IMPORTANT: Steam Workshop Update regarding your Blueprints

[Angelis1]

I have a question, will we have to do this again when Planet Coaster gets released on the 17th of November, or will everything from the beta be carried over?

The beta and the final game are the same (called "Planet Coaster" in Steam) so it's the same workshop. Only the alpha version (+ its workshop) is different (called "Planet Coaster Alpha" in Steam) and will disappear.

So that everyone understand :
(although it is a bit of a caricature)

- The "alpha test" is made to add and try all the features of the game.
- The "beta test" is made to debug the game in order to make it the most performing for the release.

 

[stuk71]

woooo close to beta so excited.... And I just can't hide it

I hope you are not about to lose control? [hehe]

 

[Ebony-Knight]

New to this stuff, and it's probably a stupid question...presumably items I have already downloaded from the Alpha workshop are not affected since they are stored locally?
If the item I've already downloaded is subsequently removed from the Alpha workshop...someone may do some tidying up after loading their creations to the main game workshop...I can still use the one in my blueprints, right?

 

[Funrir Woulfe]

Backed up my stuff & park to a temp folder on my 4TB external HD just in case, but it's also stored locally on
C:\Users\YourNameHere\Saved Games\Frontier\Planet Coaster\yadda yadda yadda\etc etc etc\so forth and so on
Just so there won't be a huge issue during this juggling experiment ;-)

 

[danijami23]

I hope you are not about to lose control? [hehe]

Personally I think he likes it.

 

[DarthLuca]

Ok not sure if I am reading between the lines correctly here. . .
So, will we be able to load our saved Alpha parks into Beta??
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Or is it implied that ONLY what we save as a Blueprint will be transferable to Beta??
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(And our 'Alpha' parks will be effectively 'Lost'??)

 

[Soggney]

From what I can read in these lines, is that the planet coaster alpha and planet coaster will have a shared folder where the local blueprints are stored. But from saved parks, I got that the folder where the parks made in the alpha are stored should be manually backupped, and then restored in the folder where the savegames for planet coaster are stored. It looks like a manual process, but if you're familiar with windows file explorer, you should be able to load your alpha parks in the beta/final release

 

[gregorburns]

I don't think the location of the saved games will change at all so anything that is saved there should be fine. The same folder has been used in all the alphas so far and it should not be affected by the game installation as far as I can tell. The only thing to note is that, as usual, any parks you save now in the alpha may not load correctly in the beta due to the nature of development and changes that have been made.

 

[dele2k]

So that means thrillseakers are not able to save their blueprints?

 

[Evolution]

Will all of my saved parks still be in game once the Beta comes out or do I have to do something to keep my beloved parks in game?

 

[Lullibert]

Hi Community,

this is how I understand the original post:

In order to upload a creation to the steam workshop, you need to make a blueprint out of it first. When you do this, it automatically saves the blueprint to your local drive. After saving the blueprint it appears in your ingame blueprint library and from there you can publish (upload) the blueprint into the steam workshop. Now other people can download your blueprint and use it.

All the items you blueprinted will stay on your harddrive, they will just be deleted from the steam workshop. If you want other people to use your blueprints again, you just need to republish them on the steam workshop after the reset.

And this is the confusing part:

If you have already saved your blueprint locally, you can skip this! If you don’t, here’s how you can do it:

1. Go to your Steam Library, find Planet Coaster Alpha and click on “Browse The Workshop” button
2. Click on Your Files > Files You’ve Posted
3. Subscribe to the items you haven’t got local blueprints of and wait for Steam to download them
4. Load up a new, empty park on any available level

How can you not save blueprint locally before uploading it to the steam workshop? Or can you delete the blueprint after uploading it to the steam workshop locally and it is no longer on your local drive and local blueprint library but remains in the workshop? Never tested it.

To make a backup of your own made blueprints just copy the content of 'C:\Users\YourName\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Planet Coaster' to a save place on your harddrive. Also all your parks are stored in this directory and will be safe. Items in your park that has been deleted from the workshop and from your ingame blueprint library will stay in the park and you can make blueprints out of it later after the reset, if needed.

All other blueprints that you downloaded from the steam workshop and that are made by other people will be deleted from the steam workshop, your ingame blueprint library and your harddrive. If you still want to use these blueprints after the workshop reset, you will need to make a copy of them first. Just place an item into an empty park, then use the multi-selection tool and make a blueprint out of it. Then it will be stored on your local drive and will appear in the ingame blueprint library and you can still use it after the reset.

Please correct me, if I am wrong.

Regards

Lullibert

 

[Fender]

So that means thrillseakers are not able to save their blueprints?

As Prince Chester posted, you can find the location of the blueprint files at: C:\Users\YourName\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Planet Coaster

Just make a temporary folder somewhere on your desktop and copy and paste the files from that ^ location into the temporary folder. I'm pretty sure that us Thrillseekers will be able to hang onto our blueprints that way.

 

[gregorburns]

As Prince Chester posted, you can find the location of the blueprint files at: C:\Users\YourName\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Planet Coaster

Just make a temporary folder somewhere on your desktop and copy and paste the files from that ^ location into the temporary folder. I'm pretty sure that us Thrillseekers will be able to hang onto our blueprints that way.

Yes that's correct. As long as you don't delete that folder I think all your Blueprints will still be there as that folder shouldn't be touched by the installation of the game

 

[Fender]

... as that folder shouldn't be touched by the installation of the game

This is true - and I don't expect it to change! But I've also thought that in the past with other games, and then *poof*, work gone. :X Not that I got to do a lot over the weekend (compared to some, at least), but I still don't want to start from the ground up again, haha. Better safe than sorry, I suppose.

 

[Angelis1]

@Frontier : You should post the link on the social networks, or many people who have not read this topic will be disappointed. Just saying

 

[shaneturner12]

@Frontier : You should post the link on the social networks, or many people who have not read this topic will be disappointed. Just saying

Agreed - I've done so on one of the groups I'm part of on Facebook (a theme park related one) but I haven't seen it on the official Planet Coaster pages yet.

Shane

 

[Evolution]

I just made a backup of my files and put them in a folder. I hope I don't lose anything. [blah]

 

[FuddyWoodie]

Some questions:-

1. What happens to any saved parks and it's items (especially those downloaded from a defunct workshop)
2. Will those items be locked to the original creator (from uploading or otherwise?)
3. If said parks are playable, what happens to downloaded workshop items in those park? Is there going to be a situation where you have access to the items but, unless the original uploader re-uploads, no one else will?

Seems a little bit messy to me, especially the last question (i'm thinking about YouTube videos incorporating legacy workshop stuff) but i'm sure you know what you're doing!

 

[Angelis1]

Be happy if you can make some backups, because it is very rare with "alpha versions" [up]
Most of the time, the files of alphas are just unusable.

 

[Funrir Woulfe]

I see no reason that any of us should "start from scratch" other then if the game has bigger parks as part of the beta ;-)

If we get an scenario editor to make our Alpha parks larger so they mesh with the new larger Beta parks better, namely we just move the borders outward on our old Alpha parks & go from there, gosh if that's the case I possibly shouldn't have crammed all my rides so close together, but live & learn, eh ?

Granted ONLY if the case is the new parks are bigger, we don't know, yet.