[Suggestion] Char dump / flight recorder / morgue
Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 6:35 pm
IDEA: Much like commercial airliners' black boxes, let's have an FTL flight recorder so we can send our greatest missions (and most epic failures) to our friends and confused family members.
Different than a save game feature, this is a read-only record of your exploits. Many roguelikes have a morgue where you can check out your old characters' high scores, inventories, what monster killed you, etc, but this would enable a player to go back and see exactly where they went wrong, what the fatal mistake was, and to share this with other players to elicit commentary and suggestions.
Obviously I know nothing of how the game is coded or if this feature is feasible by launch, but DANG it'd be cool! And it would support the meta-game, that is, the community surrounding FTL, talking about it, obsessing over it. An active fanbase generates more sales through word of mouth, so this feature in my opinion is well worth the time and energy needed to implement it.
Different than a save game feature, this is a read-only record of your exploits. Many roguelikes have a morgue where you can check out your old characters' high scores, inventories, what monster killed you, etc, but this would enable a player to go back and see exactly where they went wrong, what the fatal mistake was, and to share this with other players to elicit commentary and suggestions.
Obviously I know nothing of how the game is coded or if this feature is feasible by launch, but DANG it'd be cool! And it would support the meta-game, that is, the community surrounding FTL, talking about it, obsessing over it. An active fanbase generates more sales through word of mouth, so this feature in my opinion is well worth the time and energy needed to implement it.
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