Topic

Connect home streets (other than with street signs)

How about making it so that when you walk off the end of a player's street, you walk onto another (random) player's street?  This would make the streets feel less isolated, without the complexity of permanent definitions of street locality.

Or, how about if you walk off a home street, you enter a hall which has a directory of all players so that you can go directly to the streets of all your friends (or even of all players)?

Posted 9 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Interesting ...
    Posted 9 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Or a hall that has doors to the last dozen players that you interacted with (friended, IMed, gave stuff to)?
    Posted 9 months ago by Snazzlefrazz Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is an excellent suggestion! What would happen if say you were at Player A's home street and you walked off the right end into Player J's home street, if you walked back to the left would it be Player A or some random person? Sounds like this would be fun to always be random off the sides while signposts maintain constancy.
    Posted 9 months ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It would at least give us someplace to go if the persons street we are visiting doesn't have any names on the signpost.
    Posted 9 months ago by BlackWolf Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That is a great point, BlackWolf!
    Posted 9 months ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Great idea Jan.
    Posted 9 months ago by Tibbi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @TomC good point.  I think that ideally the game would remember the street you walked from so that if you walked back (say because you didn't mean to change streets), it would take you where you were.
    Posted 9 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was going to suggest having a spot for "random" on your signpost - sort of like the "I'm Feeling Lucky" dealie on Google's page - and it pops you onto a randomly-generated player's street (as long as you have not blocked that player). Not necessarily a player on your friends list, either.

    But the walking off the end of your street onto somewhere random is probably a better idea. +25 to whatever would be easier to implement because I'd like random wandering to be a good thing.
    Posted 9 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink