I am curious about a game mechanic I see as a problem. I am finding that my vaults are always running. This means if I turn the game off(meaning quit and all) and walk away from it to go to class, I come back and my people have eaten all the food and drank all the water.


I am looking to see if this is a common element of the game and was not intended for people who have a life outside of their phone, or if this is a bug.


If this is the way it should be, I would also like to ask if anyone knows how to turn that off and make the game not run while I am not playing it.


If this thread is caught by a Bethesda member and once again confirmed that this is how the game was meant to be made, is there any idea about the possibility of adding an option of turning off the game running in the background all the time, even though the game itself is not open in the background processes on my phone.


Thank you anyone who can help.

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Not to be a contrarian, but...I have to be. The game either keeps some process running that doesn't terminate when the app is shut down (whether I exit out through the main menu or I use the OS "kill app" function), or when it starts, it checks the clock and auto-calculates what "should have happened" had the game been running. Either way, when I start the game up, I always - ALWAYS* - have a vault with near-zero happiness and all stat bars in the red. It's frustrating to work for a few hours getting things working well only to have to spend time re-building it. Since there is no official 'save game' feature, I'm left with a hack - locate and save off the 'VAULTx.sav' file so I can at least reload from a known point.

If anyone from Bethesda is watching this older thread...please, please fix this.

*EDIT: "Always"...except just now. Of course, I only left the tablet shut down for an hour, but it is the first time I've left it off for longer than a few minutes since installing FS... I'll keep an eye on it to see what else happens.

When the screen locks or you exit the game all is stopped. The game recalculate things after being restarted but not ALL the things. Combat will be left exactly as it was when you left (so will the alert status) and no new resources will be either used or generated. Happiness will onl change if you ie reassigned sokeone to a room with a corpse in it and left. After and hour the game will recalculate and adjust thay dwellers happiness. But since resources are not recalculated your vault sshould be pretty much as you left it. If it isnt then your device sends non standart lock events the game ignores and continues running as it you were there. This is a bug but I imagine they will never make it work perfectly on ALL the devices, so ir you experience this just make sure you exit to main menu after youre done plying and kill the app process. Its a nice enough game that some level of workarounds is worth playing it.


Now just be sure to back up your game saves, because theres nothing more frustrating then inadvertly losing all your purchases and progress.