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Returning Players After An Extended Period of Time...

A post in the general forums by Nanookie (http://beta.glitch.com/forum/general/4346/) asked a question about what type of experience you would want to see if you were to return to playing Glitch after having stopped playing for an extended period of time. This is an idea I had for such a scenario...

Keeping within the fun and wacky spirit of Glitch, this is what I would love my experience to be if I had been away for some extended amount of time...

Upon logging in I find myself in a world frozen in time from the moment my account was "paused" or "frozen." All the animals are still, players are frozen mid-step or mid-jump.

POOF! Next to me suddenly appears a time machine (perhaps in the style of an old antique elevator). Interested I jump in and I can now whisk myself back to the present and resume playing OR...

The time machine elevator offers up some moments in time to stop and visit. 

Perhaps these moments in time are events in the Glitch world I missed... a new world unlocked, an intense rook invasion in Groddle Forrest, a horde of tree killing lumber jacks cleared out West Spice, who knows.

Having felt like I have caught up with missed events, I finally whisk myself back to the present. Upon exiting the time machine antique elevator I find my home, all kept tidy and neat. My plants all tended to. Before I can ask how...

A Glitch avatar looking just like me approaches and explains that he is me from the future and had come back to keep things tidy while I was away. And just like that he enters the time machine and POOF! He is gone.

Maybe one day I will catch up in time with my future Glitch self!

Posted 18 months ago by en Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Well heck, if we are just reposting ideas from the other post, then I still want hibernation and glitch dream zones! And Rip van Winkle beards! ;D

    Seriously though, interesting idea but it seems logistically difficult.
    Posted 18 months ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1000 here too...I'll let the devs figure out how to make it happen vice worrying about how hard it might be to implement...

    I really would like the return to be a positive experience vice negative/a lot of work, like some have posted.  Especially since some hiatuses will be unexpected and often for very negative circumstances.  Why make a person who's been through a bad ordeal dread coming back to the game?  Though a few dustbunnies, hairballs, and cobwebs to clean are still in the cute category to me...
    Posted 18 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The Dust Bunny! OMGiant... how cute would it be to have him greet you when you first come back. "Well... I've been hanging out here keeping your stuff company for a while... here's some of the things you missed." He could have links to the various Staff Topics / Announcements that have been made since you last logged in. Perhaps it also includes a reminder of the last skill you learned, the last achievement you gained, the last item you made / created / cooked / purchased... you know, that 'what was I doing when I logged out' stuff.

    Realistically he'd hang around for a few Glitch Days before automatically disappearing (so you're not forced to read novels right away), but could be shooed out the door before then - either when the topics have been read or by an action. Further refined, perhaps he follows you around in the world for a few days acting as a sort of 'tour guide' pointing out new trees, new houses, new streets, new clothes. "The thingamawhosit has changed a little, give it a try!"

    A cute confirmation of "are you sure, I've grown quite a bit here and some of this information could be important" before dismissing the Dust Bunny should be enough to 'introduce' the concept the first time someone encounters it.
    Posted 18 months ago by Travinara Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I too like the idea of a rip van winkle beard.
    Posted 18 months ago by en Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 informative Dust Bunny!
    Posted 18 months ago by Jennyanydots Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 on an annoyingly informative Dust Bunny,and if we were gone long enough,there'd be an entire Dust Bunny Clan.
    Hamish & Tavish MacDustBunny, Clan MacDustBunny.
    Posted 18 months ago by ~Scilly~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I had a good giggle thinking about wandering around with a massive beard, followed by a trail of Dust Bunnies with tartan bows, alternately complaining about getting blown around, pointing out changes, and saying random funnies.

    Fun stuff. Thanks for that. 
    Posted 18 months ago by Travinara Subscriber! | Permalink