Feedback on Bio Tool

[Sanvean]

If you don't know what I'm talking about, see http://www.zalanthas.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=27632

[Kennath]

I just read through my chars and realized I only have only two non-human and two magickers. Anyone else get any awesome realizations?

-Ken

[Agent_137]

Anyone else get any awesome realizations?

-Ken

most of my chars were made before bios existed, and thus don't have entries.


i also realize how badly i want to be able to add more entries to each of my old chars.


and how excited i am to be nearing that possibility.

[Mudder]

I have a question. On some of them it has things written out to the left. What is that?

[Manhattan]

1. how are these ordered...certainly not alphabetically or by date...

2. how come there's only a select few pc's on here?

[Belenos]

I have a question. On some of them it has things written out to the left. What is that?

The stuff on the left is your character name.  From looking at the logs something is odd with your account. Ignore the odd entry. I will find out what it is.

[Belenos]

1. how are these ordered...certainly not alphabetically or by date...

2. how come there's only a select few pc's on here?

1.   The ordering is how it parses.  I didn't make any attempt to do any sorting of the entries.  I may later.

2.  You will only see entries from after the time that the biography command was implemented.  Entries before that time do not have the needed XML formatted files.

[Folker]

Doesnt look to be possible to get back to the character index once you've opened one of the bios. Clicking 'back' would 'eventually' get you back to login page.

[Fathi]

Doesnt look to be possible to get back to the character index once you've opened one of the bios. Clicking 'back' would 'eventually' get you back to login page.

Odd. It works fine for me.

[Yokunama]

Doesnt look to be possible to get back to the character index once you've opened one of the bios. Clicking 'back' would 'eventually' get you back to login page.

Odd. It works fine for me.

Works for me too.

[Mood]

Doesnt look to be possible to get back to the character index once you've opened one of the bios. Clicking 'back' would 'eventually' get you back to login page.

Odd. It works fine for me.

Works for me too.

Same.

[LauraMars]

This is really, really kickass.

One thing I'd like to see is some structured ordering of the characters in the list.  For someone with a lot of characters, it is confusing to have everyone you've ever played splashed randomly on the page.  So it would be nice to have some kind of organized system.

Is there some kind of limit as to how many characters can be displayed, or does the tool just grab whomever has been around since the bio tool was introduced?  My earliest characters are not displayed, but I think some characters are on the list who never had the advantage of the bio tool, though I could be wrong.

[edit - woops, the above question was answered earlier in the thread, sorry, please disregard.]

Do you have any plans for making the tool display other things specific to each character?  Keywords, clans, or stats, for instance?

[Ammit]

Doesnt look to be possible to get back to the character index once you've opened one of the bios. Clicking 'back' would 'eventually' get you back to login page.

I had the same problem under Internet Explorer 6.0. Problem doesn't exist under IE 7.0, Firefox 2.0 or Safari 3.0 for Windows.

If your having the problem under IE 6.0 I'd recommend upgrading or downloading an alternate browser. Or if you're at work, avoiding using the tool

Alternatively a work around I discovered is to hit back once, then refresh.

[Yang]

I justed used this tool to recover something that I thought I had lost for good, which turned out to be in one of the bios. Aside from satiating my curiosity, it actually turned out to be very useful...I can't thank the staff enough for this tool.

[Cuusardo]

When I'm looking at a bio and I hit the back button to get back to the list of my PCs, it goes back to that bio I was reading, and then when I hit it again, it goes back to the login.  Also, all of my characters aren't listed there.

Other than that, it's great.

[a strange shadow]

My only complaint is that I wish I'd taken more time to write bios for my old favorite character.

The ones I could read (and thought I'd lost) were such a welcome blast from the past.

[Sanvean]

Cuusardo:

2. You will only see entries from after the time that the biography command was implemented. Entries before that time do not have the needed XML formatted files.

Is that possibly why you're not seeing all of them?

[Belenos]

I addressed a couple of concerns.  The entries now sort alphabetically, and there are some more navigational links.

[Maso]

I want it in chronological order not alphebetical!!

Or so you can change it?  :oops:

I wish it recorded more information too. Like when the character was created, when they died, how many hours played etc.

[Bebop]

I would like to have the option to put these in chronological order but I LOVE THIS.

[Malifaxis]

Belenos, if I didn't know you were frighteningly well hung, I would offer to bear your children.

This is the Awesome of the Year.

[Belenos]

The people you should be thanking are the folks that wrote the biography command.  Writing a viewer is not all that hard.  Without their work this wouldn't be possible.

[Rhyden]

Fucking awesome.

Well done, all involved in creating this.

[Fnord]

As someone who has gotten into bios with the past few characters, I'm really enjoying the shit out of this. Thanks so much for developing it.

[Aruven]

Yeah this is great stuff, major props.