photon browser works fine for me... not as good as a laptop but does the trick if you are out and about and just want to check up on your island.
photon browser works fine for me... not as good as a laptop but does the trick if you are out and about and just want to check up on your island.
I test puffin and photon. I think puffin works better, but photon works fine.
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I'm more than likely working right now.
Sony Experia report: The free version of Photon kept on crashing (so wasn't willing to pay for it), but both the free and paid versions of Puffin work well enough to get daily login rewards and do basic upkeep.
Puffin on iOS works too, I wouldn't say you can play the game on it but it does allow you to get your daily log in and set a few trades if needed but scrolling the map for placing buildings is a bit arduous.
I think eventually they will need to move away from flash and cater to the tablet and portable device market. Currently these devices are outselling computers and in the interest of making the business viable they will need to move the game (or future iterations of it) to a portable platform. Since android and iOS seem to be the 2 biggest contenders for portable devices I would think making the game work, or at the least an app for these would be awesome.
Unfortunately I also see the other side of things. This game looks incredibly complex and massive and to redevelop in a new platform would be overwhelming! It would most likely be easier starting from scratch with a new game. But as a compromise an app that can just do basic things, like sending out your Geo's or Explorers, messaging and those kinds of things would be sweet. I am totally addicted to my tablet and I would love to be able to use it to do some upkeep on my island.
My only comment regarding this thread is that I am a little surprised at the anger shown from both sides about this suggestion. Why are you people so upset...lol. Its just a suggestion and I think its a good one, even though I don't see it happening due to the nature of the work. They would need a small team of coders just to get a basic app working properly. But at the end of the day this is just a suggestion. If you don't agree that's fine, but it won't hurt anyone if they do cater to us portable device lovers :P
/me waits patiently for a new portable Settlers online...maybe in a few years
use PUFFIN BROWSER> Settlers works perfectly.
Because, unfortunately the game will be 'dumbed down' to meet the low expectations of these devices.Originally Posted by ddakka
I think eventually they will need to move away from flash and cater to the tablet and portable device market. Currently these devices are outselling computers and in the interest of making the business viable they will need to move the game (or future iterations of it) to a portable platform. Since android and iOS seem to be the 2 biggest contenders for portable devices I would think making the game work, or at the least an app for these would be awesome.
Unfortunately I also see the other side of things. This game looks incredibly complex and massive and to redevelop in a new platform would be overwhelming! It would most likely be easier starting from scratch with a new game. But as a compromise an app that can just do basic things, like sending out your Geo's or Explorers, messaging and those kinds of things would be sweet. I am totally addicted to my tablet and I would love to be able to use it to do some upkeep on my island.
My only comment regarding this thread is that I am a little surprised at the anger shown from both sides about this suggestion. Why are you people so upset...lol. Its just a suggestion and I think its a good one, even though I don't see it happening due to the nature of the work. They would need a small team of coders just to get a basic app working properly. But at the end of the day this is just a suggestion. If you don't agree that's fine, but it won't hurt anyone if they do cater to us portable device lovers :P
/me waits patiently for a new portable Settlers online...maybe in a few years
Flash was already a major mistake, with a proper client version we should have a much better game, less bugs, less lag, and much more scope to add on more interesting features.
Problem with client versions is who's client version. A game I used to play had one, a custom one, problem was the guy who developed it left the company leaving no one who knew how to put in new cool stuff.
I tried puffin, but facebook thought that I'm in the US, so something fishy was going on with that browser.
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