I'm aware of that, and still do it when I miss an SR but want to keep track of when the next one might show up. It's not much trouble to make one myself (short of making myself remember to do it on the first adventure.php). Nor would it be much trouble for me to make a shore counter, manually...
I ended up duplicating this in a thread of my own.
I've looked over this thread and it looks like the issue is the same thing I identified when justifying the counter: it's difficult for mafia to tell when your first adventure.php encounter occurs, particularly if you fire up mafia mid-run. I...
SR counter does not work for the first SR.
KoL Mafia does not display a semi-rare counter for the first semi-rare of an ascension. It knows everything it needs to know to make this work, but doesn't do it. It knows when to decrement the counter and when to leave it alone. It knows that...