Save Game subtree? (Allow players to save different careers/ games in specific folders)

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

Don't know if possible - but I'd like to be able to associate saved games with specific careers/ efforts.  

Currently, all saves go to one big list of saved games.  Fine for the first run-through.  But it can get cluttered after a short time - especially if you start a second or third career effort.  Being able to start a career, which creates a subfile for subsequent saves would be great.  

EDIT: after review (below) --- the Save Game function does save game saves in individual career folders; what I'd like to see is the ability to find those sub-saves from the main menu.

Thus if I save JebInOrbit late at night, then JebLanded right before signing off... as it is currently, when I restart it automatically plonks me into the last save. But what if during the night it dawns on me that I should revert to JebInOrbit and land elsewhere?   Currently, only from inside the game (when you can see KSC etc) after loading last save can a player load up a prior save. 

I'd like the functionality of being able to choose which save to load in a given career from the start screen(s).

Edited November 1, 2021 by JoeSchmuckatelli

[OHara]

Reading what you wrote literally, it fits with what KSP 1 already does. 

Every time you select 'New Game' from the starting screen, as you would when starting a career, KSP creates a new subfolder under saves.  The individual savefiles and quicksaves are all under that folder, and only those in that folder show up when you load a save from within the game.

Maybe something else was implied, that I just missed.

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

37 minutes ago, OHara said:

Reading what you wrote literally, it fits with what KSP 1 already does. 

Every time you select 'New Game' from the starting screen, as you would when starting a career, KSP creates a new subfolder under saves.  The individual savefiles and quicksaves are all under that folder, and only those in that folder show up when you load a save from within the game.

Maybe something else was implied, that I just missed.

Or maybe I'm totally confused.  I haven't played the game in a while - and found a bunch of saves when I went to start the game today (second day of new career).  

I notice that you're looking at the saves via a windows file folder view: I'm looking at the loading screen continue saved game page... wait... hold the phone.

Okay - it looks like the game does list only the career names in the start screen.  (Seems I've started more careers/science/sandbox than I was aware of).

--- the feature does not, however, let me choose a particular save within that file; merely to continue.  So, I'm presuming it is continuing last save.  Okay - yeah, then once I'm in the game and looking at KSC I can do the 'load save' thing again... this time only seeing the various saves in that career folder.

Huh.

Well - okay, its functional but not intuitive.

Edited November 1, 2021 by JoeSchmuckatelli