Game Autosaves - No option to turn it off

pisskop · 2016-09-22T01:52:32.000Z

For, you know, bugtesting or debugging.

But I do appreciate the finally final death mechanic

TheWumpus · 2016-09-22T02:39:44.000Z

I run the game on a toaster, MUST this be a thing?

pisskop · 2016-09-22T02:45:22.000Z

i should clarify.

it autosaves on what appears to be window closing.

Beanzy · 2016-09-22T17:14:54.000Z

Maybe it’s related to this commit?

Kedryn · 2016-09-22T20:42:17.000Z

Did modding just become more tedious? Yay!

If it doesn’t root around on your HD for backup saves or make you give your cloud account info, what’s the point?

Mmm, snarkiness; it doesn’t suit me.

Since I use my own saves when I’m making mods or new tile graphics (or mods for new tile graphics) I may just have to make my saves read only. Or return to backups. At least I finally understand the ‘filthy clothes’ haters (extra steps for same results).

mugling · 2016-09-23T00:23:13.000Z

Yes it will be that commit. I think we should maintain our stance against save scumming (neither supported nor prevented) but this could cause problems when testing do an issue wouldn’t go amiss on github.

Zilenan91 · 2016-09-23T00:29:46.000Z

Savescumming should be allowed

mugling · 2016-09-23T00:56:46.000Z

The long-term policy has always been to ignore it. I don’t want to write code to explicitly support it but I don’t want to deliberately prevent it. Unfortunately that PR changes the status quo.

Zilenan91 · 2016-09-23T01:07:13.000Z

I use save-scumming all the time when testing game mechanics and bugs. To save time I often use my actual real characters that I’m invested in due to me not having to spend the time to debug everything in, and exitting the game saving it like that is really annoying because it means I’ll have to reset everything back to what it was if I changed a lot in my tests.

Beanzy · 2016-09-23T01:14:24.000Z

mugling:

an issue wouldn’t go amiss on github.

Alrighty, here we go.

Coolthulhu · 2016-09-23T02:17:15.000Z

Pretty sure it’s not intentional savescumming prevention, just a fix for loss of data due to disconnecting SSH.

mugling · 2016-09-23T02:49:06.000Z

It does defacto function as one though

Zireael · 2016-09-29T07:19:20.000Z

This has a nasty side effect outlined in git. If you load a game which doesn’t load due to JSON error on load, it saves an invalid character on exit rendering the save unplayable.

Can this be made into an option? The persons playing over SSH could turn it on manually and the rest of us wouldn’t have to worry.

mugling · 2016-09-29T11:47:57.000Z

I’m starting to wonder we should revert this change out - it does make debugging very difficult