Glitchy Future

You also need to see the big picture:

New ground, you have Dirt and Dirt Roads added, along with events Wild West/ Whacking Day/ Homer Live! etc, etc.

These things occurred as such glitches are to be expected, here had been a couple reports of the General Store glitching (fixed before Act I ended)

I personally am hoping for less patches as my devices are fullish (i have factory reset 1 device and have 200mb left but the game doesnt let me get the patch i have to uninstall/reinstall)

Still waiting for level 69.

cdepast wrote:
from what ive seen 1) these recent glitches dont even compare to the ones we used to see and 2) the old bad glitches were never resolved quickly. So all the patches and updates are actually a good sign.

I probably don't know how to express what I mean here, but I thank you guys for your replies. I know that there have been some really bad glitches and sometimes not patched for a while. I guess I'm saying that these updates might be getting rushed out for the schedule and with that comes more glitches and other unfinished issues. If you guys don't think that's bad, that's good to know. I'm not saying it's bad yet, was just pondering the implications before we traveled down this road for long. I'll wait to assess this until after more of these updates come in and we get a better picture.

simp7fan wrote:
Is the Wild West event our first look at a new glitchy experience with TSTO? Is EA's new schedule for releases messing with the quality of the releases? (I mean technical more than storywise. But, story, too.....)

We've had two app-store updates and 5 patches since the start of the event. They weren't game stopping glitches, I guess, but still it makes me wonder if these are happening because of a forced schedule.

19 event start
20 patch 1
21 patch 2
22 patch 3
27 Wild West Promo + 4.20.2 (android)
28 patch 4
2 patch 5 + 4.20.2 (ios / kindle)
3 server update patch
4 whacking day 2016
5 4.20.3 (android)

Yes, this was the glitchiest release I've seen yes, but you've got to keep the big picture in mind to just how much has changed. Not only did they add a new ground texture and roads, they also made two other massive changes simultaneously. Not only can we rush tasks now for free (part of the tasks at least) but they added the snap to feature that makes it so very much easier to find who's on a finished task.

These types of changes affect every single character, building, and decoration. When you're making changes that deep in the coding there's going to be glitches. It was a lot at one time and I'm actually surprised it's not glitchier than it is.

Future updates probably won't bring anything as game changing as what they've done over the past month, so I wouldn't worry too much about it yet.

I actually haven't had a single glitch during this event.

geekbyknight wrote:
I actually haven't had a single glitch during this event.

Then you're not looking in the right places. Unless we stick to glitches always being bad, then I can see that you might be that lucky.

simp7fan wrote:

geekbyknight wrote:
I actually haven't had a single glitch during this event.

Then you're not looking in the right places. Unless we stick to glitches always being bad, then I can see that you might be that lucky.

No disappearing prizes, the trade ins have all been fine, Whacking Day stuff is still there. The only "glitch" I've seen is being able to produce two kinds of crafting materials at once.

BUMP because, read this quote from before the level update:

They weren't game stopping glitches, I guess

Now: game stopping glitch! hah!

Yeah, I feel confident that I was not wrong here. It wasn't a horrible glitch (for many) but it was for those locked out. Sounds like they patched it so people are back in...but am I right or what? Will we be seeing any more glitches like we did with level 60? (Maybe only levels would cause this and events won't.)

Necroing this thread to change my answer. I gave them the benefit of the doubt with the wild west that all the glitches were from such major changes. But considering I've been thrown out of my game at least a dozen times today (I've never experienced crashes before), I'm getting a little concerned that they're putting speed of releases and quantity over bug checking and quality.

Johnny2bd wrote:
Necroing this thread to change my answer. I gave them the benefit of the doubt with the wild west that all the glitches were from such major changes. But considering I've been thrown out of my game at least a dozen times today (I've never experienced crashes before), I'm getting a little concerned that they're putting speed of releases and quantity over bug checking and quality.

Quite honestly, the quality of events has massively improved over past events. Christmas 2014 was referred to as Glitchmas.

I realize there are still glitches, however they do deserve some credit for fixing the massive server issues and loss of event currency etc. that used to happen. Force closing and restarting devices was a regular and daily part of game play.

Hopefully they continue to improve the game quality. Part of the issue now is that the game is so big that older devices can't keep up. Personally, I've only crashed once this event.