Doc, the Weasel said:

 idea - being a player in a current EotE campaign its frustrating to feel like I have to jump to an out-of-career specialisation first …unless I want to shorthand myself on xp …

Your mistake…let you characters progress the way they want to make the character they envision…

Its your job to empower their ability to play the game they want within reason.  It is completely reasonable that if my smuggler wants to become a medic, then you as the GM should allow that possibility to happen…

Argh…a reply to a specific post still goes at the end? 

Grrr…that last post was in response to the guy who said he wouldn't let any player take an out of class specialty without a darn good reason…

As for the problem at hand…it isn;t that big a deal…assuming the devs don't fix this…which they probably will…it isn;t hard to house rule it out.

A fixed addition for out of class after the multiplier is easy and balanced.

mjprogue1 said:

That's pretty typical BBS mode of operation. And has been for decades, except for a few odd ones (the old CIS and Delphi Forums come to mind)

mjprogue1 said:

I agree, that's unreasonable as a GM. Archetypes, however, are part of Star Wars, and meshing them is always something to consider carefuly. Ask "Why?"