80% losses not from death.
So, I've been back playing ADOM the last three days. I've seemed to develop a real penchant for losing my games.
1) I accidentally ended task while screwing around with edit configs or backup batch file.
2) I had a mysterious closing of the program. Was while I was screwing with video resolution and OBS. Just plain weird. *shrug* My backup failed because I had switched to DOS, and my path had the wrong root.
3) I had a BSOD. Now, I have the backup, but let's say I rage-quit. For all I know its a couple hours old, why bother. What I accomplished is gone.
*) WOHOO! Finished a game: Died in SMC very early.
4) Quit prematurely on server while screwing with Sage features and disabled sage.*
1 and 3 suck as they were youtube series. I'm a pretty poor commentator, but nobody want to hear "thanks for watch, tune into the next episode where we'll see whether or not we continue the exciting adventure! Opps, guess not!".
I was very attached to all 4, I think particularly because I was recording. #1, #3, & #4 were all about lvl 13. #1 & #4 had teleport spell and teleport control. #4 had nice herbs. Two characters had aquired Detect Traps, three dudes had complete the puppy quest alive, two peeps had acquired swimming -- All these vanishers felt like better games than normal.
First, let me admit my failings. I'm a computer geek who has been playing this since 95. At the same time, I'm old and obviously getting senial if I'm ignoring the details of the close window dialogue in #1, I fail to notice that a one-line batchfile using %USERPROFILE% isn't going to work when I've only mounted a non-system disk in DOSBox,
and I cannot to bother take the time to use a test character to jerk around with settings like #4. So, my failures are mine.
Still, I always makes me wondering what people with even less ADOM and computer experience are going through. It must have been brought up before, but I really think an auto-save should be implemented ... that is why I moved to the server, assuming that my BSOD won't result in character loss. (and I suffered a server-noob mistake.) If players are computer literate enough to delete the prc as required to fix a crash, and able to edit a cfg as required to adjust some basic feature behaviors, then they have enough skill to backup saves and save-scum. Sobeit. But that still misses the point, that's rather a manual backup than an auto-save. My Windows 7 only BSOD ever 3 days, but it might very well be after I've been playing for hours and haven't though to backup. I just can't imagine all the casual Steam players tolerating as much hassle as this can be.
Sorry that I suck.
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Auto save has also been suggested, and by the looks of jt's comments on that RFE, it will get implemented, which is great. Making backup saves are a custom I have from the 1.1.1 days, as stable as a version might be.
