Addon Idea: Tag-able Save Files

[Y2Kafka]

Quick Story: One day when I was deleting some of my old characters that I haven't used in a while I accidentally deleted a save file I wanted to keep. (whoops) Unfortunately it was someone else's file. (Double whoops)

My idea is this: An addon that allows you to "Tag" a save file like you would an item. As it stands it's kind of hard to remember which character is which if you got a few of them flying around so being able to tag a save file with something like =John's Berserker= or =DO NOT DELETE=. I'm not sure how this would be possible and it might be hard to implement so even if you had to open the character to place the tag on the save file that would be fine by me.

Other ideas:
- Can't delete files with tags?
- Perhaps different color tags?
- Automatically put race/class in parentheses after the character name?

I can't code for shit (trust me I've tried ) but I know there's someone else out there that can so if YOU'RE that person... please help my idea become reality.
(Also if it isn't possible just say so and I'll post my idea in the suggestions forum so DG can hopefully see it and patch it in.)

[Zireael]

This should go into core game, not an addon

[Y2Kafka]

This should go into core game, not an addon

Thanks for the reply. Ya I was thinking the same thing. I wasn't sure if messing with the save files like that would be good for the game so I figured that it would be best if it were done "Unofficially". I think I'll post this in the suggestions area instead. Hopefully this topic will be fine to leave up for a while... if not a moderator could just lock it.

[grayswandir]

Rather, I don't think it's possible to make it an addon, as they aren't loaded until you actually start a game.

[darkgod]

You can make addons for any modules, including the "boot" module

[grayswandir]

Alright, after some testing, it looks like you make an addon for the boot module as normal - the only difference being you have to add in the line

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is_boot = true