I must be living right or something.....:cool:
In the past, I've broken every rule listed above fairly often due to a lot of CTD's caused by overheating issues and had only one corrupted save.
I've cut back the number of times I save now after getting my CTD issues worked out and I try to save keeping all the above rules in mind, but I do break them occasionally and have not had any problems.....yet.
(Excuse me while I go looking for place to knock on wood.)

:)

My careers are generally stable too. I've come to the conclusion that save game crashes are a fact of life with SH3. Sooner or later they happen to everyone & there's nothing you can do to completely eliminate the risk of them.

Basically I only save between 1400-1515 local game time. But first I consult a voodoo priestess who comes to my house spits rum on my cpu and wipes the monitor down with a bloody chicken foot. Its messy but it helps.

Also make sure that Mars and Mercury are close to being aligned. And read your horoscope.

Don't forget to rub your lucky rabbits foot.

But really.. <looks around> <whispers> "I think its ghosts in the machine."

You know what?
There are ghosts in the machine!
After posting in this thread yesterday, I had my first corrupt save file in a year today, had to return to in base before mission:timeout:

The gremlins are just waiting for that special moment and then:woot: