Re: Vanilla Feature Request-Autosave Option

On 14 Apr 2008 as I do recall,
          Paul J Gans  wrote:

> Timo Pietilä <timo.pietila@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >Paul J Gans wrote:
> >> Gargoon <Noograg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>>> I've always thought that was cheating and so I'm not in
> >>>> favor of encouraging it.  Make a person at least think
> >>>> about it first.
> 
> >>> This proposed change would not encourage bringing back dead
> >>> characters.  When a character dies, it would automatically overwrite
> >>> the save file just like it does when you die having saved with
> >>> "control s".
> >> 
> >> All one has to do is bail out of the game when one's hit points
> >> get dangerously low and your character isn't safe.
> >> 
> >> I regard that as something akin to cheating at solitare. 
> 
> >If you are ready to do that then autosave isn't going to change much.
As 
> >Gargoon says you can always use ctrl-s to save if you feel unsure what 
> >will happen next.
> 
> Yes.  But we were not discussing major changes.  Using cntrl-s
> is something conscious ahead of time.  With autosave one can
> wade into trouble, realize one's mistake, and then bail out before 
> death without loosing too much.
> 
Well, those of us who have lost characters in the last year to someone
switching off the wrong plug / power cuts / cats standing on the
keyboard might think differently.   And my ancient version of
Steamband's got a bug that means that if you forget and try to use a gun
while dodging monsters the whole thing crashes, so I ended up restarting
about five times on the same level while fighting a card pit.   :-(
If I hadn't happened to have a recent save the first time it happened I
don't know what I'd have done......

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