glitch: a wacky new mmorpg played in browser

thanks but i got papers and some hooch now so i'm all good

gregarious grove (i think) has 1000 currant apartments. I'm on the 7th floor, stop by.

― brooklyn's complicated relationship with bacon (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:26 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

i'm in 730

er, 720

i'm at hummock meadow no. 1515, u can all come hang out w/ my pigs

I'm in 730. Ilx running this block.

i am the king of the common crudite

so this game is really fun but i can't imagine i'll be willing to hunt down a 100 eggs to make the recipe to finish the quest for Master Chef I ever again.

as you level up your skills, your efficiency collecting levels up as well. i harvest 12 eggs each turn, atm

So can you level every skill or are you at some point "committed" to a given profession a la wow

740 kids

you can level up every skill as far as i know but at some point it becomes impractical, and your time is better spent in the pursuit of one or another, i.e. alchemy or making crudites or tending your wanton flock of porcine wonders, all of whom are named Chad.

Just moved into 710!

So, how much of a timesuck is this? I don't have much free time or (probably) the willpower not to spend time which shouldn't be free on it if I sign up, but it sounds pretty intriguing.

it is much of a timesuck

damn you guys are really playing the shit out of this huh? i've only logged a few hours; wish i had more time or the capability to play htis at work.

i started two ... three test groups ago?

oh. i am jealous. y u no post here?

i didn't really know there was an ilx connection? it's been down except for a few weekends, which is good b/c it prevents me from burning out

remy, what did you mean about it not being worth it to try to get all the skills? Presumably by the time you're level 40 you've clocked enough hours to learn everything, no?

I haven't decided what to do with my character at all yet, so I'm just learning bits of everything and still wandering about cuddling pigs constantly. But the time to learn skills doesn't seem too daunting yet. I think I just don't want to go the easy path and learn the farming skills as I'm afraid I'll just end up playing an advanced version of Farmville if I do that.

Also, I noticed that there's a group feature - does anyone fancy setting up an ilx0r group and playing about with that? Or, if someone already has, inviting me to it too?

y'all I'm trying to actually finish Dragon Age 1 and I don't need another WoWesque time sink, stop making this sound fun

I fed bacon to a pig.

mordy, some of the higher level skills take 7 - 12 days to learn, and for a not-very-appreciable gain (say in jellisac handling, you get 3-5 more pieces/harest) it's a lot of commitment for a skill you're not going to use often/at all. i mean, the skill learning happens in the background so presumably given enough time you will learn everything but at least in early stages of the game specialization is key

i'm trying to become an alchemist but other than that i've mostly been running around squeezing chickens and drinking hooch. feel like i don't want to do all the advanced stuff now if they're just about to shut it down again. i'm in g towers 780 btw!

i am trying to become a king of bureaucrats but to get level 3 i have to get an emblem of lem which seems like a pain in the ass

also considering that level 2 got me a general building permit that i have no idea how to use its a little why bother tbh

Yeah, I liked the idea of becoming a bureaucrat but I have no clue as what to do with level 2. I found an emblem of something else but it seems like if I keep it I can get mood and XP bonuses every day, and it only unlocks Refining II, which I don't really need yet.

so this is an obv realization but you can dramatically increase learning speeds by donating high-value items to the god of w/e skill yr learning. i just halved the learning time for light green thumb 2 by giving over an emotional bear

Ohhhhhhhhh.

i think each god's emblem coincides with a skill unlock? i'm just now starting to get the hang of making butterfly cheese

pls lord someone send me an invite! I think my email via ilx is good .. st✧✧✧.bev✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ if not..

so apparently you learn/things grow even when yr offline. which sorta makes the whole onerous learning process kinda w/e

"express entry is still open and i HIGHLY recommend ilxors get on board
http://glitch.com/fans/";

mayor jingleberries, does this thing still work? it sent invite pretty much immediately a few days ago.

it appears to be shutdown right now

I'm still in. Also just died for the first time and had to squish grapes to get out of hell.

I feel like I burnt out on this already. Like, first session I loved it and played until 3am. Then I started it up again the next day and I dunno, I suddenly found I didn't care at all about levelling up any further or learning anything new, or even exploring anywhere (because all those areas are pretty similar anyway). I guess the fact I know it's going to get a reboot before the game proper starts might be what killed it for me, cos the early stuff's all fun, but probably not fun enough to warrant a second play through.

I'm going to wait until it launches to give it a lengthy trial. I played for about two hours but it was fun enough.

Yeah, I'm not sure if I'm going to want to relearn everything from scratch once it gets wiped. Am having fun with it now, though.

By the way, the voice of God is currently telling me there's only an hour left in this test run, so if you want to get in there and fiddle with anything, do it now.

so apparently you learn/things grow even when yr offline. which sorta makes the whole onerous learning process kinda w/e

― g++ (gbx), den 15 juli 2011 20:07 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

some skills take like 12 hours to learn so the game would be unplayable if this wasn't the case tho

aw my first total day off in months and this is off is a big sadface

this was pretty cool - great writing and atmosphere as said, but essentially it is still a time and soul-sucking MMO. i don't know if I'll come back

Sadface that queue-jumping is closed now my big work project is more or less done and dusted. I tried to be virtuous and look where it got me! If anyone hears of it opening back up please let me know.

i'll post here if it reopens and i see it

the game is working again! Queue jump is working again!
http://www.glitch.com/fans/

they are allowing facebook friend invites and i just sent one out to a mr. c0b0

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2010/12/backpain-1292835351.jpg

i got two left if anyone's a facebook buddy and wants in, you need to register facebook friends thru glitch, etc.

hey noodle vague, just sent you an invite via facebook. i can also send 2 more out so hit me up

oh hi dere