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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.
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! | Permalink

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- "Is the idea of recreating more diverse styles still on the table?" - yes
  "morning as in 12:00 a.m or as 11:59 a.m." - between those two!
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- i hate you bees! <3
  lol... shoulda seen that coming. but now... do i sleep tonight or not *sigh*
  Posted 7 months ago by Nikki Z | Permalink
- For the UK: Probably more like 5pm. 8 hour time difference- 5pm = 9am.
  Posted 7 months ago by Shmack | Permalink
- @Arabesque: 2 PM in the UK would be 6 AM pacific time, so I'm thinking it'll probably be a little later than that.
  I hope I'm wrong, though! I'd love to get some Glitch in before going to work tomorrow morning. :-)
  Posted 7 months ago by Don Monkey | Permalink
- Thank you Tiny Speck! I'm so excited!!
  Posted 7 months ago by traypup | Permalink
- Thanks Shmack...I will have a long day tomorrow...but on the plus at least it's an early night tonight for a change!
  Thanks also to Don Monkey : )
  Posted 7 months ago by ~Arabesque~ | Permalink
- "5 AM pacific time, so I'm thinking it'll probably be a little later than that." - well i wont be awake. myles had better be, though
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- Thinking when I wake up at around 7 ish in the morning in UK.
  Glitch will be open
  Posted 7 months ago by Swoooo | Permalink
- Dang, Bees! quoted me before I fixed my time conversion error!
  Posted 7 months ago by Don Monkey | Permalink
- that's only 7.5 hours away - I hope you're right
  Posted 7 months ago by ~Arabesque~ | Permalink
- i had noodles
  now I want milkshake
  Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ | Permalink
- Seriously disappointed to cut my evening short and come home to find Glitch down for at least another 12 hours UK time, if not much more. :( Hope it's worth it!
  Posted 7 months ago by katykicker | Permalink
- lol - i'm seriously thinking it will be mid to late morning, but i can always pray for midnight instead :D
  that could be 20 hours from now folks... *flails*
  oh and bees! - i have a bull whip if myles needs extra incentive.
  Posted 7 months ago by Nikki Z | Permalink
- Link to countdown timer May 10th morning Pacific Time >>> http://goo.gl/tLAer
  Posted 7 months ago by Hellyeah | Permalink
- YOU HAVE NINE HOURS
  Posted 7 months ago by MarbhDamhsa | Permalink
- OH NO!!!! Thursday morning Pacific time....means....yikes not till Friday??? if I sleep Thursday night. TWO WHOLE DAYS without Glitch, since I couldn't get in yesterday. I don't know what I'm going to do with myself. all ready going through Glitch withdrawal after only 1 day.
  Better to have it take longer and do it right than try to rush it and have it wrong.
  *sigh*
  Posted 7 months ago by KinOfWolf~♥ | Permalink
- dang and i got off work early today and had more time to play. crap......
  Posted 7 months ago by ilovecomix | Permalink
- (((HUGS))) Bees! and the rest of the devs.
  Time to go catch up on all those programs I've been ignoring :-)
  Posted 7 months ago by sgjo | Permalink
- Just to say, thank you Bees! for all your forum monitoring.
  Thanks to TS for what I'll call a much more engaged and transparent communication strategy than in past changes.
  To the rest of you, I'll just say this: Are you just completely stoked?
  I know I am.
  See you in the morning!
  Much love to the TS devs, Bees!, stoot, and to all the people I so enjoy in Ur.
  The new world is coming. How good does that feel?
  Posted 7 months ago by CrashTestPilot | Permalink
- Ditto, Crash!
  Posted 7 months ago by jazzcrash | Permalink
- I feel the pain of people who took time off work to play today. I'm in the same boat (so I have to catch up extra work tomorrow). It reminds me of the old First Beta days, when this happened all the time, so it's mostly kind of funny. I should have known when GOD started talking to me and I heard Good Night Groddle ...
  If past performance is a good indicator of future results, it'll be worth the wait.
  Posted 7 months ago by Aleph Zero | Permalink
- +1 for porches, basements, roofs, windows, ladders, ropes, etc... And tapestries would be a nice wall decoration.
  Question: Will there be a limit to the number of furniture items we can put in our house? For example, can I completely fill my house with SDBs?
  Do you think the TS devs will ever get a break from all the hard work of updating? Like, ever??
  Posted 7 months ago by Scarlet Begonia ♫ | Permalink
- Bees: can we please have a forum button that will take us to the last post in a thread? It gets silly having to navigate to the end each time.
  Plus ice cream. But button first, then pistachio.
  Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ | Permalink
- Oh yeah, a button to navigate to the last post would be awesome! I have been wondering about that for ages!
  Posted 7 months ago by Kirnan | Permalink
- Yes, but then ice cream.
  A button in the list of forum threads would be good, plus maybe one up top in the threads themselves.
  And then....
  Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ | Permalink
- "Will there be a limit to the number of furniture items we can put in our house?" - nope
  "can we please have a forum button that will take us to the last post in a thread?" - good idea, yes!
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- For hopping to unread replies I use the forum enhancement extension described in this thread.
  ETA: I think it's only for Chrome. and the next suggestions from Carl P. and Zoethor2 are excellent (but I really like the forum enhancement too).
  Posted 7 months ago by Aleph Zero | Permalink
- elf, when viewing the list of threads, simply click on the name of the person who posted last. It takes you right where you want to go!
  Posted 7 months ago by Carl Projectorinski | Permalink
- If you're in the main forum (General) and click on "last post by" it will bring you to the last post in the thread.
  I only figured this out a few days ago.
  Posted 7 months ago by Zoethor2 | Permalink
- Your diligence in making this work amazingly is appreciated. Where can we FedEx coffee or have mt Dew and have pizza delivered to? (no seriously, if you want a pizza I think I just bought one by way of recently updated subscription. Stoot, you better get that started!)
  Love you all
  Posted 7 months ago by Lady Cailia | Permalink
- Thanks for all the updates and answers, Bees!
  Much rather you guys took your time and verified everything (even if I did already tell hubby it was self-serve dinner tonight since I'd be Glitching).
  @Aleph Zero -- I was just thinking how much more like old beta was. Play for a few days to a week, and then hope the downtime was ONLY one week. LOL
  Posted 7 months ago by kastlin | Permalink
- yes, last name, right...i do recall that now...
  but, we need button so then we get 2) ice cream
  Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ | Permalink
- @Elf - In the forum, click the name of the person who last posted, rather then the forum title, to go to the last post.
  Posted 7 months ago by Iconoclast | Permalink
- Goodbye old house... D:
  Posted 7 months ago by Awe24 | Permalink
- I'll miss my old house too. :) Looking forward to playing with the new stuff for good, though.
  Posted 7 months ago by MaxieMo | Permalink
- ah ....12 pages already!
  Exciting news! I'm only worried that the items I placed in decoration mode vs the items I dropped in regular mode might be buggy. No doubt someone has asked about that already.
  Posted 7 months ago by Treesa | Permalink
- "If you're in the main forum (General) and click on "last post by" it will bring you to the last post in the thread." - woah! i forgot i did that
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- "I'm only worried that the items I placed in decoration mode vs the items I dropped in regular mode might be buggy." - don't worry, they'll be fine
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- Bees: related to "underline ALL the things!"...
  It seems that there should really be an Alot in this game. Possibly an alternative to Emo Bear for those who feel about bears the way Stephen Colbert feels about bears? I feel that the Alot should be given really long earlobes. Lobed Alot (Allotus Lobicus). Please pass this on to kukubee's suggestion box.
  http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html for those of you who are, at present, making wtface.
  Posted 7 months ago by Aviatrix | Permalink
- ok so..ice cream?
  if not, im burning my house down
  Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ | Permalink
- I think the idea of shake-able honey bunnies is BRILLIANT.
  With, of course, the caveat that everyone knows that bunnies are evil creatures with sharp pointy teeth, which you would have to get past before you could shake them for their honey.
  Posted 7 months ago by Miss Coco | Permalink
- I also want red stapler.
  these things are not negotiable...
  Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ | Permalink
- "What about the animals? Will they fade away too?" - they'll be in your moving boxes
  I love this! I can imagine those boxes jumping. Not only did I have pigs, chickens and Butterflies in my front yard, I have piggies and chicks in my personal inventory. That particular bag has been moving for 3 days - Lol! Just like senor Wences, I open it occasionally, say "S'allright?" and their little clucks and oinks seem to say "S'allright!". Thanks for the hard work and Update!
  Posted 7 months ago by Brib Annie | Permalink
- *whip* FASTER DAMN YOU
  Posted 7 months ago by MarbhDamhsa | Permalink
- Wow, the estimated time just went up tremendously. I think TS might have underestimated just what truly awful hoarders glitchen tend to be.
  "They couldn't possible have several million items on each floor of their
  houses... could they?"
  Posted 7 months ago by Melting Sky | Permalink
- Aviatrix: nice :)
  Posted 7 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
- @Melting Sky: But we did. Oh, yes, we did.
  Emergent Hoarding.
  Posted 7 months ago by CrashTestPilot | Permalink
- I think the "tomorrow morning" thing is a giant trick. Remember when stoot said Imagination wouldn't be for two weeks and it was the next day? What if this "tomorrow morning" thing is like that? Maybe they just want us to stop breathing down Bees!'s neck. Don't fall for it! It's a trick!
  *breathes*
  Posted 7 months ago by Sirentist | Permalink
- @Aviatrix: that is my favorite, favorite blog!
  Posted 7 months ago by Emleigh | Permalink
- Bees! usually isn't all tricksy and stuff, though... I think I may take advantage of this and go to bed niiiiiice and early tonight to catch up on sleep.
  Posted 7 months ago by Zoethor2 | Permalink

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