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Inaccurate pictures on the loading menu

I've always wondered why the pictures of the street on the loading screen are not the same as what's actually on the street.

Posted 10 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Resources are constantly changing. (Especially during Tree Wars & such.) Much easier to put up a static picture & count on AlwaysData or Zoggish for accurate resource counts. 

    AlwaysData: http://glitch.alwaysdata.net/
    Zoggish: http://zoggish.appspot.com/locations
    Posted 10 months ago by Wynella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't use the pictures as a resource database.
    And why are there tree wars anyways? People plant gas plants in Ix even though spice plants are much more useful.
    Posted 10 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The loading pictures are very rarely updated, and resources can change at a much faster rate, thus the discrepancy.
    Posted 10 months ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Awwww, you are new aren't you.
    Posted 10 months ago by Shiromisa Kaya Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Cardinal Not to talk down to you, as it will undoubtedly sound as if I'm doing... And I apologize in advance for that, buuuuut, I HAVE been here a while :) 

    Now, I find that what a glitch perceives as 'useful' only extends as far as what they're doing that day. Most glitchen never get into producing items like chicken eggs or spice plant beans in huge quantities. So you perceive spice as much more important than gas. When do you ever need gas?!

    I guess the point is really more simple than that! Your opinion is subject to change, so it might be better to say 'Spice is a lot more important to me right now' or 'Spice is more important to the way I'm playing'. I say this because one day you might decide to become a purveyor of all things colorful and beany ;) Or perhaps a hen hatchery. You never know. Spice today, gas next week, as the case may be :) So 'spice plants are much more useful' might be a biiiiiit too definitive ;)
    Posted 10 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Liza, allspice is a root ingredient for so much many more items than gas, and recipe making is learnt much earlier than egg hatching so it's pretty fair to say spice is more useful, to more people, than gas.
    Posted 10 months ago by thewilk Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Never said anything to the contrary :) What you need will depend on what you're doing is all. Last week I needed to season 2003 beans. This week I want to make over 1000 Tasty Pasta ;) All I'm saying is an absolute 'Spice is more important' doesn't cover the whole scope of things that go on in game :)
    Posted 10 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I believe SOME of the pictures are way out of date, I believe. For example, pictures that show bean trees in regions that no longer allow bean. This may no longer be the case, but I seem to remember some. (If you see them, think about filing a bug report.)
    Posted 10 months ago by Lord Bacon-o Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am sometimes tempted to try and replace the trees in a street so that it would look more like the pictures... So far I have managed to resist.
    Posted 10 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The easiest way to see what is on a street is to read it on the loading screen, not look at the picture. The text is current and accurate.
    Posted 10 months ago by Audaria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Audaria,

    Except for those of us who cannot see the text.  There are quite a few streets where the text doesn't load for me.  Staff have traced it to my browser, but that still means that the list of assets is not visible.  After many hours of changing settings and reloading the game, I've given up trying to trace down the problem.  
    Posted 10 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • On some streets it's impossible to replace the trees.  Salatu used to support bubble trees but no longer does.  The pictures of bubble trees in the loading screenshots of some streets used to taunt me until I quit relying on them for information regarding the trees that would presently grow in an environ.
    Posted 10 months ago by Kalstept Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The text on the bottom doesn't always load for me either, WindBorn, it does it at random, no matter the street.

    The resouce sites are fairly good, but don't update by the minute (hence why I find patches even when it says there's no patches anywhere, which I then announce in Global for anyone who needs to plant a bean for a quest) so sometimes you just have to go in blind.

    And Cardinal, I was once ignorant when I stumbled upon two people in the bogs squabbling over trees (Spice vs Gas), until I later learned the skills to make eggs and beans and then I saw how useful gas was. Then I understood it. Still there are more gas plants than spice plants, but the majority of the spice plants are in Ix, which is convient when you need a run on spice.

    I still get images of trees that aren't there too, but I think maybe, in the future, it will be fixed to show the proper trees. You can always post in the ideas forum, if you want to.
    Posted 10 months ago by Ayasta Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If you find a loading screen picture which is particularly out of date, let Live Help know, and staff can fix it.
    Posted 10 months ago by glum pudding Subscriber! | Permalink