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Are street projects gone forever?

There are so many street project badges and trophies, but all the new streets just showed up. For those of us who love achievements, will there be any way to earn those badges now?

Posted 8 months ago by Pii Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I sure hope not!
    Posted 8 months ago by FTW BACON!! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Pii, I was wondering that, too.
    Posted 8 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, how disappointing to have new areas appear with no street projects.
    Posted 8 months ago by Lucille Ball Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'd rather have new areas without street projects than no new areas.
    Posted 8 months ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm sure they just needed to roll out the new areas for the new animals, quickly. 
    Posted 8 months ago by Papa Legba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • How long would it take us to open up 5 regions?
    Getting the animals tested is a little more important at this point.
    Posted 8 months ago by BlackWolf Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The fun would be developing these new regions, I myself and many others have never done a street project and I hear from others that have that they enjoy them. Existing regions have had preserves put on them that test the animals so why not take longer letting glitches develop the new regions? It gives us all something to do.
    Posted 8 months ago by Pippette Subscriber! | Permalink
  • They were overhauling the street project system (or planning to), so I doubt they're gone forever.

    People liked them a lot (for the group work and trophies and having a hand building the world), and they wanted to make them better. With the other stuff they're trying to get released, I am sure they just haven't had time to get the overhaul done to the specifications they want, and it was probably less important at this point.

    There will be probably tons of new areas to unlock someday with the new and improved system. Leaving it to us to use the system they want to overhaul wouldn't have been very useful for this release.
    Posted 8 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hope they come back--badges are cool and all, but I really love the camaraderie!

    If street projects return, I kind of wonder if there might be some crowd-control mechanism similar to the Fox Ranger. The last couple of projects I was in on were incredibly laggy, and once the game reopens those problems would only be worse.
    Posted 8 months ago by Georgia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Street projects were fun. They involved co-operation. And they meant not being selfish. "Can someone RK" me meant about 10 RKs and and several portions of food appearing your bags. "I've run out of bubbles!" and so many were popped into your inventory ypu had more than you started with

    It epitomised Glitchyness to me

    Please, please don't do away with them
    Posted 8 months ago by IrenicRhonda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The original implementation of street projects (contributions taken at a single street spirit adjacent to the street in development) is definitely gone forever. It was simply not scalable.

    However, that mechanic is being re-used already (e.g., with cultivated items) and will be more in the future.

    And, more importantly: some other mechanism for collective effort by players to create new areas of the world will eventually replace the old style projects.
    Posted 8 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So I can't get the Participant badge?
    Posted 8 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So does this mean i will NEVER get the round planet looking street project trophy? :( It's so nice and shiny... and there's no decoration even remotely like it.
    Posted 8 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What AC said... what about the badges!
    Posted 8 months ago by La Mariposa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • some other mechanism for collective effort by players to create new areas of the world *waiting* *this is hard* hehe... but I agree: what about the badges?
    Posted 8 months ago by Fernstream Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I suspect that both the badges and the trophies will be obtainable through participation in the "other mechanism for collective effort by players to create new areas of the world", whenever it rolls around.  Add me to the list of players that hopes that developing that mechanism will be given high priority! 

    (I too miss street projects, even though the lag was heinous and they became races to get to the vendor before the phase was over.)
    Posted 8 months ago by Fnibbit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I never really understood why we all had to stay on a street and add all these things from our inventory to open a new street. 
    Posted 8 months ago by Eye Wonder Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Seems very possible that a scalable mechanic would be so different that street project badges would go the way of beta badges (i.e. still on an individual Glitch's badge list but not on the encyclopedia and not counted for the leaderboard). If that's the case, I wouldn't mind seeing the intern badge go that way as well. Unachievable badges listed on the encyclopedia page taunt me.
    Posted 8 months ago by FyodorD Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 FyodorD. I would like to see that badge be removed as well.
    Posted 8 months ago by bored no more Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I understand that there were serious issues with the old system but the fact that it's gone forever makes me so sad. I think the most fun I ever had on Glitch was the street projects. I was disappointed that the new areas just magically appeared. I was also disappointed that they looked exactly like all the other areas. With the amount of creativity and talent TS has shown you would think the artists could come up with something different... but that's another topic altogether.

    Back to street projects. I probably should be ashamed to admit that when the last phase was going on I stayed up all night and well into the next day just so I could participate in as many as possible but I'm not. I had so much fun and the camaraderie I experienced during them has been unmatched in game so far.

    I hope that TS takes that into consideration when they design the new mechanism. Street projects made me feel like I had a part in creating the region. I get warm fuzzies going onto streets that I know I helped make. Having areas just magically appear makes them considerably less special and exciting.
    Posted 8 months ago by SkyWaitress Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't mind if it's replaced by something similar but better because the old version was definitely not scalable; it already was crazy-laggy. I just want to be able to earn the badges, since my style of play is to gun for those leaderboards in a rather obsessive way, and I don't think I'm alone! And I agree about the fun and camaraderie, but I have high hopes that would be part of whatever new system comes along.
    Posted 8 months ago by Pii Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, sad they are gone, but have to agree, that the last few were completely mobbed, I didn't bother to participate because it was uber crazy at them, too laggy, and just not fun.  I do hope we can still earn those trophies...I didn't bother trying to get a few during first beta anticipating that I'd be able to once the game launched (the first time)...and I so love that shiny globe one...sigh. 

    I really love the street projects, and hope that once they are new and improved they will return.  It was one of my favorite parts of the game...and gave me something meaningful to gather all those resources for...
    Posted 8 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink