Last night I had seen this counting down from 40 hours after race change, this morning I looked and it was 39:51:36 (after being online about 10m, so it has been reset after I quit last night). Can you check that this is working, or was it reset due to a bug ? I'm itching to use it Should be a number of hours lower by now.

All abillity cooldowns currently have shared timers. The cooldown is based from the last time you used an ability.

Oh so no NPC purging with the algorithm... that wasn't something I expected because I thought they were independent...

Hm, they do not seem that good anymore; probably not worth sacrificing that NPC ability. Maybe someday.

Normally I am pretty understanding, and I hate to say this... but that's kind of disappointing. I also see why someone would be upset if they were genetarr or zolazin sabatour; those abilities aren't nearly as good as Urbanize but also interfere with using the algorithm. For someone who doesn't have it, won't matter much, but if you do have it kind of feels like a loss. Not that I plan on NPC hunting as much, but I was going for 6 NPC slots so I could purge all 6. idk maybe it's a balance issue for Taltherian, but the other two race abilities shouldn't, IMO. Anyway, it is what it is, I just wished I had expected that in advance. Yeah I found it in the wiki.

True. Note that I mentioned this is how it "currently" works. Abilities are still pretty new, so there are likely changes on the horizon based on feedback.

Yeah I understand it is experimental
Whatever you decide is fair is fine with me, I still appreciate having access to Urbanize either way.
I fully expect some of the more sensitive people to start whining about it after they switch lol
I just didn't realize since I've never had more than one ability before.