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[Karry]

When shown your highscore after you die - i also want to know my exact place, i.e. how far i was from the top. 15th ? 192th ? And so on.

[Kornel Kisielewicz]

Not possible unfortunately, because the game only holds the top results :/. I would need to change the code to hold all of them...

[Karry]

Needing to change the code != impossible.

[Ugm]

But it's impossible for now. Every change means changing the code, actually ;)

This feature could be useful (the game could hold just the score of out-of-top-twenty characters).

[Malek Deneith]

Needing to change the code != impossible.

But holding sores of each and every score = messy

[Karry]

But holding sores of each and every score =

Holding scores of each and every score = pleasure. And come on, just how messy could it possibly get ?

[Malek Deneith]

Every time you play you leave a high score... right now highscores carry between versions... It might not seem as much but it still would be a constantly growing file composed of data that 95% of the time isn't used. Seriously the short list there is is more than enough - no roguelike ever holds all highscores.

[Karry]

It might not seem as much but it still would be a constantly growing file

And it can reach...what... 1 mb ? Or even... *gasp* ... 3 mb size ?
More like several kb, i would say.

Seriously the short list there is is more than enough - no roguelike ever holds all highscores.

Where no man has gone before...good argument. Well, not that good, really.
I'm seeing DooMRL as a game more akin to Crimsonland, than an actual roguelike.

[Malek Deneith]

I'm seeing DooMRL as a game more akin to Crimsonland, than an actual roguelike.

Even Crimsonland has hardcap of 100 highscores :P

And it can reach...what... 1 mb ? Or even... *gasp* ... 3 mb size ?
More like several kb, i would say.

Current highscore has about 300 kb and holds 20 scores... that's 1.5 mega every 100 scores. I played about 120 games but:
a)I don't play too much
b)it's only counting games from the lates version, as previous versions highscores couldn't be caried over
Someone more active (like Turgor or Jared_Caine for example) after few new versions could have several thousand plays.

And on top of that it really is redundand info - I don't think anyone would care for scores past, lets say, top 100

[Karry]

Current highscore has about 300 kb and holds 20 scores...

Mine is 218 b. Thats 1 kb for each 100.

Someone more active (like Turgor or Jared_Caine for example) after few new versions could have several thousand plays.

Thats alright, there should be downsides of being a gaming maniac. :)

[Malek Deneith]

Mine is 218 b. Thats 1 kb for each 100.

Ok. Me bad. I was a bit on the rush when I was posting so I mislooked. But still anything above 100 is redundand - really, there probably only be handfull of people who'll look beyond that 20 that will be visible on screen, and none that will care to look byond 100.

I can understand increasing the cap to 100 but removing cap completly is unpractical and un-optimal code wise.

[Karry]

And another thing, even if i scored in the top 20 - i have to look really hard to notice that. This game score should be highlighted red. Or something.

[RickVoid]

And another thing, even if i scored in the top 20 - i have to look really hard to notice that. This game score should be highlighted red. Or something.

There is a message coloring thread started by Kornel in the request for features section. I just forwarded this one.