Thanks MCroft!

My game locked the first time I tried it. I agree that it needs to be cleaned up though. I looked when I started my first game to get a rough idea a few things. I can't say I would be interested in trying to get on it. Top dog stuff isn't what I'm into personally. But the confusing data combined with the screenshots on Big Fish left me very confused as to what a normal population is supposed to be.

My stats won't work anymore either. Everytime I click on refresh stats it freezes my computer and I have to shut everything down. And, I've waited for a loooong time to see if it would go thru.

The situation described earlier in this thread still exists: the stats server is overloaded, and we're working on migrating to a new server. See Arthur's post for more information.

I was a tester, but my current villages (I have an Easy, a Normal and a Hard) date from the same time the game was released - 973 hours of gameplay. I have never time travelled with these villages. So I wouldn't like to be "cleared out" if possible, as I have spent a lot of time and effort keeping these villages going manually, doing breeding sessions several times a day to keep an even spread of villagers, and creating new doctors when required.

I found that today I can't update my stats at all, it just says "Are you online?" (and I am). The stats are clearly a bit glitchy, because a week or so back one of my villages fell from 11th in food production to 21st, in a couple of hours. And also I am 6th in terms of the number of secrets discovered, when with 16/16 I should surely be 1st (along with about a gazillion other people by now!)

We had to temporarily freeze the stats this morning, to do some work on the forums. We are getting ready to move the forums to another server and hopefully speed them up.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Carla
We are also looking at ways to improve the stats....

So, if I try to refresh my stats, the computer won't freeze up?

If I play my game on full screen, then my computer freezes whenever I want to refresh.
If I play my game on windowed screen, it won't. Sometimes it works, sometimes it says that it failed because i'm not online (which I am!)