Steam Cloud?

HollywoodBlue626 · 03-11-2016, 06:58 AM

OOTP 17 will be my first OOTP game. I'm a huge fan of baseball and sims so I'm really looking forward to it. I do have a question though, I tend to play my steam games on multiple computers at different locations. Lately I've been playing a ton of Football Tactics because I can play the same game on any computer I'm at as long as I log into my steam account. Is this feature available in OOTP 17? I'd prefer not to have 3 or 4 different leagues going depending on what computer I'm at. Thanks, and looking forward to the game

David Watts · 03-11-2016, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by HollywoodBlue626

OOTP 17 will be my first OOTP game. I'm a huge fan of baseball and sims so I'm really looking forward to it. I do have a question though, I tend to play my steam games on multiple computers at different locations. Lately I've been playing a ton of Football Tactics because I can play the same game on any computer I'm at as long as I log into my steam account. Is this feature available in OOTP 17? I'd prefer not to have 3 or 4 different leagues going depending on what computer I'm at. Thanks, and looking forward to the game

Steam cloud is not an option at this time.

Matt Arnold · 03-11-2016, 08:43 AM

We will eventually look into that, but files are fairly large at this point so it won't be an option.

If you want to play your same game, there are ways to try that. You can either copy/save your games to a flash drive and carry that with you, or I think people have tried keeping their save game in a dropbox folder, which you can keep synced between machines.

RchW · 03-11-2016, 09:30 AM

Team viewer allows one to play a different computer via wifi etc.

Charley575 · 03-11-2016, 12:31 PM

The flash drive thing is okay for awhile, but by the time your save is 30K files and 0.8G in size, it becomes a real hassle. I used to have the data folder on a flash drive so that I didn't have to transfer files. I could just plug the flash drive in and start OOTP and it would work. The downside to this is the speed of the game really suffers running off a flash. Eventually I just designated one of my laptops as my OOTP machine and stopped machine hopping.
One thing that would help would be if you could set a network drive as the data location. That way folks with cloud drives could just keep their data on the cloud drive, or you could keep the data on a desktop computer and point your mobile computers to that location.

The Wolf · 03-11-2016, 07:36 PM

The game badly needs Steam play, Steam head to head, and Steam
leagues.

03-11-2016, 06:58 AM	#1
HollywoodBlue626 Bat Boy Join Date: Mar 2016 Posts: 1	Steam Cloud? OOTP 17 will be my first OOTP game. I'm a huge fan of baseball and sims so I'm really looking forward to it. I do have a question though, I tend to play my steam games on multiple computers at different locations. Lately I've been playing a ton of Football Tactics because I can play the same game on any computer I'm at as long as I log into my steam account. Is this feature available in OOTP 17? I'd prefer not to have 3 or 4 different leagues going depending on what computer I'm at. Thanks, and looking forward to the game

03-11-2016, 09:30 AM	#4
RchW Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Toronto ON by way of Glasgow UK Posts: 15,629	Team viewer allows one to play a different computer via wifi etc. __________________ Cheers RichW If you’re looking for a good cause to donate money to please consider a Donation to Parkinson’s Canada. It may help me have a better future and if not me, someone else. Thanks. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Frank Wilhoit

03-11-2016, 08:43 AM	#3
Matt Arnold OOTP Developer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Here and there Posts: 15,679	We will eventually look into that, but files are fairly large at this point so it won't be an option. If you want to play your same game, there are ways to try that. You can either copy/save your games to a flash drive and carry that with you, or I think people have tried keeping their save game in a dropbox folder, which you can keep synced between machines.

03-11-2016, 12:31 PM	#5
Charley575 All Star Reserve Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Ocala, FL Posts: 544	The flash drive thing is okay for awhile, but by the time your save is 30K files and 0.8G in size, it becomes a real hassle. I used to have the data folder on a flash drive so that I didn't have to transfer files. I could just plug the flash drive in and start OOTP and it would work. The downside to this is the speed of the game really suffers running off a flash. Eventually I just designated one of my laptops as my OOTP machine and stopped machine hopping. One thing that would help would be if you could set a network drive as the data location. That way folks with cloud drives could just keep their data on the cloud drive, or you could keep the data on a desktop computer and point your mobile computers to that location.