Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20151221080536/@comment-26715739-20151221092535

Yes, this is really annoying. I've had that (lost progress) happening to me regularly since about July.

As you say, you need to make sure that you always save. They've basically made it an "always on" game now. You can race "offline", but you have to make sure you can get online to save each session. I've stopped being able to use it on my commute.

It's got even harder since the last update, because they stopped recognising a time-trial data refresh as sufficient to allow you to save. Getting gold from an ad isn't enough, getting your daily bonus isn't enough. From what I can see it's only spending (repair, upgrade) or racing that is guaranteed to let you save your progress.

So on days you have extra time, it's worth racing a couple of extra races, so on days you only have time to check in, you can still guarantee your check-in by repairing those cars. I tend to use the autocross in the initial series, because of the very short repair times on the Focus and Silvia. It's also a useful technique if you want to farm ads for a bit before doing your "race of the day".

If find my tablet is worst for this (losing progress), my phones (I've just upgraded) are not as bad, but do also occasionally lose progress. All are android.

I suspect they've wrecked the progress saving mechanism because too many people were exploiting it to get extra payouts. It was very good at keeping track of your "last action" when I first started playing (start of 2015), but not any more.