Comments on: Maze is back! But Maxis Fumbles the Fix

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Mon, 10 May 2004 14:53:24 +0000

Just because you’re a junkie, it doesn’t mean you can’t complain about the dealer. I was just thinking of Lou Reed in — what’s that song? — waiting for my man? — about his dealer.

“He’s never early, he’s always late,
First thing that you learn’s that you’ve always got to wait”

or something like that.

By: DarkNeoKnuckles

DarkNeoKnuckles — Mon, 10 May 2004 10:51:22 +0000

I read many of all your comments, meantime i think to myself…..Why Complain so harsly about TSO while you are addicted to the game…

Doesnt make any sense with those of you complaining maxis not paying any attention to the players…..

Yes you have a point , though why are you still playing TSO?
- DarkNeoKnuckles

By: Me

Me — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:39:47 +0000

people used automated programs to complete the maze when running 1 charisma and 1 logic player on their own.

By: Sally

Sally — Sun, 18 Apr 2004 14:53:55 +0000

I dont get the artical, but I am very intrested. Do you all mean that ppl used robots do decode doors to do mazes faster?

By: CherryBomb

CherryBomb — Sun, 18 Apr 2004 12:30:37 +0000

After thinking it over since this design was published, I have to say this is a pretty clumsy fix. Pizza bots and such are a nuisance, but they are no major threat to the game as long as they work at human speed. I figure that “farmed” Simoleons are prolly down from about 80% of the economy to about 20% since maze was disabled. There simply was not a pressing need to fix anything except the maze.

Also, looking at the limits the designers thought were “reasonable” it’s clear that nobody at Maxis is playing much TSO, or even watching the people that do. Same thing with the Japanese release. Anybody playing the game for 20 minutes would realize that there are tons more European players than Japanese, and release in Europe first. But noooooo, they had to piss away their time fooling with fonts instead of working on something useful.

By: MattyS

MattyS — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:04:07 +0000

lol sorry all my mistake its 999,999,999 (100 million) Not 10 lol

MattyS

By: Urizenus

Urizenus — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:56:10 +0000

Good point Ian. That would help with the rare pet scam, but it amounts to a concession by EA that rares have substantial real world value.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:33:02 +0000

YOu all make some valid points, however I am pretty sure they implemented the new “Trade System” to prevent scamming for rares.

By: MattyS

MattyS — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:47:14 +0000

np all,

I think it will make it easyer for rare items

By: RB

RB — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:56:08 +0000

Won’t need to use shops now either. lol. Hooray for EA making our lives easier again. =) bless their seller helping moves. =D

- RB