Talk:Flag Day/@comment-170.194.16.50-20120614090139/@comment-4935290-20120614134816

About animation, it's probably the most sought after feature for a building here, but there is a huge problem with hardware resources needed for having a lot of animated buildings. I tested the Facebook version, everything is animated, to the point that some animations create confusion and make harder to spot things. Probably to reduce resources needed they made some decisions that imho are bad, like when you click 20 buildings in a row, they expect a few seconds and then credit the XP at once and always below the XP indicator and not above each building like the mobile version. Even with these things, my desktop PC, much more powerfull than any phone or tablet, had a hard time loading the island of some advanced users (there I found users at levels above 70), you can notice it slows down. I know Flash is part of the problem, but it's not all. So no phone could load islands like the ones in the Facebook version. And they need to make a game that can run in basic 2 year-old phones. So the Android version can't have islands as big as or as animated as the Facebook version. When the phones become prowerfull enough they probably will release a new version, incompatible with the current version just for more powerfull phones and then we could have a lot of animation, big islands and so on.