I have 55 hours played on 3 characters. This just started happening not 3 minutes ago, where I saved over a game on the character I've been playing, yet the game chose to overwrite a different save altogether, effectively erasing one of my characters.

Now before anyone thinks this was operator error, first, I name all my saves through the console commands, ala "save JoeShmoe-Main" and "save JoeShmore-Backup". I always, always look carefully after having clicked a save to make sure of what I'm saving over, even with the unique saves that I've created, because all the save games are lumped in one place. This had been working just fine until right now. For the love of all that's holy, PLEASE Bethesda, update game saving so that each character created has it's own save area, like every other game out there. When I play Mass Effect 2 I don't have to worry about overwriting a different character. It used to be that the only problem on the 360 version of Oblivion is that the sorting of saves was whacked out all the time so you had to scroll through all the time to find your latest save instead of it being at the top where is should be (I never had that problem on my pc version of Oblivion....yes I have both versions, pc for me, 360 for my nephew when he visits).

Again, this is a potential hideous problem here Bethesda

***EDIT***
I failed to put in the above post that I did this THREE times, because the first time it happened, I thought it was my own fault, so I had to do it again, and yet again, to be sure of this happening before exiting the game and coming here to post this.

Never seen any reports of similar problem. Definately human error.

Evidently you didn't read my post at all, but I'll add to it that I tested this scenario 3 separate times and at that point, it happened all 3 times which is what prompted me to exit the game and post about it here. There was no operator error at all.

I just went back into the game to test it yet again, and it is still [censored] happening.

I save all my save games in pairs, a 'main' and a 'backup' in case of an Oblivion-like problem when a save game gets corrupted. The first time I saved just now, it was fine, however, the second [censored] save overwrote another [censored] character.

THIS NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED. The only malicious joy I will have is when others start having the same issue, I get the big, fat, empty "I told you so".

thats where the consoles shine ....On my ps3 I have different profiles and then play each character on a seprate profile.... I have 3 saves per profile.....

At first I thought you might be messing up (since often the 'cursor selection' and 'mouse selection' can point at different things on the UI in-game), but now I've noticed this as well. For instance, say I have 3 saved games.

name: Helgen Keep - Save 1
data: Level 1 character, picture of torture chamber

name: Helgen Keep - Save 2
data: Level 2 character, picture of bear

name: Riverwood - Save 3
data: Level 4 character, picture of Riverwood


When I go to save a game, sometimes the arrays mess up or something. So it shows:

name: Helgen Keep - Save 1
data: Level 2 character, picture of bear <- !! these don't match

name: Helgen Keep - Save 2
data: Level 4 character, picture of Riverwood <- !! these don't match


The arrays/pointers can't be trusted. What I'll do now, is use new saves each time. And then after playing, go to Documents \ My Games. Copy the entire Skyrim folder, and paste it somewhere else (I made a Documents \ Backups folder to paste these in... then I rename them Skyrim1, Skyrim2, etc). Got used to doing this with Fallout: New Vegas and other games. Did it for Borderlands, and then Borderlands added Steam cloud, and then my save corrupted that day, and then Steam cloud didn't allow me to overwrite the corrupt data with a backup... lol can't win.

Heck I even do it with Windows 7 backup, and wrote a post-it note on how to rename images from WindowsImageBackup1 to WindowsImageBackup in command prompt when running off a repair disk.

Occasionally I go back and delete some of the Skyrim backup folders for space (speaking from the future...), or copy saved games and SkyrimPref.ini back to the live version when something else messes up (like Skyrim randomly thinks it's launching for the 1st time again). These computer programs have soooo much additional stuff in them aimed to make life easier, yet fail logically and end up making things much more difficult.

Hi!

I can acknowledge that the save game index seems to be 1 step to high: To overwrite the oldest save game (if you scroll down to the bottom), you actually have to click beneath the save game to overwrite it.

Regards, Niko

I make a new save every time. 250 saves and counting.

When you find out that something doesn't work do it differently.

In my opinion the best way to have multiple characters is to never have saves of different characters in the same folder. So I move saves between folders when I change character. Also I keep about 4 saves + quick-/autosaves per character.

Saves <- Current character's saves here
Saves/Charactername1
Saves/Charactername2

I too had a similar problem. And like a previous poster noted, use a different save folder per character.

confirmed by Tod human error hes at my house

Yeah, I noticed this too. In the save menu, the mouse cursor (and the highlighted save) aren't accurate - you need to aim about 2/3 of a line of text lower (wait for the little screenshot to update, that shows accurately which one you're going to overwrite. Of course, if the shots aren't very distinct from each other it's not alot of help.)




Example... I normally keep a rotating set of ~10 saves for my characters in a Beth game. When I go to make a save, I scroll to the bottom of the list and save over the oldest one. If I point my mouse directly at the bottom save (with it highlighted) and click, the game saves over the next one up. If I point my mouse a bit less than a line below the bottom save, it save over that one.