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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
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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! Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Wednesday isn't a good day for me.
    Come back Sunday.
    Posted 7 months ago by Volkov Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My family keeps asking me what I want for Mother's Day, and I don't think they are hearing me or realize I'm serious - KEEP THE FLOWERS AND BRUNCH, MOMMY NEEDS CREDITS.
    Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms :)
    Posted 7 months ago by JillyBean Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Lobe for all the developers pulling an all nighter, thank you and much excitement!
    Posted 7 months ago by Dagny Taggart Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Haha!  For real.  X3

    Happy Mother's Day to you as well JillyBean.  :3
    Posted 7 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ JillyBean Happy Mothers Day! And yes I'd prefer credits too lol.
    Posted 7 months ago by Anya Karenya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i soo love the earth stuff! blue mushroom lamp is sooo pretty! can not wait to see all the stuffs.

    question. do  we get a basement? for like um my coffins (i am a zombie) and junk we need to store or in-case of a rook tornado?
    Posted 7 months ago by crazy zombie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No basement, said Bees! But maybe in the future. (Bees!' post)
    Posted 7 months ago by Millie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i visited my old house 417 times before it went away :D  
    Posted 7 months ago by satarell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 1: This is awesome. I can't wait. But I must. The question is, what time of the morning Pacific time are we talking about? Very early morning, mid morning or nearly noon?

    2: Regarding Honey, I don't see how it can be a firefly thing. We already harvest fireflies, so that would make them a double harvest item. I'm thinking we need "Bees!" for honey. With beebox styled hives that need "tending" to get honey. No violent shaking or rough handling here. And needs to be a once a day thing like peatbogs. More than that would be overworking the hives and bad for the Bees!. Yes, it is absolutely required that they be "bees!" and not "bees". Seriously.

    3: I notice that there is no Small Cabinet styled for the firebog. :(
    3a: On the other hand, the new fungus styled stuff ROCKS! More mushrooms! YES PLEASE!

    4: Eeeee! I'm so excited to start testing this stuff! Whip the programers harder! Or set them up with caffeine IV drips. Whatever gets us moved so I can test out new stuff! *bouncebouncebounce*
    Posted 7 months ago by Murri Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It is Only 3 hours and 10 min. until Thurs...Pacific time...here Oh I hope the game opens up Early.
    Posted 7 months ago by Anya Karenya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • can you, or have you already made/make a sound proof room (plush wall padding)? i am a crazy zombie and i was wondering if i could have the plush wall padding and the hospital bed and all that :P
    Posted 7 months ago by crazy zombie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ARE THERE NEW HOUSE DESIGNS?!?! INQUIRING MINDS MUST KNOW!!!
    Posted 7 months ago by MarbhDamhsa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Bees! said yes, MarbhDamhsa.

    Scratch that. He said new street backgrounds. Sorry.
    Posted 7 months ago by Millie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would dig another status update. Are things going well so far? I won't even ask for a narrower time window :)
    Posted 7 months ago by Crrrystal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ups.. I accidentally have all my silvertongue seeds planted xD ...
    But yayyyyy! Thank you TS for house update.
    Posted 7 months ago by rosedragon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • will we be able to put stuff on the far left and right side of are walls? that is so annoying that they are bare. and can we have like sections put up? not all open concept design? like walk in theirs the couch and stuff. section next room bed and all the glam and that. section the back door to put your boots on a muddy after noon day.
    Posted 7 months ago by crazy zombie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @rosedragon I feel your pain! I had planted my herb beds with silvertongue and yellow crumb this morning just a couple of hours before the site went down. 
    Posted 7 months ago by Tathak Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, dammit to hell. All mad at the waste of a perfectly good non-spouse evening when Dagny had to remind me that there were actual HUMANS working their asses off all through the night to give me a better world. Kinda sucks the fun out of the bitterness. Truly wish there were a way for me to send you guys a pizza and a case of beer. You know my email address if there is.
    Posted 7 months ago by Booknerd Subscriber! | Permalink
  • MISANTHROPY AND THRASH!
    Posted 7 months ago by MarbhDamhsa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I celebrated by buying a subscription! Can't wait to play in my new house! :)
    Posted 7 months ago by Alyse Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Poor crops :(
    Posted 7 months ago by Morono Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Just a suggestion -- 24 hours advance notice for this would be really nice.  I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm excited everything is going live, I just really wish I hadn't thrown away all those seeds.  :/   Enough notice so we knew not to replant our garden plots would have been nice, especially since I know people have complained about this before.  

    Doing my house for real is going to be so much fun.  I'm glad you ended up doing the reset before I could burn ALL my iMG on upgrade cards!  :P
    Posted 7 months ago by Teamouse Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Actually, having gone and looked at the web pages?  I take that back.  This isn't going to be any fun at all.  I don't have the spare cash to pour into buying a gazillion credits, and I'm noticing that housing is actually nothing but a money making opportunity for Tiny Speck.   I can't find a single option available for in-game currency.  Everything is real world money.  (yes, I noticed the limited range of 'free' options.  Doesn't impact my opinion.)

    That's fine, I suppose.  It's certainly within your rights.  But give how much you're hyping this entire housing system?  It makes it pretty clear you're not all that interested in people who can't afford to pay to play.  *shrugs*  I won't be recommending that people check this game out any more, I guess.

    (oh, and everyone in the forum?  I am well aware that I'm now persona non grata, since this is the place to fawn about how wonderful everything is.  You can yell at me if you want, but I won't be coming back and reading it.)
    Posted 7 months ago by Teamouse Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Bees: there are lots of non-credit sub-only upgrades

    There are almost exactly one for most furniture upgrades (except say chairs, rugs, doors? and a few others). But a majority of the most desired furniture has only one free upgrade which is both underwhelming and disappointing
    Posted 7 months ago by Rah Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And it seems my assumption about what happens to subscriber-only furniture when your subscription runs out was wrong too: http://www.glitch.com/status/PUVBCPKKJCE2RHJ/86665-6857146/#replies

    Stoot says you get to keep the free stuff even if your subscription expires.
    Posted 7 months ago by Snazzlefrazz Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yup! That's what stoot said. ^_^
    Posted 7 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • shoot.  i have a new bottle of ambien and a new bottle of booze and was so excited to log on and get my own 'purp' trip on...and drat.  "closed".  that's cool though, I'll use the sleeping pills and booze for something useful then.  like, say...sleep?  
    Posted 7 months ago by scroobienoob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Is the 3 floor limit permanent or just for this test release?" - your house can only have 3 floors, but we are planning to add other buildings, or something

    "Oh, and what will happen to all the animals that you had?" - you get the animals

    "if you put any machinery into your homes, will they be taken apart and put in the storage boxes" - they'll be fully assmebled, in the moving box

    "can you tell us a bedtime story?" - maybe later

    "I'd like to be able to visit "model" streets that show off the different street styles, and/or preview before we buy." - we'll be making web pages to preview everything

    "how much time difference is there between Pacific and Eastern time" - 3 hours

    "will we be able to make it so that we can decide whether or not we want anyone on our streets in the future?" - probably not. but inside your house (and any other places we add), for sure

    "will we be able to put stuff on the far left and right side of are walls?" - some day!

    Teamouse: it doesn't impact your ability to play the game at all, and there are free options. /shrug
    Posted 7 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *hugs Bees!" You're Back :D Was getting Lonely here with out my house and piggies, etc.
    Posted 7 months ago by Anya Karenya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is going to rock!
    Posted 7 months ago by Serra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Now back to honey sources. Hmm, how about bears? And we call them HuggleBees! ? And yay, 1 hour 50 mins till May 10th pacific time. Crossing fingers and eyes that game will be on soon. :D
    Posted 7 months ago by Hellyeah Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Did our old houses get sold? I ask because I suddenly have a very large amount of currants. 
    Also will dark patches be added or will egg beans be plant-able in normal patches?
    Posted 7 months ago by Ink Dragon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yep my cash went up as well
    Posted 7 months ago by Webbie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm really doubting that it's going to be up at exactly midnight pacific time, don't get too excited!
    Posted 7 months ago by Serra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Ink Dragon: Egg plants already were plantable on the regular patches on our home street/backyard, since R2.

    That said, so far my home street still exists, with all its resources except my animals. The animals disappeared hours ago, so they still have quite a ways to go it looks like.

    www.glitch.com/locations/LH...
    Posted 7 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I almost feel bad that I didn't take a snapshot of the old house.  Almost. (Back to WoW)
    Posted 7 months ago by Kirnan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh dear... I do hope the piggies went in the right crate I had quite a few
    Posted 7 months ago by Ink Dragon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ Lorraine I was unaware of this
    Posted 7 months ago by Ink Dragon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Did our old houses get sold?" - yes
    "will egg beans be plant-able in normal patches?" - yes (already are)
    Posted 7 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Did our old houses get sold?" - yes
    "will egg beans be plant-able in normal patches?" - yes (already are)
    Posted 7 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Also, agreed about the lack of notice. I'd not have planted all those herbs and seeds and have them go to waste.. :(
    Posted 7 months ago by Rah Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Lorraine ♪: How do you get a link to your home street? Can't seem to find it :-/
    Posted 7 months ago by Rah Subscriber! | Permalink
  • thank you for burning the midnight oil for us, devs :)
    Posted 7 months ago by jello's landscaping Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Rah: Using Glitch Remote, there's a spot where you can see the hash for your home street's location if you are standing in it. Open a location you can access on the encyclopedia and replace the hash with the one shown on Glitch Remote. Since doing it the first time, it just happens to be in my Firefox history. If I type Lorraine in my address bar, it shows up as an option automatically.
    Posted 7 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ah. Thank you for explaining that
    Posted 7 months ago by Rah Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Rah: Unfortunately for you, the trick becomes unnecessary by the time the game comes back, since we'll have easy access to those pages allegedly, including the option to teleport there.

    But you can use the link to my home street if you wish to track the progress of the reset. I imagine it'll be much closer to being done when the resources cease to exist in the list. :)
    Posted 7 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Around what time Pacific morning? 5:00? 10:00?
    Posted 7 months ago by Sir Runalot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Don't worry! Take your time..
    As the wise said: "Haste make waste"!
    And we don't want to loose any items, right? ^_^
    Posted 7 months ago by Marco85 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Pacific time should be GMT -7.00, so the time should be about 11:00 pm Wednesday, 9 May, now...

    In Italy current time is 8.00 am Thursday ,10 May lol
    Posted 7 months ago by Marco85 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • At this point I don't Care about my items lol Can always and easily get more/gather more.
    Posted 7 months ago by Anya Karenya Subscriber! | Permalink
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