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Personal and group projects

Street projects provide goals, and they reward participation. Not everyone who wants to is able to participate, however.

If people had personal projects they could work on, those would provide additional goals, and even rewards. Also, after group halls/club houses are implemented, group projects would be another way for people to participate in other projects.

Personal projects could include things like improving your home, building and improving a personal shrine to your favorite giant, or participating in weekly competitions. For example, people interested in growing crops might have a contest to see who could grow the largest pumpkin. This would require care: fertilizing, watering, etc. As a reward, the winner might earn currants, or get a title recognizing the accomplishment.

Group projects could include improving your guild hall, building a group-owned marketplace, assembling public works buildings, and participating in challenges and contests with other groups. For example, to create a public works building, a group representative would have to visit the bureaucrats to obtain the correct permits from the zoning department for permission to build a certain type of building on a particular street. Then your group would have to collect the materials needed and using the correct skills assemble the building, maybe a Library where people could go to learn a skill a bit quicker, or a block of apartments (and your group could sell or charge rent, but you'd have to pay taxes, too!).

I realize many of these ideas are not new. I'd like to hear suggestions on other types of personal and group projects that people might be interested in working on.

Posted 19 months ago by Merek Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I don't know if this belongs here, but I would LOVE to see a "farmer's market" where people can rent booths and sell goods they've grown, gathered and crafted. Maybe building such a market could be a project?
    Posted 19 months ago by Krikket Subscriber! | Permalink
  • krikket, glitch has a market space back in alpha but nobody used it.
    Posted 19 months ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink