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Post by neodaz on Feb 8, 2011 11:56:20 GMT -5
I'm toying with the idea of buying an Android based tablet sometime soon and would like to know if there is a way to transfer saved captains from one device to another?
Whilst I greatly enjoy the game some of my captains have several weeks invested in them and I would rather not have to try again from scratch.
Many thanks
Daz
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 8, 2011 16:34:16 GMT -5
People with backup and restore knowledge will have to help.
I'm strange with the Android -- I save nothing and factory reset a lot.
Due to being developer, I think.
Star Traders uses a basic Android files, so if you copy them from one device to another it should work.
I think you have to have root tho.
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Post by ghrasp on Feb 8, 2011 22:05:47 GMT -5
Would it be possible to add a save / restore to SD feature for the player data? I greatly appreciate the apps I have that have this feature since I wipe more often than average as well.
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 9, 2011 3:47:06 GMT -5
That would require that I add a permission (SD_CARD) and I'm concerned about adding any permissions because of the way Android displays them.
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Post by wormholewillie on Feb 9, 2011 13:51:23 GMT -5
I am evaluating tablets and wondering if I will need to buy another copy of Elite if I get a second device. My hunch is "yes".
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Post by oldalchemist on Feb 9, 2011 15:15:15 GMT -5
Isn't the game linked to your Android Market account? I was under the impression that with the same Gmail address, I could download Elite again if I uninstalled it.
A concern about Captain Transfer: It seems it would allow save scumming just like copying your Nethack file would. I like that my Captain is at risk of deletion. It makes me play more carefully.
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 9, 2011 17:52:23 GMT -5
I would like to think that everyone is playing by the rules as well. If you do a complete backup of the system the Star Traders captains are copied as well. I do what I can to protect the database file but a rooted Droid is a linux box with a root account. No amount of protection will stop the OS from handing over the application's APK and everything else on demand.
If you transfer the gmail account between phones all your Google Market purchases will transfer (including Star Traders RPG.) However, if you do not take pains to duplicate your secured application storages to the new device, you will loose your Star Traders RPG saved games (and the saved games of all your other games too!)
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Post by ghrasp on Feb 10, 2011 10:25:05 GMT -5
I understand your concerns about permissions. However permission <sd card> would not allow crazy access like some programs want. It is hard for me to come up with a way to abuse that access. Also, it would let you optionally store some data files on the SD card to appease the storage size zealots that want more space on their app partition.
Until there is a SD save option, Titanium backup is an excellent program that can almost pushbutton save your game data. So no worries even if it will never be a feature.
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Post by ghrasp on Feb 12, 2011 11:17:38 GMT -5
Also forgot to mention Gingerbread (2.3.2) or better has native move to SD function that works flawlessly. However that still doesn't solve the savegame data transfer. Perhaps a second app (link in options menu? ) that will extract savegames and stick them on SD? Then the utility app could have the obvious permissions and be uninstalled when done.
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 12, 2011 12:37:23 GMT -5
A second application is a great idea.
I'm going to add it -- it will do a few things:
- Manage Saved Games
- Extract Backups
- Post Scores Online
Thoughts? This new application can be our "permissions bucket"
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Post by gandalf on Feb 14, 2011 3:25:33 GMT -5
oh oh oh, save game app for star traders, I like  I guess it'll be a little free app as it'd be useless without star traders anyway  |
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 14, 2011 4:15:16 GMT -5
Yes. Useless without ST RPG or one of our other games.
I am also going to include crash-dump collection and LogCat features w/ and "e-mail to cory" feature that starts your Android e-mail client and lets you review the logs and data I need to fix a bug =)
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Post by 607ch00 on Feb 14, 2011 19:51:58 GMT -5
This = Win. PHP/MySQL dev here. Let me know if you need insight/assistance with this part. |
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Post by Cory Trese on Feb 14, 2011 20:38:19 GMT -5
I'm considering using ScoreLoop since they provide a packaged SDK and managed infrastructure.
Pending that investigation a REST PHP or Ruby w/ MySQL backend would be a great way to do it.
I have scars from working on MMO teams and wish to avoid infrastructure management if possible.
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^ Half Baked Ideas ^
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Post by gandalf on Feb 15, 2011 3:10:29 GMT -5
ScoreLoop... Looking at their site it sure looks nice, however there doesn't seem to be much info for the 'end user'
I'm happy signing up with these types of services as long as I can opt out of the 10001 emails about 'cute farm pony manager XIII' and 'bubble slayer XXI' etc that invariably get sent!
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