And why is his name stamped on my Save Game files? I sense the rubbery tentacle of Cosmic Horrors at work here.
Unfortunately the reality is less interesting -- a little less cosmic and horror-y ( though I can be scary before I've had my morning coffee). That's just the default name for the player automatically defined in config.xml that I put in randomly a year ago. I changed it just before Early Access to be 'Cogsbronze' to match the (currently unsettable) name in the embark screen. There were a lot of orphan jokes going around the office at the time and I though it would be a funny temporary thing. It's still a temporary thing, but a great deal more temporary than I would have figured.
Wait, wouldn't something being more temporary means it lasts less time than expected? Also I assumed the explanation would be that saved game functionality is powered by a forsaken child.
When are you guys planning to implement renaming things? It's pretty easy to write something to rename variables once you have time, isn't it? I hope this doesn't come off as snarky: I have trouble coding a calculator program and I'm pretty sure I could do it in less than 30 minutes. I have below Artist Level Programming skills lol edit: Oh, I'm dumb. I figured it out. I'm guessing that's going to come with the big Saving patch. See this is what I mean by Artist Level haha
(Artist programming note: Making a text entry widget that's any good is actually a ton of work.) ... that said, I have made a ticket for changing your Bureaucrat Name: OC-1823 ; I can make no promise about when this will go in, but it exists in our system now.
Oh I meant to do a quick dirty fix like the ESC menu in game that says "An Array of Options" as a placeholder or the "minimap" lol I'm imagining something like a Comic Sans text that's two inches off center diagonally. Then someone haphazardly threw a dart at it and pasted a clip art image in the center of that hole. The kind of thing that would make anyone with an ounce of taste cringe in horror. Something like this: lol or then there's also the inverse that I would call Programmer Art where the programmer is waiting for the art to come in, so he draws it in as a giant blue square.
