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Street Projects have sucked all the fun out of Glitch

I have been around in Glitch since the launch (which has now been unlaunched?) And I must say, all of the fun I was having in Glitch is now gone thanks to the street projects. Before when building Callopee and Pollokoo the streets had a lot of people on them, but not to the point where you could barely move without lag. People were striving to work together to contribute, with requirements that were high enough that even if someone had a massive hoard built up, by the time the phase rolled around again they wouldn't have anymore. People had fun while the project was going. Cubimals were raced. Dice were rolled. Various game tickets were used. Now it is just a massive cluster of people making it so you can barely do a thing. All the previous fun that I had during the earlier projects has been completely eradicated by the hoards of people at the new projects, by those who contribute everything at once so I can't donate my measly stock of items. I don't know about anyone else, but to me this is not enjoyable.

Edit: Also the vendors in Rassana are horribly off in proportion. 

Posted 13 months ago by Sethy Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • The way current street projects works right now sucks, is not scalable, and we are definitely going to change how they work.
    I can't say exactly in what way because I personally don't know, but we are all aware that it sucks the big one and can't stay this way for long.
    Posted 13 months ago by Kukubee Subscriber! | Permalink
  • all the new streets in Aranna have a terrible vendor proportion too. The area has yet to have a grocer. No ice, beer, olive oil, oily dressing, etc. that can only be had at those vendors is available without going south to the opposite side of another region.
    Posted 13 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ah thank you very much Kukubee. That is good to hear that there are changes on the horizon for how things are going to work in the future and hopefully provide a fair way for people to get to the Head Honcho badge without the deciding factor being who has the best computer/connection.
    Posted 13 months ago by Sethy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • i made the mistake of popping off to get some oily dressing for one project thinking other people would be in the same situation; silly me to not realise that someone would be carrying over 100 "just on the off chance" ;)

    Get back after a teleport and of couse it was all over...
    Posted 13 months ago by Mschif Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Street Projects have sucked all the fun out of Glitch"
    If your fun only comes from Street Projects, then I must ask, have you not seen everything else in Glitch..?
    Posted 13 months ago by Volkov Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm just glad to see an acknowledgement from the staff that the projects suck.
    Crucially, the requirement for 100 glitches to be in the same place is not good.

    I was in place for the beginnning of a project phase (having been there and contributed for the previous phase). Two minutes before it started, flash crashed. Usually in those circumstances, firefox then goes off on one and hogs half the RAM and everything on the computer grinds to a halt.

    But I switched computers. It took so long for the street to load . . . got pass the unpacking, the replicating splines etc. Got stuck on about 99% on the next step. By the time it loaded the page, the project was over.
    Posted 13 months ago by Liz Erd Subscriber! | Permalink
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