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Can't save Commander

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Can't save Commander

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I'm new to this game but I'm enjoying it. My problem is that having completed a mission and having made a little money I'm not able to save my position. I go to Save Commander , put in the name I want to save it under but can't see what to do to complete the transaction. When I hit Return, the name I typed in disappears. Can anybody help me please
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Kermitsy wrote:
I'm new to this game but I'm enjoying it. My problem is that having completed a mission and having made a little money I'm not able to save my position. I go to Save Commander , put in the name I want to save it under but can't see what to do to complete the transaction. When I hit Return, the name I typed in disappears. Can anybody help me please
First off:

1. What OS?
2. Where is it installed?
3. Have you gone to Load to see if it is there?
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Re: Can't save Commander

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Hi, and welcome... after you've hit return, go to F4 Edit Ship Registration and enter commander name and shipname of your choice.
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First: Welcome on board commander.
Don't Panic. Usually the game does an auto-save when you leave a station so in General there is no need to save manually. Though it has Advantages to do so...

When you hit F2, select save, type in a Name and hit Enter, that's it. Try to select F2 again, then select "load game". Does the name of your savefile appear there?
Note: In my Oolite, I can not select some numbers for the name, so if you have the Impression that the save Routine might be quit when you hit a certain key, simply avoid this one.
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ralph_hh wrote:
Usually the game does an auto-save when you leave a station...
Only if auto-save is enabled, which is not the default setting!
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ralph_hh wrote:
Note: In my Oolite, I can not select some numbers for the name, so if you have the Impression that the save Routine might be quit when you hit a certain key, simply avoid this one.
Which numbers do you mean? They all seem to work fine here.
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another_commander wrote:
Which numbers do you mean? They all seem to work fine here.
If ralph_hh is running version 1.80, the "5" key didn't work on the save commander screen in that version (Windows only I think). It was a bug fixed in 1.82.
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It was in 1.8, true, did not reoccur yet in 1.82. Windows Version ideed.
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