A crash wiped out 20+ hours of research

[Gorth God of More]

That was more than half of my tech research, about 20 hours of research time. This was the first time I allowed the game to run overnight, figures.

♥♥♥♥ early adopting.

[aphfid]

ouch! sorry for your loss.

not sure it this applies in your situation, but my dsp has only ever crashed when I turned auto-save off (go figure), and then it crashed multiple times till i turned auto-save back on. i don't run any mods tho.

[Bluemoon_19]

Had you disabled auto-save? if not you may have an auto-save from before the crash. When the game crashes it doesn't load an auto-save but the last manual save.

[Gorth God of More]

I have not disabled anything, and I have not used any mods. I hadn't checked my auto-save games. Turns out there are 4, named Auto Save 1.2.3.4, and another named "Continue Last Quit", these are all saves I did not create so I assume they are auto saves. Auto Save 1.2.3 were the most recent times, with Auto Save 4 being some 3 hours earlier. Continue Last Quit was immediately prior to me writing this message. So I loaded Auto Save 1.2.3 and all were as corrupt as my restart, but Auto Save 4 has all my research. Strange. Of course it does not have the nights researching, but better than nothing. Thanks for the tip, even though I had not disabled Auto Save you made me think to look at them.

[margalus]

I've let the game for 2 weeks straight without a restart and without a crash or any other issue.

[Gorth God of More]

Originally posted by margalus:

I've let the game for 2 weeks straight without a restart and without a crash or any other issue.

/clap, was there a point you made?

[margalus]

Originally posted by Gorth God of More:

Originally posted by margalus:

I've let the game for 2 weeks straight without a restart and without a crash or any other issue.

/clap, was there a point you made?

The point was, there is not a problem letting the game run overnight.

[kris44dad]

Originally posted by margalus:

Originally posted by Gorth God of More:

/clap, was there a point you made?

The point was, there is not a problem letting the game run overnight.

As an IT professional, I have not observed any untoward behavior by this program in extended running sessions, other than those which are common to all programs which run in a Windows environment over an extended period.

[margalus]

Originally posted by Kyrros:

Originally posted by margalus:

The point was, there is not a problem letting the game run overnight.

I think there's an argument to be made that if you're letting the game run unattended due to research needing to run in the background, then you're most likely doing something horribly wrong with your playstyle.

If you're at the point where you're doing infinite research, then the solution is to be constantly building bigger... More Jello production, more lab stacks (YES, labs stack!) to eat Jello, more proliferator to treat/upgrade said Jello, more upgrades to help labs eat Jello faster.

If you're not at infinite research yet, then you've definitely goofed by not having adequate infrastructure in place to support constant research.

Just about every production issue in DSP can be solved with the simple adage "Build Bigger".

:sphere:

It takes a lot of time to build a single layer sphere producing over 5TW. Nothing wrong with the way I did it. It wasn't for research

[thenonsequitur]

Originally posted by Kyrros:

I think there's an argument to be made that if you're letting the game run unattended due to research needing to run in the background, then you're most likely doing something horribly wrong with your playstyle.

Usually when I leave the game unattended overnight it's for building spheres, not for research.

Also there's no such thing as a "horribly wrong playstyle" in a sandbox game. If someone prefers to build a small infrastructure and do research unattended, there's nothing wrong with that.

[margalus]

Originally posted by thenonsequitur:

Usually when I leave the game unattended overnight it's for building spheres, not for research.

Also there's no such thing as a "horribly wrong playstyle" in a sandbox game. If someone prefers to build a small infrastructure and do research unattended, there's nothing wrong with that.

Exactly. Building a huge sphere takes time. Specifically, this one took 21 days to complete, so I let the game run. I had stopped researching by that time. My resource usage research was down to 0.2% no need to keep on going for such miniscule gains that were coming by then.

[josmith7]

And while building more rocket factories and more vertical launchers would speed things up, at some point I need to stop and sleep (or go to work, or whatever) anyway.

So I could:
a) Exit the game so it only runs while I'm actively expanding my factory, or
b) Leave it running and let it make some progress until I have time to sit down and play it some more.

If I wasn't going for a speed achievement, why wouldn't I chose 'b'?

[Gorth God of More]

Can we ban margalus, it clearly thinks there is only one way to play DSP and will not tolerate anyone saying anything other than what it thinks. margalus, go play some other game.

[margalus]

Originally posted by Gorth God of More:

Can we ban margalus, it clearly thinks there is only one way to play DSP and will not tolerate anyone saying anything other than what it thinks. margalus, go play some other game.

You're gonna make me cry...

Nah, I'm fine, sorry to disappoint you.

[cdog]

Why would you let the game run all night and disable auto save?

[cdog]

What did your thread title mean?