Big Update - NOV-Oct-sept 2015 ?!?

[flip123]

Reading the forum these days is almost depressing. There are a lot of issues outside our reach and people stop playing because of this.
The main ones are:
1. Neighborvisits not possible
2. Lost games
3. No update at all
We can't change that......

We also complain about the way alliances is designed. The first people already stoped playing the game because of it. We don't like it but we don't talk about how we would like to see it. As this is a design thing we don't like, I thought, why not make designs we would like. For that I created a thread called redesign alliences. Hopefully we get several good ideas, vote on it and hopefully GI pickes up our 'winning design' and changes alliences.

The thread is:
https://www.airportcitygame.com/threads/redesign-alliences.9869/

 

[Yulee]

Could it be possible that GI are slowly abandoning Airport City, (similar to Sunshine Bay)

Sunshine bay on iOS there hasn't been an update in over a YEAR - you can still play the game & use real money to buy greenies & coins (which GI really want). but nothing new added

Ivan mentioned that the last update android had would be the biggest update in Airport City, lets pretend there are no bugs in the update, in my opinion it was the BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT, the only thing that is useful is the reserve hangar..

Agree with you, i don't see any correlation between release new update and give event for IOS, Back to School and Halloween Event repeat every year and i don't get it why IOS player has to wait new update to play those event.
For now on, i will not use real money to play IOS game, just visit neighbors without Golden Dice, don't waste any money for this game which you don't know the future.

 

[Free2Play]

but having someone from either IOS, Kindle, Android, or FB as a neighbor: I cannot visit nor send gifts to this person, as they have a different OS, than I.

We're working on that, by the way. Windows players will be able to be proper neighbors with everyone else.

 

[Deleted member 5399]

Free2Play
So you are saying that GI is not giving up the ship and allowing it to slowly sink to the bottom?
If you are reading some of the comments here, certainly there are a lot of players who are about to quit or have quit.
Sadly I'd hate to see others leave the game. Need For Speed World, when it started I had all kinds of friends i'd play with online. Sadly over time people gave up on unkept promises of patches, updates, and yes even promises to contest winners, who never got their rewards. 5 years later, and the servers shut down. Don't let AC or GI become another EA catastrophe.
Do us all a favor and go on record, reassuring everyone that all hope is not lost with this game. Someone needs to.

 

[Bali Hi]

We're working on that, by the way. Windows players will be able to be proper neighbors with everyone else.

That is good news.

But what about the immediate problem of iOS and Android players not being able to visit neigbours??

 

[Airport city cheat]

@KenDuckySmith
Unfortunately Ivan can't go on record now because work break has finished, Mr Robotov has told Ivan that he has to abandon the development of Airport City & help count the money brought in by selling greenies & coins. I think it's disgusting that Ivan only strings one sentence together, with so many people annoyed for various reasons I think it would of been nice if Ivan said what's going on behind the scenes. Ivan doesn't care though he is to busy counting money

 

[Airport city cheat]

I believe Ivan is allowing airport city to slowly sink.

1. Ivan doesn't talk on about plans anymore
2. What happened to the question & answer session?
3. I honestly believe that the mission to Mars won't happen. In my opinion I think that Ivan & his 5 clowns are releasing the last BIG update with the unlikeliest chance of players/former players getting maps, so the people who are playing now will spend months upon months chasing maps once you get a alliance map you spend more months trying to get 3 stars. In the meantime some long serving players get fed up of being ripped off & move on also new players get hooked on the game & they become long time players then the cycle continues. So theoretically the game might not have an update but is still playable & able to sell greenies & coins for REAL MONEY (which GI want)

As the game is still playable Ivan can now stop the development of airport city & start the development of a new game namely 'MONEY ROBBERS'

 

[Anubhav]

We're working on that, by the way. Windows players will be able to be proper neighbors with everyone else.

If GI aka Small Team Of Airport City Devs , If You are Unable to Give Regular Updates To All Platform's.
Atleast Give The " Events " To The All Platforms

I was Thinking That Whether We will Get " Back To School " Event / Halloween Event " on Other Airport city Platforms

 

[Wired Parrott]

Though the information given is less than needed/wanted and incomplete, I personally don't think jumping on Ivan will help. I would bet that GI has corporate policies in place that tie his hands somewhat to what can be said. Look at GI's official facebook/twitter and notice the common thread of very little information given about any games updates. I'm sure many have seen companies that do not do this Which give exact dates and times of updates as well as info regarding what said update contains. With that said I think if Ivan knew that a decision to abandon the game was made he would not bother to post anything. So I say thank you to Ivan for any ongoing information.

Don't get me wrong I am not pleased with GI especially so being a windows PC player. There is no correlation between running events and having a new update. Events worked before and should still work. As I am still under a year playing these skipped events can not be made up for another year!!!! I know the purchase of greenies by me will only occur if events start to run at regular intervals once again.

@KenDuckySmith like EA I wouldn't go that far. They of course have the money hungry part down as most gaming developers do. However, I think they are far away from the no competition part of EAs take over the world manifesto. The negative impacts of EA have echoed throughout the entire industry. What we see here are just part of the aftershocks caused by EA. (they need a Darth Vader emoji to represent EA)

 

[david smith]

We're working on that, by the way. Windows players will be able to be proper neighbors with everyone else.

How about fixing the loss of neighbor problems, because I lost a neighbor i diden't delete, there should be a way to put them back in if we lose him/her, plus fix the game crash problems

 

[Bali Hi]

I am very thankful to Ivan for attempting to communicate with airportcitygame.com forum members.

Although information is not as forthcoming as we would like, having Ivan (and Captain Cat??) around means they can give feedback to the development team.

So let us not criticize Ivan for things which may be beyond his control and instead give positive / critical feedback

I'm sure Game Insight is trying to fix whatever went wrong, because they make money when more people play frequently updated games.

 

[Deleted member 5399]

You honestly cannot blame any one single person for what is happening. Just like EA was or , I don't know still is a team of bosses, developers, and IT specialists, so is GI. And if one person slips up, everyone should be responsible. Working many years in the real world, the words often spoken, "Its not my job, or my responsibility," should not apply.
Another thing is Millions of players and multiple platforms, means multiple servers.
My point regarding EA was this. EA itself created a thread forum; not people like the admins here. And EA also at one time did podcasts with Drew and Marc Devellis. And every week there stood Marc and Drew making promises to the players, that many were never kept. After having a very private conversation with Drew, I found that he was on the side of the players. But soon he was let go because he was revealing things, EA did not want users to know. Then they brought in another person to replace him. And she saw through the smoke and mirrors and did the same thing. Take notice how many times the dev team has changed over time with NFS.
Really Ivan and FreetoPlay; they don't have to come on here and post anything.
But yes it would be nice every so often to make us aware. Knowing players from all platforms are gathering together on this very forum. Then come here and tell us something. Keeping us in the dark, as EA did near their demise, only makes us all skeptical about the future of GI.
To those who read this forum from GI, losing veteran players, and picking up newbies; well that only will last so long. When the newbies get midway in ranks/levels and see how they too are feeling forgotten; they too will be on here or elsewhere with their comments, for others to read, turning away any other perspective players.
Stop with the smoke and mirrors already and get on with something you have here, GI, that can be really great.

 

[Deleted member 5399]

I am very thankful to Ivan for attempting to communicate with airportcitygame.com forum members.

Although information is not as forthcoming as we would like, having Ivan (and Captain Cat??) around means they can give feedback to the development team.

So let us not criticize Ivan for things which may be beyond his control and instead give positive / critical feedback

I'm sure Game Insight is trying to fix whatever went wrong, because they make money when more people play frequently updated games.

@Bali Hi
But the real question is, does the feedback Ivan, Capt. Cat and FreetoPlay, report back, get taken for what it's meant to be, or does the bosses shake heads and say yeah, yeah, but instead think more about selling things for real cash instead of making things the way players wish it to be.
Honestly at one time, it was only the 'Special Edition' planes, that required greenies for repairs. So big deal, they fly 10 or 20% faster. But buying standards now, Giants and Falcons, they should just need parts.
In race cars a factory spec engine should have to pay extra like one that has NO boost, to fix it.

 

[Free2Play]

@Wired Parrott

There is no correlation between running events and having a new update.

There is, actually. Some things we can do in advance, but most require additional QA and an update.

@Bali Hi

But what about the immediate problem of iOS and Android players not being able to visit neigbours??

Obviously, we are well aware of current issues such as Android / iOS neighbor visiting and gifting, and fixing them is our top priority.

 

[greensmith]

We realize there is a Catch 22 involved here. GI needs to make money from AC players to survive and support Road 404's programming efforts. At the same time, AC players won't spend money on a game that is so frustratingly buggy.
The big concern right now for us players (and me personally as a forum Moderator) is why GI/Road 404, with their history of buggy updates, came out with a massive Android-only update of new levels, a much-requested Reserve Hangar, new destinations and an ill-conceived Alliances game (which, as a surprise to no one, has apparently been taken over by cheaters and/or rich people). Plus Android-only rehashed Back to School and Dark Skies quests.
Why they didn't come out with the Reserve Hangar only for all platforms then wait a while ... then come out with new levels then wait a while ... then come out with new destinations then wait a while ... and so forth. It just makes me wonder what they were thinking. I don't mean to be negative, but when you can't see any light at the end of the tunnel you start to wonder if the tunnel has collapsed ahead of you.
Cheers,
Tom

 

[Kesh]

I'm not an IT guy but from what I noticed and read here, there are 2 issues that are causing trouble. 1. Both IOS and Win\Wp are strict systems which require extra approvals for releeasing the app (thats why it was pushed to android first). 2. Joining all platforms into one game caused those servers issues which affected all platforms. Biggest effect was on android due to fact that their game is already there. Win\wp update is probably waiting for wp 10 release, for ios i assume they had some difficulties with last update and above mentioned restrictions.
At the end this game needs either money or patience, so we all need to be little more patient.

 

[AJ]

We realize there is a Catch 22 involved here. GI needs to make money from AC players to survive and support Road 404's programming efforts. At the same time, AC players won't spend money on a game that is so frustratingly buggy.
The big concern right now for us players (and me personally as a forum Moderator) is why GI/Road 404, with their history of buggy updates, came out with a massive Android-only update of new levels, a much-requested Reserve Hangar, new destinations and an ill-conceived Alliances game (which, as a surprise to no one, has apparently been taken over by cheaters and/or rich people). Plus Android-only rehashed Back to School and Dark Skies quests.
Why they didn't come out with the Reserve Hangar only for all platforms then wait a while ... then come out with new levels then wait a while ... then come out with new destinations then wait a while ... and so forth. It just makes me wonder what they were thinking. I don't mean to be negative, but when you can't see any light at the end of the tunnel you start to wonder if the tunnel has collapsed ahead of you.
Cheers,
Tom

Probably this was the best way, They could have given 3 Updates in past 5 month's and I guess it would have been much better than giving out one so called "BIGGEST UPDATE EVER".

I'm not an IT guy but from what I noticed and read here, there are 2 issues that are causing trouble. 1. Both IOS and Win\Wp are strict systems which require extra approvals for releeasing the app (thats why it was pushed to android first). 2. Joining all platforms into one game caused those servers issues which affected all platforms. Biggest effect was on android due to fact that their game is already there. Win\wp update is probably waiting for wp 10 release, for ios i assume they had some difficulties with last update and above mentioned restrictions.
At the end this game needs either money or patience, so we all need to be little more patient.

I guess 6 month's is more than enough time to be "patient" to wait for an update and that too without any bug's

 

[Kesh]

Probably this was the best way, They could have given 3 Updates in past 5 month's and I guess it would have been much better than giving out one so called "BIGGEST UPDATE EVER".

I guess 6 month's is more than enough time to be "patient" to wait for an update and that too without any bug's

You have to take in account that w10 was released in july, ios recently an wp should be released in next few weeks. Also this merge would not be available for old w8.1

 

[AJ]

You have to take in account that w10 was released in july, ios recently an wp should be released in next few weeks. Also this merge would not be available for old w8.1

I guess there's a thing name Windows preview which is given to devolpers, they gets the update before us and Devolpers have received Ios 9.2 Update on 27 October for testing. So that they can test their products.

 

[david smith]

well, I'M going to say it GI and Road 404 need a quality control engineer, to help with their problems. MY mom GOD BLESS her(died April 4 2004) always said the problem isn't the developer its the company, So to fix there problems hire a quality control engineer. If the company Executives listen to some one like a quality control engineer we wouldn't have the problems. But they wont they dont have the intelligence to listen to what everyone is telling them.