Status Marker for Roleplayers & Biography Information

[Kerwin]

I'm sure there are a few threads in the suggestion forum already regarding this. I searched and was unable to bring up any at the moment of writing this but...

EDIT: I found a thread in general forums! http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ice-to-have%21

We have 4 statuses available to us currently...

Busy
Away
Looking for Party
Looking to Meld

The last two statuses don't have much use to us anymore because most people who need a party or meld will go directly to the party finder for better results. These statuses were more commonly used back in 1.0 and got carried over, but have now since become obsolete.

Since the addition to Eternal Bonds (Weddings), The dev team acknowledges that there is a good amount of roleplayers to justify the developers making role playing content.

My suggestion, and I know there are data limitations and such, could we please have a status that roleplayers could use to signify that their character is in-context (currently roleplaying). We could replace the current existing unused statuses and it wouldn't consume much data on the servers.

And if possible the ability to make bios about our characters in some way.

Thank you for spending the time to read my suggestion. Maybe with enough thumbs up this may some day become a reality.