I notice in the One off Character prompt window. Names of those characters come up. How many One off characters can you have? is there a limit? I don't want to make new characters if they will only be used for a few conversations. but I am getting a lot of them in the queue. Is that a problem?

Not sure what you mean.  I have  100's ( 1000's?) of NPCs  in my game....  for the  'or as" 'One  off" thing i put in  words  " Fight"...'Bar'...'Interview"

 those    kinds of post cover a  wide area, many times i won't even you a 'main NPC's "  name  because there are too many other PCs/MNCs  that post  is aimed at.

also...the   message box ( drop down) has a  small memory  and  will  fill in words that  you may have used before, including  a name...If you have  an NPC , important  enough  to have a  CS... then you just post  that name

example:..space games has  100's of NPCs  on the ship..if they get into a  conversation with other NPCs , or PCs    I just type in " Rec dec"..or if its  important  enough  "  SGT  JoNes"  ect ect... I may even use  a  PC's  first name, if its really  directed  at that one person.

That is what I thought. Do you know what the memory capacity for the drop down is?

I  cleaned my machines out, a few times a yea..SOMETIMES..it  wipes  out all the memmory.

 its  fun, because i don't pay attention  when i write in that box...so I might  type  in 'Combat"..and Combat might be listed  20 times, because i never  noticed. If you see the word you want, you just click on it... I haven't messed with it since  we switched over to this  new  version, but you could delete   doubles.

 I don't  think there is a Limit?  if there was i would have reached it!

In reply to donsr (msg # 4):

That is good. I'm using it alot lately. :) Thanks

Form prefilling for dropdowns, text fields etc is handled at the browser level, nothing to to with RPoL.   But rest assured that you can use the One-off character field to type in as many different names as you need to use in game.  :>

yep0 yep...Thanks Skald. if you go wayyyyyy back  to when i stated to  GM,  if there was a limited, i would have maxed out a decade or so ago!

      Thanks for the help guys. It really helps and makes my cast list much smaller. I know that having a giant cast list is not a big deal. I just am finding names that have 1 or two posts and I can't even recall who they are so there is no need for that deadweight.

  My cast lists  are  about  75%  PCs,,, with a hand full of NPCs  i need to drive the game  when it slows  down

as far as  NPCs  the space game has  50+  pilots  alone..4 of them aare PCs... the  'ground troops for the  Hermes  is  lose to 100 and  about  5  of those  are PCs

  I have  note  books  for each game, and  i write in  new  NPCs , they would be 'reoccurring ' characters in a TV or  Movie, helps add  depth and realism  ect ect...it would be nuts  to try to put  all thoose   folks on CS.  I do  have   lists in mt  'note threads'  that have all the NPCs  listed...dead ones  get removed, replacements  get added  in...