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  1. Alexander Atkin
    Its always been extremely unreliable compared to the Windows version or running the Android version on Genymotion on PC. Generally I have always had issues with my phone detecting presses when I didn't, detecting me letting go when I didn't or just the notes going out of sync with the audio making it really hard to judge when you need to press in the first place. I haven't even bothered after the last few updates as the frame rate on the game suddenly halved, making the mini games practically unplayable. Both the Amazon and Google version of the game crashes on startup on Genymotion now too.
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    This is not a complicated game, it doesn't need a ton of RAM or CPU, its just very poorly optimised. Bits of the game that ran fine before have slowed down, there are no excuses for that.
  3. Alexander Atkin
    The game has been getting slower and slower on my Note 4 with each update. Now after the latest update making Ponyville even bigger if I zoom right out, the frame rate drops to about 5fps.
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    Pretty sure you can't, as each one uses its own platforms save game backup system. We don't even know how to move the save game of the Google Play Android app to the Amazon version. That said, if you aren't too bothered about it being totally up-to-date, you might be better with the Amazon version. You should be able to unlock everything a lot quicker and so it will be less painful losing your iOS save data.
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    This game has always been a big con to try to get you to spend more gems and thus pay real money for them in frustration of how slow you earn them. Just look at the recent changes where you can watch trailers to bypass paying for stuff, except its only stuff that costs bits not gems. Because its not exactly hard to earn bits once you have sunk enough time in the game, but it remains a PITA to earn gems forever. The ONLY things I need, cost gems, I bought everything that cost bits MONTHS ago. It seems to be even worse now though as the frequency of adverts has shot up dramatically in recent updates. I don't even know why I bother with this game any more as its so very boring.
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    I just got the update on Android and the only difference I see is that it doesn't seem to auto-login properly any more so I have to go into Invite and click Gameloft, then Connect to Gameloft, before my friends show up. Then, everything is as it was before. Although what the point of collecting hearts is now you can't spend them in Balloon Pop I have no idea. Not that I'm that bothered, using Balloon Pop to get anything other than ponies was always a complete waste of time IMO. Unless they have changed how much you win, it was never valuable enough to warrant the cost. As if you load up the game every day to gift everyone, you will earn far more of everything from the shops than Balloon Pop ever did. It was only any use for people really early in the game who need to clear parasprites to clear space to build shops.
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    I could have sworn Gameloft support told someone that it only works restoring to the same device, I remember thinking how stupid that was at the time. Personally I haven't changed devices since they implemented the cloud saves. When I last changed devices I used Helium to do the backup and restore between devices.
  8. Alexander Atkin
    I'm very happy the snow is gone! It was insanely hard to make out what the buildings were when they are all covered in snow and I never ONCE was able to find Derpy.
  9. Alexander Atkin
    Ah, presumably why they added Google Play Games? But knowing how buggy this game is I STILL wouldn't trust it to work properly. I wonder how that works if you have multiple devices?
  10. Alexander Atkin
    Well unless something has changed recently (it might have) I certainly have never heard of this game backing up its save. There are plenty of people who have uninstalled/reinstalled and had to start from scratch, especially on Android. I wouldn't risk uninstalling my game without knowing I backed it up myself first.
  11. Alexander Atkin
    The crystal cave mini-game is even worse on Android, very crashy. I have reported many issues to them and there hasn't been an update in AGES. The parasprites etc not appearing is a bug though and should NOT be celebrated, its the only reliable way to get gems without spending AGES grinding the mini games. Its certainly interesting to hear that a lot of the bugs are across both iOS and Android. The timer is basically broken on Android for Balloon Pop and the parasprites etc. Mine only appear if you somehow manage to keep the game open when task switching out and back again but I cannot reliably get it to work every time. It also only works for the area you are currently in whereas they used to appear in all areas over a period of time.
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    I think its more likely the fact they completely failed the optimise the game well for Android so had to reduce the strictness of the scoring, although I'm not sure how that applies to iOS devices. On my Galaxy Note 3, one of the most powerful Android devices on the market, the game stutters quite unpleasantly. Its annoying in general but on the EG mini-game it completely ruins the game entirely. Every time it stutters the notes drift out of sync with the music, making it hard to judge the timing as you start off tapping to the beat and half way through a song its often drifted so much you are tapping BETWEEN the beats. I believe what happens is the notes stall but the music carries on playing, as I have noticed sometimes the notes carry on for a few seconds after the song has actually finished. Its not QUITE as bad when running under Genymotion, although it seems to have gotten worse and worse with each new game update. Besides, you really shouldn't need a high-end gaming PC just to play the EQ mini-game properly.
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    I would think that unless the "content version" has changed then its just bug fixes. It DOES badly need bug fixes. I stopped playing the gem mine because it doesn't unlock the rewards for me and regularly crashes. I stopped playing the Equestria Girls mini game because the notes constantly go out of sync with the music making it really hard to get the timing right. This game has some SERIOUS frame-pacing issues, where it will be running smoothly and then suddenly seem to skip a frame then display the next one, followed by the previous one, causing horrible stuttering. I'm on the Galaxy Note 3 for crying out loud, its still one of the most powerful devices, this shouldn't happen. I get the feeling this game is making very little use of GPU acceleration which is why the performance is so bad.
  14. Alexander Atkin
    The time travel thing is a "trick" not a hack, so should be okay to discuss. You can hardly say changing the time on your phone is a hack, its a basic function. Also, why do people worry about parasprites so much? The only thing they do is perhaps slow down the game a little and make it hard to place new items. Other than that, they are just a minor annoyance and the money you spend blocking off their ability to respawn would be better saved. After all, killing them gives you gems so you are reducing your gem income if you block them.
  15. Alexander Atkin
    Correct. Although Granny Smith looks terrible in this game too, its like they made no effort at all.
  16. Alexander Atkin
    I'm still running the game on Genymotion on my PC based on the old Android images they had with the ARM emulator included. It runs WAY better than it does on my Galaxy Note 3.
  17. Alexander Atkin
    Darn it, updated my Galaxy Note 3 to KitKat and not only does MLP now crash on start up but actual phone reception is utter garbage now too. This is why I keep my primary game on PC with Genymotion.
  18. Alexander Atkin
    Does iTunes backup app data? I can't remember, so long since I had my iPod Touch.
  19. Alexander Atkin
    What I don't understand is, if you can do it this way, why does every other solution seem to need root? Even more puzzling is why this functionality is not built-in to Android in the first place. There should be no need for app developers to choose to support a cloud syncing API, the end user should be able to choose to backup ALL their app settings by default WITHOUT the app needing to know about it. You can't even say its about security, as Google already sync all your WiFi security settings in the cloud - including your business WiFi that potentially is risky if those credentials fell into the wrong hands. That said, I would much prefer to be able to backup over WiFi to my own private server and keep Google out of it. Its far less likely someone will bother to hack into my server than a big evil corporations server with millions of peoples details to harvest.
  20. Alexander Atkin
    Good find, I don't play the game much but generally when I do its on my PC under the old version of Genymotion that has the ARM emulator and Play Store. This is extremely useful as it means should they ever manage to get my Asus T100 running Android natively I can migrate the game over to there for proper multi-touch, or move my more progressed game save from the PC to my Note 3. Just out of curiosity, did it not recover your game data anyway from Google? I was under the impression that Android 2.3 was supposed to finally backup your app data to Google (which is presumably how this app works too, Android 2.3 has support for this).
  21. Alexander Atkin
    Personally I think this update SUCKS! I got all excited at the prospect of the Cafeteria Song and its some horrible hacked together short version. It also seems to be even more out of sync between the icons on the screen and the music than ever. I don't think its down to me using Genymotion either as different songs have always seemed to have different degrees of sync. Ah well, at least I found out about My Little Rock Band, with the full length version of the song on there done WELL. Its pretty sad when the community can do a better job Gameloft. I don't get their logic of using the full length version of Time to Come Together but no vocals (which spoils it) and a hacked version of Caferia Song WITH vocals, which again ruins it. Its like they are trying their best to fall short. I mean Opening Theme is awesome with or without vocals (although I still wish it had them, or at least the option to choose) but the rest really REALLY need them. The icing on the cake is Gameloft Live lost my login details after the update and the game is still playing up even once I put them back in. I did find a glitch though, I accidentally logged in to the wrong GameLoft account on the game on my PC to redeemed the hearts so I couldn't put them on my phone where they intended. I logged back in the correct account and discovered if you login on two copies of the game at the same time you can redeem the inbox on both, as they do not check the server again after initially loading the social page.
  22. Alexander Atkin
    Who on earth goes to the emergency room with a strain, sprain, bruise or scrape? Unless it actually needs stitches or you suspect something serious, what happened to a little first aid and sending on your way? The US really IS different to the UK. This is a complete contrast from my school where they didn't even send me to the hospital with a broken toe because "I could still bend it so it must be fine". There HAS to be some middle ground here and banning all potentially dangerous activities is not it. I always refused to take part in sports at school because I sucked at them and feared teasing from the other kids, so recess was my only exercise during the day. Are we really going to start sending kids to school in bubbles because the number of viruses caught at school increases? Or stop sending them at all because they might get hurt on the way there and back? Where does the madness end? I also fail to see how having a teacher present is going to make any difference. Accidents don't necessarily happen because a child is being careless, they are just accidents. I fear for the first teacher who gets sued for allowing a child to be hurt when there was nothing they could do about it.
  23. Alexander Atkin
    Okay, I have added KirbyFluttershy, blackveilkitty, jklrqpo and ghostfacebrony39 to both my GameLoft accounts. As I have said before, anyone is welcome to add me and I will periodically check the friend requests. It appears the latter three have not. In other news, I noticed the halloween update has fixed Twilights changelings.
  24. Alexander Atkin
    What was your GameLoft ID? (oh the stupid minimum post character count is really really really really really really annoying)
  25. Alexander Atkin
    I believe at least on Android the daily reward is fixed, as now when I jump forwards a day it never gives it to me but when I ACTUALLY come back the next it does. So it could be checking with the GameLoft server now before awarding it. So time travel appears to only helps by allowing you to instantly reset the shops/minigames to pay out now and parasprites/changelings to appear, which is the main way you get gems (by destroying them with element shards). Also bear in mind that with time travel I have managed to glitch out my game so it won't let me send a gift to my other username for 300 hours! I can only assume I accidentally gifted myself while in the future and so its counting from that date rather than when GameLoft server actually reports I did the gift (which is what I thought it used).
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