Forum:Biobox

We need a new system. It obviously isn't working when people don't understand what the categories mean.

Point in case:

Faction -- often information is inserted about IC associations rather than game mechanics with only two possible answers. Alignment -- often taken as affiliation, again, rather than the D&D system. If people don't like it, it can and should be left blank.

Someone around here has made a new box which I need to check, but because the Template:Biobox is crucial to our categorization system, others should know about the problem.

While the biobox has a Game section and a Statistics section, it obviously isn't enough for people to comprehend IC/OOC differences. I guess what we need are sections labeled IC and OOC. Does that mean repeating information? Yes. Is it less efficient? Yes, but necessary. K.I.S.S. is not working.

So, it would look more like this:

OOC Stats IC Stats
 * In-game name:
 * Faction:
 * Race:
 * Sex:
 * Class:
 * Guild:
 * Professions:
 * Full name:
 * Nicknames:
 * Title:
 * Race: (half breeds and what-have-you can expound here)
 * Gender: (if deemed important enough that some people might play transgenders? I've never seen a case.)
 * Age
 * Height
 * Build
 * Hair
 * Eyes
 * Skin
 * Occupations: (I suppose 'multi-class' PCs could expound here, along with non-gameplay jobs)
 * Affiliations: (Guild or in-game factions other than the main two)
 * Alignment: (D&D)

IC Stats except alignment (if deemed important enough) would NOT be categorized, logically, because there are too many independent affiliations and unique facts to deal with.

Believe me, if I knew how to make a template with all the right wiki code, I'd just DO it. This wiki is too small to have well-rounded postulation...

--Nerit 00:16, 4 March 2009 (UTC)