6 Hours gameplay lost

[BoboCop]

I just started playing this game yesterday on Kongregate and got to about 70 points. Today I came home from work and started playing again. When I started the game, I noticed a little "disconnected" icon at the top. I reloaded the game a few times but it didn't go away. Unsure what this meant, I proceeded to play a game. After the game, the icon changed to "Saving" briefly, then went back to "disconnected". Since the icon had said saving, I made the assumption that the save had succeeded, but the game was having trouble staying connected to the server.

Six hour later, I'd made it up to ~350ish points and significantly re-worked my deck as I learned. I accidentally closed the window, then upon reloading the game realized just what that little "disconnected" truely meant.

My feedback is this: If progress is not being saved, *MAKE IT PAINFULLY OBVIOUS THAT THIS IS THE CASE*. Flashing between "disconnected" and "saving" without any real error message is highly ambiguous.

Anyway, this lack of a proper error message has cost me 6 hours of game play and completely soured me on the game. I will not be playing again.

[Jumbalumba]

While I agree there is some unclear wording there, I also find your assumption, which is that the game saved, unreasonable. The saving messages, if everything is right, would go through "Saving...", "Confirming", and "Confirmed". That should give you a clue as to what "Disconnected" really meant, i.e., the saving was not confirmed. The fact that "Connected" is not a message is also a clue as to what "Disconnected" did not necessarily mean.

Nevertheless, your suggestion that things should be made clearer is valid.

I would suggest things to make your journey easier but you "will not be playing again" so that's too bad. Let's just hope you have learnt your lesson and progress things with caution in the future. This may mean asking on forums or chat both of which are available for this game.