User blog comment:Fanoftinyvillage/Stop feeding your Mammoths on level 8/@comment-5051663-20130313225513

I can't find the problem in my archive of control files, so people using Kindle Fire may not see the problem. There are only 2 places that 'mammoth9' is used, one for 'upgradesTo' in the entry for mammoth8 and 'dinosaurID'  for mammoth9. If those two don't agree, the game objects loudly. That entry would get used if you feed a level 8 mammoth up to level 9, *while the bug was present in the control files*. Older level 9 mammoths wouldn't have a problem. The problem would be a level 8 mammoth due to become a level 9, but for the problem that the game crashes trying to promote a level 8 mammoth to a level 9, and the mammoth stays a level 8 (so it crashes next time, too).

I see a control file change March 12, 21:31 CDT, but all that did was turn on "hide from shop" for the White SabreTooth Tiger. The previous change to that file was March 8, 19:21 CDT, adding the White SabreTooth Tiger. These times may be the time my Kindle Fire loaded the change, not when it was made at TinyCo.

To the original poster:  when was the first time you saw this error (date and if you can pin it down, time and time zone)? What platform are you using? (Apple / Android / Amazon?  What specific model phone/tablet?)

Unless the same typo was made in several places, this should not affect any other dinosaur (particularly ghost mammoth or lucky mammoth). I consider this unlikely. If you change one of the upgradesTo: entries to PopeASaurus15  (and did not define a PopeASaurus15), only the dinosaur species/level whose entry you put that in would have a problem.

If the problem is such that the game gets an error *before* loading new files (I hope TinyCo was smarter than that), it won't be able to get the corrected files even after TinyCo fixes the problem. In this case, an uninstall/reinstall should fix it, provided it's done *after* TinyCo does their fix. I would recommend trying an uninstall/reinstall *NOW*. (Do not do a "factory reset".  If you are given the option to delete the application's data, say YES.  Your game is kept on TinyCo's servers)  If that doesn't fix it, try filing a support ticket and repeating the uninstall/reinstall every couple of days until it's fixed.

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