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#### New Imagination Sink and Economy Node: The Home Street Spirit

We have butlers and we have the Magic Rock. They perform similar tasks (keeping an eye on our home street, helping us keep track of things, giving us a reason to live… etc.). I've complained before that this seems like an unnecessary multiplication of entities. So now I'm refloating a new and improved approach to consolidation.
For the Glitch with Imagination to Burn, I propose we have an option to trade in our butlers and our Magic Rocks for a new unified alternative: The Home Street Spirit.
The Home Street Spirit would:
1. Assign and manage quests, including those offered by street spirit vendors.
2. Collect iMG by observing the actions of visitors.
3. Announce the comings and goings of people visiting our streets.
4. Provide a mailbox (and alert us to mail and packages).
5. Handle the cultivation of our streets and back yards.
6. Do all the announcing, messaging, and info-providing that butlers can do.
Perhaps eventually the Home Street Spirit could automate some gardening tasks for us. It would be great if we could have our HSS do batch selling of items, or even sell bundles of unalike items (say, a garden plot restoring kit), so that if a visitor depletes a garden plot, HSS can announce: "Restoration supplies available here!" Visitors could also choose to sell items to the HSS, according to a user-created price sheet.
I think it would be extra-spiffy if the Home Street Spirits were Giant-themed, so that we could visually demonstrate an allegiance if we chose.
I propose that Home Street Spirits require A VERITABLE TON of imagination to acquire, perhaps through an upgrade card. You could even squeeze folks for more iMG by making various extras be add-ons. And of course there's always the credits needed for fancy customization!

Posted 4 months ago by Pascale | Permalink

### Replies

- squeeze folks for more iMG
  Runs around squeezing other glitchen for iMG! For this, and other bits of ideas, +1 from me ;)
  Posted 4 months ago by Heatseeker | Permalink
- +1
  Posted 4 months ago by Arthur Dent-Ur | Permalink
- Very creative ideas. I wouldn't use it myself because I love my butler and adore the Magic Rock, but good thinking! An iMG sink is truly becoming a necessity IMO.
  Posted 4 months ago by Flowerry Pott | Permalink
- +1 - Apart from dispensing the daily iMG, I can't see the purpose of the Rock. I can click on the cultivate choice without "talking" to the Rock. It's a good thing we don't have to PAY the Rock. How much is he worth for sitting, reading and making snide faces all day? And what in blazes IS he reading? "How To Rock & Roll - Never Worry About the Misery of Moss"
  The best thing about the butler is that you can safely leave items for the home owner, and the list of visitors. Getting a gift from the home owner is also charming.
  But the Home Street Spirit sounds much more useful than either or both of our current servants. And could be far more attractive, as well. I want a Cosma HSS.
  Posted 4 months ago by Patricia | Permalink
- Don't get rid of the Magic Rock (I believe he's where he is now because people didn't like the fact that he was removed at first), but maybe repurpose him, for I like this idea with much gusto!! Maybe make him into something that we can put in our yard, like the gnomes. He can still do his reading animation and stop to look at people they way he's wont to do when people walk by.
  I thought that it'd be nice if we could set a SDB for a buy and/or sell price. A lot of times people come to your street just to visit or to return a visit, and they'll interact... but what if they don't need sparkly at the moment. "Hey, thanks for coming to my street, but if you really don't need that stuff, I'll be happy to buy it off of you."
  Also +1 for bundles. The only way I can come up with for bundles on my own is buying bags and putting the stuff in them, but that makes them more expensive than they need be for reselling, and you can't put bags in SDBs. I would love to be able to sell bundles of mats for restoration, or cooking, alchemy, etc....... it's endless.
  Posted 4 months ago by Kaelyn Renai | Permalink
- Weather it be home street spirit or SDB, I hope that the specific mechanic of a "game day limit" for selling things, is implemented somewhere. It might mess up the glitch API for reading towers, might make it too complicated, I don't know.
  One example: if someone sells 20 SDB's of grain with 1 per limit, with thousands of grain in each one, it will clog up the lists in glitchremote.com pretty badly for months.
  Ideal example: someone selling meat for 4c a piece with 60 per limit.
  Package deal selling is a pretty good idea :)
  Posted 85 days ago by LųĉĩđεşşΨ | Permalink
- GAWD. I doubt anyone remembers what the magic rock used to mean to us.
  Look at this. And this.
  Posted 85 days ago by Kristabel | Permalink