Save corruption problems persist

[imp44791]

All I did was save the game normally and it will not reload any more. I had ship designs vanish previously and went with the emergency "allocated a design" dialog but now the save is completely corrupted. I am attaching an ongoing save (Game 1) that is now completely unrecoverable. I am also attaching a copy I made a few game years before when the problems (vanishing designs) were appearing but were fended off with the new "allocate an emergency design" dialog (Game 3).

I am forming a suspicion that the bug is connected to ships being refitted. The last "oops, we can't find the design, quick, allocate another" dialog I got was about a BC design that I was in the process to converting to carrier, then saved the game before the conversion was finished. But it's honestly a suspicion only.

I honestly think this save conversion system you have introduced since .32 has made things worse for normal players. In order to address a minority issue for a small percentage of players (continue an old patch save), you have been seriously messing with the core system that the majority is using. New, clean saves keep getting corrupted for no obvious reason. A minor inconvenience for a few has been replaced (and forgive the shouting) with a GAME BREAKING BUG for the majority. This for a game whose appeal is long saves with a lot of invested planning time in them. Please fix. Thank you.

To dispel any doubt, we're talking about:

A clean .34 patch save
1890 start
No conversions of old saves
No messing around with game files.
These problems were never, ever, EVER present pre patch 33/34

[nanni]

I totally agree. The latest patch only went halfway in solving my problems, but STILL rebuilds aren't saved. As I had already remarked, the 32 patch screwed up something that until then worked flawlessly.

[MaximKI]

Thanks, we'll look into this.

[nanni]

It's three weeks you've been repeating that you'll fix it, but all we got was a useless update .34.
Here is my latest save.

[nanni]

Has a patch been posted to fix this yet?

[MaximKI]

Has a patch been posted to fix this yet?

We have another public beta update in the works that we hope to release soon. Please keep your eyes open for that.