Save file too big?

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I've just started playing civ 5 again, so tried to submit a few games. One of which was a huge marathon game. After it finished submitting, the message said 'thanks for submitting blahblah', where blahblah was the final save name. However on the submissions list, it's showing as a turn 0 game. Had a look at my list of saves, and the later saves are all 2-3 MB, which I assume is why they're not registering. Any way to make them smaller while still being in a format the hof submitter will accept?
 
I've just started playing civ 5 again, so tried to submit a few games. One of which was a huge marathon game. After it finished submitting, the message said 'thanks for submitting blahblah', where blahblah was the final save name. However on the submissions list, it's showing as a turn 0 game. Had a look at my list of saves, and the later saves are all 2-3 MB, which I assume is why they're not registering. Any way to make them smaller while still being in a format the hof submitter will accept?
I had one report of a bigger save file since the patch. You make two. I was getting ready to post a question so see who else was seeing the size increase. :crazyeye:

The max upload size is a server setting. I have asked Thunderfall about changing it. Probably won't happen until after the server move wednesday. Hang in there.
 
No worries, thanks. My save files for that game range from 1846 kb at turn 360 to 3029 kb at turn 778. 6 saves in there, increase looks roughly linear, 100 turns = 300 kb.
 
I am also playing a Huge Marathon game, still in progress. Probably going for time victory. ( I know, I'm a masochist).

Looking at my auto saves, they went over 2 meg on turn 495. I am currently on turn 979 and the file size is 3.197 MB.
 
Good news. Thunderfall increased the max file size setting. I was able to upload the 2.5 MB file that Bram had e-mailed for #1009. (Which is now accepted.) Please submit you any game you have holding waiting for the fix.

Note: If you have an excluded game out there that was incomplete due to file upload size issue, please do one of two things:
  • E-mail us the missing saves so we can add them to the game. (Please include game #).
  • Re-submitted the game and E-mail us that the new game number and let us know you resubmitted due to file size issue so we know it is not just a duplicate submission.
 
I just submitted game #1290, and it failed again. Largest file is the victory one, at 3029 Kb. I'll email the files.
 
I just submitted game #1290, and it failed again. Largest file is the victory one, at 3029 Kb. I'll email the files.
:hmm: I was able to upload your two files over 2MB. I guess I need to check for a limit in our submit code again. I looked for something like that once already with no luck.
 
Still had it, I'd only saved over the start file, hadn't purged my save folder.

Submitted with no problems this time, game #1322.
 
I just submitted a huge Domination Victory. The last turn was in the year 2001, and the file size was 3,605 KB or 3.6 MB. It seems the game was submitted with no problems.

I had 300 turns to go if I went after a time victory. From the increase in file size per turn, it looks like the turn 1500 save file would be over 4 MB in size. So to ensure all files can be submitted in the future, I think the max file size needs to be 5MB.
 
I just submitted a huge Domination Victory. The last turn was in the year 2001, and the file size was 3,605 KB or 3.6 MB. It seems the game was submitted with no problems.

I had 300 turns to go if I went after a time victory. From the increase in file size per turn, it looks like the turn 1500 save file would be over 4 MB in size. So to ensure all files can be submitted in the future, I think the max file size needs to be 5MB.
Good to know. I will bump it up to 5MB.
 
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