Autosave timing should arguably use wall clock

golfmiketango · Post by **golfmiketango** » Fri Jun 23, 2017 12:52 am

I think it might be a nice touch if autosaves intervals were calculated in meatspace-time, rather than the in-game "tick" clock.

It's not a big deal, until you try running the game at high speed multiples (which I do from time to time for build-testing), at which point autosave frequency can become a real (if minor and easily correctable) annoyance. Conversely, if your UPS is something insufferable like 20, you can do a lot more "stuff" in, say, 20 in-game minutes, than you probably could if your UPS is 60 (unless you drank /lots/ of coffee

).

Post by **ssilk** » Wed Jul 19, 2017 9:01 pm

Ok, but which is "the time" in a multiplayer game?
For meatspace-time you have the time of the file.

d3x0r · Post by **d3x0r** » Thu Jul 20, 2017 1:23 am

ssilk wrote:Ok, but which is "the time" in a multiplayer game?
For meatspace-time you have the time of the file.

The system the server is running? It's not like every client saves the map on autosave, only the server does.

I kind of feel like it already does use clock mod autosave-time though; sometimes it's really fast when it saves the first time when starting; just tested though; autosave at 15 minutes, loaded game at 6:11, save happened at 6:19. so I guess it's based on map play time. I would have thought it would be from last load time (should save at 6:26) or wall clock ( 6:15 )...

maybe an option for which time to use?

(wall, game or relative from last load? )

adam_bise · Post by **adam_bise** » Mon Dec 13, 2021 11:57 pm

TL;DR

Have autosave setting use real time and not scaled time.

What ?

When scaling time in the map editor, the autosave feature can be very annoying because it is either way too slow or way too fast.

Why ?

The autosave interval should relate to the time of human work and not scale with the map editor time scale.

Post by **Koub** » Tue Dec 14, 2021 6:40 am

[Koub] Merged into older thread with same suggestion

Post by **ssilk** » Tue Dec 14, 2021 7:11 am

I thought a while about this: I mean this is nearly a bug.

Because the game does here something totally strange. You can play Factorio with only 30 UPS and then the autosave triggers after 10 minutes, not 5 as you have set it. In 10 minutes much things can be built…

What do others mean: bug?

FuryoftheStars · Post by **FuryoftheStars** » Tue Dec 14, 2021 7:11 am

+1 from me

Post by **posila** » Tue Dec 14, 2021 7:45 am

ssilk wrote: ↑Tue Dec 14, 2021 7:11 amWhat do others mean: bug?

No.

coppercoil · Post by **coppercoil** » Tue Dec 14, 2021 8:58 am

Not a bug but a feature that can be improved.

-DeadlyKitten · Post by **-DeadlyKitten** » Tue Dec 14, 2021 11:33 am

asheiduk · Post by **asheiduk** » Tue Dec 14, 2021 2:39 pm

I don't care about "bug" or "improvement" but it should be fixed/changed.

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