Just got back from a BIG break...

[SirMaxMegaboom]

And the game has changed a bit...lol

I see they updated the sound gags so they aren't all the same animation. It's quite interesting, but I think the cogs take the damage a few seconds before a chain of different sound gags hit them.

Has the game always been so system resource heavy? The last time I played I didn't remember any lagging at all. Now it lags every few seconds and I get these black screens of nothing loading. It seriously makes me want to quit all over again.

A question on Lure gags. If multiple people use the same lure gag (let's say dollar bill), are the likelihood of it luring the cog increased? Decreased? What if they use different lure gags (like one uses dollar bill and the other the blue magnet), does the odds change? If the cogs are hurt, does the odds of a lure gag increase?

I LOVE the new mini-games. The treasure dive is kind of fun (a pain at higher levels), I adore the slingshot game (my favorite game so far), the vine swinging game is alright, and the memory game pays very well

I can understand why people leave this game. I can understand why I left this game. You get a mission to get an item from a top level cog (big cheese lets say) and you go through all these 2-3 story buildings with none showing. Then you go through a very tough 4-5 story building and you face one and then you don't get the item from it. So you continue defeating buildings (with many invasions going on, so you can never really find that one cog you need), and you finally get the item. You take it to the toon and they need another item from another high up cog. This goes on for 4 high up cogs before it ends (or does it end...). It's taken you FOREVER just to get this one mission completed and you don't have much to show for it. Why are missions this hard? Why can't the likelihood of getting the item being more than it is? Is the game SUPPOSED to take this long to complete?

I think my biggest grief is the lag. Can anyone offer any suggestions to fix this? Again, I played this game a while back and had no lag at all. My computer hasn't changed one bit since then (a year-two years ago).

Any other comments on my other subjects is fine too.