darkSpyro

I saw something in another post about Hyde sticking around and giving extra gems while visiting other kingdoms, so I had to try it. I found him last night and, sure enough, he didn't disappear after giving me a gem. He just kept giving gems every time I tapped him, so I kept at it. I had to keep switching my tapping finger because they were going numb and I eventually had to stop because my hand was cramping. After more than half an hour, I had taken Hyde for more than 2,000 gems!!! Now if I can only find him again before it gets fixed.

No offense and with no jealousy intended, I seriously hope that glitch isn't the precursor to a glitched save file where you loose everything. That's the first thing I thought when somebody else mentioned experiencing this. Having said that, if this happens to me I highly doubt I will resist the temptation myself.

Nope, haven't had any problems, other than the usual occasional error when trying to visit. I know I'm lucky and I'm just hoping it will work for others as well.

Knock on wood!

I had to try this, because who doesn't need more gems? I searched a bunch of islands and I found....Boo. Well at least I have another legendary hall out of the deal. :-)

But I'll keep looking, I might find him yet.

Same thing with Ma-Boo and wishstones, for anyone who cares about that

Wonder if it's a glitch, or if it's a "treat" for Halloween for those that take notice?

It could be a special 'treat', but it seems excessive by the game's usual standards. It also doesn't work on your own island, just while visiting. I guess that could be thanks for going Trick-or-Treating, but I'd hope they would fix the visiting situation a little more before doing that.

When I found Ma-Boo, I just kept tapping til I couldn't stand it anymore, they were still there and visible when I went back to my own kingdom. First time I found Hyde, he walked behind a sanctuary and didn't come back out, after about 500 gems. Second time I found him, he poofed after about 300 gems, and just now I found him again and got about 5 before he poofed.

I bet they fix this glitch before they work out some of the other persistent glitches in the game. In fact, I bet they fix this glitch almost immediately thanks to this thread... Get 'em while they're hot.

I saw this and wondered if it was even safe to visit again...

On my 6th visist, the game crashed and upon reopening it reverted to the cloud save. If my cloud save were corrupt, I would have been wiped.

I crashed out too and then it took forever to reload the game but thankfully everything was intact. This may be playing with fire...

I feel like I must be certifiably insane to risk visiting after having my island back less than a week, but the temptation of finding a persistent Hyde is too great.

No luck finding Hyde anywhere, but visiting has been mostly successful. Crashed once, but no ill effects.

But, while my corrupted save happened during visiting, it did not happen after a crash. All seemed to be going fine with the visiting. I'd returned to my island by choice after collecting a gem. Then, when I tried to access my list of friends, it crashed. And then kept crashing every time it tried to save.

Charred - I'm a bit confused by your post. You say that the game crashed and upon reopening it reverted to the cloud save. Since the game automatically saves to the cloud each time you initiate visiting, won't that be your most current save anyway?

Oh - or do you mean all the kudos and gems you collected while visiting were lost? Yes, it's been the case as long as I've been playing that anything you collect isn't saved until you return to your island. That's why I always return home after finding a gem.

It happened just like to Charred, but 3 attempts and 3 failures. Even though my kingdom returned again and seemed intact, I suddenly came the order to buy the lumber yard (already I had this order before visiting), then I disappeared an unfinished order (and gave me a bad feeling ), and then went to put the sactuaries and every time I tried, the game chashed.

In short, I didn't get any gem from Hyde, I couldn't visit friends, my game is bugged, and I had to restore my ipad with a backup that I was made ******just before attempting to visit.

I was punished for my greed of trying to get additional gems. I do not hit the lottery of halloween !!!

I'll keep working hard every day (as in real life) to get gems .......

Here's a cheat code for excessive gems: have your save file corrupted after buying nearly everything available, wait a week, make a new game, get five-digit gems.

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Charred - I'm a bit confused by your post. You say that the game crashed and upon reopening it reverted to the cloud save. Since the game automatically saves to the cloud each time you initiate visiting, won't that be your most current save anyway?

Oh - or do you mean all the kudos and gems you collected while visiting were lost? Yes, it's been the case as long as I've been playing that anything you collect isn't saved until you return to your island. That's why I always return home after finding a gem.

I don't think the game saves before you visit. It used to when the save button was also the social button. During the infamous upgrade to the social system, they removed saving from the social button and now to manual save you must go to the options/settings menu.

So to clarify, when the game crashed and reloaded, it reloaded my older cloud save rather than my current local save. I lost very little time because I had recently saved. The point is that this bug STILL exists and the impact is related to how old your save file is and/or if it is corrupted.

Visiting is playing with some serious fire.

I have noticed something with visits, not sure if it would be a helpful thing to note for the devs or not. I haven't had any save or crash issues, but I do get the error when trying to visit, but ONLY on higher level kingdoms. Kingdoms that are under 20, I never have an error on visiting. (Possibly under 30, but I wasn't paying close enough attention soon enough to be sure.)

For me, each time I leave my island to visit, it shows "Saving to the cloud". Strange that is different between users - we must have different settings somewhere.

But yikes - yes, I agree that visiting is playing with fire.

I didn't find Hyde, but I did visit for about 45 minutes without any harm to my island, so I'm still feeling lucky.

Mine also claims to save before and after visits. Funny thing, though, mine says "saving" not "saving to cloud". Perhaps I'm not getting a cloud save at all, which may be my saving grace.

I managed to visit my entire friends list (97), but didn't find Boo or Hyde anywhere. So I'm guessing they fixed it by getting rid of them completely until they find a 'proper' fix. Nice one Acti-smart.

Its not been removed yet

I visited every friend I didn't get an error message for and never found Hyde. But I did find MaBoo and my game still works so far so I feel pretty lucky :-)

Hope it still is there when I find Hyde!

It worked for me I stopped to check my gems at my own kingdom and found I got about 800 but then couldn't find him but remember it is only once a day so try again tomorrow

Ohh and when he poofs away it's only to another part of the island like to another island in the same friends page I clicked him for like and hour

Got 1,100 wish stones from Ma-Boo today in a friend's island. I had to surrender coz my fingers got tired already tapping on him for about 30mins and still did not disappear. I think I could have gotten more if I didn't gave up..

Just got another round.. 250 wish stones from Ma-boo and 220 gem stones from Hyde..

Maybe they gave us this little "glitch" to get us to try visiting, again. I've went through about half my friends and no Hyde, but I have gotten a few error messages. No crashes, though.

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I have noticed something with visits, not sure if it would be a helpful thing to note for the devs or not. I haven't had any save or crash issues, but I do get the error when trying to visit, but ONLY on higher level kingdoms. Kingdoms that are under 20, I never have an error on visiting. (Possibly under 30, but I wasn't paying close enough attention soon enough to be sure.)

That stands to reason since higher kingdoms inevitably have more assets to pipe in, and greater chance of a stall. I've been testing your theory and so far it's holding true.

Oh, and I rolled hide for about 600 gems before I lost him in some trees. It feels like balance for all of the other visiting issues. I'm sure it won't be this way for much longer.

Just got another round.. This time I've waited until Hyde finally left.. About an hour's worth of tapping, got me 3600 gems..

I'm so loving this "glitch"..

Hyde appeared for me in about 4 out of 40 friends last night (second night in a row), managed to get 300 gems out of him before the finger wore out. Couldn't believe it.

Had even more success with Ma-Boo this morning, 900 gems!!

I really hope they don't update the game until next week, this is really helping me build my relatively new kingdom.....

Only been on the game for three weeks but loving it - please add via Activate or GC :-)

I have been looking for Hyde since they said you could find him in your friends kingdoms. I have never found him, not once. This leaves me to question why it seems everyone can find him but me? Am I really that unlucky? Anyone else never found him? I have over 80 friends. Seems I should have found him at least once since I visit them every day. At least the ones it don't kick me out of. What's the trick?

I visited all of my 80+ friends with no luck in finding Hyde, either. Oh well. They'll probably fix it before I get another chance at finding him, again.

Glad to know I am not the only one. And you are right, they will probably fix it before I can get him too. Sigh.......

I visited 42 friends yesterday and an additional 20 today. Have not found Hyde anywhere. I do not own Ma-Boo. Maybe you need to own both before you find either?

Not sure about that. I do own them both. Still no luck.

I only have 18 friends and own both and no luck...............

No luck here with either, either.

Ow. My fingers. Ow. My wrist. Ow. My arm. But... around 6000 free gems later. And he never disappeared, even after well over an hour. I just couldn't tap anymore.

Dagone Woz send him my way.

Waaaaah I can't find either of them

I was able to click Hyde twice though, then he disappeared.

I have yet to find him since this glitch started. Bummer. And I lost 200 gems on star strike. Darnit.

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Ow. My fingers. Ow. My wrist. Ow. My arm. But... around 6000 free gems later. And he never disappeared, even after well over an hour. I just couldn't tap anymore.

Sounds painful, why put yourself through it? Seeing as you already had too many gems:

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Thousands of kudos, thousands of wishstones and a couple of thousand gems all sitting idle. After you've maxed out your shrines, the store is virtually useless as there's no alt or giant houses available, and extra shrines have been banished from the well making wishstones worthless.

On-topic; I tried to find Hyde yesterday but only found him on my own island so he disappeared after 1 gem. I have 100 friends and visited most (ones that did not give me a connection error) but sadly no luck for me.

I have visited 196 friends over two days. I cannot visit col. Panic and Woz won't accept my friend invite (hopefully the guilty feeling of being thrown under the bus changes things!!) And I still haven't found what I'm looking for (hello, is this mic on? Anyone?). I found Hyde once and the glitch worked but I am really wish stone poor and wanted Maboo.

I was able to get about 500 gems out of Hyde before distractions and a low battery caused me to stop. I had to visit a few dozen friends before finding him.

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Ow. My fingers. Ow. My wrist. Ow. My arm. But... around 6000 free gems later. And he never disappeared, even after well over an hour. I just couldn't tap anymore.

Sounds painful, why put yourself through it? Seeing as you already had too many gems

I definitely deserved that. I suppose you can never have too many gems. I was also a bit naughty and went forward to next Tuesday to confirm another post that said houses were unlocked. Giant houses and the two sidekick houses will indeed be unlocked, but not alt houses. I just wanted to know how many gems I'd be needing if I was lucky enough to come across a non-disappearing Hyde.

Turns out I'll be needing about 3000 gems for those houses, and THEN I came across Hyde. Since there's no active gem counter while you're clicking, you just click until the can't click anymore or he disappears for good. I was hoping I'd amassed about 3000, and was genuinely surprised to find I'd netted double that. So I used some of those gems to buy Cali at half price. Now that I've finally grabbed all the regular skylanders, each 5 million spin from now on is pure gravy, and Cali will ensure the gravy keeps flowing.

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I have visited 196 friends over two days. I cannot visit col. Panic and Woz won't accept my friend invite (hopefully the guilty feeling of being thrown under the bus changes things!!) And I still haven't found what I'm looking for (hello, is this mic on? Anyone?). I found Hyde once and the glitch worked but I am really wish stone poor and wanted Maboo.

Sorry old chum. Lost you amongst more than 50 pending invites when everyone was doing the Activate vs in-game list shuffle. I've bumped someone and so now you're sorted.

I could not visit Col.panic either... I still haven't found Hyde after visiting everyone yesterday and about half today. I did see him on my island and tapped him before thinking. Can you find him on your own island and friends' islands same day?

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Can you find him on your own island and friends' islands same day?

Yes. And it is also possible to find him in multiple friends' kingdoms on the same day.

Been seekerton, but ain't been finderin. This is so very frustrating. Visiting 98 friends 2 days in a row to no avail. Especially after reading of other peoples good fortune. I too need giant & sidekick houses, but it seems that won't be a reality for me next Tuesday. It takes at least 2 hours to thoroughly search everyone's islands & it's just wasting my time. I've said it before- this game continually disappoints.