It seems all throughout Season 2 I've been restarting over and over because of "invalid save". And yes - the save files appearance have gone from 6 full size per page to 6 miniature on a 4X7 grid. I've always played the compressed version - is that the issue? Hope not, as I don't have the disc space for large files...
I changed some event orders to make more sense, and this affected some saves.
I recommend making multiple saves. This save system gives me a lot of headaches and I'm terrible at coding, so I'm sorry about that. I swear I'm trying to solve this once and for all. Now, when saves are made in patched versions and such, there's not much I can do.
About the slots, I created more slots so that people who are save maniacs can have more saves on a single page. Maybe the number was excessive, but I don't think it causes that much harm.
Since the next update will no doubt go over 5 gigs can we finally start getting update-only patches? They're a pretty standard thing for big games and Mega has a 5gig limit for free users, as does pixeldrain...
You're right. I'll start doing the update patches again starting with the next version. This Season 2 is insanely long, but I'm avoiding breaking it into two.
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By the way, starting with the next version I'll add a "Skip Accelerator" (or speed reducer, depending on the player's taste). This doesn't solve the problem, but it will at least speed things up for those who want or need to go back to the beginning.