Just something to add to any patch, if you would be so kind. Not going to hurt anything for those that have no use for it.

Fully agree

Moved to the right section. Please post suggestions only in the proposals section.

Renamed title.

Could somebody explain why you *don't* want autosaves? Is it to make the game harder, knowing that you cannot back up in case of an error?

davea wrote:
Could somebody explain why you *don't* want autosaves? Is it to make the game harder, knowing that you cannot back up in case of an error?

Autosaves take space on your hard drive. I guess that is why they would like an option to disable it.

I support this proposal. My game is on SSD, and too many writes are not healthy for disk.

davea wrote:
Could somebody explain why you *don't* want autosaves? Is it to make the game harder, knowing that you cannot back up in case of an error?

Because people like to decide for themselves when their game is saved, using manual saves. It is much easier to "back up" to a save you created manually just before doing something than to an autosave which is arbitrarily situated at the end of the turn after all of the actions have been queued up.

Xzar wrote:
I support this proposal. My game is on SSD, and too many writes are not healthy for disk.

Unless your SSD is old (in SSD terms this means 3+ years), this is no longer an issue. The only way you could possibly wear out the circuits in a modern SSD is to continuously write to the same location every millisecond for a year. You do, of course, disable defrag on your SSD, right? Because defragging an SSD is meaningless and will only wear it out faster without giving any performance increase. Also disable search indexing, that will also cause excessive wear.



http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043634/how-to-stretch-the-life-of-your-ssd-storage.html