The dev response regarding the annoying 'save edited' message was:
"The reasoning though is that once you modify any values directly, we're no longer dealing with stuff in the game's control. Some things may be harmless edits, and some things might cause your game to crash. If someone reports a bug and their save has been edited, and the bug is due to a certain value on their character that shouldn't be there, then yeah I just disregard it. This has been useful when people do things like setting body parts to things that aren't supported, or people editing their stats or level higher, or setting corruption to be negative, or making their armor slot empty, etc. If I didn't know that they edited their save, I might waste hours trying to find what bug in the code was setting these things to bad values."
Of course none of this explains why the message has to be so intrusive and why it has to be clicked through every. Single. Time. I'd have thought that maybe the edited saves could have a simple icon or etc marking them as such on the save select screen but then again I guess I'm not a brain genius like Savin and friends.
"The reasoning though is that once you modify any values directly, we're no longer dealing with stuff in the game's control. Some things may be harmless edits, and some things might cause your game to crash. If someone reports a bug and their save has been edited, and the bug is due to a certain value on their character that shouldn't be there, then yeah I just disregard it. This has been useful when people do things like setting body parts to things that aren't supported, or people editing their stats or level higher, or setting corruption to be negative, or making their armor slot empty, etc. If I didn't know that they edited their save, I might waste hours trying to find what bug in the code was setting these things to bad values."
Of course none of this explains why the message has to be so intrusive and why it has to be clicked through every. Single. Time. I'd have thought that maybe the edited saves could have a simple icon or etc marking them as such on the save select screen but then again I guess I'm not a brain genius like Savin and friends.