Naming Characters

[Ultimo]

7 minutes ago, biostem said:

And unless you could defend that character as being created before Marvel's, you probably couldn't use 'Ultimo' for publishing purposes, either...

Ya, I'd never heard of Marvel's Ultimo, and mine really bears no resemblance...  But then, I never published anything, I just made the comics for my own amusement.

 

Personally, I think mine is cooler and better looking.

[biostem]

12 minutes ago, Ultimo said:

Ya, I'd never heard of Marvel's Ultimo, and mine really bears no resemblance...  But then, I never published anything, I just made the comics for my own amusement.

 

Personally, I think mine is cooler and better looking.

I'm not saying yours isn't better - just that even in the real world, you may not be able to actually use the name you want, (in anything other than strictly private purposes, of which CoH is not).

[srmalloy]

14 hours ago, WanderingAries said:

Yeah, that's why I also put things like "Russian for..." in the Bio's.

With the fact that Unicode characters take up two bytes, I wind up having to go back and trim bios, sometimes heavily, to get them to fit in the limited space that the game gives you for your bio. Some of them require ruthless pruning to get to fit, like this one:

 

…
Калибрование…
Один…
Два…
Три…
Базовые системы онлайн.
Чек памяти… Переданный.
Кодовые модули… Нагруженный.
Просмотр окружающей среды…
Угрозы: Ноль.
Эксплуатационный БРИГАДИР.

 

A crate buried in the depths of a dusty, forgotten warehouse is a lonely thing to wake up in. Even when you're a robot. БРИГАДИР ('Taskmaster') was the prototype for a robotic officer, the director for a squad — or a platoon or company — of robotic infantrymen. But the Soviet researchers had built better than they knew. The Ministry of Defense wanted a soulless combat manager that would direct equally-soulless shock troops into frontal assaults with no consideration for casualties; what they got was a cybernetic Napoleon critiquing the tactical failings of the officers who tried to order him into action. When he decided the orders he'd gotten were practical, he could carry them out flawlessly. When given orders he decided were ill-conceived, he would as often as not completely disregard those orders and undertake a different objective, or at best disregard the battle plan he was given and implement his own. Finally, it was decided the problem was fundamental to БРИГАДИР's design, and he was deactivated, crated up, stuck in a warehouse, and forgotten... where he was lost for more than a decade, until, during an earthquake, an automatic threat sensor restarted his systems.

 

Edited March 8, 2020 by srmalloy

[WanderingAries]

6 hours ago, srmalloy said:

With the fact that Unicode characters take up two bytes, I wind up having to go back and trim bios, sometimes heavily, to get them to fit in the limited space that the game gives you for your bio. Some of them require ruthless pruning to get to fit, like this one...

Huh, never thought about UNI taking more bytes, but the 1000 char limit can be a bit more limiting than the character name. Kinda wish that gave more options. Maybe like an ID style that covered some things and a separate bio screen.