It would be great to have save and load for multiplayer

It would be great to have save and load for multiplayer. I would really love this feature and would make good use of it.

Nothing fancy is required. Have a load button, pick the save, then you are taken to the lobby with all settings in read only. The lobby teams would be set up according to the save and slots would be added for all human players (maybe even AI?) in the save. Then as people join, they can choose which human player (or maybe AI too?) they want to take over. Then you hit start and you resume your multiplayer match.

You obviously have zero experience in coding.

I cringed so hard at this "Nothing fancy is required. Have a load button, pick the save, then..." so hard I just had to write this.

This is not needed feature to begin with even something like dota 2 still didint ported theyr save load stuff and they are running big tournaments and there were crashes happening some time ago and game is like 100 times simpler. There is like 10000000 times better features to implement than this.

If you think that I tried to insult you, you are wrong. It was just very funny to read. In like 8 years I never used load save in this game, never heard of anyone using it. The only thing I heard how big and impractical savefiles for multiplayer "rejoins" wouldbe and thats why in multipleyr we download replay and "rewatch/catch up" but not "savestate" like "dota". Would this be useful to new players? I doubt it.

[pikts]wolas maybe you don't use save/load because if you were the type of player that wanted the feature you would not have hung around. Yes, from my perspective we've generated a community of people who don't want the features that we don't have.

ni I don't know how easy or hard this would be. The engine deals with the low-level aspects of save/load so it would be up to it whether the save data is sent from the host to the clients correctly (or indeed, at all).

Another great benefit for support saving and loading in multiplayer is to allow catching up with already running games to be much quicker. Instead of transferring the replay and waiting 10 minutes to catch up with a slightly longer game with many players, this could be almost instantaneous by sending the save and then an incremental replay from the save to the current time (as is done now while you are catching up, the game is still going).

I would really love this feature in multiplayer.

Fair enough. I would love multiplayer save though. Please implement it. It's a key feature for me.

Great game though. Good job everyone.

If you're really passionate about this feature, perhaps you can create a bounty offer on Spring forum?
https://springrts.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=86&sid=e4d1fcbb5b605b75524c901747e0cee3

FYI I would not expect a feature this challenging to be implemented in a timescale of days or weeks, months at minimum.

don't assume everybody plays the same as you please. Saving is already there in single player, multiplayer save should not require much more work as compared to whats already done. I would love it if someone started working on this.

For eg. I just recently played an about 16 player game that lasted well over 1.5 hours.

1,2) It should definitely be easier given that single player save is done as opposed to no save at all. Code can be reused, at the very least ideas and issues that were encountered and fixed for single player save can carry over. So no matter how you look at it, it should save some time. Either in code reuse or things learned by doing single player save. I bet most of the code can be reused.

3) it's not a concern. It's up to the person hosting and the players joining if they care which slot they occupy. You would likely play this more more often with people you know. That they play differently or join a different slot is a choice to the people playing and has no impact on implementation aside from letting people choose their slots. If you don't have all the players, the units of that player will be given to one of the existing players same as in multiplayer now, or just given to the host. Again this is already implemented.

4) You assume a lot of things. I gave you evidence of long games and yet you still argue the point. This would be a great feature, and as GoogleFrog said recently (see above), just because the existing user base of this game got used to all the missing features because they have been here for years, doesn't mean it's not a good and needed feature by new players. Expecting limitation is not a good thing.

5) I'm making suggestions for what features I, and many other players would love. I'm not saying every single player would use it, but many would. Besides, it might be easy to do. You never know. It seems like most of the pieces are there.

6) That's fair, but there is also a big learning curve, there are also no easy instructions on how to build and run the game from source. The instructions I saw somewhere said that even the assets are not available in the source repository and they have to be found somewhere else, yet it didn't say where. So there is a big cost to invest to try and do this for someone new who hasn't done it already.