Is it better to save to Steam Cloud or Hard drive?? why?

[charlieminvancouver]

I have been saving my games to steam could lately - but have been loosing many games.. where is it better to save to and why...
thanks

[snowflitzer]

steam cloud is not reliable, it can stuff up your saves.

I would also save it as city01.crp on your disk
next time you open the city save it as city02.crp

City stands for whatever you want to call the city.

[MarkJohnson]

I use them both. I've been using the steam cloud for over 5-years without a hiccup. Although you can get sync issues with Steam and the game and workshop won't show up, nor cloud saves. But they come back when the game syncs up again.

But it is always a good idea to save to them both occasionally for backup if nothing else. But mostly I use my local drives for my saves.

[Streeto]

Never used the cloud, ever.

There's no reason not to save to your HDD/SSD

[azamazz]

I make a manually back up once per week by using steam cloud

[Avanya]

I've seen more cloud saves corrupt than non-cloud saves, though it's still so small an amount that it's more anecdotal than anything else.

Regardless of where you save though, doing like snowflitzer said and always saving as a new file is the best way to protect your city. If one save corrupts, you just lose some progress as you go back to the save before. Much better than losing everything because you only had one.

If you end up with a lot of saves, you can move the files out of the savegame folder and store them somewhere else on your computer as backups.

[Washell]

Been gaming since the 90's, never lost a save I cared about on disk. Used cloud for 3 months, lost multiple saves from multiple games and had a game that wouldn't boot due to a corrupted config file that kept getting restored from the cloud. Until Valve gives a pop up that lets us decide which file to overwrite and gives us full control over the content in our cloud, it stays off.

[Axø]

I use both local save then backup it to a external device & cloud save, so if a save get corrupt can recover it easy =P

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by Washell:

Been gaming since the 90's, never lost a save I cared about on disk. Used cloud for 3 months, lost multiple saves from multiple games and had a game that wouldn't boot due to a corrupted config file that kept getting restored from the cloud. Until Valve gives a pop up that lets us decide which file to overwrite and gives us full control over the content in our cloud, it stays off.

Likely poor internet service and steam not verifying saved games? But I use it a lot over the years so I can play on my laptop when away. It works great for me anyway. But I always make two saves (cloud and local) as cloud computer is rather new still.

Knock on wood, I've never lost one cloud save, but I've lost several local ones. I think it is because I only save 5 previous saves a city on the cloud as there is too little room. I have them all on my local drives. I have over 100 of a single city and there are dozens of cities like that. lol

But I never rely on a single save of anything. I always make duplicates of them all. Games or not.

[Washell]

Originally posted by MarkJohnson:

Originally posted by Washell:

Been gaming since the 90's, never lost a save I cared about on disk. Used cloud for 3 months, lost multiple saves from multiple games and had a game that wouldn't boot due to a corrupted config file that kept getting restored from the cloud. Until Valve gives a pop up that lets us decide which file to overwrite and gives us full control over the content in our cloud, it stays off.

Likely poor internet service and steam not verifying saved games? But I use it a lot over the years so I can play on my laptop when away. It works great for me anyway. But I always make two saves (cloud and local) as cloud computer is rather new still.

Knock on wood, I've never lost one cloud save, but I've lost several local ones. I think it is because I only save 5 previous saves a city on the cloud as there is too little room. I have them all on my local drives. I have over 100 of a single city and there are dozens of cities like that. lol

But I never rely on a single save of anything. I always make duplicates of them all. Games or not.

Great internet (Netherlands, hub for most of Europe), cheap, solid and uncapped. Steam is down more than my internet. I always exit steam manually before shutting down PC. I always let it finish sync before exiting steam. It still misfired regularly.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by Washell:

Originally posted by MarkJohnson:

Likely poor internet service and steam not verifying saved games? But I use it a lot over the years so I can play on my laptop when away. It works great for me anyway. But I always make two saves (cloud and local) as cloud computer is rather new still.

Knock on wood, I've never lost one cloud save, but I've lost several local ones. I think it is because I only save 5 previous saves a city on the cloud as there is too little room. I have them all on my local drives. I have over 100 of a single city and there are dozens of cities like that. lol

But I never rely on a single save of anything. I always make duplicates of them all. Games or not.

Great internet (Netherlands, hub for most of Europe), cheap, solid and uncapped. Steam is down more than my internet.

What part of this statement says your Europe wide hub is either solid or great? Not to mention cheap.

Like Cities: Skylines itself, you want your services spread out all over your whole city. Same for Internet, you want hubs all over the place, not centralized and causing traffic jams at one hub. It's easier to blame a game than all of the other parts.

[tulle040657]

Don't trust your data to the kindness of strangers

[Matt]

I've had issues losing cities to cloud saves, I don't recommend it, but I have two dead hard drives also so it's your call.