Apparently this happens and I was unaware.

It seems as if that "hard" auto save right at the beginning gets overwritten any time you start a new character. If you have continued to save your character in that slot and then decide to start a new character, your old character will be overwritten unless you save to a different slot. Always make multiple saves to avoid this issue.

Bye bye level 44 mage.

Dang, that sucks.

Just finished the main quest at level 12. I am going to beef up my character a bit with some armor and weapons and then start knocking out the side quests.

Well, what did you except from autosave, ofc it will overwrite your old ones. Especially if there's not 2 different profiles.

This has happened since the dawn of auto saves... The only way you could have lost your Mage is if you never created his own saved game aside from the auto saves... or you saved over top your non auto saved game.

My Save/ Load list look like this:

(New Save) Creates a new save slot that is manually controlled

Auto Save\
Auto Save } Rotating auto saves every 15 mins ( or every time a new area is entered )
Auto Save/

91 Skyrim lvl 40 Warrior
87 Skyrim lvl 40 Warrior ( same as above )
71 Skyrim My Imperial lvl 1

When I first saved my imperial, it was instinctive to select (New Save)...

either way, sorry about your loss.

No it happened because I only used the initial slot to save with. Stupid as fuck. Still kinda mad.

I never played games with auto saves.

Before this my gaming history looked like this.

Halo1/2
D2
Starcraft: BW
SSBM
Ladder Slasher
Starcraft: 2

That history goes back like 9 years. I am pretty picky and I stick with games once I pick em.

This post was edited by Miniflight on Dec 6 2011 08:24am

Daum you never played MGS/ Resident Evil/ Final Fantasy? I mean there's tons more RPG's and FPS's that have the auto save concept.. NHL/ NBA/ UFC games...

=C

Damn if I lost my 40 Warrior.. I\d flip my wig.

I played Resident Evil 2, for n64 back in the day.

Never played any of those other ones you mentioned though.

I am still a bit upset, I will probably just abuse glitches to get levels and gear for a while.

On the PC version I believe there is a way to reroll the character to w.e. level + skills you need.

I am on PS3 >.<

is there a button to open a text box? The cheat codes from Oblivion(pc) work... If not I guess is another reason to have the series on the computer.

I tell you.. I was right pissed when my most accomplished character in Fallout:3 glitched.. Wish I could have used cheat commands to edit a new character.