Hopefully attached.
I was using the compressed version, so I have downloaded the full version and tried that as well now - still nothing loads.
The file attached however has come from the game>saves folder - NOT the User>Apps Data folder?
I have 3 options in the Apps Data Folder: Local / LocalLow and Roaming and I cannot find any Waterworld files anywhere there, though several other games show up.
Strange
I might hang on to 24.1 and go straight to the next update.
Don't fret too much, I am sure you have much more important things to worry about than my temporary inconveniences.
Hey, sorry for the late reply, but I had to get my code in working condition so I can run the development version of the game (I'm in the middle of making 0.25, so it's not really stable right now).
The bad news is that I can't load your save. I guess it might be because you have played a modified version of the game when making the save (either compressed or web) and whoever did it added some stuff that's missing in the original version. So now when you try to load the save, the game is looking for the missing stuff trying to re-create the state of that and fails. Sorry for not being able to help you with this

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However, the good news is that there is a save in the OP, that's meant for checking out the sex-ed events with Sophie before you leave the ships for the station. It's not that far back in the game, so you might want to re-play from there, given the fact that one of the new events in 0.24.5 is with Sophie, so you would need to load that save anyways. Sorry for not being able to fix your save, but it wasn't done with the code of the game I have, so it would be hard to know what the other guys added when making the version you played.