Only 50 saved games

[TacoSauce]

I hate how the game only allows 50 saved games. I'm CONSTANTLY deleting older saves games to make room for new ones.

50 is so arbitrary . There should be no limit.

[Ommamar]

It is arbitrary but with the use of the auto saves I just use a hard save for each group so no way I will come any where near 50 saves.

[Default]

Originally posted by TacoSauce:

There should be no limit.

I assume - as with other games by smaller teams - the larger numbers of saves introduce slowdown on older systems (just a guess). But, honestly, you probably don't need as many saves as you're using.

I adopted a "save before handing in a chapter-linked quest", "save when entering a new map" and "save when leaving a map" model, then sometimes having additional temporary saves before difficult encounters. Other than that, the quicksave. Meant I didn't have to micro-manage the saves much.

Early in the game, I hit the limit quickly, but not for any great reason; just not reusing old saves.

[darknight]

? really, lol i use 1 for each party, i mean 1 thats it

[ペンギン]

Originally posted by TacoSauce:

I hate how the game only allows 50 saved games. I'm CONSTANTLY deleting older saves games to make room for new ones.

50 is so arbitrary . There should be no limit.

I think it's more than enough.

1. Don't forget. Many games have no manual saving option these days. I appreciate that here because autosaving option to load only the last save is a kind of patronizing of consumers.
2. Beside of that, many games allow only 3-4 save slots which often is really to few. Especially when saves were automatically overwritten or to mention the worst scenario... cloud saving only.

If you want more, make a backup of your saves and replace the older ones. In this case... be content with what you have and learn to appreciate it.

If you can't, you should search another hobby ;]

But it's like the passion for collecting in games with items? The chests/storage's/are always too small ^^

[Berserkr]

Just backup a save every hour or 2

[mech_le_berserk]

If steam cloud is activated, we are limited to 50 saves.

[EdrickV]

Don't know the reasoning behind the limit, but I can say for sure that there will always be a limit, even if that limit is so high you'll likely never reach it in your lifetime. There is even a limit to the number of files that can exist within a folder. (Granted, that limit is around 4 trillion, but it's still a limit.) That's just part of how computers work.

[Teao]

Originally posted by EdrickV:

Don't know the reasoning behind the limit, but I can say for sure that there will always be a limit, even if that limit is so high you'll likely never reach it in your lifetime. There is even a limit to the number of files that can exist within a folder. (Granted, that limit is around 4 trillion, but it's still a limit.) That's just part of how computers work.

If it makes you feel better people mean no practical limit.

[Killer Jack]

Bump. Sure like what's his nuts said, if you just play candy crush on your phone (or roguelikes, or souls likes) you don't even get to save, but for a PC RPG where you do have saves, this feature really weird.

If it were 50 saves per party I would not be thrilled about the limit, but politely keep quiet and recycle saves. 50 save limit + every party is saving in the same folder and writes over autosaves and quick saves sucks.

[Grumpy Old Dude]

I truly fail to grasp how 50 saves is insufficient?

[Aldain]

If you're somehow using all 50 save files I have a few questions as to either how many parties you're running at the same time or just how bloody often you are saving the game period.

[Grumpy Old Dude]

when did my 1st CotM play through on you tube there were 34 episodes, so...34 saves. Pretty much, 1 every 60-75 minutes.

[Teao]

Originally posted by Aldain:

If you're somehow using all 50 save files I have a few questions as to either how many parties you're running at the same time or just how bloody often you are saving the game period.

Boy you must not play a lot of crpgs. For most rpgs this is true and this one is worse than most. Save often, the game still has ctd bugs. Plus there have been bugs that require you to go back before you did X cause that's when the bug was triggered and is in every save you made since then. I'm sure they put the limit in because they have some kind of performance limitation on either pulling in the list of all saves from disk or in displaying the little info box for each line.

In the end, even if there weren't any bugs the worst part isn't the 50 saves. The worst part is they don't have 50 slots, they have 50 saves so you can't just save over something *and* pick a new name or the other option would be to give us a way to delete the files en masse. You gotta delete them one at a time and confirming one at a time. Without having the slot idiom, it needs a way to just check off a bunch to delete at once.

But yes, I save pretty much constantly. I've got a massive hard disk, disk space costs nothing nowadays but I would do the same 35-40 years ago when we had 20MB hard disks or had to save to 360k floppies or get this we saved on to cassette tapes. Storage is cheap now, why not save often?

[Grumpy Old Dude]

I have over 500 hours, between STEAM and GOG, in Solasta. The ONLY crash I have suffered, came from the new patch coupled with the new CE mod. Other than that, the game itself has been stable. The DM, when it 1st released, did not transition from one ma to another, and would fail to load; but other than that? Stable like am=n aircraft carrier.

50 saves, is MORE than enough.

[Revener]

Why would you need more? Just delete some or are you that lazy? :)
Sure after a play through I may have 30+ saves for a party but it is not like all the save are needed after that. Just clean upiafter yourself. :P
Usually even with bugs the autosave, quick save and two/three normal saves should be enough for a party. Anything else is just a waste of spave waiting to be deleted.