no cloud save??

[JDub]

That needs to be at the top of the roadmap. I want to be able to play this game on my PC and my Mac, it's perfect for playing while on the road.

[Rad Codex]

Unfortunately, the last time I tried implementing cloud saving, it performed abominably slowly because my save files are comprised of many small files instead of a few large ones. The cloud save system didn't like that.

Someday I'd like to retry cloud save implementation. I may not be able to get it working though.

[JDub]

Maybe you could zip your many small files into one large one before syncing it to the cloud? Then unzip on the downstream side?

[easytarget]

Realize there's no cloud save, but was wondering if I sent myself a save file from my desktop to my notebook would it be possible to load it and get it to work do you think?

Edit: btw, one solution that at least works fine for me is remote play streaming. Game runes on my desktop and I can then play it on the notebook using the last save file where I left off.

[ZarethKnyght]

Could do remote play if you wanted to. But would require you to leave one computer on.

[easytarget]

Yep, I tested it, if you've got the game on a desktop and load steam on pretty much any other device you can remote play it.

Don't know for sure because I'm staying on my house LAN but I suspect this is confined to same network.

[G.C.Stargazer]

To add to this discussion. Yes you can bring your save with you. I use a laptop when I travel to play and I simply zip and shove my save on my dropbox, then pull it out on my laptop.

[russcat]

I wanted cloud saves as well, so I wrote up a quick guide to adding them yourself (via a 3rd party provider like DropBox). You can do this for basically any game as long as you can find the save files.

Replace "YOURNAME" with whatever your windows username is. Have at least a basic understanding of Windows and the command prompt before trying.

1) Make sure the game is not open.

2) Start a command prompt with admin privileges (open start menu and type cmd then right click on the Command Prompt app and click "run as administrator")

3) Make a directory in your cloud save folder which will soon store your save games, eg:

mkdir C:\Users\USERNAME\Dropbox\games\horizons-gate-saves

4) Change directory to your save game location

cd C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\BoatTactics

5) rename the save directory to make a backup.

ren Saves SavesBak

6) Make a symbolic link to a DropBox or other cloud storage directory:

The command is:

mklink /d link target

For example:

mklink /d C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\BoatTactics\Saves C:\Users\YOURNAME\Dropbox\games\horizons-gate-saves

7) Copy files from your backup directory into the new directory

xcopy C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\BoatTactics\SavesBak C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\BoatTactics\Saves\ /E/H

If at any point something goes wrong, you can restore your old saves by renaming SavesBak to Saves again.