Joining In: Character limits and types

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Player Age Limit: All players must be age 18 and up due to occasionally violent and suggestive content.

Character Types: Student (attends classes), Teacher (teaches classes), Townie (runs or works at a business), and Alumni/Expatriate (former student, teacher, or townie now living off-island and appearing less often).

Total Characters Per Player

Previously, the maximum number of on-island characters a player could have at one time was six, with only four allowed to be student characters -- in order to avoid burn-out for players, and keep the fictional population under control for those who have to take everyone into account when creating large plots.

Since the game is 10+ years old now and has a smaller, overall more experienced group of players who tend to know what they can and can't handle, we don't feel that restriction is necessary any longer. (Though like any other change, the admin team may revisit that if it starts causing issues in the game.)

So as of April 2018, there are no limits on the number of characters a player may eventually accumulate, within any particular character-status, or in total.

However, on an individual basis, if a player does have problems balancing the load, or it begins to have detrimental effects on gameplay (for them, or for others), the admins may have to ask that some characters be hiatused or dropped, or pause the acceptance of new applications from that player.

Characters Per Fandom

There is currently no cap on how many characters from any given fandom may exist in the game as a whole, or how many of a single player's characters may come from the same fandom. If a problem arises with play becoming dominated by one or more fandoms, we may revisit the issue, but right now the field is open.

Characters per Application Period

Gamewide: Fandom High has no set limit on the total number of new characters who will be accepted per application period.

Per player: Only 1 teacher and 1 student per player can be accepted during an open application period. (You can submit as many applications as you like, but only one of each type can be accepted.) Townie applications are always open, but once a townie character is accepted, the player needs to wait at least two months before applying for another. None of these limits apply to already-accepted characters being moved to a different status -- only to brand-new characters.

Playing multiple characters: Each of your characters should get the same basic amount of attention. If we notice you're neglecting one character for another to the point of not meeting activity requirements, you may be asked to make changes or drop a character, and applications for new characters may not be approved.

The Dark Side: Fandom High is very cautious about accepting applications from evil characters (bad, wrong, mean characters? Yes. Flat-out too hard to control evil? No. We had Darth Vader with restrictions. Use that as a measuring stick.) Many dark characters are workable, but we don't want to unleash too much crazy evil on the island at once. Too much evil causes headaches. We will be getting evil guest stars for plots, though, so if you'd like to play one, express your interest in auditioning for the role when it comes up!

[These reflect the polices as updated in October 2015.]