Talk:Backup and restore/@comment-26578675-20150728214549

Hi, just a little heads up for those that are managing thier backups.

If you are utilizing the method of backing up your savegame by going into the game menu, under restore, and sending the datafile to yourself should be aware that you may only be doing half of your backup.

Because of the intricite complexities of having multiple planets now, each planet is almost its own game and as so each has its own save file. Because of the current simplicty of programming languages only one file can be automated to be attached to the single email.

In order to make sure your backups are currently complete, the user must send both planets as seperate emails manually. This is done by performing the backup email procedure on the moon, and then again on mars. Its done on mars by going to mars, and then doing the backup email procedure there.

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Conversly, to restore.

Once Marc has provided a gift code that will restore your base. You should be aware of a couple salient points. First, whatever base you have on the screen and the inventory you have will be overwritten by your backup for moon, mars or even both depending on the style of backup required. If your trying to restore one part and preserve the other, discuss this with Marc ahead of time and allow hime a little extra time to assist you.

Second and more importantly. Currently, if it is a mars restoration that you seek specifically, that you have to be able to go to mars to enter the code. If your current lunar base is not level 16 and/or you have no Mars Inc structure, you will be unable to initiate the martian restoration. Remember, each planet is like its own savegame, so trying to load a mars backup while on the moon causes a instant game crash and recovery (Marc is looking into this bit of logic, dont worry, solution is probably coded before I finished typing this, lol).

Enjoy Space... Where Theres Always Room...