Saved games

[Morgurthion]

I was wondering when saves will start being trasferable between updates? Now that the game is "feature complete" I would expect this to be possible soon, but maybe there's still issues that would prevent this?

[GizmoGomez]

Unless the update is more incremental, no. The save system might change from update to update quite a bit, as it has to record everything in some way and if something changes drastically it'll change the save setup as well. Sorry 'bout that.

To continue his question, are v18 Hotfix 1 saves compatible with v18 Hotfix 2?

[Chris]

Dunno, you'll have to test. Probably not. Every time we update the save game system it breaks saves, and we have to update it every time we change any of the systems that have to have their data saved...which is all the time, including due to bugfixes. Unfortunate but necessary.

[Morgurthion]

I see. Do you expect this to be a problem if you need to do bugfixes or rebalancing after the game ships aswell?

[Chris]

It won't affect rebalancing as that's just changing the XML files. It's only going to cause issues if we have to make changes to the actual .exe file post-release (and I'm really hoping we won't have to do that).