I've added one o f them as a friend to see his tower. All floors above 137 are vacant, there's no businesses on them at all. I'm assuming you'll be able to do that too, it's not a glitch.
Q re: Game Center saving I have been playing TT on my iPad since the start. Yday, while trapped in a queue, I installed TT on my iPhone and was given the option to refresh from the saved version in Game Center. I did so thinking I could always access the same tower from two devices. I do not understand what GC is doing now. The TTs on each device now seem to be separate. Is neither being saved? Are both? Will the devices ever synch again? I don't want two separate towers. Will the devices eventually get in synch again and can I play the same tower on two devices?
You can build floors above 137, you just aren't allowed to populate them with anything yet. People who have a lot more than that, however, are cheating. Because it's on a computer system, there is an effective cap. Though, based on what I can glean of the iOS datatypes, the limit is probably 4,294,967,295 (that is, 2**32 - 1). I vaguely anticipate that there's a bug if you're at that level and try to level up, but I imagine for practical reasons that's nothing to worry about. No. The game is designed to be played entirely offline. Gamecenter is only used for achievements and backup. For various technical reasons, Nimblebit decided not to allow multi-device sync. Quite frankly, I can't blame them or the support headache that would ensue from it. ...why?
Well, OK, but here's a situation that happened to a friend. She named her floors based on the job skill ratings of the bitizens working there, so the Pub became Pub 984. This helped quickly determine if a new bitizen could replace any veterans. When she started a new TT on her iPhone she started from new and NOT from backup. In a few days however, the names were migrating between the tower on her iPad and the tower on her iPhone. She had a new tower on the iPhone and when she opened a new Pub it soon had the name Pub984 even if she hadn't hired anyone on the iPhone yet. This is what made me think that synchronizing would happen between both of my devices if I waited long enough. So let me add another question to my original question. The TT on my iPhone is doing much better at this point. What if I delete the TT from my iPad AND also delete it from the Game Center? When I then reload it onto the iPad, wouldn't the iPhone version be the back-up the GC finds? Is there a problem with that strategy? Could I lose my entire TT progress on both devices?
OK, answered my own question (above) by waiting. I deleted TT off the iPad but not from GC and kept playing on the iPhone. In some unknown amount of time, the iPhone version was backed-up to GC. When I reinstalled TT on the iPad, i was given the option to start from the saved game ... and it was the iPhone version that it started from. I am now deleting TT from the iPhone and not putting it back there. One copy is enough.
I love TT, can't stop playing it, have 85 floors, placing dreamjobbers, renaming floors, changing costumes, moving floors, upgrading stores, etc... HOWEVER, I always feel like there's no tension, that there is potential for a game to be developed here that would tell me if I'm getting better at the game or not. ie. put in some components that reward skill. Examples: - have the ferrying of bitizens and the BUX reward potential linked to your ability to use the elevator effectively (ie. timed; do it quickly means 40% chance of a BUX, do it slowly means 20%) - have the find a bitzen game timed similarly that's all I can come up with, but you get the idea. I get that the DEV has decided that this game is meant to be a calm peaceful game, but I think it could do with a bit of tension. That being said, I'm back to restocking now.
The statement from Nimblebit is that the backup/restore happens every four hours or so. Quite honestly, the fact that it doesn't have tension is exactly why I play it. I have enough going on in my life; I like having a simple, almost zen-like game I can play to just give my mind a break with some relatively mindless work.
i changed the date on my iphone to level up quickly, and I really don't get the point of this game... click click click and click again... can someone explain me why people are spending money on this??
Must... build... next.... floor..... And you don't have to spend money on it. For the most part people are only spending money on it as a thank you to the developer.
No, I see it too. Such a shame people have to cheat to get ahead. What fun is there in that?? I think it's nice seeing floors built that you have actually earned! Anyway, back to restocking and watching the coins and bux grow Floor 102 here I come
OK, I just got my Pizza Place and i think its very upset at me for some reason. Doesn't matter that i triple stocked it with DJs within a few minutes. Why is it upset? The oven is flipping me off! Even the pizza boxes looks like its laughing at me.
You know what I would like to see? A way to undo shop upgrades. Pay a bux or 3 to downgrade a shop upgrade.
i've never used gamecenter (have it disabled in fact). was curious how TinyTower was saving my game progress even when i uninstalled the app and reinstalled it. it appears that the game progress is stored in the idevice's keychain (/private/var/Keychains/keychain-2.db) so really you don't need to use gamecenter to backup your progress because it's already stored in your device's keychain indefinitely. can someone from nimblebit confirm?
Mostly to try and even out some restock times but also it would allow me to upgrade some shops when I don't have much time to dedicate to restocking and downgrade them when I have more time available. I think they would have to set the downgrade stock times to not allow going below default values though or else people could decrease them too low to play the restock for bux game.
