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Originally Posted by Inferno_Fusion
I would like to post a suggestion/idea for the Devs on this.
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In my experience, going back to well before CoH existed, long bio spaces are a terrible idea. If you'd like, I can enumerate various instances where long bios have belonged to some of the most awesomely bad roleplayers I've ever met, but I'd rather not. The only long bios I've ever read which were worth reading were parodies of the lousy ones written by other people.
Roleplaying is about talking to people and finding things out about their characters by interaction. If I can pull up a screen of information about your character which tells me everything I need to know, what's the point in talking to you? Having your character's life story written up there is an ego trip, not a roleplay aid.
The other major abuse of large bios is for power-gaming. The bio is usually a long list of the fake powers someone has and the outlandish justification for them. That's not roleplay either.
The bio we have is long enough for a good physical description. If you want something longer, put it on a web page and put the link in your bio.
Finally, this game has gone for about 6 years with the bio length it has. Increasing it has been suggested so many times it's untrue. WoW still has no official character bio data. It's really not that popular an idea, and it sure isn't as popular as you think with those who roleplay.
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Everything Ravenswing said, plus the fact that roleplaying means stories. In story terms, your bio is expository material, and there are only two types of story that put a whole clump of expository material together like that: old ones and bad ones.
Ideally, exposition should be woven into the stories, not set apart like some chore everyone else has to undertake before getting into the story proper. I haven't roleplayed much in CoH (yet), but I have roleplayed extensively in games that didn't even have bios/descriptions, and were no worse off for it.
I don't see why we couldn't have more space? If you don't want it then don't use it *gasp* Just because you think it's unnessesary shouldn't be a reason for other people not to benefit from it
In the beginning the universe was created, this upset many people and is widely regarded as a bad idea.
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Correct. Equally, there's no reason to increase it when there are far better ways to use resources and far better places to put a long bio.
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Originally Posted by Garjzla
I don't see why we couldn't have more space? If you don't want it then don't use it *gasp* Just because you think it's unnessesary shouldn't be a reason for other people not to benefit from it
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That is a fair point, but I can predict with a reasonable degree of certainty what would happen: people would spend ages writing incredibly long bios that no-one but the author would then bother to read, and where's the point in that?|
Originally Posted by Garjzla
I don't see why we couldn't have more space? If you don't want it then don't use it *gasp* Just because you think it's unnessesary shouldn't be a reason for other people not to benefit from it
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Furthermore, that might have a knock-on effect that people would eventually stop bothering to read anyone's descriptions. That's not certain, but it's one potential reason that "just not using it" might not be an option.
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Originally Posted by Miss_Cataclysm
That is a fair point, but I can predict with a reasonable degree of certainty what would happen: people would spend ages writing incredibly long bios that no-one but the author would then bother to read, and where's the point in that?
Furthermore, that might have a knock-on effect that people would eventually stop bothering to read anyone's descriptions. That's not certain, but it's one potential reason that "just not using it" might not be an option. |
Besides I think bios (or other things) that go into more detail would be more fun to read even if they are long
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Then you clearly didn't bother to read what I wrote.|
Originally Posted by Garjzla
There are more things you can do with more space than write bios
Besides I think bios (or other things) that go into more detail would be more fun to read even if they are long |
With the exception of a few bios which are generally spoofs of the kind of long bios you are talking about, the vast majority of long bios are:
* badly written
* badly spelled
* written by someone who's first language isn't yours, but they wrote it in yours anyway.
* and finally, entirely anathema to any form of good roleplay (or even bad roleplay half the time).
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You are mistaken I did read I just thought that most people would be able to ignore bad posts since, amazingly, they are already present. Increasing the bio space would just make them a bit longer.
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Originally Posted by Ravenswing
Then you clearly didn't bother to read what I wrote.
With the exception of a few bios which are generally spoofs of the kind of long bios you are talking about, the vast majority of long bios are: * badly written * badly spelled * written by someone who's first language isn't yours, but they wrote it in yours anyway. * and finally, entirely anathema to any form of good roleplay (or even bad roleplay half the time). |
In the beginning the universe was created, this upset many people and is widely regarded as a bad idea.
Dont hate the minty freshness
I would like to post a suggestion/idea for the Devs on this. The one thing i wouldn't mind seeing and any Role players can back me up on this is the re increase of the bios instead of having only 1034 letters aloud that's like maybe 2 and a half paragraphs or so. Maybe if you don't mind for those that are Role Players and those who would like to have a great bio for some of there best toons to increase the bio space to maybe 9999 or maybe infinity cuz every hero also has a bio behind them and im not just saying it for me. I'd would like to see that for all players Pvpers,RPs, and the PvErs as well. So can a dev respond to the this post thank you.
~Inferno Fusion~