I am hoping - nay, praying - that after all these years, surely someone, somewhere, has developed a mod for this game that allows it to be auto-saved?

These crashes in the middle of a run of battles are absolutely maddening.

Please tell me there is something out there that can let me keep from having to go back to the start of my "system-hopping" offensive, making me start all over yet again?

Sorry to be whiny, but dang, this is annoying. Even MOO2 has an Auto-Save.

If you have a gaming mouse and keyboard or some good software, you can simply record a macro that simulates mouse and keyboard presses. I wrote a little macro that saves at the blink of an eye. You can loop it every two minutes or so. I'm used to saving manually in multiplayer though.

Version 1.00 is very stable and it NEVER crashes. It's 1.01 that has problems. If they release version 1.00 along with 1.01 that would solve the issue. The only thing 1.01 does is make multiplayer compatible between international versions.

Thank you, Samodelkin1!