Forum:Increase in Character Spots

For awhile now, I have seen many users talking about wishing they had more character spots, that 15 simply wasn't too much and I myself have had this same issue. Well DARP, this vote is responding to your wishes.

What I am proposing is a 5 spot increase on the current limit of 15, raising everyone's character limit to 20. The obvious benefits of adding 5 more character spots for every user include; the chance to have more characters on the wiki, gives chances for users to expand their creativity, and stimulate more roleplaying with new characters.

On the other hand, one could argue that with the increase in character spots comes on even more model hoarding. However, given rules that have already been in place regarding away characters and that we have a sped up IC schedule, model changes happen more frequently to depict the characters' ages. Another issue we could run into is that users may not be able to handle 20 characters which leaves some of them untouched and left to collect dust on the shelf. This is a valid concern but at the same time users should know their own limits and know how many characters they are capable of handling before it gets out of hand. If the admin team views that someone isn't handling their amount of characters, then we can also use our own discretion to warn the user in question that they need to use the rest of their characters before adding on to their amount.

If anyone has any suggestions or questions, please leave them in the comment section below and we can have an open discussion about it to try and resolve any suggestions or unanswered questions.

For Increase (+5)

 * 1) ~ Thistle  01:14, May 23, 2018 (UTC)
 * 2) Weed.pngCHRIS! Is that a weed?! 01:22, May 23, 2018 (UTC)
 * 1) ~ Thistle  01:14, May 23, 2018 (UTC)
 * 2) Weed.pngCHRIS! Is that a weed?! 01:22, May 23, 2018 (UTC)
 * 1) Weed.pngCHRIS! Is that a weed?! 01:22, May 23, 2018 (UTC)

Comments
I can see raising the character amount in the event of an expansion--you know, you can have x amount of extra spots for expansion characters. But just for regular characters? Sounds like a bit much, and tracking usage seems like a real pain in the butt unless we create a page similar to the taken models list where eacher user's characters are listed as well as the last date they were RP'ed--and even then, can we rely on users to update their list consistently? Fifteen seems like more than enough to me--and yes, I say that as someone who is several characters away from the limit and who has no intention of getting all that much closer--especially considering how many characters are largely unused, and how many core RP sites are pretty...dead. (Post on classes everyone!)

If we raise the limit for regular characters, I think we should designate the five extra slots for certain age groups--i.e. three students/two adults or three students/child and adult or something similar, since, after all, this is a Hogwarts-centered wiki. Or even just plan out slots for the entire limit so that there are more student spots than adult/child slots.

Beyond that, I think we all need to work on roleplaying the characters we have, even if it's just posting on classes and attending work meetings, that way we can build a foundation back up so it's reasonable to expect a person to be able to rp all their characters before increasing the limit. I'm all for creativity, but I think we're just not ready to officially expand the general character limit at this time.