Background saving method

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westor
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Background saving method

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Hello,

It is really embarrassed how the game is saving right now, i mean the current working method way is too 90's, this must change because it is very nervous every time you pressing ESC to enter the menu to perform a save, in almost all the games these days now the saving method is doing in the background, also what if the game bug/crash in the meanwhile before doing a save? you are gonna lose the work due that period.

I wish this could be changed in the future updates/patches and create a background saving method every X set minutes.

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westor wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2025 9:04 pm Hello,

It is really embarrassed how the game is saving right now, i mean the current working method way is too 90's, this must change because it is very nervous every time you pressing ESC to enter the menu to perform a save, in almost all the games these days now the saving method is doing in the background, also what if the game bug/crash in the meanwhile before doing a save? you are gonna lose the work due that period.

I wish this could be changed in the future updates/patches and create a background saving method every X set minutes.

- Thanks!
Oh yeah, this was one of my dreams when I waited for FS25, that they've implemented backgrounds saving. But like with many other things the answer was "nope" as soon as I started the game for the first time. Very disappointing.
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Does the company has any future plan to update the saving method and get rid this oldish style?
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There's a mod that does that in FS22. Not sure if its in FS25 modhub yet, also its PC only if you're asking.
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ASOLANDRI wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:06 pm There's a mod that does that in FS22. Not sure if its in FS25 modhub yet, also its PC only if you're asking.
I am still waiting for that mod to arrive for FS25. It was a great life saver. Now you could go on for a long time, without hitting ESC to save. Have the game crash or whatever and gone is your progress. With that mod you could be sure it was saved every 5/10/15 minutes. It even had a little count down until it started saving. So you knew when not to force quit.
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I think there is already a function for Dedicated servers to save automatically every 15 minutes. Even if noone is on the server and the game is paused. It could probably be implemented in singleplayer too.
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I always turn off auto save in fs. It's better to occasionally loose some game progress, than to f#&k up you farm because you did something in the map editor that dident go as planned, the quickest fix is to exit the game and reload. If you have auto save on, you can bet that the game saves the second you hit esc/start button, and the save it's basically ruined by a autosave.. So auto save off always!
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ASOLANDRI wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:06 pm There's a mod that does that in FS22. Not sure if its in FS25 modhub yet, also its PC only if you're asking.
I've always been curious but is there a reason why you go to the effort of changing the colours for the game names? Noticed you have done it since fs19 but seems a little odd?
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Guil wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:42 am
ASOLANDRI wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:06 pm There's a mod that does that in FS22. Not sure if its in FS25 modhub yet, also its PC only if you're asking.
I've always been curious but is there a reason why you go to the effort of changing the colours for the game names? Noticed you have done it since fs19 but seems a little odd?
I kinda like putting the colours to each FS games since FS15. I've just recently started back on to it since around the time FS25 was announced/released.
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Yeah i know that there was a mod that was saving in background and i really want to see that mod in FS25 either but is kinda ironic how a mod is possible to do that and does not exist in game base mechanics ..
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I don't have much of a problem with the current autosave method except that you have to open the menu to trigger it, so if you haven't opened the menu in a while you can loose more than fifteen minutes of work or you get hit with the autosave when you open the menu.
I have gotten accustomed to the autosave mod warning you of when a save is going to happen as it has to pause the game to save.
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I have disabled auto-save since start of FS22 and just made it a habit manually saving regularly. I dont even have to think about it. I access the menu so often for all kinds of stuff it's easy to just hit the save button. And ALWAYS save before you do any terraforming.

But yes as you said, saving in this game is very badly implemented especially on consoles, they lose their saves all the time.
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