Hi all! Just wanted to post some thoughts and ideas regarding the street building projects. First of all - I absolutely LOVE them! I think the projects are a great way to get people engaged and invested in the world as well as being great community building events.
Generally, my thoughts around improving them are about involving more people and more low-level players. I'm currently level 12 and have yet to be able to contribute to any of the "actions" parts of the street building. (I don't know if this is normal for my level, I've been focusing on building up Animal Kinship and haven't seen any actions associated with that on any of the projects.) Additionally, it seems that the objects are all donated rather quickly; I'm sure there are people with large stores of particular objects that can contribute heavily when new projects open up. So! here are a few ideas that might help involve more / lower-level players in street building:
- Have a "Number of People Required to Contribute" for each object. Say, for example, the project needs 400 Chunks of Beryl. The project could require a minimum of 12 people to contribute the Beryl so one or two people can't complete it by themselves.
- Reduce the skill level required to do the Actions. Why only let higher-level players contribute? And/or the project could actually have actions that can only be completed by players of a lower level.
- "Anchor" the street. Ok, this idea's a little out there so stick with me. If the Glitch world is a physical manifestation of the Giant's thoughts, then perhaps the new streets need to be "grounded" somehow before they can come into existence. The street would need to be "anchored" to other streets around the world, and this would be done by running from the Project Street to these other streets. For example, a new street in Shimla Mirch might need to be anchored to: Vicar's Peak, Pinhigh Prose, Coldthorp Lam & Oktyabrya. Players would need to somehow grab the anchoring task from the street spirit and then run from Shimla Mirch to Point B (let's say Oktyabrya) in a certain amount of time (no teleporting allowed!) Then maybe if the gods are feeling friendly they can teleport them back to the project :) If they don't make it in time the task is reset (to prevent people from taking the task and never following through). This gives players of any level another way to contribute to the projects!
Looking forward to contributing to more street building!
-Jenna