Profiles'n saves

[Drakken]

Easy but so so so so useful.

each time you start over a gain you should have the saves of that game in a seperate folder.
I am playing sevral games all together but each time this is the same nightmare, saving over the wrong save from another game. :S

ALL games should have a profiles system.

[Xero]

Elaborate? I mean, it's not hard to name the saves differently is it?

[Drakken]

yes but this is always dangerous and writing over another save is always possible especially after switching to a different group when you save you may think you are still playing with the previous group and one of your game is gone.
the problem happened to me in the past.

[Shidan]

I imagine Drakken is talking about something like this.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=732733012

The profiles are on the left, while all the save games inside the selected one are on the right. Whenever you create a new game it creates a profile to go with it, and then whenever you save the game it goes into that folder. I think it's a much better system than just having all the saves in one giant list. If you're like myself and keep all your old saves, then it becomes a little unwieldy.

It would be a bit difficult to implement it into a game that doesn't already have it though. For example, you'd have to figure out how to organize existing saves, or allow it to be done by the user. Might be a lot of effort for the devs, for something that isn't really needed. But it would be nice.

[Drakken]

Fallout games etc. imho this is a must have for ALL games. ;)

The game could easily detect all the different games and automatically create the profiles for the existing games.

[Tommygun]

I use a simple manual system. I'll title a group of saves as : 14Jul16 aa, 14Jul16 bb, 14Jul16 cc etc and another group as 27Jul16 A, 27Jul16 B, 27Jul16 C.
The date is the start date of the new game or new import.

[Aurelia]

Originally posted by Drakken:

Fallout games etc. imho this is a must have for ALL games. ;)

The game could easily detect all the different games and automatically create the profiles for the existing games.

Convenient for save scumming, but i'd debate a "must".
Kenshi is one of those games that more times than not is best played without reloading when something happens that you don't like. I'd go so far as to say a single forced frequent autosave is a "must" just as much as profile saves. Ironman all the way.

But that preference differs from person to person. If you have hundreds of different savegames of the same savegame, that's a choice of your own. Not something I do though. Profiles would useless in my own case.

[Drakken]

I am playing a game with saves and reloads and one where everything happening is for real.

[Strudel]

Originally posted by Luminaire:

If you have hundreds of different savegames of the same savegame, that's a choice of your own. Not something I do though. Profiles would useless in my own case.

He's not saying he has multiple saves of one game. He his saying he has multiple different games within Kenshi. Completely different groups and characters. When he plays one group of characters, he's worried he will save over another group. That is the issue he's having.

[Xero]

I fail to see how hard it is to do something as simple as "Group1-1" "Group1-2" "Group2-1"

[Shidan]

Originally posted by Xero:

I fail to see how hard it is to do something as simple as "Group1-1" "Group1-2" "Group2-1"

It's not. But it does still make it a nightmare to find the exact save you want in a list of 100+. Escpecially when the list is bugged out and not sorting them correctly, like it is for me.

It's simply a matter of convenience. If I want to play some save from several months back, it can be a pain to look through a large set of saves. Especially if you're not entirely sure what exactly you named it, or when exactly you last played it.

Only good argument against it as far as I can tell, is the difficulty and time the devs might have to put into it. Just simply allows better organization of savegames.

[Daredeviler_21]

I just name my saves after the "main" character, which is normally the first character I created in the editor and fills the first slot in my faction characters' bar.

[Drakken]

Originally posted by Strudel:

Originally posted by Luminaire:

If you have hundreds of different savegames of the same savegame, that's a choice of your own. Not something I do though. Profiles would useless in my own case.

He's not saying he has multiple saves of one game. He his saying he has multiple different games within Kenshi. Completely different groups and characters. When he plays one group of characters, he's worried he will save over another group. That is the issue he's having.

Yeah Lum is off topic but he is a mod so np i can forgive him. ;)

[Drakken]

Originally posted by Xero:

I fail to see how hard it is to do something as simple as "Group1-1" "Group1-2" "Group2-1"

In life and at times you can be distracted, and when you ofently pass from a group to another you may overwrite on the wrong save. group-1 become group-2 as well, good bye group-1

[Aurelia]

Originally posted by Drakken:

Originally posted by Strudel:

He's not saying he has multiple saves of one game. He his saying he has multiple different games within Kenshi. Completely different groups and characters. When he plays one group of characters, he's worried he will save over another group. That is the issue he's having.

Yeah Lum is off topic but he is a mod so np i can forgive him. ;)

Not off topic at all. You posted a suggestion saying profile saves should be mandatory. I disagreed.

Don't get me wrong. i'm not in opposition to the suggestion itself. It has it's own reasons. Both to aid the player in not saving over their savegame, or to allow it easier to organize many different saves. I'm just saying that it is not necessarily "mandatory".

[Drakken]

Np Lum, i was joking. ;)
i am playing divinity oriiginal sin and the problem is the same for this game, seriously the profiles thing should be in any game.
in DOS i am playing several games at once too and here to i am at time almost about to overwrite another game.
i am one of those players who are unable to stay focused on the same game for too long so i am moving from one to another the same day.