Slightly worrying article

[Nisgeis]

Here's hoping the game autosaves regularly, as you won't be able to save when your connection drops.

[onelifecrisis]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

Here's hoping the game autosaves regularly, as you won't be able to save when your connection drops.

Do we know that for sure? We know the game saves locally as well as to the server. In fact the whole "save to server" thing is optional IIRC. But the question remains as to whether local saves are possible while disconnected.

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

Do we know that for sure? We know the game saves locally as well as to the server. In fact the whole "save to server" thing is optional IIRC. But the question remains as to whether local saves are possible while disconnected.

Nothing's certain and it's hard to tell what they currently have, the quote that Heretic posted was quite woolly and unclear. It says that if your AC2 connection drops, you will continue from the last checkpoint - so that either means if your connection drops, then when the game resumes from paused mode, you will be back at the last checkpoint having lost all progress since the checkpoint, even though your PC hasn't been turned off. Or it means that if you lose your net connection and quit out, you will resume from the last check-point, which makes more sense if you quit the game for the last checkpoint (autosave) to be the resume point.

For Settlers 7, it says "With Settlers, your game will resume exactly where you left off,". It sounds very strange for AC2 to kill your progress, if Settlers 7 is able to carry on regardless. But anyway, it only says resume, which could mean resume from net loss and not shutting the game down, or it could mean shutting the game down and later starting the game up again. It doesn't seem quite strange if Settlers 7 is able to save your game state anytime, that AC2 doesn't. It doesn't make a lot of sense to kill progress just for a blip in your connection.

So, that's two ways they have implemented it, so either we'll lose all progress since last save, or lose nothing at all. Hard to say. If it's the former I hope it autosaves . I hope it's the latter though, where we'll not lose progress, but simply be unable to carry on. Well, I don't hope for that, but that's the lesser of two weevils.

I think I read that the save feature saves both locally and on the server, but you have to be online and verified to save. I can't remember where I saw that, if I did, as it's lost in the depths of the gawd-awful DRM thread. I haven't read the results of Neal's six minute test yet.