[IDEA]: Fewer Ironman saves; save yearly, and every time the menu is opened

[TheBloke]

Great proposal: One crash, 60 hours lost.

An ideal solution would be to reduce the required autosave interval, but allow the player to configure it more frequently again if he wants.

e.g. 1 year is required, but player can also choose monthly or bi-yearly if he is worried about crashes.

Best of all worlds.

Put it this way: What autosave frequency do normal non-Ironman players choose? I bet you find that 90% do not use monthly, because it is too much saving. So saying that monthly is required to prevent against crashes is not correct.

Personally I only have five-year autosave on my non-Ironman games, then I also save manually now and then when something important happens. And I have only had a couple of CTDs - in hundreds of hours of gaming - which lost me a year or two in total.

It's a balance between regular inconvenience/slowness from more regular autosaves, versus peace of mind against crashes. When crashes are rare, most people will want less frequent autosaves to speed the game up and reduce inconvenience.

 

[nathelbiya]

But on Ironman it is not only the rare crash, but also Steam going down that you have to worry about. And that happens at least once a week.

 

[selectah]

Each time Paradox attempts to fix something the game gets worse.

Then why do you say you want them to fix things?

 

[Connacht]

Sorry if I do the thread necromancer, but I didn't find recent topics about.

True ironman? Disable any, ANY autosave at all. Except after X years of game. A player won't load back a previous save after a bad event and then have to play again a lot of years, with the risk of having even worse events. Imagine if this would mean that you have to fight again that hard war which gave you power over Europe, just because you got something you don't like.
Alternatively the autosave can come after N real time minutes of playing: who will pause the game before a major decision, wait 60 or 120 minutes, alt+F4, duplicate the save and then return to play?
Well, yes, you have the risk of a crash meanwhile, but you'are an iron man, you won't bother if you have to play again an entire section just because you crashed 1 min before the autosave, right? Only the hard will dare.

 

[Wagonlitz]

Sorry if I do the thread necromancer, but I didn't find recent topics about.

True ironman? Disable any, ANY autosave at all. Except after X years of game. A player won't load back a previous save after a bad event and then have to play again a lot of years, with the risk of having even worse events. Imagine if this would mean that you have to fight again that hard war which gave you power over Europe, just because you got something you don't like.
Alternatively the autosave can come after N real time minutes of playing: who will pause the game before a major decision, wait 60 or 120 minutes, alt+F4, duplicate the save and then return to play?
Well, yes, you have the risk of a crash meanwhile, but you'are an iron man, you won't bother if you have to play again an entire section just because you crashed 1 min before the autosave, right? Only the hard will dare.

The game autosaves when you alt f4.