Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Like a dummy, I told Dayna in Pentil that the records she was keeping were worthless, which means I can no longer sell any to her. I had quicksaved, accidentally (force of habit), but figured I could just load up an autosave from outside the city and redo the last 15 mins... Nope. For some reason, my autosave AND quicksave are in the same position. Has anybody else had the same problem? I'm assuming that I'm now stuck with these records (and down a nice bit of money), which you know, is fine. It's not worth redoing a couple hours of gameplay considering gold isn't that important in this game. If anybody did have a solution/fix though, I'd be stoked. If not, learn from my stupidity and remember to make hard saves from time to time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Autosave should be the game slot under the quicksave slot in the bottom right corner. However while the game usually saves when you leave a zone, if yo spend enough time wandering around in a zone it might see again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted March 3, 2021 Author Share Posted March 3, 2021 Haha, thanks Randomizer. Yep, I know it's a different slot. I suppose I should have said that the two saves are identical. I'd spent perhaps 20 minutes poking around Pentil which doesn't seem *that* long really... Also weird that it saved at literally the exact same spot as my quicksave. I guess the question is – is autosave now based on time rather than zones? If so, is there any way to get it NOT be that way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Autosave has both the zone and now a timer added that didn't exist before in other games. I noticed that when I made a save and then a second save message appeared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt mikeprichard Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 I agree that it'd be nice to at least optionally remove this "helpful" new timer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt TriRodent Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Too late to help now, but with 18 save slots available, 'the' first thing I do when entering a new zone is save the game with the zone name. By the time you get through all 18 slots, you're probably far enough into the game that overwriting the first ones shouldn't be an issue (or you can, on Windows, go into your Documents, find the Spiderweb folder, & copy the save games into a new folder before starting to overwrite them - but that's probably more a beta test thing where you need to run back to check something - almost never used even then so overwrite away...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted March 3, 2021 Author Share Posted March 3, 2021 Oh, I'll almost certainly start making my own saves. Just caught me off guard – I've been playing SW games for 20 years now, and autosave has always been reserved for entering/leaving zones. Hence why I thought it was a bug! Semi-related follow up: is there enough gold around to get the 5,000 medal without spam-selling these shaper records? Cus that's all I really care about. Training-Anteater 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Micawber Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 I ended up with ~15000 gold, so I'd say there is no issue with shortage of gold. Ircher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt mikeprichard Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Ended with 30000, and a ton of stuff still left in my junk bag I couldn't sell since I took everyone's money; the shaper records were only a very small portion. Then again, I hoovered up everything in the game worth any coins (except stuff that would've needed to be stolen, of course). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 I thought the time-based autosave has been in previous games too. Did I make that up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt TriRodent Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 3 hours ago, nikki. said: Semi-related follow up: is there enough gold around to get the 5,000 medal without spam-selling these shaper records? Cus that's all I really care about Once I stopped getting XP I stopped turning them in (unless I happened to be in Pentil anyway & had some in inventory. It's not a big deal gold wise /also ended up with over 700 of the little blue crystals as I just never got around to selling them //even so, usually ended up with over 10k gold when the game was over nikki. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted March 3, 2021 Author Share Posted March 3, 2021 Perfect! Thanks. Yeah, not too worried about XP, considering you just stop getting it at one point in the game. Okay, panic over and I'll just keep playing from where I am. ...with more manual saving. TriRodent 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasoned Roamer Ardent Trove Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 1 hour ago, Invisible Glove said: I thought the time-based autosave has been in previous games too. Did I make that up? Unless the Let's Play video I looked at online was modded, previous games did have time-based autosaves. The posters above who said otherwise were probably referring to the Geneforge series only, or at least the Spiderweb Software games with zones, as opposed to the open-world games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted March 3, 2021 Author Share Posted March 3, 2021 8 hours ago, Invisible Glove said: I thought the time-based autosave has been in previous games too. Did I make that up? Sorry, I missed this. Definitely wasn't in previous Geneforge games, which is what confused me (and cry "bug!"). It's been a hot minute since I played a Spiderweb game, so I couldn't say for sure with, e.g. Avadon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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