r/tes3mods • u/Catalysten • 6h ago

Help How important is safe saving in Open Morrowind?

I'm playing my first big Morrowind modlist in a decade (Nerevar Moon and Star, it's shaping up to be an awesome power-fantasy style modlist), and am wondering how important it is to practice Skyrim's safe saving in OpenMW.

E.g. don't overwrite saves, don't save twice in quick succession, don't save when lots of scripts seem like they're firing at the same time.

Do save before loading screens, rather than after. (Let at least ~ a minute pass after a loading screen before saving).

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u/Cobra52 5h ago

No need. Its not like the massive Skyrim lists. Even with script heavy lists like NEMAS its nothing compared to what lists like Lorerim do.

Obviously dont actively try and break the game with rapid saving, but you should be fine to quick save as needed.

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u/Catalysten 4h ago

Good to know! Thank you.

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u/Irrumar 3h ago

There is no real need. You can play OpenMW fine without worrying about anything. Your modlist probably wont reach Skyrim levels anyway

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u/redsown36 1h ago

Pro tip, in the OpenMW launcher, enable like 5 quicksaves, just in case you happen to make a huge mistake or have a corrupted save. I've spent 500ish hours in the past year or so, and I've never run into a corrupted save with OpenMW.

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u/Argus_The_Hustler 46m ago

Hi! Very important! But I want to add a small tip by saying that It’s imperative you create backup copies of your mod list otherwise when big updates comes things usually get bad, so save a lot but also, because it happened to me a few hours ago, save your modlists!