Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-1.9.107.149-20151018141456/@comment-26793627-20151103220510

RR3G&#039;hamO. wrote: Even made the time on my phone 1 min slow to see if that triggered the error. no. Hi. I doubt if the FM servers actually compare if the device is in sync with the same time zone that you physically are. My iPad's location service is disabled and has been in flight mode ( I've no cellular network here to utilise ) since long before the v3.5 update, and I still get the error prompt every so often. I guess they have coded to seek out frequent mismatch / inconsistencies between their server's timekeeping and your device's time, which would imply time manipulation. I say frequent, because one odd shift in time zone shouldn't trigger suspicion of cheating as players might migrate to a different location / time zone. But yes, say your local time is 3 hrs ahead of servers' by default. And if at one sync, the servers find you 7 hrs ahead, and at the next sync, a few minutes later, again 3 hrs ahead.. well, it's fairly easy to conclude that you didn't travel but your device did. That being said, the easiest way to get the error prompt for me while my iPad is offline is to switch off the display for a few seconds ( 20 seconds are more than enough usually ) while the game is running, and then switch it back on. And voila! there is the error prompt.