Bummer that you lost your progress but why would you play ANY game (or do anything on a computer) without saving periodically?
Granted, this game doesn’t make it easy since autosave isn’t on by default and quicksave isn’t mapped by default but this game is kind of hardcore and it’s probably not expecting much for one to be responsible for oneself. Worst case just save/quit and reload periodically - doesn’t take that long and isn’t that disruptive (vs losing hours).
I have the “ignore enemy” for safe mode remapped to ‘q’ since having it on apostrophe was going to drive me utterly insane (which safe mode does anyways but every time I run without it for too long I seem to find a hulk and get destroyed). I then have quick save mapped to apostrophe so I can save at will - which was how I was rolling (with no autosave) until…
I had the same thing happen - game crash after backing out of the NPC training dialog. I only lost about 30 mins since I sometimes remember to quick save here and there.
The last week or so of experimental seem insanely crash prone in general, or maybe it’s just that I started enabling NPCs and never did before - whatever it is, the game is crashing regularly. I just disabled NPCs in my current game but I’m still getting crashes. The NPCs also seem to cause the game to hitch and/or go unresponsive regularly too. I’m done with NPCs if they’re the cause of the instability and crashes, that’s for sure.
I was able to run without autosave on for days/weeks without issue til this - now it’s back on again.
Side note: I’m not sure how autosave works but it seems to save too often when it’s on - or I guess it could be my imagination. The turns/timer should reset if either the specified turns for save are met or the specified time limit, but it seems like it saves for both instead of smartly between them (or I could be wrong…). I end up setting higher frequencies to try to get less frequent autosaves. It would also be nice if the game halted you safe mode style or gave some warning before the save occurred, since saving takes a few moments (even on SSD) and you might key spam and get yourself killed not realizing the save is happening (since the msg for saving happens after the save is done).
