Suggestion: Name the Leader After the Goal Victory Condition

[Spoonwood]

To make it easier to find a particular save when submitting a game, just name the leader after the desired victory condition, including the map size, and difficulty level.

For example:

that name is for an intended Small, Monarch Histographic game. Then when you save the game, the name of the map size, difficulty level, and some clue about the desired victory condition will appear at the front part of the save file.

Of course if you have some clever, interesting, or delightful name instead, you remain free to use that. However, the above nomenclature will make it clearer to remember details about the game from the saves. It also makes the names of save files more unique than having multiple file names where the leader has the same name, and then later discovering that, for example, Spoonwood 430 BC is not from the same game as Spoonwood 410 BC.

If you intend to play multiple maps, instead of something like "Small Emp TwentyK" names like "Large Deity TwentyK First" (which might be too long), with ordinal names to differntiate from the numerical names for 100k type and 20k victory attempts.

 

[Bartleby]

I wish it were possible to change the name of your leader after starting the game. I generally include the mapfinder iteration in the filenames (and also include it in the name of the capital city). It's definitely annoying to save quickly and forget to include the information.

 

[BlackBetsy]

Nobody has commented on my use of the "Title" text in screenshots. I have posted screenshots with "We love the Shameless Table Chaser" and "We love the Octathlon Chaser" and no amusement from the crowd. Of course, the title there doesn't affect save files like your helpful suggestion but it is fun. My current game is "Histo 40k Chaser"

I wish it were possible to change the name of your leader after starting the game.

This is my real wish too - because I use iterations and have to re-name each save file based on each iteration, e.g. HgDGHisto120, which is my current game.

 

[Spoonwood]

"We love the Shameless Table Chaser" and "We love the Octathlon Chaser"

Those make for fun sounding names. And funny titles. But, I can't guess at what type of game the current save would be from those names.

My current game is "Histo 40k Chaser"

This one though, I can guess it's a histographic game with a large enough map size where 40,000 points gets believed as possible.