Originally by: Sidrat Flush

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Originally by: Nisanthro

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Well, as CCP Hammerhead said, "We won't auto-transform your character. We talked a lot about developing such a system but the new characters are just so much better and so different we decided a human eye was going to be the best way to copy your current portrait." So, there will be new character creation system and it will be impossible to make your "new" (i.e. current) character look the same as before. (I think it would be really difficult to make exactly the same portrait again even with the current system.)

Plus there are many players who will use the new system to completaly change their look.

So, when (if ever) Incarna is released, we're all getting a plastic surgery! Lol, someone should come up with a backstory for this happening to all capsuleers of New Eden at the same time, otherwise it will be really weird :)

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Here's my attempt (feeble as it may be).

The self labeled 'demigods' that Pod Pilots would like to be known as, have always suffered the threat of total synapse collapse upon the entering or exiting of the Pod Module. Short of waking up in their clone station upon the destruction of their Pod and spending a few hours preparing a new ship, crew and supplies, many would never again breathe air or walk through a station, their Pod being their home for life.

In development for several decades sees the technical upgrade of all Pod Modules and biological interface equipment that makes separating the form from the pod that much safer, quicker and easier than ever before, with one minor side effect.

After even a few days the biological form adapts to it's embryo-like atmosphere and begins to lose muscle mass and reduced circulatory ability, meaning that without a new body, selected and designed by the pod pilot, their current form would not survive the shock from exposure to the atmosphere outside their pod environment.

The new system will allow all pod pilots to first design a new form with the updated hardware and a free clone upon completion of the design. All Pod Modules will be retro-fitted and all existing clone bodies will be upgraded.

It will of course be good practice to plug in a long duration training skill during the period of upgrading to ensure synaptic receivers remain active and alert during this time.

It is not known the effects of planetary gravity on a pod pilot form as tests are on-going, the official advice will be to conduct activities at stations where gravity is uniform across New Eden.

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Originally by: Nooma K'Larr

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I'm getting some Double-D implants.

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Originally by: Nova Fox

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protraits?

what about our whole body?

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Originally by: Nisanthro

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Wow, this is brilliant! Thank you for sharing your great imagination :)

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Originally by: Daisuke Aoki

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Edited by: Daisuke Aoki on 08/05/2010 12:28:25

Originally by: Nooma K'Larr

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I'm getting some Double-D implants.

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And I believe those give you a bonus to your charisma?

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Originally by: Sir Rush

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Originally by: Dr Karsun

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As far as I recall all capsuleers were plugged into the same system of capsules. That means that all work the exact same way. So... You ask for a backstory WHY did it happen that we will all have plastic surgery?

CONCORD introduced an upgrade to capsule software. It was to make all capsuleers have all the knowledge to pilot all ships right in the moment you enter a capsule. It was to be a REVOLUTION for all fights in space, a revolution for the human race. Something went wrong. When the new script was introduced it created an error, later called the red goo error. It caused the genome of all the people in capsules to get damaged. All DNA data, including the data in the capsules got irreversably damaged. CONCORD forced the CC*cough cough*P developers who made the script to finance new genomes for all capsuleers. They had to insert a minor ammount of DNA to all new pilots, only DNA data regarding external appearance. Your current clone has plastic surgery, all jump clones are trashed and you are coppied again with new, better (or sometimes worse) looks. ALL THANKS TO COUGH COUGH PEANUTS FROM ICELAND! And their borked script.

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That story has so many holes in it, I don't even know where to start.

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Originally by: Sidrat Flush

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Originally by: Nisanthro

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Wow, this is brilliant! Thank you for sharing your great imagination :)

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Thanks for the feedback but I reckon Shadow's reply wins the thread.

I wrote that when I was concentrating on two things and having three conversations (verbal not IM) at the same time, so it's probably disjointed in places.

I knew the basic elements, but didn't put the effort in to each paragraph - I'm sure it it could be even better in a shorter form (ala Shadow).

Ahh well, I'm no Abraxas but I enjoyed it.

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