I spent a lot of time on my custom races.  To have them arbitrarily deleted with no warning pisses me off to no end.  I'd love to know which of the fixes included in this patch necessitated deleting user made content. 

the only areas that I 'lost' with the update was units (including the BOOK units) and races, the other areas of the mygames/elemental are untouched including the saves, the same as 1.10 did, BUT as I had already copied the files onto a usb stick , for me it is not a huge deal, just a frustration

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It's done so if there's a conflict between old custom stuff and the new build, users don't come back to the forums reporting problems because of outdated content. Because Stardock employees have to investigate those claims, find the problems....and find out it's because someone is using old content. That's time wasted on a legacy problem.

Half of game .inits are stored in My Documents these days.

It's somewhat annoying since Elemental's big draw is all the customization. I hope they don't make this a standard for every patch. At the very least, on first launch of a new version, it should tell you your custom stuff has been deleted. Making this part of the patch notes would also be a nice move.

I don't disagree it's annoying. The level of defensiveness about your Documents folder seems....silly to me though.

It's making their job easier to not have to sort through custom content from version 1.07 or whatever, so more power to them. If it were just as simple as "back up the content", it would have been done so already. One look at Elemental's content structure will tell you it's not that simple.

Odd, my custom files are still in the Mods folder. What happened is that all the ini settings were set back to default, including deselecting the Use mods option.