Umm.....no. Since you dont save in space, your saved games have no need to save the positions of every single ship in the area.

The file size for a single player save file ranges from 70KB to around 120KB, much less than many other games' save file sizes out there in the market.

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but in earlier discussion, we were talking about saving "in space"... right?
well thanks anyhow
Phoenix out


From this celestial bough all but one did fall into the pitiless fires of reach.
A soldier’s ignominy to have dreamt while his brothers bled. But oh, for the rest of us his shame was our salvation.

The only way of saving "in space" is by the game's own auto save during the singleplayer missions or when you just came out of a jump gate.

Re: save file size...

so what does a save game file have to store?
"your location," which would just serve as a load point and nothing else, something tells me that if you loaded the same game twice, you'd encounter different ships in thta system each time
"Faction rating" i suppose it would be a simple numeric value for each faction that the game engine would use to determine how ships react
"ship and load out" once again simple lines of code detailing what ship and what cargo
"Ship damage" hmm.. 'set_leftwingdestroyed=1' same with whatever hardpoints on said wing
"Cash" numeric value
"Mission completed" ditto
"Level" ditto
"neural net and system chart" prolly will end up being the biggest part of the file. my guess would be that save files would be smaller at the start of your game and larger at the end, as the file has to note every system and item IN said sytem that is mapped.

i think that's about it.. add anything else that might be included.
if anything it will give those 'game trainer' writers a head start

...Just a random thought from a random mind