Universal Pixel People - (by Chillingo Ltd)

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  1. Lorena

    Lorena Well-Known Member

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    I'd like to see an option to put an icon for make energy to all the buildings that aren't earning money at the same time. When the city is big is more difficult to search the buildings closed. Or an option to tap an icon to go a random building closed an when you open it, tap the same icon to go to another building
     
  2. Ivan@LambdaMu

    Ivan@LambdaMu Well-Known Member

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    I believe that Dragonvale does not use iCloud. They use their own servers.

    Really sorry about that. iCloud corruption happened somewhere there.

    This brings us to a tough decision. After a long discussion over the last few days, we've decided that iCloud is not properly implemented and to prevent anymore corruption of data, we will be removing the feature until we find an alternative. Our original intention for iCloud was to make sure people DID NOT LOSE their cities. In its current form, it CAUSES the problem.

    Do note: If you enable iCloud back-up, a copy of your save game will still get backed-up along with all your other data.

    The change will happen in the upcoming content patch which I'm sure many of you would be pleased to hear.
     
  3. killy billy

    killy billy Well-Known Member

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    Any comment on this ivan@LambdaMu
     
  4. Ivan@LambdaMu

    Ivan@LambdaMu Well-Known Member

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    iCloud always works more like in your latter case. That's the way apple designed it.
     
  5. Ivan@LambdaMu

    Ivan@LambdaMu Well-Known Member

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    haha. no official comment. only thing i can say is that we have plans.
     
  6. bruab

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    #646 bruab, Feb 5, 2013
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    Sometimes this still does not work for me (I get my old save game back) so I reboot and wait a half hour. That usually does the trick.

    Don't forget to "Restore your purchases" after re-installing!

    ETA: Lately I've been switching from iPad to iPhone and back with no problems.
     
  7. killy billy

    killy billy Well-Known Member

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    You have plans..... ok so nothing special should happen right now?
     
  8. Ivan@LambdaMu

    Ivan@LambdaMu Well-Known Member

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    Nope, you're pretty fast. our testers finished the game with an average time of 3 weeks.

    But yeah, we had a guy that went all out min-maxing and finished the game in 3 days (with the majority of his waking hours spent on tapping the trees and hearts for utopium).
     
  9. TRB4

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    I purposely grouped all of my businesses by working time simply to make it easier to turn them back on. For example after 10 minutes a huge section of my city ignites with little blue energy icons, it looks like a major blackout just hit lol. Then I just tap them all at the same time and repeat. My city doesn't look as pretty as it could, but it is super efficient.
     
  10. Machiknight

    Machiknight Well-Known Member

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    Want to restart

    So I started reading all this info and it made me desperately want to restart. How can I do that? Turn off icloud and then unistall/reinstall? Will restore purchases bring back my IAP?

    Is there a little starter guide your guys could write for the optimal way to run a game WITH decor, but slowly buying it, Im kind of leaning towards this argument as the way to go.

    What buildings would your build first if you were restarting? Thanks in advance!
     
  11. TRB4

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    Haha, that guy sounds like me, I probably spend about 8-10 hours of my day just tapping trees and hearts. And I've been min-maxing my workers the whole time. I'm at 116/150 jobs and have a 1072 CPS, I also earn between 40-50 utopium a day. The only thing slowing me down is my refusal to spend utopium on speeding up construction times.
     
  12. killy billy

    killy billy Well-Known Member

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    #652 killy billy, Feb 5, 2013
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    In about 20 minutes my CPS is 2000 :D
    But now that i know i hit the endgame i'm gonna progress a little bit slower and play some other games :p
     
  13. stlredbird

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    Well whatever they are doing with iCloud it's not working. I couldn't get the game to load up the save from when I was playing on my iPad so I deleted the game totally from my iPhone. That was 12 hours ago. I downloaded and reinstalled on my iPhone again and somehow it loaded up the save from yesterday from before I deleted it from my phone. Obviously I've played a ton on my iPad since then so I can't figure it out.

    It seems like maybe my iPad game isn't saving or accessing iCloud even though it says it is.
     
  14. Malthan

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    I've encountered a bug:

    I started splicing a new job
    (Reporter)
    then while it was in progress I used a second clone to make another copy of a job I already had
    (Model)
    . The first splicing finished, I opened the new clone package, then while I was looking at the new clone card the 2nd job finished, and it's card instantly replaced the first one. Once I closed it, I no longer had the option to place the new building
    (News agency)
    . Because of that I lost 1 free space than I can't regain and I have no option to place the building - it isn't available in the build menu and even if I splice a second
    Reporter
    I don't get a second chance to place the new building.

    Funny thing - I've encountered the bug while trying to replicate a simillar situation that happened to my girlfriend. Turns out I managed to replicate the bug exactly, so now we both have used up spaces with no building to show for it.
     
  15. vicsark

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    #655 vicsark, Feb 5, 2013
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    same here :D
    In the center I have the Townhall, Arrival center and the trees.
    And I've grouped the buildings clockwise depending on their working time. under 10m, 10m, 20m to 50m, 1h to 1h30, 2h to 2h30, 3h and more.
    All houses are regrouped near the trees, so all the tree/heart tapping is in one zoomed out screen.
    And the decor is way up there, as there' no need to look at it
    lol
     

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  16. TRB4

    TRB4 Well-Known Member

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    #656 TRB4, Feb 5, 2013
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    OUTDATED INFORMATION NO LONGER NEEDED THANKS TO HOTEL

    Honestly, if I started over I would try to build a Nursery as soon as possible. Since early game you'll actually earn more per tree than you would from a half dozen businesses.

    Here is a short guide that I would use

    1.) After the tutorial I believe you start with 2 Rocky Mansions, a Town Hall, an Arrival Center, a Utopium Mine, 3 Trees, a Carpark, a Mayor, a Mechanic, an Engineer, 1 blank clone, 25 utopium, and I think 10 land (maybe less).

    2.) Combine
    Mechanic + Mechanic to make an Assistant
    and send them to Town Hall.

    3.) Build 2 Rocky Mansions.

    4.) Combine
    Mayor + Engineer to make an Architect
    and send them to Town Hall.

    5.) Combine
    Assistant + Architect to make a Landscaper and a Nursery. Send the Landscaper to the Nursery.
    .

    6.) Combine
    Mayor + Mayor to make a Sheriff and a Sheriff's Office. Send the Sheriff to the Sheriff's Office.
    .

    7.) Combine
    Sheriff + Landscaper to make a Park Ranger and a Park. Send the Park Ranger to the Park.
    .

    8.) Plant as many trees as you can with your current land.

    9.) Collect utopium and coins from trees and hearts from houses until you can buy more land, then upgrade your land.

    10.) Buy 10 pieces of Decor that give you 3.0 spirit. You will need 40u, but you should have plenty from trees and hearts.

    11.) Keep repeating steps 9 and 10 until you have 32 pieces of Decor that give you 3.0 spirit, and buy 2 pieces of Decor that give you 2.0 spirit. You may also wish to plant some additional trees to speed up collection time.

    12.) Keep repeating step 9 until you have enough land to unlock the Shiny Tower.

    13.)At this point you will have over 100 spaces of land, an Expansion Discount and a Time Discount of 50%, a ton of utopium, and you can start building Shiny Towers that will only take 12 hours to build.

    If you are patient enough to do that you will have pretty close to a perfect game at that point. My next advice would be to try and get a Bank and a Research Lab as soon as possible. When you get the Research Lab dump as many points as you can into "Research" in order to reduce the amount of hearts it takes to get a bonus. To max it out you will need to spend a total of 210u which sounds like a lot, but trust me, you will make it back plus much more from the heart bonuses of +2 and +5 utopium that will be coming to you much quicker since it will reduce it to only taking 5 hearts to earn a bonus. Also, you'll get back a bunch of utopium from Achievements once you build a Police Station. After that, you're pretty much on your own, as long as you stick to only building Shiny Towers for residence, there is really no way you could screw this game up. Have fun having the most min-maxed town ever.

    EDIT: For the quickest way to get a Bank and a Research Lab see my new post here Fastest way to get Bank and Research Lab

    If you do try this strategy please let me know how it goes.
     
  17. metalsquid

    metalsquid Well-Known Member

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    #657 metalsquid, Feb 5, 2013
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    Something similar happened to me. I wasn't sure about it but now you've confirmed I'm not mad. I had 137/140 land and when I made a
    Reporter
    the counter went up to 138/140. It had a 1 land cost so that seemed normal. But when it was ready, there was no building to place. I already had a
    TV Station
    from when I created a
    Writer
    earlier so the only other place a
    Reporter
    can go is the
    News Agency
    which I didn't have yet and it didn't unlock with the new clone even though the land count increased. It did unlock when I made a
    Weather Reporter
    next which only goes in the
    News Agency
    but then it cost another 1 land when I made him! So we've lost 1 land it seems?

    Are you missing the
    News Agency
    ? Try cloning a
    Weather Reporter
    or
    Food Critic
    to unlock it.
     
  18. Jxsgamer

    Jxsgamer Well-Known Member

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    Okay, is anyone experiencing missing utopiums?
    Yesterday morning, I noticed I had 42, then next time I opened pixel people, I mysteriously went down to 35. This morning, I had about 41, and now it's down to 30... Wtf?
     
  19. Machiknight

    Machiknight Well-Known Member

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    I think this is the strategy I'm going to try, but how do I restart? I have no idea how to delete my save game, I've been using iCloud, if I just uninstall and reinstall will that work? Will I lose my IAP?
     
  20. Machiknight

    Machiknight Well-Known Member

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    Ok, so how DO I restart? I'm using iCloud so how do I get rid of my save game? Will I lose my IAP if I do that of the time doubler?
     

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