UFO:Alien Invasion

Technical support => FAQ => Topic started by: Jabberwocky on August 14, 2014, 03:46:53 pm

Title: Save in tactics
Post by: Jabberwocky on August 14, 2014, 03:46:53 pm

Hi there, I'm new at this game. Is there any possibility to save the game in the tactical (ground mission) view? I can find the save button (windows 7) only from the geoscape.

Best wishes, Jabberwocky

Title: Re: Save in tactics
Post by: AntJam on August 14, 2014, 04:22:11 pm

No saving is possible during ground missions.

Title: Re: Save in tactics
Post by: Vae Victis on March 22, 2015, 10:37:35 am

I get the "no saving" rule that adds to the tension, but can we get a "Save & Quit" option for when I'm in a large map and need to go somewhere, but don't want to reply the map entirely?

Title: Re: Save in tactics
Post by: geever on March 22, 2015, 07:43:37 pm

There are multiple reasons for not adding battlescape saving feature. Only one of them is  the save-scumming (cheating via save-reload cycles). The other for example, is writing and maintaining the code for the battlescape saves. It would be a lot of work to write it and a continuous effort to keep it up-to-date and working.

See the Three Taboos (http://ufoai.org/wiki/3_Taboos).

Personally I believe that even if a contributor wrote the initial version of battlescape saving we should not accept it, because contributors usually come and go, don't stay for too long but we would still inherit a codebase that we have to support despite our will...

-geever