How big is your save file

[Super.Skirv]

Just curious, my single player game is over 4gb. Was wonder what others have, and what multiplayer save games are, probably huge.

[KaneNOD]

23.4GB here :V

[Super.Skirv]

Originally posted by KaneNOD:

23.4GB here :V

Single player or multiplayer?

[John Hadley]

Its not just the save file that gets huge. The game makes backups of stuff all the time, so not only is your save file stored but there are like 5 backups of every save file stored too and it automatically makes backups every time you edit a ship too. When you delete your game the backups won't be deleted, so if you start over a lot you could have a lot of backup save and ship files adding up to a huge amount of space.

Backup save files are stored in %appdata%\Avorion\Backups
Backup ship files are stored in %appdata%\Avorion\ships\auto-ships

Clean them out once in awhile.

[rickcarson]

My galaxies folder is 30GB and my backup folder is only 2GB, and I've never cleared out the backups.

Saying that though, I did recently try uninstalling the game in order to fix the borked workshop ships problem ... so maybe that wiped the backups?

Oh wait, no, they have the same create date, and the galaxies folder survived the recent purge.

[🦊 Hermit]

I don't have the files of my original solo save back when I first played - that would have been my biggest file size as I played through the whole game right up to the final boss (although I never actually faced the boss).

I have another save where I played until I hit the barrier and explored all the faction territories around it to a distance of thirty or forty sectors. That file is approaching 5GB. I paused it because I heard Boxelware were going to add some new missions and quests, so I wanted to start a new game when those were introduced, but they're taking longer than expected, and now I've lost track of what I was planning in that save.

So I've started a new save with some mod missions from the Workshop, and am playing that more methodically. I've explored a large swathe of the galaxy around my spawn all the way to the rim, and inwards through naonite territory. I'm just beginning to make forays into trinium on that save now, and it's just ticked over into 2GB size.