28th Level 16

between my level 27 and my current level 15 i'm at 129. Really need to start using the quicksave function.

23 saves at level21.

Lvl 18 with around 200 saves

80 something!

11 Saves and 10128012830123 quick saves
Level 19

level 18 with 62 hard saves. anyone else use the console command to name the save file?

btw, has anyone noticed how fast the game both saves and loads? its quite impressive, especially considering how much stuff the game has to keep track of.

good job on the saving/loading algorithm bethesda!

I still have save game bloat though. my latest save game file is about 6 MB (started at 3).

250 individual saves. I save comulsively every few seconds in a dungeon.

Around 27? I'm not sure. Level 7.

Level 33 and around 300 saves.

I have about 450, at level 32 and 45 hours played. It's less that I'm cautious than that a) the autosave system doesn't work very well, in my opinion -- fast-traveling to a town then ducking inside a shop to sell stuff and coming back out will eat all three autosaves, while traveling across the tundra for a half hour will use none, and b ) the quicksave system is insufficient protection against bugs. There have been a few times already I've needed to revert to a previous save, and I'm glad I had the option.

Level 4, 33 saves

hangover from a very modded Oblivion that crashed on occasion!

31 hours, 480 something saves.

lvl 26, 32 saves.

17 Quick save often though

I only hard save when I quit the game, everything while I play is quicksaves (unless for a specific reason I am worried about what I am about to do). Some people think this is bad because glitches and such can kill your progress, but the console in the PC version generally makes that a non-issue.

Level 17, 31 saves.

Level 10, 673 Saves total, one character. I'm cautious.

I've had too many games, from too many publishers, lost completely (or many hours of progress lost) by just counting on a basic level of saving, to ever do that again when I've got the choice.

Standard practice for me, with Bethesda games, is to keep a rotating block of 10-15 manual saves - once I get up to that many saves on a character, I start saving over the oldest one. Plus I quicksave before entering new rooms/areas, after beating notable dudes in a dungeon, before doing anything risky, etc. I've basically never counted on Auto saves.... I even disable some of the triggers (like "save on wait").

These huge lists of saves that many of us make, is one of the big reasons there were constant threads over the last months, with people wondering if Bethesda would make a modern "folder/profile"-type save system like those found in Bioware and other companies' games - being able to select which character's saves we wanted to see would cut down a great deal on accidental overwrites between characters.


(Which leads to another thought - anyone who wants to play more than one character, has to use manual saves - if you just use Auto & Quick, you'd delete your old character every time you started a new one.)

I'm on about.... 224! I'm pretty cautious.

36. I keep saving over my old saves though.



(Only level 7 at the moment. 9 hours in)

Level 21, 5 or 6 save slots. 37 or so on the save count. 28 hours in.

Interesting to hear what other people's save habits are. I always thought I was crazy.

about 200. mainly because I'm a low lvl theif and reload when I get caught. same with lockpicking. it's cheap but sue me. I would have been sent to jail 100 times by nwo

303.

Yep I'm cautious too, had it freeze up twice so far which isn't bad but it was at a bad time. Lvl 11 and 67 saves