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'''This topic was started by Nimue on 13/08/2011, 10:46:58'''

<div class="postinfo">Post by Nimue on 13/08/2011, 10:46:58</div>

I'm not sure whether this actually is a bug, but since it's potentially annoying, I'll post it here. The following just happened:<br/>
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I started my game from a previous save and played for about two hours, frequently saving inbetween. Then I accidentally hit my iPad's Home button <I>''during a fight''</I>, and when I brought the game back up again, I was back at the old save where I had started this morning. All saves I had made inbetween had vanished. Fortunately I hadn't found any particularly interesting items, so I didn't lose more than a few XP, but since it's very easy to accidentally hit that button just when holding the iPad, is there a way to fix this?

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<div class="postinfo">Post by icetear on 14/08/2011, 01:15:35</div>

<div class="quote"><b>Quote from Author: Nimue</b><br>I'm not sure whether this actually is a bug, but since it's potentially annoying, I'll post it here. The following just happened:<br/>
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I started my game from a previous save and played for about two hours, frequently saving inbetween. Then I accidentally hit my iPad's Home button <I>''during a fight''</I>, and when I brought the game back up again, I was back at the old save where I had started this morning. All saves I had made inbetween had vanished. Fortunately I hadn't found any particularly interesting items, so I didn't lose more than a few XP, but since it's very easy to accidentally hit that button just when holding the iPad, is there a way to fix this?</div>

When starting the game up again, did you use "Load" in the settings screen?<br/>
The game tries to keep your state when pushing the home button - this is some kind of auto-save feature. But actively saving and loading the game later via the settings screen should get you exactly to the point you expect.

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<div class="postinfo">Post by Nimue on 14/08/2011, 12:20:32</div>

I just tested it, and manually loading the save does indeed work. I didn't even think to try it, because normally the last save loads automatically on startup, so I simply figured that the newer saves were gone. Thanks for clarifying :)

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<div class="postinfo">Post by icetear on 14/08/2011, 20:49:03</div>

Silversword uses a temporary savegame to save your progress when the game is interrupted (phone call, app switching etc.) - with the next update, the latest game will be loaded. If the temporary savegame is older than your last regular savegame, the latter is loaded then.<br/>
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Thanks for reporting this issue :-)

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