Talk:Pirate Chest/@comment-99.187.132.38-20120505055224/@comment-4102115-20120505071706

Sorry, this discussion should be on the cheating page. I have not tried it, but I understood if you did it with the data off-line it could not detect it. Maybe at one point you accidentally opened the game with the clock set to an earlier time? Or accidentally opened it online? Problem if you go into the "future" is that you can never ever play the game online again ever, you can never get any new events, visit friends islands, etc, and if you ever accidentally open the game online it will instantly detect cheating. By starting in the past, you can work your way up to the present offline, accumulating your $ and Piastre, and then when the clock matches real-time, never do the cheat again. Maybe it might somehow detect that, but I don't see how. Others have said it works fine in small bursts during events, eg: during St Patrick's Day event, instead of waking up every 1.25 hours or instead of missing out on the zaps while you sleep, at bedtime - say 10pm - you use your 25 zaps, close the game, take your phone offline, set your clock forwards 1.25 hours, open the game, use the 25 zaps that have replenished, close the game, move the clock forwards 1.25 hours, keep repeating until the clock says 10am, or even 10pm the next day if you just want to play once a day. Just take note of the clock, lets say it is 10pm the next day. Now the key thing is, when you put your phone back online, do not open the game again before 10pm under any circumstances!! This way you can maximise use of zaps and finish events quicker. I only did it once - during the Birthday event - when people did not know if they would miss out on "daily bonuses" from the cake if they got the cake towards the end of the 10 days as we assumed it would work like the Christmas Tree did and give presents each 24 hours. So I jumped my clock ahead 6 hours collecting tokens from my Hotels to complete the cake quicker to see what would happen. We found out that unlike the Christmas Tree - it gave a bonus one time only so it made no differene whether we got the cake in 1 day or 10 days.