Character Bio limit

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I don't usually like to complain & I know some people wont really care but...

500 characters including spaces for a bio.. what is the point?
It's virtually impossible to create a background for your character that has any substance to it with that limit.
The biographies for the Champions characters don't have these limits so why should our characters? For example, Medusa's bio including spaces uses up 3,110 characters. The 'About Medusa' bit uses less than 500 but that section to me seems more like a summery of the longer section than a biography itself.

The average length for their bios seem to be around the 3000 mark which to be seems to be a more reasonable amount... Is there any chance of our limit moving toward this?

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The bio length is way too short. Even CoH allows 1024, and thats hard enough to do! I understand that there may be constraints for one reason or another, but 500 characters? Champions Online allows for rich and diverse character creation but to cut the bio short, is really missing the boat. Creating the backstory for your character is just as important as creating the visual component. As for a suggestion, how about at least doubling the amount CoH gives?

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Wow, its even shorter then CoH's? I had trouble with theirs!

Sadly I havnt even gotten around to adding mine :(.

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I had the same issue. Made a character, went to type up a quick bio for him and BAM, ran outta space and wasn't even halfway through. Way to short... I agree, 1000 characters minimum.

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I totally and completely agree!! The character limit on CO is just way too short. Bio's really help me get fired up about the characters I play. I need more room!!

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Saw another post about this yesterday saying the same thing. I had to cut a lot of words out of my bio unfortunately.

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Already posted about this on the suggestions forum. But have to agree 500 chars is way to small

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Agreed, please increase the limit substantially.

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/signed...

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Yeah I was saying the same thing yesterday ah well just have to suck it up. I'll probably post my full bio in the blog portion. I mean it's a really neat interface that they've built in to the game but it'd be nice if I could add more but the blog is neat and the character images are cool.

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Fully in agreement.
More space is needed.

Either that or let us cut loose on the webpage side of things and direct people from the abridged version to the complete at their leisure, interest permitting.

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The bio length is way too short. Even CoH allows 1024, and thats hard enough to do! I understand that there may be constraints for one reason or another, but 500 characters? Champions Online allows for rich and diverse character creation but to cut the bio short, is really missing the boat. Creating the backstory for your character is just as important as creating the visual component. As for a suggestion, how about at least doubling the amount CoH gives?

Quoted for great truth!

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Let's see, some quick and loose math (not totally accurate, but close enough)

1 character = 1 byte.

CO Bios basically 512 bytes

Assuming 100k subscribers, also asuming all of these subscribers use half their slots, and fill their Bios.

512 bytes x 4 Character Slots x 100k Subs = 204800000 bytes = 204800 KBytes = 204 MBytes.

All that is rough math, obviously not exact, however do you think that 100k subscibers could pay for that much storage space? Considering you can get a TByte HD for around $100, that would be room for roughly 4000 times as many bios. Or same number of bios, only 4000 times larger.

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But if they let everyone write really long bios, then they wouldn't have room to make >1200 pixel item descriptions.

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Here are some samples (http://www.rinkworks.com/movieaminute/) of brevity.

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I have mine all typed up in word at the moment. Guess I'm going to have to cut about 90% of it out. ugh.

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My guess for the horrifying shortness of the bio space is to try to nudge people toward the social features they have included for each character on your account screen where you can create blogs for them etc... and so you can flesh out whatever you like there. I think this is probably the reason that they also do not have a forums section for character histories etc which would also kinda rock. I think they are just pushing the social aspects more to get people involved in that way. Which in a way... is a really nice upgrade to usual MMO systems and encourages you to get more in depth with your character for those of us that love roleplay and really create detailed and rich lives for the Champions.

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Too short! 500 bytes? 2048 should be minimum!!