My problems with the game began as soon as it opened this test. I clicked on enter the world and the completed opening screen came up.. no animation.. no sign the game was loading.
I refreshed many times, cleared cache, downloaded and installed chrome, tried to enter with chrome and that was when I saw the new game opening animations but still no luck getting in. Cleared cache again, reloaded again, shut down computer, went to bed, came back and repeated all steps and, after clearing cache one last time I got into the game.
Went through the tutorial and moved to the entry street where game froze on loading. It got to 100 percent loaded but would not reticulate splines. Repeated all the above and after another clearing of cache the street loaded. Was able to move to one or two more streets then game froze again at 100 percent loaded but not reticulating splines so I gave up and shut computer down.
Came back and did some more cache clearing and reloading and eventually got into the game again. Got the quest that takes you to the Eesti life catalogue page and froze again on 100 percent loaded but no reticulating splines. Gave up playing again, came back, the problem was fixed and I completed the quest and continued playing.
Explored a few streets and tried to buy a bigger bag. Opening the transaction page with the hardware vendor resulted in the game freezing again but reloading fixed it. Went to a different hardware vendor and tried again with same results. Gave up playing again for a while as my Glitches mood was dropping as if the game was going on behind my frozen screen with my Glitch but without me.
Came back, got someone else to buy the bag for me, and headed off to play again. Wondered if clearing cache would help with hardware vendor problem so cleared cache and tried again and was able to buy from vendor.
Roamed a few streets then headed off to Ix to collect some spice and froze again at groddle ladder entry page. Once again the page loaded 100 percent but would not reticulate splines. I have refreshed and cleared cache and still no luck.
In amongst all this I have been getting random "oops, looks like there was an error" screens which I have been pressing send for each time. I have also had the problem of avatars showing only as line figures, the gruel a tree gave me was invisible, and some items in the vendors shops are sometimes invisible.
I am at my wits end and the level of frustration I am feeling defies description.
Is this only happening to me? Is it because Australia is so far away from where the game originates? Is there anything else I can try to fix it?
As I post this my glitch is steadily losing mood while I stare at the groddle ladder entry page feeling a strong urge to smash something because I can't get in to fix her mood.
For the record, I blame the swfs and I want the old Glitch back! However long it took the pages to load at least they DID load and did not freeze up on me before :(