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[Timeless Bob]

I've been noticing in some of the longer running community games like my own "Luckiest tourist EVER" and "The Museum", that successive fortresses in the same world bloat the compressed save file above 100mb rather quickly.  Currently, "The Museum's" last save (as of April 12th, 2014) is at 193mb and other hosts such a s mediafire are being used to pass the turn on to the next Player.

The reason I'm bringing this up, is that both of these games have been modified to replace the "placeholder" sites with human "cities" and it's the increasing number of historic peoples and acreage of saved landscape (via fortresses or adventure mode camp-fires, for instance) that has contributed so significantly to this bloat.  Once the new version comes out with individualized sites for the races, the same problem will appear in the new community games as new "world history" unfolds year after year, even if the fortress itself is never abandoned.

So my suggestion is to raise the initial limit from 100mb to 200mb per save file.  However, due to my ignorance of the facts pertaining to the amount of information DFFD already has used of its total space, and how often "old" saves are removed to make room for the "new" ones, I don't know hoe feasible this suggestion might or might not be.

[CaptainArchmage]

I absolutely agree with this. My .zip of the worldgen posted in the Dwarf Mode discussion is 167MB or so, and that size isn’t going down. These saves are already compressed, they will not compress down much further. With the upcoming version of Dwarf Fortress, it may get much worse. I think the size limit needs to be something like 300-400MB or so rather than 100-200MB, actually.

[Meph]

http://dffd.wimbli.com/contact.php

This place would be much more sensible to request a max filesize upgrade. Not the DF suggestion board.

[CaptainArchmage]

http://dffd.wimbli.com/contact.php

This place would be much more sensible to request a max filesize upgrade. Not the DF suggestion board.

Thanks. I sent an email, suggesting a new cap of 250MB and citing this thread.

[Janus]

I finally had enough free time to finish working on this (it ended up being every bit as much of a pain in the ass as I expected, and then some), so the cap is now increased to 250 MB. I've posted an announcement on the site about it.
http://dffd.wimbli.com/index.php

[Quietust]

You can actually get much better results by disabling savegame compression in Dwarf Fortress itself and then using 7Zip to compress them instead.

[GavJ]

Once the new version comes out with individualized sites for the races, the same problem will appear in the new community games as new "world history" unfolds year after year, even if the fortress itself is never abandoned.

Why would he pregenerate the entity towns BEFORE any adventurer visited them?

Yes for community forts it might be an issue, but for single player forts where you explore not very large tracts of land, it shouldn't be significantly larger, if he was coding it efficiently. Sites should remain abstract concepts that take up virtually no space unless some adventurer controlled by the player goes to them.  Even then, you can delete the data after a few years, since you can pretend people moved to new houses, tore stuff down, made new constructions, etc. anyway.