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Thinking of purchasing a letter pool for those that might need an extra letter to reach out to my character.

Hi everyone, I've been giving some thought to recent concerns about letter caps restricting a general reach out beyond established letter circles. I don't know how much help it will be, but I'm considering purchasing an extra letter pool just so I can share it with folks who might be thinking of reaching out to my character but are in danger of reaching their own cap.

Before I do, @Athena Peters would that be doable or too much of a logistics nightmare? I don't want to add extra work to you and your staff.

So, say player A let me know they wanted to send Jack a letter, but they had reached their cap for the month, could I let you know I wanted to give player A one of my extra letters?

If it is doable, would that be a welcome possibility for anyone else? I wouldn't be able to fund all correspondence headed my way, but happy to help when I can.

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8 Comments

Lady Eleanor Savery (Hilary)

May 19, 2021

Wait, I am also confused about this. Not that I don’t love the idea of giving players a chance to help each other out and better address the new limits of the letter cap, but this feels like it would be generating more administrative work rather than less?

Sophrona Ramsbury

May 19, 2021

So @Athena Peters with the letter cap, both one-time $15 add-on and increased-level subscription, is it 'use it or lose it', or do the unused purchased amounts roll over month-to-month?

I'm confused about this making *more* work and thus higher cost for Incantrix.

Sophrona Ramsbury

May 19, 2021

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@Athena Peters OK, so if I understand correctly:

The base of 10 or 20 letters are use-it-or-lose it (standard and Gold subscriptions).

Any add-on rolls over to the next month and can also be donated for the use of other players.

But add-ons are counted differently than subscription base letters, so the number of letters sent is counted first from the base subscription number, and *then* the add-ons.

Is that correct?

(I assume the burden is on the players to keep track of how many letters they've sent, out of which pool)

Athena Peters

May 19, 2021

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@Sophrona Ramsbury yes. So the burden is on the players to know if they have used up their monthly sent allowance. We are also storing the scans in such a way on the database that we know exactly how many you have in that category at any given time. And will make a new column each month. If you send us more than the cap, we will check to see if you have bonus ones to use, if so we will count those down. If your letter "bank" is empty, we will then send you a note asking if you want to do an add-on or have us hold your letters to the following month. I am hoping the "empty bank" email is something I can automate in my system, but it has not yet been tested.

Sophrona Ramsbury

May 19, 2021

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@Athena Peters Thanks so much for clarifying! I appreciate that. :)

Captain Jack

May 17, 2021

Awesome, thanks!

Athena Peters

May 17, 2021

This is a lovely community minded idea. The way we plan on tracking Letter Upgrades right now is to have a "Bonus Mail" column in the database. When someone purchases one, we add the extra 10 to that column to be ticked down when they go over their subscription allotment.

Thus I don't see much more difficulty in un managing the movement of a number from one column to another. This should be doable. We would just the the Purchaser to contact us in email to make the change so they are authorizing the transfer and it is tracked appropriately.

Thinking of purchasing a letter pool for those that might need an extra letter to reach out to my character.

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