Big Business - game discussion

[GAB IV]

My quest for a large gift is getting crazy. Seems like the double drop are almost non existent. 45 minute left or 15 drops and I need 21. This will be close I may need to spend more earned credits

[ city name: Sprawlville level 60 player: GAB IV from western mass USA need hammers ]

Crappy game, five for five without the double drop I can't make it. I will have to use credits at the end to secure the deal.

[ city name: Sprawlville level 60 player: GAB IV from western mass USA need hammers ]

 

[SummerNight]

Did you try going to what your next happiness level would of been to place the factory in storage to active status? I am hoping you are wrong on this. I have only 3 farms, 2 mills and 2 confectionary but 8 farms and 8 ranches so I do we'll in those related factories. I actually destroyed a mill so that I could move my factories around, that is why I am saying I should be able to place another factory. I should be at 200k this week so we will see then. I have 18 storage slots so it will be a long time to buy a new factory.

How many factories do you have in storage? What is your requirement for building a new factory? Before the update placing anything additional from the storage required the same level of happiness as building a new factory. I was increasing pop and placing more and more buildings from my storage. Do you think they changed the rules so now we have two different sets of requirements, one for the stored factories and another for the new construction? I seriously doubt that.

I remain highly competitive, with 10 farms, 9 ranches, 4 dairies, 7 confectionaries, 6 mills, 2 weaving factories and 2 sawmills, all fully upgraded, let alone the advanced plants and premium shops. Every time I care to participate in a contest, I place without much effort. Every time there is an event requiring production I am done in a jiffy. I am not demolishing these useful facilities to build a useless electronics plant or an equally useless balalaika restaurant. I will never be able to build another plant and that means I have no incentive to grow my city, upgrade entertainment buildings or build new ones. My next pop requirement is 1,433,000, screw that.

{Summerville, the head honcho - Elloriana, lvl 63, Charleston, SC}

 

[jekstrom]

How many factories do you have in storage? What is your requirement for building a new factory? Before the update placing anything additional from the storage required the same level of happiness as building a new factory. I was increasing pop and placing more and more buildings from my storage. Do you think they changed the rules so now we have two different sets of requirements, one for the stored factories and another for the new construction? I seriously doubt that.

I remain highly competitive, with 10 farms, 9 ranches, 4 dairies, 7 confectionaries, 6 mills, 2 weaving factories and 2 sawmills, all fully upgraded, let alone the advanced plants and premium shops. Every time I care to participate in a contest, I place without much effort. Every time there is an event requiring production I am done in a jiffy. I am not demolishing these useful facilities to build a useless electronics plant or an equally useless balalaika restaurant. I will never be able to build another plant and that means I have no incentive to grow my city, upgrade entertainment buildings or build new ones. My next pop requirement is 1,433,000, screw that.

{Summerville, the head honcho - Elloriana, lvl 63, Charleston, SC}

I will wait and see about the population issue this week. I may put a suggestion in to GI about it if you are right. No need to loose any sleep over it.

 

[Blankman]

I contacted apple today about the issues with the new update and they agreed it was unfair and now that I am unable to use my purchases the rep refunded all he could to me for what I spent on the game. I have in iTunes Store credit alone $275 and about double that going back to my Visa. They agreed that the game has changed significantly by the description I gave and all I had to explain via chat was that my purchases were now useless unless I spent more money and I thought it was unfair for all of the senior players to be punished for an update. The apple itunes support person agreed and said he would refund all of my purchases that he could for Big Business. I hate that a game I have loved has such horrible customer service that we as customers have to go to apple in order to be compensated. I hope GI realizes what they've done and will fix it for those that will keep playing. I would have to see a major update to the happiness issue to play the game any longer. I will keep my eyes open for an update but I am sure GI will have me on the restrictions list lol

City: player level 52 Player name: and I am from rural Maine. Tools are always appreciated for upgrading buildings.

How did you contact apple about it?
I tried, and they only told me to contact GI.

 

[jekstrom]

How many factories do you have in storage? What is your requirement for building a new factory? Before the update placing anything additional from the storage required the same level of happiness as building a new factory. I was increasing pop and placing more and more buildings from my storage. Do you think they changed the rules so now we have two different sets of requirements, one for the stored factories and another for the new construction? I seriously doubt that.

I remain highly competitive, with 10 farms, 9 ranches, 4 dairies, 7 confectionaries, 6 mills, 2 weaving factories and 2 sawmills, all fully upgraded, let alone the advanced plants and premium shops. Every time I care to participate in a contest, I place without much effort. Every time there is an event requiring production I am done in a jiffy. I am not demolishing these useful facilities to build a useless electronics plant or an equally useless balalaika restaurant. I will never be able to build another plant and that means I have no incentive to grow my city, upgrade entertainment buildings or build new ones. My next pop requirement is 1,433,000, screw that.

{Summerville, the head honcho - Elloriana, lvl 63, Charleston, SC}

I have 17 factories in storage, all at maximum level so a lot of investment already so I won't destroy them. My theory is when I reach 200k, I can reduce my stored items by 1 just as if the change did no happen.

 

[SummerNight]

How did you contact apple about it?
I tried, and they only told me to contact GI.

Same here. They told me to ask GI for refund.

{Summerville, the head honcho - Elloriana, lvl 63, Charleston, SC}

 

[makoadef]

Thanks all for the help. I will no longer spend hours wasting my life away dealing with the greed this company has. They have lost one of there loyal paying customers and i am done supporting these guys. I will still play but only to fill ships. I thought one day I would get 100% achievements but the way that they have set things up that looks like an impossibility. So I have finally given up on my quest of 100%. I am not going to bother doing them. It was fun being in top 3 all this time but it is time for me to call it quits.

city:mikeyville lvl.64 Id:makoadef. Anchorage, Alaska USA

 

[SummerNight]

I have 17 factories in storage, all at maximum level so a lot of investment already so I won't destroy them. My theory is when I reach 200k, I can reduce my stored items by 1 just as if the change did no happen.

How would you reduce them without placing first? You cannot demolish buildings while they are in storage. When you demolish it, you will be able to build a new one according to the current population requirement, not the old one. If your pop req is 500k before demolition takes pace, it will be reduced to the previous level, whatever it is according to the new standard. Say, 450K or 470K. That is my understanding.

{Summerville, the head honcho - Elloriana, lvl 63, Charleston, SC}

 

[GAB IV]

Same here. They told me to ask GI for refund.

{Summerville, the head honcho - Elloriana, lvl 63, Charleston, SC}

Go to GI and then go back to apple. You need to at least give GI a chance ( from apple POV ). That way when you go back to apple you said you tried. They changed the game strategy and now your purchases are useless.

[ city name: Sprawlville level 60 player: GAB IV from western mass USA need hammers ]

 

[GAB IV]

Thanks all for the help. I will no longer spend hours wasting my life away dealing with the greed this company has. They have lost one of there loyal paying customers and i am done supporting these guys. I will still play but only to fill ships. I thought one day I would get 100% achievements but the way that they have set things up that looks like an impossibility. So I have finally given up on my quest of 100%. I am not going to bother doing them. It was fun being in top 3 all this time but it is time for me to call it quits.

city:mikeyville lvl.64 Id:makoadef. Anchorage, Alaska USA

I hear you Miley. You did do well with what you had. There is no taking that away. I agree with you, sit back and relax, forget the timed events and challenges. Sit back and enjoy the game for what it is or isn't. Pick the things you want to try. That's how they themselves got me out of its games grip. Slowly but surely they disappointed me. So now hey who cares if I don't get something, I'm used to it now. It's still a great time killer, just don't let it kill who you are.

[ city name: Sprawlville level 60 player: GAB IV from western mass USA need hammers ]

 

[Germanmajor]

How did you contact apple about it?
I tried, and they only told me to contact GI.

I took an old receipt typed up my issue in "other" and my rep offered a refund for all my GI purchases. I told them about the happiness and forcing us to buy buildings now and the inability to use old ones if you want anything new. I used the " bait and switch" wording and told them the update was a scam to those who spent real Money or had things in storage etc. He categorized it as lost items I think on our chat.

City: Geldville player level 52 Player name: Germanmajor and I am from rural Maine. Tools are always appreciated for upgrading buildings.

 

[SummerNight]

I took an old receipt typed up my issue in "other" and my rep offered a refund for all my GI purchases. I told them about the happiness and forcing us to buy buildings now and the inability to use old ones if you want anything new. I used the " bait and switch" wording and told them the update was a scam to those who spent real Money or had things in storage etc. He categorized it as lost items I think on our chat.

City: Geldville player level 52 Player name: Germanmajor and I am from rural Maine. Tools are always appreciated for upgrading buildings.

Maybe it depends on who you are dealing with? Or maybe GI is pushing back already. The person I was talking to via email first promised to help with the refund and asked for the order numbers. I emailed the long list. Next day he said they "carefully reviewed" everything and I need to contact GI because "all iTune purchases are final." I did not use bait and switch argument, maybe that was a mistake but otherwise explained the situation pretty much like you did.

Anyone tried to ask GI for refund?

{Summerville, the head honcho - Elloriana, lvl 63, Charleston, SC}

 

[netdancer]

Some things I just don't make.

When was the last time you spent on latex?

{City: Arcadia} {Player Name: Alcimedes} {Level 65} hammers, hammers & more hammers

Every night i have all my farms make latex. Then in am i put them in toy factory and add 3 eurithane and make balloons to sell for 6000 each

Player name: Netdancer. City name: Freezone. lvl. 37 from San Diego in US

 

[GAB IV]

Every night i have all my farms make latex. Then in am i put them in toy factory and add 3 eurithane and make balloons to sell for 6000 each

Player name: Netdancer. City name: Freezone. lvl. 37 from San Diego in US

Where have you been? I was in San Diego last week. Would have liked to have met up.

[ city name: Sprawlville level 62 player: GAB IV from western mass USA need hammers ]

 

[Seagoon]

I haven't tried it out myself but someone on Facebook reckons any confetti left over when the cannon goes off carrys over to the next time. Will let you know my findings, unless someone else gets there before me.

Amanda35 from South UK. BB city name Squillion Square

That was me, and I have had mixed results; Sometimes a zero for the restart, sometimes a cayy over; just don't get it. Have got a fair bit of time waiting around hospital at the moment, and agree no way to get to 400. Has anyone managed to get the White House yet? Wonder what the population requirement to place it; that may be a real shocker if it turns out to be huge.