when there's another half dozen of them in the surrounding streets. And, as you know, Spice trees only grow in certain areas, so that's that.

    At any rate, if we can get a regular group of Forest Rangers out planting Wood trees from time to time, there will be plenty for everybody, everywhere!

    Share the Wood!
    Posted 11 months ago by WallyMcBeal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Flowerry Pott Of course you should consult me before eating! If you do not, then you may avoid Hell, and that would be a shame :-) With regard to the house burning down situation, I would advise you donate all of your belongings to me for safe keeping. I shall sell the stuff I do not need, and use the rest. Your house will have to burn.

    While wood is good for splanking, I see no need for any further use of it. I say convert a vast majority of wood trees into bubble trees. I have a herb garden and can make a vast number of tree poisons, if anyone requires them for my plan?
    Posted 11 months ago by Anderella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Anderella - You need wood to CRAFT many items, items that will soon be gone from all vendors as part of the phasing out process. Just because *you* don't need something doesn't mean others don't also.

    Melting Sky - did you mean me/my comment?
    Posted 11 months ago by Pixieyelsraek Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just harvested four wood trees. I don't understand why people are making such a fuss, there are plenty of them anyway! So what if I don't want wood, or want to get rid of them? It's part of the game! Otherwise there would be no such thing as tree poison!
    Posted 11 months ago by Anderella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Anderella: LOL, thanks for taking my sarcasm graciously! :)

    I actually don't have a problem with you poisoning any trees you want. I know that's a part of the game. It was just your reason (that you personally don't see a need for them) that got my goat. No-one gets to decide that because they personally don't need something, that no-one else should have it either.

    If you had said, "I like to poison wood trees because it makes me laugh", I would have said "More power to you!" and gone about my day.

    ETA: I would have gone about my day and still supported WallyMcBeal in his wood planting efforts!
    Posted 11 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ***I'm not taking sides*** If i don't have a dust and a wood tree is about to be cleared from my harvest, i'll harvestit, and plant whatever bean i do have. This gets accusations of being a wood tree hater, which is just silly. The entire tree wars are silly, and if they just stayed a silly fun thing, we would all be fine. The tree wars could have been about picking a side and PLAYFULLY planting/replanting/killing trees, etc. could have been done PLAYFULLY, and nice. But someplace along the line, people seem to have forgotten this is a game. You can plant, you can poision, just like everyone else can. Don't impose your rules on others, let it be. take a breather and ask youself is it honestly worth your energy to be this angry over some pixels? So what if someone killed the tree you planted. This is coming from someone who spends more time in glitch than a normal person should, btw. And i'm not saying that sometimes things don't get the better of me - hell, i was so angry about all the crazy piggy people... but i can laugh at myself now. There are people in BOTH COURTS who are handling it wrong.

    *notice: This isn't an accusation against anyone specific and unless "you are so vain i bet you think this post is about you" then don't assume i mean "you".

    PS: Anderella - i wasn't saying you can't or shouldn't poison them, i was simply responding to you saying wood is useless. You logic was flawed, that's all. :-)
    Posted 11 months ago by Pixieyelsraek Subscriber! | Permalink
  • They are still useless. Give me a bubble tree any day of the week! :-)
    Posted 11 months ago by Anderella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • useless to *you*. LOL, odd that you can't grasp that one little concept. Once I'm done making eggs for the badges, bubbles will be useless to *me* that doesn't make them useless. Semantics yes, but important in these discussions.
    Posted 11 months ago by Pixieyelsraek Subscriber! | Permalink
  • bubble trees?! bah!

    FROOOOT!
    Posted 11 months ago by Vera Strange Subscriber! | Permalink
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