Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-2605:E000:84C7:BC00:A529:52D1:4BB8:AD35-20180430022224/@comment-28169398-20180521215915

Amrosa wrote: SeedSpeed wrote: SeedSpeed wrote: It happened to me to this week. Raised a ticket, still waiting for response. Has anyone found a secure solution to actually do a proper save after collect? I lost 50 gold from wttt after collect and restore, raised a ticket. Right now I recieve d 100 for apologies 😀 Yes.


 * 1) I try to submit at least one time during the week where I save and repair the car and do not do a cloud restore
 * 2) Do a cloud save before the end of the WTTT for the week
 * 3) Make sure you have one mechanic available
 * 4) Exit the game
 * 5) Wait about 5 or 10 minutes after the event ends before going back into the game
 * 6) Do not ever reenter the game using the Notification that the Time Trial has ended. Click the App Icon.
 * 7) When the game opens and notifies you that the the WTTT has ended, ALWAYS select LATER.
 * 8) Go to the WTTT screen and press it
 * 9) Collect the reward and then exit the WTTT
 * 10) Do not click into the new stage
 * 11) Do a cloud save and exit the cloud save menu
 * 12) Repeat the cloud save
 * 13) Go to the Career category and chose the Autocross (1.2) in Pure Stock Challenge under the Amateur Group
 * 14) Run that autocross with the NISSAN SILVIA (S15)
 * 15) Repair the Silvia
 * 16) Do a cloud save and exit the cloud save menu
 * 17) Repeat the cloud save
 * 18) Exit the game
 * 19) Go back into the game and make sure your Cloud Save says it is the same length of time from when you did the last cloud save.
 * 20) Do one more cloud save for good measure

You shouldn't lose your reward after that. I am not sure why people think this is a joke. So far 3 for 3 in collecting gold rewards in WTTT... I learned from the mistakes made with R$'s I did not want or need.

But if you want rationale:

For 1, it may not make a difference, but, given that if you have two devices, rewards only register on a device that has been used in the WTTT for that week, I figure it doesn't hurt to make sure that you have a cloud save after posting a valid result and repairing the car, instead of restoring from the cloud. If you aren't running the WTTT that night, then you really aren't doing anything special.

2 is always good to do before exiting the game anyway. 3 is related to step 12.

4 and 5 were reported as suggested by Sirebel, so I am not sure why he thinks that is a joke, unless he was taking the piss.

For 5.1 and 5.2 I have actually lost R$ rewards by doing this. No big deal when it is R$s, big deal when it is Gold.

6 is simply a follow on of 5.

7 By not entering the new stage, if something goes wrong, say your device freezes and you exit and your reward goes away, cloud restore will sometimes reset the reward so you can "re" collect it.

8 and 9 I do out of habit when ever I have a change in gold or a new asset such as after winning a car or upgrading. Sometimes if you only do it once, the monkey's servers can "lose" the upload. Unlike many of the people who are making fun of this, I have not, as of yet, lost a car or upgrades, or a daily reward, therefore no need to deal with Monkey Customer Service trying to get things back.

10, 11, and 12 are done because running a 30-second event and servicing a car that takes 1 minute to repair makes sure that Cloud Save recognizes that there has been progress made. It changes your Event count, R$ balance, fame, number of times the car has been used, etc, in stead of just the gold balance. I have had the situation where I have had have collected a reward on my phone, cloud saved, then opened up on my tablet, and the cloud restore has out of date data. I have not seen out of date data when I have run the Silvia and repaired, which takes me about 2 extra minutes to do.

14 is to make sure that your cloud save persists on FMs servers.

15 resets the game cache, so it doesn't really hurt to clear out anything that might corrupt your game and lose your reward.

16 is to make sure that the game didn't revert to the point before you collected to your reward and you overwrite the reward when you do a cloud restore to get back tickets and repair on the new stage, again, something I have done with R$ wins.

17 Overkill, but just one more time so that you know for sure that you will get the version from FMs server that has the collected reward when you cloud restore to get back Drive Tickets.

Laugh all you want, but I have not lost a gold reward, lost a car, lost a purchased upgrade.