Plans for Steam cloud saves?

[Jyggalad]

Hello all

I am wondering if there are future plans for steam cloud saves? I use a computer for on the go stuff and a desktop for at home and would love to work on one fortress between devices.

[TheBeardyMan]

That would be a nice feature to have, but it would have to be very selective about which saves get pushed to the cloud.

Steam has limits on how much data each title can store in the cloud - I think it might be 1GB - and the size of a Dwarf Fortress save for a large embark in a large world can be over 250MB, which means that the limit of how many saves can pushed could be as low as 3.

It would probably need to be restricted to the active save only of up to three worlds selected by the player.

[EyeSayUgh]

Also would love this feature but busting out my USB as well I guessssssssss? Should be doable.

[madMike]

My football manager saves are huge and that has cloud save.

[Mirko]

+1

[rome of oxtrot]

Originally posted by TheBeardyMan:

That would be a nice feature to have, but it would have to be very selective about which saves get pushed to the cloud.

Steam has limits on how much data each title can store in the cloud - I think it might be 1GB - and the size of a Dwarf Fortress save for a large embark in a large world can be over 250MB, which means that the limit of how many saves can pushed could be as low as 3.

It would probably need to be restricted to the active save only of up to three worlds selected by the player.

Steam is officially silent about how much storage is allowed in cloud stores. The developer documentation advises against having individual objects larger than 256MB because this "may result in a non-optimal storage endpoint choice", but the total size and object count limits per user per game are configured by the game developer in that game's Steampipe configuration. Steam's documentation simply recommends setting these values to "reasonable amounts". While Steampipe may reject settings that are "too high" Steam doesn't say anywhere what "too high" is.

You can see the individual setting for any particular game in SteamDB's data for that game. Factorio has this setting set to 25 GB and Rimworld has it set to 100 GB, so we can safely conclude that, at least in some circumstances, it can be set to at least 100 GB per user per game.

I'm sure that Steam has some sort of limits here, but what those limits are and the manner in which those limits are enforced, Steam totally ain't saying.

[EmotionallyBroken]

I really hope not, automated stuff has broken enough of perfectly fine working systems that we can easily manage ourselves already. Ive got enough missing saves from cloud functions already and valve cant even figure out how their cloud system works when asked.

[Sr_Matheus2000]

+1 on this, it would be awesome