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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.
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! | Permalink

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- Glocked?
  Would suit the more militant defenders of their front yards.
  Posted 7 months ago by WindBorn | Permalink
- "When you purchase a design with credits, will that design be available for (free) usage on other similar items in the future, or will you need to re-purchase?" - nope. upgrade purchases are per-item
  "they have dedicated resources (namely Bees!) to help soothe our collective angst" - hah! i'm just here to learn about all the bugs you find ;)
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- +100 Lord Bacon-o. Should be available with the new housing I expect! ;-)
  Posted 7 months ago by Cassandria | Permalink
- "Please can we have a firebog-style SDB" - good idea!
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- bugs ? i have one. world is still down. ;)
  Posted 7 months ago by Shoushin | Permalink
- I love that we will be able to travel easily to everyone's street via that street's webpage. Best idea! :)
  Posted 7 months ago by Tibbi | Permalink
- Redundant at this point but o m giants I am so happy and excited - was this the right day to call in sick or what?!?
  Posted 7 months ago by JillyBean | Permalink
- +1.5 to Glocked. Good one Windborn. :)
  Posted 7 months ago by Tibbi | Permalink
- "bugs ? i have one. world is still down" - oops, working on it!
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- LokiPDX: methinks this is EXACTLY the effect stoot hoped for! lol
  3 floors are good, a basement would be better. I was really hoping that I could combine the best of the cottages/.mansions and the bog homes. Maybe we'll get basements in the future?
  Posted 7 months ago by Marla | Permalink
- HOW MUCH LONGERRRR?!?!
  :)
  Posted 7 months ago by MarbhDamhsa | Permalink
- "Glocked? Would suit the more militant defenders of their front yards."
  That gave me a little chuckle, although I think it was an unnecessary jab. I like the term "glocked."
  Posted 7 months ago by Audaria | Permalink
- Before seeing it above, I also thought of GlitchLocked.
  Posted 7 months ago by Ginnis | Permalink
- I would like a non-subscriber background that has darker colors, if we're making requests. Bright shiny forests are so Bugs Bunny. :D
  Posted 7 months ago by Filox | Permalink
- "Maybe we'll get basements in the future?" - maybe!
  "I would like a non-subscriber background that has darker colors" - that seems possible :)
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- G-locked could be Glitch-locked or Giant-locked.
  Posted 7 months ago by WindBorn | Permalink
- Oo, that would be great. *chair dance*
  And work faster, Bees! I wanna see everything! ;)
  Posted 7 months ago by Filox | Permalink
- everything i had in the SDB I hope are safe I had 20k in planks,19k in meats i believe and my GEMS! lol please please be safe
  Posted 7 months ago by Penelope Garcia | Permalink
- quote: I love that we will be able to travel easily to everyone's street via that street's webpage. Best idea! :)
  Hmm, makes me wonder tho. Can people we've blocked so they cant get into our yard, get in that way?
  Posted 7 months ago by Phoebe Springback | Permalink
- Wow, that came up quick. I probably should have left myself with some imagination.
  Posted 7 months ago by Melting Sky | Permalink
- You could call 'soulbound' items "Sticky" items. They are stuck to you!
  That said, soulbound isn't just exclusive to WoW, I seen it in Guild Wars 2 beta as well.
  But yeah, list of ideas for 'soulbound' terminology (also listing above ones that I liked):
  * Brainlocked
  * Glocked
  * Sticky
  * Jellied
  * Magnetized
  * Mindknotted
  * Thoughtbound
  * Entitled
  Posted 7 months ago by Lorraine ♪ | Permalink
- "lol please please be safe" - everything will be fine :)
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- Obviously the furniture should be called hitched. Or hitchy.
  You know, like, hitched? Glitch?
  *crickets*
  *stomps off*
  Posted 7 months ago by Sirentist | Permalink
- "Can people we've blocked so they cant get into our yard, get in that way?" - no, they can't
  i'm liking these suggestions - keep em coming!
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- "Is it too late for all home owners to get little snow globes with tiny models of our old homes in them? You guys can knock those out in the next couple of hours, right? While doing all the other stuff too. :)"
  This is an absolutely AWESOME IDEA from Lord Bacon-O. I am even willing to wait. And then pay. For a snow-globe table decoration. With a treehouse in it, like my very first home. *sniff* *wipes-eyes*
  Hint: special beta testers item???
  Posted 7 months ago by Pascale | Permalink
- I'm intrigued by the fact we can sell/trade our upgraded furniture to others.
  I'm perfectly content to use real life money in the form of my credits to upgrade/create for others who don't have credits, in exchange for rare items or grunt work in the game. I use real life money in other online games to make play easier/more fun for me. I am willing to do it here as well.
  Posted 7 months ago by Bexatious | Permalink
- Will we be able to make furniture and donate it to the giants?
  Posted 7 months ago by Tonya | Permalink
- Yes !! Tiny little (or even not-so-little) snowglobes of our old house. We could put them on our coffee table or in an SDB or on a counter ...
  Great idea Lord!
  Posted 7 months ago by Marla | Permalink
- How about Glued?
  Posted 7 months ago by Koftun | Permalink
- Tonya, if you have the furniture making skills you will be able to make furniture.
  Edited to reflect reality.
  Posted 7 months ago by WindBorn | Permalink
- How about just saying that original furniture is "glitched" to you... y'know, like glued plus "hitched" but glitchy?
  Posted 7 months ago by Pascale | Permalink
- Hey, since you're being so nice and answering questions, perhaps you can tell me how long Glitch will be down? Or if Glitch is currently experiencing Cthulhu-related problems?
  Thanks!
  Posted 7 months ago by girlthulhu | Permalink
- "I am even willing to wait. And then pay. For a snow-globe table decoration. With a treehouse in it, like my very first home." - neat idea!
  "Will we be able to make furniture and donate it to the giants?" - furniture is not (currently) donatable
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- Heck, I'd even make a special coffee table to put under my Moar Beta snow-globe
  Posted 7 months ago by WindBorn | Permalink
- "perhaps you can tell me how long Glitch will be down?" - not entirely sure. the reset/migration is a long and tricky process. i am whipping myles as we speak, but it does not seem to be helping
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- Then the beatings will continue until morale improves? ;-)
  Posted 7 months ago by Koftun | Permalink
- I absolutely can't wait until I can start building. I have so things collected that are necessary for building! Woooo!
  Posted 7 months ago by FTW BACON!! | Permalink
- OH Bees, that is cruel to myles.
  And much more effective to poke him with a sharp stick! lol ;-)
  Posted 7 months ago by Cassandria | Permalink
- You could just call the starter furniture we are given: Locked. Does it have to have a cutesy name? Using Glitched for a locked, untradeable, undonatable, unsellable item makes my skin itch. I think a lot of people might think it was broken.
  Posted 7 months ago by Bexatious | Permalink
- Shall we all get together and mail TS lunch. It's time for them to have something to fortify their work. I'll send the Hooch. Fabulous job Bees!!
  Posted 7 months ago by AlmostSilver | Permalink
- myles is probably enjoying it too much to get any real work done. You should do something mean instead.
  Posted 7 months ago by Bexatious | Permalink
- LOVE your idea about the old house snowglobes Lord Bacon-o, brilliant! That or dollhouse style miniature models of them would be awesomer than stew!
  Posted 7 months ago by Errata Stigmata | Permalink
- Are crafting bots coming with this release?
  Posted 7 months ago by Pickle Bob | Permalink
- I'm excited about the new release - but thank Tii the game is down, I have papers to write!
  I would like to express my support for Lord Bacon-o's idea for snow-globes, the idea to prevent blocked players from entering your street, and a sweet new name instead of "soul-bound". I'll probably be using "glocked" even if that isn't the official term, ha.
  Oh! And Basements! Super Excited about prospective basements and windows.
  Thanks for all your hard work, TS!
  Edit: And the craftybots! Looking forward to them too.
  Posted 7 months ago by Stuv | Permalink
- Any chance of a SDB/cabinet hybrid?
  Posted 7 months ago by Lettuce | Permalink
- "Are crafting bots coming with this release?" - nope. still working on those
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- "Any chance of a SDB/cabinet hybrid?" - perhaps, in the future
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- Just remembered reading somewhere about a greeter for our street. Is that happening this release? Or was I just dreaming about it? :)
  Posted 7 months ago by Tibbi | Permalink
- are group halls coming with this release? all the spots where there used to be housing quarter signs would be great places for group hall projects :D
  Posted 7 months ago by ixaeon | Permalink
- can we please have onion rings? im hungry and so are the otters.
  and they love onion rings.
  oh, also: weather and daytime and nighttime...it gets old seeing the same weather all the time. when I lived in SoCal it was like that, took about 2 months before I really started to not enjoy it. then in the winter the rain came and after that the mudslides, so everything was fine in the end. unless your house was located on a hillside.
  ps, also pudding cups - french vanilla
  Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ | Permalink

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