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[Casiella]

What do you like to see in other pilots' IG bios? What do you like to include in yours?

Some folks go for the "dossier" approach, listing some basic data. Others use it as sort of a scratch pad: quotes, maybe some ASCII art, etc. Still others keep it blank or maybe just list some OOC contact data.

So from a RP perspective, what do you like, and why?

[Silver Night]

I like to set out what people would likely see, should they run into a character. Basic physical description mostly. Sometimes only a line or so.

[Akikio L]

Even though it may seem a bit dry I like the dossier type. I mean when you check the pilot you are using the CONCORD operated information system, what is more likely than getting CONCORD's public record for the pilot?  

[Mizhara]

I am fond of using it is a physical description, with some mannerisms and so on. I've got a notepad with a couple of outfits written down in them, and will copypaste those into the bio when they wear something different than usual.

[Milo Caman]

Tend to use in a short Dossier, as well as a Link to my blog.
Occasionally, I chuck something that's popped into my head at the bottom of it all as well. (At the Mo' It's "Training Cat Herding to 5")

[Myrhial Arkenath]

Using the dossier approach also. Not too picky how others use it, although "omg look how much damage I do" log lines do make me cringe 

[Natalcya Katla]

I like bios which rhyme.

[Mizhara]

On the subject of bios... how much do you feel is IC available? How 'silly' does it have to be before you don't use it as In-Character knowledge?

[Ghost Hunter]

Using the dossier approach also. Not too picky how others use it, although "omg look how much damage I do" log lines do make me cringe 

2010.05.10 Notify Combat Your Crappy Damage Log strikes Myrhial Arkenath, causing her to cringe

Anyway,

I like bios that cater to my needs of understanding the character.

Failing that, quote bios are always fun to read.

[Kaleigh Doyle]

My only rule is to never make a bio with information that I don't want others to have knowledge of.

[Casiella]

I'm mostly asking because I feel a strong need to redo mine, which sort of sucks right now.

[Lillith Blackheart]

I like mine to be empty.

If people want to know they can ask.

[Mizhara]

I like mine to be empty.

If people want to know they can ask.

Hmm. Interesting approach. Personally I find characters with empty bio's not to rouse enough interest for me to bother asking them. If I see something in the bio that raises interest... well, much greater chance that they'll be approached for some reason or another.

[Lillith Blackheart]

I tend to initiate conversation if I am in the mood to do so, so being approached is not generally a concern of mine. Then again I came from venues where the bios were so horrendously limited that people generally didn't bother to use them. So the people who never had anyone to interact with were those who never interacted with people.

I also will never /sip for attention or to keep the appearance of motion in the room. Which is a surefire way to get noticed in a negative aspect.

Keeping the bio empty then causes people who I opt to interact with (or react when I act, if you will) to actually go through the whole "getting to know a person" bit, since it's not all spelled out in their bio.

[Hamish Grayson]

I view the bios as an IC myspace or facebook type thing.