Hi, I had an issue with the save transfer. Tried transferring my 7.2 save to 8.1a and... It didn't go well. I got a large error message on the console screen. What did transfer thru were my levels, skills, ships, and it seems most of my stuff as far as I know. The ships were all striped down. I had no weapons in my cargo but it did all appear in the abandoned station so I assumed they combined with the storage that was already there and the equipment I had on the ships. Plus 7k or so supplies and fuel. Other issues is that my skills were selected and... well there is a level cap now. And skills only go up to 3 not 10 so that is a thing with me having a few skills (and aptitudes) at rank 10. My Rep transferred as well which... was dangerous in Corvos lol. I was able to 'fix' the last two options with modifiers to loadsave to ignore skill choices and not transfer the rep over though that does make it difficult being out of TT's favor.
Also another oddity is that instead of my current fighter ships I had being converted into LPC item equivalents or something I still had actual ships in my fleet.
Probablly the biggest one is not a single crew member transfered. That is a problem hah. It makes sense they were all elite crew but I thought the transfer might convert them to regular crew members.
Main thing too is my custom variants I worked out were gone as well those I miss. I guess the rest will be trying to fit new variants in since skills have changed so much, and it is much harder to get more OP. Still got one option in tech to increase it, but the other one that decreased weapon OP seems to be gone.
I didn't try downgrading back to 7.2 to make a proper accounting yet. Maybe I should make a seperate install, hmm.
I can give you save files, the compressed copy/paste data and/or screenshots if you like.