Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-66.102.8.254-20160218222000/@comment-26249703-20160221183005

RR3SeanR wrote: I think there's a serious issue with the 12-hour autosave function.

Here's what I think is happening:

What I've observed is that if you haven't saved for more than 12 hours, then the first time you do something that it sees as being "different" (run a race, bought an upgrade or put a car into service) then it does the autosave.

The big problem here is that it appears that this autosave isn't actually saving progress, but reverting the save to some other save it has (possibly the progress state at the previous autosave?).

What this means is that if you see the autosave trigger, then you need to over-write the save with a manual save.

I've had it happen twice that I had my last save at > 12 hours when I started the game. Then I've done something in the game and suddenly the timestamp on the cloud save is > 24 hours. Fortunately the second time this happened I noticed the cloud save timestamp and saved with my actual progress.

What I'd strongly advise is that you know when your last save was when you start the game, and you double-check the state of the save if you see it perform an autosave.

I think there are probably a few other issues around cloud save at the moment, so this won't be of help to everyone, but I do think it's something to be aware/wary of. I noticed it for the first time today, both accounts saying my last save was three days ago, I was just about to restore as well!