Asked for before. Given our devs *own* pile of typos and the like, I don't think I'd leave it to them. 
Generally, though, sure, it'd be helpful.
For now, type it up in a word processor or the like, then copy it over.
While I certainly think that a spell-checking device would be useful for many players (I would even say necessary for some), if something is implemented, players would have to have the opportunity to turn it off. My argument for this is that there are players who write accents and intonations into their character biographies. Also, character names aren't necessarily real words. I know that I don't want the game giving me the red squiggly every time I type in a friend's character's name.
Not auto correct just the Red ~ underneath
And of course, this wouldn't avoid the Satin Rouge Angles running around. >.>
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Originally Posted by tfab10
Not auto correct just the Red ~ underneath
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I've said it before, I've said it again, and I will continue saying it until the devs freaking get it:
The in-game description editor needs to be fixed (nay, wholesale replaced) before any another changes are made.
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Oh doesn't it just....just another thing that's been broken since AE came out and never got fixed... >_<
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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
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I like the idea (I may as well type with my knees for as accurate as my spelling are). In the meanwhile, Memphis_Bill has a great suggestion to circumvent the issue, at least until/if spell check gets added!:
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For bios, I do the same premise, but carry through a bit differently--I type it in the in-game bio-description-editor thing and then copy-paste into a word processor and hand-correct any typos. This way the formatting doesn't get messed up as it would if you went from a word processor to the in-game description editor.|
Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
For now, type it up in a word processor or the like, then copy it over.
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Either way'll work, though!
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No, it was broken way before AE came out.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Oh doesn't it just....just another thing that's been broken since AE came out and never got fixed... >_<
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"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
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Really? I remember when they 'fixed' bits of AE the return key functionality and being able to click in the text box were whisked off to some magical other realm...
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
No, it was broken way before AE came out.
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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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NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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I'm almost positive that it's been broken for nearly as long as I've been playing the game (Issue 4/5).
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Really? I remember when they 'fixed' bits of AE the return key functionality and being able to click in the text box were whisked off to some magical other realm...
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"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
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It hasn't been broken since the Architect came out. It was broken at Launch, and it's actually LESS broken now, if you can believe that. At Launch, it was damn near unusable. It'd routinely leave you writing past the end of the box, then randomly shift lines between warping or exiting the box. You'd hit backspace and all of a sudden your cursor would shift 5-10 symbols to the right. You'd realign it, hit backspace and then it'd shift 5-10 symbols to the left. Over and over again. It was borderline unusable. It's just annoying now.|
Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Oh doesn't it just....just another thing that's been broken since AE came out and never got fixed... >_<
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That said, I'd love to have a spell checker in the game, especially for basic chat. I take pride in my command of the language, obviously, but a lot of my eloquence here on the forums comes from Firefox's spell check dictionaries. Without those, I'd be writing full of typos and bad spelling.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
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Meh, I just don't remember the clicking-on issue or the whacky line-break problems before then.
Either way, though, the character-bio box NEEDS a gorramn fix, and it needed it last year.
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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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I agree there -ought- to be an optional spell-checker in the bio editor that can be toggled on and off as needed. But since it's easy enough to type bios offline and then just cut-n-paste them into the game I'd consider the priority on that "fix" to be very low.|
Originally Posted by tfab10
I kinda am bad at typing it would be helpful to have a red lines spell check in bios and chat so I know if I made a mistake. What do you guys think?
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On the other hand I'm willing to say that having a spell-checker in chat would almost not be worth it. Far too many people use reasonable abbreviations and "stylized misspellings" for a checker to be all that useful. It's pretty much accepted that chatting is a quick-n-dirty form of communication and I really don't think anyone is seriously bothered by seeing a few spelling or grammar errors there. Besides most of the time it would take far too much time to backup, correct a highlighted error and then send the chat than it would be to just fire it off and move on. Again I would consider updating the chat for spell checking to be a very low priority issue at best.
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People keep saying that, but this ignores the symbol limitation imposed on the bio window. Word CAN count symbols, yes, but it's inconvenient for tracking them in real time as the bio window does. As someone who's always running into the 1024 symbol limit, that would be a major pain.|
Originally Posted by Lothic
I agree there -ought- to be an optional spell-checker in the bio editor that can be toggled on and off as needed. But since it's easy enough to type bios offline and then just cut-n-paste them into the game I'd consider the priority on that "fix" to be very low.
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Additionally, importing from a text editor removes line breaks because City of Heroes uses <br> tags, instead, so every time I import from outside, I have to fix the line breaks, which requires me to find where I put them.
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On the other hand I'm willing to say that having a spell-checker in chat would almost not be worth it. Far too many people use reasonable abbreviations and "stylized misspellings" for a checker to be all that useful. It's pretty much accepted that chatting is a quick-n-dirty form of communication and I really don't think anyone is seriously bothered by seeing a few spelling or grammar errors there. Besides most of the time it would take far too much time to backup, correct a highlighted error and then send the chat than it would be to just fire it off and move on. Again I would consider updating the chat for spell checking to be a very low priority issue at best.
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I like this suggestion. < . .>b I don't typo a great deal, but there's always a sneaky one, or even a word you thought you knew how to spell which in fact, you've been spelling wrong for awhile ><; <3 how Firefox spellchecks me as I go.
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I kinda am bad at typing it would be helpful to have a red lines spell check in bios and chat so I know if I made a mistake. What do you guys think?