The title pretty much says it all. With new mobile devices arriving soon - this is a friendly reminder to back-up your game on your old phone before switching to a new phone!
It’s a fairly simple procedure. For MPQ, while in-game, tap the gear icon in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Then click the Facebook icon and follow any prompts.
For more on game saving, you can visit our in-game FAQ listed under “HELP” and the online FAQ HERE.
Thank you!
*Update: Added some words for clarity. Thanks, turul!
Is facebook the only way to back up the game? I don’t use it. Am I good just syncing my phone to through iTunes and restoring that backup on the new phone?
For those of us who do not use Facebook, but may be replacing devices - what options do we have? I’m at day 409+ and really don’t want to start from scratch.
Having replaced my phone recently… I’d like to beg you guys to make the process to restore from backup less gratuitously painful.
When I got the new phone, I logged into G+ AND Facebook before starting up MPQ (just in case). It did not auto-restore.
I then had to play through a large number of maps (6? 7?) before I even had the OPTION to try to restore. The settings button was visible as I played some of these maps, but it was not clickable until the ENTIRE tutorial had been completed.
THEN, when you open settings, you have to hit a button saying you’ll create a backup, whereupon it will inform you that you already have one and ask if you’d like to restore from that. Why? It’s so nerve wracking, hitting the button to make a backup when you know you have one. You’re just sitting there anxious that it’s going to actually do what it says it’s doing. Why not make a discreet “Restore from backup” button on the tutorial screen? Why not have a “Backup options” button in settings instead of simply a “create backup” one?
I beg of you to solve this before I ever have to restore from backup again.
You’re missing the point. What you describe would require that I actually create a Facebook account, which I do not have. Nor, at least at present, am I interested in creating one.
The answer would then be (mostly) no. FB backup is the only official way of backing up your game data. Having said that, support will retrieve your account in the event of an inadvertent wipe/lost phone if you didn’t have a FB backup, so you could submit a support ticket to that effect with your new phone. It sounds easier to create a dummy FB account and never use it otherwise, though.
@jffdougan: you have conflicting interests then. If you don’t have a FB account it’s ok, but refusing to make one for 5 minutes just to backup the game is just…bad. You don’t have to use your real information on that account nor maintain it, just use it as a simple tool to move your save data to a new phone. It’s the tool we have now, like it or not.
@Melevorn: there isn’t any public WiFi that you can use momentarily, like in a shopping mall or store (fast-food and gaming places usually have that)? Or someone’s phone to use as a router for a short while?
Would saving the MPQ .apk to micro SD be an option then popping that into a new phone? A bit wank for Apple fan boys but maybe for the cool Android kids.
