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i completely and whole-heartedly agree. I understand the need for warnings on decorations as it could cause lag or rendering issues (especially for older devices), but with all the new land given (thank you) and new items, it is time to at least raise the cap to at least 10,000-15,000 rather than the current 7500.

You're at the limit? Which is what, 7500 now? Because I've been playing for years and my town is well decorated, and I'm still below 6500. But i also don't have surplus redundant items laying around, like many people do. I don't buy 30 of something new and just line them all up in a block. I also don't over garden. Some people shove massive amounts of flowers everywhere. It's just not realistic. I'd like to see your town. Maybe you send me a friend request?Anyone else hitting that limit where you think you need the ceiling raised, you're welcome to send one too. Because the few neighbors i have, who ARE above 7000 and actually close or at the limit, are indeed crushing my device. Their towns take longer to load and are very sluggish to navigate. Those towns also have more graphics and scrolling issues when i visit, which tells me the limit is appropriate for today's standards of mobile tech. If they had more than the limit, i suspect the game would become unplayable and you'd have to force quit out of their town, then decide if you should drop them as a neighbor, which would be much more annoying.So I'd like to see who really needs their limit raised, vs who is just all anxious over irrelevant warning messages. If you're above 7k, i bet your town is sluggish too. Don't shoot yourself in the foot, putting in so many decorations that no one wants to be your neighbor.

4junk3000 wrote:You're at the limit? Which is what, 7500 now? Because I've been playing for years and my town is well decorated, and I'm still below 6500. But i also don't have surplus redundant items laying around, like many people do. I don't buy 30 of something new and just line them all up in a block. I also don't over garden. Some people shove massive amounts of flowers everywhere. It's just not realistic. I'd like to see your town. Maybe you send me a friend request?Anyone else hitting that limit where you think you need the ceiling raised, you're welcome to send one too. Because the few neighbors i have, who ARE above 7000 and actually close or at the limit, are indeed crushing my device. Their towns take longer to load and are very sluggish to navigate. Those towns also have more graphics and scrolling issues when i visit, which tells me the limit is appropriate for today's standards of mobile tech. If they had more than the limit, i suspect the game would become unplayable and you'd have to force quit out of their town, then decide if you should drop them as a neighbor, which would be much more annoying.So I'd like to see who really needs their limit raised, vs who is just all anxious over irrelevant warning messages. If you're above 7k, i bet your town is sluggish too. Don't shoot yourself in the foot, putting in so many decorations that no one wants to be your neighbor.here is my town, you can judge for yourself if I over decorate (I wouldn't want to crash your town, but if you want me as a neighbor, feel free to send a request). I do not have any items stacked in a corner just to raise my multiplier or for any other reason. I do think it should be reasonable to be able to display every building (which I have done)BTW, whether playing on my iPad Mini 2 or my iPhone 6 Plus, I do not have any lag. I am currently at 7400 items and have hit the limit at least 6 times in the last month, having to replace trees and other decos with water/riversFull Sizehttp://i.imgur.com/lomk80u.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/lomk80u.jpg

I have hit the limit, removed about 100 or so items, continued playing and hit the limit again. I then removed 100 or so items again, trees, shrubs, little items I would not notice. Unfortunately I will have to do this again sometime soon as I build the monorail track.It would be nice if it was increased.By the way, great town Brett.

empathy77 wrote:I have hit the limit, removed about 100 or so items, continued playing and hit the limit again. I then removed 100 or so items again, trees, shrubs, little items I would not notice. Unfortunately I will have to do this again sometime soon as I build the monorail track.It would be nice if it was increased.By the way, great town Brett. thank youI just do not think this is an unreasonable request given that the limit has been in place at this cap for 3 years (didn't they set a hard cap during Whacking Day at 3000 which caused a mob protest and a month later they upped it to its current level?)

EA look... Decoration limit poll and petition

brettolmsted
10 years ago
4junk3000 wrote:
OK just to verify my point, comparing how long it takes to get into Other Springfield vs Brett's town...
Other SF takes 3 seconds to load. Brett's takes 38 seconds.

Imagine if all neighbors took 12x longer.

Also, his town had several rendering glitches. I took a ride on his monorail twice. The first time, short tracks were illustrates as SH potted Palm trees. The second time, curve tracks turned left were a randomized jumble.

Brett's town is "at the redline" so to speak. And anyone with a car should understand the thrill of hitting the redline but also the consequence.

So until we all can afford the "Yamaha R6 of mobile devices", i think the redline (7500 feature limit in this case) is an effective limitation.

In the meantime, Brett could thin out the redundancy of decorations in his town. He's got four trash trucks parked together when 2 could suffice; same with the pink alien clone cylinders. He's got a group of ten of them. Couldn't four serve the same design purpose? And of course thanks to the glitch he's got one of the largest monorail tracks in existence.

Which was definitely fun to ride! An awesome town, but not a typical one. So it's understandable that EA's limits don't meet his needs.

Maybe in a year when devices have evolved a bit more... We can hope!

while I may disagree with you on the need for garbage trucks and alien test tubes (especially with the garbage trucks since they are useful to cover larger areas of land so I do not have to decorate with extra items), you do make a well reasoned argument and provide important details to this discussion. I do not have any issues with rendering or loading in my town other than the occasional glitch where I get toilet paper or random heads of people.

And yes, after 4 years of playing it makes sense that I have every decoration and I am probably a small percentage of the overall player base of this game, but still, EA needs to help us out for being loyal customers
brettolmsted
10 years ago
ForumNerds wrote:
Silly Question: I keep hearing something about riding neighbors' monorails ... does that just mean "manually swiping my screen following the track around the town" ? Or is there some mechanism when I visit a friend's town that would let me watch the screen move around for me, that follows the monorail track?

(No, I'm not that lazy. I just want to know if I'm missing some magic trick) :)

you can click on your friends station and "ride" on it just like you can in your own town
4junk3000
New Spectator
10 years ago
It's players like you that are their "bread and butter". They definitely should cater to your preferences. I would.

But meanwhile they can't alienate people who would get frustrated with glitches and stop playing. It's a delicate balance i guess, because even though technology evolves pretty quick these days, we still are insatiable!

I'm just glad this game even exists. Compare it to all previous Simpsons games. Even Hit and Run Homer didn't have such autonomy.
4junk3000
New Spectator
10 years ago
brettolmsted wrote:
ForumNerds wrote:
Silly Question: I keep hearing something about riding neighbors' monorails ... does that just mean "manually swiping my screen following the track around the town" ? Or is there some mechanism when I visit a friend's town that would let me watch the screen move around for me, that follows the monorail track?

(No, I'm not that lazy. I just want to know if I'm missing some magic trick) :)

you can click on your friends station and "ride" on it just like you can in your own town

Yes riding the monorail in Bretts town was awesome. But i like riding them in any town with a big enough loop. Hopefully this will encourage people to make bigger tracks that pass their best design features. That's how mine is!

I did notice today the Alpha/Omega transporters stopped working in neighbor towns though. Hope they restore that.
shawn59736
10 years ago
I have basically removed all nonessential decorations, i.e; trash cans, stop signs, phone booths, any deco hidden behind a building, but now it's Halloween, and I have jack-o-lanterns and scary trees to put out. Soon it will be Christmas and I have lots of Christmas decorations. I pretty much have the minimal amount of houses, ( I tried to put one in inventory the other day and lost a star) so yes- please, raise the limit already!!
4junk3000
New Spectator
10 years ago
1. I don't know of a way to see your item count.

2. You can tap on any station then select Ride. But i think it requires at least 7 terminal connected pieces. The train will run to the end and stop pothen reverse, no loop needed.

If any one who's posted in this thread wants to ride my train, send me a req. We can swap boarding passes! Lol
sandwedgeking
10 years ago
http://media.giphy.com/media/13Cu7a7YZfm2fS/giphy.gif
gneissv
10 years ago
As far as use of server memory goes, I'd sure love the ability to sell or delete items "stuck" in the inventory like Easter egg piles or other event items (candy canes, flower carts) that don't provide multipliers or monetary gain. My inventory needs a spring cleaning!
sandwedgeking
10 years ago
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view7/2488138/please-sir-i-want-some-more-o.gif
Vs1976
10 years ago
Think EA should at least increase to 10000 limit. It's way overdue now