I’m usually one of the people showing up in threads and saying things like “well it’d make it easier for more people to get into the game” “wider audience” & “lets not offend people if we don’t have to”, etc. I’m also weirdly sucked into threads debating the style of the game (the: is Cata an ‘X’ or a ‘Y’ discussions, i.e. is it a roguelike or a sandbox?).
This thread though, stuff like this bugs me.
- It flies in the face of the genre. Cata has always supposed to have been a rogue-like. Perma-death is a staple of the genre. Rogue-likes are supposed to have that “haha, damn, well I learned something that time I died … I’ll not make that mistake again” feeling. If you remove ANY punishment from death you’ve neutered the genre pretty badly.
I liken this type of request to popping into a FPS forum and asking they make a 3rd-person, over-the-shoulder mode for the game because some people do not like playing First Person Shooters in First Person. If they want a 3rd person shooter, they should try another title … or … maybe … just play the game as designed for what it is supposed to be. Should we add “First Person 3D Graphics” to Cata because some people don’t like top-down 2D gameplay? At some point the realization is the person complaining about that just wants to play Minecraft and not Cata, so they should just go do that or, ya’ know, play Cata as it was designed to be.
So changing a fundamental facet of the game and taking it out-of-genre for something very simple like this seems foolhardy. The game is already outrageously easy for many people, there are game features that make it so you don’t lose all your progress, and there are even work-arounds for save-scummers that pass the “mom-test” (as in, ‘could my mom accomplish this with her PC skills’) for their ease of use.
[ul][li]You can already set the world so it doesn’t implode when your character dies (I think it is toggled NOT to delete by default, even) so you can just … ya’ know … walk back to where your other character died and claim their base/vehicle/possessions(they don’t vanish when you die, you leave a corpse and pile of gear)/etc for yourself and pretend nothing bad happened if you so wish it.[/li]
[li]Turn autosave on. Then you can super easily just click and drag your save folder to a new location, or even easier, just click the save folder and rename it, then your next save will make a new folder alongside your backups. I do the folder-rename-trick currently as I play bug test, so I can go back to moments before I seriously broke the game and see if the issue is repeatable. It’d easily work for save-scummers.**[/li]
[li]There is already a large number of people who “gift” themselves large amounts of character points at start to make their games even easier and insta-create characters with a lot more skill points. You could VERY easily just recreate the character that just died. Did it have 3 melee skill and 4 firearms? BOOM, your brand new character does now … look you can even name it the same as the dead person … it is like you never died.[/li][/ul]
[size=8pt]**Plus, if someone cannot frankly figure out how to cut&paste or rename a save folder in a game, I doubt they even found their way here to give Cata a try. If they did, then consider learning how to cut&paste and/or rename a folder a free remedial computing lesson.[/size]
… and I guess I should just throw this here: There is nothing wrong with making a mod that does it, then using it. That is what mods are for.
