I'm one of the folks who can spend an hour creating a character between costume and archetype and power pools.
Being an alt-a-holic, while my main server is Justice (Pressure, Pretorian, Puma, Pugilist, Powderkeg, Protactinium, Petrify) I have other servers where I establish a theme. Sometimes by archetype, power pools, nationality, etc. Basically, whatever will work to give a jumpstart to character creation ideas.
When I sit down to make the character, I write out the bio, make any modifications to outfit or powers as required, and see if the name I want is available. When it is not, which is often, of course, I look to translate the name into Spanish, Latin, German, etc. that gives me the name I want without resorting to x, _, ., etc.
Personally I will not play a character without a bio, because even though I do not role play, I'm still making a character to enjoy.
As a result, if you start a character on the Justice server, you can find my main, Pugilist, dropping by to hand out influence to lvl 10 and below if they have a decent bio. Normally it's a 10K gift. Exceptional bios get more.
It's putting my influence were by bias is.
