Yeah, when mine crashes (once per 10-20mins) it's when I'm in map mode, and I'm panning.
I noticed that it tends to crash more if i'm zoomed in to the point where I see city names. If I zoom out to the point I don't see city names, it tends to crash less often.

Yeah, the map requires A LOT of ram, and the "sweet spot" of crashing is right when you can see all the names

I wouldn't mind a lower resolution picture to improve panning.

I know. They should:
~remove dragon, people, and cloud animations
~decrease detail on the map (city and resource icons)
~hide timers behind a tab, or only show timers for the current city.

These would all greatly help in decreasing memory

They should also make a pop-up window when selecting a place in city or map view, or perhaps move without the automatic zoom and center. Also for the "go there" perhaps. Although sometimes it helps having the zoom and center for "go there". This zoom and center seems to cause alot of crashing.

Yeah, and a jump to city tab, so we don't have to go to the map unless we absolutely want to.

Yeah I agree, when you're just city building, there is no need to really see the map. You really only need that when making an attack or the like. Being able to skip from city to city would cut down on the crash opportunities.

i opened a thread about it as it was not so bad in beginning but once I opened more map and now EVERY SINGLE TIME I ZOOM to see name of the city the game CrasH. 100% 100/100 times if u zoom it and try to pan it will crash at least on my Ipad. It is totally not playable. This must be fixed or no one will play this game and will get only bad and negative reviews.
p.s and I disagree u do need to see the map, u need to see which wood u r attacking, is it a rank 1 player ? I dont think it would be smart to do that right ? So every time I zoom that much to see the name of the player who owns it IT CRASH.
Not to mention dragon crystals u must zoom in that much so u can attack the place, the crater, if u do it it will crash.
I hope it is going to be fixed soon or this is worst game investment I ever made in my life.

The game uses A LOT of ram when you can see the names. Zoom out all the way, then zoom in until the resources just appear, that seems to be the perfect spot for me. DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT zoom in until the names appear. The game WILL crash if the names are on the screen.

i do know this dark. The problem appears when I want to attack a woods or mountains or city for a fact. Got big fingers from above I hit 5 cities next to each other. I mean its bogus,game use a lot of ram but they need to solve this problem as it is so annoying I cant believe. Never had so many crashes in game in my gaming career and trust me its a long one. If they don't fix it it is pure wait of my money and they should give a return to all people.
The game just doesn't work as it should and that is a fact and the fact that we are trying to do anything even playing from SKY HIGH ABOVE doesn't change the fact that they need to fix it for their users read PEOPLE WHO PAY FOR THE GAME AND UPDATES !!!

Something to get you by until it's fixed. If you hold your finger down one the map for a little while a little button appears above it with the name of whatever your finger is on. You can then move your finger around the map until you are on what you want, then release your finger and click on the little button.(do this from the most zoomed out position possible.

Oh yeah. But it still works best when you zoom in just enough so the resources just appear. You don't need to zoom in enough to see the names of the cities/resources that you own. When you're zoomed out to the level I said, just do what conquerbob said, hold your finger over the city that you want to attack, and it'll tell you the name of the city.

Every time I change realms, it crashes and have to reset IPAD, you say it is a memory issue but I have a 64G IPAD so surely that shouldn't be a problem

iPad uses tons more ram than iPhone because of the bigger screen. So even 64G won't help.

crashes every 2 minutes! it's quite impossible to play!

It's been said before, but we are working to get these issues under control. Thanks to dark-link999 and Conquerbob for good workaround suggestions.

Conquerbob, your tip is awesome, thanks a lot!

Another tip... I play on the ipad with a Pogo stylus sketch. It`s much more acurate than my fingers and keeps the screen clean

Np :)

Don't iDevices require heat to use the touchscreen? And thanks, Jesse.

the screen is capacitive. It`s not about heat.

The pogo stylus is specifically made to use on iphones, itouch and ipad.

Sjbryan, a64gb iPad has zippo to do with memory. That's 64gb of STORAGE... Not ram/memory

An iPad and iPhone 3GS have 256mb ram
iPhone 2&3 128mb ram
IPhone 4 512 mb

The ipads screen is big, and his Rez and 256 really isn't enough for the ipad

http://www.castlecraftforums.com/discussion/1053

Device specs and how they perform with CC