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What's new? Release notes for testing period- July 12-15, 2011

Home Security at POL’s (Player Owned Location).
As you invest in your home, and store your wares there for safety, we're adding a security system for your protection. Players visiting your home are no longer able to summon another player uninvited into your home. You decide who your guests are, and how long they stay. Summoning another player to a POL will land them just outside the front door, where knocking can commence.

Ever have a guest that wouldn’t leave? Introducing a new ‘verb’ to kick them out. This new action will put a player outside your door, removing their access to your home. When you log-out, your guests lose access to your POL, and are ever so gently placed outside your door.

Job Improvements
Like to work? So do our devs! Thanks to some hard work to make the Jobs code more efficient, players that like doing Jobs should see a drastic reduction in memory consumption.

New Quests
We’ve added a few quests that promote sharing the love with your fellow Glitches! The new Mail Quest teaches players how to send mail to another Glitch, (be a friend, send a frog) while the new Mining Quest teaches players that tackling a rock together is much more satisfying than picking all alone.

Vendor Changes
Parsnip is now available at participating vendors and grain is not. Grain can only be received from chickens and you can now bundle your grain into a bushel of 250 grains for a mere 20 energy.

Butterflies and Bananas
To further interesting game play, our butterflies and bananas have also undergone some changes. You will notice a difference singing to Butterflies and find tweaks with other animal interactions. Early levels of banana caressing tweaks have also occurred.

(more to come, very 'soon') ;)

Posted 17 months ago by Pepper Rose Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Thanks Pepper! (I've come to giggle everytime I see the word soon! ;) )
    Posted 17 months ago by NutMeg Botwin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Early levels of banana caressing tweaks have also occurred."
    - win
    Posted 17 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Job Improvements?" Say, where can I get one of these...jobs? (And if someone replies, "Oh, they're everywhere. Especially if you're green and have six tentacles," I'll lose it.)
    Posted 17 months ago by Letter Jeigh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • How does one bundle their grains, please?
    Posted 17 months ago by serfer0 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ya know Lord Bacon-o... I thought you'd like that sentence, how did I know?
    Posted 17 months ago by Pepper Rose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • serfer0, bundling grain *may* be ready in just a few if it's not already ready - I was given the 'go ahead' to post the notes given that it was allllllllmost in!
    Posted 17 months ago by Pepper Rose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ooof. The tweaks to jobs may be causing many problems for me. Chat is almost un-useable now while working. And inventory very very laggy.
    Posted 17 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Jobs? Why don't I strap on my job helmet and squeeze into my job cannon and fire off into Jobland where jobs grow on little jobbies!?
    Posted 17 months ago by Tofu Casserole Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Jobs" means "project work."
    Posted 17 months ago by glum pudding Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, the inventory is extremely laggy  :(
    Posted 17 months ago by Zira Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ba da ba ba baaa.....im LOVIN it! =)
    Posted 17 months ago by Gemineye Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just loved the Mail Quest´s text! I do have friends here :)
    Posted 17 months ago by acreditando Subscriber! | Permalink
  • New Sounds!

    Some new features just have to toot their own horns, apparently... You will now hear sounds emitting from the Namaste Frog, the Dust Traps, the Mailbox, and the Mail Dispatcher.  We really can’t blame them for being so excited, can we?

    (the frog sure is being persnickety- please bear with us while he finds his inner voice).
    Posted 17 months ago by Pepper Rose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Exploration = Experience

    We’ve removed the limitation that XP isn’t granted for new explorations past 500 new locations.  We've gotten a lot of feedback from explorers wishing they could earn xp for all explorations, so while our world builders have been creating new and interesting places, you will be earning xp for finding them. These changes are going forward, and unfortunately we will not be adding xp to places you explored without earning xp in the past.  With these changes, note that apartment lobbies or residential streets will not grant you xp.
    Posted 17 months ago by Pepper Rose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • TY Pepps...love the notes!
    Posted 17 months ago by AlmostSilver Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Feeding piggies no longer produces poop. At least, feeding them, say, three grains doesn't make any, is this an intentional change?

    Hmm, works for strawberries...
    Posted 17 months ago by beechamel Subscriber! | Permalink
  • beechamel (love the name) we can no longer get grains from growing - only from chickens. On the plus side - now we can grow parsnips! 
    Posted 17 months ago by Wren Bramble Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The change isn't with poop, it's with grain. You can only obtain grain from squeezing chickens now.
    Posted 17 months ago by Cristy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ah. This is to decrease the benefit of grain? Where was this announced, anyway?

    I do appreciate the parsnips though, always felt a bit arbitrary. My chicken is doing that thing where I get no options with it other that "get information". It is moody like that sometimes. I will have to go out for grain.
    Posted 17 months ago by beechamel Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Beechamel.... scroll up to see where it was announced. It's the original post of this thread.
    Posted 17 months ago by Zany Serendipity Subscriber! | Permalink
  • yeah, the devs keep trying to push the "jobs" verbiage over the "projects" verbiage for some unknown reason. presumably due to some future plans for projects.

    it'll be interesting to see if they ever get the internal verbiage to stick, especially when every time the dev use "jobs" someone has to explain that a "jobs" are in fact "projects".

    fun to watch from the outside when you think of it as a coordinated effort to tinker with the organically evolved glitch-lexicon.
    Posted 17 months ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • good work on the POL changes tho : ]
    Posted 17 months ago by striatic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • you can only sing to a butterfly 1 time?? how am i supposed to die every day / kill 1250+ energy??
    Posted 17 months ago by Another Chris Subscriber! | Permalink
  • augh...can only sing to each butterfly once per day?   Couldn't we have cut it in half, 4x a day? 
    *shivers*
    *withdrawal*
    Posted 17 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • -goes off to buy bananas now-
    Posted 17 months ago by Liridona Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Job Improvements/Street Projects?

    Hi, I'm experiencing big problems with the "work" part for street projects? While I'm "working" I'm unable to consume food, give out random kindness, every time I try to meditate I fail within 1 or 2 ticks, and I can't STOP the work even if I close the window, it still sucks the life out of me until I reload the page or until my tool breaks. Are some of these bugs? If they are intended changes could you please go into some details - Thanks :)

    Edit -  All of the above was do to bugs and is now fixed :)
    Posted 17 months ago by Sadie the Goat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't recall ever having this much lag and slow response time ever.  Anyone else experiencing this also?
    Posted 17 months ago by Eleanor Rigby Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It looks like the leaderboards are broken... http://beta.glitch.com/leaderboards/
    Posted 17 months ago by Victoria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • As a bird lover I never really liked squeezing chickens for grain. Nor did it make sense to me I always thought chickens liked corn better? That's a lot of squeezing to get enough grain for buns to cook. And why I usually plant grain, leaving the chickens alone.
    Posted 17 months ago by Suzy Spring Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Rookswort still doesn't make you immune to mood loss.
    Posted 17 months ago by Blitz Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I accidentally posted this as a topic instead of just posting in here for the staff to reply, sorry. Feel free to delete it or maybe move it in here; link: beta.glitch.com/forum/gener...
    Posted 17 months ago by Tomato Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Please do fix the rookswort.

    I have opened two bug reports on the issue and both were marked 'resolved' with a staff note that they were 'looking into it'.  I've re-opened one of those reports.  Thanks.
    Posted 17 months ago by zeeberk Subscriber! | Permalink
  • besides the only signing to a butterfly once, you can't sing yourself to death anymore.

    they seriously found a way to nerf the only thing i do in this game these days (log in every few hours in my house and kill myself)
    Posted 17 months ago by Another Chris Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What on earth is a Dust Trap?
    Posted 17 months ago by Tricky Woo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @TRicky Woo

    New items in new areas of the game
    Posted 17 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I found same problem as Sadie with project. Are those on PURPOSE? Because that really, really detracts from both the fun and the community aspects of project work. We used to stand there and chat while work units were going and bestow kindness, etc. Or is this a bug we ought to report? This is the first game change I really really have not liked....
    Posted 17 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for the updates Pepper!  Some great new changes! 
    Posted 17 months ago by Laurali Subscriber! | Permalink
  • To go along with the changes:  The chicken sayings need updating:  "You could GROW grain faster" is no longer even applicable. 
    Posted 17 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • looks like the inability to chat while working was fixed. Sweet!
    Posted 17 months ago by bored no more Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Edited to explain what I meant:

    When you bundle grain, it cannot (currently) be unbundled or used for any other purpose.

    Pinot Myrmidon (staff) said
    OK! Unbundling is coming.

    I'm hoping that means this test, since several of us bundled up all our grain before we realized that that meant it couldn't be used in cooking.

    Simultaneously, grain can no longer be grown in garden plots.  The only way to get grain now is to squeeze a chicken.

    Those two changes have put a serious crimp in cooking right now.

    Araldia (staff) said:

     Shepherdmoon, the use for the bundles will be cool and exciting. You can still donate or sell the bundle
    Posted 17 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • By that, WindBorn means it becomes unusable (can't make flour out of it) until they implement changes in the future that will make it usable for other purposes (not implemented yet, so currently useless).
    Posted 17 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So glad I read the comments before popping into the game.  Thanks for explaining jobs...I was scratching my head over that one too...

    Thanks for the updates PR!  Excited we can now get xp for exploring again...bummed that I predominately only have residential areas left...but understand that change.  

    Okay, now to jump into the game and see what's there...
    Posted 17 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Grain can still be grown in garden plots, you just can't get any new grain seeds, I still have a stash and they are working just fine.
    Posted 17 months ago by Zaphod Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Back to chicken squeezin' eh? Just when I thought I would never have to ruffle another poultry...
    Posted 17 months ago by Mistress*of*Fishies Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Rookswort still doesn't make you immune to mood loss.

    Rookswort makes you immune to the effects of periodic mood loss, but has no effect on mood loss from specific actions. It is working as intended.

    What on earth is a Dust Trap?

    Dust traps are the mysterious signs in Savanna hubs which grant you items mysteriously. And Jobs are Projects, and staff should remember not to use internal names for things when making forum posts. :P

    When you bundle grain, it cannot (currently) be unbundled or used for any other purpose.

    Unbundling is totally coming this test, hopefully today, in fact, since effectively losing your grain is clearly no good.
    Posted 17 months ago by Pinot Myrmidon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • THANKS for being able to select quantities when mailing!!!  
    Posted 17 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Not only can you only sing to a butterfly once per day, you also can't exhaust yourself to death while doing it.
    Posted 17 months ago by Zaphod Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Are they fixing the energy loss when singing to butterfly's with girly drink buffer?
    Posted 17 months ago by ~Annie~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @anne---no:( Kevbob said girly buff will no longer work on butterflies. Bummer.
    Posted 17 months ago by GreyGoose Subscriber! | Permalink
  • NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
    Posted 17 months ago by Cupcake Subscriber! | Permalink
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