Talk:Cheating/@comment-202.124.88.106-20120530194437/@comment-4102115-20120605064052

Long comment thread. Note, obviously it's not just the Fof that was removed, it was all the St Patrick's Day buildings, just like they removed all the Christmas and Thanksgiving and Halloween buildings before and will remove the Easter buildings soon. it's only the FoF that had any effect on us like the Lovers' Fountain removal effected us previously.

The only difference is that the St Patrick's Day buildings were removed mid-version. ie. The buildings are still available in the apk download on the Market. So it seems to me that the developers must have sent out a "signal" to all the games to hide those structures - or when games connected in to the servers they were given that code. But whatever method, it seems that they only ran that code for a short time figuring they've sent it to 99% of players. Obviously with the next version release it will be removed properly.

But the thing is, after the code "hid" the buildings in our games, DaBogey re-installed the game with them unhidden, and the restored his game progress, and has skipped the "hide buildings" transmission. I would predict that anyone who knows how to backup and restore (titanium or whatever), could backup their game, reinstall from the market, restore, and they will have FoF again. (Until the next version release).