Originally Posted by Sirisian
I did some quick calculations and I figured out they could easily just store the full game state changes on the server and allow players to just replay across a timeline from when the game first comes out all the way to the present. I think I'd prefer that idea. Then if you want to show your friend a cool thing you did you could just open the game and go to the timeline in a floating camera and go backwards and forwards in time even over years. From my quick fairly accurate database calculations it would be around 250 TB of data after 8 years. Not much actually.
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How did you come up with that number / care to elaborate what your assumptions were?