4th of July gift from EA?
That's a good thought. Since those of us in the US celebrate our 'independence' on the Fourth, why not give us land... like the land we stole from the people who were here first? Brilliant!
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DeinonSlayer wrote:
It's not something they can just hand out. The problem as I understand it is memory limitations in mobile devices. The game has to be kept compatible with the lowest common denominator. Unless you want to see a message one day saying "Out of memory. Buy a newer phone to keep playing after this mandatory update!"
Unfortunately, it's not that simple... But in turn, it IS that simple. :)
The idea is that the entire area doesn't need to be loaded into memory at once. I have a feeling that's why we've had weird graphics glitches, as well as the wonderful lag we had. My suspicion was that they were trying a new method of managing memory that failed... They either fixed it, or reverted to what they had before. I think they fixed it, mostly, which is why I get very occasional lag and we've been getting more glitching graphics.
Look at Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff, and the way it loads. If you scroll quickly, it'll have little dots where an item should be. It loads in quickly and populates its space. It's the same as TSTO loading glitched graphics, because it wasn't designed from the ground up to support this style loading, and has to be reprogrammed to do this.
So I say hang in there. I feel strongly that they are working on it.
