Sending food gifts to multiple neighbors resets restaurant to empty (guests)

[JohnDede]

I send food gifts to multiple neighbors at the end of the day in 2 batches. Both batches reset my restaurant to empty, so the bots had to start coming in again from scratch. ipad2 on version 1.5

[JohnDede]

It's actually worse than I thought. All sending of gifts is blanking all guests out of the restaurant.

[patriziaf]

??
That's normal, isn't it?

[JohnDede]

Yes, up to and including stealing coins during the game.

[patriziaf]

Well, if you tap on the icon Design and immediately on the x (so you stay in the Design mode only for a second), the game is also "restarted".
It's the game.
If you close your game totally or put it in background (multitasking) the customers continue to come, eat and quit and you earn coins even if you are not really playing.
That's also the game.

[patriziaf]

I solved my problems of losing coins in the morning by solving internet connection problems. I changed the channel of my router.

[patriziaf]

Apparently my connection was good enough for plenty of apps and for surfing but not enough for TeamLava games.

[DAmanding]

Apparently my connection was good enough for plenty of apps and for surfing but not enough for TeamLava games.

Yup. That drove me nuts for the longest time. Switching from my old ipod to my new iphone improved my wifi connection considerably. Also force close your apps before going to sleep every night.

[RoseMeyer]

I solved my problems of losing coins in the morning by solving internet connection problems. I changed the channel of my router.

How do you do this?
Geez, you need an IT department these days to help you play games.

I feel like I still use a rotary phone.

[RoseMeyer]

Holy cow! It seems to have worked. I googled the directions for doing this and twice already my coins added in the first time. I dont have to exit and go back in. You are a GENIUS. why the never said anythig about it beforeis beyond me.

Id gift you some gems if I could.....

My neighbor was on the same channel as me, so i changed from 11 to 1 to get away from her and dang.

gawd I feel stupid, how on EARTH are we supposed to know this stuff. :(

[RoseMeyer]

Ok not perfect still sometimes but definitelt better than None...its xan improvement

[patriziaf]

I hope it will last..

Every new router is at channel 11.

[TimeForACuppaTea]

Wow, my husband is an IT engineer so he handles all our techy stuff. But I'll have to ask him what channel our router is on when he gets home. (working late tonight). I didn't even know there were different channels. Doh!

Thanks for this info.

[patriziaf]

If a wifi network is not good, there can be many, many reasons! Channel is only one of them!
Home Construction and Other Obstructions

The way your home is built has likely the most direct impact on how far Wi-Fi can penetrate the house. The vast majority of homes were built before the concepts of cellphones, 3G service, and Wi-Fi were discussed outside of Nikola Tesla reading groups.

Steel structures, concrete, the layout of air-conditioning vents and returns in homes with centralized systems, aquariums, and the spot where your dog chooses to nap can all make an impact on your Wi-Fi coverage. One big signal ****er could also be lurking in your walls, especially if your house dates back more than 60 years: chicken wire. Seriously.

As the Wall Street Journal explains, many homes with plaster and lath walls were held up by wood wrapped in chicken wire. When modern homeowners try to live the wireless life, they find terrible Wi-Fi coverage, because the wire is spaced in just such a way to create a perfect shield against Wi-Fi frequencies (sometimes called a Faraday cage).

You can move your aquariums and re-position your router to provide better, more centralized coverage—more on that down below. But you're likely not going to gut your walls to fix your wireless, so let's eliminate other potential culprits.

Interference from Neighbors (and Other Gadgets)

Most home users buy just a few varieties of routers made for the residential market. Most users also never tweak their settings, and most routers default to the same channel. If you see a good number of Wi-Fi names available from your laptop, or you suspect you might have bad luck in your neighbors' placement, it's time to switch channels.

The web-based Meraki Wi-Fi Stumbler is a good bet for analyzing your network to find the least-used channel nearby—when it's up. On Windows, you can also try inSSIDer, and Mac users can work through iStumbler. With an Android phone, you can walk around your house and see which channel is getting traffic, and where, with Wifi Analyzer.

Poor Placement

You placed your wireless router on the floor, right behind the TV and the home theater receiver, downstairs in the corner living room, because that's where the cable guy put it. He's wrong, but the fix might be far simpler than you thought.

For the best possible placement of your router, use the VOICE acronym. We've adapted that simplification of the excellent CountryMile WiFi guide to improving reception to a five-item checklist. So, make sure your router:

Has its antenna pointing in Vertical fashion. The Wi-Fi signal actually beams out from the sides of your antenna, and if they're pointing in a direction other than up, you might get slightly better coverage in one particular area—but most of your signal is shooting straight into the ground and ceiling. Image via CountryMile WiFi.
Is free from Obstructions, so that it's not right next to a thick wall, close to other electronics, angled behind metal objects, or otherwise blocked from a line of coverage.
Is away from, and working on a different channel from, Interference from neighbors.
Has a Central position in your house, so its coverage is as even and wide-ranging as possible.
Is Elevated, because Wi-Fi signal has an easier time traveling down and sideways than up. It's actually okay to elevate your router onto a dresser, entertainment shelter, or shelf, or even stacked on a few books. Wi-Fi signal has little trouble passing through wood and books, as opposed to other issues.

Not Enough Power

If your Wi-Fi signal is dead just outside the room it's in, you've got structural issues that you'll likely have to address, or you'll need to invest in some serious CAT cabling throughout your house. If it feels like you're always just on the verge of having signal, you can likely give your wireless router a little boost to fill that remaining gap.

We've come across many ways to boost the power and extend your signal area. Here are the majority of them:

Tinfoil-coated Windsurfer parabolic antenna attachment
Boost your signal strength in the router itself by installing DD-WRT or installing Tomato.
Physically extend your router's antenna with copper wire, a wood screw, a drinking straw, and a black marker
Improve reception at a particular spot in your house with a cooking strainer signal catcher
Use a shoebox and tinfoil for an ugly-but-effective extender.
Repeat the Signal

Some people are just unlucky in their net connections. Maybe the cable only comes in from one spot in your house, a lower corner, and your walls and ducts aren't particularly amenable to running cable. Or your spouse won't put up with having the Linksys box so high up and visible in the spot you need it. In either case, you can form a kind of wireless signal bucket brigade with a bridge or repeater: a second router that picks up the signal from your primary router, then re-broadcasts it to cover another area of your house.

We've covered two different setups for repeaters in detail: Gina's guide for setting up a wireless bridge, and my guide to turning an old router into a repeater. What's the difference? A bridge is primarily for providing devices with "hard" Ethernet plugs with internet access through your Wi-Fi signal, while a repeater picks up signal, re-amplifies it, then pushes it back out again. You do lose a little speed in a repeater connection, but for those who simply want to surf the web in bed, or cover that last few feet of the house without signal, it's a decent compromise.

[RoseMeyer]

When the other neighbors came home every channel had lots of networks on it. Things were worse then. Earlier wheen nobody was home just me +the lady next door it was good.

No probs with other apps tho i guess its just not meant to be *shrugs*

[TimeForACuppaTea]

I asked my husband about this (IT engineer) and he said ours is set to search for the best channel at that time. So it changes constantly. Perhaps you can do this too. I've no clue how of course, but I can ask him tomorrow if you want. He's gone to bed now.

[JohnDede]

Well, if you tap on the icon Design and immediately on the x (so you stay in the Design mode only for a second), the game is also "restarted".
It's the game..

It's not the game. It never did this before during gifting. Design requires the clearing so you can move things around.

And it's not the wireless. I test 30M/20M and I'm sitting 6 feet from the router. They've fixed little in this version of the non-holiday game and made more issues than they fixed.

[RoseMeyer]

I guess my house needs a tinfoil hat(and coat) to keep everybody else's wifi signals out. Those guys were only something.

:(

[AnnasCoffee]

I asked my husband about this (IT engineer) and he said ours is set to search for the best channel at that time. So it changes constantly. Perhaps you can do this too. I've no clue how of course, but I can ask him tomorrow if you want. He's gone to bed now.

Oohh ... That's what my husband told me too. I didn't believe him (he's NOT an IT engineer). I thought he was just saying that to get out of fixing it for me.

I have signal strength issues. But, now that I think about it... I don't know if it's because of my neighbors. They're all REALLY old, I just don't think they're on the Internet all day (like me). I know if I'm in a room that's too far away from my router I get a poorer signal.

[RoseMeyer]

set to search for the best channel at that time.

dANG, I want to know how to do that.
Back to google.
Nobody was on channel 6 this morning.

[JohnDede]

Well, I'm having great fun this morning. My guests have been disappearing all morning. Several shut down, clear the memory, restart the device. Just keeps getting worse. Deleted the apps, restarted the device, downloaded RS and PSS. Opened RS and counted 28 guests in the door at 8:50. 4 minutes later down to 10 guests, 6 min 8, 10 min 5, 15 min 3. It was down to 2 guests prior to reloading the apps. Am I really supposed to believe this issue is on my end. Now 20 minutes with 2 guests inside restaurant.

[JohnDede]

Sent a gift, restaurant blanks all guests, 28 come in, 9 leave, 3 come in. Very weird.

[RoseMeyer]

Wait a second, if your network is (always) searching for the best channel, does that mean its changes itself when something else looks good? Or does it pick something when it starts and stick with it?

I think that constant searching would be BAD for this game, static channel choice would be better.

[RoseMeyer]

". Am I really supposed to believe this issue is on my end. "

I keep getting back to "faulty app". I've never tried another app that had these problems. If an app only works sometimes for some people on some devices--then that is a DEFECTIVE product, no? I don't know anything about programming, I just know it doesnt work right for me most of the time.

[JohnDede]

My router has the option of a single channel setting or auto, which moves to the channel with least interference. Best place to look for the info is from the manufacturer's support page. Should let you download the User Guide. They're usually pdfs, and searchable for word or phrase. I have to get into the wireless settings, change to manual setup, change things, save changes, then switch it back off manual.

[JohnDede]

Server seems to be giving me reasonable numbers (coin count) when I go in to mess with food. Don't dare leave the app open on the ipad in between. Trigger a restart of the bots coming in, and get the heck out. Seems to just be the app running on my device that looks like it's decaying, and trying to die. Not much pleasure in dealing with that.

[DAmanding]

The chicken wire is why my signal in one room of the house is so bad. That particular room as an addition after the house was built and it does have plaster. I often have to leave that room to play.

[RoseMeyer]

After work on channel siz all by myself none of them added right! !


Had to back in to get all the pnts dont get ut sooo inx
Consistent!!!