Allow change of skin tone
If Michael Jackson did it, why not us?

Currently you are allowed to change your height, weight, and sex with the machines available in a certain megacorp tower. You can also change everything else about your character's physical appearance.

However there doesn't seem to be an IC mechanism to change your skintone, so you are effectively locked with what you started on chargen.

Could the machine allow change of skintone too? With considerable cost (monetary and physical side effects perhaps).

I'd rather that we lean on real identification mechanisms like DNA, finger and blood prints, and other biological indicators other than skin colors. It's already meta / anti-RP to identify someone based off their skin color alone (there are 10s of millions of people for every color) so that's not really a good identifier under any circumstances. This suggestion is more in the line of, if we can already change everything about the character's physical appearance, why not the color too?

From my understanding, ID mechanisms through blood & prints, as a Forensics skill, is specifically gated behind tech only available to the WJF. Forensics-skilled PCs not aligned with the Hall, specifically, can only check corpses for Forensics analysis. If that's true, this kind of change would make it so any attacker would be able to commit a crime, pop in for a change of their entire body's appearance, then disappear. I agree with Mindhunter, I think there should be one constant. I'm fine keeping skin-tone unalterable.

No faction has a gatekeep on any of the forensic abilities or information brought up in the thread. You can explore who and how can find out what and when IC.