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715fb3zyu1bx
Rising Novice
5 days ago
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Issues with Design Contest

Has anyone else had issues submitting the Design Challenge? I'm incredibly frustrated because a bug completely ruined my submission. I finished my design yesterday with 100% service coverage, and everything worked perfectly. But today, roughly 30 minutes before the closing time, I found all services flagged in the red. The submission button had reverted to Review, and when I tried to resolve the issue nothing would work until the time ran out, and I couldn't submit it. I'm so frustrated that all the time I spent on the layout completely went to waste. Is this happening to anyone else?

  • I do a design city in around 2 hours then submit it as I notice a lot of ppl have your problem, so I get it done as quick as I can. I score 3.5-4.5 regularly 

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  • Paroxium's avatar
    Paroxium
    Seasoned Hotshot
    3 days ago

    It has happened the same to me in two consecutive dessigns this last season. I complained to the help service and they ignored me. I sent those two completely finished cities ten minutes before the limit time, but when the game returned to capital city the dessign message showed something like "don't close the game while the dessign is being uploaded" instead of the message "this is your uploaded dessign", and the uploading button was grey coloured and inactive. It remained like that for ten minutes and then it said it could not be uploaded. I got totally desperated for it, after working on it for hours. And the problem is EA servers, which are overwhelmed by so many players and the tons of rubbish stuff they have implemented in the game. It happens continously, that the game disconnects and is unable to open market, COM window or train options. I know it's not my connection because everything works on my tablet except this game. But EA doesn't care. They simply answer sending you to the help pages for connection issues or telling you to uninstall and reinstall the game. And when you do that the help chat is erased so it's a perfect way for them to solve the problem. This game is full of bugs and it has only become a continous shop where you can buy dozens of items or offers at the same time, for money quantities that go further your month budget for food, transport or household. This is not a game any more. This is not funny any more. It's a non paid job where you must work twelve hours a day for nothing. We are losing our health here. It makes no sense.

  • 715fb3zyu1bx's avatar
    715fb3zyu1bx
    Rising Novice
    4 days ago

    I usually hold off on submitting because, in my experience, Contest of Mayors (CoM) often throws out "Upgrade in Design Challenge" tasks right after I submit. I always try to sync them up to get the extra points! But you're totally right, with these bugs, it's definitely better to be safe than sorry. I'd rather miss out on a CoM task than have the entire design go to waste. Thanks for the advice!

  • I do a design city in around 2 hours then submit it as I notice a lot of ppl have your problem, so I get it done as quick as I can. I score 3.5-4.5 regularly