Add a setting so we can adjust how many autosaves are kept and their frequency (period)

34 votes

With the new save rework, auto-saves are limited to 3. I can't speak for others, but sometimes I find myself going back 10, 15, on rare occasions 20 auto saves cause I made a decision that backed me into a corner later on but didn't realize it at the time. The fact that saves are now grouped and smaller should make this better, and being an option allows us to tailor to what we want/our system can handle.

Under consideration Suggestion Suggested by: FuryoftheStars (20 Oct, '21) • Upvoted: 04 Mar • Comments: 29

Comments: 29

20 Oct, '21
FuryoftheStars Merged
Title.
20 Oct, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin Merged
And number of autosaves to keep as well!
Ah you already made a separate suggestion for this. OK, I support both
20 Oct, '21
FuryoftheStars Merged
Yeah, sorry, I like to separate my suggestions in case some people like one but not the other. :)
06 Dec, '21
Valun Alain Merged
It is true that being able to configure backups would be a plus
06 Dec, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin Merged
What configuration and what you mean by backups?
06 Dec, '21
FuryoftheStars Merged
Would something like this meet/solve the issue?
https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/225843/please-add-a-setting-so-we-can-adjust-how-many-autosaves-are-kept
07 Dec, '21
Valun Alain Merged
no, I was thinking rather of defining a backup frequency. ex: from every 15 minutes to every hour., or also from every day to every week. The number of backups does not bother me because I can delete them if there are too many
07 Dec, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin Merged
So it's about autosaves and how often they are done, sure, we have suggestion for that too.
07 Dec, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin Merged
"backup" (suggested by Valun Alain on 2021-12-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (4), was merged into this suggestion.
07 Dec, '21
Gin Fuyou Admin Merged
Also maybe an option to have auto-saves tied to in-game time rather real time?
07 Dec, '21
FuryoftheStars Merged
> no, I was thinking rather of defining a backup frequency. ex: from every 15 minutes to every hour., or also from every day to every week. The number of backups does not bother me because I can delete them if there are too many

Autosaves can be your backups if we had full control over quantity and frequency.
19 Jan, '22
Eccentric Warmonger Merged
As my map gets more populated with beavers, I've noticed a huge slowdown when the game does an autosave. Upon further investigation, the Autosave feature is just a check box. So it's a Yes or a No. I understand that is way simpler to program than a complicated autosave feature, but I think giving users the options of selecting an amount of time between autosaves would be beneficial. For example: 5 mins, 15 mins, 30 mins 1 hour.

The other thing that would be nice is the ability to have key bindings. It would be great if I could select a water pump and just press a key on the keyboard to pause/unpause it. It would also be nice if I could multi-select buildings (like you can do in many city-building games) and perform an action, such as pausing or unpausing all of them. Thanks for the consideration.
31 Jan, '22
Shandrolis Merged
Having an auto-save is great; being able to manually change the auto-save interval would be even greater.
02 Feb, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin Merged
"Save-interval setting" (suggested by Shandrolis on 2022-01-31), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
23 Feb, '22
EvilEls Merged
The game is saving too often. It would be nice if we could set the auto save interval.
23 Feb, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin Merged
"Custom save game interval" (suggested by EvilEls on 2022-02-23), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
25 Sep, '22
merkal Merged
With the addition of the Golem
A situation now occurs in the game that is not game over, but there is no turning back.

I am currently unable to revive a beaver in a forktail. Auto save is pointless as it only holds 3.
I suggest increasing the number of autosave saves to reduce the number of tragedy players like me who cannot backtrack.

Or, slightly more complicated, change the autosave overwrite rules.
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Instead of simply erasing the overwrite from the oldest data, the auto-save can give users the option of returning to the game at large without increasing the number of retentions as much as possible by leaving some older auto-saved data for the overwrite to be saved.
The idea is to change the overwrite algorithm to adjust the data interval to be retained as follows: most recent autosave, a little earlier autosave, and much earlier autosave.

Either method is fine, but we need to be able to bail out players who cannot revive their beavers when they find ou
26 Sep, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin Merged
"Increase the number of autosave files saved." (suggested by merkal on 2022-09-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
12 Oct, '22
my name is mud Merged
Add a variable in the settings that allows the user to set how many autosaves they want to keep. Right now it is set to 3... seriously? Other games with this sort of feature always allows the user to define how many save games to keep. As it is only 3 autosaves are kept. This is not enough. I want 10.
14 Oct, '22
FuryoftheStars Merged
https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/225843/please-add-a-setting-so-we-can-adjust-how-many-autosaves-are-kept

That said, to which ever admin sees this, apparently another suggestion regarding autosaves had its title changed to include number of saves, so don't know if it might be worth just combining them all now?
https://timberborn.featureupvote.com/suggestions/225849/please-add-setting-for-autosave-frequency
31 Oct, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Please add setting for auto-save frequency, number and smarter save keeping" (suggested by FuryoftheStars on 2021-10-20), including upvotes (16) and comments (16), was merged into this suggestion.
31 Oct, '22
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Add setting for # of autosaves to keep" (suggested by my name is mud on 2022-10-12), including upvotes (3) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
25 Sep, '23
kimdonghyungod Merged
there is only 8 days save(automatically)
I need 1/2/4/8 day autosave
25 Sep, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
"add autosave interval setting" (suggested by kimdonghyungod on 2023-09-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
07 Nov, '23
Wood Wizard Merlin
Just experienced my first badtide, tried to survive and failed. It would be great to have a few more Autosaves to go back to (meaning a higher frequency of saves), in order to be able to make adjustments without replaying ingame weeks (and doing the same things over again).

Thanks for the great game btw!
01 Dec, '23
_LOGGER Merged
Maybe set the save interval for ingame time, every cycle for example.
02 Dec, '23
Gin Fuyou Admin
"Enhanced settings to allow more customization, such as key bindings and autosave time limit" (suggested by Eccentric Warmonger on 2022-01-19), including upvotes (3) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
21 Jan
Célio Merged
Game crash so much please put a button where you can choose the auto save occur more or less often
Thx (^_^)
21 Jan
Jcheung Admin
"Automatic Save time selector" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2024-01-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.