Comment 4 for bug 1503949

"Widelands loads a game first, than saves it and reloads it. There are some reasons for that, on is that starting a new game and loading is the same code path. Another is that we have a fresh load that has no backwards compatibility cruft anymore."

most times people keep using the same version. wouldn't it be more efficient to have the game check if the saved game is the same version, and if it is skip the saving and reloading part? if the savegame file does not contain information on the version, it could be added.