Save Game Routine

[bk6583]

Two things are driving me nuts here.

1, Save game routine. I'll confess in all of the games I play against the AI, I like being able to replay a turn that didn't go my way. I don't know how to do that with this game system. I'm about to end my turn and I click on the save button. I play the turn and it didn't turn out like I waned. No problem I say, I just reload the previous turn. Except in this game I find the whole turn has somehow been 'auto saved' and when I try to reload it and replay the turn the game takes me to the next turn. If I do 'cntrl save' and rename the game just before clicking 'end turn', the game still takes me to the 'new' turn when I try to 'load' it. How do I use the save game routine to go back and replay a turn? BTW: Tried the replay function - that seems to just show me what already happened -it doesn't seem to let me readjust my force disposition from the turn I'm trying to do over again.

2. Adjusting max division size - followed the 'rules' and it isn't reflected in current game. Do I need to restart a whole new game to make this effective?

[Meagher]

You can retrieve a savegame from the saves folder, the last turn will be backup1. You have to rename it. You can also revert to a previous turn by hovering over the option to load the game and pressing the "HOME" key.

[Captain_Orso]

When you start a new game a new directory is created under

..\Aacw\Saves

reflecting the name of your new game:

..\Aacw\Saves\{new_game_name}

When the first turn is run, a sub-directory under

..\Aacw\Saves\{new_game_name}

named Backup1 is created and all the files from

..\Aacw\Saves\{new_game_name}

are moved into

..\Aacw\Saves\{new_game_name}\Backup1

and the results of the turn execution are placed in

..\Aacw\Saves\{new_game_name}

When the second turn is executed, a new sub-directory is created named 'Backup2' and all the contents of Backup1 are moved to Backup2, etc, etc as above.

To return to a previous turn, go into the main menu, click on 'load game' hold the mouse pointer over a game name and hit <Ins>. A popup will appear and ask if you want to return to the previous turn. click yes and the procedures above will be run in reverse, except that sub-directories above Backup2 will not be moved to a new name; eg:

Game name: Game_01, 6 turns have already been executed; save-game directory of this game is:

..\AACW\Saves\Game_01 (results of the immediately preceding turn plus new orders are here)

the turn backups are:

..\AACW\Saves\Game_01\Backukp1 (results of game turn -2 turns is here)
..\AACW\Saves\Game_01\Backukp2 (results of even older turns are here and above, or after 24 turns, deleted)
..\AACW\Saves\Game_01\Backukp3 -- " --
~
.
~
..\AACW\Saves\Game_01\Backukp24 -- " -- (there is never a backup above ..\Backup24)

If you go back 3 turns, you're end results will be that the contents of

..\AACW\Saves\Game_01\Backukp2

are moved to

..\AACW\Saves\Game_01 (except the dummy file with the turn-number, which is deleted)

, directories

..\AACW\Saves\Game_01\Backukp1 and ..2

are deleted.

..\AACW\Saves\Game_01\Backukp3

is NOT moved to

..\AACW\Saves\Game_01\Backukp1

but remains were it is named as it is until executing further turns eventually moves it upwards again.

Warning: you should view returning to a previous turn as a one way street; you cannot go back to a turn results after they have been deleted.

You can however make a complete copy of a game under a new name. Creating the directory ..\AACW\Saves\zzzz and copying the entire content of the save-game-directory into ..\AACW\Saves\zzzz . Then go into the main menu and click 'load game'. At the very bottom of the list of games is the copied game.

Hold the mouse pointer over this game and press <Home>. A popup will ask if you want to rename this game. Click 'yes' and enter a new name for this game. Now you can backup as far as you want without losing the original results.

[Longshanks]

short answer is from Meagher:
You can also revert to a previous turn by hovering over the option to load the game and pressing the "HOME" key

You can CONTINUE to backup turns this way. You will lose each turn when you back up, by which I mean you'll have to replay them as there will be no record remaining.

Also, see the recent thread "Hot Seat" for more.

Good luck!