X the not-adventurer

I don't know if it's meant to be like this already or there's been a thing about it before, but can we have some kind of profession thing other than 'adventurer'? It seems a bit pointless having 'X the adventurer' scoreboard when it appends every single name. A randomly generated thing would be nice, but something as simple as using a profession based on whatever skill (or skills?) you've levelled up the most '(e.g. X the necromancer, X the archaeologist, X the vegan vampire) would be great. Even simpler would be simply rogue, mage, warrior, warrior-mage etc. based on your skills' archetype distribution. Is it possible/easy?

 

It's meant to change but it's a known issue. It's pretty broken right now.

 

As I recall, this was working in 1.0 or so. Broke somewhere along the way, though.

 

I used to be an Archaeologist like you, but then I took an Adventurer to the knee.

 

This is why I've started using professions in my characters names (e.g. Mage John the Adventurer)

 

Ah, I thought it might be something like that. Thanks for clearing it up.

 

Anyone know if, when they do fix it, it will be retroactive? To characters that already exist, and also dead characters on the high score list - does the list retain enough info on the characters to make that possible?

 

No, it doesn't.

 

You can manually edit the high score table to give whatever profession you want. It's just a plain text file in My Documents/Gaslamp Games/Dungeons of Dredmor.

Edit: At least, I presumed you could, but I just tried it and, every time I restart the game, the list reverts back to its original form.
Anyone know what's causing that and how to stop it? Steam Cloud maybe?

 

Okay, further testing, I just tried loading DoD without Steam (as I just remembered you could do that) and my changes to the hi-score remained intact. So it does look like the issue lies with the Steam Cloud. Anyone know how to force the Cloud to accept my changes?

Edit: Okay, last update, I managed to make the Cloud accept my changes. What I did was load up DoD and make the changes while the game was loaded, and then I made a new character and instantly had him killed off, thereby adding him to the hi-score table. Steam Cloud then updated its own table with the new character and all the changes I had made.

 

So are there any plans for fixing it?

 

Could we at least have the explanations of *why* and *how* it got broken?

Because it must have pretty arcane issues tied to it to remain unfixed, something as simple in appearance as attaching a given title from a list to a name in the tombstone.

 

Dude, thanks for the explanation.

 

I have always wondered about this. Even thought about making a similar thread many times now. My other dungeon crawlers all had this and I had a faint memory of it being like giygas' screenshot but wasn't sure if that was an invention of my own mind. Sadly it is part of the source code

Hopefully we see it again one day.