Recent content by Udog

Anyone else having issues with the desktop version of the game where the Bank full page Ad keeps flashing up on the screen and won't go away? It just started today (Sunday) and does not stop even after closing and restarting the game. It makes the game unplayable on that version. I had to...

All the games do this. Once you get ahead of the game by doing a certain number of tasks the game attempts to slow you down by giving you the hardest of the tasks over and over until the tasks reset for the next day. This way it attempts to keep any one person from getting too far...

You mean way more complaints on THIS forum....which is (not to be rude) but a very inactive forum for such a large game. There maybe lots of complaints to GI who don't actually seem to look into anything but who are very nice and polite in their scripted replies. I'm not sure players of this...

Yes that is interesting....I do play only on my PC, but I do have a couple of different pc versions on the same computer due to the different bonus options offered by GI. So I have changed versions during a running game before to collect the bonus and have seen the same difference in server...

I guess we will just have to disagree on this. Yes, I understand the different ways of dumping points into the game right at the end, but this goes beyond that. The board updates closer to every 5 mins and there is no way it requires the system several hours to update at the end of the game to...

Of course it is global, but that does not explain the IN GAME time difference. Each game of 100 people starts very close to the same time regardless of what time zone they live in. The system selects players by their ranking and puts them in groups of 100. In most cases this takes only a few...

I have seen this several times over the years...but it was most obvious at the end of this latest game. I was playing at the "end" of the game at which time I was in 1st place by over 20 thousand points. There was no possible way anyone in the game could catch me, even if they held their bonus...

I suppose so....but if they can still put on events you would think they could also give a few days notice of when they are going to do it.

Does anyone know if there is a reason that events are not announced beforehand? I can't tell if that is to "surprise" everyone as to which event will be played and when....or if GI itself does not decide what to do beforehand.

Yes I see. There might be underlying issues as you say. In this last game which just ended it took just over 15 hours before I was notified...and I did do restarts of the game at least once per hour during that time. That was by far the longest, but I have had a couple close to 8 hours. I...

LOL...yes "Clearly"....clearly when you start the game the system puts you in a group with similar ratings. I think we all agreed on that :) In any case, the rest everyone's comments does show I was off a bit. So....if you waited until near the end to join you would be joining a "new"...

So clearly when an event starts and you enter the game the system attempts to place you into a group with similar ratings as your own. It fills this group up to 100 people and then caps that group. At the end of the game it seems to me that everyone in your group "ends" at a different time...