Losing my saved game

Losing my saved game

Postby Emeraldlink » Fri Apr 04, 2014 11:28 pm

I've been playing the single player game in browser for quite some time. When the recent update happened, I lost the save I had built up for quite some time. I started anew and had gotten a few things done, but the game has been wiped away again, even though I updated the saveword. Is there a reason this is going on? I have a feeling there isn't a way to get the saves back, but is there anything to prevent it from happening again?
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Re: Losing my saved game

Postby Wahn » Sat Apr 05, 2014 12:54 am

Playing the game in a browser and trusting easily deleted cookies with your saves isn't an ideal solution. I'd recommend grabbing yourself an interpreter - WinGit seems a good one that I use myself (http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-arc ... sXgit.html) and the raw game file from the links section. Then you can run the game offline on your own computer, have actual save files that have a bit more persistence and decide yourself at which point you want to switch to a new game version and go through the saveword/load process.
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Re: Losing my saved game

Postby Emeraldlink » Sat Apr 05, 2014 10:27 am

I didn't even think about cookies. I'll look into that. Thank you. ^_^
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Re: Losing my saved game

Postby boring7 » Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:22 pm

Don't forget, new builds = old saves don't work.

Savewords *usually* do, but the more plot elements you've completed the better chance you have of something shifting and you end up with a dominant Icarus in your library despite having never met the bastard before.

Full disclosure: This may have been because I was also hacking my stats and cheating but I kind of doubt it. I've successfully altered my stats many times before and since with no problems, as long as it was at the very start of the game.
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Re: Losing my saved game

Postby nukuv » Mon Apr 07, 2014 12:07 am

We do very much try to avoid ever re-using the same number ever again, so things should not shift on their own. We add to the end, not the start or the middle.
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