Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-86.142.102.249-20150728005117/@comment-26715739-20150728052404

Yes, I have it too - loss of progress happens to me regularly.

It's another reason why you need to be able to be online all the time (even if you switch wifi on and off) because you have to make sure you backup to cloud before you quit.

That way when you come back and realise that your progress is gone you can reload from cloud.

I also usually make it part of my "shutdown" procedure at the end of a day to make sure that when I re-open that it has my progress. If not, then I reload from cloud, quit and restart again to make sure the progress has been recognised.

If not, then I reload from cloud again and repeat the process until I'm happy that my game restart state is the same as my last cloud save.

I haven't found a trick to make sure that it does a proper local (as opposed to cloud) save - but things like spending gold coins on crew do seem to be a bit more likely to end up saved. Getting gold coins from ads is not (necessarily) saved (locally). Cashing in the weekly time trial is not (necessarily) saved (locally). Finishing any particular race or stage is again not (necessarily) saved locally.

If find it useful to keep a record of what I was last at rewards-wise (R$ and Gold) so that I can double-check when I reload and work out if I need to restore from cloud or not.

I only started noticing the failure to track progress after the June (LM-PoV) release - speculating - I'd guess it's part of them tightening things up to stop the multi-dipping inherent in the "event gold farming" bug.