To clarify my stance on the game so everyone stops bothering me: I think the devs did a great job with everything. Just wish saving worked for me. Not being able to save makes me not want to play it, as I put time and effort into it and want my save to last, but it doesn’t save. If you haven’t had this issue, please refrain from commenting. Genuinely, the amount of comments saying “you can’t call it bad because you’re experiencing save issues” is annoying. I can. How else do you judge a game? Performance. Again, I think the game itself is good if I don’t include my issue in the judgement. Including my issue, it needs work.
Simply go to Github and report your problem: https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry/issues/new/choose.
Game developer here (not for this game).
It sounds like an anti-virus program/Windows Security is stopping the game from writing to files for you. That happens sometimes for games that do not have a high amount of users (~100 000 users), since only well-known programs are let through anti-virus programs and Windows Security.
I would try this if I were you (it usually solves everything when it happens to me regarding other software/games):
1. Go into Windows Security and into Virus & threat protection, then exclude the game .exe file AND its entire game directory there.
If you have an anti-virus program other than Windows Security, do the same thing there (for the .exe file and for the entire game directory).
2. Run the game and/or itch as an administrator.
3. If it still does not save, restart your computer, as anti-virus programs (and Windows Security) sometimes has a file or directory blocked until you restart your computer.
Windows security definitely isn’t the issue (I rarely ever have it on since I don’t use my pc for anything but games lol) and I don’t have other ant virus software. I do, however, greatly appreciate the attempt to actually give me a solution, opposed to what others do, being attack my stance while providing no helpful information whatsoever. Thanks friend❤️