Ugh, completely disagree. It's horrible to see streets labelled spice with absolutely no spice trees on them. Newbies who haven't discovered the routes go there regularly. And I hope this isn't the start of more tree wars - they were annoying enough the first time.
It's horrible to see streets labelled spice with absolutely no spice trees on them. Newbies who haven't discovered the routes go there regularly.
I agree.
I'm not hugely concerned with what trees are where. Sometimes when trees that are almost always one type of tree get changed to another type of tree, it's a little disconcerting to me, but it's easily shrug-offable. I never understood the people who were freaked out that their one street that their (old) house was connected to weren't full of the one type of tree that they needed, and for some reason they didn't want to go somewhere else. I do understand wanting to have more wood trees out in the world but the huge "wars" because of it seemed a bit like people were wasting their energy.
BUT having spice trees on streets with "spice" in the name is something that does make sense to me. People ask in live help about the location of spice trees; it's a common question and people ask about spice way more than any other type of tree. And the answer is always "oh, spice is awesome because you can search for streets with "spice" in their name" and personally I'd hate to see that not be an option (or, have people think that's an option and send them there and there be no spice).
Yeah, with diaveborn & Edith Anne on this. Really, don't y'all have something better to do with your time?
But for God's sake, just because I think you're wasting your time, please don't go down the "You're impinging on MY RIGHT to DO WHATEVER I WANT FOR WHATEVER DUMB REASON I WANT TO DO IT!!!!" road.
[scene opens on a lone Glitch, peacefully petting a piggy in Louise Pasture, when she suddenly looks up, straining to hear a strange sound the likes of which she has never heard before]
I sense a rumbling in the distance... a low roll, like distant thunder across the plains of Xalanga. The volume of the sound rises, slowly but inexorably, punctuated but the faint sounds of conche shells and GNG blocks being played in a call and response.
Suddenly, the sound is not that of thunder, but the beating of war drums, drums hewn from the dead trunks of bubble and gas trees as dozens to angry Glitchen charge through Groddle Meadows towards Ix. A battle cry goes up as the mob bursts forth through the signpost by the dozens:
Also, echoing what others have said here, I feel like the majority of community (of which I am a member) tends to agree that East and West Spice should be spice tree sanctuaries, and thus it is only natural that the community would then enforce that agreement. Sometimes, they just enforce it with pitchforks and wildly thrown flaming humbabas...
since the invites reopened i've been making daily runs through East and West Spice, gaily poisoning 'other' trees and replacing them with the spice that should be there. Seems like every couple of days a bunch of 'other' trees are turning up there.
Have had a couple of low level players get angry with me for getting rid of the 'balance' they said they had created on these two streets... Spice Streets should be Spicy!
I just wish that the trees were restricted by climate - so Spice trees only in Ix, since it's all funky anyways. Bubble trees in high altitude places, like groddle heights and parts of Aranna or the like. Fruit and Bean trees in forest/meadow areas (Groddle, Kajuu, the fox plateau), and Vapour trees in swampy places. Plus, as the world grows bigger and other resources become available, more climates = different trees = moar fun. I think that having that kind of world-building adds great depth to a game, and I miss having it here.
What Xiri said. Back in the day, when there were no private streets, searching for different trees in larger amounts was what made me explore the world...
"I just wish that the trees were restricted by climate."
Actually it is (or was until the release of Trantsformation Fluid), just not as restricted as you indicate. In Ix you can only plant spice, gas and bubbles*. In the Groddles (and most other forest-like regions) you can only plant beans, bubbles and fruit (and eggs in select parts of those). In the Bogs only gas and spice (and eggs in select parts).
* historically one half of Ix (the light side, I think) was gas, one half was spice. Somewhere down the line that became all spice, with the occasional replanting of gas (the very infamous Gas-Spice tree wars).
Now to the reason you find spice in the groddles, fruit in Ix, eggs in Aranna, etc: it's this aforementions Trantsformation Fluid. It changes any tree its poured onto into any other kind of tree (with the exception of paper), without respecting the 'climate'. Whether this should be fixed or is intended, is still under debate I think.
San Serif, that's about right although the division in Ix was previously all spice in East/West Spice (as it has always been and always should be!!), while the rest of the region was a mixture of gas and bubbles. Only when spice trees were removed from Groddle Forest did the all-spice nature become a thing.
And now I (and many others I'm sure!) would love to see this evolve again due to the rise of trees on home streets and resource routes, as Ix is far too pretty overall to bear the boring green-and-brown monoculture of nothing but spice.
Yes, sure, in East and West Spice, let the spice flow but as for the rest of Ix? Here's to letting arboreal diversity flow!!!
Yep, this is going to be a good one. ;) That said, I hope that everyone remembers that we are all here to have fun. If people are mean to each other about trees, I suspect it makes Spriggin cry. Which is probably not as bad as if Grendaline cried, since that would probably cause a deluge the likes of which hasn't been seen since the time of Gwendolyn...
@Crashtestpilot That is totally one of the reasons I love it here. The devs create a fun and dynamic open world, and we create the vibrant and active communities that live in it. :)
Back on topic: I'm surprised that there hasn't been more discussion of other invasive tree species in different regions. Egg trees in the forests seem particularly peculiar to me.
Visited Wickdoon Mood recently and was amused that, after all the battles and angst centered there, I saw not a single wood tree. Guess what, folks: Things change and even the most stridently-contested wars become irrelevant with time. This Spice contest will too. The youngsters will get past their kill-a-tree/plant-a-tree quests and things will return to equilibrium in Ix.
San Serif said "Now to the reason you find spice in the groddles, fruit in Ix, eggs in Aranna, etc: it's this aforementions Trantsformation Fluid. It changes any tree its poured onto into any other kind of tree (with the exception of paper), without respecting the 'climate'. Whether this should be fixed or is intended, is still under debate I think."
I asked staff about this, they said it is working as intended. I dont agree with it, but it is working exactly as they wanted it to work, doing exactly what they wanted it to do. *shrug*
Dorgan, when the people who were trying assert their inalienable right to ensure Wickdoon Mood have non-wood trees went on to destroy every non-backyard wood tree in Ur, I think their subtle and evanescent point may have gotten lost in the collateral damage. And I think what MOST people remember is not being able to find wood, trying to figure out why not, and being told (by the group doing it) that there was a small group of people who were poisoning ALL THE WOOD TREEs. I think, at that point, the question about a particular street lost its relevancy super-quick.
:)
TO BE CLEAR, I don't question anyone's right to poison any tree they wish (and can). Just prefer to live in a world where I can find wood trees. And when I was a young glitch, I couldn't. And was told (by the members of the group doing it) that I had no right to wood trees if they needed to destroy them all to prove a point.
Just my 2 hundredths of a currant,
--Me, who's NEVER gotten to use that word in a non-physics conversation before, and is so happy to have had the chance!
But was there just one bossy "side" in that long-ago fuss? Were those who planted wood trees on one dead-end street more bossy than those who in protest repeatedly poisoned all wood trees everywhere, over and over and over?
Sure, the spice streets should be spice groves. It was just a refreshing change from Ix's drone of spice tree after spice tree.
It seemed to me only the devs could reset them to full grown trees so fast. If it was players, it was an impressive effort. Every tree in IX was changed. Of course, the effort to put them back was done in a few hours too but you could see the progress.