Edit Your Online Profile
You can edit your online profile. Your online profile contains information that you want other players to know about you. Other players can view your profile information by right-clicking on your name if they see you in a chat room and want to know more about you.
You can bring up the screen to edit your profile by pushing the button in the News and Information screen while in the subscreen "Profiles".
The Edit Profile screen looks like this:
The contact information field is a place where you can put a method for other players to contact you; typically this would be your e-mail address, although you can put anything in there that you want. Since this information is publicly available, you should think carefully about the contact information that you want to place in that field. You can of course leave it blank. This contact information does HAVE TO BE THE SAME as the email address you gave when you registered for the Boneyards - that email address is private and used only by Boneyards staff to contact you if necessary, as well as to uniquely identify you to the system.
You can enter a short biographical comment as well.
The two check boxes tell the Boneyards server system whether you want to receive pages from other Boneyards players, and if the server software should use an obscenity filter on chat messages which will convert certain common profanities into the substitute word "flour". The Boneyards server knows a lot of common profanities, but people are always inventing new ones, so this filter is not a guarantee that you will be shielded from offensive words. In addition, at present, the Boneyards server only knows English, so this filter may not help much with curses in other languages.
Selecting the button will send your changes to the server and return you to the News and Information Screen; pressing the button will NOT send your changes but will return you to the News and Information Screen.