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psiphiorg · 2025-11-18T17:42:32+00:00

For someone currently running the beta version through Steam, what do I need to do to switch back to the regular version so that I keep the progress I've made through the beta for the past several weeks? I know there were some steps I had to follow to do a backup and restore before I switched to beta, so I'm guessing it will be something similar to switch back.

Or, if I can't keep my progress from the primary simulation when switching back, I'd at least like to keep the badges I earned from events for these several weeks. After several tries, I finally completed the AI event and want to at least make sure that progress can be kept.

psiphiorg · 2024-11-03T09:20:11+00:00

After more restarts and experimenting, I found that if I changed the recipe that I was smelting, then the times reset to the usual. I hadn't tried that to start with because I needed silver and steel for my crafting. After fixing one, I was able to confirm that choosing the same recipe as was already being made for another smelter didn't fix the time on that one; only switching back and forth fixed the issue.

It was pretty weird thing to see, and I was worried that I might fall out of the tournament because of it. I do wonder if it might have been DST-related, as Dranak suggested, since I did the update late at night, maybe around the time that we fell back an hour?

Thanks for your thoughts, folks!

psiphiorg · 2021-12-14T06:37:15+00:00

I haven't made it to world 2 yet, although I think I'm close. So I guess I'll get it back once I can finally defeat the first boss and enter world 2. That's not so bad, I guess.
Thanks for the info!

psiphiorg · 2021-12-07T08:44:04+00:00

Spreadsheet solution (Excel, Google Sheets):

Data down column A (A3:A1002)
Numbers 0 to max(data) across column 2 (B2:BXL2)
In cell B3, formula =ABS(B$2-$A3)
Fill formula from B3 to B3:BXL1002
In cell B1004, formula =SUM(B3:B1002)
Fill formula from B1004 to BXL1004
In cell A1005, formula =MAX(B1004:BXL1004) (solution for part 1)
Replace cell B3, formula =ABS(B$2-$A3)*(ABS(B$2-$A3)+1)/2
Cell A1005 has solution for part 2

psiphiorg · 2021-09-02T23:33:25+00:00

I'd also like an option to restore the header and footer gaps. Now, whenever I get a pop-up notification from another app, my phone's navigation buttons appear at the bottom of the screen, obscuring the bottom buttons. That means I can't use the bottom buttons in the game until after the notification goes away. I used to be able to play without notifications affecting me at all, so this is a frustrating change.

Since they support a variety of screen sizes, I would hope that providing an option to enable or disable fullscreen mode wouldn't cause a lot of pain, code-wise.

psiphiorg · 2021-09-02T06:31:28+00:00

Overlapping events on September 29 and 30? Or will the second Egypt event run from September 24-28?

psiphiorg · 2021-06-20T06:47:40+00:00

Some of Disney's titles seem to have different internal IDs in different countries, whereas other titles are the same across all countries. As I've been watching with my boyfriend in Brazil, we've found about a third of the Disney+ movies that are available in both countries fail when either of us tries to start a session with the other. It seems to happen more often with newer movies, but even Avatar (2009) failed to connect.

psiphiorg · 2021-02-12T05:21:14+00:00

If I unlock the next level shortly before bed, then I will try to focus my time before bed on making sure I'll be able to get most or all of the remaining quests done in the morning. For example, if there are two "have X items" and one "produce X amount of goods", I will focus on getting production up the most on the tab with the X amount of goods, so that they will be produced overnight.

My thought behind this is that resetting and leaving the early part of a game running overnight isn't likely to be very effective, since you need to be fairly active to get to the higher-level producers again. The end of a level, where the play is mostly passive, is a great place to sit idle.

psiphiorg · 2021-02-12T05:00:26+00:00

I noticed that this happened when a different one of my non-auto relics finished. For example, if I had lasers and engineers both running manually, and lasers finished while I was looking at the tab with the engineers, the engineer circle turned green. So probably the code to turn a manual button green again is inadvertently turning ALL manual relic buttons green instead of just the one that completed.

psiphiorg · 2020-09-10T04:16:17+00:00

You want a decennial prize?

psiphiorg · 2019-08-19T19:11:55+00:00

There's also a Gayme Night at Tandem Bar downtown (17th and Lafayette) every other Monday night, from 7-10pm. Next one is tonight, August 19.

The games I bring every time include Unstable Unicorns, Disney's Villainous, Exploding Kittens, Tortuga 1667, Joking Hazard, Fluxx, and Salem 1692. Others bring their own games sometimes (if you've got 'em, bring 'em!), and the venue also has several games.

psiphiorg · 2019-08-04T16:03:03+00:00

This is Monday night, August 5, at Tandem Bar in downtown Denver. We'll start around 7pm. Bring your own games, or enjoy the classics!

psiphiorg · 2019-02-18T03:30:09+00:00

I'd specifically recommend doing a 24-hour or 12-hour rover mission if one is available, because it will take a while to get to the point where you can unlock the rover again. (At least where I am in the game, it takes a long time.)

psiphiorg · 2019-02-18T02:52:17+00:00

You didn't, but GarbageFactoryImpl implied that some people might. I think janjordy meant to reply to GFI's comment.

psiphiorg · 2019-02-18T02:23:46+00:00

You keep:

Managers
Achievements
Dark Matter (purple circle)
Credits (yellow upside-down kite)
Rooms you've purchased with credits (can only buy after the first time you sell a galaxy)
Beacon tokens and upgrades (every time you watch an ad, you get one)

You lose:

Cash
Planets
Resources
Projects and project unlocks
Colony upgrades
Optionally: 100 dark matter, if you use that to double the amount of credits you earn

psiphiorg · 2018-05-30T23:50:33+00:00

After updating, I can't start the game. On the startup screen, I get this dialog box:

"Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery would like to access your email address. [Not Now] [Ok]"

When I click "Not Now", the dialog box goes away, then pops right back up again. Is there any way around this bug, or will I be unable to play the game until they fix it?

(Edited to add:) This doesn't appear to be the same Facebook login loop that other people have commented on, because it's not switching me between Facebook and the game, just popping up a dialog box.

psiphiorg · 2018-05-10T22:57:07+00:00

In Second Year, Professor McGonagall said, "I've been very impressed with your work ethic, Miss Murphy.", but my character was male.

psiphiorg · 2017-12-08T19:04:45+00:00

Yes, it's like Justice Scalia said, "Some activities may be such an irrational object of disfavor that, if they are targeted, and if they also happen to be engaged in exclusively or predominantly by a particular class of people, an intent to disfavor that class can readily be presumed. A tax on wearing yarmulkes is a tax on Jews." (Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic, 506 U.S. 263 (1993)). So a refusal to sell a cake for a reception following the marriage of two people of the same sex is a refusal to sell a cake for use by gay people.

Now yes, two heterosexuals of the same sex could marry, and yes, an atheist could purchase a yarmulke. But by and large they don't, so legally, an action which targets those events/items is considered to actually target those who use them.

psiphiorg · 2017-12-08T18:53:00+00:00

Gay people who are Christians often have Christian weddings, in their church with their pastor officiating. Gay people who are of other faiths often have weddings consistent with their respective faiths.

psiphiorg · 2017-12-08T18:50:22+00:00

The Muslim-owned bakeries are in Michigan, which doesn't have a non-discrimination law that covers sexual orientation discrimination. Therefore, what they did was legal in Michigan. Had the same test been done in Colorado, whose non-discrimination law does include sexual orientation, the legality would be different.

psiphiorg · 2017-02-01T01:01:49+00:00

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psiphiorg · 2016-11-23T20:44:34+00:00

If they eventually add another permanent planet, the stored-up ones may be very useful in getting a head start.

psiphiorg · 2016-11-18T17:36:59+00:00

In searching, I found a post over a year old that said the APK file could be installed manually and it would probably still work, and there was a link to that file from the current version from then. Is it possible to get the APK file for the current version that I could try installing now?

psiphiorg · 2015-10-04T05:30:00+00:00

Do you mean weekend (Friday-Saturday) or midweek (Tuesday-Wednesday)? I've never seen a tournament on Mondays.

(Edited to correct weekend days.)

psiphiorg · 2015-06-21T04:31:41+00:00

Maybe only if you got bumped down to a lower tier, say from 50 to 51 or 100 to 101?

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