[Managing Roleplays] - What do these buttons do? (for Game Hosts and Co-Hosts)

[WTF RPG Staff]

The Shiny Buttons (Part One)
If you show me a person who doesn’t like shiny buttons, I’ll show you a person who... just... doesn’t like shiny buttons. ...Yeah.

Joking aside, the list of buttons can be a little intimidating looking at first. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to be a bit concerned that if you clicked the wrong thing, you’d ‘break something’ with your game. This section will show you the button and tell you just what it does. Thankfully, there is a confirmation screen for every button, so if you accidentally clicked on the wrong one, you could cancel it.

/ Open/Close Roleplay
This is the button you click if you want to “Open” or “Close” your game, respectively. That is to say, if you are or are not accepting new players. You can “Close” your game and continue gaming with your group as long as you like. It will not restrict whether new characters can be made by existing players.

/ Change Age Restriction
A red icon indicates that your game is for Adult access users. A grey icon indicates that your game is for general audiences. Clicking will change it from one to the other. If you are not an Adult access user, but set it for Adult access users only, you will not be able to view your own game. Thankfully, you can change it back (or join the Adult access permissions group, if you’re old enough).

Transfer Game
This button allows you to choose which of the members of your game to transfer the game to. To rephrase: this eliminates you as “game host” and makes the person you choose the new “game host”. That means they have full control of the game once you have selected the user. They could decide to transfer it to someone else in the game, or delete the game. Think very seriously about using this feature. There is no “un-delete” feature to fall back on if the new host decides to just dump it. If you can’t take care of the game properly, consider whether choosing a co-host or multiple co-hosts may be a better option for you and your gaming group.
There is no confirmation button other than the “Select” button.
PS: If a member of your game is staff, nothing will happen if you try to transfer the game to them.

Send Mass PM
This will send the same PM to every member in your game. This is useful for things such as important announcements. You will probably wish to use this sparingly. PM inboxes aren’t very large and if someone is a member of several games, their inbox can be filled quickly. Your OOC thread may be a better place to announce things. Since you’re allowed more than one OOC thread, you may consider an Announcements thread instead of mass PMs.

Delete Game
If you click this, the game is gone. No take-backs. The staff cannot recover your game if you’re upset and delete the game in a fit of madness, only to regret it later. The only things that will stay after you click Delete are any OOC or Journal threads that had multiple posts in them.


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