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Mecrobb

Challenge of the month...........

I have a habit of not saving my games and just using auto saves. I took a short break from an epic pachacuti game and when I loaded the game back up I accidentally clicked on the challenge of the month banner. I found out that just clicking the banner starts up the lame scenario and overwrites the auto saves from the previous game. I just lost about 4 hours of an awesome game and all I have now is turn 147 of this stupid Pericles challenge...

Posted Dec 2, 2023, 3:12 AM UTC

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TheRNGPriest•

I believe there’s a separate option to show autosaves in ”Load game” menu

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booklover618•

Something similar happened to me, too. I clicked on it wanting to know more info before playing, but nope it automatically loaded the scenario and took the place of the most recent game I was playing. :(

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IamKito•

I’m sorry this doesn’t make up for loss, but to prevent future tragedies there is a mod in the workshop to completely remove the challenge from showing on the main menu.

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PapaBigMac•

What a strange thing to mod - is it that annoying to skip past ?

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XalrocWindseekerDeity•

There's also a Save Game and Quick Save option in the menu! Will save you far more headaches and is future proof! Unless you want to take a gamble at whether next month's banner will be on the right side and your auto save will once again be autof'd.

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frfrrnrn•

There should be another folder in the save files folder called "prev" or something like that, which should contain autosaves from the previous game. You can move them to the normal folder and resume

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niewadzi•

Yep, this should never just start a game. Instead it should show the settings etc. Why do I have to load a game only to learn that it has no game modes, has a prince difficulty when I'm a deity player and on top of that requires a cultural win with a cultural civ. That ain't challenge at all for a lot of players, and don't get me wrong, I don't mind that but why do I have to load the game to learn all that?

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mrapanDeity•

If you have OneDrive with default settings (or possibly other cloud storage sync apps) + default save game location you can restore your old saves from there. Saved me once :)

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XalrocWindseekerDeity•

Sorry, I have little simpathy for not saving. I have multiple games running through any one week, several multiplayer. Didn't know people just chose NOT to save their games 🤭

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Ill-Cryptographer359•

Shouldn't you have more than one autosave? You can change it in the settings, for example, I have 50, one every turn, so you still have the autosaves from your previous game as long as you don't use up all the autosave-turns.

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Comrade_Kaine•

I feel your pain, happened to me so many times!
On PC you can access previous game's auto saves, when the new start deletes them from the root folder. \My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization VI\Saves\Single\auto\prev

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