Vote these Survivors off the island
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Robin, I tried and tried to get questions added but for 18 months they just sit there waiting for approval. I have 3 questions in the game and gave up on trying to get others. The game is rigged for South American players. I have not played a game in a few weeks. I am still going through withdrawals. 🤣
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Kevin, I totally agree with you on the South American players. The top 5 players on the games I play consistently have foreign names. I’ve asked Etermax several times what advantage they have that we don’t & they have never addressed it 🤬 Every once in a while you’ll get on a “honest” team where nobody gets mega points & you actually are able to win, but those times are few & far between
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Hello Robin Blomquist, Kevin Hagemann & @ablheath! Thank you so much for your comments. We appreciate you guys sharing your input and suggestions on the Question approval system in the game. Please keep in mind, although we are currently working on implementing new filters in the Question Factory, we will be investigating on this matter regarding approved questions and the possibility of there being a group of users approving each other´s suggestions. Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention. Kevin, we have approved of your suggestions! Thank you so much for your collaboration. We wish you all have a wonderful day!
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I’m pretty sure the advantage that the South American players have is that Etermax is a South American company based in Buenos Aires. I remember when this game started up they were always pushing their biggest game based on soccer trivia in Spanish. I’ve also heard from other players that thr Spanish trivia is much easier, but I have no way of knowing that for sure.
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Robin, I played with one guy for quite a while & asked him why he always won & he told me the exact same thing. He said when he played the game in his language it was much easier than if he played in English. And he changed over so we’d be on an equal playing field. I reported this to Etermax & got the standard answer “Sorry for the inconvenience & we’ll look into it”. Of course nothing changed 🤬. Great idea about the resolution category I would love to see that & I know all the other players would as well. 🤞🏼🤞🏼-not going to hold my breath
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I think I know why foreign languages have it much easier than English. The questions on TC are only written or translated by users. If foreign language speakers have only translated the easy Q’s, that is all they get. This explains correct answer percentages way up in the 90’s and ridiculously high Survival/Ranking scores. The flaw is that only English speakers should be grouped with other English speakers in Survival and Ranking to level the field. Spanish with Spanish, Portuguese with Portuguese and so on.
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Great idea Robin, but I doubt that will ever happen. If they had a list of actual problems solved, it would be a blank list. They consider a problem "solved" when they have simply responded to your complaints, not when they are fixed. Plus, that would make them have to be more accountable for the issues, which they clearly don't want to be. Some issues have been going on for months, even years, w/ no repair. How long have they been working on "filters" for the question factory? How long have there been wrong answers going on? How long have we been playing with questions and answers that we can't even see? How long has unfair playing and scoring been going on? How many times have we read about users submitting questions that have been pended for months & years, like Kevin above, but yet there have been thousands of questions about the corona virus or Congressman John Lewis who passed away only a week ago? But surprise, if you complain, the questions are miraculously approved instantly, no doubt without being verified in any way. And while we keep pointing out the core issues of their games, they instead continue to come up with new "events" or the "like us?" screen instead of focusing on repairing the game. I'm beyond frustrated. If you want to just pass time, then the game does that. But if you want to play competitively, the odds are not in your favor. This entire forum seems more for venting than actual repairs.
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I agree with everything you just said. But, my favorite is when they say that they will forward your idea or question to the “appropriate” people. Who the heck is that? This forum is only for venting & they’re aiming for us to just vent to each other & leave them the hell alone. I don’t play to win anymore. I play when I have the time. Some people have unlimited time to play for various reasons. I’m a normal person & have other responsibilities
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I just came across a question “which sport requires four balls to strike out?“ My question is “What country did the author of that question come from?“ How in the world are these being approved? I chose the answer baseball/softball and it was correct. So I couldn’t even report the question as the correct answer was wrong. The question was wrong.
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Add me to this protest. I feel that I create some pretty interesting questions. They keep getting rejected. Example- How cold is deep space? Rejected for being too technical. What is the longest term of a pregnancy? Answers were given in months and days. Rejected for being inappropriate. Are you kidding me? There are more stupid examples. I think many of my questions are better than these but about half reject almost every one. What they seen to want is an endless stream of Spongebob, Harry Potter, Cartoon(which I don’t mind if there aren’t 50000 of them)and sports questions like how many times can the ball on
One side in Volleyball or Who scored 100 points in a NBA game.
Add me to this protest. I feel that I create some pretty cool questions but they keep getting rejected. Example What is the temperature in deep space? Rejected for being too technical. Then there is What is the longest term of pregnancy on record answered in months and days. Rejected for being inappropriate. Given me a break! These are not my best questions but about seem to always reject them. If there not Harry Potter,Friends, Spongebob queries they are not wanted. I just keep resubmitting them for votes. It’s frustrating!
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Hello Robin Blomquist, Dante Golio, Dkinney6226, Merlyn Hileman, BroadStBullyBabe! Thank you so much for your comments everyone, we appreciate your participation. We would like to inform you, just as Dante has indicated here, all questions in the game are suggested and approved by users themselves, along with that, when you select your country (which you can update in your profile) the game will take this information into account to deliver your questions. Therefore, the game is functioning in the exact same way for all countries it is currently available in. We´ve had other user report the fact that a certain group of users are approving each other's suggestions in the Factory and we are currently looking into that to avoid any further issues. Robin, we appreciate your suggestion on adding a "Problem Solved" section to the Forum. As usual, all feedback is very welcomed. Also, bear in mind we are responding from the Support Team, whenever we´d mention sending a problem to another team it is very likely the information is being sent to Content or Development for them to analyze and assist to resolve. We hope this can clear up some of your doubts. We wish you all have a great day!
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