Talk:Pirate Chest/@comment-4102115-20120129113511

I did a lot of work on the table data (and did the pictures above) and confirmed and worded the 5hr/2hr rule - playing up to mid-last-year then crashed. I started a new game a month ago. It seems to me this rule is a bit different now? I've had the Android notification "A chest found on your island!". I've noted the time of the notification (say 2:00pm). I've noted the current time (say 5:30pm). I've opened the game and the chest is (still) there. Way more than 2 hours after the notification. Also I've noted when I've just randomly opened the game, the chest is often there. Seemingly more often than the 2/7 random chance. I've not done any analysing on this, but does the 2/5hr rule hold at all any more? Perhaps it holds true except when the notification is generated? Perhaps the notification is generated once a day (someone else suggested), and then the chest will remain indefinately until the game is opened, and then perhaps will remain for 2 hours from that point and then otherwise continue the 2/5hr rule? I've not done any checking on this but it would make sense.