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Whimsical Wednesday - Houses Release 3

The game is now open! Check the new thread for feedback: http://www.glitch.com/forum/general/20792/

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The game is currently closed until sometime Thursday morning, Pacific time. The conversion process is running slower than anticipated, and we want to make everything goes just right, so we will not be open until we are ready.


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Good morning campers!

Today brings release 3 of the new housing system, marking a full reset of houses.

The game will be closed for a few hours while we perform the reset
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Do not be alarmed! Only houses are being reset.

After the reset is complete, your house will have been reset to the starter size, with no cultivated items and no furniture. Any upgraded furniture in your house or your furniture bag will be removed. You'll be given a small set of starter furniture in its place.

When you enter your new house after the reset, any items that you had in your old house or your testing house will have been moved into your new residence. Just unpack your moving boxes to get started.

A single moving box will contain multiple boxes for the old house, your test-house home street, test-house backyard and each floor of your test-house.

So that's what the reset entails, but what about new stuff? Well...

Furniture can now be crafted by players. Get building!

‌• Your new houses will now have their own web page, linked from your profile. You'll be able to easily visit other people's home streets from there (as well as from their "info pane" in the game client).

Once you've chosen/purchased a furniture upgrade, that choice is 'sticky'. If you upgrade a chair to style A, then switch it to style B, you'll later be able to switch back to style A at no cost. The same applies to your house chassis.

The initial furniture we give you is soul-bound. This means you can't give it away to other players. Other items may gain this property in the future.

Furniture can now be traded - either by using the 'give' verb, dragging it to another player or using the player-to-player trading system. You'll get an extra warning when you try to trade upgraded furniture. Auctions for furniture will be added in the near future.

Furniture should no longer drop through the floor when you're placing it on your 2nd floor. Or your 3rd - houses can now be 3 floors tall.

All street styles now have music.

Furniture items all have their own web pages, as do the upgrades. You can browse and bookmark your perfect setup while you're waiting for the reset.

The furniture bag is now sorted, to make finding your furniture easier. And it'll now be accessible anywhere in the world, to allow your to trade your items.

The old houses are fading away. Visit the abandoned apartment blocks to reminisce.

There's probably some more stuff hidden in there too, so take a look around, kick the tires and lets us know what you think.

update #1: The housing FAQ has been updated.

update #2: The reset is taking longer than expected - the game will be closed until Thursday morning, pacific time. We are being EXTRA careful with the migration since no-one wants the movers to lose a single precious item.

Posted 7 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • As someone asked, and Bees! confirmed vaguely, Sir Runalot: anywhere between 12am- 11:59am. Though I'd guess the later hours (if not early afternoon). Better to guess late and be pleasantly surprised.\

    ETA: Ms Sparklz, there are some things that are not so easily replaceable, like Fun Pickles, Faded Hearts, Dusty Sticks and Yetis. So... yea, I'd rather them be careful.
    Posted 7 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If you don't have GlitchRemote.. I just went into my snapshot page, and clicked on the location link of any pictures I took of my home street or inside my house :)
    Posted 7 months ago by absolute Subscriber! | Permalink
  • True Miss Giggles, wasn't thinking about the very rare items.
    Posted 7 months ago by Anya Karenya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think the honey should come from wells, like the treacle well in Alice.
    Posted 7 months ago by Ollywog Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This was not very whimsical
    Posted 7 months ago by Mt Dew Me Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for the tip, absolute!

    And yes, those are easy to forget sometimes in excitement, Ms Sparklz. :)  But I lost them all once and am not anxious to lose them again. Hehe.

    Pretty whimsically exciting, I think Mt Dew Me. If a bit anticlimactic with the delay (but I'm sure well worth it).
    Posted 7 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Aw! I was really attached to my old house~ :(
    Oh!! What about what was in the hallways! I had an apartment on Lagan, and I was leaving things/poems outside my door for my neighbors/passersby. Does this mean they're gone? :(
    Posted 7 months ago by BerylCrest Subscriber! | Permalink
  • How in the world did I manage to visit my test street 696 times? Wow.
    Posted 7 months ago by JillyBean Subscriber! | Permalink
  • it is amazing, i can't wait  :D
    Posted 7 months ago by Selle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • if we grow flowers (not herbs/crops) then we can get Nectar and then make the Honey :) yum yum
    Posted 7 months ago by silver zelda jones Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Aww, you mean shit costs credits now? www.google.com/imgres?hl=en... click to see my reaction if yes
    Posted 7 months ago by ShadowChik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have got back the currants I paid for my old house. It has really hit me now..goodbye Brockhurst green..sigh:-(
    Posted 7 months ago by !$Harrump$! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If by "shit" you mean "most of the upgrades to furniture, and some of the house and background designs", then yes.

    Expanding your house and adding resources to your land will not cost credits -- it'll cost some combination of imagination and materials.

    Some things that just look cool cost credits; things that do stuff don't.
    Posted 7 months ago by Fnibbit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Bees!, do you ever sleep?  You've been on so very long today!  We DO appreciate how much you folks keep us informed.  Now, get some sleep and put pillows under the other dev's heads.  Might wipe up some of the saliva too.......
    Posted 7 months ago by Forcythia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We need more people on the Voice Server - group link http://www.glitch.com/groups/RA92HGI7V4P2KQ4/Voice Chat for players of Glitch.

    Mumble client
    mumble.sourceforge.net/ 

    Settings:click "server", "connect", then the button"add new..."

    Label: Whatever_you_want_to_put_here
    Address: glitch-mumble.no-ip.org
    Port: 64738
    Username: your_glitch_name
    Password: glitch

    a few screen shots...
    Connection settings: i.imgur.com/jkUeb.jpg
    Main window: i.imgur.com/roBAA.jpg
    Posted 7 months ago by phelps.mike Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For those that wanted a 24 hour heads up...not sure the tweet couldn't have been more obvious...

    "2 days ago: It’s a great time to take some snaps of your old-style home if you have an itchy trigger finger on your camera. Record for posterity!"

    Lots of players were posting to their status pages about taking pictures and 'here it comes'...just in case any friends missed the tweet.

    Granted, it doesn't say specifically when, but it was more warning than we've had in other cases...and they pretty much said not long after iMG upgrade there would be the final housing upgrade.  I get that these are all estimates and not specific...but I've not had stuff planted for nearly a week in prep for the housing change over...guess you folks just need to be a bit better at reading the signs...

    I just want to say I'm impressed at how many folks are still working at TS, when it is nearly midnight!  Thanks for working through the night...sorry those scripts are running so slowly...but thanks for taking your time and making sure this happens right!
    Posted 7 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Though I'd guess the later hours (if not early afternoon)." - it will be between 10am and 11am, unless something else goes wrong

    "Bees!, do you ever sleep?" - i took a break to play my 50 games for murkimus ;)
    Posted 7 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Bees! Are you tired from answering so many questions? (and doing a great job of it as well :D)
    Posted 7 months ago by SpencerRae Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So, we can all go give our pillows some head and our sheets some ass, in other words?
    Posted 7 months ago by scroobienoob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ooh i did a last minute check before heading to bed and saw the updated time estimate.  

    thank you thank you thank you for keeping us advised!

    (i mean boo it's not open yet, it's thursday morning now, etc etc whine whine cry moan!)
    Posted 7 months ago by Nikki Z Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm going to bed, and I highly doubt anyone will open it while I'm away :D
    Posted 7 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sleep fast and sweet dreams Bees!
    Posted 7 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *opens house, naps on floor*

    my house is a cardboard box, down by the river..
    Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was going to stay up late playing tonight... But now I guess I'll have to get some "sleep", or whatever it is the kids do at night these days.

    Then to sleep, perchance to dream of new wallpaper designs.
    Posted 7 months ago by sporks Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sits patiently out side new house waiting for the contracts to be exchanged. :)

    In the mean time I had an idea for obtaining honey in game. 
    Honeysuckel flowers, suck out the honey with a "bee" shaped pump and squeeze into jars.
    I added it to the ideas section :)
     http://www.glitch.com/forum/ideas/20761/
    Posted 7 months ago by Misha Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I do wish we could still learn skills during downtime. As my fortune would have it, finally finished Teleportation V shortly after the closure last night (I'm in GMT) and was planning/hoping to pick up another one while I was sleeping!
    Posted 7 months ago by Spirit of Xanadhi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just to say thanks for all the hard work TS guys and girls - looking forward to the changes! Pretty funny too, since I'm in the middle of real-life moving house - as in tomorrow - so it's all happening at the same time! :)
    Posted 7 months ago by Molly Bloom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just awake in the UK at 10.38am.  Going by Bee's post Glitch will be ready for us at approximately 7pm.  This is really going to be LONG day lmao!!!!

    To mirror other posts - thank you to everyone at TS for giving us something to be so passionate about (and of course addicted to!!)
    Posted 7 months ago by Hathaway Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The TS staff must be feeling refried after this release... You go guys! I know it's shitty (for your sleep, nerves and general mental well being) releasing stuff although the end result is something to be proud of.
    Posted 7 months ago by Ryuu Maru Roth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh Bees! Oh Bees! while you reset our trees,
    Will our critters hatch intsantly? give us something to squeeze!

    Oh Bees! Oh Bees! when the morning comes, please,
    Can we upgrade our houses? fill them with Bubble Teas?

    Oh Bees! Oh Bees! who can we give our keys?
    Will they look in our cabinets? examine our curries?

    Oh Bees! Dear Bees! is it time yet? you tease!
    Whilst waiting, made a poem. Thanks for fielding our queries.
    Posted 7 months ago by Vogon Blarg Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Love that Ely.
    Posted 7 months ago by jiva Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +Rep Ely
    Posted 7 months ago by silver zelda jones Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's 4 AM in both Vancouver and San Francisco. Even though the teams there are far away from each other, it must be easier to collaborate if you share a timezone huh?

    Keep up the good work guys!

    And get back to work, stop reading the forums. I'm look at you, Greg. 
    That's probably not your name, but I am still watching you.
    Posted 7 months ago by Liridona Subscriber! | Permalink
  • They seem to love to do big things at 4:20 around here.......mmmmmm 5 minutes to go! haha Hurry back TS!!
    Posted 7 months ago by Monkeygirl♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am off to work. I hope the game is back when I get home at 6 tonight
    Posted 7 months ago by ilovecomix Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks so much for the updates!!  I have my gooey fingers crossed for a lake!  :-)  These changes sound amazing and thank you Bees! for you answers and warped sense of humor!  (((HUGS))) to all TS and I can't wait to come home from work today and PLAY!!!
    Posted 7 months ago by kat65 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • According to my quackulations, it'll be between noon and 1pm my time. Only a few more hours to go.

    I can do this.

    A calm, blue ocean.
    Other people are not so strange.
    Posted 7 months ago by Crrrystal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • www.ustream.tv/channel/glit...

    Come global chat with us while we wait, everyone (:
    Posted 7 months ago by Moi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I awoke during the night just to check in case.... Glad TS gets some sleep they deserve it.
    What does one do in the AM without their GLITCH fix - dah coffee and no Glitch - I haven't felt this bad since I quit smoking 25 years ago.................
    Questions:
    1. If one keeps their house small (no expansions) does that allow them to have a larger front and back yard???
    2. Will the cultivation options still have limitations as to where they can be placed (that dotted line which limits how close it can go to another item).
    Thank you - see you all soon!!!!!!!
    Posted 7 months ago by PEKES Subscriber! | Permalink
  • it will be between 10am and 11am, unless something else goes wrong

    About 5 hours to go
    Posted 7 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think the size of the house wont limit the yard, i cant see why one would keep the other from being expandable.

    i think the cultivation options would be what we saw, but maybe that was for test purposes only...just 14 short hours and we will find out.
    Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Regarding stuff costing credits (money) now. Hey, TS is a great bunch of people, but I don't expect them to work for free.
    Posted 7 months ago by Aliera Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So.... wake up early for the update!
    Posted 7 months ago by Maxy Cat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ☣ elf ☣  - why 14 hours?  
    Posted 7 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • With the wall segment being added to your inventory---My inventory was full, but I sold something last night at auction to make room, will it go in there then or will one be in the mailbox?
    Posted 7 months ago by Marie's Mom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • HI ALL, I can't wait !!  East Coast here. Want to thank all the efforts going on !! Patience...patience...patience...hahahaha! 
    Posted 7 months ago by Crumpet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Marie's Mom Whichever is less convenient ;)
    Posted 7 months ago by self Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Please get the game back up and running... I know you're probably really busy trying to get it back up without me whining about it but PLEASE! I need something to get me through the afternoon at work. It's 14:00 GMT currently. I'm about to crash from withdrawals... coffee can only take me so far. Please and thank you. :)

    P.s thank you for all the hard work you guys are putting in recently with updates and new things for us to play with and keeping us involved in all that you're doing. I've never played a game like this where we're able to feel like a community. 
    Posted 7 months ago by Eleni Carly Subscriber! | Permalink
  • nooooo! I'll be at work when the system reopens.  :(  Guess I'll just have to wait till this evening.  
    Posted 7 months ago by Airya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Eleni Carly: it should be another four hours or so, optimistically, since Bees! said it would be around 10 to 11 AM Pacific.  Here are some little games to play in the meantime.  The ladybug at the top right corner is my favorite.

    You can get to your street's page just by googling yourself.  Put in "your_nickname's home street" and it'll probably be the first result or close to it.
    Posted 7 months ago by glum pudding Subscriber! | Permalink
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