Game Autosaving Efficiency

Miloch · 2013-04-26T13:35:56.000Z

I just had this random thought. Let me know if it’s a complete miss.
This thought is to maybe make it so we’re only saving things that have changed since the last autosave. So we have this overlay that has a tile per tile (however map data is organized) of the map. On this overlay each tile is either true or false… Right after a autosave the entire overlay is set to false. Anytime a map tile is changed it is set to true. When the next autosave happened only those tiles that are flagged on the overlay would be saved. I got this idea from incremental backups for computers.

kevin.granade · 2013-04-26T18:33:26.000Z

Well yea, we need to do incremental saves, and it’s totally doable, it’s just a matter of doing it.

Prioritizing savegame performance improvements over new features or bugfixes is a really hard sell.
Also messing with savegames has the potential to break things REALLY badly, which makes people a bit hesitant to work on it.

This issue IS on our radar though, we’ll get to it when we can.

Ferodaktyl · 2013-04-26T19:16:31.000Z

can you make it so we can choose at how many turns/minutes the game autosaves?

kevin.granade · 2013-04-26T19:35:35.000Z

I thought there was an option for that, but there isn’t. Yea that should be easy enough to do.

Miloch · 2013-04-27T01:21:06.000Z

Thanks Kevin, what he said about how often was my next question. Also, yeah, I realize futzing with saves has the potential to totally boff the game. With all the other development I understand that it’s not the highest important. If the concept is useful then, I hope you use it eventually.