Someone in their infinite wisdom decided to release a issue with full of bugs. The thread is here on what is going on.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=277960
Thanks, but this character description issue is something that has been plaguing me for years.
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This HAS been going on for years -- even before this new patch, even before the i21: Freedom revamp of the Character ID screen. |
Originally Posted by Nelviego
In writing my character descriptions, the type cursor will occasionally disappear and it'll stop typing. When I go back to manually set the cursor and begin typing again, it'll start typing in the wrong part of my description.
Likewise when I go to delete something from my description -- wrong portions are affected. And any sort of edit seems to take up far more than its share of character-description length (max of 1024 characters). Even a minor edit can chew up as much as 25 characters, and long descriptions can easily overshoot that limit and end up getting cut off in-game. I've had descriptions with less than 900 actual characters go over the limit and get cut short due to this. Is there any sort of method; something I can do differently about writing --and editing -- my descriptions to avoid these apparent glitches? Thank you. |
The only thing I've found (so far) that works and lets me get my (often long) bios to work is to open MS Notepad* and toggle back and forth, copying and pasting and editing that way.
If you paste 1024 characters from Notepad into a totally blank, ID screen they'll show up as 1024 characters, but because of how Notepad doesn't use formatting, you'll have no paragraphs in the ID screen -- just a wall of text.
So, I usually try to write the bio in CoH, copy/paste the finished (and undoubtedly truncated) "Character Info" window over to Notepad to finagle things down to 1000 characters or so, paste it back into CoH and then add paragraph breaks, each of which properly show as 2 characters in the total count [ie. "enter, enter"] and get a revised character count.
But yes, it's a total PITA: type in ID screen as if it's actually going to work correctly, hit "Next", view truncated bio, select all, copy, delete EVERYTHING from ID screen to get it back to 0/1024, paste into Notepad, edit in Notepad, edit/select all, paste into ID screen, hit "Next", back and forth ad infinitum until you get it right.
But the good news is, it DOES work. Still, if there's a better way out there, I'd love to hear it!
*Edit: Because of technical computer stuff that's mostly over my head, only Notepad or similar minimalist word processing programs work well for this. MS Word, OpenOffice Writer, and the like have formatting codes that can (or at least used to) count as typed characters, thus interfering with the character count.
"But it wasn't anything some purples and oranges and lots of screaming in fear couldn't handle." -- Werner
30 level 50's: 12 scrappers, 7 other random melee types, 11 blaster/blapper/support squishies, two accounts, and a TON of altitis since 4/28/04
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Pretty sure it's been an issue for at least 7 and a half years. i generally type up bios in a notepad-style program and then paste into the description box.
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Originally Posted by Nelviego
Thanks, but this character description issue is something that has been plaguing me for years.
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I thought that it worked right for a while at the start, and THEN broke. I seem to recall it breaking about the time I actually started using the forums, so I'll guess and say "Issue 4." |
Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Pretty sure it's been an issue for at least 7 and a half years. i generally type up bios in a notepad-style program and then paste into the description box.
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(Paragon Wiki should have another timeline to go along with the "Issues" one for "When Things Broke."
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"But it wasn't anything some purples and oranges and lots of screaming in fear couldn't handle." -- Werner
30 level 50's: 12 scrappers, 7 other random melee types, 11 blaster/blapper/support squishies, two accounts, and a TON of altitis since 4/28/04
In writing my character descriptions, the type cursor will occasionally disappear and it'll stop typing. When I go back to manually set the cursor and begin typing again, it'll start typing in the wrong part of my description.
Likewise when I go to delete something from my description -- wrong portions are affected.
And any sort of edit seems to take up far more than its share of character-description length (max of 1024 characters). Even a minor edit can chew up as much as 25 characters, and long descriptions can easily overshoot that limit and end up getting cut off in-game. I've had descriptions with less than 900 actual characters go over the limit and get cut short due to this.
Is there any sort of method; something I can do differently about writing --and editing -- my descriptions to avoid these apparent glitches?
Thank you.