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R2: Preview of even more house features

It's that's time again - Release 2 of houses is upon us!

It will take a while to roll out the changes to everyone - you can leave your house and then type "/home" to be immediately migrated

To see the new features, reload your game client and visit your house (by typing "/home" in chat). The first thing you'll see is that there are no trees or rocks outside your house any more. But worry not - you can add some yourself with "cultivation". Click on the small sign next to your house to get a menu of options. Once you've mastered cultivation, you can try expanding your street and then changing your house exterior. You can also change the style of your home street. Sick of Groddle? Move to Uralia, Firebog or even THE MOON.

That's awesome, right? Wrong! There's more awesome stuff inside. Head to your backyard to switch styles, cultivate the land or expand your yard. Want to make your house interior bigger? Ok! When in decoration mode, click the buttons in the top bar to extend your house or add new floors.

There are a lot of moving parts in this release - we want to hear about bugs, what you like, what you don't like, areas we should expand on or improve and what you think we need to add. Go forth and test!

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Questions? Please be sure to read this notes:

Note 1: All upgrades and expansions are free at the moment. This is only a test. There will be a housing reset before it is fully launched.

Note 2: If you missed preview release 1, read about it first!

Note 3: You can't move or delete gardens, rocks, etc., after placing them in cultivation mode. But, you will be able to do in the future.

Note 4: Are you missing some items? No, you are not. They are still there. In some cases, if things were placed near the edge of your yard or home street, you might have to expand a few times to reveal them.

Note 5: We are still testing and this is not the final release. There is more to come.

Note 6: Expansions to your land (yard or home street) happen one at a time. This may seem annoying/cumbersome/slow, but: you are testing as a higher level player when it is all free. If you were earning your way to a larger space over time, it would not seem thus because you wouldn't be doing them all at once.

Note 7: Can't find the upgrade (home-shaped) sign in by the back and front doors of your house. You probably have stuff on top of it. Pick that stuff up :)

Posted 12 years ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Yay!  Thanks Bees!

    Edit: Wow, first post!  X)
    Posted 12 years ago by FTW BACON!! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hooray!
    Posted 12 years ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • YAY!!!!
    Posted 12 years ago by Pickle Bob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Posted 39 sec ago"

    Best timing ever!
    Posted 12 years ago by Biohazard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Awesome!
    Posted 12 years ago by Syrup Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :D
    Posted 12 years ago by CodeChic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Okay, breathe, breathe, breathe!!! And I just finished work! Thank yoU!
    Posted 12 years ago by ☠ lala512 ☠ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • OMG OMG OMG *Faints*
    Posted 12 years ago by Taco Assassin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Woot!
    Posted 12 years ago by Vicereine Linnæa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • OMG
    Posted 12 years ago by I Love You TS Subscriber! | Permalink
  • HORRAY!!!!!!!
    Posted 12 years ago by Lila Clemenceau Subscriber! | Permalink
  • <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 
    Posted 12 years ago by Snazzlefrazz Subscriber! | Permalink
  • AHHHH!!! YESYESYESYESYES!!!!
    Posted 12 years ago by La Mariposa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • HORRAY!!!!!!!
    Posted 12 years ago by Lila Clemenceau Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So cool!
    Posted 12 years ago by Trill Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I AM EXCITE!!
    Posted 12 years ago by Feylin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yay! Thanks, devs, for being so sexy!
    Posted 12 years ago by Crrrystal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I appear to have soiled myself
    Posted 12 years ago by MarbhDamhsa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wooo hooo! Thanks Stoot and team for all your hard work!
    Posted 12 years ago by Sweet Stuff Ng Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Do we get to keep these changes or will they be reset at some point?
    Posted 12 years ago by Quibba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Help!  Help!  I'm at work!
    Posted 12 years ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So much LOVE for you guys right now! *facehugs*

    xXx
    Posted 12 years ago by Just Willow Subscriber! | Permalink
  • waiting.....
    Posted 12 years ago by bored no more Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Woo-Hoo!!!
    Posted 12 years ago by Awesomasaurus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yay! I just got back from my break! I don't know if I should try sneaking on though. >.> Thank goodness I only have an hour of work left!
    Posted 12 years ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm unable to do anything in my street.  The options are all grayed out and it says "not enough yard space."
    Posted 12 years ago by Shallawalla Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I do not like that you can't upgrade items from the inventory any more -- having to drag them into the house first is a bit of a pain. I feel like usability was actually taken away from the Upgrading feature by making this change.Please change it back? I'll give you chocolate!
    Posted 12 years ago by Liathea Subscriber! | Permalink
  • patiently waiting.....*plays with dusty stick*
    Posted 12 years ago by Meezley Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Quibba, you won't get to keep the changes since it's still a testing phase.
    Posted 12 years ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *REFRESHREFRESHREFRESHREFRESHREFRESHREFRESHREFRESHREFRESHREFRESHREFRESHREFRESHREFRESH*
    Posted 12 years ago by La Mariposa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Liathea - I know they said they switched it to that so that when we're paying real credits we're not disappointed when something looks totally weird once it's placed.
    Posted 12 years ago by Merrylegs Subscriber! | Permalink
  • same as Shallawalla.

    UGHHHHHHHHH
    Posted 12 years ago by bored no more Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So excited - squeeeee!!!
    Posted 12 years ago by Spayem Subscriber! | Permalink
  • We're still rolling this change out to players - will take a few minutes.

    Once you've been migrated your exterior street will look different and no longer have rocks/trees in it - otherwise, you've not yet been moved over!
    Posted 12 years ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Woooooo!
    Posted 12 years ago by Stuv Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have expanded my House, but nothing is happening!

    EDIT: Fixed, had to come back in.
    Posted 12 years ago by I Love You TS Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Anyone get the new changes yet?I keep on refreshing to see when my street will get changed XD
    Posted 12 years ago by Omnika Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Do i need to rescue my animals? or will they be ok after the street shrinks?
    Posted 12 years ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *mad dash to reload*
    Thank you Bees! Thank you TS for everything!!
    Posted 12 years ago by Maruchan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh my!!
    Posted 12 years ago by Codex Subscriber! | Permalink
  • :O TS, you know how much I LOBE you right? I LOBE you all SOOOOOO much! Thank you, thank you,thank you!
    Posted 12 years ago by ♥Cookie Raider♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "I have expanded my House, but nothing is happening!" - we see this bug and are looking into it
    Posted 12 years ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Whoo hoo! Have a new Floor, and I HAVE 10 more Wall Segments!
    Posted 12 years ago by I Love You TS Subscriber! | Permalink
  • OH EM GEE!

    *leaves work immediately*
    Posted 12 years ago by Zoethor2 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hmmm...I can cultivate now but everything says I need more yard space. How do I get that?
    Posted 12 years ago by Sunny Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Bees: Should I also clean my cache and restart the browser completely or is that not necessary?
    Posted 12 years ago by Lila Clemenceau Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Merrylegs - Ah, I see. That makes some sense, but a preview option would be nice.

    Some sites call it Shadowing, where you don't pay for the item but a "shadow" version of it is available in your inventory for purposes of trying it out. You can place it or wear it to test how it will look with other items, but you won't be able to save it to your house or avatar.
    Posted 12 years ago by Liathea Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *flails*
    Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
    Posted 12 years ago by Grackle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sunny: you have not been migrated yet
    Lila Clemenceau: you probably haven't been migrated yet
    Posted 12 years ago by Bees! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So, do I have partial migration?  I can see the menu items, I can tell it to expand my house, but my street still looks like it did.  Are you doing it in pieces?
    Posted 12 years ago by Shallawalla Subscriber! | Permalink
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