Don't erase old saves. Keep everything.

[Jinix the Elder]

The f5 key, and the way it'll make three saves is a great idea, but for me I like to keep lots of saves so I can return to any part of the game.

I do this for a couple of reasons - one, the obvious, so I have a save to go back to in the event of a disaster or to re-start from an earlier save if I made a wrong choice somewhere in the game.

But the other reason I keep lots of saves is so at a future date I can go to the exceptionally tough battles and replay the battle without having to go thru the whole game to get to it. Besides, with harddrive capacity as big as it is and cheap (1tb for $99 @tigerdirect ) keeping a few megs of saves or even gigabytes, is a moot point.

I do that a lot with games now and as look back thru my collection of saves it's great to be able to start from anyplace in a game. Each time I go to a save before a battle, like the one with the giant spider, I can reduce the number of troops or try different strategies with the same enemies. It's a way I get more out of a game.

Jinix the Elder

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero