Ease of death/PKill

One of the big reasons they’re actually playing those races is because they can afford them, not because its what they decided to play.

In my opinion it’s less about not being able to afford it, more about not wanted to waste points on a character that you’re not sure you’re going to be enthusiastic about or haven’t decided what direction you want to go with it yet.

I mean, when the Empire got randomly suddenly saturated with Wroonians it wasn’t because everybody loved Wroonians or because nobody had 1500 points to spent on a Balosar (or whatever else). It was because everybody needed to pick an Imperial race and Wroonians are free and more fun than baseline humans. Why weren’t Naboo or Alderaanians getting spam rolled? Let’s not kid ourselves, it’s because they’re more expensive.

The majority of characters around are of free or cheap races and that’s the way it will always be, regardless of which races are cheap or free. There will always be players who save up to play the character they want who happens to belong to a more expensive race, but most players just don’t go and spend 6,000 points on an impulse roll.

And I like the concept of Naboo and Alderaanians, but I would never roll either of thme because their levels are pretty garbage for anything I’d want to do.[/quote:3bdztr8n]

Just brainstorming here, what about offering players the ability to invest points into not only leveling the character, but raising the levels? You really really want to play an Alderaanian combatant. Obviously there should be an Alderaanian out there that could at some point master the upper tier of combat skills. However, Alderaanians are -40 combat, they’re not going to hit 150 combat levels. So why not allow players to buy up that combat from -40 to +40 or whatever? Of course there could be limits on there, like you can only spend X points, or you can only raise like 2 skill groups…

Example: Alderaanian Combatant…Starts at -40 combat. I spend 5000 points to raise it to Combat +30.

Thoughts?

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I was thinking Toydarian myself. And maybe roll a nice Abyssin forcer buddy for him while I’m at it, too. I really need to use up some of my points.

As for the topic of the thread, I’m wholeheartedly behind the "expanded cloning" approach. It’s easy; it’s EU-compliant (in theory)… and it leaves it up to the players. Any reactionary/IMM/RPC system is a lot less feasible.

Cloning needs to either have a reasonable chance of working and have some sort of protection against ganksquads in the clone tubes, or it needs to not exist.[/quote:3t5no5dt]

I will be happy to alter cloning to work 100% of the time, IF we can agree to the following changes:

1. The player suffers a temporary loss of HP and MV which increase to their normal levels over a period of 24 hours (played or not played) from the time they were permed. Someone with 150 medical can heal them to decrease this healing time from 24 hours to 12 hours.
2. The cloning chamber is redesigned in such a way that players cannot camp the area waiting for people to log in so that they can kill them again. (This is actually really simple to do)
3. The total number of clones that a person is capable of getting is 2. (And as many restore requests as they entitled to)
4. Restore requests can be handled from the clone if the player is willing to forfeit any armor that would have otherwise been restored to them. (I understand that EQ is not currently restored if it is lost, anyway)
5. We agree to a simple RP system that allows players to RP their storylines from the point that they are permed. (To agree to anything less would require too much administrative enforcement)