Saved game while on planet surface

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Hello. I'm new to Evochron Renegades. First I want to say I love the game. First space sim I've played since Privateer 2 and Wing Commander 2. I've waited for years to find a game simular to privateer 1 and finally I think I've found it, plus a lot of extras and goodies that I always wished Privateer had. Plus the drastic improvment on gfx. Starwraith done an excellent job and it uses so little disk space. It's quite amazing.
I'm really glad I found this game. :)

However, I think I might have made my first serious mistake. I saved my game while I was mining on the surface of a planet. When I was done mining I pointed my ship up and accidentally hit the thurst key and blew up. Now when I try to load my saved game, my ship immidiatley blows up because it starts out outside the planets gravity and tries to put me back on the planets surface where I last saved.

Is there a way to get my previous save back? I couldn't find where the saved games are stored, or any option to load previous saves. I am a new pilot but I do have some time in it. I've got the Raven hull and about 2 mill left over. I'd hate to start over. Thanks for any help and again, great game!
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Hello, Vice is about the only one that can help at this point. You can U2U him or wait till he comes on board and reads about your problem. A good idea is to back up your pilot file often then you can restore it and be back with only a day or two's data gone. Good luck and C U out there.
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Unless you saved in multiple slots during the game, you'll have only the one save point. However, you can send me your profile and I can adjust the location point. Profiles are saved in the c:\\sw3dg\\EvochronRenegades folder under the filenames pilotX.sw where X is a number from 0 to 7 representing the slot location (most likely, you'll only have a pilot0.sw file). Just attach that to an e-mail and send it to me.
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Welcome aboard Paintbrush and don't feel bad.....I did that once myself :mad: ....Darn Gravity on the planet sucks :P LoL....you can bet I never did that again. Multiple saves is the way to go and never save on a planet.....seems I missed reading that part somewhere in the Do's and Don't section of the instruction manual :D

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and never save on a planet
Or simply save at a higher altitude, docked or above 10,000 is generally a good habit to get into.
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That is good news indeed....Thanks Vice :)
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Thanks Vice. It's very nice of you to offer. I'll send it right away. And thanks for all the quick responces. That's what I was afraid of, and I only saved under one profile. I have two other profiles but they were just for experimenting when I first started so I wouldn't mess up my main profile. So you can save while on a planet as long as you're docked?
And thanks Braveheart. I feel a little better now. :)

Vice, I assume that would still be "pilot0" ? I'll go ahead and send that one. I have three profiles but my main one is the one at the top of the list. Thanks again.
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No problem, I've sent the updated profile to you.

You can save anywhere on a planet you want, but it's best to save in a 'safer' area like docked at a city or at an altitude above 10,000, rather than right above the ground.
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I got it and it works great. It put me not far from the planet I was on when I made the bad save, and I still have all my credits, and my cargo bays are still full. yipeee! :) Thanks a bunch!