A saving system that actually works

[Pappus]

I lost my autosave for the second time and I am getting very tired of it. I started quicksaving after it happened the last time, but when I am designing a new plane, driving it several times, switching to the tracker (which also triggers autosave just like everything else I mentioned before), landing a plane and afterwards something goes wrong I don't want to hit load to see I am reverted 3 hours in game time, because my autosave disappeared magically.

You could start by auto-backupping since the persistant slot gets overwritten so fast or sometimes is so old it doesn't work as a failsave. From my view my plane crashlanded and since I was at the tracking station after my first landing I couldn't revert the flight after my second landing anymore and I loaded persistent and it was something massively old (like 10 hours old). It is especially dumb since I couldn't quicksave midflight this time.

[Starwhip]

I'd love a notification window that says something like: "This save is from ww years xx days yy hours zz minutes ago, are you sure you want to continue?"

[Claw]

I think this is a pretty good suggestion, for the autosaves to rotate names (or something like that). Or maybe a periodic isolated save every hour or so.

In the mean time, there are a few mods that also do this for you (if you aren't opposed to add-ons). Otherwise, MOD+F5 is about the only way.

Cheers,

~Claw

[Pappus]

I mean it could simply always have autosave 1-5 and always overwrites the last one and the problem would mostly be solved, because there is little chances to behave in a way that leads to triggering autosave 5 times before you do something.

[thereaverofdarkness]

Autosaves seem basically useless because quickload only loads quicksaves, and exiting the game causes an autosave to happen, so you can never load any autosave other than an exit game autosave unless the game is quit due to an unhandled exception.

There should be a way to load autosaves.

[sal_vager]

Mod + F5 opens a save dialogue that lets you rename saves, and mod + F9 lets you load any save from the current game from a list, I know it's not what Pappus had in mind but it's better than nothing and there are addons that improve save functionality.

But yes a better system would be better.