I'm chicken! Anybody update yet?

It's epic.









Just epic.

Downloaded and unpacking now. I made the announcement just as soon as I saw it.

Stuck on unpacking

LOL. Same here.

Still

this is great we have a bridge this is so cool it's like new game

Everything went fine for me (lucky for mr. Epic lol) outstanding Z!!

Havent tried it yet, but i got it! Just got home from putting the finishing touches on our school yearbook, so ill be on soon testing it!

Jeez, I can't believe the American school year is ending already, hahahah.

Once you kiddos are out in college and beyond -- everything REALLY flies on by.

its out today. Darn it because i lost my iPod lol.

Jeez, man, i hope u find it!

Slenderman, nahh, the years only 3/4 done, we havent even had mid terms yet. The yearbook order has to be in long before the last day so that everything can be printed.

Nice, thats pretty cool! By a #20, i assume you mean $20?

The update has a glitch .whenever I see the sun weird graphic stuff shows up it's like for computer modeling .

Ah, yeah Calvin. $20 USD, heh.

And Hy: Yeah, that's just some gamma effects. It must have downloaded incorrectly as it works flawlessly on my. Re-Download and try again.

Ok

I found my iPod with my cat. I still wonder what he wanted it for? But anyway I got update and it is amazing except that I can only play dogfight games.

Same withn android here to

A big thank you for the updated version. I love the new features. Thanks a lot!

slender, from that i assume you mean you dont live in the US. where do you go to college? (not that i think college is a USA thing, just wondering. the US education system is failing overall.)

United State's education system isn't failing, it's simply lacking things that most of the world teaches. For example, many things learned in American college are taught before Uni all over the world. A lot of the world is just ahead overall, y'know?

I do have a problem with America's college system however. Many countries make Uni free or very cheap. Because you're essentially giving education to better the country. It's a self investment. American college tends to exploit it's students into paying mass amounts of loans -- which they will have to pay for years to come after getting that degree.

There's a documentary called "The College Conspiracy" on Youtube. It's full length. Even if you just watch the first 10 minutes -- you'll learn a lot.

Just my thoughts though!

Pretty much "hit the nail on the head" with that one Slender.

yeah, i guess my veiws of the education system is skewed by my district. Lots of budget cuts, 40 kids in a class, teachers seeing 180 kids a day, having less teachers, less money for the teachers to use, less time for them to help the students, etc. The state still expects better test scores each year, and by law, my school can be shut down any day for failing to meet unreasonable specifications. :/ I'm on my school's site council, so i hear all the stuff that most of the teachers don't get. in the past 5 years, we've lost about 1/4 of the teachers in our city. we're losing 40 more this year, and one of my favorite teachers might get laid off because he's "only" been teaching for FIVE YEARS!! five years, one of our best teachers, and his job STILL isnt safe AT ALL. it sucks. sorry, i dont mean to complain about personal stuff (personal aka effects a city of 180,000), but its annoying. lol, my writing teacher constantly complains about how tired she is of dealing with 180 whiney kids a day. haha, she whines more than us! lol

I agree that the college system is SCREWED UP. my mom is a long-term, vital employee at the university, so i'll be able to go for a reasonable price, that and that i will PROBABLY get some sort of scholorship, either for baseball or acedemics. its too bad that people who NEED college to get on their feet are the people that CANT get into a college. its more based of cash than anything else. its also too bad that if you get bad grades, you cant try to better that in higher education. we need more cheap community colleges.

Thanks Kevy, that means a lot. I don't often speak my opinions on such topics here -- but something compelled me on this one.

Yeah Calvin, it's all just falling to pieces. I blame:

A. Students not taking education seriously
B. The High School Diploma depreciating in value (you can't do much without a degree nowadays).
C. University/Uni administrations charging too much
D. Governments taxing education/laying off it's workers

And more. There just needs to be some reform. I think I'll leave this discussion at that though, hahahah.

Turn off your device then turn on again

One more on this somewhat off-topic:

While it's true that layoffs in US schools (pre-college) and administrations charging students too much (college) are big problems, digging a few steps deeper unveils some root causes in the U.S.: an incredibly inefficient and ineffective system. While the U.S. spends more for public school education per child than any country (2010 figures showed it was 33% over 2nd place UK), the literacy rate is #2, the graduation rate is #5, and science and math performance are #9 and #10. That's the hard data.

The rest is opinion. When spending more doesn't create a better result, we've passed the point of intelligent spending increases, and it's time to take a hard look at what the heck we're doing with the money. I believe the inefficiency is largely from a federal government that believes that the best way to increase performance is to have federally-mandated standards... (that part is ok, but then...) and federally-administered curriculum, and federally subsidized (meaning taxed and then spit back out at 30% efficiency) programs, and... ! So we (U.S.) have a bloated top-heavy administration of education. Then we have state education administration, all burdening taxpayers, doing stupid stuff like removing potentially offensive words from books and tests, inspecting schools for compliance to state standards, and who knows what else. Then local school administration, which is fine. Couldn't we just mandate performance without the programs and overhead? If we let the local school districts figure out how to execute their own curriculum, that'd just be the same people who now scratch their heads over the federally mandated material, and we'd be eliminating a lot of cost in the pyramid above that local level. But nooooo, laying off government workers once they are in place, that is one of the hardest things to do in this political system.

Anyway, if we left the How up to local school districts, the majority (instead of the minority) of public schools would be performing at the private school level. Funny how competition works. Of course, that's my opinion, unsupported by government or media.

As for uni's, I went to private uni's for bach and a second grad degree, and a state uni for the first grad school. Far as I can tell, the tenureship dynamic makes for some wacky politics. Research is important, but *teaching* is the purpose of the school from the perspective of most students. I think the research focus has tapped out the teaching talent, and you get a lot of sloppy teaching, even at (especially at) the high caliber schools, of which I am a graduate. And why the high tuition? Biggest costs are facilities and salaries, and I believe that Professor Salary per Student head is driven up by prof salaries that aren't supporting teaching. Even with tenureship tracks, there are a lot of profs who are researching maximally and teaching minimally. IMO, research should be funded by grants, and that's that. Teaching should be funded by tuition. I suppose some mixing of the two does make sense economically, but it should be tracked carefully so that borrowing from one does not result in a long-term deficit in the other. And state versus private, it doesn't matter - private gobbles high tuitions, and state gobbles high tax dollars. Either way it's coming out of our pockets, the private citizen.

Yeah we're looking at huge bucks for our kids' colleges, and current private schools aren't cheap either (public schools around here are pretty bad; I know other areas are better, like my bro's city).

Oh, one more thing. When I went to engineering grad school (state), 80% of the grad population was from outside the U.S., looking to return to their home countries to work. WTF? Out of state tuition was a little higher, but still a bargain for someone who wanted to jump in for a few years, get a high powered degree, and head back to homeland. I hear that these alums don't cough up a lot of annual donations compared to U.S. students. Given that the skills go back to support a different country's GNP, these students should be charged quite a bit more.

In California state uni's, there's this silly thing about illegal immigrants getting in-state tuition. Uh, that would tend to drive up tuition for the rest of us. Funny, I don't see Occupy movements protesting THAT!

Just my 5 cents. Well, maybe $1.75 in this case. Sorry for the ramble. I just hate that I'm looking at house-sized tuition bills for each kid when they hit college in 10 years. I certainly can't afford it outright, so much will go on loans.

Manfred

I agree with pretty much everything you just said, except for the anti-immigration/occupy movement stuff. Thats an argument for another day though.

My advice: Make your kids pay a portion of tuition. Make them get a job, so they a; Get some experience, b; pay for college.

So many logical causes and solutions on a game forum . Yet the people we pay to be in charge seem stumped? That's the main problem no responsibility and accountability from both the leaders and the culture..

And nice job Z on the update. It's nice we changed the subject instead of 30 help me messages most games would have!

I love the new update!! It's epic!