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Suggestion: longer bio's

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
I am one of those people who like to read other people's BIOs when hanging around ESD and who enjoy writing their own bio's.

Apart from the cases such as "I AM COMMANDER SHEPHERD", "Graduated in 2408, gone to fight the borg laters", "I AM SON OF CAPTIN PIKARD AND I AM DE BEST CAPTIN IN GALAXI" (yup, saw it like this with caps and typos) and "PWNZORING ALIEN KILLING KLINGONS", some of them were actually really interesting.

Therefore, if it's not too much of a problem, I'd like to ask the Devs, if they could add a few more lines to the BIO section, so it can be longer (well, the more the better really). I'd like to write more about my captain and his officers.

Thank you.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Read my main one. =].

    But yes I agree. I'm running out of room on my main character.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I'd like richer bios, although not everyone would want to spend the time on it I suppose. I have a sort of a backstory in my head for my guy, and I'd like it if I could tell that story more effectively in the bio.

    Options allowing for creativity would float my boat personally. Let's get nerdy with this and allow us to use images, sound files, that sort of thing.

    I know not everyone would have the tools or the time to really put something cool together, but there would doubtless be some talented people out there who could create something we could all enjoy and further enrich the STO experience just by feeling like the other ships we fly past every day have real people in them. If it was done well I'd happily spend an hour taking in someone's story.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I'd like richer bios, although not everyone would want to spend the time on it I suppose. I have a sort of a backstory in my head for my guy, and I'd like it if I could tell that story more effectively in the bio.

    Options allowing for creativity would float my boat personally. Let's get nerdy with this and allow us to use images, sound files, that sort of thing.

    I know not everyone would have the tools or the time to really put something cool together, but there would doubtless be some talented people out there who could create something we could all enjoy and further enrich the STO experience just by feeling like the other ships we fly past every day have real people in them. If it was done well I'd happily spend an hour taking in someone's story.

    Well you answered yourself: complete overhaul would take too much time for too few people (because unfortunately, there are many many more that don't bother with this than those who do), but adding a few lines of text is most likely simply changing one variable in the game.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I hear you, but I'm just saying what I would like to see rather than asking for it to appear in the next update.

    A lot of people won't bother making Foundry missions either, or if they do there'll probably be a lot of poor ones for every good one. But IMHO the more options there are for players to add some sort of content to a game like this, the richer the whole thing has the potential to become.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I'd love to write bio's for my char's ( I've hit the limit most of them)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Made this request ages ago and kinda fell on deaf ears, no change there. I'd love to expand my bios if I could.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I would not mind bios being longer if possible. When the game came out my first bio was longer than the character cut off and I had to edit it many times to even get it to sound moderately right.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I would like longer bios, at least for my alt that's based on the captain from a fanfic I made.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I'd like to second this, I've found myself running out of room by the time my career hits Lt. Commander.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Feels like 80% of the people who's (i) I click on, haven't bothered even filling out a bio. I would like to see this too, but it is a seldom used component within STO sadly.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I would like to see the bios about twice as long as they are now. I tried to write a bio for my main char, and ran out of room and just couldn't find a way to shorten it enough without completely losing his story. I think his bio is now "The biography is too small to write a meaningful biography" or something like that. I would love to go back sometime and type the whole thing out, hopefully we will get some more space.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Even fifty more characters would be nice. There's a sentence important for my character's backstory that I left out for censorship, I mean, character count reasons.

    And I'd like strikethrough BBCode on the forums to redact things I and others say.

    And mango ice cream.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Bumpity bump. Longer BIO would be nice, today I did read some guy's wonderful backstory, which was obviously cut short due to the BIO limits.
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