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Originally Posted by flyteach
Joe, does this also mean that the amount of data exchange will also increase? I ask because many do not have wifi and have to watch their data limits.
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It shouldn't significantly increase data use for players. If any increase is noticeable, its likely going be purely that there's more *activity* happening (spells flying around and what have you). Regardless, we've designed tactical updates to players regarding other characters to be extremely light. Loading a few images on Instagram or Facebook would dramatically outweigh the data being sent. Also, Campaign and Tactical functionality will be purely opt-in, so if you're truly on a stringent data budget, you can continue using HLO as you currently do with zero changes to data usage.
For GMs, it may actually REDUCE their data usage, possibly in a big way, depending on how they are using the product.
If a GM is regularly switching between characters right now to run a game in HLO, the new Campaigns feature streamlines this significantly, loading "lightweight" versions of the characters on their device from which they can perform most in-game operations (GMs can of course still load the full version of a character as needed, in case they want to make deep changes like changing classes, etc).