[SUGGESTION] Skillback booster https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=86041&find=unread
Update: An intriguing idea that the dev team will discuss further.

Got my respec and currently have no use of this but I would like some sort of option like this down the line!

After some thread feedback and thinking of design problems, something like this

Skillback Booster (3 days) - Fits into Passive Booster slot. Returns ~300,000 sp and only one skill can have it on at a time, as long as there are no skills that depend on it. You can't use the skill and lose it's bonuses once its active. If the booster timer expires before the skill points are returned, you lose all remaining skill points for that skill. Passive SP gains are disabled while this booster is active.

First, an honorable mention by CCP Cmdr Wang.

Source:
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1009985#post1009985



The Skill Back Booster is described below by Major Lee High:



It seem a lot of you are forgetting about this suggestions very quickly and are constantly requesting respecs needlessly without even looking into this idea. In fact, there are actually a few of you (you know who you are) who are actually against this simply because you just don't care and just want your flavor-of-the-month fix.

This idea is a valid one and honestly I see it as the most fair there is. Keep in mind that I don't normally say this to an idea that somehow involves moving around SP considering that I'm among those who are adamantly against respecs unless of course I don't see any potential for FoTM abuse in the idea.

What the skill booster does is that it temporarily forces you to give up your passive gain in exchange for un-allocating SP at a slow and steady rate across a set period of time. Time that you could have used gaining SP passively (normal boosters not affected). Keep in mind that this is time that you will never get back while the skillback booster is active. Seems fair enough for me and it helps avoid the problem of FoTM abuse because it doesn't allow you to instantly swap a chunk of SP around on a whim.

Take it or leave it, folks. If you don't like the idea even if you're pro-respec, tough luck. This is the best idea there is and even some of us anti-respec folks are liking this idea.

Boosters cost aur

Once the market opens up, and once players are able to sell AUR stuff to other players for ISK, that won't matter.

Once the market opens up, and once players are able to sell AUR stuff to other players for ISK, that won't matter.

A lot of players new and old have issue staying ISK positive.

Not a lot of people are going to want / be able to spend 10+ million ISK to mess around with a tiny portion of their skill tree.

Once the market opens up, and once players are able to sell AUR stuff to other players for ISK, that won't matter.

A lot of players new and old have issue staying ISK positive.

Not a lot of people are going to want / be able to spend 10+ million ISK to mess around with a tiny portion of their skill tree.

Disabling passive skill point accrual while using this booster is overkill. Also it would cost AUR, making it a pay to win feature. The reasonable people who are in favor for another respec aren't in favor of respecing your points whenever you want (even if it costs money and time), we simply want one single last respec when the other basic dropsuits and vehicles are out.