Is there a way to get more saves?

[Charlemagne]

I hate ironman in all games. In NMS you get the one save (well technically two, the restore and the "last save" but there is little difference, usually they are almost at the same time). I mean like incremental saves, or more than one autosave, something like that.
I know NMS doesn't punish you too bad for mistakes, you can rebuild everything or even start from scratch again, in the same game, but it is so awful to lose something you have put a lot of time into for some stupid mistake.

[Dirak2012]

No, you can't get more saves. You could backup a save and restore it later if something bad happens, maybe...

[Charlemagne]

What were they thinking. Ironman.
Do you know where saves are kept? I can't find them.

[MechWarden]

C:\Users\(your user name)\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames\NMS\st_76561197966998081

Note, AppData is a hidden folder, so you need to make those visible. There are 2 files save#.hg and mf_save#.hg, and a game uses two save files, so if you maxed out your save slots, you should have 30 'save' files, and some other misc meta data files, along with a cache folder I think you can ignore.

[UncreativelyNamed]

Originally posted by Charlemagne:

What were they thinking. Ironman.
Do you know where saves are kept? I can't find them.

Here is a thread that Mr. Bufferlow posted just prior to the last update about how to make backups and archived saves: https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/3841053598847851657/

It was easy enough that even a computer dunderhead like me could do it.

[Charlemagne]

Thanks. I'm fed up with the way saves are. It would be better, even if they have some technical reason for limiting saves, if one of the saves (restore OR last save) were under the player's complete control. I.e., the game would handle say, autosaves, but restores could only occur if you want them. As it is the game makes the two versions almost simultaneous. Sometimes when you look both are at the same minute.

[MechWarden]

yeah, I'm not too pleased about it using both saves at near the exact same time.

[UncreativelyNamed]

Originally posted by Charlemagne:

Thanks. I'm fed up with the way saves are. It would be better, even if they have some technical reason for limiting saves, if one of the saves (restore OR last save) were under the player's complete control. I.e., the game would handle say, autosaves, but restores could only occur if you want them. As it is the game makes the two versions almost simultaneous. Sometimes when you look both are at the same minute.

That's how most games work, yeah. I don't understand why NMS doesn't. I'm sure there's some sort of reason, but If there is, I don't know what it is. Making the batch file fixes it for me, though, and was easy enough. It just takes up a little more storage space, is all, but I feel better knowing that I have about five archived backups, so if something blows up in a save I really like, I don't have to mourn its loss.

[MechWarden]

I've mentioned before that it is likely normalization (or parity) between all the NMS platform versions, namingly other consoles, like the PlayStation, X Box, etc. They don't offer up a PC file system for saves on those, and so have to have a simplified interface with a limited amount of save slots.

[Charlemagne]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

I've mentioned before that it is likely normalization (or parity) between all the NMS platform versions, namingly other consoles, like the PlayStation, X Box, etc. They don't offer up a PC file system for saves on those, and so have to have a simplified interface with a limited amount of save slots.

Always the consoles pulling us down.

[MechWarden]

I made a thread bringing up the issue with limited save slots, asking for more slots or preferably a better management system (like importing or exporting), but all I basically got was "lol, just archive it, you nOOb"
(not those exact words, but you know what I mean)

[Charlemagne]

The batch thing didn't work for me, probably doing something wrong or because my username has a space, I will do it manually (shortcut to the saves folder and copy it all to another folder with time and date).

[MechWarden]

Do note: If you delete things in the folder, rather than in the game menu, Steam Cloud will restore your saves. That could complicate things.

It's one reason why I wish there was an in-system setup for it, because working with 7 layers of folders and working with generically named files just doesn't feel right; especially as a dyslexic.

[Scaramouche]

There is SaveEditor for backup your saves. Edit menu> export JSON. You obtain a text file stored where you want.

[Charlemagne]

Where is the edit menu?

[ohiorice]

Originally posted by MechWarden:

Do note: If you delete things in the folder, rather than in the game menu, Steam Cloud will restore your saves. That could complicate things.

It's one reason why I wish there was an in-system setup for it, because working with 7 layers of folders and working with generically named files just doesn't feel right; especially as a dyslexic.

If you manually want to control your backups, turn off cloud saves for NMS.