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Sister Psyche's bio is too long! :P

Ankha_Spice

By Ankha_Spice,
Posted on: 2009-05-05 13:52 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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Today after the patch, I got dinged with 2 errors, making my story unplayable. Sister Psyche and Ghost Widow's existing bios exceed the character limit. So I deleted them, and it runs now.

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http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....=1#Post13429389

Posted about this error. No one seems to be replying to it. But it's going to make many arcs now unplayable.

It's also ridiculous that they made a 300 character limit to character descriptions when some of their characters By default are longer then that.

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We've seen the reports and are looking into it.

 

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As to the problem you linked, this workaround is from Netminder in another thread.

"New Bug: When editting an arc, the MA editor is inserting "default" text into the description for hostages causing the arc to show errors (over size limit, only 300 characters permitted/Invalid HTML etc).
Workaround: Just delete the text and re-publish, but everytime you edit the arc, you will have to do this.
Workwround: Use a custom critter as a hostage instead of one of the provided ones (with a small description). "

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Add Numina to that list too. Had the same problem with her.

 

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What about the fact that we can't put spaces in our bios now...and if we edit our existing ones...then the spaces are all removed...leaving a virtual wall of text.

 

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http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....=1#Post13429389

Posted about this error. No one seems to be replying to it. But it's going to make many arcs now unplayable.

It's also ridiculous that they made a 300 character limit to character descriptions when some of their characters By default are longer then that.

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We've seen the reports and are looking into it.

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Ran into this problem with Numina and Ghost Widow as well.

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I ran into this with a "Pledged of Steel" from the Legacy Chain.

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Most normal NPCs, let's leave it at that.

Quantum PPDs, some Arachnos... tons of normal folks. Just raise the cap back up, ya goofs!

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In general,

Bios and the Bio interface in the game is more screwed up lately than they used to be (I still remember back in i3 when you used to lose a character or so a day off the end of your bio if it was within 10-14 characters of the maximum size, and one that went on for a week or two, and it removed a character each day, it stopped. You had to re-add the missing ones every so often).

It'd be nice to see the bio interface re-done (both for our characrters and for MA).

and yeah, spaces and blank lines in bios right now, if you edit one, it'll break your bio, and turn it into a massive wall of text, even just entering the ID screen can do it. Has me using Personal Info to check stuff, and the recipe screen to see how much Inf I have...

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Add Nocturne to the list of creatures with too long text. As well as Ally's in addition to Hostages (I was trying to use Nocturne as an Ally and got this error).

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Pretty sure this was done on purpose to keep people from using the high level toons to set mission difficulty on their AE.

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That doesn't really make sense. It would be much easier to remove the mobs from the MA if the Devs really didn't want them used. And since it hits pretty much most of the already created characters in the game, right down to Penolope Yin, it is hardly something that is limited to high level mobs.

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Yeah GW has the same problem.

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It's nice to know the problem has taken notice. I was quite disheartened because the current arc that I've written features some signature heroes and villians... It made mostly all my missions unplayable.

I don't want to change their Bios because I think it would detract from the overall storyline. In anycase... I hope the developers find a solution to the problem.

 

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Oh I thought you could still use the Default text but I suppose you can't.

Well until they fix this, my stories are going to be shelved until they do. So do me a favor and get rid of this bug please. (( or just but the allowed character limit back to the way it was. ))