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  1. Alexander Atkin
    Kinda disappointed with the Halloween update. I mean I LOVE that Twilights is in her Starswirl costume but what about everypony else? Why only update the mane six when quite a few of the ponies from the game actually appear in Luna Eclipsed so they have outfits they could use? I thought we would at LEAST get the CMCs in their outfits too. Pretty sure she wouldn't be caught DEAD in that outfit even on Nightmare Night. Nothing wrong with the design, I just don't think it she would wear something like this based on what we know about her from the show.
  2. Alexander Atkin
    Ah GameLoft, you love your bugs and plot holes..... The changelings are copying old Twilight in Canterlot even when I have unlocked Princess Twilight so they are much easier to spot now. Why is Flash Sentry (if you won him) in Canterlot? Isn't he stationed at the Crystal Empire? Why isn't there a Crystal Empire in the game anyway? Then again, what in Equestria is Sunset Shimmer doing in the game at all? That makes no sense at all. Seriously, I'm sure they could have done this better.
  3. Alexander Atkin
    You could try Genymotion if you want to play this badly enough, assuming you have a computer. Its how I am playing mostly now as I lost my save game when I changed phones, this way it shouldn't happen again as the game is tied to a virtual machine not a real one.
  4. Alexander Atkin
    The dance game seems to drift out of sync further into the song so you are tapping with the beat at the start and by the end, especially EQ Stomp, you have to tap completely out of sync with the beat which is naturally really hard. What I think happens is that as the song is played by the OS API independent to the game code and so if the game stalls for a few milliseconds the song carries on as normal. This would explain the drift as sometimes its worse than others and in those cases I have actually seen the notes jump like it skipped a frame or two, but the song never glitches. So they need to somehow tie the game timing to the song position better, so that it compensates. It would be interesting to know if this happens on iOS as it could be related to Android doing full multi-tasking whereas iOS is much tighter about what runs when. It certainly happens worse on my Galaxy Note 3 than when I run it under Genymotion on an Intel i5 2500K, as naturally the latter is many times more powerful and less likely to stutter. It does seem to get worse the longer I play the game though. I must say, the dance game is MUCH easier in Genymotion as the reliability of real mouse buttons mean you don't trigger false presses like you can on a touch screen, especially the Note 3 which has a VERY sensitive touch screen that can sometimes detect your fingers hovering above it. I wonder if the game supports any controllers? I did try a mouse and keyboard but it didn't seem to work the same as Genymotion where a right click counts as a double tap, that must be something written in Genymotions Android implementation itself.
  5. Alexander Atkin
    I'm was just hoping they slowly add more of the voice actors to the game. I was pleasantly surprised to find they have added a few more in the updates already (nothing recent), either that or they were already in the game but bugged out so they didn't play. Now of course I have a new hope, that they add more songs to the mini game, particularly the Cafeteria Song as it would be great to hear it with a proper ending. I have been meaning to get My Little Karaoke working on my PC but its somewhat more complicated on Linux than I had hoped. I'm certainly not about to bloody try, its taken me all evening to get that chest and, silly me, he is for Caterlot so pretty useless as there was always more ponies than you needed for shops there anyway. (although that could have changed in the update) I really don't understand what they were thinking with that mini game. Its fun to play, but not the amount you need to unlock the chests in time.
  6. Alexander Atkin
    Unless they have changed it you CAN use the camera (not sure about Kinect) to snap a custom gamer picture. Obviously its pretty tricky though due to lighting.
  7. Alexander Atkin
    Finally given up on the dance and so having a poke around in the data folder. Remember how I mentioned that the xml file mentioned the "Cafeteria Song" in the previous update? I guess its no surprise to find in the latest update its changed to EG Stomp: Seems pretty obvious we WERE supposed to get the proper Cafeteria Song and for some mysterious reason they decided against it. I also wonder why they only gave us the instrumental version of the MLP intro song too, its a bit odd sounding without the vocals. Friends List I am going to be monitoring my main GameLoft ID for active friends and anyone who gifts a heart I will be sending a chest (if GameLoft Live is working properly) and adding them to my other account "csdprojects". Everyone who accepts I will again gift and send a chest to from that account. I will continue playing the game on both accounts but will ultimately remove friends which are no longer gifting from my main account too.
  8. Alexander Atkin
    A couple of hours? I have been playing for more than a couple of hours doing the time travel glitch to get the timers to reset and haven't quite hit the half way mark. Quite frankly, I am about ready to drown myself in chocolate rain at this point, its just not worth it. GameLoft you are complete and utter <insert very offensive term here>.
  9. Alexander Atkin
    You DO need to do that though, in order to earn gems. I have to admit, I am going to get annoyed when collecting some of the more expensive characters as I bought a few gems, earned a few trying out some other Android games, and downright cheated to get 100% on my previous game - only to lose the lot just because I upgraded my phone. Come to think of it, I think I might have to give GameLoft a piece of my mind, because how is it fair to PAY for something and effectively lose it because the save data cannot be transferred between devices?
  10. Alexander Atkin
    Good news for anyone who might want to play this and cannot already (or want to run it somewhere that will not get lost when you upgrade your phone). The game now works in Genymotion, the Android emulator for Windows, Mac and Linux. Its basically an addon for VirtualBox that offloads the GPU into its own application so Android apps can access the PCs graphics card. Bottom line, several Android games work and MLP FiM is luckily one of them. Surprisingly, even the new mini game works as you simply click the left button for a single finger and the right button for two. If nothing else, its a good way to ensure you get at least one or two hearts a day by gifting them from a second GameLoft account.
  11. Alexander Atkin
    I just went into the song mini-game, paid gems for the bonus, and then the game stopped responding to my touches so not only did I waste those gems I have to wait three hours to play that song again. That is bad enough, but with the time-limited bonus its infuriating. Its a shame, as without the bugs this new mini game is actually good - speaking as a Rock Band/Guitar Hero/Singstar fan. Well THAT would be a huge spoiler, but as far as we know the writers still haven't decided what their cutie marks are. That will not be decided until they actually write a story where they get them. I realise the game isn't strictly speaking canon, but it DOES inherit the plot progression of the show so cutie marks for the CMC would make no sense.
  12. Alexander Atkin
    Not impressed with the quality of the Equestria Girls update. It immediately asked me to do the new mini game. Then after doing all three songs (which the taps didn't exactly seem in sync with the song so was less fun that it should be) I find there is a quest I need to activate that is, wait for it, to play the new mini game. I mean sure its not going to be hard to unlock that but it seems idiotic to have you do the game first THEN show you the quest asking you to do the game. Dialogue for Magical Mystery Cure plot line is activated when I return to Ponyville. Problem is, there are characters talking here who I haven't unlocked yet. Plus, the dialogue is wrong on the on screen popup said Rarity was talking but Fluttershy was, Rarity had not spoken yet. WTF were they thinking having the EG Stomp live-action song in this? Where is the REAL Cafeteria song? You know, the most popular song of the movie. For now I will assume they will add it in later. It also seems cheeky they are trying to bribe us into spending money for gems so we can get Flash Sentry as there is no other way I can see of playing the mini game enough to win him. The gamma setting is wrong on the game now making everything look really washed out, pretty hard to achieve on an OLED screen.
  13. Alexander Atkin
    I had to start the game again due to upgrading from the Note II to the Note 3 so I would appreciate anyone adding me who plans to send out hearts. I usually do so every day but it seems most of the people on my friends list now are no longer playing the game as I am down to about 4 hearts a day. Also, I was skeptical about this talk of a new Equestria Girls update but I noticed the following in the pony_sdd.xml file while browsing the games data folder, which would seem to confirm it: No mention of any new mini-games in there though, sadly.
  14. Alexander Atkin
    I just wanted to mention that while I am not actively adding new friends to my game, I do gift to my entire friends list every day. So if anyone wants to add me I WILL periodically check my invites and confirm them.
  15. Alexander Atkin
    On the contrary, when playing at a normal pace the temptation to keep the town clean is high and if you do that you are making room for more to spawn. As you won't be cleaning up the town between "days" with time travel you will actually hit the limit (of Parasprites, etc) your town can hold quickly. Therefore once you are done you will actually end up with LESS Parasprites, Changelings and junk than playing normally, because you weren't making room for more to spawn each day. There is also the fact that once you have enough money, you can place enough objects around the town to reduce how many Parasprites are able to spawn. However in reality you WANT as many as possible, because they often give you gems for clearing them.
  16. Alexander Atkin
    It seems there is indeed no consistent layout for Ponyville in the show. Looking at the title sequence the Carousel Boutique looks to be right in the middle. But lots seems to have changed in Magical Mystery Cure: It doesn't even appear to match the official (season 2) map of Equestria: Its a shame as I bet anything that Lauren Faust put a map in the bible but they aren't consulting it due to time constraints. Plus I suppose we have to accept that it might just be more interesting sometimes to put things where they aren't technically supposed to be. Then again, after Discord, the Parasprites, etc you could definitely argue that Ponyville might have changed layout over the course of the series. Pretty sure you won't get her, it just skips that requirement of the quest.
  17. Alexander Atkin
    The biggest problem I suspect is that GameLoft have so many games like this one, which likely means that MLP is using the same engine as those. Basically these theme park/town building games are 95% reskinned versions of the same game, with just minor tweaks, so it would be very hard to factor that into how Ponyville SHOULD look when they are just recycling the same game over and over.
  18. Alexander Atkin
    Yes it sounds OCD and yes I have thought about trying it myself. The only thing I have been able to figure out myself is that the carrot household is to the left of the apples barn. I would not be surprised though if the show itself is not consistent with the positioning of things because we already know they constantly get Fluttershy and Twilights front doors wrong. One minute they are split, sometimes they open one way, then the other, Twilights usually has the candle design on the outside only, but sometimes its on the inside too. Plus the game doesn't exactly allow you to be very accurate anyway. It annoys me that you cannot make the pavement go seamlessly up to the bridge on Fluttershys house.
  19. Alexander Atkin
    They can't seem to fix chests to save their lives, its been like this all the time I have played the game. On a few short occasions it actually worked, but I don't think any of us check that often now as its so rare that it actually does. I hate to say it as it would limit the game for some people (having to be online) and eliminate any potential gem hacks in the future, but it really could do with the save data in the cloud. That way they could at least make that mode worthwhile by having you ACTUALLY interact with your friends towns, rather than just dropping a chest on a town. Its kinda odd they don't do it that way as EA do for their games of this type. It would prevent save data corruption and allow you to play the same data from several devices, as long as you are logged in with the same GameLoft account. That would be particularly useful if you upgrade your phone.
  20. Alexander Atkin
    Interesting, its not assigning her to the house on my game, not even once. In your case though my guess would be that 6 is the limit on how many ponies it can show on the house inventory, but the rest must still be assigned to that house just not visible in the list. If the game code was actually doing proper ID checks it wouldn't have allowed more than one in the first place. I wonder how many until the game crashes though and any risk of it corrupting the save game (probably not, everything is obviously very dynamic due to the number of games they must make based on this code base)? I suppose you could level them all up and assign them to shops too, lol. For the gems I used the Balloon Pop hack before the GameLoft changed the encryption of the game files. It was the only way I was ever going to get all the shops/ponies as once I realised I had spent as much as I could have gotten a recent AAA game off Steam for, I wasn't going to spend another penny on the game. It does make the game more boring being able to unlock everything so easily, it just shows that as a game its very very weak and its only by making it take ages to unlock anything that they keep you interested. I suppose you could say that about most games, but they generally make the unlocking process interesting, unlike this. I'm only really playing it to see what they do with it and being able to help other people who are perhaps enjoying it more than I am by gifting hearts. Such a shame they didn't make it a more interesting game but its just identical to every other city/park/etc building game out there. Its insane how many different games there are on iOS/Android that are actually identical games with different graphics. It must cost peanuts to roll them out, especially all the GameLoft ones which no doubt use the same code base.
  21. Alexander Atkin
    Only the mane six spawn as changelings. Its also why I included the screen shot as changelings do not arrive in balloons, it shouldn't be possible to have two of the same character arriving in a balloon at the same time like in the screen shot. Also whichever Olivia you tap on it shows that you have selected Olivia on the screen.
  22. Alexander Atkin
    I take it back, the Android update rolled out to my phone yesterday. Nice to finally have Luna but I hope they fixed the changelings spawning almost outside the viewable area of the map, that gets very annoying. I already noticed a new bug though, Olivia is not being removed from my inventory. I now have 5 wandering around Canterlot because every time I click her in the inventory it adds another one and I tried after restarting the game a few times to see if the glitch was temporary, lol. I was surprised we got Sunset Shimmer yet haven't had a Crystal Empire update.
  23. Alexander Atkin
    Hmmm, didn't Android get the Canterlot update first last time? This time it seems they are dragging their feet getting us the Sunset Shimmer update. Lets hope its to make sure they ironed out the bugs this time, but I doubt it. I hate this update different versions at different times thing though, as I believe that is why so often you cannot visit other peoples game worlds because they are running different version of the game. They should hold out and release the iOS/Android versions at the same time so we remain in parity. Surely if you use the same GameLoft ID it will remember all your friends?
  24. Alexander Atkin
    Think yourself lucky, they have never offered the bonus offers in the UK that I can tell so you have to earn them slowly. If it wasn't for hacking an earlier version of the game I would probably have given up by now. When I finally run out of gems I will probably call it a day.
  25. Alexander Atkin
    I had a huge backlog of all kinds of shards until the Canterlot update. Since then the sheer number of changelings has caused me to run out of Magic and Generosity, despite the fact I have ever single shop and check in every day. It makes no sense that the Parasprites/Changelings spawn faster than you can actually earn shards to clear them. I wouldn't be surprised if even keeping the game open all day and redeeming things as they become available you would STILL run out.
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