Character Description.

[DJThunder]

Good Day, Fellow Heroes/Villains! 

 

   I was wondering and hoping, if one day soon, if it would be possible to make the number of characters one can type for their Character's Bio/Description longer? Maybe 3,000 characters or so? 

 

  I enjoy creating awesome character descriptions and the current amount is a bit lacking. Keep up the awesome work! 😎

[Glacier Peak]

48 minutes ago, DJThunder said:

Good Day, Fellow Heroes/Villains! 

 

   I was wondering and hoping, if one day soon, if it would be possible to make the number of characters one can type for their Character's Bio/Description longer? Maybe 3,000 characters or so? 

 

  I enjoy creating awesome character descriptions and the current amount is a bit lacking. Keep up the awesome work! 😎

I'm all for it, but I'm pretty sure it's an engine limitation - the character limit can only go so high. 

 

Then again, I may be misremembering... alternatively a player could drop a link in their Player Description that takes them to their forum account, which they could use to write about said character in greater detail. 

[Greycat]

I wouldn't mind, but I'd really want the editor fixed first.

[Rudra]

36 minutes ago, Greycat said:

I wouldn't mind, but I'd really want the editor fixed first.

Yes, please. The extra characters required for basic characters in the bio window really eats up available bio space.

[Clave Dark 5]

I already find about half of the ones I see too long for my tastes, but I'll support the idea for those who want it.  I don't have to read them if I don't want to, right?

[srmalloy]

8 hours ago, Rudra said:

Yes, please. The extra characters required for basic characters in the bio window really eats up available bio space.

Yes, well, try creating a bio that makes extensive use of non-ASCII characters. CoH supports Unicode, but at a cost -- for example, including the name "Институт Эволюционной Физиологии и Биохимии им. И.М. Сеченова" ('I.M. Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry') takes up 114 characters in a bio, even though it's only 62 letters, because each Unicode character is 16 bits wide, taking up two 'characters' of the bio space.

[Rudra]

No thanks. I'd rather there was a method of incorporating all characters for a bio without having to use multiple character slots for each one. (Edit: Like each character slot being able to hold/process a 16 bit wide string. Any shorter characters would fill the same space as the 16-bit by filling the rest of the space with nulls.)

Edited September 25, 2022 by Rudra

[colid29315]

On 9/25/2022 at 9:49 AM, Greycat said:

I wouldn't mind, but I'd really want the editor fixed first.Delta Executor

 Thats the right thing

[Player2]

Dear creative players:

 

I do not want to read the novel of your character's biography.  Description means describe your hero, maybe some background info if you think it's relevant.  If you simply must inform everyone of the whole life story of your character, why not try the FBSA Wiki which also allows you to include screenshots and other art, and categorize as you see fit.

 

https://fbsa.homecoming.wiki/wiki/Main_Page