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Endemize Feb 12 @ 12:01pm
Auto Save Warning!!!
If you start a new campaign it will immediately delete your auto saves from a previous campaign.

I just lost 7 hours of progress where I was in the third age because I loaded up a new campaign to see if DX12 would work since it kept crashing when loading a save.
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Originally posted by donald23:
Originally posted by iheartdaikaiju:
I honestly think this is different enough from the way every other civ game has worked to qualify as a bug
Civ 6 works the same way.
The auto saves from the game are moved to a subfolder called
prev
You can manually recover them from there.
Again, same goes for Civ 6.
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iheartdaikaiju Feb 12 @ 12:05pm 
I honestly think this is different enough from the way every other civ game has worked to qualify as a bug
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Endemize Feb 12 @ 12:06pm 
Originally posted by iheartdaikaiju:
I honestly think this is different enough from the way every other civ game has worked to qualify as a bug
I have hundreds of auto saves across multiple campaigns in Civ VI so I would agree that this shouldn't happen.
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Endemize Feb 12 @ 12:08pm 
The auto save setting where you set how many auto saves you want also specifically says it is that many per game. Not total auto saves.
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Judicant Feb 12 @ 12:17pm 
Get this out of the way: yeah that sounds like a problem!

But I wanted to ask: do people actually rely on auto saves long term? Maybe I’m an old fuddy duddy, but I always drop a manual save when I stop a play session. This is useful info if I ever make a game with autosave.
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donald23 Feb 12 @ 12:35pm 
Originally posted by iheartdaikaiju:
I honestly think this is different enough from the way every other civ game has worked to qualify as a bug
Civ 6 works the same way.
The auto saves from the game are moved to a subfolder called
prev
You can manually recover them from there.
Again, same goes for Civ 6.
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Endemize Feb 12 @ 12:39pm 
Originally posted by donald23:
Originally posted by iheartdaikaiju:
I honestly think this is different enough from the way every other civ game has worked to qualify as a bug
Civ 6 works the same way.
The auto saves from the game are moved to a subfolder called
prev
You can manually recover them from there.
Again, same goes for Civ 6.

OMG, thank you so much! Civ VII looks to work the same way and I found my save in the prev folder!
Last edited by Endemize; Feb 12 @ 12:48pm
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Intellyless Feb 12 @ 12:45pm 
Why not manually safe when you leave the game? That way you won't lose it. It's what I do bever failed me.
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Endemize Feb 12 @ 12:51pm 
Originally posted by Intellyless:
Why not manually safe when you leave the game? That way you won't lose it. It's what I do bever failed me.

Because I have played Civ VI for years and never needed to.
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Mountain Man Feb 12 @ 12:54pm 
You should never count on autosaves when exiting any piece of software. Always manually save your work.
Last edited by Mountain Man; Feb 12 @ 12:55pm
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iheartdaikaiju Feb 12 @ 6:03pm 
Originally posted by donald23:
Originally posted by iheartdaikaiju:
I honestly think this is different enough from the way every other civ game has worked to qualify as a bug
Civ 6 works the same way.
The auto saves from the game are moved to a subfolder called
prev
You can manually recover them from there.
Again, same goes for Civ 6.
Awesome thank you!
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