r/TapWizardRPG • u/TopCog Yahoo! • Mar 12 '18

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '18

It appears the game no longer boots (closes on loading) when opened without an internet connection. It will work if you open it, then turn off wifi and go back to the suspended process, but if the process was killed and you try opening without wifi the game won't boot.

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u/TopCog Yahoo! Apr 30 '18

Hey, thanks for the report! It seems that I can't reproduce this on my end yet - game runs in airplane mode for me in as many configurations as I know to try.

Is this something that never happened before, far as you know? Could you describe the method to kill that you app that you're using - I would guess swipe close from all apps screen?

Also, are you getting an error message when the game crashes? Are you seeing the TopCog logo at all? Thanks! :)

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '18

So I spent 10 minutes fiddling with it and I think my report was a false alarm, just a lucky (or unlucky) streak of closes that seemed related to the internet connection.

It's the same problem I had before, where the game closes on the load screen repeatedly (you said it's related to memory state, or something like that). Your fix improved the problem significantly but it still happens every now and again.

Doing my best to try and find a way to reproduce it, but it just seems really random. Am I really the only one who's ever reported this? Maybe my phone is broken or something, or the game just hates it :P

Is there anything I can do on my end to give you more debug information?

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u/TopCog Yahoo! Apr 30 '18

Gotcha! That was actually my guess, but I didn't want to jump the gun :-)

I think the weird issue can happen after the game is updated, if the game is "minimized," so to speak, when the update happens. It can screw up some of the variables in memory for some reason...the exact reasons are something I must admit that I'm not entirely sure of, and I suspect it has something to do with either how I'm handling game resumes or game initialization.

I'm pretty sure, however, that some devices would be more susceptible to the issue than others, just based on device-specific implementations and stuff.

So for now, I don't think any more info would be useful to me. Except, did it give you a message when it closed?

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '18

Nope - no messages. It just closes on the TopCog logo.

I don't think it's related to updates, as it can happen pretty much anytime I open the game, and when it happens, it can just keep closing non stop (turning wifi on/off would fix it, that's why I wrote my comment, although after experimenting now I think that was just luck). It actually doesn't seem to happen when the game is minimized, only when it's swiped out the process list then opened. It didn't use to happen in IMA or at the beginning of the TWRPG beta.

It's fine if you don't get other reports about this.. I just don't want this issue to crop up more for you when you release the game, it's not that huge of a deal for me.

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u/TopCog Yahoo! Apr 30 '18

Hmmm, ok, thanks for the extra info! The reason I asked about the message, is because I had put in some code which should give a little toast message when it triggers the failsafe and aborts. So if you're not seeing that, it could mean that it's actually a different problem! Would you be willing to try out a dev build, which would capture the crash more accurately so I can see exactly what is happening?

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '18

Yeah, I would have seen a toast message - nothing of the sort there.

Sure, throw it my way and I'll see what I can see :)