I'm not seeing any abnormal behavior.  When I go back to the pre-designed race, I'm not getting any extra points than I'd get if I'd picked that race in the first place. What version are you playing?

 

Yes, I'm terribly disappointed...I was looking forward to creating a superrace maxed out in every category...I guess I'll just have to settle for the Thalans (next best thing). No bug here.

To the OP: This is normal behavior. When you make a custom race and assign all their points, then hit back, and select a canned race and hit "next", you are then in the customization screen for that canned race, with their points. They get points too, just not as many as a custom race. If you hit back again, and come back to that screen and see points there, its the same points as before...the "changes" to that race dont take effect until you hit "next" from that screen, and reset every time you hit "back".

Yes, adding those points to a canned race can allow for some very powerful combinations. The tradeoff for the custom race is that you get to pick "exactly" what you want with all the points. Whether or not this is actually balanced is the subject of discussion of a number of other threads on the subject, that I'm sure you can find with a little effort.

Have you tried hitting the clear button on the Custom Race screen?

 

egable and CariElf, this particular "bug" happens when a player modifies a Standard Race and then uses it as a Custom Race later. The "Clear" button resets the presented race to its Default options, as it should. When this happens in a Custom Race Screen it basically means that the race is appearing "twice". The easiest way I've found to deal with this is when I start with no custom races, I hit "Next" on the Custom Race Selection Screen thus saving a Default Custom Race that can be loaded at later date if need be.

If a player selected the Custom Race to begin with and then hits Clear at a later date it does reset to the Default position.

From a coding point of view the only way I could say this could be resolved from the development team would be to implement a Clearing Command in the game code that would reset the Custom Race to the Default Custom Race every time a player is in the Main Race Screen, instead of the current "saving" feature it does now (where the last race entered on the screen appears when you select custom race)