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I don’t want repeated changes. I personally just am not satisfied with the race I chose initially, and would like to change it to something else. It’s definitely because of rp/mindset of the race that I did choose, it’s not quite what I thought it would be. I could potentially be the one that hates the other 80%, but that doesn’t sound fun to me.

I've made a grand total of 8k marks between level 20-26, which quite frankly is peanuts. So yes, I agree something has to change. I would rather junk value was decreased and clone costs just didn't exist.

For reference:

Market order system needs a few improvements

• Allow better filtering of market orders. Currently MARKET ORDER LIST IOTA does not work
• System is still making market order lists with 1 commodity
• System orders do not make orders of all commodities. Seems only elesium and stesium are in the rotation
• Allow cancellation of partially filled market orders to adapt to changing production costs
• Adjust rewards to reflect current commodity prices

Atalkez said:

I mean if we’re talking immersion, why can’t HETE put my cerebral upload into whatever I choose? Seems like an arbitrary limitation for some high brow RP people more than anything.

In-game specifically, we use neural replicators and I have to assume that different species have sufficiently different neurology to make transfer extremely difficult, if not impossible. 

More broadly speaking, cognition is embodied, at least in humans. An individual's thought, language, and perception are all rooted in the structure and operation of their body. (I may have a slight theoretical bias here because of my training *cough*).

Aebrua said:

Arsentar said:

The argument is that the race of your character should be important decision. If it becomes something you can easily, or at all, change, then it becomes irrelevant and inevitably leads to cheapening racial roleplay.

I honestly can't say I disagree. Mostly just think novices (and everyone who has participated in the beta) should have the opportunity to say once, 'Actually, you know what, I think that race over there fits my character better."

It's fine for people to place that kind of importance on their race, but it should also be fine for others to not be held to the same expectations. For some of us, it really is irrelevant to a point, and that should be okay. If you (the general you, not you you) don't like the potential ability to change your own race, don't change your own race, know what I mean?

I mean, if it's so irrelevant why do you need to change then?

Atalkez said:

I mean if we’re talking immersion, why can’t HETE put my cerebral upload into whatever I choose? Seems like an arbitrary limitation for some high brow RP people more than anything.

Altered Carbon has a potential answer for this.

From memory people that get dropped into different sleeves (bodies) from their original are at an increasing risk of going insane, still human bodies but there's the sense of self from like looking in the mirror and seeing your own face that you lose when you change even that along with the myriad other aspects of your body that make up you. Some people can deal with it, particularly with specialised training, but the vast majority can't deal with it. 
On the other hand, people that can afford clones of their original bodies are pretty much immortal because they're always coming back as themselves.

Take that concept and apply that to changing your species entirely, the sense of self of the character would likely be shattered but you also start running into the more significant physical changes. Look at the visible differences in each of the races, a Human swapping to a Nath'el is a major change, like they'd need to learn how to walk again with the wings and they're somewhat close unlike swapping to a W'hoorn or Krona.

That's also before you start thinking about how much is actually in the cerebral upload and the impact it could have on unconscious body functions. Like the flight or fight response could function differently for different races but your upload might try to trigger your born races responses after a swap and at best might be useless and at worst deadly to yourself.

A lot of computers measure time as the number of seconds since 1/1/1970, so that's probably just the default that occurs when the time data is missing or not set to anything.

Some areas are harder than others. I've never heard of that place you hunt. I just hunted in the Golpur Desert and only died when I stopped paying attention and a hostile spawned.