Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24577221-20151104164336/@comment-24577221-20151104213720

I've done the uninstall/reinstall thing several times, especially recently when I've been trying to sort out a glitch in which one of the Frozium crystals just never shows on one of my machines. It works, but it's a rather drastic way of clearing temporary problems. As usual, the game's progress is stored on the BBB server (for the most part) and the app has a way of telling the server which ID you're using -- in this case, the Google Play ID. But it does appear that some details of the game's state are stored locally, and not reported to the server immediately -- for example, if I kill the app and restart it, some of the crystals aren't in the same locations. (This may be related to that message about hackers spoiling things.  If it's up to the game rather than the server when to generate things like the crystals, one might be able to hack it to spit out extra crystals.)  If I start something in one of the structures and then kill the app, whatever-it-is sometimes isn't still running when I restart the game.