[Hellion9]

Originally Posted by statmeister

If this works the way I think it does, where the hard drive will not be accessed by OOTP except when opening and closing your league, isn't there a danger of losing data should the computer crash, or suffer a power outage and the league/universe file is not closed properly. Your file would not be corrupted, but any game play that took place would be lost.

Markus mentioned auto-safe options. Will the program periodically update the files while game play is going on?

-SM

The hard-drive is accessed pretty regularly in the FM system - the bulk of the processing is performed in RAM but the entire database may well require disk accesses during updates. The save game is only updated explicitly. You are right on, however, that any power interruption means losing everything you've done from opening the savegame up to the point your computer shut down. I have had (stupidly on my part, to be sure) five or six hours of play lost because I got too involved to save.

I'm assuming that the game will also feture the FM option of performing automatic monthly backups, rolling saves and the like, which can minimize any loss incurred due to an interruption.