Help! Again...

[Lord_Vader]

*sobs.

I was doing absolutely amazing (for the first time!) in a single-player game in Dominions 3 Demo. I sent my pretender to the Death Match arena, and he got killed, simply because I had forgot to erase some previous battle orders which basically meant he practically commited suicide. I believed I could simply load the saved game and continue from there, before I had entered the death match.

Is there ANY way whatsoever, even if, yes, it would count as cheating (although there isn't really such thing as cheating in a single-player game), that I could somehow change that last move? If not, well... *sobs again.

I know you CAN continue without your pretender, but really, he was absolutely amazing. He only got killed 'cause of my forgetting.

[Sensori]

You would've had to back up your game's folder before the turn ran. Otherwise it's not possible. :/ The game basically "saves" every turn again again, overwriting earlier turns, so you be outta luck here unless you had a backup.

[Burnsaber]

Lord_Vader said:
*sobs.

I was doing absolutely amazing (for the first time!) in a single-player game in Dominions 3 Demo. I sent my pretender to the Death Match arena, and he got killed, simply because I had forgot to erase some previous battle orders which basically meant he practically commited suicide. I believed I could simply load the saved game and continue from there, before I had entered the death match.

Is there ANY way whatsoever, even if, yes, it would count as cheating (although there isn't really such thing as cheating in a single-player game), that I could somehow change that last move? If not, well... *sobs again.

I know you CAN continue without your pretender, but really, he was absolutely amazing. He only got killed 'cause of my forgetting.

Don't worry. Dominions 3 is not excatly short of "amazing" units. Try summoning some elemental royalty (conjuration 8) and equipping those guys out. I assure, you'll forget that your god ever excisted.

[Loren]

There's no way to recover other than making backups as you go, the game doesn't save them.

Do you realize you can use "Call God" to get him back, albeit with all of his magic abilities reduced by 1? IIRC it's 40 priest-level-months to get him back. (Thus a level-1 priest on his own would take nearly 4 years. 14 level-3 priests could do it in a month.)

[Lingchih]

Man, don't sweat it. I know it hurts now, but you'll lose Pretenders time and time again as you play the game... it's just part of it. Call God him back and don't make the same mistake again. And unless you have the King Hell God of all time, don't send him to the Death Match. It's just asking for heartbreak.

[Aezeal]

Hehe I was a bit surprised to see this "feature" or lack of more back-up features... these days you can save about everywhere in games..

but I really like it now.. you have to think.. can't keep reloading endlessly (which I tend to do from time to time in some games)

think.. you have time and then live with the consequences of your action.. having a dead pretender isn;t that bad certainly if you are late in the game and "doing well" recall him .. and if needed get his magic levels back.. shouldn't be that hard (OK for a rainbow pretender it MIGHT suck a bit )

[Gandalf Parker]

Actually the game does support backups in the Linux sense (its a game created on Linux then ported to Windows and Mac). It can be duplicated for the others.

There are various player-created backup routines. I did a file here that gives you a new icon to click that will back saves of all your games.
http://www.dom3minions.com/docs/SavingSavedGames.zip

it basically does this...
C:\WINDOWS\system32\xcopy.exe /yes savedgames oldsaves /i

Others have taken some of my hints and created ways for you to add it automatic backups to your Dom3 icon every time you end a turn using the postexec switch on Dom3. I also like to add features like "resume game" or changing the default settings I got tired of changing every time I made a game.