I don`t think I`ll use Autosave any more.

[Socratatus]

In most games I don`t use Autosave, but for some reason I allowed it in X4.

It seemed ok at first, but now it`s autosave at the most awkward of times- mid-battle. While I`m transitioning screens, etc. I am almost certain it`s the reason for a couple of crashes I`ve had and one very near crash where the screen just froze, but after 15 seconds came back.

I`ll just manually save from now on.

[juju1111]

I m considering it too. it saves very (too) often and even on a ssd it locks the game for some time.

[Tanvaras]

Turned Auto save off on day 1. Been thankful ever since!

[Mennox]

Yes. I need to do this too - for me it normally does it at the times I dont want it to autosave. For example, I was trying to land a big ship in a station and i was having issues....I ended up accidentally firing my secondary missiles right at the station and just as my rep dropped from 16 to 7 (!!), it decided to autosave....had to load a manual save from an hour earlier!

[csaba]

I'm keeping it in. You'll never know when a quicksave will get corrupted in an X game and I don't do hard saves that often.

[Seon]

Honestly I kind of wish it went back to X3 style of autosave. Which is it autosaves only when you dock, if you enable it.

[Wou]

I'm keeping it in. You'll never know when a quicksave will get corrupted in an X game and I don't do hard saves that often.

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Also autosaves were too rare on the beginning, in 1.0, 1.1 I had like one every 3-4 hours. That's a lot of progress to lose.
Frequency of autosaving is not a problem. Time it takes to make a single save is.

[Socratatus]

Honestly I kind of wish it went back to X3 style of autosave. Which is it autosaves only when you dock, if you enable it.

Seems a better idea to me. Keep autosaves to situations where not too much is happening at the same time.

As for quicksaves, I don`t do them. I had some bad situations with them too. I save manually through options now. Something I always did with previous games.

[maniac_uk69]

I've got to admit I've had autosaves happen at the most inconvenient moments!!! It would be nice if we had the option of when to autosave (landed or every x minutes).
I was looking for a federation rep and kept taking off and landing at various stations when my game became bugged and I ended up stuck inside the station structure. My previous save was 4 hours previous..