Alternate bios & ID card overhaul

This has been suggested before, mainly in conjunction with costume slots, but I think now is the perfect time for us to have alternate bios for our characters. Not tied to costume slots, but tied to alignment. Four bios, one each for hero, vigilante, rogue, and villain. Por ejemplo:

Hero: "Mr. X was just an ordinary guy when he got superpowers. Now he uses his amazing abilities to protect Paragon City!"

Vigilante: "Fed up with the institutionalized system of 'good' in Paragon, Mr. X began taking matters into his own hands. He still stops the bad guys, but sometimes goes farther than he should."

Villain: "Mr. X now actively works against the forces of Longbow and for the glory of Arachnos!"

Rogue: "Mr. X is still a pretty mean dude but even he draws a line somewhere."

Naturally, only one bio would display at a time. Doing this would probably require a change to the ID card UI that is used to edit your bio, which brings me to my next point...

It's old. Extremely old. It hasn't changed at all since at least I4 (when I started playing) and I'm guessing probably not very much if at all before then. I don't know about you, but my high-level characters have most of their powers pushed off the list by veteran and booster powers which for some reason are added to the list of every character on my account. The fact that the bio editor as it stands is clunky and buggy goes without saying.

*It doesn't need to change that much, to be honest -- filter out garbage like the Sands of Mu and the Prestige Sprints from the power list, and toss it into a panel with a scrollbar so you can actually read the whole list.
*A few more characters for battle cry...please?
*Maybe need to be able to switch between alternate bios. Only the bio for your current alignment would be visible under /info, but I think it would probably be preferable to be able to edit all 4 regardless of what your current alignment is.

And that's it, really. A minor visual redesign might not be bad either, putting it more in line with newer interfaces and environments.

/signed

Ultimately, this is nothing one can't do with a simple copy & paste, unless one plans on changing alignment extremely frequently (within the confines of the system). Personally, I think the idea of having a bio related to costumes (hero w/ secret identity) makes more sense, but that's just my personal opinion.

Ironically I would not want to "cut-n-paste" because I still have some old bios that have some legacy Unicode in them.
If I ever change them I'll finally lose that Unicode.

would fit into the whole rogue /vigi theme aswell using different identity cards to acsess different places like a spy!

/signed

[QUOTE=Lothic;3144536]Part of the supposed reason why the Devs never wanted to increase our bio text space never had anything to do with pure disk space. The problem was that they had to worry about network download speeds. Basically every time you get close to another character in game the game has to download all the info for that character so that you can access it, including bio text./QUOTE]

How's that jibe with the "loading description..." text that shows up whenever you open someone's info window, if it was automatically loaded whenever they came close enough?

Also /loadbio and /savebio commands would probably solve the original problem.

An open letter to NCsoft

Overhaul the UI, sure.
Let me click on a line to select something, rather than the god damned cursor doing whatever it god damed wants!
Seriously, text boxes have been narfed since I14 came out. You have to make judicious use of click, re-clicking, scrolling with the arrow keys, swearing cos the damn thing just skipped to the end again, nearly losing your rag when it refuses to enter a new line/backspace, and- you get my drift.

That, and the UI is kinda boring these days. /Signed to that overhaul

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Fix the UI? Are you crazy? Last time they did that, they broke the help channel.

Leave bad enough alone.

An open letter to NCsoft

/Signed...

Oh and if the above is done can we (I want it anyway) please have a command (eg: /change_battlecry) to change the battle cry without having to go into the stupid window.