I haven't checked, but it should be possible. Have an option to sell all abilities, and just put the points onto the PointsAvailable count. You would have a special flag on the Class ones to stop them being sold. 

And someone else has already pointed out that development work on UT2004 may stop if Dru decides to pursue UT3. In which case, it will probably take a bit of time just to get DruidsRPG UT3 compatible, much less decide on changes. And since a lot of the work depends on Mysterial's, there may be some waiting or wholesale rewriting (IE, doing a lot of stuff from scratch that we didn't have to worry about before).

 

Sorry, before I start, this is a long one.

Any changes have to take into account the characters people have already created. If someone has put thousands of hours into a particular class, they quite rightly do not want it messed with. So the combined medic/monster master has to stay.

Personally, I find it difficult to think of a new class that would compliment the others. Possibly an explosives expert, but I am not convinced.

One way it could be extended is to just extend what we already have. At the moment, we have 4 classes. All are a bit of fighter and a bit of something else. So one option is to go for an extreme version of each class, that loses a lot of the fighter bit. I would also add a middle class, with no particular strengths but a bit of everything - {RAD}Raze2K5 called it a "Jack of all Trades".

So, have:

Extreme Adrenaline Master (or Magician) Much stronger adrenaline skills. Perhaps even unlimited adrenaline. Useless with weapons - perhaps only one damage regardless of weapon. Perhaps can't even pickup weapons and is limited to assault rifle.

Extreme Fighter. No adrenaline abilities, but much more powerful weapons. Infinite ammo. No pickups. No armor. Loads of vampire.

Extreme medic. Much better healing skills with greater xp reward. But healers do not like killing anything, so much reduced weapon damage - perhaps limited to poison attacks against enemies. No Pets. Can revive others.

Extreme Monster Master. Can heal pets but not people. Much stronger pets, with better intelligence. Some sort of command interface so pets can be directed. As greg11 suggests, the ability to convert monsters to pets.

Extreme Engineer. Include explosive capabilities. Allow better turrets/sentinels/vehicles. Remove damage from Engineer's link, and reduce damage from normal weapons - so have to use their constructions.

Jack of all trades. A bit of everything - like the original UT character. Ok weapon ability, some adrenaline use, some healing capabilities etc. E.g. limit to level 1 vamp and leech, have medic weapon maker but not infinite and no exp for healing, can use any powerup he picks up, limit to level 2 LW and level 2 LA (ish). etc.
These classes to run as well as the existing four classes.

But I think the changes will be too great, and will rock the boat too much. It was very difficult trying to balance the engineer. It will be much more difficult balancing this lot, so probably not worth the effort. Plus, it will give too many classes, and too many decisions to make on which class to choose for what.

An alternative would be to provide sub-classes. More specialised variants of each class. Then allow each player to choose each day which subclass he wanted to play. So he could re-spend his points within that class - not changing the class, but selecting a different subclass, and then respending his points within that subclass.

So, for a fighter you might have

the current setup for WMs

an extreme fighter class. As above.

Jack of all trades. As above

A hybrid WM/AM, with more powerful adrenaline skills but less Weapons skills than the current WM

Berserker. Permanent rage effect. Or perhaps a combined double damage + Harm effect, so do more damage but take more

for the medic you might have

Medic/MM as now

Extreme medic, as above

extreme monster master, as above

Medic with enhancing fighting skills, but no pets and limited exp healing

And so on, including ones for Engineers and AMs. All would have "as now", and a variant of the "Jack of all trades", and an extreme one, plus any others that seem fun.

The possibilities for sub-classes are endless, and would allow each player variety within their current class, depending on their mood. It would also allow for novelty ones like Beserker - no one would want to commit to that character long term, but for the odd match for fun? Again, this will be very difficult to balance, but I could see it getting much wider acceptance as everyone benefits. The guys who have invested a lot of effort keep their rewards, but also gain extra things to try.

Told you it was long