saved games names

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henri511
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saved games names

Post by henri511 »

Bad idea: instead of saving the games under the name that the user gives them, Spartan/GoT saves them under its own numbered system. Normally this does not pose much of a problem because from inside the game, you see the name that you gave it. But when you move a saved game between computers, you can't tell what the name of the saved game is. Worse than that, it is possible to have 2 different saved games on 2 computers with the same name.

This leads to confusion such as copying the wrong game or overwriting the new game with an older one - the latter happened to me yesterday!...

Why the heck can't you use the same saved game system as every other game under the sun? That is the name of the file is the name I gave it... :roll:

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Post by pipfromslitherine »

The short answer is because the names you give the games can be in any character set (they are unicode) but not all OSs cleanly support unicode filenames.

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