Split off Level solving contest #2 (https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=4086.msg73910#msg73910),
split off Autosave replays: Run to end? (https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=4087)
I thought the F3 button was a "save replay" button. That icon that looks like a save button has deceived me. :-[
I apologize for the lousy UI and how it caused you to lose the solution. :lix-trouble:
Bad icon for quicksave: I've even noticed the problematic icon (disk) last year and filed an issue: #293 Savestate icon, don't use floppy disk (means: write file) (https://github.com/SimonN/LixD/issues/293). But I've never thought that it's so terribly misleading that it produces data loss. I merely assumed people would be confused what would be saved, and thus avoid clicking the disk. But your story is 100 % plausible, the replay is obviously the prime candidate for a file to be saved to disk.
Makes the issue more urgent than mere cosmetics. I should redesign the icon soon. What icons make sense for quicksave and quickload?
On the topic of save/load icons, the ones used in The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions immediately come to mind.
(https://i.imgur.com/W7Q3sFZ.png)
I think they are pretty clear about what they do, even without the text.
Quicksaving is more like bookmarking than saving. Bookmark or camera may be better icons? Website bookmark icon is sometimes a 5-pronged star? Very hard to convey that we don't write a file. We cache the replay and position in RAM.