Suggestion: Save UI Config / Gear Sets / Etc Automagically

[YellowCrystarium]

Well, your documents do change several times a day, as the save folder for XIV is located in your documents folder, so technically, yes, they do

I have mine set to backup any changes to both google drive and a separate hard disk on my pc, as well as having them moved to my laptop every so often just in case something messes up. I'd wager that saving character data to the server would break the game if you change things multiple times in a few seconds on thousands of characters. Hence why we are limited on inventory expansion. You are looking at it the wrong way. Most games DO in fact save your game locally. The servers in this instance, are only keeping track of the things the server absolutely needs to, while the rest is saved locally.

And hey, you have a backup. Thats great, now you dont need to start from scratch like you were complaining.

And honestly, being a retired software engineer doesn't mean that much as these limitations are generally based on hardware configs. I've had software engineers ask me why I needed to turn off the server to replace pci HBAs before lol....

The limitations here are most likely backend disk write bandwidth for backups of every character online. Depending on the servers they are using, unless it's all pcie flash, or SAS flash, constant writes to even 10k or 15k SAS hdds will have a limit on what they can stably achieve. And going past that causes instability or possible backup failures, which could cause character data corruption, which would be bad.

Could you sound any more snippy in this post? Jesus christ.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Could you sound any more snippy in this post? Jesus christ.

He knows backups are important things to have, being a software engineer.

I explained precisely why having auto server backups wouldn't work, since he's saying he changes his settings all the time. It would have to back up all characters online at any change to be effective, which would be a ton of data writes, which is the reason we already don't have more inventory that people complain about. This would exacerbate the issue.

He also already has a backup with which to start, as hopefully most people playing on a pc have, as hardware can fail. Ps4 users can make use of ps+ cloud saves, and there are tons of options on pc, like Google drive, one drive, various other cloud backup providers. There's really no excuse to not back up your personal data, since that tends to be pretty important stuff. And xiv saves directly to documents, making it easy to include in your backups, since it's not buried in a hidden folder somewhere like some games.