Not "Kill" Characters
A game I was playing recently disbanded. I loved my character there. He's gone now. I didn't think to save his bio in other places, etc, so he's just...gone. I've learned my lesson, but I'd love to have a "retired" section on, say, my profile page so that people could see what I've played in the past/the retired characters can still be accessed. I miss my Jedi Ewok a lot! ;)
Also, can retired character be resurrected in other games? I mean, I could write a similar character, but can I use the same name? Could a retired character be re-activated in another game? That would be a lot of fun for some games...just thinking here.
But a hall of heroes would be great regardless. Like I said, I miss that guy!
wabbit
shared this idea
AdminStephen Hood
(Co-founder, Storium)
responded
Sorry about what happened! Until recently, a narrator could delete a game at any time, which caused everything — including characters — to be deleted. We recently changed this, so you shouldn’t have this happen to you again.
In the future (hopefully for our Gamma release) you’ll be able to rejoin a game after leaving it. We’re not sure yet about bringing a retired character into a different game, but we are thinking about it!
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Rachel Wild commented
Hi, I agree with this totally! With regards to having your retired characters be available to read at least, I've just posted a solution here and would appreciate the upvotes: https://storium.uservoice.com/forums/211322-general/suggestions/6229926-link-to-retired-characters-and-or-games-either-on
The thing about resurrecting a character in a different game, or even in the same game at a later point, is also good, and has been mentioned in quite a few other feedbacks too, such as this one: https://storium.uservoice.com/forums/211322-general/suggestions/5714403-export-characters-to-different-stories and this one: https://storium.uservoice.com/forums/211322-general/suggestions/5864021-allow-character-to-come-out-of-retirement-player
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wabbit
commented
Thanks for the response. My character didn't actually get deleted by the narrator (though the entire game was deleted a bit later, so he would have been then). I retired him when we all agreed to end the game. And I guess I just assumed that "retired" meant I could still access him somehow, not that he was "dead." And gone, gone, gone. I assumed retired meant just that. Out of service, but still around. I figured there would be a place for them to do. Like, on your profile page, there would be a place for them.
I realize now that's not the case, and I understand if it can't be the case, but I'm just sad that the little guy is no longer accessible. I didn't think to save his character bio and such somewhere else and now I can't. It'd be great to be able to access old characters, is all. But I save them all elsewhere now, too, so it can't happen again. This works, but a retired section on the profile page would rock.