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How can I find if it's capable of running the latest version of the game? Or, where do I find out if it meets those numbers?

This was originally a mobile game and if it no longer runs on my mobile, I won't be going out and buying a new device.

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    DScottHewittDScottHewitt ✭✭✭✭✭
    [CH] OsirisSonOfGeb wrote: »
    How can I find if it's capable of running the latest version of the game? Or, where do I find out if it meets those numbers?

    This was originally a mobile game and if it no longer runs on my mobile, I won't be going out and buying a new device.

    Settings > System > About Phone > Software Info

    Or something along those lines......


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    Fi®3wallFi®3wall ✭✭✭
    If your phone is newer than 7 or 8 years old this won't affect you. Android 4.4 came out in like 2012 or 2013 lol.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] ✭
    6.0.1.

    Thanks to you both :smile:
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    Veterinary PhloxVeterinary Phlox ✭✭✭✭✭
    My last phone was a Kyocera Brigadier. It came out in 2014 and wasn't especially powerful under the hood, and it ran 4.4.

    It **tsk tsk** when system reqs get revised up, as some folks are always left behind. But at least with STT there are several other options to access your account.
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    Drago MusevniDrago Musevni ✭✭✭✭
    Veterinary Phlox wrote: »
    My last phone was a Kyocera Brigadier. It came out in 2014 and wasn't especially powerful under the hood, and it ran 4.4.

    It **tsk tsk** when system reqs get revised up, as some folks are always left behind. But at least with STT there are several other options to access your account.

    There goes my theory that only "Black Friday Sale" Tablets from 2013-2014 would be affected by this, as Android KitKat 4.4 was released on October 31, 2013.

    I figured with phones running Android KitKat 4.4, that one would either have upgraded the phone via community ROM builds on XDA if the phone/bootloader is unlockable. If there were no upgrade options, I'd figure anyone using a KitKat phone would have already run into so many issues with other apps no longer being supported, and they'd have bit the bullet and bought a new phone.

    It doesn't look there there were any COMMUNITY built ROMs for the Kyocera Brigadier, but there is an official Kyocera update to Android Lollipop 5.1.1

    https://www.leakite.com/kyocera-brigadier-e6782-flash-file/
    01000010 01101001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01110011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01111001 00100000 01101101 01100101 01110100 01100001 01101100 00100000 01100001 01110011 01110011 00100001
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    Me [AUS]Me [AUS] ✭✭✭
    I can't play it on a Xiaomi note 8t from 2 years ago so...
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    ~peregrine~~peregrine~ ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://forum.disruptorbeam.com/stt/discussion/17462/ad-credit-not-applied

    We lost 3 members already. I am ... beyond words, how clueless this timing is, given what has happened recently.
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    (HGH)Apollo(HGH)Apollo ✭✭✭✭✭
    A heads up earlier though would have been nice.
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    AviTrekAviTrek ✭✭✭✭✭
    And the fewer old devices they support, the less they have to test and fix. They can produce a better/more reliable app if they drop support for old devices.
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    AviTrekAviTrek ✭✭✭✭✭
    Timelines on iOS currently requires iOS 9.0 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/star-trek-timelines/id1001250333#?platform=iphone

    That was released in September 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_9

    Android 4.4 was released in September 2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_KitKat

    So they've been supporting an older Android OS than iPhone. It's also only running on 1.47% of Android devices, so this is not excluding a lot of players.
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    ~peregrine~~peregrine~ ✭✭✭✭✭
    I stand, corrected, about outmoded operating systems. But, I also stand by my point about the timing of the announcement, given what has transpired recently.
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    KadavarKadavar ✭✭✭
    I agree advance notice is good but i skso know that regression/compatability testing is often late in the test plan. Could be they only recently found out where the cut off line was themselves.
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    W.W. CarlisleW.W. Carlisle ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kadavar wrote: »
    I agree advance notice is good but i skso know that regression/compatability testing is often late in the test plan. Could be they only recently found out where the cut off line was themselves.
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    MiT SanoaMiT Sanoa ✭✭✭✭✭
    The other way around... I so loved "Birth of the Federation" but it stopped working with current Windows versions ages ago. There is some noname dupe but it does not feel the same.
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    ~peregrine~~peregrine~ ✭✭✭✭✭
    AviTrek wrote: »
    ~peregrine~ wrote: »
    I stand, corrected, about outmoded operating systems. But, I also stand by my point about the timing of the announcement, given what has transpired recently.

    They have a new feature launching. That new feature requires a new client. New clients require new version of Google APIs which also end support for older version. This was not WRG setting out to say, we want to end support for older versions, this was WRG updating their code to support their new feature and as a result had to deprecate an old OS. They also could have not said anything and just had people be surprised when it launched. Instead they've given players warning that it's coming.

    Fair point. I have no wish to debate anyone, so I am done with this topic.
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    [10F] gobolts07 [10F] gobolts07 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mirror Sanoa wrote: »
    The other way around... I so loved "Birth of the Federation" but it stopped working with current Windows versions ages ago. There is some noname dupe but it does not feel the same.

    I loved BOTF too. I was able to play it using play on Mac until OS Catalina.
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