Include Race Changing At Tailors?

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• mattgrant Member Posts: 57 Arc User

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  Call me a traditionalist, but I think that crosses a line. Renaming? Cool. Respeccing? Sure. Anything after that and I feel you undermine the individuality of characters and whatever level of commitment to said characters (that is left) inherent to RPGs.

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• theonerussian762 Member Posts: 4 Arc User

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  i understand, but we can already change almost everything about our characters as it is.

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• ds9fan2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  mattgrant wrote: »

  Call me a traditionalist, but I think that crosses a line. Renaming? Cool. Respeccing? Sure. Anything after that and I feel you undermine the individuality of characters and whatever level of commitment to said characters (that is left) inherent to RPGs.

  
  Actually, there are many StarTrek episodes in which, cosmetically at least, someone changes race.

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• theonerussian762 Member Posts: 4 Arc User

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  and yes, this is only cosmetic, your race traits remain the same

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• mattgrant Member Posts: 57 Arc User

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  ds9fan2 wrote: »

  Actually, there are many StarTrek episodes in which, cosmetically at least, someone changes race.

  
  That's cosmetic and usually temporary. But I am as much a hardcore RPG fan as I am a Trekkie, so I am biased. Shrug

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• starkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  To get the liberated borg look, only lifers should get it. So borg pieces should be unlocked for every race if you have a lifetime subscription. If you go alien, then you can change your character to almost anything you want. There is talk about a respecies token, but if they actually spans out is unknown. The only race that should have complete freedom is the alien race. You can easily make a shape changing alien with the tailor and multiple costume slots.

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• janusforbeare Member Posts: 1 Arc User

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  I think they're calling it a "Retrait Token", but essentially, yes, from what I've read, it will allow players to change race. Personally I'm looking forwards to it for my Fed - after I realized that 90% of male Human/Trill/Betazoid/Bajoran toons use the same haircut and same beard as my Trill, I decided to roll up a Klingon, and have been playing him ever since. Looking forwards to becoming an Andorian or something blueside so I can stop feeling like a carbon copy.
  
  (Incidentally, devs, if you're reading this - we need more male hair options that don't make us look like dorks! I know the bowl cut is common in Trek, but really, none of us want to look like our captain's mother cuts his hair!)
  
  As for rationalizing the change... I always figured I'd just imagine that my old captain got promoted off the ship, and a new guy took over. A quick name change in the "Edit Record" section would help complete the illusion (and a zen-based name change if you really care that much).

  [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

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• theonerussian762 Member Posts: 4 Arc User

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  or what we could do is have us choose ALL of our own traits as if we chose alien, yet have different presets that we could mess with.

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• leviathan99

  leviathan99#2867

  Member Posts: 7,747 Arc User

  February 2013 edited February 2013

  janusforbeare wrote: »

  I think they're calling it a "Retrait Token", but essentially, yes, from what I've read, it will allow players to change race. Personally I'm looking forwards to it for my Fed - after I realized that 90% of male Human/Trill/Betazoid/Bajoran toons use the same haircut and same beard as my Trill, I decided to roll up a Klingon, and have been playing him ever since. Looking forwards to becoming an Andorian or something blueside so I can stop feeling like a carbon copy.
  
  (Incidentally, devs, if you're reading this - we need more male hair options that don't make us look like dorks! I know the bowl cut is common in Trek, but really, none of us want to look like our captain's mother cuts his hair!)
  
  As for rationalizing the change... I always figured I'd just imagine that my old captain got promoted off the ship, and a new guy took over. A quick name change in the "Edit Record" section would help complete the illusion (and a zen-based name change if you really care that much).

  
  This would be my preference. Bundle in a rename and call it a Command Replacement or Captain Reassignment.

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