Part time Players whats your goals (Just looking for ideas)
I doubt i will ever have the billion currant bank account, or a every item in the game. I most look forward to helping a fellow glitch in the game. Let me know what goals you have.
Just to have fun. I don't really have too many goals. I'd like to collect all the icons, though. Other than that, I just log on and do whatever catches my attention at the moment.
I'm the same Ralis. I like to garden and sometimes if I have time to spare I'll go and do something else like collect wood or go mining, what ever I feel like. To me this game has always been about having fun with out the pressure of goals.
I'm an achievement collector. So I pretty much play to collect badges. Sometimes I'll focus on one specific badge, other's I'll try to do 2 or 3 in the same family. Sometimes, I just set silly goals for myself like interact with one type of animal I run across. Since coming back to play in late April, I've added collecting icons as a secondary goal. I only need two now and after that I'll probably disappear again.
Since housing and img was introduced I've been slowly working on expanding my home but it's not the main goal like I thought it would be. So now I'm just trying to level up and earn img. Mainly by collecting icons. Eventually I will go back to achievement hunting I suppose. Oh and after unpacking in the new homes I am trying to "un-hoard". Now that is a worthy challenge!
Me too, Ralis. I collected the basics as I went along but I play aimlessly just for the fun of it. I enjoy interacting with others and I get a big kick out of the decorating and dress-up.
I think one of the great strengths and most interesting aspects of Glitch is that people love and play it for so many different reasons.
I also love watching the game grow as the devs and the players work out what it means to be part of Glitch. I think I enjoy watching the game take shape almost as much as I enjoy playing it.
I make everything I can make in my very limited spare time, but most likely I'm 'stuck' with mostly just gardening except for weekends. And, selling furnitures in hope that one day I can reach 1m currants (I'm usually around 200k currants).
I like to make both 'short term' and 'long term' goals, just so I always have something to work towards whenever I don't feel like aimlessly wandering Ur. Most of my goals revolve around the fact that I like collecting things--be that achievements, ungodly amounts of resources, or feeding my weakness for cubimals. Just finished earning the tree doctoring badges, for instance, by collecting enough resources to make 50 tree poisons and antidotes (and then repeatedly poisoning and unpoisoning one poor, unlucky tree in my yard).
Now I'm currently working on collecting the doll set, which means I'm spending a lot of my game time cooking/crafting specific things to sell for currants or growing lots of Rubeweed for tinctures to see if I get lucky.
Those are 'short term' goals--collecting a few full sets of cubimals is a 'long term' goal that I plan to achieve only by purchasing unopened boxes. I also consider decorating my house a 'long term' goal, since I have to wait for my subscription credits to kick in each month before I go upgrading the furniture I'd like in my home.
Rubeweed, Chickens, Piggies, Butterflies, and Sparkly in my backyard. Then selling musicblocks at the auctions to pay for supplies if I run out of something. If I'm really adventurous, I go out to my /home street and get some metal chunks and jellisacs. That is what I have done for the last week and a half. Then, I will emerge from my hermitage and flood the markets with cheap essences of rubeweed, kill of the competition, and slowly make my way up to conquerer of Ur... MAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *hack*
The last part isn't true, though I do already have 130 essences of rubeweed, with as many herb upgrades as I can have.... So yeah, it's kind of fun to sit by myself, wondering if anyone is going to come ring the doorbell and make me chase them off.....
I used to a combination of cubimal collecting and mining to help me stay motivated. I'd mine for the currents with a goal of reaching some fixed number of currents - 200 000 for example. When I would reach that mark I'd mine for cubimals money for awhile until I got bored of it. I'd never let my balance drop below the last achieved goal. After getting bored of opening cubimal boxes I'd set a new goal for currents in my account - 300 000 for example, and repeat the process. I was aiming for 1 000 000 but when word started circulating that people with millions of currents might be penalized when we switched to Img I stopped that method for awhile and focused on leveling up. I may take up that approach again now that we've had the switch and we know what we can realistically aim for that wont be taken away.
One new goal I have is to get all the upgraded stuff that I want for my house. I have a copper subscription but I use up my 150 credits fairly quickly (got my monthly allowance a few days ago and its all gone now). It would be easy enough to buy more credits but it would take something away from the fun of budgeting, planning, and finally getting everything I want and had during the housing testing period.
I am a bit conflicted about it partly because it would be so easy to buy a pack of credits or even upgrade to a moly (at this point in my subscription the upgrade for the remaining of the year would be about equal to a pack of credits and would give me 400 per month until September). I could get everything I wanted in one go but then what? At present, my front street and back street are fully expanded and the house is expanded as much as I want it to be (two floors and a few width expansions). I don't mind spending the money on a moly for the remainder of the year but I need some incentives to keep grinding...
As to other goals, since it was suggested that the subway might not be around too long I am working toward subway badges. It seems tedious and you have to get on, get off, etc but you can change fruit, tune bubbles etc while riding. You can also jump off at your home street and come back (you'll be transported back to the station, not the train). You will know how close you are to getting the badge because when you get on the train it tells you how many times you have been to that location.
Everyone should work toward subway badges! You can do it during the week when you only have a few minutes to play at lunch or coffee. Jump on the subway, do a bit of grinding, log out. Repeat next time you have a few minutes.
I wish there were lots of other riders so I wouldn't always have to wait 60 seconds before departing.
I like wandering about and hiding things in random places for glitches to find at some point. I do it quite often, maybe once a day. I'm not very motivated by making lots of currents. I also find exploring people's yards a lot of fun (those on the various resource routes anyhow, as I know they don't mind strangers wandering around), and it gives me ideas about what to do with my own yard.
I've been playing a lot recently, since the semester just ended, but in general I'm fairly "part-time." I currently have a few things I'm working towards. I want to get all the icons (5/11 so far!), so I try to mine up enough to get an emblem each time I play. I also want to try to finish the skill tree, but it will probably never happen because Teleportation V will take me over 30 days at this point (and I don't spend IMG on Brain Capacity upgrades). So when I'm playing for longer periods of time, I'm also probably donating to the primary giant of my current skills to speed it along. Mining is fun! Callopee is weirdly empty most of the time, so there's tons of sparkly for me. I spend all my IMG on quoin multiplier upgrades, because I like to see large numbers pop up when I grab quoins ("only" around 19x, but that's higher than I was pre-IMG).
My most fun goal, however, is constructing a Den of Vice in the third story of my house (http://lem.to/p/aN22). Basically making the tackiest room possible, and filling it with Booze, all manner of cocktails, No-No Powders, and High-Class Hoes :P. This is constrained largely by my credit stipend from my Copper sub, as all the truly hideous things are expensive!
That said, I spend a lot more time in Ur than I do in the home streets. It's much more interesting. I go on random journeys pretty frequently.
I take care of my piggies and collect grain and butterfly milk. Gradually, I'll expand my house and yard, but no hurry. I like my aquarium and fish bowl. : ) Wish we could ride horses on here - wouldn't that be cool?
I also enjoy dropping things for others to find, and seeing the new developments as they come. The changes come slowly enough that I play part-time, to keep it interesting. That way, there are usually some new things to discover, when I do play. I also visit the Ancestral Lands, to pick up quoins and look for treasures (but I usually get extra seconds or paper : / ).
It's great to see what my fellow players come up with. I think that's one of the best elements of this experience. I'm an FS refugee, and I gotta stay with my old buddies, at the least. (I have to admit, I still long for a Faunasphere-type game; it was awesome - but this game holds lots of promise!)