Google geocoder
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I think thats in the terms and conditions. Small print. Any and everything is baic’s fault. Nick is obviously baic and makes updates according to whatever they might need or want at the given time. Breaking the geocoder was unforseen so he must punish(charge) everyone else for the problem. Baic will obvioulsy continue to benefit feom all three geocoders while everyone suffers. They already get free maps, stam, hench, brens and turf why not geocoders as well. The only thing left is to change the name of the game to BAIC Wars. 😂
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⌖🔥Groucho🔥⌖ wrote:
I agree with this ☝🏻Changes to the geocoders over the years have always left turf orphaned where no new ones can be planted, once the new changes rolled out. Mall capos, etc. are a thing of the past. Nobody advocated purging the old turf of mall capos.
There are many areas where turf planted even a year or two ago are inaccessible now. That’s the fluid nature of the game.
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Rip out the Google Geocoder across the board and let the chips fall where they may. OSM works pretty well, just needs some more work to beef it up, IMHO.
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If... the work will be done to improve it. The real question is... will it.
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Is it a possibility to merge an existing Apple map with the native OSM? Would keep a large amount of already accessible map open.
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Im not sure it wirks that way but its a cool idea. If so you could merge the apple and google into the osm and have an ultimate geocoder :)
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★DΞICIDΞ★ wrote:
PURGE!!!Its by design. Nick has blocked all turf activity for 24hrs. Time to purge. 🤡
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★DΞICIDΞ★ wrote:
I do, as well.👉😵⌖🔥Groucho🔥⌖ wrote:
I agree with this ☝🏻Changes to the geocoders over the years have always left turf orphaned where no new ones can be planted, once the new changes rolled out. Mall capos, etc. are a thing of the past. Nobody advocated purging the old turf of mall capos.
There are many areas where turf planted even a year or two ago are inaccessible now. That’s the fluid nature of the game.
DB).
Rip out the Google Geocoder across the board and let the chips fall where they may. OSM works pretty well, just needs some more work to beef it up, IMHO.
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Nexx☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻
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Geocoders are lookup Services that return location data based on a Lat/Lon coordinate pair you pass to it.
Works great when they honor your lookup request to their proprietary database. Nick discovered this early on and built a game or two around it. There weren’t very many apps that were location aware in the early days.
Then the advertisers woke up and got a bright idea and ruined it for us gamers. They use your phone’s current location to do a lookup of your city name and return a “location based ad” 🙄
Tons of Apps now use location data (geocoders) without you knowing it.
There can be no ‘merging’ with Apple or Google databases because it’s big business for them and they don’t make those databases available.
OSM is an Open Source project that is free and you can use it without restriction to make mapping apps or just use the raw data to make your own Geocoder...a la tw’s implementation.
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You choose to include as much or as little detail from the free database as you like. The trade off being the more you add, the more massive the size of the database.
So really, the ‘more development’ is more about tweaking allowable parameters and adding to the work already done to adapt a larger, more detailed download of the OSM DB into a usable format for tw IMHO.
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If data is polled and retured it can be used to build another database. So theoretically, early on, google and apple could ve polled and the results used to create hybrid database. Nick disnt even have to do this himself, could have let the gamers do it, every time we plant a turf using either geoccoder behind the scenes he could have syphoned the data into his own database for osm.
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What Google does with its Geocoder is way beyond Nick’s control. So is their pricing. The bottom line is getting rid of it may help some and hurt others, but there’s not much he can do if they throttle total daily connections and dramatically increase pricing. We’ll just have to adjust if our fights and/or hops are affected.
And hell no to premium accounts.
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Yes to Premium Accounts if done correctly.
Make it 35 DP a week. Force players to play those ads and earn some money from the ad companies rather than putting the strain of keeping your business up on your players like you have for the last 6 years.
There have been SO many amazing ideas to help this game that have been ignored for 6+ years. (This idea is average at best, and is based off 0 statistics whatsoever) 🤷🏼♀️
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★DUSTIИ★ wrote:
☝🏻 Thats a nice compromise. I would be good with that.Yes to Premium Accounts if done correctly.
Make it 35 DP a week. Force players to play those ads and earn some money from the ad companies rather than putting the strain of keeping your business up on your players like you have for the last 6 years.
There have been SO many amazing ideas to help this game that have been ignored for 6+ years. (This idea is average at best, and is based off 0 statistics whatsoever) 🤷🏼♀️
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Why can’t there be an in game map? why does TW have to rely on a 3rd party source? Just curious why that couldn’t happen.
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★DΞICIDΞ★ wrote:
some have had no ads for at least 3 months★DUSTIИ★ wrote:
☝🏻 Thats a nice compromise. I would be good with that.Yes to Premium Accounts if done correctly.
Make it 35 DP a week. Force players to play those ads and earn some money from the ad companies rather than putting the strain of keeping your business up on your players like you have for the last 6 years.
There have been SO many amazing ideas to help this game that have been ignored for 6+ years. (This idea is average at best, and is based off 0 statistics whatsoever) 🤷🏼♀️
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★DΞICIDΞ★ wrote:
Maybe switch to an ad company that allows more than 1 ad a day. And this would be feasible fuck there’s a ton of games where you have to watch an ad after every level fucking annoying and I still don’t like a premium account idea but if I got a turf increase daily or something for watching an amount of ads and get a premium account I’d be down.★DUSTIИ★ wrote:
☝🏻 Thats a nice compromise. I would be good with that.Yes to Premium Accounts if done correctly.
Make it 35 DP a week. Force players to play those ads and earn some money from the ad companies rather than putting the strain of keeping your business up on your players like you have for the last 6 years.
There have been SO many amazing ideas to help this game that have been ignored for 6+ years. (This idea is average at best, and is based off 0 statistics whatsoever) 🤷🏼♀️
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so at least 450 dp short of those that have - fair game at all?
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500 dp is $20 many had this free ffs
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Easy fix, the “game” should know the response you get from clicking on that button. If you get a “no ad” response the don compensates and gives you the 5 points for the attempt.
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ℜᏫ@ᗪᏊ@ℜℜ༏Ꮻℜ wrote:Maybe switch to an ad company that allows more than 1 ad a day. And this would be feasible fuck there’s a ton of games where you have to watch an ad after every level fucking annoying and I still don’t like a premium account idea but if I got a turf increase daily or something for watching an amount of ads and get a premium account I’d be down.
I agree, i play dragonvale with my kids and watch 3-4 videos a day for gems and other items. Never once has there been an issue with the videos in that game. -
I’m fine with a premium account. I would want no ads unless I decide to go to don n watch but free players should have to watch a video after an allotted amount of gameplay but still have option to visit don every 24hrs. Seems would create revenue
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★DΞICIDΞ★ wrote:
easy fix?Easy fix, the “game” should know the response you get from clicking on that button. If you get a “no ad” response the don compensates and gives you the 5 points for the attempt.
maybe you should fix it cause devs clearly don’t know how to -
Problem is, it’s too late for things like premium accounts. That would’ve been a good idea like 5 years ago.
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nick wrote:
The OpenStreetMap geocoder is an in-house implementation, using an extract of the road data from the OpenStreetMap project, so it's free and is going to be available indefinitely. The Apple Geocoder is provided to iOS apps free of charge, just like a version of the Google Geocoder is provided to Android apps for free.
However, now that it's likely iOS devices won't have access to the Google Geocoder, in the interest of fairness we are considering removing all 3rd-party geocoders and making the OpenStreetMap Geocoder the standard option for all Turf Wars players. The final course of action will be announced before the end of summer.
Thanks to everyone for their patience while we work on this issue!
I say dump the 3rd party geo’s.
However,you must then delete all turf in invalid areas,for fairness to all players.
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Yes easy, the framework is already there, the game knows a button was pressed and the video completed. Thats how you get your don points. Just a matter of adding another condition in the function thats already written. Easy.
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The coordinates of all existing turf should be known, update osm with what currently is in place as valid locations. No reason the reinvent the wheel so to speak. It would encompass google and apple geocoder locations.
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...wait would this premium pay feature be in addition to the premium pay features BAIC already has....
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L U C A wrote:
Yes....wait would this premium pay feature be in addition to the premium pay features BAIC already has....
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No to premium accounts? Come on, guys, there have been premium accounts for years. Those who decide to spend more, have better accounts, without much of a ceiling at all.
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