We already have a respec option.

Biomass your char and you will get a new one!

Yoou will also be able to skill again whatever you like!

Isn't that awesome?

The tools might be there but not everybody knows how to use them. The way a respec should work is like when somebody retrains for a job they haven't done in years or even just a few months. For example:

Three months ago I started learning how to use a 3D application called Sketchup. I went through a few days of making stuff and watching tutorials then I had to leave it for a while to do something else. I went back to Sketchup a week ago and found that only the basic knowledge remained, none of the more advanced stuff because I didn't stick with it or learn it for long enough.

The same is true in Dust, if you learn a skill and don't use it you should be able to forget it in some capacity.

By EVE lore i meant the argument of "well EVE doesn't let you do it" or "this is New Eden; there are no respecs." Pokey, what you described was what I was referring to self-actualization: the mentality of "I want something that challenges myself." In this case, some people like being challenged to learn all the mechanics of the game and figuring out full game play for how they will spend every skill point; others (like myself) don't like the opportunity cost of such planning.

To further my point on that whole spiel, if you don't want to respec and take pride in never using a respec, by all means do that. Now ask yourself this question: "If others are allowed to respec, will it put me at a disadvantage?" Under the system I proposed, I don't believe it would.

On a side note, you say you want video games to reflect real life. This I don't believe I will ever understand. I play video games to escape reality and enjoy the freedom they bring, but that's off topic...

All respec ideas are stupid and will never ever happen. There's not even a point in discussing this to death again because it's just not going to happen. Period.

Now what could be cool would be a learning boost system like in EvE - once a year/6 months/monthly (up for debate) you get to select a specific set of skills that you'd like to focus on and the SP cost for all of them is lowered but the SP cost for everything else is raised. This way if you balls up by speccing into something you don't use/want, you can quickly recoup your losses by speccing into the thing you've decided you do want.

However, the BIG point here that should be noted by EVERYONE is that there are no useless skills. You may wish you hadn't put all 350k of your starter SP into grenades but once you've got some of your other skills up too, that suddenly becomes awesome.

We already have a respec option.

Biomass your char and you will get a new one!

Yoou will also be able to skill again whatever you like!

Isn't that awesome?

I am so sick and tired of this whole 'we weren't well informed' excuse. All the tools are there. The forums, the community third-party bloggers, the local channel, etc. if you don't bother to ask first which skill to invest in and you go in blindly spending SP away, it's your damn fault. I live with my mistakes. Hell, I have invested SP into skills that many folks here see as useless but I don't complain nor make a thread asking for an undo button.

Choices must be meaningful and in order to do that you need permanent consequences regardless if you were informed or not. The only time CCP may allow a respec even once is if anything drastic was changed. What you are proposing is an option to respec

No. I don't approve.

That is why I suggested it the way I did so that it is not spammable and requires some serious thinking before it could be used. The lack of information about specific skills and what they do as well as a lack of information on the core skills means alot of people don't have enough info on how to build a toon that will work for them long term. This would allow those people to repair some of the damage done.

The only thing worse than having a respec option to begin with is suggesting that it should only be sold for AURUM. It took us months to shut the P2W crowd up, and I don't want them having more ammunition to start bitching again.

This system is fine as it is. Just make your SP related decisions wisely and not impulsively.

Talk about pay to use the FOTM

No.

This is New Eden. You live with your decisions. They have consequences. Think. Then Act.

No.

This is New Eden. You live with your decisions. They have consequences. Think. Then Act.