I know this might seem seem like a silly idea, but seeing as we are getting all of our ISK and Skill points refunded I think that it should only be fair that we should be able to change our characters race and background as we are technically starting over again, as some people might be unhappy with the race they chose.
Added to that I heard that the new character creator is coming out with the uprising so would it be possible to change our race then?

Last I heard, there was not going to be any reset. Since we are in open Beta.

Well, considering that bloodline and race doesn't matter at all, and is only for RP, I doubt they'll let us.

No. You want a different race, character name or whatever. Make a new one.

Decisions have consequences. Welcome to New Eden.

Beyond that many characters were selected (both class and race) when some of even the current starter options weren't present (i.e. no Logi and no Heavy). I personally could care less about name selection, and if CCP is putting all our currently invested SP into an unallocated pool (including the starting skills we were never able to choose specifically) then it doesn't matter. But being stuck with skills you never selected based on choices made in closed beta several builds ago....

well honestly I'd normally say "that's part of a persistent universe" but while we're undergoing a respec during a beta? Yeah that doesn't seem like quite a "persistent" of a context to me.
In short if they're going to give a respec it should be either limited to only skills that are being removed/replaced by other skill or [b]should be a full respec including starting SP and starter kits[/b[.

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Except, you know, the ones that CCP is respec'ing with the next build.... such as skill allocation
"Make your choices now and live with it when things change" only holds up when that's universal. CCP is removing that element (for Uprising, as a one time thing) because they assessed it to be unfair old closed beta choices to hold in the face of all the new options being added which were absent when the initial choices were made. That is the same situation as someone wanting to select a new starter class, and for that matter race (assuming they hold to EVE standard practices).

Unless you don't plan on putting any SP in to weaponry, armor repair systems, field mechanics, circuitry, nonocircuitry, combat engineering, grenadier, or dropsuit command you'll only have to deal with level I in a weapon you don't want to use. That is half a day's passive SP.
And didn't we redo all that stuff when we migrated to TQ?
They can't do the first one because it is too complex and time consuming to fit their schedule.

I'm pretty sure it's going to be a complete respec. The starter sets were just to help new players get a few core skills on their screen. We don't need that so I think it's very likely they will simply unallocate all of your SP and call it a day.

This is almost certainly a one-time thing because of the drastic change to the skill system they are introducing. They're on a schedule and need us specced in to these suits and new guns ASAP so respec is best for everybody. Wouldn't count on it happening again though.