☀️Sumac Towers🏠Life Sim UMA☀️ [HIATUS]

[betulacarelica]

thanks guys, i'll update your residents later today!!

unfortunately I'll be unexpectedly away from my computer for most of today so I'll be doing rerolls tomorrow instead, so I'll extend the claiming deadline to tomorrow as well. thanks guys!!

[betulacarelica]

Thanks everyone, the first raffle is now officially wrapped up and everyone who has claimed their Residents can add them to their archives!! The associated info will be added to the website soon if it isn't already.

All the Residents who weren't claimed will be rerolled for those who entered for them previously but didn't win before. In this reroll, if you win a Resident, you'll be removed from the other rerolls. Any Residents with no valid players left who can win them will just be added to the next raffle, which should be next week, along with a few more new Residents.

In the meantime, I'm working on making sure all the game information is on CS, so I want to make sure that gets done first and then everyone can start playing properly. It should be ready today and the rerolls will be later today as well, but it may end up being all finished and ready to go tomorrow now.

Thanks again guys =)

[betulacarelica]

Reroll Winners & Important Announcement
Gameplay has begun!

Reroll Winners
#00013 Spaceinmyhead
#00018 Thani
#00022 sycamore.
#00023 selkiesfour
#00024 cyrevan
#00027 Alizba
#00029 vampirebunnie

(all other Residents leftover had no valid entrants and will be included in the next raffle)

Hey everyone!! The rerolls are done!! This is the end of the first raffle now - any Residents that are unclaimed will just be saved for the next raffle a bit later down the line. I expect that will be in about a week or so!!

Additionally, the game is now finally all prepped and ready to be played on CS. We'll probably be migrating gameplay fully over there and keeping the Discord for casual chat, updates, trade discussions, and potentially some future exclusive games or giveaways. Overall though, I think everyone will find it easier to play on the CS threads, and it'll be easier for staff to track as well.

The main thread has had a bit of a makeover and tidy up, while we've also created a new forms thread for all the gameplay functions like decorating, jobs, and the workshop.

This means, officially, that you can start doing stuff! OMG!!
Feel free to take a look around the forms thread, and whenever you're ready to get started on things like decorating, you can go right ahead and start posting your forms.
Other things like the rotating special shop will be back up and running soon (it's sort of been on pause the last few weeks), and we'll hopefully have a new game soon.

If you've got any questions or suggestions, we'd love to hear from you!!

Thanks all!! =)

[selkiesfour]

Keeping #00023! I'd like to name her Fuchsia, and may her status be set to 'beboppin'? :) I love her so much thank you!

*edited post to fix typo

[Spaceinmyhead]

Oh yay!! I'll be naming #00013 Winter, with the status set to "Excited". Thanks so much!

[vampirebunnie]

keeping #00029 <3 i'll be naming her Sprinkle!!

[betulacarelica]

thanks so much everyone!! ill be updating everyones residents in just a mo =)

there was also a little confusion over sumacash since i forgot to mention it in all the excitement around the residents lol, so heres some info on how much everyone should have right now:

- everyone starts with 120sc. you can add this to your archive as soon as you join.
- on the 1st of every month, everyone gets 60sc. that would include 1st of august, i just forgot to mention!! so everyone who joined before 1st of august would get the 60sc as of 00:00 on 1st of august.
- additionally, there was an "early bird award" which gave a bonus of 100sc to everyone who joined before 1st of august
- and there was also the first game, in which the 3 winners got prizes and anyone else who participated got a smaller prize. the prizes are on the awards page

[betulacarelica]

Hello everyone!!

Phew! This first period of ST has been super exciting but a lot of work. I’ve not been the best at keeping organised, so that’s been the biggest hurdle! But now that all the chaos of ‘starting up’ is out of the way, I’ve taken a few days to settle and organise my thoughts, and make a plan for what comes next. I thought I’d share it with you guys, as I’d also love your feedback on a couple of things!

Firstly, the main priority now is getting more furniture sets done. There should be at least 1 set of furniture for each rarity, but currently there’s only the basic set, so the plan is to get at least the 2★ set finished by the 1st of September. Because there’s not really any other furniture or decorations right now, all the Resident apartments have been created with only the bare bones furniture, no decoration, and no special colour rolls. This will be changing in the future; once more assets are done, future new Residents will also have random chances to start with more valuable furniture/decor or rarer wood, stone, and metal colours.

Secondly, I’ve finalised the schedule for the most important rollover events. As you may already know, Monday is when all the updates you’ve made to your apartments go live, and Saturday is when you get your Job rewards. The Special Shop is also meant to rotate stock regularly, but that’s been paused as everything else was still up in the air. Dyes will now change in the Special Shop every Friday, and on the 1st of every month some new offers will also be added. The exact format of this will be decided a little later, but it will probably be 2 furniture or decorations which can be bought cheaper than normal, and maybe 1 or 2 items that can be sold for a bit more than usual. As the game expands, there’ll start being items that can only be bought through monthly rotation in the Special Shop, too.

Third is games! We definitely want to have more games. The first regular game I want to have is a monthly decorating challenge, where you can try to decorate your apartment to fit a theme. This isn’t going right now as there’s a limited number of things you can actually do with apartments, but it will be a regular thing in the future. The idea is to have 3 weeks to be able to submit entries, so that everyone has time to earn more money and resources, and then decorate, before it closes. That gives staff a week for judging, for everyone to add their items and discuss the results, and then for a new theme to be chosen.
If you’ve got any more ideas for games, we’d love to hear them!

Speaking of, that’s one of the polls that I’m adding. I always have a lot of ideas, but it can be tricky figuring out what to do first or which version to go with, so I’ve added a few new polls to get your feedback. The last polls ended up helping us decide on some core mechanics, so the feedback from the community is super important to us and we’d love to know what you think of these new questions and proposals.
(Psst, if you're not already in the Discord server, this is where we hold our community polls!)

In the meantime, thanks again for everyone’s interest and patience! It’s been so awesome seeing people get started with the jobs and decorating plans. I’ll be adding some amazing new plants by masterpiece to the catalogue within the next few days. We’re actually still looking for staff too, so if you’re interested in becoming a moderator, archivist, or artist, then check out the News post!

[betulacarelica]

Just a small update!!
We've added a Disability Pride flag, as well as some wonderful pots & plants made by the lovely masterpiece!! You can find them in both the floor decor and surface decor pages of the catalogue.

Also, the next raffle will begin on 1st September!!

Thanks guys =)

[betulacarelica]

Hello all! This is an important update, so please read.

You may have noticed I've been away from my computer for a bit now and unable to update the game. I did post a quick message in the Discord about being unavailable, but I forgot to post here as well for clarity as things have been a little crazy the last week or so.

Due to a combination of some personal stuff IRL and a big change in my daily schedule/responsibilities, I unfortunately won't have time for Sumac Towers anymore. It was always going to be quite a big and involved project, but before recent events it was still something I could just about manage. Unfortunately now I just won't have much free time anymore and I don't want to slow the game down and frustrate users or not do the things I intended in the first place.

I'd like to say that ideally, this is a hiatus and I may be able to return to it in the future. For all intents and purposes, all currently registered players can keep all their stuff, including any characters they own. Consider the game 'frozen' - I won't be updating anything, nor will any of the normal weekly/monthly events happen (including monthly allowance). You should no longer post any request forms or change your archives. If things change again in the future, I'll definitely come back and reopen the game for all who want to return.

I know this isn't a big deal or anything since it's just a game lol, but I know folks were really enjoying/looking forward to where this project went. This is the first big project I've worked on in a long time, so I've learnt a lot and it's really inspired me creatively again after a long period of burn-out. I'm hoping I may have time to quietly work on some stuff in the background and come back 'bigger and better' if time allows for it, but because I can't make any guarantees it's better just to pause everything for now.

Thanks so much everyone for all your kind words and support for the game! I really can't overstate how much it's appreciated. I really hope I can come back soon and continue this project!