Jeremy Sullivan
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7/29/2014
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Hi everyone, sorry if this was already answered (though search did not return any results) - does anybody know if there is a limit on the word/character count in the social actions message boxes? It is just that I have written a nice 600-word letter to the in-game friend, RP and all, but the game seem to never send it - it just stuck at "loading" hat and when I got tired of waiting (approx. after 15 minutes) and clicked "messages" tab there were no sign of sent message. Just to be sure I've tried sending courple times more - no result. Tried to send test mesage to another contact, it went through fine. Would really appreciate a hint here. Thanks!
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Lady Sapho Byron
Posts: 770
7/29/2014
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After having this happen several times recently, I now write my messages in another application, then paste them into FL (or I write them in FL and copy them before sending). If the message is too long then I haven't lost the text.
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Fighting the Menace of Corsetry Since 1892.
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Jeremy Sullivan
Posts: 2
7/29/2014
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Thank you for the answers. I have just run some tests and the limit seems to be exactly 1988 characters, beats me why. Ok, so the task is to convey the descent of my character into the depths of madness in 1988 or less, er, characters. Presently there are 3179. Oh well, there goes the humorous interlude of Talkative Rattus Faber and the Eyeless Skull...UPD: Minor correction. 1988 characters minus 2 for each linebreak. Again beats me.
UPD2: Ok, this is inconsistent. Same charcounts can be accepted or not depending on... God knows what. Not the amount of linebreaks, certainly, it is the same as well.
edited by Jeremy Sullivan on 7/29/2014
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Lady Sapho Byron
Posts: 770
7/30/2014
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Jeremy, it seems Mr. Stamps, Master of the London post, is a most capricious and arbitrary being. You also realize that since you have dropped a referenced to the Incident of the L.B and the Eyeless Skull you must now relate it on pain of being continually pestered to tell it.
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Taleria
Posts: 46
8/2/2014
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Oh, good. Someone asked this already. After having to awkwardly split a message in two, I was going to ask what the character limit was. So obviously, what we need is a character counter or simply a block on adding more words when we've run out of space. I'm honestly surprised this is the first time anyone's really had to look into it, unless maybe there are old threads and different wording. At least, there's an approximate estimate of character count so we can use workarounds for the time being.
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Taleria No Loitering requests, please. Menace help is accepted, but no more than two requests per person. Not interested in cats. Other invitations are fine.
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Gillsing
Posts: 1203
7/29/2014
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I had the same thing happen to me once, so I had to cut down my message for the game to actually send it. Not sure what the limit is, but the longest message I found in my TXT-file was 1883 characters long (348 words), so perhaps the limit is around 2000 characters? I guess one could use an online character counter to find out if there's a hard limit on successful messages.
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