Multiplayer autosave

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i read somewhere, cant remember where, that if a player disconnects in a multiplayer game that game would be autosaved and the players could resume the game later with the guy who disconnected

confirmed?
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Confirmed, the games autosave at a set frequency, so if someone crashes you just load the previous autosave and continue :)
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
wow, they really thought of everything didnt they
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
the game even turns your pc into a waffle maker!
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
In the beta it saves every 10 minutes, so a crash should be at most a 10 minute loss.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
If someone does crash out , can you save the game immediately after the person has crashed out. Give him the savegame file on msn or somewhere , then restart game?
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

If someone does crash out , can you save the game immediately after the person has crashed out. Give him the savegame file on msn or somewhere , then restart game?
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Yes, but you have to do it before the host actually kicks him from the game -- if you do it after, the AI takes over his empire, and that will make him sad.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
In the Q&A the devs stated that a human player can relaim his spot after he has been replaced by a AI. But this need to be done from a save (restart the game), it can not be done while in-game.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
I haven't been able to get any autosaved games to load. These were local multiplayer games, and the autosaves showed up but when the other party tries to join the loaded game they get the error "Saved Game not found: AutoSave-16" or whatever the number is. The autosave files do show up on their computer though, so it seems like it just doesn't recognize the saved game files as belonging to the restarted game.
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah, that is a known bug that has been fixed long ago.