#hardcore-mode

#hardcore-mode

It's particularly harsh when your game features permadeath tied to party members permanently perishing in battle. Goodbye, Rich! So long, Miranda! We hardly knew ye, Steve! Your carefully crafted custom crew is unceremoniously slain like that bit in Game of Thrones where several people are locked in a vault with dragons. But you'll remember them, and you'll curse the enemy who cruelly took them from you. Well, either that or you'll reload an old save in a desperate act of defiance.

The suggeation for a hardcore mode, makes sense. Enthusiasts and engineers tend to be the most vocal users of the operating system, and are forced to wade through swathes of irrelevant user-interface components and 'helpful' suggestions. Plummer's request is for "a first-class system-wide setting that flips the operating characteristics of the OS from safe and chatty to deterministic and terse."