Saved game while on planet surface

paintbrush · Post by **paintbrush** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:32 am

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!

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:22 pm

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.

Post by **Vice** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:29 pm

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.

BraveHart · Post by **BraveHart** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:45 pm

Welcome aboard Paintbrush and don't feel bad.....I did that once myself

....Darn Gravity on the planet sucks

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

Good Flying

Post by **Vice** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:07 pm

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.

BraveHart · Post by **BraveHart** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:47 pm

That is good news indeed....Thanks Vice

paintbrush · Post by **paintbrush** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:25 pm

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.

Post by **Vice** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:09 pm

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.

paintbrush · Post by **paintbrush** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:09 pm

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!