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Originally Posted by Bluenoser
So you just want to save a game at various points but keep playing. Then be able to go back and start over from that saved point?
Can't be done, nor should it be in the game imo.
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That's kind of his issue and I understand where he is coming from.
Here is my thread from the bug section last year where my computer would crash to reboot while playing OOTP 21.
https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...ighlight=Sweed
OOTP support worked with me to try to resolve though, as they thought, it ended up being my brand new machine. Acer ended up sending me a new computer as they could not find a fix and OOTP has worked fine ever since
But onto this issue...
What I had to do to get through a game was to save often as my crashes would come out of nowhere. So I would always save at least after inning 5. I would also save after any score changes as I wanted to not only preserve my wins but also my losses. Nothing eats at me more than having the game crash and not getting the original results whatever they may be.
The problem with "save and leave" is it only takes you out to OOTP "proper" for a lack of a better term. I could do this, return to my on-going game, then have a crash to reboot, and on reloading OOTP my "in progress game was not saved". The only way for me to be able to save and continue my game if I had the crash was to
"save and leave" >exit OOTP and trigger autosave > restart OOTP > enter my on-going game. Now if my game crashed I could at least reload
OOTP and not lose what I had already played.
This was a huge pain and took my average game time of about 30 minutes to closer to an hour per. It sucked big time but it was the only way I could get through.
What he is asking for, I think, is that "save and leave" would also trigger the OOTP "proper" autosave so in case OOTP crashes he does not lose what he has already done. I'm not sure if OOTP could do this unless it would automatically exit the game entirely and restart. When the "save and leave" option was added several versions ago I was surprised it didn't just...
save the game in progress > exit OOTP and autosave
Then require you to restart OOTP to continue. Never occurred to me it would just go out of "play a game" mode to be able to peruse all other menus. I'm not sure even if OOTP worked this way the OP would be happy. I know if it worked that way while I was having my issue I would have been thrilled.
You are right in that if autosave triggered without exiting OOTP it would lead to a ability to easily save and start over. Though as my issue last year shows it can still be done just not easily.
I agree, it shouldn't be easy. I think if the game would exit entirely on "save and leave" it would at least make the OP issue easier to handle. Yes, it would require restarting OOTP meaning the only time added would be the reload time as the autosave is always going to take whatever time it takes. Still a pain but about as good a solution as one could expect, at least to my thinking
