Cross-save/save questions

[Elantris]

So I've been playing happily now but curious if there will be a way to save at will or even cross save between say PC and Switch? For the save at will I would be happy with some way to save without finishing a day. I have to stop playing sometimes but all I can do if Im not done with a day is open the menu and windows tab out of the game. This doesn't work if I need to change computers or locations and dont want to waste the rest of the day just to save.

[RedSableClan]

Just go to bed and have a shortened day...there really is no penalty for passage of days...missions give you tons of time to complete them.

[Włóczykij]

And generally, out of curiosity, where are Save's from the game if, for example, I had to reinstall the game and did not want to lose progress?

[Elantris]

I would like to not loose progress if I have to quit playing and its not the end of the day. While the missions don't have time limits, being able to refuel and maintain everything does, along with grinding. As for where the saves are mine are on the steam cloud server where allowed so that I can swap computers. Say from desktop to laptop.

[Włóczykij]

I do not ask for your copies, only in general where the game has saved saves, because the cloud also has limited capacity, in my deposit already 87% occupied.

[RedSableClan]

As for the cross platform save because consoles use different programing then pc it would be an automatic no. A lot of people would have to request this for them to take a stab at it. As an example you can do it in minecraft but, but it is a complicated involved process and as the worlds available are of different sizes, the pc is much larger then the console versions of the game...sorry

[RedSableClan]

Originally posted by Włóczykij:

I do not ask for your copies, only in general where the game has saved saves, because the cloud also has limited capacity, in my deposit already 87% occupied.

Your saved game files.
You>AppData>LocalLow>Pathea Games>My Time at Portia
You will see a Unity folder and a bunch of long files below.
Look for the files with a date code in the middle of the name in capital letters between two underscores. These are your game saves.
Actually stores the date and the time you were awake that day.

ex.
20180126-075101_20180316-203247_ 6Y1M21D_16h21m56s_576432ef-4c51-40c3-b0e9-c57647cedb63

So according to the date code this save is year 6, 1st month, 21st day, was 16 hours and 56 minutes long.

Addition: It looks like you get 20 saves per character before the first one gets overwritten.

[Elantris]

Cross saving isn't an automatic no. Another game I backed in kickstarter is implementing cross save between all but ps4. This due to sony's restrictions.

[laom20]

Various switch games implement cross saves between Switch/PC. And I really want to purchase the Switch version but cross save is the only thing stopping me, because it would be a pain to star all over again.