Timer question

Although I'm getting used to it, one of my bigger annoyances with the game is a timer discrepancy.

I have upgraded my personal train to pick up passengers every 2 hours. I go pick them up, bring them back to town, seat them, serve them, then go plant lavender so I know when to go again.

The issue I'm having is that while the timers match right away (and mind you, it takes me a minute or two to seat and serve townies), when the lavender is ready to harvest, there is almost always 8 to 10 minutes remaining on the personal train.


To detail this a bit more, I usually take a couple of minutes to serve these townies, but I did recently make sure to plant the lavender right away and check the timers. Both timers said 1 hour 59 minutes, but then when lavender was ready, there was around 9 minutes left on the personal train.


Am I the only one experiencing this? Its not a huge issue, but it has been driving me a little crazy.

I tried to search for the answer on the forum here, but didn't come up with anything.

I *think* i have once seen an answer to this, here...

i'm going to see if I can find it.

My personal train is the same way. I wrote to in-game support about it more than a year ago, and at first they said I must be wrong. But I’d been timing the train with a clock and knew I was right. So I wrote them again, and this time they asked me to send screenshots to prove it—which I did (according to their very specific instructions). They then acknowledged that I was right, but said they’d never seen this problem before. I asked them to please try to fix it, but more than a year later, I’m still having the same problem. I’ve missed out on picking up a lot of townies because of the late train.

I suggest that you write in-game support and persist until they believe you. Maybe if they hear from enough people about this, they’ll do something to fix it.

Oooooooooookay I think I can't find the specific thread but I THINK it has to do with you being away from the game or switching between areas. Apparently some timers don't work properly when you're not actively online?

Threads about this are like 3 years old though so I don't know if it still applies.

I found a couple of threads where someone described the same problem, but nobody had a good explanation, and SC didn’t respond: https://forum.supercell.com/showthre...Personal+train

https://forum.supercell.com/showthre...nal+train+slow

Thank you all for your replies and resources :)

Really I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going crazy LOL

It must be something to do with the switching between areas. I do that a lot. I'm not away from the game much during the day so I don't think that could be it. I'm just glad I'm not alone in this! I really kept thinking it was my mistake somehow, just couldn't figure out how.

I know that Clash of Clans has a problem that whenever someone (even you yourself) loads your village, all timers get increased by a couple seconds or so (there's been threads discussing this sometime in 2016 I think). The devs said this can't be fixed, since it would require recoding the entire game from scratch.

Then again; I doubt that towns are visited often enough within that timeframe to add up to 10 minutes or so...


With that being said; did anyone notice a similar issue with the boat? I remember that once or twice when I've set an alarm to log in when the boat arrived, I've logged in and the boat took another 10-15 minutes or so. I assumed that I somehow just failed to calculate the time properly... but maybe it wasn't actually my fault?

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Originally Posted by xSaturnx

I know that Clash of Clans has a problem that whenever someone (even you yourself) loads your village, all timers get increased by a couple seconds or so (there's been threads discussing this sometime in 2016 I think). The devs said this can't be fixed, since it would require recoding the entire game from scratch.

Then again; I doubt that towns are visited often enough within that timeframe to add up to 10 minutes or so...


With that being said; did anyone notice a similar issue with the boat? I remember that once or twice when I've set an alarm to log in when the boat arrived, I've logged in and the boat took another 10-15 minutes or so. I assumed that I somehow just failed to calculate the time properly... but maybe it wasn't actually my fault?

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Do bear in mind that everything gets paused during maintenance, so that can affect some timers. Not saying there is no issue, but if you have had it happen in the past with a boat, it could be related to maintenance.

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Originally Posted by Wuss You A Merry Christmas

Do bear in mind that everything gets paused during maintenance, so that can affect some timers. Not saying there is no issue, but if you have had it happen in the past with a boat, it could be related to maintenance.

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That could be (though I don't think it was the case). Either way; I'm gonna pay attention to that next time I set a timer for a boat.

The same with my train. My train maintenance is now 1h30m, my timer is a sunflower field. When sunflower is ready, train sometimes has 4 to 5m to go. It is not consistent, sometime the train is ready when it should be, sometimes is not , sometimes is 8-10m!! I haven't a clue on what is causing the erratical behavior. It is not related to server maintenances, it is normal everyday behavior.
I guess the train and Tom have the same, running late, watch...
I wish we could see from the farm when the train is ready.

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Originally Posted by xSaturnx

Then again; I doubt that towns are visited often enough within that timeframe to add up to 10 minutes or so...

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For me this is actually very possible. After the initial 1 hour wait on the grocery, I am likely to pop into town every 15-30 minutes as other buildings finish. In the first 2 hours of my day, I might not see much change (hadn't noticed, but I'll see if I can test it), but as the day goes on and buildings are steadily emptying and new people being seated, I may go even more often, and could easily be going up to 20 times in 2 hours.

I may try to stay away for an entire 2 hours at some point and see if that makes a difference.
Mostly out of curiosity LOL because that wont last. I play town pretty hard. It's my main game focus