Now, we have a pretty obtuse stat and skill system that really rewards people spending a lot of time ICly discovering what does and does not work. And to an extent, this works better for some skills and professions than it does others (namely, in the lesser used skills- there is not a wealth of people to knowledge transfer from, and/or they might not be willing to do so for IC motives.)
We do allow players to have a one time respec after playing their character for a year, but even with these people, I have heard some complaints about them making mistakes in allocation and not being able to fully realize their errors until weeks or months later. And rerolling sucks. We all get that.
In the spirit of encouraging more people to stick with their characters, to promote older characters to leverage vacations and open up newer characters for growth, and with the changes to UE spending in mind, I propose the following:
1) Allow us to cryo vacation a character with a hefty fee involved to undergo 'neural remapping'.
2) Player plays a vacation character or characters as per usual for six months.
3) Upon return, allow the character, with a @service-request to apply to remove six months of UE expenditure in skills or stats of their choosing.
4) Character must then follow the weekly UE expenditure limits as per normal from there out and can spend from their pool of de-allocated UE. No instant badasses in totally different skills just because you underwent this procedure.
Considerations:
-Use of admin time. With a six month lag between starting and requiring the service ticket addressed, this is simple and easy to schedule accordingly for.
-Gameplay balance. Six months of UE is a significant amount, but you're not going to take someone who is the world's best katana user and make them the world's best sniper.
-Allowing a feeling of character growth or a shift in direction in an organic manner which is not going to overturn existing character power roles and dynamics.
-Might actually promote vet characters to make changes to their sheets, and provide tons of opportunities for the up-and-coming in the recently vacated roles and positions. Who knows, might just shake things up when they get stale!
Thoughts?