There probably not as big as the store-bought rabbit-steroid infused ones. They probably won't taste as good, but " As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things."

After having my primary weapon broken/too buggy to be competitive 3 times... I have finally managed to scrimp and save for my last level in drop suit engineering.

I am awarded with 3.whatever units of extra powergrid, I rejoice.

Now I can fit a level 4 scrambler pistol sidearm instead of a level 3... oh the humanity.

If I take my mass driver fitting upgrades to 5, I might be able to fit a proto scrambler pistol on... although I won't be able to carry any grenades.

Anyone else feel at 15 mil+ SP there is little incentive to work for additional upgrades? The SP requirements to fill out my entire suit are staggering, I'm looking at 2 mil SP Just to be able to fit my sidearm to prototype (regardless of the SP i need to advance it). That's approximately 2 months of capping out with boosters every week, just to fit my sidearm. There is a reason why I NEVER take a weapon beyond 5 base and 2 in specialization (because in a month CCP might break/nerf it). I really don't want to spend this amount of SP on one upgrade so that I can fit a DIFFERENT weapon.

I guess I'll just take light weapon and sidearm to operation to get more bang for my buck in case the mass driver gets nerfed. This way I can play with my cpu and put on an engineering mod instead.

I never understood not giving out partial respecs, as a marketing standpoint would you rather:

A. Remove the larger carrot, and replace it with a smaller, less appealing carrot on a longer stick.

B. Remove the larger carrot, and replace it with an equally sized, different tasting but not necessarily less appealing carrot on a stick.

Which option gets your customers to play the game for longer, and be more likely to "BUY AURUM!!!!"?

I did play eve, however the skill times for skills were never as bad as the grind that they are in Dust. 2 months of grinding SP for a skill reduce PG by 3 or so points for one weapon, ONE weapon. This doesn't translate to any other weapon ( in Eve you have blasters and railguns as "Hybrid" weapons, and gunnery skills to up each as a group, i might be off on their names or respective groupings because I simply don't remember).

In eve you don't have to do anything to get skillpoints, the sub cost essentially pays for that. It's likely the same in Dust if you buy passive boosters, but essentially in EVE there is no "grind" because you don't have to work for things (other than the money to buy them). Also, almost none of the skills have training times of two months for such a marginal benefit. These skills as posted before offer benefits such as new ships, new tier 2 modules, etc. all of which Dust lacks.

I don't really want to branch out and try new suits or weapons, the heavy is completely unfinished, and the scout (I have an alt) does not perform the role it was intended to (I was cal-logi before uprising). As I've said, I have 3 Light weapons at prototype, and 2 sidearms at prototype now. My alt has an additional 1 light and 1 sidearm at prototype (scout). I've pretty much tried everything there is (with the exception of tanks). Therefore the grind for additional skills to increase the effectiveness of my play-style is so severe that it will likely burn me out of playing the game in the next 2 or 3 months if nothing is changed. Spending 2-3 months to get my sidearm from level 3 to 5 is not my idea of a fun time.

Um I am going to disagree, with your assertion that the Core Skills are immune to STAT Changes, why because my suit got nerfed out of 20/28/40 cpu from the 3 levels of suits -- rather recently. Why because ccp gave it the Shield Extender Bonus, then said it was too powerful so in addition to taking away that bonus to modules we feel it is necessary to remove this extra CPU we think you have laying around because a good % of the people using it are doing so in a way we didn't intend.

I did play eve, however the skill times for skills were never as bad as the grind that they are in Dust. 2 months of grinding SP for a skill reduce PG by 3 or so points for one weapon, ONE weapon. This doesn't translate to any other weapon ( in Eve you have blasters and railguns as "Hybrid" weapons, and gunnery skills to up each as a group, i might be off on their names or respective groupings because I simply don't remember).

In eve you don't have to do anything to get skillpoints, the sub cost essentially pays for that. It's likely the same in Dust if you buy passive boosters, but essentially in EVE there is no "grind" because you don't have to work for things (other than the money to buy them). Also, almost none of the skills have training times of two months for such a marginal benefit. These skills as posted before offer benefits such as new ships, new tier 2 modules, etc. all of which Dust lacks.

I don't really want to branch out and try new suits or weapons, the heavy is completely unfinished, and the scout (I have an alt) does not perform the role it was intended to (I was cal-logi before uprising). As I've said, I have 3 Light weapons at prototype, and 2 sidearms at prototype now. My alt has an additional 1 light and 1 sidearm at prototype (scout). I've pretty much tried everything there is (with the exception of tanks). Therefore the grind for additional skills to increase the effectiveness of my play-style is so severe that it will likely burn me out of playing the game in the next 2 or 3 months if nothing is changed. Spending 2-3 months to get my sidearm from level 3 to 5 is not my idea of a fun time.

I hate when people pretend like they actually grinded 3 months for 3 PG. You grinded 1 hour for 3 PG, another 3 hours for 3 more PG, a day for another 3 PG, A week for another 3, and another 2.5 weeks for the last 3 PG. It may have seemed like 3 months because you were getting other things.

Assuming you hit your cap and don't use boosters you can get 380,000 SP a week, it's aprox. 1.5 mil to max out either electronics or engineering, each would take less than a month. A third the time is reduced if you have both boosters. You could get levels 1-5 passively in less than 2 months, so I call bullshit on you. In EVE advanced weapons upgrade level 5 took 50 days..... That was what my subscription bought... 2% reduction in PG usage of weapons.

You need to understand that there will never be enough CPU and PG to fit everything you want, this is where the real skill in fitting comes in.

Also if you keep a long term view of this game, cores are the smartest choice, and they will carry you the longest, and the 3 months to get Electronics and Engineering maxed are worth it.