Constant & Frequent Reloading / Refreshing
For the last 3 week or so, my TSTO game has been experiencing a new very frustrating behavior. It will frequently refresh....which means, it is like when you look server connection it goes back to the loading page before back into your game, only I don't have to tap to get back in on the loading screen.
So it just blacks out for a few seconds, goes to the loading screen as if I am just starting the game up, and it goes back into the game. And it goes back to where I was in my map, not back to the Simpsons house like it would if it was a lost server issue.
This can happen easily 5 to 10 times in a 20 minute session.....so as frequent average as short as every 2-4 minutes.
It can take anywhere from 20 seconds to over a minute to get back into my game when this happens. If this happened 5-10 times during a 20 minute session this is adding an 25% to 50% (up to 10 minutes) of wasted time just sitting there starting at a blank screen or the loading screen.
Does anyone else experience this? This only started recently with me.
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So it just blacks out for a few seconds, goes to the loading screen as if I am just starting the game up, and it goes back into the game. And it goes back to where I was in my map, not back to the Simpsons house like it would if it was a lost server issue.
This can happen easily 5 to 10 times in a 20 minute session.....so as frequent average as short as every 2-4 minutes.
It can take anywhere from 20 seconds to over a minute to get back into my game when this happens. If this happened 5-10 times during a 20 minute session this is adding an 25% to 50% (up to 10 minutes) of wasted time just sitting there starting at a blank screen or the loading screen.
Does anyone else experience this? This only started recently with me.
Helpful info:
- Been playing for 4 years
- Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 tablet with 5+ GB of free space
- Game is in internal memory (not on SD card)
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I have the exact same tablet as you with over 11 GB of free space. My game is also using internal memory. Have been playing for 5 years.
I occasionally have the refresh issue that you describe but usually I get kicked completely out. If I can't get back in after one try, I have to hard close the game which always seems to work for me. It mostly happens when I am designing or visiting neighbors but also happens at other times as well. This has been going on since the last event. I don't know If this is related or not, but sometimes after getting back in after a crash I get random donut boxes, 1-2 per day.
If they wanted to slow down progress, wouldnt it be much easier for them to make the event a little harder? After all, they would just have to set the bar a little higher, so to speak, rather then sabotaging their entire game
So, we know this started at the same time with anyone affected during last event. It affects both Android and iOS devices. Affects devices that can handle the game and have loads of free space/memory. And for me at least may ebb and flow in intensity.
Here is something I did this morning and it seemed to help me finish my log in session. On Android go to Settings / Apps / Tapped Out / . Then Kill Process. Then go to Memory or Storage and clear cache (NOT Storage). Relaunch game. Only tried this once so not sure if simply coincidence or a clue that since the last update TSTO may be saving something in Cache that is crashing the game.
Once again, fix your broken game EA!
Tomorrow will tell as for some reason, my first login of the day seems to the worst one each day.
No more then usual anyways...