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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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  • sorry Bees! - I didnt mean to de-rail the thread into Honey gathering ideas ... which belongs in the ideas forum really... sorries .. .. :/
    Posted 7 months ago by serenitycat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Whew! (as she blows air and bangs wisp up) thank you giants! and Dev's! : )
    Posted 7 months ago by Joy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Everybody knows honey is distilled from llama spit.
    Posted 7 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I actually started it but its okay serenitycat. :D
    Posted 7 months ago by Hellyeah Subscriber! | Permalink
  • One more thing...if you read only the first letters of every post so far, there is a secret message.
    Posted 7 months ago by bayBi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh nooooo. What will I do tonight? For realsies. I will have to pay attention to the tv I have on in the background.

    Or perhaps watch some Buffy, since I'm now in the mood for some Sunnydale Slayage.
    Posted 7 months ago by Bexatious Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Devs, make sure to take breaks! We all are anxious to play but don't pull  an all-nighter!
    Posted 7 months ago by ☠ lala512 ☠ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you TS for all this lovely new stuff (which I now have to wait and wait and wait for...)!

    And I also want to put in a vote to see Lord Bacon-o's idea for snow-globes of our old houses being available...I will miss my Alakol home... :-(

    But still - weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
    Posted 7 months ago by indium Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thu... thu... thursday? T_T

    For myself, and all my fellow Glitchen:
    http://i.imgur.com/mgxsL.gif
    Posted 7 months ago by Drakani Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks so much for all the updating, Bees!

    Also a big thanks to all the TS staff who are working hard, perspiring, pulling out their hair, swearing and falling off their chairs.

    See you tomorrow! :D
    Posted 7 months ago by Flowerry Pott Subscriber! | Permalink
  • honey should come from cows we milk the butterflys :D  
    Posted 7 months ago by satarell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hey Bees! -- Thank you for the update. Sending happy conversion vibes to all of you. 

    See you on the other side.
    Posted 7 months ago by g33kgurrl Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Welp...Glad I went and rented a video game today!
    The game going down would wait until the day after my last final. :P
    Oh well. Thanks for all the precautions, TS!
    Posted 7 months ago by Popcorn☺ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for the updates, Bees! Good luck to the whole TS team getting through this monster of a project. :3
    Posted 7 months ago by Tathak Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Will there be peanut butter?
    Posted 7 months ago by Red Sauce Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Eeek! So excited!
    Posted 7 months ago by Kaybelikemaybe Subscriber! | Permalink
  • When the game reopens, could we perhaps have a new sticky thread just for housing-related bugs and information?  I mean no offense to anyone, truly, but it is time consuming to sift through eleven pages of conversation to find the pith here.
    Posted 7 months ago by glum pudding Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for taking such good care of our stuff - don't know what I'd do without my million and 1 obvious paninis :-p and hurray I can go to sleep now. Really need to!
    Posted 7 months ago by Violet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • They know if we've been good or bad...
    Posted 7 months ago by bayBi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you for being such good caretakers of our precious, precious stuff, Tiny Speck.

    Love for everyone and virtual Mabbish coffee as you work through the night!
    Posted 7 months ago by Vastra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Has someone forgotten a < /u > tag?
    Posted 7 months ago by fox sake Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *Removes the coffee IV* Oops. Looks like I might be up half the night with nothing to do... going to have to find some other way to burn off the caffeine!!  =)
    Posted 7 months ago by Zany Serendipity Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Someone forget to close an underline tag? ;)

    Good luck on the maintenance!
    Posted 7 months ago by Asperity Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Bees - you've got an unclosed underscore in your top post, bottom item most likely. 
    Posted 7 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • UNDERLINE ALL THE THINGS!!!!

    http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/20217455.jpg 

    (oops)
    Posted 7 months ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • NVM
    Posted 7 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The jujus have gone crazy with underlining!

    ETA: not anymore!  Phew.
    Posted 7 months ago by glum pudding Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hm, everything is underlined. Open tag somewhere at the top?
    Posted 7 months ago by Not a Princess Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *cries*
    Posted 7 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Are you guys gonna sleep at the office or just gonna run the scripts and check in the morning?
    Posted 7 months ago by Princess Sarah Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I cast my vote for Honey Cows. You took milk from cows and gave it to butterflies; you took being-a-provider-of-juicy-meat from cows and gave it exclusively to pigs. Come on, Glitch, give something back to the cows.
    Posted 7 months ago by Filox Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think Bees! is awesome (and hilarious). 

    Just saying.
    Posted 7 months ago by Papa Legba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • oh, yea, forgot to put in my vote for old housing snowglobes...
    Posted 7 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • thank you filox  some one sees my side :D cows are awesome 
    Posted 7 months ago by satarell Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @satarell *fist bump*
    Posted 7 months ago by Filox Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Since I can't play, I might as well pick nits:

    On the updated housing FAQ -- www.glitch.com/help/faq/#q174 -- "The the tree dies..." should probably be "Then the tree dies...".
    Posted 7 months ago by Hed Lin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I totally get why this is happening, this isn't an easy process and it's best to do it right.  I once had an entire banking site down for a weekend.  That was "fun" .  Kiss the devs for me!  I'll make some sacrifices to the release gods for you as well.
    Posted 7 months ago by Cosmogrrl Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am scared but I have confidence it will be awesome.  In the mean time I guess I will try out this damn elliptical I bought.   Thanks a lot for making me do something productive. Really. No. Thanks ~.^  

    Hope you all have fun on our evening off. ( The players.) 

    To the team hard at work ... Thanks so much! You rock.   
    Posted 7 months ago by Thursday Soleil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For the soulbound naming, I agree with Heygabe's idea of Only for you.

    @Bees
    Also, a long time ago, devs said that we would be able to recreate any of the housing that was currently available if we wanted.  As of now, the only option we can really do is like the Groddle cottages, and even then, that is a bit superficial.

    Is the idea of recreating more diverse styles still on the table?  I would love to have something similar to the underground cave that happened to be one of the house styles.  Or maybe a tree house.  Or whatever....just anything more than the plain houses we get now.
    Posted 7 months ago by Kirnan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oops!  We must have mashed F5 too much and broke the servers!
    Posted 7 months ago by Lucille Ball Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yay, lots of support for my shake-able Honey Bunnies :)

    For Ice, you could have an Ice Plant. It'd look like a christmas tree made out of crystal-like ice. In Ur, Ice Plant Beans can only be planted in highlands areas, such as the northern halves of Aranna, Rasana, and Salatu (which are all on mountains). Maybe an ice-themed region could support Ice Plants as well.

    For Mushrooms, a mushroom plant that only grows on dark patches. Would finally give Egg Plants some competition and influence the creation of more dark-patch areas in Ur. Of course they could just be grown on our home street, as well.
    Posted 7 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • heh.

    is it too late for my entry into the pool?

    my guess according to past experience is that "a few" actually means 28, maybe 30.
    Posted 7 months ago by flask Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Of course! Itty bitty cows with big ears and little fluffy tails, that fly with improbably-even-smaller wings.
    Posted 7 months ago by Aleph Zero Subscriber! | Permalink
  • morning as in 12:00 a.m. is morning (damn you no sleep there's lots of hours left in today!!!)

    or as 11:59 a.m. tomorrow morning? lol

    i bet the beers are extra tasty out on the deck in the sun this afternoon, but damn why do the rest of us have to go outside!  :*(

    everyone pray for rain tomorrow, makes drinking and trying to ignore us agoraphobic less tempting :P
    Posted 7 months ago by Nikki Z Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'll bet they lost all our stuff and are trying to figure out what to do. 
    Posted 7 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i hope they lost our potatoes and are trying to figure out a super awesome special gift for those of us with lost potatoes!  :D
    \
    Posted 7 months ago by Nikki Z Subscriber! | Permalink
  • double post means twice the gifts for me  (oops)
    Posted 7 months ago by Nikki Z Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sugar gliders, jumping off the cliff at Feman Falters, drop honey onto the unsuspecting heads of Glitchers walking below.
    Posted 7 months ago by 1padme Subscriber! | Permalink
  • sorry, double post, but it's double the sweetness.
    Posted 7 months ago by 1padme Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm in the UK, so I'm thinking for us it will be around 2pm? Thursday? Please can someone give me their opinion or idea of what the uk time will be for opening...(I have no life outside of Glitch...:?)
    Posted 7 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
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