Forums » Suggestions & Development Discussion » editable journals in non editable characters?

Hey guys!

So I was thinking, since I'm in my last ten days of epic membership right now, I have a character called Kayleigh. She keeps a journal on her progressions throughout her life - her story, important events, and so on... I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about

regrettably, she's a character created after I got epic membership, which means her editing will be frozen when epic membership runs out. SO (gets to the point) what if it would be possible to, after editing gets frozen, still edit your character's journal and/or connections list? After all, this doesn't directly alter your character so nothing about that really changes. And that way you can still keep people posted on where your character stands in terms of development, without asking for a huge explanation every time ^^

Let me know what you guys think of this idea by leaving a reply ^^
~Olthain

I like it! I can see how this would be a logical step to take.


Good idea, Olthain.

~Oaky

Sorry Olthain! Remember that every bit of data you upload uses resources that increase the cost of keeping RPR running. Just by sitting there. Since the site is almost entirely dependent on sales of epic accounts/character slots to pay for storing all that data, and is nowhere near the point of lucrative, I will not be devoting resources to writing features that make epic accounts/extra character slots less desirable. 99% of the active userbase never runs into the limits of a free account, so I feel very strongly that it is not unreasonable to ask those rare users who exceed what is provided in the free account (and use the most resources) to give back and help cover the cost of keeping the lights on.

They're already pretty generous in that they allow people to continue playing with the excess characters for which they are no longer paying. I will probably not be adding more things that can be done with frozen characters.

Although about editing the character's friends, IIRC that should still be possible on a frozen character.

The site is so complex with thousands of members, it takes a pretty powerful server to keep running smoothly. There have been times in the past when RPR has been hosted on less capable servers, the results were very unpleasant.

Unfortunately, keeping the site up and running costs money and that is what the epic accounts pay for. Kim has been very good to everyone here with the free features. If this was being run by a big company, I don't think you'd get half of what you do here without paying.

So please keep in mind, when you go epic, you're not just paying for additional character slots and features, you are helping the site to continue to exist and to improve. And if you don't want to keep an epic membership, you can also purchase additional character slots that don't expire.

Okay, well I didn't realize that when I posted this topic so I'm sorry for that, I totally understand ^^ no problems here then

Thanks for understanding.