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Imagine a reset

Please read the idea before you just scream no...it isn't what it exactly sounds like.

Imagine a new land..new streets we have never seen before, nothing really pre-planted.  Imagine everyone is starting off as a level 1 unskilled glitch, imagine it even has some minor living space for you to live in...imagine you may either play there...or in the current world.

Imagine a new world starts, and you make a choice..continue playing as you are...or help build the new world.  You leave behind all the possessions you had found, litterally leave it behind, your house stays where it is...you can't visit it from the new world..but its still there.  Not lost, just left.  Imagine you help build the actual streets...in whatever new streetbuilding project TS has been talking about.

Imagine..that once the new land has been fully imagined (I'd say a time limit?) the new land suddenly pops into full imagination of the giants, and integrates as everyone built it into the new land.  You move out of your temporary apartment back to your actual home (with a moving box comming along with you).  You regain all the upgrades you had previously given up...you regain all the levels you had lost...you regain any skills you had forgotten...and keep any new ones you had learned.

In essence..you do a temporary reset of your character..and take place in a new land/addition to the glitch world.  Housing, like the old housing, is set up for your glitches to live in (and gives a reason to find more abandoned apartments and the like).  Once a certain amount of time has passed, your character is un-reset and you return to normal.

This would be an 'opt-in' type situation, only people who want to experience this..do.  Alternately you might put it a case of..your character imagining a new character (basically when you log in you can choose if you wish to play on the main glitch..or the new land..with eventually the two becomming integrated).

Posted 7 months ago by Seilong Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • As involved as that is, I have definitely had similar thoughts. I've been considering creating an alt just to play through from beginning and enjoy the new features in that context. I think an alt (as defined and condoned by TS) is the best practical solution for right now, but some sort of integration is very tempting.
    Posted 7 months ago by Xev Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If they go to the trouble of creating all the new content, why should it be limited to a subset of players?
    Posted 7 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • it wouldn't be.  If you read the entire post.

    After a certain amount of time..the land would be integrated into the main part of all of glitch.  The people who agree to reset there...just get to help with the setup/initial setup.

    The idea is to give a reset..without making a new area used only for resetting...as well as making it so the people who reset can experience a 'fresh restart of an entire server' without loosing all of their old stuff (such as house items paid for by credits).
    Posted 7 months ago by Seilong Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What a beautiful idea.
    Posted 7 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sure reset Glitch, especially if you want TS to loose a lot of credibility in the gaming world. The gaming world is a very competitive comercial arena where top talent are sought after at all levels, where market share and market creds are critical, and ya get just so many "do-overs" (and IMHO, 1 is the limit).Also I wouldn't want my resume sullied by having worked at a company which really couldn't bring a stable product to market (as in how many resets after the initial public launch are too many? One I say, once again.

    Edit posted over at General:
    Ok shhexy corin I miss-spoke.We were launched, then went back into the post-Launch beta (now)...What I'm trying to say is that total Glitch resets (where everyone starts at the very beginning), can and did happen in pre-1st public launch Beta , not now during the Beta after the first public launch. Once you go public with a game, it's a bell that you can't unring, and doing anything 'except gettin the 2nd Lauch DONE will be harmful to the Glitch brand.

    (((Edit End)))
    Posted 7 months ago by MeherMan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And thus we have proof that MeherMan didn't read the post at all :).
    Posted 7 months ago by Seilong Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think this would be a great way to do a sort of "ascension" mechanic, which is something Stoot has mentioned they've considered.

    I love this idea. Please consider it for the future, TS.
    Posted 7 months ago by Merrylegs Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I did read the post Seilong....

    Just saying...
    Posted 7 months ago by MeherMan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love it. Not too many things are thought through all the way, but this is.

    +1337, and i only say this to the things i truly want in this game
    Posted 7 months ago by Taco Assassin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • MeherMan--the idea proposed here is a voluntary re-starting that would require a glitch to choose to give up their things and relocate. Not a reset by any stretch of the imagination.

    The other post was also not suggesting an actual reset. It was a philosophical question about how you'd play and how you'd interact with others if we started afresh. Both of these posts are inviting you to suspend your belief and forget reality for a second, and imagine--like a choose-your-own-adventure story.

    Read both posts again, slowly. Let 'em sink in, forget the company and bell-ringing and credibility and bottom lines, and imagine...
    Posted 7 months ago by Voluptua Sneezelips Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Meherman
     But we're not talking about a reset at all. This is a voluntary, temporary reset. Kingdom of Loathing has a mechanic similar to this, where you start all over retaining very few things, go through the game again (sometimes with particular limitations) and you get a special reward for doing so. (For example, choosing a skill to take with you next time.)

    This is entirely different from a forced reset of everyone. It would be entirely voluntary and you'd get all your stuff back after you completed the quest.
    Posted 7 months ago by Merrylegs Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ah - good Glitches - thank you for reseting my imagines...

    :)
    Posted 7 months ago by MeherMan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is a really neat idea! I'd love this, it'd keep the game from getting stale.
    Posted 7 months ago by Shiromisa Kaya Subscriber! | Permalink