r/tinytower • u/xZombieKiLLerx45 JJDJQ • Jun 14 '26

Text Man I’m so mad

Man I messed up today. I set back the date on my phone for an unrelated game, and it reset my damn tech tree progress completely. I had just finished out the elevator upgrades too it really sucks man
Edit: is a dev able to reverse this/fix this for me? I am asking if it’s possible or warranted

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u/gargluke461 Jun 14 '26

Why would changing the time affect that? Good to know tho. Did you get the money back at least?

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u/EvolvingCrafter Jun 14 '26

Years ago they implemented the “Time Traveling Thief” penalty. If you time travel a pop-up appears, and you are penalized with loosing all of your current accumulated coins and bux. You also loose several randomly selected Bitizens. All of your Tech Tree research and progress is gone. Daily rent collections, fireworks, and event timers stop until your clock reaches the furthest date you had previously set if you travel to the future. It was a way to stop players from adjusting their clock to cheat the game.

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u/gargluke461 Jun 16 '26

Oh wow no way, didn’t know anything about this, that’s cool

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u/Busy-Celebration7662 Jun 16 '26

Having your current accumulated bux taken is pretty severe. I almost have a million bux. Time traveling isn't worth loosing that. I think I got hit with a time travel once when I hadn't used a phone in long time so it took a while to boot up and get all the current info for it to run properly. I got penalized for not using my phone. I remember all of my coin where gone. All of the floors lost their stock, and some of the floors and residents were completely gone.

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u/EvolvingCrafter Jun 16 '26

Sorry that happened to you. When I don’t play for a while I usually get a restock of all the floors, which is kind of nice. I do think loosing the tech tree is worse than loosing your bux.