[2023] Offline characters are still getting overwritten

Originally posted by johnyu955

I think there's an edge case that is not being caught in regards to save file names. For context here's the characters I had before:

1CHARACTERSLOT_BETA_1 (first character ever created) 1CHARACTERSLOT_BETA_3 (my level 88 sorc)

1CHARACTERSLOT_BETA_2 would have been my character that originally got deleted on patch day. Yesterday I created a new rogue. I would expect the new character to either take slot 2 or slot 4 depending on your naming priority. Instead I got 1CHARACTERSLOT_BETA_0. I'm assuming this is new code added if you're starting at index 0 now instead of index 1 prior to 0.9? After I created the rogue I immediately exited the game to verify if all my characters were there and they were.

I then created another character, this time an acolyte and played for a few hours without checking save files. When I was done for the night I went to check characters and my sorc was gone. My acolyte had overwritten my sorc as the new 1CHARACTERSLOT_BETA_3. In order to restore my sorc I had to rename a backup as 1CHARACTERSLOT_BETA_2. One thing I noticed is when I went back in game the position of the characters in the list did not match their index in the save filename. Could be a clue but idk.

Another possible trigger is when I created the acolyte I tried to reuse the name of my sorc but obviously it was taken, could something with the name verification be causing it?

I am in the industry myself and I understand if you don't want to disclose technical details of your bugs and solutions but some insight for the more technical savvy players could help you debug.