Mattcrampy
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Does this option cause more harm than good? It needs to be on for CaravelNet to work right, for instance, and most of this data needs to be saved for saved games anyway.

I'm not sure how many people use the 'save demo when Beethro dies' option, either. Maybe it's also worth jettisoning.

The advantage to getting rid of less useful options is that it makes the codebase, troubleshooting and new player experience* much simpler.

* It does this by giving them one less option to worry about if they stumble into the options screen.

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Tim
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I usually turn this off when I want to Chat and doing Testing.

Or if I'm just not being bothered to record any demos at all (like some unfinished holds in Architecture.)

But I'd say I'd rather want some other option like "Do not upload any saved demos to CaravelNet" instead of this one.

Oh, but perhaps all these settings can be put in drod.ini, so that starting smitemasters won't need to think about it.

(Obviously, I don't need it right now as my CNet account just expired, but I'll be back.)

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