It would be nice to have character slots so that when two people play the game on the same computer, they don't overwrite one another's progress, especially when quicksaving.

It would be useful. I once saved over my best character. :sadvaultboy:

That would be useful yeah, good idea.

I think people should stop complaining about the fine save system. The only thing they should change is to have separate auto-saves for each character, but don't they already do that? (I've only had two characters, one at a time.)

Please tell me you use more then 1 save file per character :blink:
As someone who has played Bethesda games for more then a decade now, I can tell you only 1 save file is a recipe for disaster. They have a tendency to go corrupt eventually, and you'll lose all your progress. Please use more then 1 file per character, and never rely on auto saves either.

As for the OP: I'd love separate profiles per character. At the moment I only have one character, but I'm itching to try different builds, and am worried I'll override my main character's saves by accident. I'll probably end up using different xbox 360 profiles instead (I'm not on the PC this time around) but I'd prefer not to do so.
On the PC I keep save files for different characters in their own folder and copy/paste them into the main save folder when I want to play that character, which isn't ideal but as long as I carefully back up my saves (which is a good idea anyway) it is a workable solution.

Bioware did the whole profile thing very elegantly with Dragon Age (one of the few things I liked about that game) and I had hoped Bethesda would have implemented something similar.

This is freaking mandatory. Ugh. C'mon Beth, get it together!

Yes.

Ever since I accidentally deleted an Oblivion save, I've kept at least 10 saves for each character.

Would it work to move your save to a flash drive then keep the other on the console? That's still only two characters though. :facepalm:

Character save slots would be pretty nice. Although the save file does already display the name of the characters, so if you just take a second to check the name you should be fine.

Yeah but not the autosaves.

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I think it should have been obvious to include this. I have never accidentally saved over a char, but I do like to have alts, and my wife plays as well. Seems pretty intuitive.