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@angryman79, It is a cheat, or actually more an exploit. I was not aware of using multiple devices myself, but it sounds like a good way to get 2 sets of goals to achieve. I have sent the details of the exploit to amslimfordy (admin) and Rovio. I am able to reset the objectives on my device only, anytime I like. That’s an exploit based on the fact that many things in the game are triggered by variables on the device. It’s an easy exploit and you can actually come across it by accident without even knowing it.

It is also not a bug since it is programmed to behave in the way it does. Some of these issues are based on design choices to “encourage” people to play as many times per day as possible instead of whenever someone has the time to play. This is the type of designing you can find in many of the free-to-play games with in-app purchases and lots of advertising. It just doesn’t work well if you want to let people compete against each other.

Your way of using multiple devices also fits in this design strategy. Since many things like golden pig, friendship essence requests and new goals in the arena are triggered by the device, it makes sense that using two devices could flip the triggers on both devices at the same time. Since only your arena scores are stored outside your cloud save on a central scoreboard, you would get double credits (any double income from a second golden pig would simply overwrite the data from the other device).

Honestly, I would consider using multiple devices cheating, but sadly it is a feature provided with the support for multiple devices. It is hard to blame you for using this, although I would feel really screwed if you were in my league, so please don’t.