Game Saving unreliable?

[Throbbing Custard]

I have played this game off an on since its come out. Several times I have stopped and uninstalled because my game save gets corrupt or magically disappears. I save several times habitually because of this, yet still my most recent save will spontaneously vanish. Ive realized that if the save thumbnail turns into a white box filled with a red question mark, that save is now corrupt/gone and to delete it, make a new one. I've lost hours of progress at a time and cumulatively probably double digits of my time just thrown away.

Is this just me? If so, any ideas on what in the world is happening? If not, whats the secret to ensure its saved?

[Pancakes the Worm with Candy]

I just had the same thing happen to me, I had two complete skelletons, and i maxed out my levels somehow? I think that's what corrupted the save, because i should not have gotten to max level that fast. I'm really disappointed because I've lost more hours than I've played at this point.

[phalon-loch]

i am having saving issues as well just lost 10 straight hours of progress i am pissed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! was saving constantly and using the auto save lost all progress

[EL-Xatrix]

yeah something isnt working right lost quite a few hours too...can only access autosaves from bevor the last manual save...wich is kinda pointless. now i need to dig up the 2 skeletons again i just put on display cause well saves dont work as they should and i forgot to save manually every now and then...

[LukaszP]

Sorry fot the inconvenience. Could you explain more? The game progress wasnt saved? Or the skeletons disappearded completely? When you came back to the excavation site, did the fossils were there again?

[EL-Xatrix]

looks like it didnt save at all, i finished a tyranosaurus and one edmonto, placed and decorated them. had some crash (not sure if game related or from some other factor) booted up the game again and could only see the saves up to my last manual save were the tyranosaurus was partely set together and the oter one still waited for cleaning.
that was the second time that happend to me had one earlyer were i just finished the first dino wich i had to dig up again...kinda kills the fun in the game if you have to do most things twice cause saves dont work.

[Throbbing Custard]

In my instance, it is almost every time I have played for hours at a time. After making progress, or before quitting, I will manual save (15 minutes per auto save in the museum isn't enough either! So much tedious work is lost in 15 minutes). Upon manually saving and quitting, the save is never actually saved even though it gives the "Save Complete" pop-up. Sometimes, I am able to catch this and prevent it. If I save over an existing save, and the thumbnail becomes a white box filled with a red question mark, I know to delete the save and try again. It does not do that every time, though. Lets say, making a new save instead of saving over an existing one. It won't display the white box and question mark as a thumbnail, but after quitting and relaunching, the save is no where to be found.

Upon some testing, it seems like it is a 100% failure if you save the game as a new save, and then ALT+F4 after is says save successful. If you save the game as a new save, with the thumbnail appearing as normal, and you quit to the main menu before closing the game, it seems to ALWAYS work, and the save WILL NOT disappear. When overriding an existing save, if the thumbnail DOES NOT turn into the white box and question mark, its possibly 50/50 if the save will be there upon relaunching the game.

In conclusion, It seems to be an issue with overriding saves, and/or using ALT+F4 to close the game after saving. Almost feels like two or more bugs and not just one with all the different methods of saving and closing the game.

[LukaszP]

We are analyzing the problem, but could you send us saves from the game to [e-mail] with link to this thread ?

[Throbbing Custard]

Originally posted by LukaszP:

We are analyzing the problem, but could you send us saves from the game to [e-mail] with link to this thread ?

Sure thing. I don't know if there are any currently broken that I haven't deleted, but I can create those if needed lol.

[andrekamargo]

Originally posted by LukaszP:

We are analyzing the problem, but could you send us saves from the game to [e-mail] with link to this thread ?

One year later, the problem persists. I lost 12 hours of gameplay! This is enough to make me never want to play this game again. It has become a trend to leave games buggy and move on to new releases and DLCs.

[phalon-loch]

Originally posted by andrekamargo:

Originally posted by LukaszP:

We are analyzing the problem, but could you send us saves from the game to [e-mail] with link to this thread ?

One year later, the problem persists. I lost 12 hours of gameplay! This is enough to make me never want to play this game again. It has become a trend to leave games buggy and move on to new releases and DLCs.

this is the number one reason i stopped playing i will not play again until the saving problems are fixed