Player character managment

[Bidmaron]

Trenloe, is that really the desired behavior? I doubt any user would anticipate that releasing their character eliminates their work?

Shouldn't there be a warning that releasing the character will obliterate any edits?

[Nylanfs]

It doesn't though, the master resides in the GM's campaign. The players as a matter of course should never need to release ownership of their character. If the player can't make it for a session or two releases the character for another player to take. Then when the original owner signs back in they are marked as the owner again and they get the latest copy of the character from the GM's machine.

[Andraax]

It's not releasing the character that does it. It's the GM clearing the ownership that does it. If he disconnects before the GM clears ownership, it should still show as his character locally.

And "edits" are not obliterated - they're still on the GM's copy.

[Trenloe]

It's not releasing the character that does it. It's the GM clearing the ownership that does it. If he disconnects before the GM clears ownership, it should still show as his character locally.

In my CoreRPG testing today this is not the case. Even if the GM still sees the character as "Owned by" the player (which they will until the GM clears ownership), if the player released the character before closing FG they will not see that character in Manage Characters.

[Andraax]

Hmm, yeah. Just tested it, and that is how it works. Weird. I thought I tested it a while back...

[damned]

Trenloe, is that really the desired behavior? I doubt any user would anticipate that releasing their character eliminates their work?

Shouldn't there be a warning that releasing the character will obliterate any edits?

As mentioned by others the character is still there but in the player cache.
The cache permissions reflect the game permissions - if you dont own a character you have no permission to view it and this is reflected in the cache permissions.

[Bidmaron]

The OP said that he took ownership, updated his charactet, and then released it, thereby deleting his changes. This is what happens. That is not what most uninitiated users would expect.

I am just suggesting that the code to release ownership warn the user he will lose changes.

I am boarding a plane and cannot check myself

[Trenloe]

The OP said that he took ownership, updated his charactet, and then released it, thereby deleting his changes. This is what happens. That is not what most uninitiated users would expect.

Releasing the PC *does not* delete changes made while controlling the PC within a campaign. Releasing the PC means that a read-only copy of that PC will not be available in Manage Characters for that campaign.

[MerlinAmbrose]

I tested the theory last night. I connected to my Wed. campaign DM's server, chose my character from the PC box, then logged off, back to the launcher. Manage Characters showed me a local copy of the character, which I could export.

Confirmed.

Thank you again, everyone, especially Trenloe.

[Trenloe]

Thank you again, everyone, especially Trenloe.

Cool! Glad you solved the mystery and can get access now.