.Foresight wrote:

In CoX we had a biography section to give a background of our character to help others understand our character concept, our origin story.

Will there be anything like that in this game? It's not going to be a major selling point, so I'll manage just fine without it but it was definitely a feature I spent a ton of time using in CoX to explain my heroes and villains.

I was a major alt-aholic for a long time and telling a character's story was a major appeal for me, and often received good feedback from players that read them so there were definitely others that paid attention to it. A good or bad character concept was often enough to make or break interest in a character for me. Eventually I did overcome my alt addiction and settled on a few mains (some heroes, some villains) that I loved.

I definitely don't plan on recreating my old mains since their time has come and gone, but I certainly wouldn't mind some spin-off stories if the biography feature is available. :P

IIRC, I'm about 99% sure I remember some Dev mentioning that they intend to have some kind of "bio" section for characters in CoT. Hopefully it'll be a little more "user friendly" than CoH's because the way the GUI worked for that was horrible. It made something like MS Notepad look like the best text editor ever made. I ended up typing my bios outside of the game and just cut-n-pasting my finished text into the game.

Another personal pet-peeve I had in CoH was that the bio section only allowed for 1,024 characters max. I understand the need to keep that space relatively limited because you really don't want people writing full-length novels in that space. On the other hand I could count at least 4 or 5 times where my "initial rough draft" of a character bio literally ended up being like 1,100 characters and I'd have to spend a bunch of extra time just to wordsmith what I wanted to say down to below the 1,024 limit. It was a P.I.T.A. that really didn't need to be a "thing" in a game like this.

Thus I've been suggesting the Devs of CoT give us 2,048 characters for our bios. I know that -any- limit is likely going to piss off somebody because you can never please everyone all of the time. But since a 2,048 character limit would work well enough for me I figured I might as well suggest it for everyone. ;)

P.S. Just to give you a visual feel for what I'm talking about with the character limits the total number of characters I typed in my response above was 1,321. Allowing for 2,048 characters (or even a nice round 2,000) would not really be overly excessive in the least.