Request for auto backup of turn files

Crash · #1 November 9th, 2004, 02:26 AM

I second this idea.

An autosave would keep me from having to restart the game just because of one turn's worth of bad breaks.

If you guys at Ilwinter can do this without too much trouble, I'd surely appreciate it. I'm not sure if I'm up to learning how to write code and stuff myself.

Thanks in advance.

RedRover · #2 November 9th, 2004, 04:10 AM

Definitely agree with Cainehill and Crash. IMO this is a really important feature for Dom3, and I'd like it in a Dom2 patch as well.

Huzurdaddi · #3 November 9th, 2004, 05:33 AM

I totally agree this would be a great addition to the game.

A number of posters submitted utilities to fill the gap until it is implemented in game the Last time this was requested.

http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/thr...=&fpart=1&vc=1

MaxWilson · #4 March 14th, 2007, 07:37 PM

I agree that a backup would be great for debugging and information purposes (how much was that province I just lost worth?), but I think Dom3's no-saved-games strategy is important to its feel and I would understand if the developers were reluctant to back up ftherland, too, or otherwise enable easy "replays" because of a bad turn. I'm still learning the game and I'll occasionally back up my saved game files in order to either quickly test out a spell that I read about in the manual (which means playing several turns carelessly, mostly just hitting End Turn) or to experiment with different ways to deal with a bad position (effectively this becomes a scenario of its own--"General Mead has been sacked for incompetence and you are the new commander. What do you do?" Reminds me of John Ringo's military fiction, which sometimes starts with a huge military debacle to make the situation interesting for the hero). These are unusual scenarios, though, and I like the feel the no-saving gives to the game itself.

So far I play exclusively SP.

-Max Wilson

Gandalf Parker · #5 March 15th, 2007, 10:50 AM

There are backups. In a standard linux type of way.
The entire game is saved to a file every time you process a turn. Just setup how you want it saved.

There is also a switch called --preexec which you can use to save your your turn file to a backup just before each time it hosts. Some of the utilities written by players that was mentioned above make that simpler

If it was put into the game then it would have to include alot of file cleanup functions in the menu also. And it would duplicate a nice general feature the game already has.