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Wonderful Wednesday - Introducing Towers!

Update 1: new towers are suspended while we work out some kinks. Sorry!
Update 2: issue is fixed for new towers, we're fixing up the ones that failed now
Update 3: Wine of the Dead should now be working correctly for everyone

If you head to your home street you'll find a new choice in the cultivation menu; the Tower. Each player can build a single tower on their home street (once they reach level 18), although the process is pretty expensive.

Once built, towers can be decorated just like your house, but visitors to your home street can enter them. Whether you're looking to sell items through vendor SDBs, tell a story, showcase your favorite rare items or just show off your decorating skills, towers are a good place to do it. If you need more space, just build another floor (up to 9 for now).

If you're high enough level and have the materials handy, give it a go and let us know how you get on. Comments, bugs etc should be posted in this thread.

Posted 5 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • some snaps of my WIP gardening shop:
    lobby:  http://www.glitch.com/snaps/PUVN52GJ31H20NB/37629-3d0f385cb8/ 
    1st floor:  http://www.glitch.com/snaps/PUVN52GJ31H20NB/37682-1988b5ffa9/
    Posted 5 months ago by Errata Stigmata Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My tower: www.glitch.com/snaps/PHF6CP...
    Yes, I liked Havok's name idea. :)
    Posted 5 months ago by Ethelind Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What happens if you "Kick Out" somebody from your tower?

    Can they just come right on back in?

    Is it a game-day banhammer or some such?

    Inquiring minds want to know!
    Posted 5 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Soooo since we've had this conversation about houses/home streets before I'll just hope that we'll be able to choose the music track in our tower? Eventually? Soon? :-D
    Posted 5 months ago by Cristy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • www.glitch.com/locations/LH...
    Posted 5 months ago by Ethelind Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Will we get a chance to decorate the elevator casing/wall?
    Posted 5 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • heh, heh. fantastic.

    if i could have anything in my tower, i'd like it to be a water bubbler a la the bureaucratic halls....

    please?
    Posted 5 months ago by Beans, Obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Also I'm having a little trouble with scale.
    Posted 5 months ago by Cristy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *This is not meant to be insulting* As soon the SDBs became vendors sometime last week, all I could think about was that soon we would have shops like in Neopets! I haven't made a tower yet but based on some of the snapshots I've seen.. it is as I imagined my Neopets shop to be if it were more tangible and less 2-dimensional. OK, just sharing my nostalgia about a childhood favourite, Glitch is my life now :)
    Posted 5 months ago by Sharmy Knope Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Rather than a shop, I've set up my tower as a cubimal museum. Still very much a work in progress, though.
    Posted 5 months ago by Fritzl Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Stoot: Thank you for the towers :)  A question: how do you envision us advertising to the community what we have for sale ?
    Posted 5 months ago by Rowan Croft Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I made a tower library. :-)

    http://www.glitch.com/snaps/PUV4JLDOOSE23KF/37800-1764e592d8/
    Posted 5 months ago by Agnes Snatchflannel Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is so fun!
    www.glitch.com/snaps/PUV872...

    And a walk down memory lane:
    www.glitch.com/snaps/PUV872...
    Posted 5 months ago by Galnoir Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My Tower has now become a shrine and temple to ALPH.

    You can come here and pray.
    Maybe later, you can come and buy tools and emblems. Not sure about that yet.
    You are all very welcome to leave offerings to Alph, though. ;)

    http://www.glitch.com/snaps/PA943GFATOD23H1/37814-449ba4297a/
    Posted 5 months ago by Louis Louisson Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like the tower-ish idea
    only a thing please please please please can we have more choice for the exterior walls as soon as possible????
    Posted 5 months ago by babi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I put up my tower, and put a few things inside. Machines are in there as well. Mmm what to sell in there.
    Posted 5 months ago by ❧ℜook❧ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My butler (Patches) finally has his own house!!  About time, too.  He was eating all my corny fritters and leaving purple stems and empty flaps of no-no powder everywhere.
    Posted 5 months ago by whimpypotato Subscriber! | Permalink
  • In case it hasn't been mentioned, the ability to change the color, size and font of the building name sign would be nice. Perhaps neon :)
    Posted 5 months ago by Joe Blow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Joe Blow: Flashing neon sign!
    Posted 5 months ago by Otto Otto Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Otto Otto: Scrolling Marquee!
    Posted 5 months ago by DUG1138 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine is a Boutique Guest House, complete with travel pamphlets in the lobby, a couple of guest rooms still works in progress, and meditation room on top floor.

    http://www.glitch.com/snaps/PCRI874MONS12T3/37892-ec6682522b/ 
    http://www.glitch.com/snaps/PCRI874MONS12T3/37627-d0571d768d/
    http://www.glitch.com/snaps/PCRI874MONS12T3/37627-d0571d768d/
    Posted 5 months ago by 1padme Subscriber! | Permalink
  • In the immortal words of Skid Row: You can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind

    I'll check this out more thoroughly... Soon©®™
    Posted 5 months ago by MarbhDamhsa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wasn't gonna do one but I've had such fun visiting so many of them and they are fabulous in their decor and look.  So I'm saving all my stuff to build one.  Well done everyone, well done!
    Posted 5 months ago by AlmostSilver Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "What happens if you "Kick Out" somebody from your tower?" - hmm, good question

    "I'll just hope that we'll be able to choose the music track in our tower" - one day!

    "Will we get a chance to decorate the elevator casing/wall?" - we're planning to add that pretty soon
    Posted 5 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • sdhasdjfafda I AM SO EXCITED
    Posted 5 months ago by diaveborn ♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Pascale- the way it works currently, if you kick them out of your tower, they get sent to their own home street (though it says you are kicking them out of your house). If you want to keep someone out permanently, you would have to block, the same as keeping someone out of your home street.
    Posted 5 months ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This may sound strange without any explanation, but any plans on allowing us to set prices for entry to certain levels? That would be cool.
    Posted 5 months ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ooh - What Muncey said! Cover charge!
    Posted 5 months ago by Merrylegs Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Seeds Galore, for all your growing needs.  Herbs, garden, and tree seeds available.  Eggs coming soon.
    Posted 5 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I can't customize my tower. Hmmmm.
    Posted 5 months ago by EmiB Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What EmiB says; I'm clicking everywhere but the menu I got yesterday does not show up now? :/
    Posted 5 months ago by WeavingTheWeb Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm having the same problem as EmiB and WebWeaver,
    cannot get menu to customize/change anything on tower. =/
    Posted 5 months ago by ~Scilly~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ditto the above.
    Posted 5 months ago by Booknerd Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We're working on restoring the menu, sorry!
    Posted 5 months ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks kevbob, at least I now know it's not me clicking in wrong places :D
    Posted 5 months ago by WeavingTheWeb Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Fixed the menu!
    Posted 5 months ago by kevbob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • http://www.glitch.com/snaps/PUVJO10217D2I3E/38014-e64ab058b2/
    Thanks TS, I can finally get all the musty old junk out of my house!  
    Posted 5 months ago by MikkiO Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would appreciate being able to see design options & construction costs before plunking down 20K iMG for a non-removable object.
    Posted 5 months ago by Berry Goode Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Problem Fixed in a Game Update Reload that reconnects you when you change places, go to a different street/place.
    Posted 5 months ago by I'm Chris Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What happens if we decide we don't want a tower after all? It seems a little unfair to have them non-removable, really. Surely there could be a "knock down" option, or something? 
    Posted 5 months ago by Loki Laufeyson Subscriber! | Permalink
  • was i supposed to get IMG for finishing my tower project?
    and if yes- was that supposed to appear in my chat window ?
    Posted 5 months ago by serenitycat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No, serenity. Somewhere in the thread, one of the devs stated that you don't get iMG for finishing the tower project.
    Posted 5 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Loki Laufeyson re: "What happens if we decide we don't want a tower after all? It seems a little unfair to have them non-removable, really."

    Your question is answered in this video.

    Towers were just released yesterday. In the future, there will be more and different stuff.
    Posted 5 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Will we be able to nudge our house to a more suitable spot? Please!!
    Posted 5 months ago by ~Scilly~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ~Scilly~: Yep, eventually. Signpost too.
    Posted 5 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • LOL Stoot!  
    Posted 5 months ago by Stormy Weather Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm loving the towers, but I do have one complaint.
    It may just be me, but the size of the door on the tower really bugs me....can't it be the same size as our house? Just a small graphical complaint, but that's the kind of thing that stands out to me and will ultimately plague my dreams.
    Posted 5 months ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ stoot: LMAO! I never tire watching this clip. @ Muncey: you made me LOL!
    Posted 5 months ago by GreyGoose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Will there be a way to add Kung Fu assassins to each floor to allow people to recreate the climax of Bruce Lee's "Game of Death"?
    Posted 5 months ago by Anaglyph Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *hearts* for towers.  Don't know why I was expecting only one, but was a nice surprise to find 2 floors after the first build. :D Thank you!  Now what to do with it...    
    Posted 5 months ago by Christine Subscriber! | Permalink