I'm not sure if this has been suggested yet but I'd like to request some changes to the way seasonal backups work. Let me say, first, that the rational for these changes is better sorting in both the 'continue' menu and when viewing the folders on a computer.
The way things are now:
"region#-season-year" - in this season is one of aut, spr, sum, win
This means that saves are grouped first by region (logical), then by seasons (in alphabetical order - as above - not chronological order) and then ordered by year. This scheme makes figuring out which save is the most recent difficult.
What would be better (the smallest change)
"region#-year-season" - still sticking with the season abbreviated seasons. This would still group by region, then by year, and finally by season (though in alphabetical order and not chronological order). This makes finding the most recent saves much easier and orders them in a nearly logical way. There is still the obvious problem of seasons being sorted alphabetically and not chronologically.
What would be best (only a slightly larger change):
"region#-year.season#(-optionally add season)" - In this scheme we would replace the abbreviated season with a number 1-4. Win would make an obvious 4 and Spr an obvious 1 (as Spr starts a year and Win ends it). This would sort first by region, then by year, and finally by season (chronologically). The optional addition of the season name to the end would make the season more human readable and wouldn't change sorting. The only disadvantage of this format would be that, as it is implemented now, the continue menu would have the most recent save last in this list.
So, any chance this could be implemented? If you wanted to go the extra mile I suppose you could allow the save folder format to be defined in the init.txt but it will make portability of saves difficult.
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