GI is the biggest cheater of the year

[DarekK]

Hi,

GI calls people cheaters but the true is GI is the biggest cheater of the year.
In the past 10 days:
1) They increase 10 times price for restoring Casino, Bank, Mint,
2) They have changed rules and we are not able to build more then 6 of any type of building,
3) Because of bugs in game a lot of players lost airport cash from Mint, Casino, Bank for three days,
4) We used lots of horseshoes and we get nothing,

Whether they are listening to us ?????

I think it is the beginning of end for us playing this game.

DarekK

 

[M22]

I agree, the change in casino without warning and then making everything more expensive and harder is just stupid. I don't mind spending a bit of money every now and then but I'm not going to be buying every other week just to keep playing. This mars mission must offer up something half decent and achievable or I'll think twice about playing daily.

 

[Robby Kusuma]

Hmmh..... Brave Heart.......

 

[Praxtor]

you are right darekk,
We also can talk about not control over week flight ranking, is not normal that one player appear in this list with mote than 100 flights on monday or tuesday to some destination that with hos level of player is imposible, and during the week they dont move the number of foights in this destination but you can see that they are in multiple destinations with many many flighs....

 

[Dave]

Hi,

GI calls people cheaters but the true is GI is the biggest cheater of the year.
In the past 10 days:
1) They increase 10 times price for restoring Casino, Bank, Mint,
2) They have changed rules and we are not able to build more then 6 of any type of building,
3) Because of bugs in game a lot of players lost airport cash from Mint, Casino, Bank for three days,
4) We used lots of horseshoes and we get nothing,

Whether they are listening to us ?????

I think it is the beginning of end for us playing this game.

DarekK

GI receive a lot of criticism on here and some of it quite rightly so. However I do think its fair that some of it is defended.

1) The casino/bank/mint have been out for sometime now. I think the last offer was around a year ago. Thats an awful lot of green cash people have earned for what in the grand scheme of things is a little outlay. Noone likes changes, especially when its not in the interest of the players. However, If these buildings were released for the original price but with the current restarting costs, I would still happily purchase and restart occasionally.

2) Since I started playing 3 years ago, there has always been a rule of 6 buildings maximum. I know occasionally people talk about some buildings having a higher limit or no limit at all, but this is often a bug which GI fix.

3) Thats fair enough and certainly warrants an email to GI support so they could look into the possibility of refunding the missed greens due to a bug.

4) As frustrating as this bug was, GI extended the finish time for the even by two weeks and also acknowledged and fixed the bug within 24 hours. To me thats pretty impressive and why the forum is a great asset, especially when you have developers reading and picking up on these issues.

Finding the right balance where everyone is happy must be a huge task for Ivan and the developers, however we must acknowledge they do try their hardest and with a game as complex as this, there are going to be the occasional slip ups.

 

[DarekK]

I'm playing AC for 2 years now.

Sorry but that you are saying is not true.
Always been a rule of 6 ordinary buildings maximum and 10 for special buildings.

GI is changing it and it was not a bug!!!

DarekK

 

[DarekK]

GI can't change rules like that.
Another thing to discuss. You have a lot of player on level 50.
I think that GI stopped to add experience points for them only for stopping these people to jump automatically to level 60 when you add it.
Is it correct? Is it fair? I think you GI don't care about our loyalty.
It is not nice

DarekK

 

[Dave]

GI can't change rules like that.
Another thing to discuss. You have a lot of player on level 50.
I think that GI stopped to add experience points for them only for stopping these people to jump automatically to level 60 when you add it.
Is it correct? Is it fair? I think you GI don't care about our loyalty.
It is not nice

DarekK

I can only speak for myself, but I think its perfectly fair to stop the experience points until the new destinations are available. Will add another challenge to the game. I couldnt think of anything worse then the new update rolling out and then automatically jumping straight to level 60 because I had stored up experience points previously. Wheres the fun in that!

Also, from reading previous posts, when the casino/bank etc were first rolled out - people were unaware at the time that you could restart them. They were purchased on the basis that they would provide x amount of greens over x period of time. The restarting came as a bonus to everyone once they realised it was possible.

I suppose it all depends on how you play.

 

[DarekK]

The problem is how to play this game if I don't know what GI will change tomorrow…

Always they can say they repair the bug game.

It is not fair to stop the experience points. When plane is landing it says it adds points of experience but it is not a true.

Should I stop playing till new challenge?

DarekK

 

[Juvenal]

For me if they want to stop the experience then scrap the Lucky Cap bonus.
The more important thing is do not introduce the bonus for experience at Mystery Super Bonus that Dave got.
It become paradox.

 

[DarekK]

I agree Juvenal, this is just stupid.
DarekK

 

[Bali Hi]

I'm playing AC for 2 years now.

Sorry but that you are saying is not true.
Always been a rule of 6 ordinary buildings maximum and 10 for special buildings.

GI is changing it and it was not a bug!!!

DarekK

Actually, GI did at one time introduce a bug where we can build 10 ordinary building instead of the usual 6.
I managed to build 10 cottages, 10 Side Wings and 10 House with Pools (I still have 10 cottages / side wings in my airport).

This bug happened at least twice, I think.

So if you want more than 6 buildings, just keep trying every time there is an update.

 

[DarekK]

I knew this bug.
Because of that I have 10 Research labs, 10 Townhouse,
Some people have 10 Flight Catering Facility.

But I was talking about the rule 6 ordinary and 10 special buildings.

DarekK

 

[Neil ellor]

Saving gold and silver coins is now worthless if you need so many to restart the mint etc.
greenies are still the most important part of the game they are what we need daily.
Buying faster planes costs too much for the worth, GI up to tricks again

 

[Jamiegsi]

I just don't think it's fair how some people can have 10 space travel and rocket gardens and alien alagancys when I can only have 6 Off each that puts my game at a disadvantage from the start

 

[Pavolko_Gun]

I think I understand all the points and issues mentioned above. GI is trying to restore the balance in the game by removing or mitigate mistakes they have done intentialy or by chance in the past. This is a good sign for me as this demonstrate the clear dedication to further develop the game and give the chance as well to new players as well as to the old dinosaur (like me or you Darek or Juve).

If you think about it in more depth, I do not foresee a huge advantage bybuilding limits 10 or 6, nor the losses by bugs, yes it is not fair to make the changes from one day to another, but still the differences are rather small. Where I see a huge disbalance it is the greenies buildings and cheaters in the weekly rankings. The restart price is huge, but it is still unfair for guys who had no chance to purchase the buildings at that time, so from my point of view it brings more balance in the game as the dinosaur can still prolong it if needed and it gave them a huge cashwise advantage.

The caps had to be implemented by my opinion earlier on anyway to give us all new challanges in the game.

To finalize it, I am not happy about the unstable environment, thus I find the game more interested. The biggest loss in gameplay from my point of view was the area extension (yes the one majority of people were very anthusiastic about) as prio to that it was very challanging to find balance for all the buildings you needed to secure the targets you wanted to achieve.

Let´s see what the near future will bring us, but we should better look into it from the right angle.

 

[Pavolko_Gun]

Saving gold and silver coins is now worthless if you need so many to restart the mint etc.
greenies are still the most important part of the game they are what we need daily.
Buying faster planes costs too much for the worth, GI up to tricks again

I would be very carefull here, how do you know that greenies have higher value than the gold or silver tokens? How much is one gold token of greenies today and how the ratio will look like tomorrow? It could easily happan that the developers implement into the Mars mission some items you need to purchase to gold and silver tokens (I see it as very logical development). We should think more startegically and be prepared for all the options, which the developers could implement. I have 1100 greenies and I do not need to buy more land at this moment (still plenty available), I have anyway nothing helpfull to place there and I will better keep my 200 gold tokens in the pocket just in case. There were times without greenies building and for me it is the same right now, so we should better to stop complaining and start again the short term and long term planning to beat ourselves. Cheers

 

[LAX]

GI receive a lot of criticism on here and some of it quite rightly so. However I do think its fair that some of it is defended.

1) The casino/bank/mint have been out for sometime now. I think the last offer was around a year ago. Thats an awful lot of green cash people have earned for what in the grand scheme of things is a little outlay. Noone likes changes, especially when its not in the interest of the players. However, If these buildings were released for the original price but with the current restarting costs, I would still happily purchase and restart occasionally.

2) Since I started playing 3 years ago, there has always been a rule of 6 buildings maximum. I know occasionally people talk about some buildings having a higher limit or no limit at all, but this is often a bug which GI fix.

3) Thats fair enough and certainly warrants an email to GI support so they could look into the possibility of refunding the missed greens due to a bug.

4) As frustrating as this bug was, GI extended the finish time for the even by two weeks and also acknowledged and fixed the bug within 24 hours. To me thats pretty impressive and why the forum is a great asset, especially when you have developers reading and picking up on these issues.

Finding the right balance where everyone is happy must be a huge task for Ivan and the developers, however we must acknowledge they do try their hardest and with a game as complex as this, there are going to be the occasional slip ups.

I do take exception to point #4, as the St. Patrick's day bug was fixed for Android in 24 hours, but it STILL is not fixed for iOS users!! So yes the quest was extended, but it really won't matter for iOS users as the bug isn't fixed. I don't know where the mix-up is, but it doesn't take 8 days to get approval from Crapple!!

 

[Dave]

I do take exception to point #4, as the St. Patrick's day bug was fixed for Android in 24 hours, but it STILL is not fixed for iOS users!! So yes the quest was extended, but it really won't matter for iOS users as the bug isn't fixed. I don't know where the mix-up is, but it doesn't take 8 days to get approval from Crapple!!

From what Ivan has posted, Road404 have fixed the bug and released the update, it's now in the hands of Apple to approve.

Remember that all applications made to the iOS app store have to be checked. Think it's unfair to blame the developers because of Apples hold up.

 

[LAX]

I'm not blaming the developers, but there has to be more than meets the eye, as it doesn't take 8 days to approve an update. Maybe it had to be resubmitted, but something is askew.