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The Days of Glitch

Have been looking over the calendar and observed that there are some holidays marked on it. Anybody know what these holidays are and what we can do to celebrate them ?

Posted 20 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • They haven't said unless they said something kinda vague a long time ago and I've forgotten.
    Posted 20 months ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • well, Divine, you can join the fun by looking at at this:

    alpha.glitch.com/groups/RTJ...

    it is not going well .. so I guess it is a no-go.
    Posted 20 months ago by Lellie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Nope, nothing was said about them by the devs.

    http://alpha.glitch.com/forum/general/1737/  
    Posted 20 months ago by Hburger Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I remember hearing something vague about it to: I believe that right now there are no effects on holidays, but something special will be implemented later. I'll check to see if I can figure out where I read the details on that.
    Posted 20 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Found it! This from a dev:

    "The calendar will get some love soon, and holidays will be added (many of which will mean changes to game rules/bonuses, etc., specific to the holiday). ..."

    It's within this forum thread: http://alpha.glitch.com/forum/general/1428/

    The "changes to game rules/bonuses" part is particularly thought provoking...
    Posted 20 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ooo, good find Shepherdmoon! Love how 'soon' = 4 months later... ;) 
    Posted 20 months ago by Hburger Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for digging out and posting the relevant threads, doesn't seem like much has been decided upon yet . Love the 4 hour days here but it sure would be a lot easier (from a pre calculatory aspect) to correspond the Glitch holidays and real world holidays if the Glitch week was comprised of six 4 hour days instead of 7. So basically say Valentines Day would be a (6 day) week long festival. Love the idea of having special Glitch only holidays in addition but I can see how special rewards and special rules that only last for 4 hours is gonna require a bunch of code tinkering. Also we would need a new calendar for every Glitch year because RW Holidays would be on a different Glitch date every year. Also possible that it is not in the vision of the game to have the RW holidays on the calendar and hence implemented/acknowledged in the game at all so ..... 

    Edited to add that the presence of the Glitchmas Yeti is a hopeful sign that this isn't so.

    Edited again to add: That it would be really cool to know what humorous things the devs had in mind when coming up with the existing holidays so we can play with what we have for now ... 
    Posted 20 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If it's like KOL, we'll get extra max energy/mood, increased bonuses from food and drink, timers will be shorter, donations will be worth more,...  If they're giant/skill-based, then tinkering could take less energy on AlphCon, etc.
    Posted 20 months ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My gut instinct is that the devs would not want their holidays to correspond to real Earth holidays, because this is suppose to be an alternate world with no connection to Earth, so why would they? The Glitchmas Yeti may suggest otherwise, so I don't know for sure what's in store. However, Glitchmas may also have been a one-time deal last year for the early alpha testers, and might not be repeated...

    The fact that Glitch days only last 4 Earth hours does present some problems, however, as it would be rather easy to miss a holiday if you can't be on for those specific 4 hours for whatever reason... Maybe it's best if it's rare to overlap with one, anyway (especially if the timing is such that different time zones will experience the holiday at a reasonable time than others in different Glitch years).
    Posted 20 months ago by Shepherdmoon Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't think missing holidays are gonna be a big deal.  I won't schedule my life around 4 hours of energy-free mining if that's all holidays are.

    Annual real world holidays that they only want to do once per real-world year in-game aren't something that would be on the game calendar.  You shouldn't have to log in Dec. 25th to get a Glitchmas gift, easy enough for them to program if they do Glitchmas.
    Posted 20 months ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would think that eventually all holiday events, ( esp. if they have corresponding bonuses, special items etc)  would be on the game calendar. That's kinda what it's for ....  Can't imagine the RW holidays just not existing in the Glitchdom, naturally I would expect them to have come sort of Glitchy twist like Glitchmas but we need all the special events we can get. The more excuses to party the better and everyone already has a notion of what existing RW holidays are all about whereas with the Glitch Exclusive Holidays we have absolutely no idea what they are supposed to be about and have to adapt new rituals to correspond to them.
    Posted 20 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • They have at least 2 real world holidays on the calendar already.  Holidays like a Glitchmas can't just be on the calendar unless they want to have several every real world year.
    Posted 20 months ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Okay , a guess here ...  I'm that bored ...

    Junuari 17th - Croppaday - Harvest Festival - Picnics , Pot lucks,  howling at the moon , Farmers Market

    Septa 1st - Belabor Day = Glitch Labor Day -  BBQ's , Parades

    Remember 37th - Zille-o-ween = Glitch Halloween - Costumes - spooky shit - Parties in Hell - Candy

    Eleventy 11th - Recurse Eve = Glitch New Years Eve - Countdown Parties

    Still have AlphCon , Lemadan , Pot Twoday, 3 Days of Root , and Sprinkling which I am not currently inspired enough to have a post able thought on ...  though i do have several non post able ones ...
    Posted 20 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No post for Pot Twoday? Sheesh girl, you flaging, or is that the non post able one...Man it's those blue M&Mn's..rots the brain...and the boots..Your brain has been sepia infiltrated, ah, it gets us all in the end..Any M&Mn's left?...*opens gob in anticipation of leftovers*
    Posted 20 months ago by tweetypie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm addressing that one now and that's all I am willing to say at this time ... afraid your correct about the Blue M&M's , what goes up must come down ... next time will have to try a more balanced approach by including red, green and shiny ones in the mix. Couple hundred pounds of M&M's at the clinic, somewhere ...

    Edited to add: Look in that bucket, maybe they are in there ....
    Posted 20 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ROFL Divine...Meh, what goes up must come down..flippin Einstein, gravity has a lot to answer too. Been in the bucket, got the boots, love em..will give them back shoon.. 
    Posted 20 months ago by tweetypie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Drat ! er ... I mean .. Oh, glad you got them out alright ... :whistling:
    Posted 20 months ago by Divine~ Subscriber! | Permalink