Incomplete Game Save

[sloth]

Darwinia Linux Demo beta 4d

Once I created a profile the game prints information to the shell on exit with messages like:

Saving profile sloth

Saved level mission_mine_demo.txt for profile sloth

CLIENT : Sending disconnect...

Saving profile sloth

Saved global data for profile sloth

When I restart the game it hasn't saved everything. Any Squads or Engineers I created are gone, and any Control Towers I programmed have reverted to their unprogrammed state. The game seems to save everything else, the Officers and Darwinians are where I left them, and the enemies I destroyed are still gone.
Every time I resume the game I have to scramble to create an Engineer and a Squad and re-program the Control Towers to attempt to defend the Darwinians before the enemies destroy them.

Is this just functionality that has not been programmed yet, or is this a bug?

sloth

[Bruce42]

I figured this was by design, I dont see it as a big issue, though research resetting is annoying.

[GeniusDex]

I'm having the same issues with beta4e. For sure the squads/engineers are gone, so i figure any running program is gone. Also any reprogrammed building reverts to it's normal state (not reprogrammed yet), and the refined-polygon-counter gets reset.

[Trust]

Same problem here, only thing that seems to stay the same are destroyed virii and where the darwinians are.

[Hektik sniper]

it would most probably be because profiles aint enabled in the demo beta, but are in the full one.

[Trust]

Well, they are kinda enabled.

[sloth]

Full game saves have not been enabled (or are still broken) in the beta5 version either, though there is a button now for loading a profile.

I have also found that accessing the profile dialog box in beta5 breaks game play, but I think this is a seperate issue, so I am starting a new thread entitled: Profile dialog breaks mouse pointer functionality.