Reloading Quick saves

[stormy1997]

So, I don't use quick saves too often, only right before I come in for a touchdown. So, I was landing on Minimus, and naturally I quick saved before I began my decent to the surface. About 3 real hours later, I finally got enough parts and I was going to go to Duna. This time, I forgot to auto-save, and I had a rough touch down. The craft wasn't flyable anymore, so I reloaded a quick save, forgetting that I forgot (heh). My idiocy isn't the point of this post. The point is, upon reloading (f9), I was sent back to the quick save on Minimus... I immediately closed down KSP in an hope that it wouldn't save, but nope. My old save was 'poof' gone, and I was sent 3 hours back, same tech as I did before the Minimus landing. Really quite infuriating. An easy fix would be to have quick saves missions specific. Also I should note that this 3 hours was over the past 15 hours, so I did open and close the game many times before the incident occured. Hope you guys can work something out, and I'll work on getting those 3 hours back.

[stupid_chris]

Okay since this isn't really a bug and more a suggestion, I'll move this to the development suggestion forum.

[stormy1997]

I disagree... I lost 3 hours, and the game deleted most of my progress because of a save reload barreled back 6 flights and nuked everything in between. I'm fairly certain that would be considered a bug, especially if the developers aren't aware of this (I'm unsure if they are, but I don't think they would want it to work this way). I guess you've overridden my powers (kinda sucks as I've been a forum member for 14 months, I'm just not a guy who's big on typing, more of a reader) and now in suggestions. Oh well, hopefully it will still get addressed.

Edited October 17, 2013 by stormy1997

[boomerdog2000]

It's not a bug if you didn't save.

[Frostiken]

I actually had this same thing happen to me. I thought I had quicksaved, but I hadn't. Just like that, everything was gone.

In 'real' games you can look up the save file and see when you saved before you chose to load. KSP doesn't offer that.

Some sort of redundancy wouldn't hurt.