What is the BFD?
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Ok. Apparently some big deal happened before I started that caused a ruckus about "water turfs". No idea what.
I really don't understand what the big deal is if some one would want to hop across an ocean. Can you imagine the time and game/real$?? If someone is that crazy more power to them.
The fact that the MALFUNCTIONING geocoder is supposed to fix this supposed "issue' yet is prohibiting the planting of turfs along legitmate roads and highways is ludicrous and severly limits the scope of the game.
So, again what is the BFD?
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Best friends di....😳
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The old geocoder was just as flawed, imo. It did recognize more roads, but it had hours of outages daily where when you planted turf, no location was given until it came back online.
This caused people to pay protection when they shouldn't, and there was costant bitching about that.
And when the geocoder did comeback online, 90% of the time, the turfs location info was off. Sometimes by a hundred miles or more. This of course led to more bitching.
And as a result of wrongly located turf, some folks lost capos due to the influx of new turf in there town. This of cours led to, you guessed it, more bitching.
So it wasn't JUST water turfs.
The water turf people just happened to be the loudest bitchers of the multi-party bitch fest.
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There MUST be geocoder programs that work.
Do the police/fire not respond because "Ahh, sorry sir but our geocoder says you don't exist."? Or how about the military not having to worry about that worrisome section of bunkers since it's not recognized?
I'm sorry, but to say that they aren't out there not logical.
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ChainsawCharlie wrote:
I love this.The old geocoder was just as flawed, imo. It did recognize more roads, but it had hours of outages daily where when you planted turf, no location was given until it came back online.
This caused people to pay protection when they shouldn't, and there was costant bitching about that.
And when the geocoder did comeback online, 90% of the time, the turfs location info was off. Sometimes by a hundred miles or more. This of course led to more bitching.
And as a result of wrongly located turf, some folks lost capos due to the influx of new turf in there town. This of cours led to, you guessed it, more bitching.
So it wasn't JUST water turfs.
The water turf people just happened to be the loudest bitchers of the multi-party bitch fest.
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I just did a search for geocoder programs and there are quite a few out there. Surely one of them is accurate.
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Everyones gonna hate. Haters gonna hate. The geocoder works. Sure, it has holes, but 100% accuracy is bunk.
Like chainsaw said. The water turfs were just a part of the bitchers who happened to be the loudest -
Σмקεяφг ќ🔫🌊🗻 wrote:
I don't consider something that didn't let yo build for thousands of square miles workingEveryones gonna hate. Haters gonna hate. The geocoder works. Sure, it has holes, but 100% accuracy is bunk.
Like chainsaw said. The water turfs were just a part of the bitchers who happened to be the loudest -
Actually, it just saddens me to see this game Head where it is.
1) Add dynamics to a game that is conceptually great with a technically stronger band aid instead. When something is broken, do we just fix it with a solution that deals with a core problem but sets off others? Does the 'solving' of this problem offset the new 'inconveniences' balance it out?
2) Another thought is
Eg: Was President Nixon's water turfs a worse abuse or players who blatantly abused the CLEARLY stated police maps to hop multiple times and when glitch is fixed, hooray if you could clearly break the TOS & be allowed to continue with no penalties. Or maybe that's not as big a crime as spoofing but clearly both are breaking the TOS. -
bunnymcd wrote:
There MUST be geocoder programs that work.
Do the police/fire not respond because "Ahh, sorry sir but our geocoder says you don't exist."? Or how about the military not having to worry about that worrisome section of bunkers since it's not recognized?
I'm sorry, but to say that they aren't out there not logical.
I'm sure military and first responders have access to much better systems.
Keep in mind, this is a FREE game, even though it does have spending involved.
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CC, u are absolutely right about the pts raised here but I think ppl who spend $$$ feel that it's a problem that should be fixed. And no one I believe is looking for a 100% solid no issues geocoder but then it appears as if the problem is not being looked at & worked on but shoved off to a its not a TW technical issue so thank you for playing type of response.
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The geocoder we have holds back many players and even totally ruins the game for some. It's probably the single biggest problem of the game.
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Y'all have for too high of expectations. This is a game on a phone. In order for the geocoder to give info on a road, info for that road has to be input.
Ypu can't just put Hwy 101 on the map. You have to have specific coordinates for each part of that road. The greater the detail you want, the more info (coordinates) you need.
That's a lot of manual data entry.
No geocoder is going to be perfect.
Accept the game for what it is, or move on.
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Yeah but when you're stuck in a super boring area cc it just sucks
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For the longest time, I was the ONLY active player on this island.
You know how many actives we have now on this island?
Two.
And I am one of those two.
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The other thing is, IMO, this isn't a console game. It isn't meant to be played for houirs on end. It's more of a time-killer game.
Check in a couple times a day, run a few missions, launch a few attacks. Come back on your next break.
Occasionally, a nice little war will suck you in, but that, by design (again, IMO) isn't going to be a constant.
Remember the platform-it's an app. On a phone. And it was made for GPS devices, but works on non GPS devices, but with limitations.
But everyone has issues. I have an iphone, but if it wasn't for wifi, I wouldn't be able to play in my own house.
I just suck it up and deal with it.
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