Unplayable. Really.

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Zhuangzi
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Unplayable. Really.

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So many cards, especially using the expansions, have complex info accessable only via 'hover' - the same is true for Goals.
But on my ipad I cannot see any of this. It essentially makes the game impossible to play. (Actually, it just makes it unwinnable: i'm still playing, but like a blind man in a small passageway with sharp-edged walls.)

Surely many of us often play on our pads/tablets? Is it realy so difficult to change things so we can use the info-accessing capabilities of hover? (Perhaps it is, but then i don't think this site should claim it can be used on tablets.)
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DrReyrey
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Re: Unplayable. Really.

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I've been playing my android phone and I can 'hover' by pressing a card and holding. The info bubble shows up and I can release. Tap it again and it's gone.
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Niall
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On iPhone I find a double tap-hold brings up the card text. Might be same on iPad. If really in doubt, and you can be bothered, Google image search the card in question.
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Zhuangzi
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Thanks. iPad seems different. Will keep experimenting.
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kanigget
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Post by kanigget »

I'll chime in and agree it's a bit hard to play on my iPhone. The hover information sometimes appears (usually if it's the first card I tap on after the page loads) but it's not reliable, and the same tap might just as easily play the card, sometimes with no possible undo (eg. a placing a military world). At other times, a single tap won't trigger a card and I've found a two-finger tap is required to activate a card/phase.

In this day and age, I'm quite surprised mobile accessibility isn't a higher priority, to be honest!
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BrunoJoani
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Post by BrunoJoani »

My friends, I am SO happy.
I have an Iphone 11 and was getting the same issue.
But I really discovered a way to see the “tooltip” information on iPhone.

Follow EXATCLY this steps:

1 - Tap + Tap and hold for 1 second OUT of the card (on the background, for example, where is no cards, buttons, etc…)
Then…
2 - Tap and hold on the card.

It should work.
Please, tell me if you got it.
insomniii
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Re: Unplayable. Really.

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That works beautifully, thanks so much! :D
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