Hi Everyone,
I see a lot of frustration here and elsewhere about people losing their progress.
" Won in the arena, but when I went back, same round of the tournament"
"Put two dragons on the nest, when I went back they were gone"
That sort of thing.
We all need to remember we are playing over either our telco's data service or wi-fi at home.
Let's look at wi-fi first. Your router has a limited "pipe" to allow data traffic through. If you share that router with other people in your house (teenage kids, for example!!) you will find your communication to and from the internet is often compromised. Those kids might be playing a more bandwidth hungry game which has a higher priority setting and YOUR traffic gets bumped.
Sometimes there can be momentary outages - perhaps not perceptible if watching a video or catch-up TV because videos and TV buffers (downloads a little ahead) so if there is a blip in the connection, you don't notice it. However, with an on-line game such as Dragon Story, you are sending data updates from your device to the server. You win a battle in the arena, that data is sent to the server. Next time you go to the Arena, the server is checked to see where you are up to (I'm guessing at the timing here, but theoretically). If the update never got to the server from your last win because of a comms issue between your device and the "cloud" you will face the same dragon again because that is all the server knows about.
I live alone, so I have NO problems on my wi-fi - but when there were four kids living in this house, often I couldn't even watch a video on my computer because they had hogged all the bandwidth. Your router may be wired to your internet provider's equipment, but the wi-fi isn't. There can also be interference from other wi-fi in the building if you live in a flat or apartment. We have this problem at my work where there is a LOT of different wi-fi networks in the building.
Now let's look at the phone. Definitely not a wired connection. Data services can be flaky at the best of times. Travelling on a train for example - often the train passes through areas where the signal is very poor (no close cell towers, for example). In tunnels there is nothing. Where my sister lives in the country, to make a mobile phone call I literally had to stand in the middle of the road. Data services? Not a hope!
When it comes to Dragon Story I never do anything that is important when I don't trust the connectivity from my end. Sure, I'll collect coins or visit neighbours when on the train (in areas I know are OK), but I don't battle or breed. When there is no Tales/World Event I might plant or collect crops, but not during events when a "missed" action can be a major pain in the you-know-where.
I've only had one situation where I "lost" an action - a breeding pair disappeared from the Breeding Den, something that was actually in my favour at the time.
Technology IS great and we all use it. We play games using it. But how often have you not received a text message until the next day? Or can't make a phone call because the signal is bad? We all KNOW the technology is not 100% reliable - if we chose to play ON-LINE games on mobile devices, we have to accept that sometimes our device will, for whatever reason, lose connectivity and our progress updates won't reach the server. Yes, partial updates can happen too, I won't go into the technical details, that would bore everyone silly, but trust me, it happens.
That's life in the digital world.