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they read the posts re zone refresh and decided to show the complainers as spreading misinformation or incomplete info so they re added part of the ZR tweaks anyway :P
Popping the tranquilizers to avoid the worse of withdrawal for the dayQuote:
Originally Posted by BB_Trafffer
Let them take as much time, as they need. No stressing. Let them implement it good. Better to wait for few more hours, then to suffer a horrible bug for next few weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by copycat71
surely there has to be a way for all this to be done offline/behind the scenes, testing it for yourself, patching it and then,
when it's ready, do a live stop and get it up and running for the rest of us
it makes no sense to keep on doing it the way you've done it so far, pulling the live server offline and hope for some best results.
can you just not add a subdomain, use a full database and play in there till it's ready?
it looks like they decided to push part of the ZR anyway and had to put that back in the package- guess a final test showed that that part was ready to go and they want to show improvements. Lets hope we wont be disappointed
Are you ever going to make this game fun to play again? I pop in for a chat occasionally, send out explorers (what a chore) and collect gems, do some tidying. I have played about three adventures in over a year. You are no fun anymore, BB, but I hang on just in case. I'm no IT expert (77 years old now), so I can't pronounce a cure but we were promised one over a year ago now. Until you do sort stuff, I shall put no more of my pension money into the game. Stop tinkering and fix it!
I see the maintenance has been extended to 1400 hours…why is that I wonder, is it because there all out to lunch.
Look we all know what the main problem is, it’s that the game just doesn’t work and never will as long as BB peeps continue to NOT LISTEN to the actual players. The players that continuously report the problems that there experiencing even after these so called maintenance fixes that are supposed to fix some of the problems in the first place.
I was in a guild of 40+ players and it was a pleasure to sign into the game, the chat was great and when the different events came we all played as a team…..well now there is only 5 of us left, the others have said they will return once the game is playable……which seeing as nothing gets fixed I don’t think they will ever return.
SO, BB peeps I suggest you get your fingers out of your other projects and get this game fixed and playable to what it was originally or you will see more players going, or it will be a case of R.I.P. TSO.
Just for once in your lives BB peeps listen to the PLAYERS feedback and act on it. (Sorry for the rant, it’s just getting pass the joke now)
i cant log-in
What a waste of time that update was. Logged back in. 5 minutes. Still blue screen with no landscape
I'm not doing any adventures until the performance is fixed
This is amateurish. You dusted round the elephant in the room - now fix the goddam game!!!!!!
As I said, now you changed it again ... Changelog or changemind ?Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Trafffer
news says update done , but i still cant log-in , any news on that BB ????
well i have treid client and unity with no luck , and again no sign of BB or any news , well i guess its goodbye i have had enough of this rubbish
May I congratulate the whole team on achieving absolutely nothing in all the time since we moved to Unity, great work, keep it up.
Well we have the latest update, it seems like one step forward and nine steps backward. It now takes even longer for the game to load, this morning and 10 times longer than usual.
Hello Settlers.
We want to apologise for the downtime, this has been fixed and everyone should be able to log in again.
I want to address longer loading time for some players - this is intended.
The loading process was changed in the latest version. It will take longer until the island appears, but afterwards everything will load much faster. Should you see a blue background for some time, do not cancel the loading process. The game is still working in the background and everything will load in as soon as the game is finished.
Please also try to clear your Unity cache, this should also help.
15 mins of blue screen so far....
Please place new, good offers in Guild MarketQuote:
Originally Posted by Rosejane
Change log was supposed to last for few hours, however it lasted for two days for some of us, please post updated in Facebook and TwitterQuote:
Originally Posted by Cheetah2_777
Performance: We have improved the background handling of the game, this should allow chat to reconnect after idling and reduce the amount of zone refreshes
maybe, but now my game keeps freezing every few seconds, much worse than any previous version. I've tried to be supportive of BB during the last few weeks but this is just utter rubbish. a serious suggestion.. roll back to previous version and try again. I'm not playing this, i'll be taking break till/if something better happens
They have their own private server, unfortunately as it's local to them, it doesn't respond the way the live servers do, on there they are in happy-happy land as everything responds instantaneously, not subject to the vagaries of having to traverse the interweb.Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnRo79
Sadly, as finally admitted to earlier in this post, the test server also does not respond in the same way as the live ones, which rather negates all our hard work testing out all this unity garbage, even if they did bother to read and comprehend our bug reports.
I would suggest they actually try playing the game on here as we do for a couple of months to experience the real world, the BB's of old were fans of the game and actually had player accounts on here even if they had little time to play for fun, they were able to experience the same conditions we do.
I would wager that if they did try to play on the live servers, we would have the client back in place inside of 2 weeks!
Unfortunately,wrong on both counts.Quote:
Originally Posted by BB_Trafffer
The servers were not responding to our browsers, either by typing in the address bar, trying to access via Ubi$oft Connect, nor even via cached pages stored locally or online.
Cheetah's "Service Status" screenshot above reflects what we were experiencing, the servers were not responding for a long period of time.
The loading time is worse, all that seems changed is the loading order, where it tries to load buildings first, then background.
It is also running up the computer fans heavily, worse than before the update, and trying to send explorers is increasing that load, leading to the game freezing and zone refreshing, I am having to logout in order to let the computer cool down, clearly a backward step. :(
And now experiencing an old "UPlay is unavailable" popup kicking me back out of server, another "blast from the past" that the update appears to have revived, like the irrelevant "collection challenge" quest item. :(
Loading times are slightly faster for me.
I would say there have been improvements since unity was launched, buffs show properly, mines show properly, all the broken upgrade icons are gone and you can see the online status of people so its a bit unfair to say nothing has been done.
I still find unity to be unusable however because:
Too much freezing, every time the status box (item was collected, explorer sent, etc) in the top left appears I get a 1-2s pause, the frequent zone refreshes freeze everything too and reset any menus i had open.
Clicking is unreliable, I can click to open a building to try and pause it and instead I will get a window asking me if I want to use premium time or some random resource will get stuck to my mouse like I clicked it in the star menu despite the star menu not even being open.
The new trade window is stupid too, its half the height of the old one and all the resources are twice as tall per row so instead of showing 11 trades per page, it only shows 4 instead.
It doesn't effect the gameplay, but all the graphics look like garbage too unless you disable autoscaling and set the game to 100% and then only use the most zoomed in view.
About adventures:
I tried Ali Baba Young Woodcutter. So, "zone refreshed" is not four times per minute now, but still here. Little better.
Instead, I got 4x server disconnection and had to completely start the game again. Terrible.
Landing general is still stealing the focus if you have another general selected. Still terrible.
About home island:
Sending explorers is still terrible pain.
About near future:
What is BB plan for incoming easter event? Cancel it? Or to admit the epic fail and finally make client version of game officialy available*?
* it means there is no reason to download sources from different locations, but provide it with guide on BB site
Looks like they intend to push it, its on test already, first thing that happened javascript error on initial load and restart, plenty of eggs needed on plenty of new and old stuff by look on the event merchant, so usual, didnt check if some of new stuff is worth it yet.
Edit, after bought new building had to restart the game to be able to place it, after construction reached 99% all froze. Tried restart, but in wont load test anymore with that building placed, error message reads:
Server Zone crashed
An error was detected on this zone. Please try again.
And your testing is done, as it was same after about 3-4 restarts.
At last an update that hasn't made the game play worse for me. The performance appears to be as good as it was before the October update, still a way to go to be as good as the flash client but a step in the right direction.
I had to turn off shield icons above generals in adventure because they flicker too much.
Was not a "double post",these were answers to 2 separate problems and as arthritis makes inserting extra quotes a very painful experience, I answered each separately, also making it clearer which sub-topic was being replied to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nogbad2
Meddling with it has made it less clear, and lost important information regarding a new bug which is preventing both Northisle and Sandycove from loading properly (temporary solution is to use "private browsing" to access those 2 servers), and also the fact that sending explorers has got even worse, each send lags terribly, and triggers constant zone refreshes plus causes the computer fans to go into overdrive, so you have to logout after a time just to let it cooldown. The more explorers (and geos) you try to send in a session, the more laggy the process becomes,and computer overheats more.
Last night, it took 14 hours just to send out explorers and do general stuff like find collectables across the 3 servers, this is no longer a game, it's an endurance test!
No wonder BB have made zero progress in the past 15 months when bug reports are constantly altered, lost or moved to obscure sections of the forum.
I know it's not nice seeing the constant criticism regarding the state of the game but hiding it helps nobody in the long run.
thanks alot for fixing the oil producing buildings -- now the game doesn't freez up anymore (for me)
Since this update, with Ryzen 7; 1650ti; 16GB, fans go crazy within 60 seconds. Never had that before.
I've tried to embrace unity web client but it looks garbage, plays garbage and now consumes horrific resources.
Coming up to 5 years since flash eol, and nearly a year since unity.
One day students will study this as a perfect example how to mess up a software platform migration while simultaneously alienating an entire passionate user base.
or let em break the rules en masse and have few issues
Yes, moment you hit the "Play Now" button, fans start revving up and even typing in chat box seems to cause computer stress.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClarenceDuPont
Cooked a well tuned i7 based Alienware, home built 8 core Sledgehammer with 32Gb RAM in a huge case with powerful cooling fans keeps going but makes enough noise to drown out aircraft noise fromthe local airport, nothing else has even spun up the fans onthose 2 machines apart from one other Unity game from 2014 (also Ubi$oft and also where bug reports were ignored then deleted just before its re-release).
Now reverted to an older i5 which seems to handle stress better than i7s, and which can also be throttled back before things become too hot.
Wouldn't need to "break the rules" if official client was reinstated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Qualan
Should have been obvious from the bug reports on the original Unity Test server that this version could not go live, the client is the only sane option until Unity is even vaguely playable, and a much safer option all round given current geo-political issues. (Not intended as a slight on Sirris who has been magnificent in helping players keep our game running, BB's "Devs" could and should be learning a lot from him, but a properly sanctioned client would keep us from having to access files from a region where the state is interfering with computer systems).
It would be more likely that other states will interfere with said region and block/sanction access - The effect would be the same thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Nogbad