Implement Ancardia servers "autosave every 1000 turns" feature
issueid=3147 07-15-2014 07:53 AM
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Number of reported issues by asdf: 54
Implement Ancardia servers "autosave every 1000 turns" feature

Currently testing crash-prone prereleases like p20 or r48 is really annoying - you cant really know what will crash your game, and you need to manually save and exit for backups quite frequently.

Ancardia servers solve this problem by implementing auto-save feature - every 1000 turns game saves into the backup folder. 1000 turns between autosaves should be configurable variable, perhaps between 100 and 5000. Also every time when you press "S" - backup is created too with message - "Backup .svg created! Do you really want to save? [y/N]", making backups as easy as one click. Game searches for backups presented without saves on startup - assuming that if you forced to close ADOM, there wont be savegame, but there will be backup - and you are asked if you want to restore it automatically.

This autosaves makes testing of prereleases on server a lot more convenient that on local PC, and implementing same feature into main ADOM would speed up testing process quite a bit. If there is R49 already "around the corner" - there will be a lot of early game fixes, but noone would complete whole game because of crashes and old backups/no backups making him not want to play this character more. If there will be late-game bugs - R50 would be "around the corner" again, and such frequent releases are not exactly good in my opinion.
Issue Details
Issue Number 3147
Issue Type Feature
Project ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
Category All
Status Implemented
Priority 3
Suggested Version ADOM r49
Implemented Version ADOM r65 (v2.1.0)
Milestone (none)
Votes for this feature 9
Votes against this feature 0
Assigned Users adom-admin
Tags (none)




07-16-2014 05:52 AM
Issue Changed by adom-admin
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07-16-2014 06:20 AM
Issue Changed by jt
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12-26-2015 05:54 PM
Issue Changed by adom-admin
  • Status changed from Suggested to Implemented
  • Issue marked as addressed
  • Addressed version changed from Unknown to ADOM r65 (v2.1.0)

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