Thought I'd post the following here, and not in the Main section of these forums as I'd like to hear your opinion on it.
Now, I consider myself a roleplayer of sorts. Meaning I don't stick to my chosen character at all times and happily drop in and out of character as I please. What I like most about RPing is writing an elaborate background story for my characters. Adding layer upon layer to make them into believable beings in their own right. These backgrounds count numerous pages, 10 pages is a good start but nowhere near finished in most cases.
So, last night I got a request from one of my fellow superheroes to finally put the background for one of my heroes in his ID...and I did. A few seconds later I get told that there's a big chunk missing, probably because there's some sort of limit on the number of words/signs.
Not sure what the limit is, but it appear to be 850 signs (exc. spaces).
I'm at a loss here. It's gonna be hard condensing sevral pages into maybe 10-15 lines of text and still have enough depth and explenation in there about the character.
How to resolve this? Two solutions pop up, one good one bad. The bad one, in my opinion, would be to just upload the full story to some forum and give people a link to it in my ID. A better solution would be to expand the number of signs to something a little more reasonable, say 10.000.
Not sure if that last option is really an option, I'm no techy when it comes to these things, but would it matter if people had 10.000 signs in their desciption? does it effect the servers at all and with that performance?
Basically I'm asking how you all went about dealing with this.