Flash shared object always gets reset

Question

So in my game, you want to make the potato as big as possible. The first time you play it, the highscores work fine,giving you a highscore and saving it. The problem is that whenever you play the game, the highscore is always reset to your current score, which means that even if you get a lower score then your previous highscore, it saves your current score as the highscore. my code looks like this:

var savedstuff:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("myStuff");

if (savedstuff.data.bestScore = 0) {
     savedstuff.data.bestScore = 1
}


bigness.text = finish.toString();

if (finish > savedstuff.data.bestScore){
    savedstuff.data.bestScore = finish;
}
best.text = savedstuff.data.bestScore.toString();
savedstuff.flush();

where bigness is a textbox displaying your current score, best is a textbox displaying your highscore and bestScore is where the best score is stored. I have the line "if (finish > savedstuff.dada.bestScore)" which should make the overwrite only occur if you get a higher score, but it seems to just ignore that line. my game is here http://www.kongregate.com/games/pwnedcat/grow-a-potato

any help is appreciated. I just started flash so I really don't know anything. :(

Answer 1

Check the condition, it should be

savedstuff.data.bestScore == 0

Instead of

savedstuff.data.bestScore = 0