Limit on buying & selling war supplies?
As of this morning, nobody in my club is able to buy or sell more than 1 war item per spot in the Trade Depot. Does anyone know if this is a bug or is it a change? It's very inconvenient.
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For everyone disagreeing with PinnacleValley stating that a second city is a feeder and therefore against the rules (with the response to back up that statement, I might add), I do not see what the disagreement is. I think the explanation by EA's representative was pretty clear. Play a second or third or fourth or whatever number city as a legitimate separate game, and that isn't considered against the rules. Once your additional city/cities stop all functions except 1) acting as additional storage for your first city and/or 2) act only to "Feed" your main city with items, then it has transitioned to a "Feeder" and therefore is not considered within bounds. (I should admit, I don't like this since it doesn't address the actual hackers in this game who continue to have an unfair advantage over non-hacking players in CoM as well as wars, but it is what it is. See my previous comment regarding what I think should be done on our end for those who do not hack.)
You can dislike the answer, but no need to shoot the messenger, y'all.
I didn't see the hard discussion part but yes, people try to be calmed and relaxed , after all is just a game, hahaha I'm the first one who rage everytime inside the game when I see cheaters, I understand the passion, but yes,is just a game... 🙂
@robotechnology80 wrote:For everyone disagreeing with PinnacleValley stating that a second city is a feeder and therefore against the rules (with the response to back up that statement, I might add), I do not see what the disagreement is. I think the explanation by EA's representative was pretty clear. Play a second or third or fourth or whatever number city as a legitimate separate game, and that isn't considered against the rules. Once your additional city/cities stop all functions except 1) acting as additional storage for your first city and/or 2) act only to "Feed" your main city with items, then it has transitioned to a "Feeder" and therefore is not considered within bounds. (I should admit, I don't like this since it doesn't address the actual hackers in this game who continue to have an unfair advantage over non-hacking players in CoM as well as wars, but it is what it is. See my previous comment regarding what I think should be done on our end for those who do not hack.)
You can dislike the answer, but no need to shoot the messenger, y'all.
I... Think I agree with Pinnacle ...?? I think, I understand the pain about seeing multiple enemies feeders cities and dead clubs, and I understand Pinnacle is just sharing the statement of EA by email. But once again, I believe, even when that was the message, feeders cities aren't illegal, I have 2 cities since I started the game (almost and pretty long) , I never got any message from EA, block, or something, I did it because when I reached high levels unlocked burgers, pizzas, sofas and my market got destroyed and I realised that so much later that was easier upgrade my storage and expansions areas in low level, since we can't filter the items on the market... you know how the market works, so in a city with level 14 you can open the market and find vu items, storage parts, some rare items like planks, veggies... and of course I share with my main, also in my club almost all have a second account, is a normal thing, there are some as president in other clubs, so when someone is too busy in real life they can go to a secondary club to play slowing.
No one get banned or something from EA never, and you can find clubs with a lot of feeders cities and never get banned, I agree also that we can't find this information anywhere, is not showing for all of us as normal players, we have to contact EA and after several messages get a response like Pinnacle did. That is why I don't think this is a real rule, just I said, there is no way for EA to know this, acting as additional storage for your first city is something hard to find out, especially in a cooperation game, so if I only share some coins and items with my friends EA can get confused and says oh this is a feeder city, nope, as I said, there is a - symbol on items so you can reduce the price to 0, I sens tons of items with low price, and also coins with my teammates when they need, they said I'm playing COM and I'm ruined, and I share with burgers some money putting with low cost... and I'm playing this game years ago, again, never got any kind of punishment. Pinnacle contacted EA years ago,so this isn't like a new movement for EA, except the new rule about items that I dislike completely.
well... debating again about the new rule, I stay saying that is bad that we can't share those items, when the whole war is about cooperate for the win, if I have spiders with a good level, then I want ammos and I can give all plungers, those I get in deliveries, with the partner who have BMM with more level, and strategize with the players online, share items... you know... the game... so bad that this had to happen because by the fault of cheaters our own game is getting refrain
feeder again,.. 🙂
What dead clubs? in arena 5 and 6 they are pretty much alive and hyperactive.
If EA wants to remove feeders, it is pretty easy. Block app cloner and similar apps on android, block emulators on pc and mac. On ios they don't have to do anything. Problem solved. 1 city per device.
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@robotechnology80 Mac I appreciate your insight, knowledge and kind words. Don’t quit, you’re much too talented a player for that...
@BlazinsZ I also appreciate your perspective and simply walk away agreeing to disagree - still with great respect.
Take care.
The dead clubs were seen in A1-3 when we reset the club (due to all the obvious hackers that infested A5 at that time).
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No EA response, just report requests. "We work to make your life better."
It is a waste of my time to discuss here. Nothing will improve. I'm going back to play with my friends.
I agree with @robotechnology80. I will never spend a single zloty on SimCity BuildIt. Application errors or hackers are something else, but I will never forgive disrespect and censorship.Hey all! I'm just feeling the need to point out that Answers Headquarters is a player-helping-player forum. EA / SimCity BuildIT developers don't directly answer questions here. AHQ is a great place for discussing the changes, but if you want them to respond to your questions directly you may want to try Twitter or Facebook instead (or filing a request on their support page)
@BlazinsZ Hey, I completely understand the appeal of a feeder (even outside of the application of helping with club wars), but I just think the writing is on the wall, here.
I don’t think EA can state plainly that “feeders are illegal” because, as someone else pointed out, they would then have to clearly define what constitutes a feeder and then justify applying that definition to any city they would then designate a feeder and remove to Naughty Island. That just opens them up to all kinds of PR disasters and additional work in trying to investigate this when we already know they’re loathe to investigate real cheating. They don’t currently have and won’t invest in the manpower required to do that for millions of cities.
I don’t think we can mistake this move of limiting war items sales as anything other than what it is: an attempt to curtail feeder activity. Again, we can disagree on what cheating is or isn’t as it relates to what is or is not in their terms of service, but the fact remains, EA clearly does not want us using additional cities for competitive advantage, even if we are not hacking, and even if it is done to actually combat the hacking they themselves won’t stop.
I got 4 cities on 4 different phone/tablet. 4 different level , one is only level 11 and it will stay like that because I get buy stuff for my other cities. I spend real money instead of hacking. I put times in cities that I build. EA should focus on HACKERS !!!! and not players that are spending money in the game.
This is the biggest mistake EA made and it will * of players of that great game.
