Thread:12dirtypaws/@comment-26943067-20160729030220/@comment-27642721-20160731114807

With wifi off, if you start a completely new game, it can't connect to the server and so your FL (on the server) remains safe. If you start a new game with a wifi connection there's a danger your FL may get wiped...not always, but you have to be careful in your response to any "you seem to be restarting your game" type messages. Starting a fresh install with a backup player.prf should just look like a normal game start and so it doesn't matter that wifi is on.

I doubt whether the getting stuck on the G5 screen is wifi on/off dependent, but you never know.