What we should be able to purchase with points

I fully support the idea of being able to boost any one class per character up to 15-20 max levels. (besides force, obviously)
I don’t think we should have to sacrifice anything for it, the point cost should be enough that it is a significant barrier of entry.

This would go really far into fixing all the "my bh can’t hide, etc." problems, would allow a lot of people to round out their characters and/or crest or adept a skill they wouldn’t have otherwise, which I see as being positive. It really won’t make anyone super-powered, by and large.

I’ve sent in a suggestion about this before:

Offer points for credits, ships, or equipment for advanced character creation. This allows a character to come into the universe with the credits, equipment, ships, that his background shows, thus helping with RP.

I have not sent in a suggestion for this though:
If we are going to be able to just switch shit around, why not just have a "unique" race, or "sub-human" that you can use advanced creation to apply your own points, up to a limited amount to be used. Or use your points to reset the racial bonuses of a chosen races and make them you’re own. Let me throw out an example:

Duros: Total Modifier = 50 (-15+50+30-35+20+5-10+0-20+20-15+20)
combat Modifier: -15
piloting Modifier: +50
engineering Modifier: +30
bounty hunting Modifier: -35
smuggling Modifier: +20
diplomacy Modifier: +5
leadership Modifier: -10
force Modifier: +0
espionage Modifier: -20
slicer Modifier: +20
medical Modifier: -15
science Modifier: +20

Now, somebody could purchase this race, and in the advanced section rearrange the skills to something outside the norm for that race. The new selection should be able to use the total modifier of the race, but with a little less points (because they are out of their norm). Let’s say the User-Made Duros skill selection points will be at 40 now.

Purchase the Duros, then send 500 more account points to "reset" the current racial stats.
Duros BH: Total Modifier = 40 (can’t go over 40 points)
combat Modifier: +50
piloting Modifier: +15
engineering Modifier: -30
bounty hunting Modifier: +50
smuggling Modifier: +0
diplomacy Modifier: -30
leadership Modifier: -30
force Modifier: +0
espionage Modifier: -30
slicer Modifier: +20
medical Modifier: +25
science Modifier: +0
A mainly head first character of BH, focusing on some medical for healing. He doesn’t put a lot into smuggling or espionage and prefers to use explosives to get through doors when he can. Left some point in piloting for bigger ships and the possibility of higher survivability in space combat. This is just an example.

[b:vpg4oop1]About the "unique" human or "sub-human."[/b:vpg4oop1]
Purchase the race with a deposit of 500, and a price of 500. The race will start with a 10 point maximum. There will be an option to purchase a higher maximum; every 500 (or 1000, or whatever) points will increase the cap by 10. So somebody chooses to drop 3000 points into the race will get a character with a max of 50 points to play with (or 30 if the cost is 1000 per 10). Of course limits should be set. Somebody dropping 20k points with have a max of 200 points.

Purchasing Force levels should be more expensive. 5 points per +modifier? So that person who dropped 20k account points could purchase a forcer with +40 levels of force, if he put all his 200 points into force. I think 5 per + is a decent balance for force increase.

After fully leveled and your character met some other requirements (time played or something?), you could buy +25 levels in ONE class and only ONCE using 1000 points. Same for Force, only +10 levels costing 2,000.

I would love to have the ability to purchase some extra levels. Currently, I have two away from where I was trying to get on one of my characters.

[quote:xh7vrz09]How about being able to pay small amounts of points for minor roleplay things, like hair colors your race normally can’t have, or skin colors your race normally doesn’t have (but conceivably could, like a pale Lorrdian–an albino!)?[/quote:xh7vrz09]

These can be applied for easily. I know we’re trying to get rid of red tape, but I’ve applied for a skincolor in the past, it was perfectly simple, and I didn’t have to spend points on it.

[quote:xh7vrz09]How about paying account points to make your starting credits higher?[/quote:xh7vrz09]

I’m pretty sure you could con me into throwing RPC cases for this. Oh my god, please, for the love of all that’s holy, yes.

(Also, kidding about cases.)

[quote:xh7vrz09]Or your starting skill percentages higher, so you don’t have to waste time researching?[/quote:xh7vrz09]

Since I’d assume these are all, obviously, optional… sure.

[quote:xh7vrz09]Pay points to START with certain feats instead of having to track them down?[/quote:xh7vrz09]

I think that has potential to remove RP from the situation, when that’s something we’re really trying to get to in this game. (Aren’t we?) Granted, there’s plenty of times I’ve seen ‘Hay where can I haz training for ship pingz plz?’ and three or four people pipe up right away. But that goes both ways. Sometimes you ask for IC info and it’s just a wall of silence.

What I’d love to see, though, (and I think got suggested already in the PK thread) was to be able to spend any amount of points I please on any amount of levels I please, stat mins/max losses be damned. The 1k/2k thing seems kind of silly and arbitrary to me.

And has someone given Rojan and Sintaka the heads up? When we all get done with this on forums, Anna types it all up and submits it, and the two of them start reading it, I’d like to see their looks of horror on webcam or something, and the eventual fainting.

Here’s an idea that might not be supportable or even supported by the players/staff, but I figured I’d toss it out there. There are always times when people really seem to want to play a specific race, but there’s always heated debates on if that race is "good enough" to be added in or whatever reasons there are. However, this doesn’t end the person’s desire to play that race. To me, it seems that a lot of these people want to play the race itself and could overall care less what the stats are. What if we allowed players to take the generic "human" race, but then they pay X amount of account points to have themselves altered to a race not in game?

Example: I really want to play a Selkath, I create using the standard human mold and once in game, I get docked X points (We’d have to decide how much this is worth) and an IMM sets me to "Selkath" and thats what I look like when people look at me or diagnose me.