The amount of private messages that a member can retain on the forums has been 1200, with an extra 100 for each donor fruit symbol. Thus, a $50 donor has been able to store up to 1500 private messages without having to prune any.
These limits have just been increased. Instead of increasing by 100 for each donor level, they are not increased by 100 for every $10 of donor level. So $50 donors get an extra 500 PM limit (for a total of 1700), and $100 donors get an extra 1000.
In case you are curious as to why we don't greatly increase PM limits across the board, the answer is resources. While hard drive space is cheap, increased table size in MySQL does affect both performance and the amount of RAM the data base servers need to be stocked with. While PMs themselves are not that resource hungry, it's all additive and the forum system as a whole is pretty hungry...
The Official List of Forum Donor Benefits has been updated to reflect both the new PM limits, but also some undocumented benefits (like the ability to send increased levels of private messages within any 20 minute period).
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=198309
Thank you for your support...
These limits have just been increased. Instead of increasing by 100 for each donor level, they are not increased by 100 for every $10 of donor level. So $50 donors get an extra 500 PM limit (for a total of 1700), and $100 donors get an extra 1000.
In case you are curious as to why we don't greatly increase PM limits across the board, the answer is resources. While hard drive space is cheap, increased table size in MySQL does affect both performance and the amount of RAM the data base servers need to be stocked with. While PMs themselves are not that resource hungry, it's all additive and the forum system as a whole is pretty hungry...
The Official List of Forum Donor Benefits has been updated to reflect both the new PM limits, but also some undocumented benefits (like the ability to send increased levels of private messages within any 20 minute period).
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=198309
Thank you for your support...
