Aurora 4x
C# Aurora => General Discussion => Topic started by: trabber Shir on January 03, 2021, 09:06:09 AM
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I just lost about 8 hours to a crash. About 13 years in game. This has me looking for the checkbox for annual or decadal auto-saves, but I am not finding it.
I figured I should ask here before posting in suggestions. My not seeing it in a quick skim of the suggestions forum implies to me it exists but I am being dense.
So does that exist and if so where do I find it?
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http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=12193.msg145080#msg145080
C# does NOT save as you go. There aren't, like, commit buttons for gameplay decisions or anything, but nothing gets saved to the database until you click save.
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Believe it or not, this is actually a good thing. I know it’s frustrating to have a bug or crash kill 8 hours of gaming - had this happen to me a few times - but it is way better than the VB6 real time ‘save’ where 75 years into a game, your civilian sector due to a miscalculation removes all the mass drivers from Earth and 20 colonies/CMCs worth of mineral packets hit earth and kill billions with no possibility of fixing it. I rather the way it is now with remembering to save every game year. Once it turns into habit, you barely notice it.
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After getting Demonides' answer I changed my jump gate ambush fleet to message me with a reminder to save once a year in addition to its once every 25 year request for an overhaul.
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http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=11982.0
This mod has a popup to remind you to save. It won't be updated to the new version though.