Can't exit without saving?

[Larry]

Is there no way to exit the game without it saving? Seems to save regardless of whatever route you take to exit.

[Chaosium]

No way Alt+F4 can trigger a save

[some guy]

there are many games that save on force quit. not saying anno does but many roguelike devs decide that they dont allow cheesing with force quit.

[Larry]

Ya, I wish there was a way to quit without saving. Sometimes, you mess up, or you simply don't want to save what you have done since your last save. I don't use autosave (on anything) as I prefer to save when I want, plus control how many saves are on my drive.

[Larry]

I'm normally in the habit of manually saving, and manually adding incrementing numbers. That doesn't seem to be encouraged with the Anno 1800 save system, as it doesn't present the saved file list, so I am never sure what the last save number was (in order to manually name my current save). Kind of weird. Never saw a game that does that. Instead, it autonames it. But, then, when you view the saved games in the Load window, you see that they auto append all kinds of numbers to the root name... which is even more weird and annoying. I'm kind of old school, so having it make manual naming (with the previous saves visible, so you know what to name it) is a bit of a frustration.

On top of that, since I'm on a sort of quasi-rant, I'm not keen on how many save files are accumulated as a result of this insistence of auto-saving when you exit. Always have to go in and do a manual delete session... made more difficult by the cryptic naming. At least they indicate the date, so you have at least some clue as to what you are looking at deleting.

Just kind of wish it was like other games, in that respect. Otherwise, I'm loving it...

[asterix52]

Yes, the save mechanism is annoying, but it won't change now.
There are a couple of ways you can mitigate the things that you mention.
In terms of incrementing save numbers, if you just type in exactly the same name for a manually save every time (without a number), it will automatically add the incrementing numbers.
You can increase the interval between autosaves in the settings. Unfortunately, you cannot change the number of autosaves that it keeps (like you can in every other game I own). I totally agree that these autosaves take up a ridiculous amount of disk space.

[Larry]

Seems to merge the auto-incremented number with the date or something, so I end up with this ridiculous long string of numbers after the root name.

Ah, well... Someone needs to make a 'accumulated save game cleaner' mod or something.

[asterix52]

That's weird. I just get 01, 02, 03 etc. Maybe you have to put a space at the end of the name. It's been a couple of months since I last played so I can't quite remember what I did. Or maybe it's changed in the last couple of months,