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Survey on Home Streets

I'm having trouble deciding on what I want to do with my home street, so I thought I'd ask around and get input from you guys. 

For those of you who are participating in a serious route or another route listed by the Glitch Housing Directory, do you enjoy being a part of the route? Which route are you on and how much img do you usually get from visitors per day? 

Most importantly... how did you choose which route? Did you pick your resources based on your needs or some other factor?

Posted 32 days ago by Fawnie Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I do enjoy being on the PB&J route. I get a steady stream of visitors, and average about 1500 iMg a game day from them. I set it up originally to get onto the route for the free iMg, and chose this one as I was doing alot of machining at the time to expand my house and tower and needed access to fuel cell resources. It has worked out great for me. I don't do much machining anymore but still harvest all the resources for sale or storage.
    Posted 32 days ago by Dr. Babycat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I enjoy being on the Furniture Freeway and the Community Crop route :D and I usually get around 1k iMG a game day, maybe a bit more, but it's generally around 1k-1.2k. I am the curator of the route :P and I had the idea for it, so that's why I picked it. Also, I like having all the materials to build furniture (minus fiber, lightbulbs, etc.) right outside my door. :) 

    As for the Crop route, I joined because I had extra space in my yard, and I thought I'd fit as many crop plots as I could and join the route to help others. ^_^

    (Both of these routes are HRR.)
    Posted 32 days ago by NightDraconis Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I enjoy the Crop route, I took it over not so long ago so it could be refreshed and that we could solve the looting problem once and for all but yes I really enjoy it, The crops I harvest I will then use in making foods, for sale or for storage. its a great route to be on and that is HRR
    Posted 32 days ago by Santa Clause Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm on the serious gas route and the HRR gas route; I joined both of them because I had a bunch of gas trees already for making beans/eggs and it made it easier to gather more. I don't get a ton of iMG every day - it varies a lot depending on people's use of the route - but it's a nice benefit when it happens, and it definitely got me the various daily iMG badges.
    Posted 32 days ago by eruthros Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I chose the dirt route because it was the shortest.
    Posted 32 days ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm on the HRR fruit and herb routes I get anywhere from 900-2500 img per day usually around 1500 (I'm level 56 which I think changes the base amount). 

    I really like being on the routes for the most part as it makes my home street less lonely and I like running into people on it. Sometimes however it would be nice to be able to change things up but I have a backyard for that.

    I choose the routes I'm on because they had openings and because at the time I was running the herb route a lot in order to get badges from it. 
    Posted 32 days ago by ThursdayNext Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am on the Chaos and Tower Turnpike routes.  I get around 1500 img for a good day, not so many visitors. 

     I joined the Chaos route because i am not tied to having certain resources in my garden but the only possible downside is that I don't think it is one of the busiest.

    Another consideration for you might be what sort of attitude you have to your resources, might you get upset to come home to find dirty/empty plots?  If so, then maybe better to spare yourself the grief and not join herb/crop routes.
    Posted 32 days ago by Miss Parsley Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am the curator for both the HRR and Serious Metal routes.
    These produce a rather large amount of IMG/day -- depending on which day, and how frequently I log in, 1000-2500 IMG/day is the average.

    I applied, in each case, for the route, and was happily accepted by both camps.

    I am a big believer in intensive resources, particularly for mining, because, hey -- it's mining, and when you need to seriously bang out ingots (for towers, donation in the form of crstmlzg chambers, helping others, making tools or furniture, etc.) it's nice to have between 12-17 metal rocks to go through.  You can finish up one street end, hit the other, by the time you're done, go back to the other end of the street and a few more should have spawned.

    It's a great pleasure to me to provide the resource for others, as well as being able to sit down, do a metal run, accumulate about 5k chunks, and do a big-ass smelt. 

    I like ingots.  So, this route choice was one I'd been hoping to get, and have been pretty freaking happy about the whole deal.

    I also enjoy being able to visit other intensive routes for most of my major crafting needs (ie, bubbles, jellis, peat (can't have enough of that, really), barnacles, dirt, and of course, spice.)

    I don't find myself using a lot of eggs, fruits or beans, so my existing hoards seem to be holding up pretty well.

    It's also nice to be able to finish a metal run, and then go soak up the extra mood from petting trees, pigs, etc. on other's home streets.

    Anyway, not sure this answers the entirety of your question, but hope it's able to provide at least a little personal perspective.

    ~CTP
    Posted 32 days ago by CrashTestPilot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am the curator of both the serious bean route and the HRR bean route, I choose this route because they were looking for a curator.  I have loved it ever since, got to meet lots of new people, i get anywhere from 1500-3000 Img from being on this route, and if you don't know what else to do, i would seriously recommend a route :D
    Posted 32 days ago by Mucanuca Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm on HRR Gas and joined it...I'm not sure why originally...it was ages ago before iMG for visitors...I think because at the time Ix was all spice and there was no high-density gas. 

    I'm also on Piggy Porkway but that's been more recent. I joined right after http://resources.grelca.com/ was created and I saw I had a porkway of pigs already...might as well link up.

    My base iMG atm is 760ish and most days I'm at 2K. 
    Posted 32 days ago by M<3tra, obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm on Freebie Jeebies because I like sharing. :3  I don't know as I get a huge amount of img from it, but I enjoy it.  Also on the new furniture shopping route because I like making furn but don't have a lot of use for it/credits to upgrade it.
    Posted 32 days ago by Annuska Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm on serious metal too, it brings me more than 1000img a day usually though that's not the reason I am on it.  I applied because I can't resist mining metal rocks when I pass them, because I like making ingots, and because the resources required to repair depleted metal rocks are easy for me to have on hand or make (this is an important consideration, though other people will of course help repair).  Xombiekitty was very gracious and friendly when she approved me.  I often run into people on my home street and that's fun.

    Also, Crash, "do a big-ass smelt" sounds like part of the potty humour people are complaining about elsewhere on the forums - I approve :)
    Posted 32 days ago by Ms. Beagle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The gas trees are just gorgeous, so my home street is full of them. I use gas for beans and eggs, so it's makes sense to me, but the choice is mostly based on the aesthetic.

    I joined 3 routes, and I enjoy being a part of them,  but I don't get a as much visitors as I would like to (I get between 300 and 1500 i per day).  I haven't got the "The kindness of strangers" badge yet :(
    Posted 32 days ago by Nika Stone Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm on the herb route because I like herbs!  Before the new housing, I used to visit all of the community herb gardens every day because I really enjoyed seeing what different things were blooming there and meeting other herb gardeners.  I know a lot of people have problems with front-yard herb gardens, but I have had very good luck.  (but I know this is partly because ennuienta runs the route every day and does a lot of replanting.)

    I'm on the Chaos route for the same reason as Miss Parsley - I can have whatever I want on my street and still be on the route.  Most of my traffic comes from herbs though.

    And I'm also on a Library Route, which gets me very little traffic - it's more the other way around, that people come to my yard for the herbs or for my tower, then they notice the library once they've arrived.  I do get a lot of comments about my note collection from visitors :)
    Posted 32 days ago by Miss Portinari Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm on the Community Kitchen route, because I like cooking and sharing. I have one of almost every tree, just because I like trees. :) I also have an herb garden that I leave out for visitors, because I don't really use herbs much. I keep some crop garden plots for ingredients. I get 200-300 img a day.
    Posted 32 days ago by kalsangikid Subscriber! | Permalink