MonTowers ~Legend of Summoners~ - (by Buff Stone)

[kandjar]

Hey guys,


After reading some of the previous post on the different glitches in the game and way to collect all monster without paying an insane amount of money; I will give you my version and also explain why people are loosing their game data.


Prequirement:
- Having the game ;P
- Knowing how to force close an app!!! (Note: you may even want to try on other app if you're affraid of doing it wrong here)
The technique as explained by many is fairly simple: hold the power button for couple of second until the "power off" slider appears, then release the power button and press the home button for about 5 or 6 seconds.


The next step is to know when the game issue a full save or a partial save.
This part is critical, as it could cause you data loss if you are not careful enough.

From an game history point of view, those who plays with the version anterior to 1.2 will remember that every time you power your phone on or switch the game from th task list, the game would freeze for a couple of seconds. This is basically when the game is issueing a full save. I believe this statement is still true with 1.2 and up. However; now the save is done in the background and it makes a huge difference.... For one, the game is more responsive (no more freeze effect). But more importantly for us here: if you quit the game while its saving its data; the save game may become corrupted.

In short, what I'm saying is: DO NOT FORCE QUITE while the game is doing a full save.


When do these "full saves" happen?
Well the following answer is mostly an educated guess than a guaranteed fact... And I may be missing some too; but from what I noticed; the game will perform a full save when:
- You power your phone on, with the game as active task.
- When you switch to the game from the active task list.
- When you fail to force close resulting a going back to the game (if this happen... too late... don't try a deseperate move to prevent any loss.. let the save happen!)


What is and when does the game perform a partial save, can these also cause data loss?
The short anwer is "yes it may" also cause data loss... But in practice, it won't. Partial save do not take long (less then a second); and when you're pressing the power button you still have to wait a couple of seconds during the time the partial save will have plenty of time to finish.

When does the game do partial save?
(Again the following answer is from my own experience)
- When you summon a new monter or upgrade a monter
-> The active monster list is saved.
- When you complete a fight and possibly when you loose a monster during a fight -- this didn't happen to me enough to be certain.
-> Monster lost during the fight are saved as lost.
- When you unsummon a monster
-> The token / potion count is saved.
I'm sure they are plenty of other case where the game will perform a partial save.

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What can be exploited?
It is possible to exploit the Force close trick in order to gather tokens, coins, or gatcha monster -- even easier than w/ v1.1.


Collecting tokens
The technique here is simple:
[Step1]
- summong a bunch of monster (the strongest one the better as the reward per unsummoning will be greater (max:3x))
- upgrading them to the max level.
- I personally like to force a "full save" here, by shutting down the phone an d turning it back on.. then I wait about 10 seconds to make sure the save is complete [optional]
[Step2]
- Unsummon any number of fully upgraded monsters then Force Quit.
- Repeat this process as many times as you want.

Gatcha tokens
The technique is similar:
- try to get a gatcha monster -- you may repeat this process as many times as you want as long as you just click on "Start" and do not leave the gatcha loop.
Then Force quit is none of the gatcha are acceptable.

Collecting resources
Same technique here; collect all resources then force quit.

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Some side tricks
- You can collect resources then go back to the monster list to do a gatcha loop or a unsummon loop then force quit; these combines nicely.
- When the game perform a full save; if I can I go collect resources before performing a gatcha loop or mass unsummon so if the game was still saving, it would do so during the time I collect the resources.
This is why someone mentioned that it doesn't always gain the full set of resources after a force quit; it's because the game was still saving while he was gathering the minerals.
- It's is always recommanded to unsummon multiple creatures at once instead of just one; or to perform 3+ gatcha in a row.


Hope this will help,
Kandjar

[Joe Koch]

Anyone know if the glitches still work on the new update? I really want to try the new tower, but not before I get that last Gacha I'm missing and finish filling out my gallery.

[Gaggy]

I'm kinda having trouble with trying to backup save right now cuz my ipod is so damn old (2nd gen) so it can't have 4.3 iOS which mean no 1.2 montower.

I'm kinda don't want to start over the whole collection on my new device is there anyway I can backup and transfer?

[Apokalyte]

Can I just ask what exactly is new in 1.3? theres nothing new for me, no new towers, no new monsters, no bug fixes... wtf?

[leezeebub]

Originally Posted by Apokalyte

Can I just ask what exactly is new in 1.3? theres nothing new for me, no new towers, no new monsters, no bug fixes... wtf?

Same for me, downloaded the new update this morning and there is not new tower or costume or anything.

[anubys1984]

I think, the left accidentaly the update description is. I think, because the 7th tower is already in.
Maybe only bugfixes are in the update...

[Apokalyte]

I'm really quite annoyed.....

All this new fantastic update did was fix the restart bug. No spelling errors were fixed, no new content at all added... just removing the best part of the game. I was incredibly excited when they announced a new update.... then disappointed.

Business skills 101 - if you want to destroy something customers love, ALWAYS add something awesome to counteract the nerf. They should not have fixed this bug UNTIL they had a new tower and new page of monsters or two so that we were disctracted and would forgive them.

They announce nonsense such as "We will add updates once every month, oh yeah!" and for this update they had the nerve to say "Just as we promised, here is the fabulous new update!"

..............

(really I'm just mad because I want new monsters and towers so bad, I love this game)

[Psac42]

I haven't had the chance to try since the update. If they've taken out that bug as you say, I'm done with the game. It was fun for a while for free. Time to delete.

[Quantus]

Hi dev,

Hiring monkeys to post negative reviews of your game is great publicity which is all you need to sucker interested gamers into throwing a few dollars your way.

Devs of real games: how much does it cost to do this? I've heard that many of you get contacted by shady businesses promising X number of reviews for Y dollars, etc. Curious how this whole process works.

[indalico]

I've gotten my coins from editing the database file. Is this still possible with the new version? I've only needed to do it once and picked up every coin and other goodie from the gatcha.

I don't see a reason to continue with the game, having obtained all the coins, and have deleted the app.