I just did the backup procedure for the first time, but when I went back to the game the email was gone. Is that supposed to happen?

Deb

I have 2 peeps in 2 different games that keep getting nailed with complaints. 1 of them is 55 and has been stalled at level 3 because every time she is ready to advance she gets popped with a complaint. The other did eventually make it to master despite getting "complaints" 7, yes SEVEN times! He still gets them but since he is a master now it doesn't matter. I think its similar to real life, some people are good workers, and others cut corners and do other things that cause them to get demoted or fired.

That happened to one of my families.I dont think they will ever quit having bad luck.

I started backing mine up too and the same thing happened to me -- the email was gone when I went back into my game. Dont' know if it was going to be one of those types of emails or something good, but personally, I'm so tired of my peeps losing all their progress that I really don't care.

Oh, and that has happened three times now so I figure out that next time, before I open my game I will back it up first. That way I can open the emails and then if they are bad, I'll put the back up in place and if they are good, great! It's just that now I have to try to remember to do that before I open my game -- which might be hard to remember, lol!

I think the infringement email is random. I have all game slots running with a variety of jobs and they've all gotten hit with that email. It's frustrating and doesn't add to the experience. While we're at it that earthquake event is also VERY annoying. Just when I had all my floors fixed after 3 generartions mind you because the store rarely carries the floor repair kit, bang! Earthquake ruined all my floors again. Hate that earthquake. Now I buy the floor kit even if my floors are fixed and keep it around in case.

I, too, have all my game slots working on families and each family has had at least one hit for the infringement.

I'm asking nicely... of y'all that make the game... try to cut back the ratio/percentage of getting hit with this problem. It's REALLY REALLY frustrating when this happens - especially as much as I'm reading it does.

Is this deliberate?

I've just started pausing and exiting the game when I get an email. Then I just log back in and the email is gone. Those infringement emails are SO bad that NO good email could possibly make up for all the damage they cause. It's better to just forego emails altogether.

Deb

Deb, you're right....I'm going to start doing that when I get emails. There's rarely any good ones anymore since I've gotten them all. Grandpa's whining about his tooth, Sam whining from the hospital or rubbing it in your face he married a supermodel scientist, grandma and her $10 gift card and all that spam....I'll forego emails too.

Thank you for the suggestion debbie1260. Two of my new, next gen, families, got hit with the infringement email.

What I did though was just close the game ... and did NOT hit the "OK" button. From what I can tell the job advancement loss did not take affect.

I'm sorry if that is considered cheating or whatnot... but that specific problem... is a pain in the south end of a north bound cow... <lol>

I just upgraded today, so I don't know if it will still work, but I found on version 1.01 that if some email event happens that you don't like (copyright infringement, Uncle Denny having to go to the dentist, etc) if you close out of the game before closing the email it's like it never came. I've saved more career progress and money that way than I could've hoped for.