glitch: a wacky new mmorpg played in browser

I can't find you in the player search, n/a. I'm Cindy Electronium if you want to befriend me.

The group should show up on my profile, maybe?

I'm Randolph.

I haven't tried it, but on the Account page it claims you can change your name for 100 monies (hopefully they mean in-game monies and not the for-cash credits).

I'm Doctor Barf

Maybe someone would be willing to compile all the names of ilxors and post them in an easy to read list like they sometimes do on the xbox 360 threads?

I'm Sunset Swirl

I'm forksclovetofu
it's all i am

I don't have time to play this, so instead I'm just learning skills even though I haven't used the prerequisite skills yet.

I've just found the leaderboards and apparently I am the 49th most travelled glitch. And just outside the top 50 for achievements. I really need to stop playing so much.

I'm 91st most travelled. 102nd most achievements and 130rd bigger supporter of Tii somehow.

still deciding if i love it tbh, it's not really tearing me away from Football Manager yet

spent a lot of glitch time squeezing chickens for their grain yesterday, and then a friend rang me up and asked me if i could look after his actual irl bantams on the weekend.

slightly worried that if i keep playing the game someone will ring me up and ask me to do some mining for them.

i've got my character wearing a party dress and sandals, and i'm always amused when i set her to mining or smelting something. it's all so wonderfully clean! i wonder if we're going to find out at some point that we've been polluting the fuck out of the giants' brains.

i got the rube again today! i love the song that plays when he shows up, i feel like a kid hearing the ice cream truck.

new skills!

i kinda got myself stuck re better learning. my learn times are so long for everything, including better learning, that i'm loathe to waste time doing better learning when it will take so long itself to learn. but now mining V is going to take like 9 days and probably 11-12 by the time i do it.

also, snapshotting is ridiculous. my glitch already has that skill. it's command+shift+4.

i am an hour away from finishing BL5, and I'm really glad. next up is teleportation

I made the mistake of not doing the higher-level Better Learnings until too late. Now I'm stuck on waiting a week for BLV. I think it'll be worth it in the end but it sucks not having any new quests.

i am grbchv! by the way

i kinda feel like (probably wrongly) that there's no point to doing BL at this point at all and I should just do all the other skills instead. esp since as far as my brain works, 9 days for a skill and 12 days for a skill might as well be the same amount of time.

I think with the way you're penalised for every new skill once you're past a certain point, BLV is worth it. Plus if they keep adding extra skills it may well be more like the difference between 9 days and three weeks by the end.

i guess i could take the next month off the game or whatever and just run through the BL skills. these new penalties are a little frustrating and i know they're designed to - i guess - prolong enjoyment of the game. but they seem to have miscalculated bc instead of enjoyment being parceled out over a longer period of time instead now you get a lot of skills early and then less and less the more you play until eventually you're waiting a week between skills. it would be much better to have them all take X amount of time and leave them like that. as it's currently designed ppl are going to become less interested the longer they play. (i may have over-explained that, but i'm not totally sure how to articulate what seems to me to be a fundamental design flaw)

God, I'm starting to get to skills that take two days. Can't imagine there are skills that take a week.

I kind of agree with you. I suppose it's a classic RPG bind: as you level and get skills, things are supposed to get easier. Yet to keep the player interested there has to be a challenge, so other things get harder. However, I'm not sure that extending skill learning times has the effect of an increased challenge, rather than an artificial obstacle. Having said that, though, I wouldn't mind so much if they hadn't taken out almost all of the non-skill related quests. I know it's not meant to be just a questing game, but without *any* of that motivation, I will get bored.

(That was to Mordy, by the way)

I made the mistake of not doing the higher-level Better Learnings until too late. Now I'm stuck on waiting a week for BLV.

Yeah, me too. Apparently they stop skills 20-30 incurring cumulative time penalties, which is too bad since I didn't get my first emblem of Lem to spend until I'd learned 40 (no idea how it got so high, the skill table still looks at least half unlearnt). Regretting my decision not to learn Mining: the giants do like their mining donations.

Meanwhile, Glitch got quite the savaging on RPS and I have to admit that even though I like the game I agree with bits of it.

I'm just glitched out atm, I guess, and everything feels a bit grindy to no real reward. Plus the screenshots reminded me how weird and pretty Ix and Uralia seemed the first time I went through and was charmed by Helga and the dancing crabs, and how the new areas are kind of dull and interchangeable in comparison, and got to feeling slightly bummed that apparently the designers would rather add yet more swampy areas and grey trees-on-crags areas with exactly the same wildlife and shops as the rest of the world instead of the quirky colourful stuff I had thought was the selling point. Oh well.

I am still enjoying the game and want to play it right now, and it bugs me that it takes so long to learn new skills. But that has the side effect of not allowing me to WOW out and forget to eat and stuff like that.

There’s a quest early on in the game where you have to go to a bureaucratic office filled with lizards obsessed with paperwork in order to fill out identity papers. To do this, I shit you not, you have to stand in line and wait to be seen. Just stand there, don’t press any controls and wait while yet another fucking progress bar fills up before the lizards call you forth. I don’t know if the developers think this sort of bullshit is funny, or maybe it’s supposed an ironic commentary on something like the sheer inanity of their game design, but it speaks of a sadistic intent that borders on the perverse.

That bullshit WAS funny. This dude is a moron.

yeah, if he doesn't get that (or the kafka reference) he's missing much of the point of the game.

There’s a storyline that takes place in The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman, the third part of the Dark Materials trilogy...

Almost stopped reading at this point...

I read that RPS review, but the reviewer lost any and all credibility with me for not getting the hell and bureaucratic lizard jokes.

In Chapter 22 of EM Forster's Howard's End, Margaret Schlegel exclaims, "Only connect!" But despite claims from Microsoft to the contrary, Kinectimals doesn't.

true re bureaucratic lizards. My other half only plays FPSes and rolls his eyes at me playing Glitch, i.e. possibly RPS target audience, but even he laughed when I showed him the lizards.

I think what I mean is "hey guys, this is a rubbish review, but I've been bored of Glitch this week unrelatedly, make it seem exciting plz".

(I had a few days off work last week and spent most of them on the sofa harvesting virtual cherries, so that might be why I'm burnt out)

My feeling is ... when you get bored, play something else!

I do agree with that, but... have you tried any of the community aspects? I joined the New Streets and Rook Attacks groups and have their chat rooms up in my sidebar so I get alerts when those things are happening (even though all I can do against the Rook currently is revive fallen creatures and add another click to the orbs of those with more skills). If you feel under-skilled for those you could buy tickets for the races or the game of crowns? Though I remember you said you had difficulty with jumping, so that might not be for you either. Or perhaps we could come up with an ilx group goal/activity?

Which reminds me - apparently they tested group area building just before the reset, so that's something to look forward to... hopefully will come soon.

I did some street projects in beta and they were fun, if a money-pit. Need more meditation skillz for rook attacks iirc. Yeah, I should probably investigate my Steam backlog instead of just refreshing ILX and the Glitch forums.

Just read the comments on that RPS interview and got a bit riled at the "there's a difference between people who play games and Gamers, for whom the history, legacy and culture of our passion is equally as important as the games themselves" thing was some bullshit. iirc trying to talk about computer game history with real gamers gets you a "stfu that older-than-last-week shit is ghey, who cares, grandma". Time to turn off the internet.

i don't know how ppl call themselves real gamers if the only game they play is call of duty. real call of dutiers more like it

yeah, RPS crowd can be a little singular, disappointing i must say, but inevitably happens to any growing site community I guess

it takes so long to do these skills - I finished BL V on Monday - but why stop playing? I'm still mining, farming, cooking, doing quests, raising levels, donating to Zille to get Mining IV done more quickly -- sadly you can only take 3 hours off your learning time per game day, but with shrine powders it ain't too bad at all

3 hours off your learning time per game day

D'oh! I was getting frustrated that it seemed to only let me take three hours off a 7 day skill, but I thought that was three hours *in total*. Never occurred to me to try again the next day.

been playing over the last 48 hours. name for better or worse is Mr Spittles, it seemed to suit the avatar... I'm still not sure if I like it , but it is horribly compelling in a WoW-meets-Club Penguin kinda way.

hooray I have an invite from a certain Cindy Electronium to join the POXY FULE group. whatever that means.

it's the ilx group

Yep, that's me inviting you to the ilx0r group.

They seem to be having some internal problems at the moment, just as I was wanting to go back in after not having played for a few days.

yes I know really! it was a roundabout way of saying "ta for the invite" . I'll see you on there if the thing starts working.

Aha, sorry, was being slow.

hello ILx, I was going to join up the group, but I see you need to send me an invite. So... please do! If you'd like. My user name is Big Pecks (after my poor deceased Tailow from a Pokemon Emerald nuzlocke run) - I hadn't quite thought through what it would what it would be like, to be perceived as "Big Pecks" in an MMOPRG - but hey, it makes a change from "twee fvckery", or whatever I'd usually call myself I suppose!

Learning Mining IV at the moment, it is taking the looongest. Final 24 hours of it though! Then it's either onto Better Learning V (argh....) or some of the Refining ones, with the aim of creating better donations for the gods, so Better Learning V can be sped up as much as possible by grinding for Lem.

Did you know, it turns out pigges can die? HORROR :(

invited you!

Did you know, it turns out pigges can die? HORROR :(

You don't know horror until you've heard poisoned trees begging for their lives.

i've seen things you people wouldn't believe. a pig exploding off the shoulder of Mallos Means. I watched a poisoned tree beg for his life in the dark near Kadithima gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like butterfly milk in rain.