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Deuterium Oxide

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It's active because the game has written a "resume" directive file that the launcher picks up. If you delete them from in-game, the directive should be removed by the game. For deletion directly from the OS, the launcher could be made to validate existence of the file. Right now we are in the process of frying a bunch of bigger fish though ;)
 

Deuterium Oxide

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I have noticed that the "resume game" button in the launcher still shows an old 'Ming' save, although that was my first game after EUIV 1.29 dropped and currently is not my "active" game. Since then I have played a game as 'So Pirate Republic' and currently as 'Venice'. Somehow the launcher doesn't realize which is my "active" game that I would like to resume.

So I figured it could be because either of
  • Ming was a non-ironman game and So / Venice are ironman games + the "resume game" prefers non-ironman games
  • in the alphabet "M" comes before "S" and "V" + the "resume game" prefers letters from the beginning of the alphabet
Anyone notice this as well?

@Deuterium Oxide

A long belated reply since @Marce Madness also chipped in: In general, the logic on what ends up in the "resume" slot is entirely up to the game teams. The launcher does not try to be clever, it just reads whatever file the game left for it to find and whatever is in it is what gets sent as the "start from save" directive.
 

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Report it in the bug report forum so it gets properly documented