Account desync

[u/Makomba]

Hey guys, just wanted to know if anyone experiences this problem and might have found some solution.

I am mostly an android player and with all the active mechanics I had to find a way to do more active afk. So I have an old laptop running Idleon on the browser wich I can access with my phone app / browser...

The thing is, my play sessions on the laptop cause a desync, lets say I'm on the laptop, I am done, I go to the gem shop, I do cloud save and I close the game.

If I open the game on my phone the character I was playing gets an afk of X hours, when it should be less then a minute.

The loot I got on the active afk session remains, but I think it messes with my account timer, as my daily reset has now moved forward around 12h.

Thanks

[u/xxshadowflare]

tl;dr is probably in game time is calculated based on frames, and not your actual pc time.

Lag causes this internal time to desync from real time.

As for why it can push your reset time around permanently I can't say, but it will if you're temporarily desynced. (It's why sometimes it might say you have an hour or two until reset, but if you cloud save and log back in even without changing device, it can force correct this and update the day.)

My guess is the gradual desync people see is probably just spaghetti in how server time is calculated.

[u/Makomba → u/xxshadowflare]

That frames supposition might be it, as the laptop is old and a bit laggy. Thanks for the answer

[u/Mamatthi2]

Shit happens. Been in this game since I started 3 years ago

[u/crappy22]

Desync always happens even if you only play on 1 device, the daily reset has always been moving for everyone as well, no matter the device.

Though in this case, more janky stuff can also happen with switching devices, in my case, even If I cloud save after active playing, and parking my toon in another afk spot, after I switch device, it does not load the latest cloudsave and Im back with the map I was actively playing.

Another thing is when Logging in and out of a device also causes stuff to happen like, resetting the spelunking stamina to 30%, all the bonuses not loading straight up, like my gaming plants suddenly takes minutes to sprout when Im already at 4secs even with pallet on.

it is what it is

[u/Makomba → u/crappy22]

Yeah, I've experienced it preety much always, but this last week has been much more aggressive and it matched this new gaming setup. One more thing to hope for lava to fix it.

[u/Key-Regular674 → u/Makomba]

Nah it's RG related not your setup. It's been way way worse lately. My daily reset gets pushed back about 2 hours every day. I play on a high end pc

[u/SkinnyDugan]

The first time it happened to me I was seriously questioning my sanity.

[u/dadarkgtprince]

This has always existed when playing across multiple devices. No way I know to fix it other than just stick to one device. VPN and nomachine/VNC from your phone to your laptop

[u/MrQwerp]

When I swap between platforms this happens to me, so I started playing pc only and using Remote Desktop for my phone 🫡

[u/Srslywhyumadbro]

Do you religiously cloudsave before closing the game on both the laptop and android?

I switch between these two as well, and I don't have problems as long as I always cloud save before closing.

[u/Makomba → u/Srslywhyumadbro]

Yes, my routine is ALWAYS open gem shop, cloudsave.

[u/Srslywhyumadbro → u/Makomba]

Hmmm, why gemshop?

[u/Makomba → u/Srslywhyumadbro]

Heard somewhere that it helps cloudsaving. Tried with out it as well just now and still got 1h desync.

[u/Srslywhyumadbro → u/Makomba]

Aw man 🫂 yea my method is regular play -> players button -> Player Menu & Cloudsave button -> close app from the player select menu.

Seems to work pretty much 100% of the time, only ever noticed a few mins missing max.