Third Worlds Autosave Option

[Lancer]

The power just went out which it often does once or twice a day. The timing is significant, it's usually right in the middle of something amazingly interesting and terribly time consuming. So interesting that my mind is always a thousand miles away from reality and the thought of saving the game, and the game is always four turns away from the last autosave.

Funny how that happens isn't it?

Still, I shouldn't complain, the power situation isn't as it was 10 years ago when I first set foot in the Philippines and this little town of Jagna. Back then the guys at the power station would shut it off to go to fiesta, and turn it back on three days later if they weren't too hung over to move. That was when electric power was still a fairly new novelty around here and certainly not needed. Still not really, not here.

Back to the point! There should be an 'autosave every turn' option, thanks.

Now to go restart my game and refight that nassy little war which was so interesting the first go round.

Sometimes I'll just start a new game if it's too much to redo.

[ZEE]

civ 4 BTS config file.

find the "Autosave" somewhere and change the variable from 4 to 1... then save it.

like I did.

[snoopy369]

What aahz said

There are two major things to adjust with autosaves:
1. Frequency: change it to 1 (every turn)
2. Number saved: Default is 4, plus the original 4000 BC one; change that to 500 (or more if marathon etc.) and have the whole game kept

[Blaupanzer]

Snoopy, you are a great contributor and a fine answerer of questions. But saving a game every turn for multi-hundreds of turns is really geeky. Have you no life?

[Sabre2th]

Originally posted by Blaupanzer
Snoopy, you are a great contributor and a fine answerer of questions. But saving a game every turn for multi-hundreds of turns is really geeky. Have you no life?

The autosaves are automatically cleared when he starts a new game, so I don't see the problem with it. If he decides he doesn't like the way things are working out, he can restart from an earlier time.

I personally only save the last 20 turns or so, but it can be very handy in some situations.

[snoopy369]

It's useful if you want to report a bug, if you want to go back and play from an earlier point, or if something goes bad and gets corrupted (first 2 points combined). Otherwise, I have tons of space, so why not keep them, it's automatically generated anyway...

[Robert]

I also save every turn for 2000 turns at least
Not that I ever have used an autosave of 100 turns ago, but I just do it because it''s possible, my harddrive space is doing nothing anyway with that left over space 8)

[Lancer]

You guys come to the Phils and show me? I have 4 extra bedrooms and a hell of alot of rum and mangos.

[LordShiva]

Buy a UPS

[Lancer]

United Parcel Service? Kinda spendy.

[Theben]

Phillippine mangos

[LordShiva]

Indian mangoes pwn all others

[Lancer]

I've never had one, but if you believe that never having had a Philippine mango, you might just get a surprise.

The mangos from the Central Visayas region are world renouned for being the sweetest, most flavorful mangos on the face of the Earth.

FACT!

[Aro]

Originally posted by Theben
Phillippine mangos

Originally posted by LordShiva
Indian mangoes pwn all others

Do you mean Brazilian mangoes...

[Theben]

Bah. I've had mangos from South America. They're good, but pale compared to Phillippine...