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Let's Talk About Houses:

What's the best valued location for a house? 

What location has the most patches?

What location has the most garden space?

What location has the most storage?

Are there any houses with rocks for mining? (because I would buy the shark outta that)

Posted 18 months ago by A Magical Unicorn Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • If you look at the realty listing, you can click on an individual house and are allowed a peek at the interior and garden, along with some preexisting features (firefly swarms, chickens, bean trees). I'm not sure about rocks, but the houses with the most storage space and gardening areas are the 50k modern houses located in Alakol.
    Posted 18 months ago by Liridona Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Does Tiny Speck have any plans to make the real estate market demand-based? 

    Selling a property based on it's location demand would be excellent if the value increased. Property as investment!

    And I'd love the ability to 'improve' on a house and sell it for a higher price.
    Posted 18 months ago by A Magical Unicorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 1) If you're talking in terms of currants, Groddle Meadow is pretty good - 10,000 for two rooms, five patches and 16 garden plots. 
    2) Groddle Meadow, I believe: 5 patches.
    3) That would be Alakol, but it costs you 50,000. My house has 28 garden plots. 
    4) I could be wrong, but I believe it's Alakol. 32 slots for me.
    5) Nope! :/

    A little user's guide for anyone interested:

    If you're looking for...

    Gardening: Alakol.

    Space: Alakol or the swamps.

    Cheerfulness/Brightness: Groddle Meadow.

    Animals: Alakol (has animal pens)

    Trees: Groddle Meadow

    Bargain: Get an apartment; available in Groddle Meadow. You could also try a treehouse in Groddle Forest.

    Extravagance: Alakol, once again.

    You could also try the Wiki Page for more information.
    Posted 18 months ago by Cupcake Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Also have to look at location, location, location (if is completely contingent on your personal play style).
    Posted 18 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • A demand-based real estate market? Interesting! Now we can reenact the US housing market crash in Glitch!

    But really though, that sounds like an interesting idea. Being able to set the price your house sells. Right now you can only sell your house for 80% its original value, but on the other hand you move out and receive your currants instantly. I think if you choose to set the price on your house then you'd have to wait until someone purchases the place from you, and it's not immediately posted on the listings and sold like default.

    The biggest problem I see with this is all the reasonably-priced houses occupied, with a hundred people trying to sell overpriced houses and a thousand people homeless.
    Posted 18 months ago by Liridona Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would submit that also Groddle Heights has some nice cheap homes (2750 currants) and you get two regular patches for trees, plus a dark patch for an eggplant tree. The other places you can have eggplant trees are the swampy areas; however if you don't like everything dark, the Groddle Heights places have a cheery garden, just smaller than many of them. Mining outside your front door is a plus there; Tallish Crest has a sparkly rock right in front of the housing area. I started out there and now live in Alakol.... To add to Cupcake's list, if you want your own herb garden, Shimla Mirch.
    Posted 18 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would also like to add a benefit to the Heights houses, in the 'Animals' category. Each of the houses has a ridge in the 'upstairs' part, at the far right. You can put animal on it, feeders/collectors on the slightly lower part on the far left of the ridge, release your butterflies from up there (giving them a slightly higher transit path) and achieve the entire 'pen effect' of keeping things out of your way, for 3k as opposed to 30k+. The ability to grow an eggplant is invaluable to the earlier player (eggs give 5 energy x3 for the player with few skills, as opposed to 1 energy x3 from cherry/bean), so there's that too.

    One observation, I recently sold my 50k Alakol home. It was too big! I spent most of two tests gardening, plopping, petting, nibbling, milking.... I decided to move when I'd spent half a Glitch Day doing 'maintenance' stuff.

    As for storage, I just leave my stuff wherever with only a few very, very special items in the cabinet. For me, every house has unlimited storage. I grew to hate having to walk from the third floor to the first floor to open the cabinet, to hunt through bags, to go back to the third floor and finish cooking. Then if I wanted something from a pen or a tree I got to repeat the process. I spent more time walking around in my own home than I did in the world, and more time 'sorting' than I've ever had to before!
    Posted 18 months ago by Travinara Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ha, Trav! I have seen your homes, easy to believe. Funnily enough, the reasons you mention are reasons I LOVE the huge Alakol home. I actually quite enjoy sorting and organizing my stuff and deciding what goes where :P However, after having been in Marebito's home and then trying to get to Baqala quickly last test, I admit that my place now has piles (though very neatly organized) all over, too. Because in some cases, like meat and milk, I did decide it was quick just to have piles. I also have piles of cheese in various states of stinkiness now that that the no-no doesn't last long enough to age all the cheese I want. Hehe. So I do what I can on three flaps and leave things for the next day.
    Posted 18 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hey! Those piles *were* neat! I had brown stuff there, and blue stuff there, and all the donations in one pile! (Actually I had the easiest time keeping sorted in the Firebog houses - the terraced basement and stair cases ROCK as far as providing quick, clean sort space.)

    The hardest part when talking houses: it is sooooo dependent on play style. What works for one person might not work for the next, and a players needs/play style may change a few times over the course of a Glitchy existence. One of the things I love about the houses (and the game) is there's room for everyone to do that.
    Posted 18 months ago by Travinara Subscriber! | Permalink
  • With herb gardens and fireflies there's now a real advantage to Shimla houses, so now you have a choice between Groddle for trees and veg and the swampy areas for herbs and fireflies
    I found Travinara's post interesting. I was that close to swapping my Shimla house for an Alakol house for the garden when I plumped for the Meadow - 5 trees and a biggish garden.
    The local area is important too - I found Froughtful Fen had a great range of vendors and other areas quite close, but Tallish Crest had the rocks and a subway right on the doorstep! I'm not sure Marrakesh is such a great location but the garden keeps me busy :)
    Posted 18 months ago by Momo McGlitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • im not sure why storage is better than dropping stuff on the ground in your house... Help please :)
    Posted 18 months ago by Djoe6897 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Djoe6897, it's isn't really any better, just more tidy. It just depends on if it matters to you what your house looks like inside or not, and your own personal system of organising things.  
     I like to keep my virtual house clean and tidy, as it takes my mind off the fact that tidying my real house is usually being neglected while I play Glitch.  
    Posted 18 months ago by Ebil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Djoe: No real reason at all; it totally depends on your preference of having things neatly out of sight vs. easy access to all your stuff. The only REAL difference is that people who come into your house could pick up and take anything on your floor but cannot do that with stuff in your cupboard. Now during parties, of course people purposely set out food and drink for other to pick up. But they might put their other items in the cabinet so no one takes them. Of course, your friends aren't going to nab anything you don't want them to. But this is also why many of us do not let strangers enter our homes; people have had things nicked that way.
    Posted 18 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • :) i agree with that much +1
    Posted 18 months ago by Djoe6897 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • what are herb gardens??
    Posted 18 months ago by Cupcake Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cupcake, they are special plots for growing the new seeds for herbs that have buffs. The seeds are found in the new Savannah area Baqala and there are public gardens where they can be planted in the bogs. They can't be grown in regular gardens.  
    Posted 18 months ago by Riverwalker Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love my house in Groddle Meadow. So far a 24 slot cabinet is fine for me, and I like the garden and having 5 patches.

    What I really love is the decor, even though I know in time we'll be able to customize more- but as it is, it suits me well. And I love running by the windows and seeing the trees wave about.

    Probably the only thing I'd change would be maybe another couple of rooms or a place to keep the animals more in line.
    Posted 18 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I enjoyed my Marrakesh home too. I took full advantage of the beta period and test drove living in each house type, in different regions. I started the reset headed straight for the 10k Meadows houses, by the time the options were getting thin - I was spending more time mining and gathering fireflies and scraping barnacles, but I wasn't keen on the look of the Mirch.... so I moved to a Heights house. The location proved perfect, and oh how I adored my Roof Piggies!

    After a while, I started to move away from mining (I got sick of the rock piles, I missed trees) so I moved to one of the Forest houses, and brought the Roof Piggies along. I'd really started cooking in earnest by then, so the close proximity to Ix (aka 9) was ideal. Bonus, if I wanted to go mine, it was a fun walk. I was having real trouble keeping myself sorted (something that's important to me because it winds up unnecessarily occupying time) because I'd started spending more time with Street Projects.... so I moved to Jethimadh.

    As I said before, I wasn't keen on the look of the Firebog region. It was desolate, underpopulated, dark... but kinda what I wanted at the time. The lack of people meant trees died and the patches could be dug for loam (dirt piles didn't exist yet), and there was no one to complain if I poisoned one to dig and replant for my Quests (some of those houses didn't have a tree patch). I didn't have to worry about how many piggies or butterflies I was placing on a street in an effort to get an achievement... it was too quiet for anyone to care. I could scrape my own barnacles to my hearts content, fertilite my fireflies and collect them without having to worry about how many made it in... and I was pleasantly surprised with the layout of the house. 

    After a bit, I think my Glitch developed Seasonal Depression - I needed out into the light! The upstairs was charming, but the downstairs was *dark*. I kept pigs in one of the 'pits' in the basement and reported a problem with my butterflies. One of the developers said they were on their way, so I settled in to make some cheese and promptly died while waiting! I was back from Hell and making cheese when the developer arrived. He said he wasn't sure he wanted to come in... with the pigs and the farm equipment and the gravestone and the dark, it looked like a scene from a B horror film. (I might have a screenshot somewhere, but I don't think so... wish I did though)

    I sold my place and spent two tests homeless. I really wanted an apartment, it was the only thing I hadn't lived in yet but none were currently available. I figured I'd wait it out and try to catch one eventually.So when the Alakol homes became available I was able to buy without worrying about packing. I really did enjoy my time in Alakol, and it will probably be one of the areas I live in after the reset... but so many people wanted one of the big homes, and I was starting to feel guilty about not using all the space I had, and apartments became available... so I moved!

    That's my Great Beta House Hunt, I keep writing new chapters as they make new houses.
    Hope it helps :D
    Posted 18 months ago by Travinara Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Being a HUGE housing fan in MMOs, I was ecstatic about the homes in this game. I have a home where I can tend to my animals, trees, and crops? Awesome! :-P

    I love the feature where people can knock on your door too!
    Posted 18 months ago by Nerji Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am happy with my lethensome lift (pardon the spelling...) it has 2 patches, and a dark patch. also, i have accumulated 4 or 5 pigs, 3 butterflies and a 2 chickens. it does the trick for now, and I dont see the buzz around the alakol houses... Not to mention that the quarter is filled with a TON of fruit/bubble trees :). be my neighbor. it works.
    Posted 18 months ago by Djoe6897 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So funny about the basement Trav! LOL Thanks for sharing. 

    I actually like the look of the bog homes. And I lived there for a whole day. lol I just didn't know what to do with myself without a garden. And I didn't like the pigs in the basement. It just didn't seem right. :) I love my alakol house. I will probably try out Groddle Forest after the reset because the forest is really pretty and convenient to everything a beginning player needs to get started and the little houses are really cute!
    Posted 18 months ago by Riverwalker Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love my groddle heights home.
    Like Travinara said the upstairs garden is sunny and I love being able to keep my pigs out of the way on the 'ridge' part.

    I don't spend much time in my house, it's mostly a place to store trophies, harvest my trees and garden and empty my meat and milk collectors now and again. I don't keep a lot of 'stuff' and will sell off most of my inventory now and again when my bags get too crazy. 
    I can't live with piles of things IRL and I can certainly do without a load of virtual baggage in glitch.

    I love living in the heights because of the location, too: rocks for mining, good transport (subway entrance right on my street) and it feels 'central' to my glitch world.

    Those groddle meadow homes are far too cutesy for my taste.  I expect smurfs to come out of them any minute.
    Alakol houses are cool, but I would spent way too much time there rather than exploring the world.  
    Apartments and anything without a garden is pointless. Too many quests and tasks need gardening and animal-keeping abilities.
    Posted 18 months ago by Wrendolin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @RM
    Hey!  I thought I told you *not* to look at the mess when you were at my place!  >///<  I seriously need to work on cleaning that place up.

    As for houses, I'm really curious to see how the new patches in Shimla Mirch homes will pan out.  Too bad I have far, far, far too much junk to even remotely consider moving (not that I'm interested in leaving my comfy Alakol home).  About the only things that could pry me away from there would be housing in Ix or maybe Uralia.  Not sure if I'd be interested in living in Kajuu or not.  Depends on what houses there offered I guess.  
    Posted 18 months ago by Marebito Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Wrendolin... my new apartment has 4 garden plots on the balcony. Oddly, the typical number of plots to make a full stack of most crops once your skills are higher.... intentional or coincidence? I can confine the critters out there if I really wanted, but it does lack tree-ishness. It'll be fun to see how I cope, but I've gotten to the place of needing so few meats and so many 'tree harvests' for it to make a different that I think it will work out without trees or critters.
    Posted 18 months ago by Travinara Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 10 minutes before the close of the last session I bought my 50K Alakol home.  I was sad to give up a tree in my Marrakeshm, home... But the added gardening patches and the pens for the animals (I think) will be well worth the upgrade.

    Posted 18 months ago by Vicereine Linnæa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Mare: I didn't LOOK at the mess...um, I, um...I intuited it:) And now my plan tomorrow is to spend a little bit cleaning up mine, too, as it got a bit frenetic in there lol

    I loved your house, honestly. It actually inspired me to keep some things out and handy. And I will. I just have to deal with my piles of herbs, TP scripts and my "misc" piles as those are really getting a bit unsightly.
    Posted 18 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love my house but I don't use it at all.

    AT ALL. I've never even been inside of it, lmfao.

    I don't even know if we can select wallpaper or whatnot but I saw someone with 8-bit inspired decor and I really want that, lol.
    Posted 18 months ago by Cerulean Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think someone touched on it, but to confirm, will we be able to decorate our houses to individual tastes eventually?

    Because I think that would be FAB.
    Posted 18 months ago by A Magical Unicorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Unicorn: I believe we have been told that this ability will be available someday...
    Posted 18 months ago by RM Subscriber! | Permalink
  • hehehe the main reason i bought my house in Marakesh Meadows was because each house was different from the next it gave each street personality and it fit will into a new glitch's budget :P i would love it we were able to personalize them later on , personally i wont be buying a house in Alokol ever because modern is not my taste; far too much a sterile feel no real charm. But all of this is personnel choice which is why the options for future projects and ideas are literally no bars hold. It is an exciting new world out there :P
    Posted 18 months ago by Karma Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Are there any houses with rocks for mining?

    Tallish Crest, holla! Gotta get by those rocks.
    Posted 18 months ago by Tomato Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Linnaea - you got my old place, the neighbors rock! It's a fantastic street for a cook, one street either way and you have Produce and Grocery vendors and the path is a triangle. In that loop you also get a nice selection of trees, pigs, and rocks should you want to take some time away from the garden. The neighbors are some of the nicest people you'll ever want to live near and always happy to help in a pinch. Look for mail and morning wake up gifts, they sometimes appear ;D
    Posted 18 months ago by Travinara Subscriber! | Permalink


  • (gonna go see if I can find out who bought my old place.)

    Edit.  No one yet.  It's a nice place if anyone is interested.  5 level 10 trees and a bunch of pigs :)

    http://beta.glitch.com/realty/LCR1DTKOK9T14KG/
    Posted 18 months ago by Vicereine Linnæa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Trav, I actually prefer the 30K Alakol home I own to the 50K ones for exactly the reason you mention!

    I'd just prefer being closer to the street sign.  I'm all the way down the block.  
    Posted 18 months ago by jasbo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My house in Groddle Meadow has 32 storage slots, 5 patches and a 16 plot garden. That's a good alternative to Alakol and I prefer the brightness anyway :) The last place I lived was in Groddle Heights because I wanted an egg tree. There are plenty of rocks there. 
    Posted 18 months ago by Demaria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I found that leaving stuff on the floor made my progress through my house very slow and laggy. 

    Once I got enough bags (well, you know, nearly enough bags) and put everything in the cabinet, I started moving much faster.
    Posted 18 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink