But that's the thing... I do trust anyone to look at the saved game and "potentially mess up the PPP." As the currently-UP player, I actually have an even greater chance of messing up the PPP.
I don't mind if the game gets "messed up." Plans will always undergo a certain amount of change, no matter how well you plan ahead.
However, I have been painstakingly taking screenshots with the explicit purpose of us not having any valid reason to load an "old" saved game.
I see no reason to limit anyone from looking at the current saved game, the game that matches our present-time progress. If they make some moves while looking at the most recent game, no worries--it's just a game and mistakes happen, and we can play forwards from whatever those moves are. As we saw with last SGOTM, sometimes these mistakes can help.
However, the key distinction that I am making is that: by loading an old saved game, if a move is made, then we have officially replayed part of the game. With a tiny bit of formalized process, we can completely remove this possibility from occuring.
All I was trying to say was that "the saved game that is currently on the server is about to become an old saved game." The reason being that I was about to play forwards.
Maybe I am being overly worrisome on this subject. Certainly, we have seen several discussions of late in the Maintenance Thread where some subjects got carried away too far--perhaps I am going down the same track here.
On the other hand, is it really so hard for someone who wants to look at the current saved game to ask the UP player to pause play and then get a chance to look at the most-up-to-date game? Isn't that saved game going to be the most relevant one to look at, anyway?