And another "I wonder if..." mod idea

[Drunken]

Ever felt you could completely destroy your computer when the game craches with a few hours of unsaved time? Or when you die after a few hours without saving? <b>I have!</b>

I wonder if we could implement periodical autosaves? It would be a nice addition ti the game, IMHO. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/bounce.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":b:" border="0" alt="bounce.gif" />

Is this doable?

 

[Cap'n Archibald McNil]

There is an autosave function now I believe. Not sure what the keys are at present. Supposedly even though it says bad save after, the save still works. HTHs

 

[Drunken]

No, I don't mean quicksave, I mean like in an FPS, it saves before going on your ship and that sort of thing.

 

[Cap'n Archibald McNil]

Ah that... I see what youre saying. Sadly I dont believe there is one. One can hope though.

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

I think someone (Kieron?) was working on an autosave.

 

[Drunken]

But, alas, he isn't here at the moment... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="no.gif" />

 

[CatalinaThePirate]

Right... I think the autosave mod was killed because there was a concern about where the autosave would be saved - and whether it would overwrite something else... I for one would not like to have an autosave just pile onto the end of my set of saves and possibly kick out a file I was saving for testing purposes... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/diomed.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":dio" border="0" alt="diomed.gif" />

 

[Drunken]

<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

I still have a lot of problems in PotC, so an autosave function would come in handy for me. Has anybody got the code for that?

I'd be eternally grateful! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

 

[Seth]

Well I don't know squat about coding but if the game has a set amount of saves (say 10) then maybe it could be coded to give 5 to the auto save to overwrite the oldest and give 5 to manual saves.