Thank you, Don't have to press the save button the whole time =)

Well, thank god for this. Now it'll save even when I forget to save. Tired of starting stuff over.

Note that this does not, by itself, save a backup when you exit the game (I will look into that later, no idea how to do it currently), so can still lose up to 24h of sim-time.

This could hurt especially when you did a lot of stuff in build mode and quit immediately after that.

Also, just to be extremely clear and clear up any possible confusion - this saves on different slots than the in-game autosave.

All in all, I mostly wanted to handle two scenarios here: game crashes and messing up your home by accident and reverting.

I'm SO glad there's an autosave mod now! Which slots does it save to? I wouldn't want to have one of my current games overwritten.

it's a great mod but i need a little more clarification about the slots, like what difference it makes if we just have 1 instead of 7?

It saves on slots over the 65 thousand range, the files start at the file Slot_00010001.save.

Bottom line is - unless you have like 65 thousand saves on the list, this won't interfere with your own saved games.

If you set it to 3 slots, for example, it will save every day in this order:

Slot_00010001.save
Slot_00010002.save
Slot_00010003.save
Slot_00010001.save (overwritten, but Sims 4 will copy the older version as Slot_00010001.save.ver0)
...

So basically, with the slots you get to control how many days back you can go if something foes wrong.

Sims 4 will keep up to 5 versions of each "overwritten" slot as .ver0...4, but to access those, you would need to rename them yourself.

ohh okay thank you!

one more thing, when you said at most we can lose up to 24 hours of play, you mean if the game saves at 5 am but it crashes at 4 am right?

Correct, it never interferes with your own saves. Also note that it's 24 *sim* hours, not real world hours.

Great. I was waiting for something like this

Only 65 thousand? Aww, crap. I guess I'll have to use a different mod. (J/k! Thanks for the clarification, and thanks even more for the mod! ^^)

If our game crashed at 6 am for example, and it had just saved at 5 am, does the mod create a new save file we have to load up? Or does it automatically load the save when we go back into the game and press play? I'm also trying to figure out if this is working with the newest patch

I have been waiting since I got the game for an auto save mod. Thanks!

I seen this and thought "oh, I don't need this, I'll just manually hit the save button myself." Then I play for four RL hours today, without saving, and the game crashes. Yeahhh, I think I'm gonna go ahead and download this, thank you very much.

This is an awesome mod, almost like NRaas' Saver! I have couple suggestions:

0. Daily save setting seem to be global when a save game is loaded. But when I exited to main menu and loaded a daily save, daily saves were disabled. Daily save state should be saved with the slot (or original save name, see next item).

1. Let's say I have a save called "Writer's Block" and I activate daily saves for it. The save names are "Backup save 0...n". Then I start another game called "Irish Legacy" and activated daily saves. It wrote over "Backup Save 0". Because the game knows what slot to save in, you should get the save name from there and add the counter after the name. If the save name is too long, name should be shortened by the length of the max counter value +1 for space (2 chars for 1-9 slots, 3 chars for 10-99 slots, and so on).

2. Saver prompted for a name for the save if game hadn't been saved. Because of autosave feature game is save already after starting household has been created. At daily save activation a save name could be prompted if save name is a default one.

3. A slot with different original save name shouldn't be overwritten.

Keep on great work! This is a great start for your mod!

Again... Take that, EA! XD

If the saves were disabled it is definitely a bug, and I will fix it ASAP - thanks for bringing it to my attention!

However, the global nature of the setting is by design, because there's room for a lot of unexpected behavior when we want to track per-slot. What happens when you overwrite a slot? What if you delete a slot and save a new game there? Maybe this will change, but currently I don't know how to keep my mod data inside the save itself, so there's tradeoffs, and I'd rather have it be consistent.

The main problem is that it's hard to reliably know which slot / game you're currently playing, so until I figure that out, it uses the same rotating buffer for all games. So for example - if you're playing "Writer's Block" and it's set to 7 slots, and saves 10 times, you're on daily save slot 3, then when you load "Irish Legacy", the next autosave that game makes should go into daily save slot 4. And yeah, eventually it will overwrite slot 3... which I don't want, either! Just bear with me while I try to figure out a way to handle this.

I will try to use your save name if it's available, but I'm not sure how to get it... yet.

Again, think of this as a crash protection for now, not a comprehensive save history manager. But that's to come.

My pleasure.



Saving over a slot happens on a normal save every time, so you (or the player) wouldn't have to worry about it because of the normal save process. Deleting a save slot is a matter of the player and it should happen normally using the game UI.



Well, the session should know it because when saving manually it uses the same slot that was used in the latest manual load/save. THAT'S AWESOME! The big question is where lies the session data?

I looked at services.persistence_service.pyo.py after building up game's unoptimized python files. I haven't done any coding in python but the line

SaveGameData = collections.namedtuple('SaveGameData', ('slot_id', 'slot_name', 'force_override', 'auto_save_slot_id'))

might have some answers where to find the slot that has been used last. It's being used to initialize class' variable _save_game_data_proto with serialization.SaveGameData().

I looked at collections.namedtuple (in base/lib/collections/__init__.py). The function namedtuple seems to be used getting values for a key-value pair. Maybe collections.namedtuple('SaveGameData', ('slot_id')) would get the slot number and slot_name the save name?



Of course. As I told already you've made a really nice mod.

Thank you !!!!! :)

Thank You so Much Too many times we have played for a few hours and forgot to save then it will crash loosing all our work

Again Thank You Thank You Thank You!!!

Thankyou so much :)

I can't thank you enough for this.

Thank you!

Best mod ever! Just remember whenever you change location you have to re-set the mod. I usually change the daily_save time three times a day, just because it saves but doesn't crash as often as when I do menu saves.