Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24139784-20131107015933/@comment-24150076-20140201040935

Oh, and I've been having some fun with the new timers on the torches. Here's what I've discovered so far:

1) When someone lights a torch for you, the 24 hour timer doesn't start until you go to that island and you see the torch burst into flame (not just starting the game, but actually visiting the island).  I don't know if there is a time limit on how long a torch will stay dormant, but I know it will go at least 23 hours, because I tested it on my son's inactive account.  I also found that I was able to light another torch for him at 24 hours as usual, so right now he has two torches lit by me.  Next time I'm going to see if the torch will wait for more than 24 hours.  I'll keep everyone posted.

2) Because of #1, if you want even torchlighting, it's best to visit your islands every few hours (best for monster money too).  Otherwise a bunch of torches will all burst into flame at the same time, and then all go out at the same time 24 hours later.

3) Two people can light the same torch.  I knew this already from when I was lighting both my son's and my account at the same time.  The torch status of a friend is loaded at the time you select them from the friends menu- it doesn't update while you have their islands open.  So if it takes a minute or so to decide what island they want lit first, in that minute someone may have already lit the torch you end up selecting. But today looking at my island from my son's account I found that a torch that Col.Catbiscuit had lit for me 7 minutes earlier (as listed on the "lit for you" page of wishingtorch.com, and showing as lit when viewed from my account) wasn't showing lit yet from my son's account, while a torch that had recently gone out when viewed from my account showed as still burning for him.  So, if you have 14 people all showing that they lit your same island, there is a chance that they are all telling the truth, if enough of them were lighting your torches around the same time. I think I might play with this a bit when I notice new torchlightings to see what sort of delay you can usually expect.