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Occupy Glitch

I realize there are people with 10 or 20 million currants (because I refuse to part with my dusty stick) so the new rare items are filling that need, but it also discourages me. The only way to get this stuff is grinding for hours every day. Is that healthy? One thing I liked about Glitch is that it doesn't have Zynga-style evil mechanics. I have a pretty high tolerance given that I have all the skills, almost every upgrade, most of the badges, and I was working on a complete cubimal collection, but the grinding finally just broke me. I give up. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.

I don't know what the point of this rant was, but I had to get it out.

Posted 4 months ago by Hagbard Celine Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Can I have cookies?
    Posted 4 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ^^ and a cold glass of milk?
    Posted 4 months ago by Calamity Snood Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Why bother if you don't enjoy grinding?  While it's neat to have unique items, lacking an Imported Yeti won't actually prevent you from doing anything in the game. 

    So good on you.  Play the game to have fun.  If you're not having fun, do something else in the game. 
    Posted 4 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Glitch still doesn't have Zynga-style evil mechanics. Is TS trying to milk you for every dollar you own? No, they are not.

    In order to buy a few special items, will you have to put in a little effort? Yep... but this is how all games work. I see nothing wrong with players who invest a lot of time into grinding currants receiving a reward for such investment. You've got to actually play the game in order to get stuff. =P

    (actually, I like this about iMG and upgrades; previously you could leave for a couple of months, learn all the skills, then come back; but now you've actually gotta play and earn iMG to unlock upgrades that fully utilize those skills) Just saying, it's good game design to design the game in such a way that it actively encourages people to actually play it.
    Posted 4 months ago by Jus​tin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • As for "occupying" Glitch - I don't believe the real-world "occupy" movement is about the fact that not all human beings are able to afford all the most expensive luxury items. And unlike in the real world, not belonging to the 1 percent in this game does not prevent us from taking part fully and completely in gameplay. We can level up, we can build and decorate our houses and towers, we can buy upgrade cards, we can place and harvest resources, we can craft stuff... it's a bit sad that nowadays "occupy [insert]" seems to have become a way of reacting of the fact that we can't get everything we want for free.

    I, too, was unable to buy an imported yeti. The sole consequence of this: I don't own a yeti I can show off. And yes, that was disappointing for a moment, but why should I let it put me off the game when I can still do all the things that I could do before I knew that there would be a rare item vendor? I think all of us who are frustrated at "having" to grind for these items should try to ask ourselves why we even want them, and what we would like about the game if they had never been added. Once I realised that, my lack of a yeti really stopped to matter.

    Also, I don't really have experience with Zynga games, but don't they strongly "encourage" you to insert real-life money at every turn? How does that relate to creating a money sink which takes only in-game currency out of circulation? And yes, people could potentially start buying thousands credits, upgrade furniture and sell it to others for currants in order to get these items, but I don't see TS forcing or even encouraging anyone to do this.
    Posted 4 months ago by Not a Princess Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You will have more tolerance once you have all the cubimals, have maxed out on quoin multipliers and built as big a tower as you will ever want... then it will be a lot easier to accumulate currants or imagination -  as there won't be much else to spend it on,   until they release something else that will enable you to spend stuff. 

    But then they'll release other stuff that's expensive and seemingly unattainable  to lower level players,  cos if they don't there'll just be more and more people with nothing to do... at the moment it feels like we have 3 options ... hoard currants, imagination or things (perhaps betting on needing wood vs bubbles)... or you focus on neither and just pootle along at your own merry pace, doing what you want.

    You play how you want to play and what is possible will depend on the choices you have made
    Posted 4 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mostly echoing what Not A Princess had to say. :)

    Don't mean to pile on but it was only a fairly recent development that I was able to repress my innate "Gotta Catch 'Em All" nature and truly accept that there will be things in the game that will always be out of my reach (as I wavered on the precipice of cashing out the contents of my SDBs in a desperate bid to scrape together enough currants).

    I think what made it difficult to process is that nearly everything else in the game is obtainable eventually with a little effort and then we run across these impossible goals. There were rares that existed already but I could rationalize them away as they were truly impossible for me to achieve. The problem lies in that the Extremely Rare Items Vendor's goods are not technically impossible. And so the Yeti haunted me as something juuuuuuuust beyond my grasp and it began to consume me.

    I can get it. I can almost reach it, Dad...
    Indiana... Indiana... Let it go.
    Posted 4 months ago by snippid Subscriber! | Permalink
  • get grinding... there's still another batch to come!

    *dangles it in front of you*
    Posted 4 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wow, I call all my pigs Hagbard Celine. My favorite fiction character ever. Actually, the reason I started to play glitch is, that I confused "to grok" and "to croak" (not an English speaker obv.;-)

    Get rid of the dusty stick.
    Posted 4 months ago by Antigone_x Subscriber! | Permalink
  • still waiting on cookies
    Posted 4 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "still waiting on cookies"

    Cookies cost 2.75mil currants.
    Posted 4 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Perhaps you should relax and spend some time meditating further on the Sacred Heart? ;)
    Posted 4 months ago by Miss Portinari Subscriber! | Permalink