Are Replacements becoming a problem?

[Shoujo]

I'm not too fond of replacing a player once the game's been going on for more than 2-3 years because for one thing chances are the player might be dead, and also by then a lot of the critical early game decisions have been made by then. The early game to mid-game is what I enjoy the most because there are a lot of critical decisions to be made and not everyone's flying around with maxed out ships.

The other reason why I'm not too fond of joining replacement games is that I have no way of knowing (until joining) what sort of a race I'll be taking over. Sometimes I'm in the mood for a psychotic race, and other times I want to be all goody-goody. If there was a way to check a race's biological/social/historical description before replacing a player, I'd at least be a lot more eager to fill up a replacement slot.