MOD [1.1] Autosave-Alert

[hoylemd]

Hi folks!

I'm pleased to release my first mod: Autosave-Alert

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/autosave-alert

It's quite simple - just prints out a message 5, 2 and 1 minute before the next autosave, provided you've set the correct interval in the mod settings. it defaults to 10m (which i believe is the default autosave interval, correct me if I'm wrong)

You can find the source on my github:

https://github.com/hoylemd/autosave-interval

Pull requests & suggestions welcome!

I put in a modding api request to expose the native autosave interval to mods so that I can eliminate the need to manually synchronize the setting, but it'll have o be manual now.

viewtopic.php?f=28&t=105987

I want to make the alerts more configurable in the future, but this is what works for me so far. If you'd like any other alerts for autosave, please leave a suggestion here and I'll consider it.

Ideas I'm already thinking about (but if you want it let me know!):
- making all of the alerts able to be turned on or off
- an alert at 10m before autosave
- alerts that it's been x minutes *since* autosave (in case that would be more helpful to some players)
- a 30s to autosave alert (would require some refactoring)
- a 10 or 5 second countdown to autosave (would also require some refatoring)
- allow a user to enter a list of custom autosave warnings (so if you want it at 3, 7 and 13 minutes, you do you bruh)
- setting to play a sound separately from the built-in chat message ping (in case the player has that disabled)