Retcon changes coming tonight

[Daeke]

From the mouth of Balseraph himself:

First, be aware that the influx of so many heroes into the Championsverse has stretched the fabric of time and space even thinner than it was previously. As such, it is now possible to completely retcon your character from start to finish, regardless of level.

The basic idea of how it works still holds; that is, for each step you have retconed your character, the next step becomes more expensive. Now, allow me to make an important clarification of something that has always been true: points of any kind that you have unspent COUNT AGAINST THE COST OF RETCONNING another step. In other words, the cost of retconing the 5th of 5 powers is exactly the same as retconing one power when you have four other powers selections unassigned.

Second, the cost of retconing now scales in relation to the potency of what you are retconing in a more logical manner. Previously, the cost of retconing a two point advantage was double the cost of retconing a power. The new ratio is as follows:
Power – 3 steps
Advantage – 1 step per point (zero point advantages don’t increase cost from previous step)
Talents – 2 steps
Characteristic Focus – 4 steps
Travel Power – 2 steps
End Builder – 1 step
Innate Talent – 4 steps.

Each step you go back increases the cost of that step and all subsequent steps.

Additionally, the cost progression of each step is now different than it was previously. Your first few steps will be, comparatively, rather inexpensive compared to what they were. As you step deeper into your past, however, the cost will escalate. The final result of this is that retconing back four or fewer powers will now be, in total, less expensive than it was. Retconing back further than that, however, slowly becomes more expensive.

[Sea]

GLEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

No one's gonna read this. They're too busy raging.

[Fire]

I really hope the costs are low enough to do a couple times while people try to get their stuff sorted. If the prices remain similar at all this will be pointless.

[Saevio]

Thank You Cryptic.

[yumboyack]

I am very happy you are addressing this, but what about the gold costs? I am sure the explanation and smoothing out of the points will help, but what was stopping me was simply the cost. Thanks.

[Unshra]

Glad to see the option to completely Retcon your character is back.

Now it would be nice if we got a free complete Retcon do to the changes caused in this last patch as I am sure it will get really expensive for the twenty pluses who leveled up during head-start and before the adjustment to the heroes and the mob.

[lurk]

Awesome. I hope it's extremely expensive to retcon from 40 to 1, myself. I don't want to see people changing their entire build easily all the time. Make some choices and live with them until you can afford to do another.

[GunKnight]

This is fine and well as long as the CURRENT cost issue is adressed, which I'm assuming it is since they're fixing the system :P

[Seive]

I'm hoping after the fourth and up to ten it'll still be, not cheap, but affordable. I agree that going back to the beginning should be expensive and you should have to work for it.

[Augury]

So is this a temporary thing to retcon all the way back, in lieu of giving us a complete freespec, or is it a permanent change? I'm going to assume the latter, but I can't be sure from the way it's worded.