Steam Cloud?

[duftin]

Just curious if this game will support Steam Cloud or some kind of cloud saving.

[Brassqund]

Steam cloud is not in the feature when checking on the store but it would be
good to have a confirmation on that.

[Varenvel The Festive Dinosaur]

Originally posted by Brassqund:

Steam cloud is not in the feature when checking on the store but it would be
good to have a confirmation on that.

considering how saving works im not sure if it would be possible


i not played this game a lot (im sort of on on scale 1 complete newb and 10 pro who knows inside out im about on 3-4) and my save folder is 250mb

considering saves will likely get really large as you keep playing(none of my worlds is old/long mind you) could get ridicules sizes and that may be problematic with cloud sadly

[duftin]

Oh I see. I didn't realize the game saves were that large.

[True Guesser, Wand Bearer, etc.]

Originally posted by duftin:

Oh I see. I didn't realize the game saves were that large.

Yeah, they can get up there if you play a single world long enough. It's a combination of coding and the nature of the game itself. As an example; you can chop off an invader's arm in Fortress Mode, retire the Fort, travel to the Fort with an Adventurer and find that arm, then use it smack the local wildlife. The game will track that arm and its' associations, effectively forever, which can in turn be read in the Stories Mode (Legends).

[Varenvel The Festive Dinosaur]

Originally posted by True Guesser, Wand Bearer, etc.:

Originally posted by duftin:

Oh I see. I didn't realize the game saves were that large.

Yeah, they can get up there if you play a single world long enough. It's a combination of coding and the nature of the game itself. As an example; you can chop off an invader's arm in Fortress Mode, retire the Fort, travel to the Fort with an Adventurer and find that arm, then use it smack the local wildlife. The game will track that arm and its' associations, effectively forever, which can in turn be read in the Stories Mode (Legends).

it is more then that , it is limitation of data

Similar problem has minecraft

What savegame in regular game works world is not saves aside from "few things you may had impact" your character , your house/base (f4 example) and few other minor things like stored loot

rest of the world is mostly not saved

in games like minecraft whole saved world is stored and saves can reach quite big sizes

Similar case is dwarf fortress

but save file is not that big becouse "game has bad saving method" but becouse lots things have to be saved , reason i use minecraft it saves world also "block by block npc by npc" every ata is saved , every animal , block , plant

in dwarf fortress you also got world and "things who happen on world" i would not be suprised if "medium save you played for month or two 1-2 hours a day" reached 1gigabite on DF

our minecraft server who was just 6 players(friends) reached almost 2 gigabites and a bit megs after few months(we did not explore that much but still)