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Anonymous
11 years ago

Re: Sync Between iPad and iphone?

I gave this a try to see if it's broken for everyone.

Like others, when I launched the app on my phone -- I've been playing only on my iPad so far -- I didn't see the login buttons on the settings menu that I usually see. I played along with the tutorial for a few minutes, and as soon as I got to through the tutorial (once I'm told to build more houses, so when you build the third house), the login links appeared. It only took a couple of minutes to get to that step.

I'd prefer to be asked whether I want to sync or start a new game when I first launch the app, but I hope it's helpful to other players to know they *can* sync between devices if they play through the tutorial on each device.

One little glitch to mention: If you hop between devices quickly, it may complain. I had the game open on my iPad when I finally got logged in on my iPhone. I closed the iPhone as soon as I saw that it did sync correctly, and kept playing on the iPad. A couple minutes later, I got a message on my iPad that told me I'd been active on another device and couldn't play on both at the same time. It made me close the app and reopen it to keep playing.

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  • klohrenz, can you please answer the most important question: once you finish the tutorial on the second device and log in, is there any trouble getting the old game onto the new device and not delete your old data?
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Yes. As soon as I finished the tutorial, I logged into Game Center and it downloaded the town from my other device, so I had the same (bigger) city on both devices.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    thanks! it works. Just lick on to the setting tab --> login to game center --> load the your city

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    What do you do if your gamecenter saved game is not the one you want? My iPad game is level 14 and somehow not connected to Game Center. My iPhone game that is just through the tutorial is the one that got linked. Now I feel like I'm screwed and can never link the iPad game to my phone without losing my level 14 game
  • Indys2nd's avatar
    Indys2nd
    Hero (Retired)
    11 years ago
    If you don't want the one on your iPhone, what happens when you try to delete the app from the iPhone? Most apps will ask you if you want to keep the game in Game Center. Say no. Then once it's deleted, try to open it on the iPad and see if it gives you the option to link it to Game Center @captn9 .
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    I've tried that Indys2. When I click on link from the iPad it still asks me if I want to load the gamecenter game and lose the current one. I don't have the guts to try it for fear of losing my iPad game which is really advanced already.
  • Indys2nd's avatar
    Indys2nd
    Hero (Retired)
    11 years ago

    @captn9 wrote:
    I've tried that Indys2. When I click on link from the iPad it still asks me if I want to load the gamecenter game and lose the current one. I don't have the guts to try it for fear of losing my iPad game which is really advanced already.

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    So you deleted the app from the iphone and opted not to keep it in game center and the ipad one is asking you if you want to load the linked one? (Just making sure I understand @captn9 .)

    I'd try the in-app support then and see if they can unlink your one from the iphone from game center and if not, contact Apple and see if they can do it. There has to be a way, I would think. The only problem with having a game not linked to game center is if the app crashes or if your ipad starts to act funny and you wipe it, the game and your progress will be gone. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Yes sorry if i was unclear. here is what i did

    1. downloaded app on my iphone

    2. looked to sync my iphone and ipad, but clicked link to gamecenter on my phone unknowing of the proper process.3

    3. deleted the app on my phone.

    4. redownloaded the app and did the tutorial different with wind power instead of coal.

    5. clicked link to gamecenter and verified gamecenter version was the first tutorial i did on my phone.

    6. deleted the app again and all the gamecenter data from my phone.

    7. got on my iPad and went to link to gamecenter and it asked if I wanted to download gamecenter version and lose the current version,

    Losing my ipad game is what I dont want to do.  I dont know if i can recover from this mistake to ever play on both devices with my game of choice, but that is my goal.  I i cannot and I lose my ipad game I will probably not wish to restart the game.  Also, i'm assuming that my backed up version of the game is the tutorial game if I ever need to restore my ipad for any reason.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    So I'm in the same boat here with no resolution so far.  Here is the order of what I've experienced.

    1. Downloaded on Iphone 6+; played to around level 10.  

    2. Logged into gamecenter

    3. Downloaded on Ipad Air; played just to end of tutorial then clicked login into gamecenter, but it did not connect with my further progressed iphone game.

    4. Deleted app from ipad; including deleting game center data when asked.

    5. Played game on Iphone to reload game center progress. All good there.

    6. Went back to ipad; downloaded app again, played through tutorial, logged into game center... and it loaded the PREVIOUS ipad progress that is said was deleted... NOT the iphone progress that is further along and supposedly the only progress that should be left after I "deleted it and its game center progress" from the ipad.

    I'm so confused.  I would really like to play this game on my ipad, but I cant get it to load my main progress file from my Iphone.  Please help.  

    However if I can't get this fixed AND they don't fix the ridiculous trade center HQ situation, I may just bail on it all together.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    It won't let me add my game progress on to my phone but it's still on my iPad just fine

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