I was having a great time with this game, had invested tens of hours into it and today when I reloaded the tab after shutting down firefox and my computer, it showed an XML error and when I reloaded the page, all of my progress was gone and pressing Load says "There is no save file to load." I didn't think to take an export yesterday after stopping my playsession so I only have one from when I transferred my progress from my work computer to my home computer a couple of days ago (and iirc at that point I was in a bad spot, zero happiness and barely scraping together enough land space and basic survival resources). This is kinda bad as I was absolutely loving the game and wouldn't really want to restart until I win so I could see if I could do it on my first try (ok 2nd, 1st time I abdicated pretty early on when I realised how punishing the game is and that I had fucked up).

It happened again (this time with just a new autosave that I don't care about), at least I think this is the same error:

<Error>

<Code>AccessDenied</Code>

<Message>Access denied.</Message>

<Details>

Anonymous caller does not have storage.objects.get access to the Google Cloud Storage object. Permission 'storage.objects.get' denied on resource (or it may not exist).

</Details>

</Error>

I'm able to reproduce it reliably btw, this error comes up (https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/7179911/regions/village just returns the error XML instead of the game HTML) always on the first time I load the page after restarting firefox or chromium (which I freshly installed just to attempt to reproduce this in another browser so it can't be caused by addons). But somehow after opening the game's itch page in a new tab again after I'd gotten this error, it was able to access my save again? Not the original one of course anymore but a newer one after I restarted (decided to do so cos I was so addicted and the export/import feature at least allows me to take manual backups). Very confusing.