Thread:Neo34/@comment-26422322-20170403034007/@comment-27642721-20170403090004

There's no real reason to keep the game offline as preserving your local Friends_List.xml "cache" is only useful for making a list of friends you'd like to reconnect with should the server FL get wiped. There is no game mechanism that uses this list to reconstruct a wiped server FL; FL data always moves from server to game device, so if the server FL get wiped you're just postponing the inevitable by not connecting. i.e. staying offline can't protect your FL on the server side.

That being said, I believe we're all just expereincing a "simulated wipe" by the server returning an empty string in response to a request for a FL refresh. Hopefully all FLs will be back in due course. BTW, the waiting room is similarly being given an empty string in response to its referesh requests, so new friends added with codes are only appearing in the servers waiting room area and are not being transmitted to the game. I'm guessing when the FLs return any newly invited friends will also populate the WRs.