Hey, EA, About Those Rose Bushes...

annettemarc wrote:
My own (totally basic-level) experience with web design is that all I need to do is switch the image name in the link. The fact that this changed universally (meaning it includes already-existing images for older players) means TO ME that they swapped out a single image name across the board.

Tapped Out isn't a website, so I don't really see what web design has to do with it.

What EA appear to have done is actually much easier than that. Essentially they have replaced the image file in the game resources. As far as the game is concerned, this year's rose bush is the same one as last year's but they have changed the image that the resource points to ... hence the existing ones have all changed as well.

If the rosebush object in the game is using "rosebush.png" (for example), then replace that file with another and every rosebush in the game now looks different (you could make them all look like sports cars if you wanted to).

The "fix" is as simple as putting back the original image file.