Completed MDT Character Limit

RedMan

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There appears to be a character limit for how long a report can be on the MDT. We like to detail the case as much as possible; to include all statements and observations; developments and other releated things to said incident. However, there appears to be a ~4,000 character limit for each incident report (I spammed the report with characters and started to cut down on the amount of letters to obtain a rough amount of letters that can fit into a report before the save button refuses to save the report. The amount of characters amounted to 3,997 characters to be more specific.).

Initially, I believed this to be a bug unique to myself, but it seems other Officers have been experiencing it too. Henceforth, I am now filing a report for it.
 
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I was updating a report with another witness statement and I can't save it, this is the character count
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Probably done on purpose to prevent people from copypasting an absurdly large amount of characters in and crashing the server
 

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Probably done on purpose to prevent people from copypasting an absurdly large amount of characters in and crashing the server
Copying and pasting is client-sided, and it will does not affect the server in any capacity. Even on the server-side, there already appears to be limitations in place to prevent people from spamming the server with requests to update the database; the save button will not appear until a change is detected within the incident report, and the button is disabled once you send a request to update the contents on the database.