To ensure you I'm serious about this suggestion, I'm going to use the word plead. As far as I recall I've never pleaded anyone since my parents when I'm a child. I plead you dev, to hear the earnest suggestion of a player who loves your game very very much. It's a beautiful piece of work, best online ccg i've ever played and I'd like to pour my time into it again but thinking things through under the current situation I simply can't do it. You're asking me to invest love into something that's just too fragile, I can't handle another heartbreak. I understand it will be a lot of work for you, but I'm sure you love the game as much if not more than I do.
I've posted the link to this page on my wiki several times which has savegame info : http://nulll-void.com/games/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:savefiles
No matter what i come up with, there's always going to be people who can't use the system properly and will blame me personally for loss of their savegames. It's too easy to shift all the responsability to the dev all the time. You can't compare HD Xyth to Tyrant or Elements as those games are online-only. I've said this before : there is a reason why most, if not all, triple A single-player games don't offer cloud saving systems - if anything goes wrong with such a system, the damage will be extensive and the dev will be to blame. If you want more security, there's also a standalone version of HD Xyth : http://nulll-void.com/games/wiki/doku.php?id=hidden:hdxyth
I understand you have no control over cache. What I'm suggesting is consider completely revamping the saving system (I don't know much about programming or coding myself, so all I can do is suggest taking a look at the games Tyrant or Elements and what they do) because as you said more and more add-ons automatically wipe cache. I really enjoy your game but the thought of things outside my control can suddenly null EVERYTHING I do drains all will for me to play. It's like a question of will I deposit my life savings in a bank which can be robbed at anytime but with incredible interest rate or a bank with low returns but will always be there. Choice is clear.
The previous version of HD saved player progress on a database. 1. this costs me money. 2. people with certain privacy addons were still reporting problems as those addons were interfering with the data. 3. people without reliable internet connections were left out. HD Xyth saves a huge amount of data, optimized to use flash saving system. The only solution is an on-demand backup system available from in-game. I spent a week trying to come up with a database system as you're not the first to ask for this. It's simply not going to work out unless i spend a lot of time. Since this is a free game i have to draw the line when it comes to adding in features - spending a month for something that only 1% of the players might use isn't very interesting. It's already bad enough that i had to spend so much time looking for a solution without finding one.
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But despite everything in my previous post about how awesome and incredible this game is, today I'm going to swear off this game. I've gotten so attached to my fleet which i literally crafted ship by ship it's actually caused me incredible distress when the hours and hours of invested time, effort and dare I say emotion became all for naught because of a cache wipe from reinstalling my browser. Today was the crafting legendary day, I had the ingredients. Today was the start of a new campaign, I had 251 points. No more, I can't handle this. Dear devs, you've done such an incredible job but please address this fundamental issue of cache save. Goodbye and I wish you all the best in the days to come.
I have no control over your browser's cache. I can't help it that more and more browsers and privacy protection add-ons hate flash savegames so much. It takes a bit more effort from players as well to take care of their savegames - you can't expect devs to solve all these problems.
I really really love this game. More of a PvE player so loving the progression in the pve that incredible feeling of slowly building up your fleet of ships in your arsenal day by day, week by week. Playing campaign fighting harder and harder AI each day I have yet to find a parallel in any other game and selectively crafting what you need it's brilliant. The unique skill set of each ship and general strategy of each race all so unique and having discovering synergy between units is an adventure in itself. I'm never bored when playing this game.
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I've posted the link to this page on my wiki several times which has savegame info : http://nulll-void.com/games/wiki/doku.php?id=wiki:savefiles No matter what i come up with, there's always going to be people who can't use the system properly and will blame me personally for loss of their savegames. It's too easy to shift all the responsability to the dev all the time. You can't compare HD Xyth to Tyrant or Elements as those games are online-only. I've said this before : there is a reason why most, if not all, triple A single-player games don't offer cloud saving systems - if anything goes wrong with such a system, the damage will be extensive and the dev will be to blame. If you want more security, there's also a standalone version of HD Xyth : http://nulll-void.com/games/wiki/doku.php?id=hidden:hdxyth