So you've just started playing Glitch
Oct. 28th, 2012 03:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbrA bunch of people on my flist/reading list have gotten into this game recently, and since I've been playing for over a year I thought I'd offer some tips.
First: feel free to add me! Just let me know who you are if it's not obvious from your username :) My two accounts are Sequoia Baer and Allie S Squibber. Be warned that my mix of extroversion and social anxiety can be disconcertingly awkward in realtime...
Second: Feel free to ask me for help in game, especially if you haven't quite got the right skills to achieve something yet (Sequoia Baer is the older account so is better qualified to do this) I LOVE helping people out, and the game really encourages friendliness and generosity. There's also Live Help and the forums if you can't figure something out or hit a bug.
Now some general advice:
Don't worry about "winning", just have fun. You will always be "beaten" by the people who spend hours grinding and finding loopholes, but since they can't do you any particular harm (and will often happily help you out) this isn't a bad thing. Even if you just wander about at random you'll still slowly level up and gain cool stuff. Even death is it's own fun little adventure. Find the balance between efficiency and fun that suits you.
Don't stress TOO much about skills, as long as you're patient you'll get them all eventually, and there's an "unlearning" upgrade that lets you undo learning things you don't need. In my experience the animal skills are the best way to keep yourself in food and money, but it really depends on how you play. Anything you can't make you can usually buy, and anything you have too much of you can usually sell or donate, so just experiment and see what you enjoy doing the most.
Feed your pigs! Because of the way skills are set up it's easy to end up with pigs in your yard and no way to easily feed them. You need regularly filled pig feeders, piles of grain/crops (which passers by may steal from your front yard) or a non-wood tree the pigs can access which gets harvested from regularly. If you want a hardier pet, chickens live forever as long as you squeeze them every now and then.
If you're shy there's not much compulsory socialising, and pressing the 5 key allows you to say "hi" without actually talking. There's a lot of kissing and hugging, but you don't have to reciprocate if you don't want. (You will have to ignore some quests, but there's plenty of others you can do)
If you like socialising, joining groups allows you to have a group chat in your sidebar. PBMS is the chattiest group I've joined by far, they're mostly pretty nice. Global Chat is...unfiltered internet strangers. There's also a Dreamwidth group which has been quite active lately.
Useful links:
Glitch Remote Tells you where to find things to buy or harvest
Glitch Routes List of "routes", groups of people with specific resources or items of interest on their home streets who link to each other. I'm on the museum route and puzzle route :)
Glitch Academy Lets you queue up skills to learn automatically. Make sure you have the requirements for a skill before you queue it!
Skillifier Lists the most time efficient order to learn skills in. Not the optimal order to make the game fun, but useful if you aren't going to play for a few days. Don't let the big numbers scare you, the time will pass quicker than you think and there's ways to cut it down.
There are lots of other resources, some of which you can find by poking around the sites above, but these are the ones I personally find the most useful.
First: feel free to add me! Just let me know who you are if it's not obvious from your username :) My two accounts are Sequoia Baer and Allie S Squibber. Be warned that my mix of extroversion and social anxiety can be disconcertingly awkward in realtime...
Second: Feel free to ask me for help in game, especially if you haven't quite got the right skills to achieve something yet (Sequoia Baer is the older account so is better qualified to do this) I LOVE helping people out, and the game really encourages friendliness and generosity. There's also Live Help and the forums if you can't figure something out or hit a bug.
Now some general advice:
Don't worry about "winning", just have fun. You will always be "beaten" by the people who spend hours grinding and finding loopholes, but since they can't do you any particular harm (and will often happily help you out) this isn't a bad thing. Even if you just wander about at random you'll still slowly level up and gain cool stuff. Even death is it's own fun little adventure. Find the balance between efficiency and fun that suits you.
Don't stress TOO much about skills, as long as you're patient you'll get them all eventually, and there's an "unlearning" upgrade that lets you undo learning things you don't need. In my experience the animal skills are the best way to keep yourself in food and money, but it really depends on how you play. Anything you can't make you can usually buy, and anything you have too much of you can usually sell or donate, so just experiment and see what you enjoy doing the most.
Feed your pigs! Because of the way skills are set up it's easy to end up with pigs in your yard and no way to easily feed them. You need regularly filled pig feeders, piles of grain/crops (which passers by may steal from your front yard) or a non-wood tree the pigs can access which gets harvested from regularly. If you want a hardier pet, chickens live forever as long as you squeeze them every now and then.
If you're shy there's not much compulsory socialising, and pressing the 5 key allows you to say "hi" without actually talking. There's a lot of kissing and hugging, but you don't have to reciprocate if you don't want. (You will have to ignore some quests, but there's plenty of others you can do)
If you like socialising, joining groups allows you to have a group chat in your sidebar. PBMS is the chattiest group I've joined by far, they're mostly pretty nice. Global Chat is...unfiltered internet strangers. There's also a Dreamwidth group which has been quite active lately.
Useful links:
Glitch Remote Tells you where to find things to buy or harvest
Glitch Routes List of "routes", groups of people with specific resources or items of interest on their home streets who link to each other. I'm on the museum route and puzzle route :)
Glitch Academy Lets you queue up skills to learn automatically. Make sure you have the requirements for a skill before you queue it!
Skillifier Lists the most time efficient order to learn skills in. Not the optimal order to make the game fun, but useful if you aren't going to play for a few days. Don't let the big numbers scare you, the time will pass quicker than you think and there's ways to cut it down.
There are lots of other resources, some of which you can find by poking around the sites above, but these are the ones I personally find the most useful.
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Date: 2012-11-01 02:36 am (UTC)How *often* do you have to feed your pigs? I've been feeding my pigs ~12 veggies every regular day (and picking up the seed packets they so kindly leave for me) and I know that they eat from my trees when I harvest them -- is that enough? How little is too little? Mostly I'm worried that if I don't log in for a few days they will be GONE. D:
Likewise, how often do I have to squeeze my chickens?
I actually really like that it takes time to learn the skills -- I mean, yes it is frustrating, but at the same time it gives you time between quests to explore or take a break or whatever.
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Date: 2012-11-04 04:42 am (UTC)I have remote herdkeeping or whatever the skill is that allows you to use pig feeders, and just keep those stocked. I think my 6-7 pigs eat about 100 grains a day with no access to trees.
I asked a bunch of people, reports about chickens varied from "Mine died after a month of not squeezing" to "Mine were fine after months". They're certainly less delicate than pigs :)