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This one has already cost tens of hours across multiple players. Anyone who has more than one game going at a time (say, a single and multiplayer save) is affected.

1) Start a new game in single or multiplayer, play for a while, save game with custom name, such as "Yokozar May Game".
2) Start a separate new game.
3) Save the game -- and note how default save name is "Yokozar May Game". If you click "save" it will overwrite a completely different game, the previous one you were playing.

What should instead happen is a generated name that doesn't conflict with anything, such as "New Game 4"

This is not a bug as it is working as intended, if you want it changed, make a development suggestion.

Loewchen wrote:This is not a bug as it is working as intended, if you want it changed, make a development suggestion.

I disagree.

YokoZar wrote:This one has already cost tens of hours across multiple players. Anyone who has more than one game going at a time (say, a single and multiplayer save) is affected.

1) Start a new game in single or multiplayer, play for a while, save game with custom name, such as "Yokozar May Game".
2) Start a separate new game.
3) Save the game -- and note how default save name is "Yokozar May Game". If you click "save" it will overwrite a completely different game, the previous one you were playing.

What should instead happen is a generated name that doesn't conflict with anything, such as "New Game 4"

Definitely a bug and I hope this gets looked at.

"Working as implemented" is the phrase we use for this sort of bug around the office.

I'm struggling to come up with any sort of scenario where most users, or indeed any user, would want to entirely erase a completely different game. I doubt this was "designed" this way.

YokoZar wrote:"Working as implemented" is the phrase we use for this sort of bug around the office.

I'm struggling to come up with any sort of scenario where most users, or indeed any user, would want to entirely erase a completely different game. I doubt this was "designed" this way.

Seems to be a case of mishandling the save game name variable.

The way I'd do it is tie the save game name to the map seed and if the seed changes, revert to default UNLESS there is a saved game with the same seed, in which case use that name instead. Might just be needless complexity, though.

Nah... what makes sense is that if you load a game from a file ... your next save file name should point to that file ... but when you start a new game ... it should not point to any of the existing saves...
So load save_to from a save ... or initialise it with "New game" if started from a new game (simple as that)

Loewchen wrote:This is not a bug as it is working as intended, if you want it changed, make a development suggestion.

Just curious, but as a moderator, if something submitted as a bug actually falls under the development suggestion category, why wouldn't you simply move the post to that forum instead of into the 'not a bug' category? Instead, we have a UI issue that is glaring enough for some to consider it a bug (seriously, who would possibly intend for a user to be able to by default overwrite a save unrelated to their freshly started game, especially since there is no overwrite prompt?), but it ended up dead in the water since the OP was likely put off by the action enough to not bother pressing it further. In the end, everybody loses.

malventano wrote:

Loewchen wrote:This is not a bug as it is working as intended, if you want it changed, make a development suggestion.

Just curious, but as a moderator, if something submitted as a bug actually falls under the development suggestion category, why wouldn't you simply move the post to that forum instead of into the 'not a bug' category? Instead, we have a UI issue that is glaring enough for some to consider it a bug (seriously, who would possibly intend for a user to be able to by default overwrite a save unrelated to their freshly started game, especially since there is no overwrite prompt?), but it ended up dead in the water since the OP was likely put off by the action enough to not bother pressing it further. In the end, everybody loses.

Agree with that, if not a bug, it should definityly end up on a ToDoList for version 0.16

rorror wrote:

malventano wrote:

Loewchen wrote:This is not a bug as it is working as intended, if you want it changed, make a development suggestion.

Just curious, but as a moderator, if something submitted as a bug actually falls under the development suggestion category, why wouldn't you simply move the post to that forum instead of into the 'not a bug' category? Instead, we have a UI issue that is glaring enough for some to consider it a bug (seriously, who would possibly intend for a user to be able to by default overwrite a save unrelated to their freshly started game, especially since there is no overwrite prompt?), but it ended up dead in the water since the OP was likely put off by the action enough to not bother pressing it further. In the end, everybody loses.

Agree with that, if not a bug, it should definityly end up on a ToDoList for version 0.16

I've submitted it as a feature request here. Here's hoping it gets some traction.

This bug really needs to be fixed.

Unless the game intentionally trolls players with this malicious behavior.