03-31-2018, 12:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-31-2018, 01:14 PM by Dane Regan.)
No. You can't use the emerald or anything else to avoid switch costs. Nor is there any other way right now.
I guess the closest thing you could do with the emerald would be your character taking on a personality they use to have in the past and essentially becoming someone else, or having their attitude and powers change quite a bit, but there has to be something tying your character to whatever they're like after they use the Emerald. An example would be my character Ebonywood Hellscythe becoming Catherine Windsdale - her "past persona". Or Kuzuru removing all aspects of Renji. Or Kuzuru permanently becoming Renji instead.
There is currently no way to remove switching costs, and, personally, they should always exist. Otherwise we'll eventually end up with lots of high level fountain freshies. Which is dumb. But, if you have a suggestion in mind that you're sure is reasonable, try the "Rules Feedback" thread - but I wouldn't expect that idea to pass. Why should something your current character does impact your future one? We want people to find characters people enjoy, so switching can be needed at time. But we also want people to stick with them. So the OM loss aspect of switching will ever be bypassed, unless you never wrote as the character before switching.
Think of switching like this:
You are starting again as a new character. The OM from your past character is a bonus. Donating to get a better 'bonus' is something that's never going to happen, because then you'd essentially be paying real money to get OM, and I'm almost certain Omni doesn't want to introduce anything like that.
I guess the closest thing you could do with the emerald would be your character taking on a personality they use to have in the past and essentially becoming someone else, or having their attitude and powers change quite a bit, but there has to be something tying your character to whatever they're like after they use the Emerald. An example would be my character Ebonywood Hellscythe becoming Catherine Windsdale - her "past persona". Or Kuzuru removing all aspects of Renji. Or Kuzuru permanently becoming Renji instead.
There is currently no way to remove switching costs, and, personally, they should always exist. Otherwise we'll eventually end up with lots of high level fountain freshies. Which is dumb. But, if you have a suggestion in mind that you're sure is reasonable, try the "Rules Feedback" thread - but I wouldn't expect that idea to pass. Why should something your current character does impact your future one? We want people to find characters people enjoy, so switching can be needed at time. But we also want people to stick with them. So the OM loss aspect of switching will ever be bypassed, unless you never wrote as the character before switching.
Think of switching like this:
You are starting again as a new character. The OM from your past character is a bonus. Donating to get a better 'bonus' is something that's never going to happen, because then you'd essentially be paying real money to get OM, and I'm almost certain Omni doesn't want to introduce anything like that.