Midnight: It is not completely lost. Though more difficult now.

The MP community had some success in getting things addressed in the first patch, but they worked extremely hard on gathering the list together and weeding out "personal preference" items from actual game problems. The list was gathered by a lot of the .org patrons (find out who they were) and this would be a great place to start asking questions on how to present the save-game problem in a manner which will make CA more likely to consider the changes. Do not expect it in a patch for RTW, but it MAY be included in the expansion or later on in future releases if it can be presented in the right manner and if CA is convinced it hurts gameplay.