... when I'm bored of standard Factorio or want some variety and actual combat after running a late-game world for some time, and having to quit out ... a players entire save file. (You would, of course, adjust the autosave system to always keep the pre-landing save, even when expert or extreme ...

... topics :
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=62129 (reset autosave timer on manual save/load action)
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic ... f=6&t=47871 (implement kind of a latency hiding when autosaving)
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3829 (prevent autosave during combat)

... 0.14) and I love all of the changes that have been made to biters and combat in all of that time. Recently, there was an interesting FF that raised ... has been destroyed that 9 times out of 10 we all just reload our last autosave. It's not until late game where the loss of time and resources is ...

... already done and he felt extremely wierd about the game because of the combat mechanics he didn't understand.

I think it's similar with the new intro ... there was a huge army of biters camping there. Loading the earliest autosave was no solution. So I have to start all over again. great.
Also: Why ...

... saying the scenario is too hard, and even though I don't really like combat and am not really good at it, I never felt like the attacks were too ... your butt.

"Tutorial part complete" = "No longer safe, reload your autosave and stockpile." ;)


Thanks for pushing through and winning ...

This idea is old and I have no time so for now
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... for large multiplayer instances. However, if the server can save the game faster then the client, the client will be inactive for this time. In a combat, aliens can kill you while you are saving the game. Adding a god mode for the player would be nice, but I think, it's not a good solution for this ...

Is it possible to change autosaving such that when autosaving time limit is exceeded game waits until player have not moved or pressed buttons for example in 3 seconds? It would prevent most annoying situation in which autosave happens at worst possible moment.

Sorry, but you get three separate autosave files. I don't see how you could mess up that badly that all three save files cannot be used.

daniel34 wrote:You can already set the autosave interval in Options --> Other (between 1 and 100 minutes or never).

Oh, thanks! I didn't know that!

thereaverofdarkness wrote:The game does autosave too often. If I really wanted to save that much, I'd use a quicksave feature. I think autosaves should happen once every 5-10 minutes.

You can already set the autosave interval in Options --> Other (between 1 and 100 minutes or never).

The game does autosave too often. If I really wanted to save that much, I'd use a quicksave feature. I think autosaves should happen once every 5-10 minutes.

Idea: If the autosave-configuration would be configurable via LUA, it would be really not so difficult to write a mod, that turns autosave off, while you are in the middle of a combat. (and vice versa)

Operation that save stuff to disk is locking ALL threads. So for every chunk of bytes you write you ...

... for (current time * magic number that will not make game run at 1fps and keep it at 30 or 60) or they would be doing saving stuff for more that autosave interval is set :)

But of course you can speed things up like, check what changed between saves and only overrites changed parts. But this would ...

I honestly have had the game autosave before ticks before death, so you die pretty much instantly after loading the game again.

there's not a lot anyone can do about it, it saves the game on a certain tick multiplier, that's it.

All you can do is can load the previous one.

Thank you for the post.

Yes, I know about the three autosaves. That does not change at all anything I said in my post. Sure, if there was only a single Autosave, then it would be an unmitigated disaster to save in combat as you are dying. Still, I think it is a dumb idea to save while you are in ...

Thats why autosave has 3 copy of itself, one is overwriten at the time, so simply go back to Load Game menu and choose one of the previuse one

I'm sure this has been suggested before. Please don't save while in combat. In my honest opinion, saving in combat versus not saving in combat is one of ... is just so annoying to die in combat and then click to load the last autosave. Oh, but that one occurred *while* you were dying. So, you load the ...

... https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=32651 Multiplayer autosave experience
https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=33175 ... factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3829 Smarter autosaving (ie: Not in combat)


Save Confirmation

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t ...

OR, you could turn autosave off and just save manually before going into battles. Works wonders for me.