NPCing for others

sorry this got a bit long

Right well, as you can see in The example profile, the mini profile is a bit different. This is what happens when you create an NPC post, and it's activated by way of a plugin.

The way the plugin works (more details in the support thread), is that you select this sword icon in the posting page and it converts your mini profile into that of the chosen NPC which is freely removable, and you can make as many as you like. These npc 'accounts' don't receive their own plot points, don't have post counts, and otherwise are non-customisable except through the admin plugin edit page. This means that if you convert your profile BEFORE you post, your normal charrie account WON'T have a higher post count OR a higher amount of points. So they're literally npc accounts without making an account.

These NPCs can be restricted based on group but not by member (account), so currently this only really allows staff to NPC freely without worrying about accidentally adding points to your character accounts. Accidentally adding points is doable by only converting the mini profile to that of an NPC AFTER posting normally. So yeah.

but really only staff was kinda supposed to do this stuff in the first place tbh

So in order to allow members to NPC, there's two options I can do.

1) Trust you lot to not fuck up and accidentally give yourself points, so you can post as npcs and all is well.

2) Create an NPC-only group wherein you create another account, this account is automatically added to the NPC group, and you can access all NPCs from this (except staff-controlled ones like Ichigo/Bach/Yama etc). You won't get points, post counts won't matter, and you don't have a charrie on it. So by any other name, this CAN be an OOC account.

So yeah that's the deal for the most part. I haven't really decided what option to go through with it, mostly because I in all personal preference would rather if staff took care of any NPCing. But otherwise yeah, the decision is kinda in limbo atm.