There are several solutions to this...
as it came up, if people want to format things like...
ATTRIBUTE: blabla
STYLE: blabla
...
then I don't see why eye/haircolor is necessary... it can just be in that very same textfield. I can just drop that so you have no 25 chars limit whatsoever.
I understand what you are saying, and if having the 'user definable' attributes creates problems, then I understand that not being a desirable option. I will send you a picture showing my reworked ideas - which I would have no problem doing . . . if only I could make sense of the bio.php file (I have stagnated).
As said about the size: I can go up with it and it won't really hit the server performance hard, but if you have *huge* text on each bio, most people will skip the reading part.
My suggestion is to drop the individual stats( hair/eyes) and make one big text field.
Now only the size is the question.
I have two concerns regarding this:
(1) I think in a bio/dossier/bingo book entry - there are certain standard fields that the compiler of such information attempts to fill. I would think eye color and hair color would be standard entries. But I also think that those two plus age, height, etc. should be up with all of the other 'stats' (next to, or just below the picture - ideally, that is where the three 'user definable' fields would reside also).
(2) Aesthetically, I don't like seeing this:
Bio:
Eyecolor: whatever I want to put.
Haircolor: whatever I want to put.
AtomKai blah, blah, blahHaving the word 'Bio', with no apparent text next to it, and having it be directly above whatever I created with the `n looks awkward (to me).
I understand it is much more work to do it the other way, and if no time is available, I understand . . . I am not complaining.