Game won't save sometimes

[finthis]

Hello - sometimes my game won't save from hitting the save button. If I load the game or exit/reload, I do lose progress. Not sure what the best thing to do here is...will the game's auto-save eventually kick in, or is it best just to suck it up and quit immediately? Anyone else run into this?

[Hallowed1986]

Yeah, have same problem sometimes after fast trials. I send my savegame to Programer and wait for an answer.

[Seikai]

I've just had the same problem as well and had done some fast trials earlier today. I found I had to exile from my current build run before it let me manually save.

[NomiSaltium]

Weird, I have not run into this issue at all. I do hit the save button twice before exiting the game though... I wonder if that's the solution.

Here's an alternative you can use: the export and import buttons. The export button will generate a bunch of text, which is your save file. You copy it, put it in a text file, then save it somewhere on your computer. This is also how you make backup save files.

To import your save file, simply open the file where you put your save file, copy all of its contents, click Import, then paste it there and click Import.

[finthis]

Thanks for the replies guys. I did try the export button, but it was unresponsive like the save button, hitting it did nothing =( I will be sure to try your trick next time Seikai!

[Shamo]

the save button usually doesnt work if your internet connection cuts out for a while. sometimes when the internet comes back you can save again but sometimes not and you have to restart. are you maybe on wifi?

[EkzeR]

local save should works even without internet.

after fast trials, means trial of skill with fast challenge, or after trial of valor? looking for the cause of this issue

[Seikai]

Originally posted by EkzeR:

local save should works even without internet.

after fast trials, means trial of skill with fast challenge, or after trial of valor? looking for the cause of this issue

They were Trials of the Skill. I'm e210 and the trials were things like Hand Made Forest so took seconds to complete. It may be connection issues as Steam does lose my account credentials for achievements/profile etc. if I've been online for a long period. I've never known it interfering with a game though.

The issue itself is that clicking on the Save button does not show the "Save complete" pop-up and when it happened previously I found it loaded from several hours prior (back in the middle of a Trial of Skill that I had messed up and eventually completed.) Again, I remember I had completed some Trials of Skill extremely quickly. This occurred a couple of days ago but I put it down to something I'd done wrong. The second time was last night when I tried to Save and realised it was not responding. I also tried adding/removing all settings that I could before I Exiled and found I could save immediately after Exiling.

My style of play hasn't changed and I generally do Trials of Skill in groups of 4 or 6 before build runs to increase mysteries as an Exorcist. Only recent change is I've been upgrading items instead of creating new items. I'm Paragon 23.

[finthis]

For me, I had completed a challenge (took about 30+ minutes), come back, and then I remember exiling almost immediately to reset my stats, then I played for a few minutes, then I couldn't save (like Seikai describes).

So, different steps for us, but maybe it has something to do with exiling quickly (either homecoming or normal way?).

If I can also take this opportunity to suggest a qol change...can we reset attributes when completing a challenge successfully, so we don't have to re-exile? =)

[threechop]

I also can't currently save. And because windows asked me to reset because of updates, a 2-day run got rewound to a trial of skill run (experiment with an anomaly, ironically) which is apparently where it had last properly saved.

[reasa_twilight_dragon]

All of my progress has been spontaneously deleted. I went to fire up the game today, and it has started me completely over. None of my mysteries, none of my previous progress. I didn't click Hard Reset or anything. Has anyone else experienced this issue?

[Jey]

"Jey24/03/2019
You were playing nicely on Idle Wizard (on Steam), you saved, you went away.
And when you came back... WHAM. Nothing. All your progression has disappeared. You are back to the measly weakling apprentice you were at the beginning.
Tears are coming to your eyes, and you beg all the gods to give you back your save.

Alas, no god comes to your help.
No god? No. Your last hope is there for you.

"check please folder ...Steam\userdata\USER_ID\992070\remote here should be your cloud save file"

TL;DR : If your save on Steam is ever seemingly erased check that folder to get your cloud save and, hopefully, all your data back."

Once you got your cloud save file, open it with any text editor, and use search and replace to remove all spaces. Then copy-paste the string you got in import.

Sometimes, just restarting Steam/Idle Wizard can solve it too.

That is a different issue from the one most of the people in the topic have though.