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Tower/street strategies to help visitors keep your street running smoothly

One of the things people seem to grumble about regarding home streets is that visitors aren't restoring stuff or replanting harvested gardens.  I have a few tips to help minimize the stress--and even make you a profit!

Restoration facilitation

1. Dedicate a floor of your tower to restoration materials.  Offer for sale some of EACH type of material required to restore every single item on your street, and stock enough to do a full restore.  This prevents people just abandoning the restoration project entirely; it's a lot easier to pop into someone's tower to get items for restore projects on that street.

2. Price those items high enough that players won't specifically come to your street to buy them.  Think of that part of your tower as a convenience store, with convenience store prices. If it seems like certain items are getting consistently bought out anyway, recheck the prices on glitch remote; the market fluctuates.

3. Place and gnome and a sign by your street sign to tell players about the restoration materials in the tower. Use an informative subject line on the note so it'll be useful (instead of "read this", put "restoration materials for ALL my resources sold in tower".  Or whatever will fit.

4. On the convenience store floor of your tower, put up a note pole.  Subject: "Restore requirements for my resources".  Then, using the list in the following link, cut and paste the requirements for each item on your street: www.glitch.com/forum/genera...

5. Don't forget to sell some tools, even if it's just basic ones.

Got gardens?
1. Make the materials available for people to replant.  Sell seeds in your tower, and put a note pole by the sign with the subject, "Seeds available in my tower!" 

2. If you very strongly prefer that someone plant certain items, here are some steps you can take to encourage that:
    - Sell ONLY the types of seeds you want planted
    - Put up note poles that state your wishes in the subject line ("Please only corn in this garden--thank you :) ).  Please, thank you, and the :) will make people feel more inclined to abide by your request than using more demanding or bossy language.
    - Have your butler hand out seeds of your preferred type(s).

3. Have pigs in your yard if you've got crop gardens so people can make their own seeds.

4. Don't forget to sell gardening tools.  In fact, I sell every item a person needs to harvest every resource I have, including shovels for peat, scrapers for barnacles, and firefly jars.

Good luck!

Posted 4 months ago by MG Botia Subscriber! | Permalink

Replies

  • I like this idea
    Posted 4 months ago by Gadzooks Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 - Botia, you should be the head of the UR Homeowners Association! Well done.
    Posted 4 months ago by Patricia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hrm, I've never thought about selling the specific restoration resources in my tower - that's a good idea! I just worry if people might think I'd want to rip them off by selling those items at a higher than very low price and specifically pointing to them as well - people might think I wanted to pressure them into spending money and restoring, while in reality I'm quite happy to restore myself whenever I'm online.
    Posted 4 months ago by Not a Princess Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Excellent advice yet again. For those of us who keep bags just for restoration purposes, I can assure you that it would be nice to find crazy salts or crystals or plops when I have run out and need to quickly restore a resource :)
    Posted 4 months ago by foolbunny Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Great ideas, I haven't gotten my tower really ready to sell items yet, but will certainly keep these suggestions in mind.
    Posted 4 months ago by Gizmospooky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Brilliant - now time to start building a tower!
    Posted 4 months ago by mothnode Subscriber! | Permalink
  • bump for more exposure!
    Posted 4 months ago by foolbunny Subscriber! | Permalink