Autosave upon new character creation

[Alley_Cat_Jack]

I have to admit, I sometimes to forget to save right after character creation and have lost my character due to bad rolls in combat in the first couple rooms.

While vets know to save right after rolling a new character, this may not be obvious to new comers to the game. Having the game do a quick save after character creation would definitely be a nice feature.

Keep up the good work. Loving the new engine.

[pango]

Welcome to the forums Alley_Cat_Jack!

Yup, suggested that much myself about a year ago...

I'm not sure what's the best way to go though, automatically save ASAP, or to very soon tell the player how to (quick)save.
I can see little drawbacks to automatic saving (just that it means every new character, no matter how ill created, will immediately find their way in your list of characters in saves). On the other hand telling how to save may be both less heavy handed, and potentially more useful.

[Ralzar]

There are a lot of DFU players that never discover F9/F12 for QuickSave/Quickload.

Maybe a text message on start of game would be appropriate? Or an addition to the tutorial?

Also, maybe just automatically create a quicksave when the character is created and appears in Privateers Hold?

[pango]

There are a lot of DFU players that never discover F9/F12 for QuickSave/Quickload.

Maybe a text message on start of game would be appropriate? Or an addition to the tutorial?

... it is in the tutorial for over a year now

[Ralzar]

There are a lot of DFU players that never discover F9/F12 for QuickSave/Quickload.

Maybe a text message on start of game would be appropriate? Or an addition to the tutorial?

... it is in the tutorial for over a year now

Really? Well, then I have no longer have any pity for people who have not read the tutorial!


I am actually trying to figure out a mod for starting equipment at the moment. So I'm trying to find a way to run a method at the start of the game. I'm having the hardest time figuring it out though. I'm looking at Ironman Systemscode, but that does so many crazy things I can't figure it out.
Anyway, if I get that up and running, it would be pretty easy to make a mod that just did a save after startup.

[Ralzar]

I have to admit, I sometimes to forget to save right after character creation and have lost my character due to bad rolls in combat in the first couple rooms.

While vets know to save right after rolling a new character, this may not be obvious to new comers to the game. Having the game do a quick save after character creation would definitely be a nice feature.

Keep up the good work. Loving the new engine.

Here you go!

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