"Save before Loading" dialogue must go or save to a new file.

The 'Save Before Loading?' confirmation dialogue has repeatedly been the cause of lost progress.

Please imagine the following scenario: You have just finished 5 hours worth of work on a new ship and it must be tested. You think to yourself "I should make a backup save in case this doesn't go so well", you do it , you feel wise. You launch the ship and it crashes and explodes, not because it was badly designed but because you went a tiny bit too fast, that's ok you knew this might happen. you go to load, you're anxious to get back to building and upset because you watched your five hour ship explode, you aren't thinking about the dialogues, you click 'yes', the game loads and surprise, it SAVED OVER THE BACKUP FILE YOU MADE FOR SAFETY!.

this cannot happen. Either this confirmation dialogue must save to a NEW FILE (not the active one) or it must simply be removed because as it stands it is just too easy to loose progress and because the game is in early development loss of progress is a constant threat anyway, it does not need to be exacerbated by a rogue confirmation dialogue.

ADDITIONALLY, Autosave ALSO saves to the existing game file instead of to a separate auto-save file as it should making it a threat to user created saves also. and this should be fixed ASAP.

Nearly all modern games keep autosaves separate from user created ones and there is a good reason for it.

I hope this helps.