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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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...