Thank you so much for asking, and we are terribly sorry about the delay! Some debate about this topic went on before we reached a decision, and we wanted to be sure that whatever decision was made would be to better the community as a whole.
While we appreciate the idea of a player-maintained spreadsheet, there are a few too many factors working against that possibility at this time. As it stands, people frequently forget to add or remove themselves to and from the Taken Characters list, and we fear that having to add themselves to the spreadsheet would just be one more step to tentatively miss and thereby offer up further confusion. In that same vein, since the spreadsheet would be player-maintained, avenues for abuse or just common mistakes are opened up, in that players might believe a character who has not been dropped actually has been dropped and delete them off the list in that confusion. Abuse is carried out much the same way, though one would have to worry about more than just deletions.
POLYchromatic has had something of this caliber in the past when it employed the use of a Wiki, but that plan unfortunately fell through due to a lack of time for upkeep and the notion that the Taken Characters list virtually supplies the same resource.
Again, thank you so much for your input! We will be keeping this idea in mind for the future, in case something like this does become an option.
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While we appreciate the idea of a player-maintained spreadsheet, there are a few too many factors working against that possibility at this time. As it stands, people frequently forget to add or remove themselves to and from the Taken Characters list, and we fear that having to add themselves to the spreadsheet would just be one more step to tentatively miss and thereby offer up further confusion. In that same vein, since the spreadsheet would be player-maintained, avenues for abuse or just common mistakes are opened up, in that players might believe a character who has not been dropped actually has been dropped and delete them off the list in that confusion. Abuse is carried out much the same way, though one would have to worry about more than just deletions.
POLYchromatic has had something of this caliber in the past when it employed the use of a Wiki, but that plan unfortunately fell through due to a lack of time for upkeep and the notion that the Taken Characters list virtually supplies the same resource.
Again, thank you so much for your input! We will be keeping this idea in mind for the future, in case something like this does become an option.
Best,
POLYchromatic Mods