As someone who isn't against the general idea of respecs, but thinks they undermine a crucial concept of the game, I'm very eager to find ways to make them work without exploitation.

I had the idea of "respec sp". This would be SP, earned just the same as regular SP, only used to remove spent skill points from skills, freeing it up to be spent elsewhere.

This kind of SP could be earned post-cap. Once you hit your cap for the week, you would be given the option of carrying on in the current system, earning the reduced 1000 max sp per match. Or you could choose to earn this "respec sp" at the pre-cap rate.


I had this idea weeks ago, but with afk farming so prolific, I decided this suggestion would only exacerbate that problem.
However, now that 1.4's patch notes express CCP's intention to finally combat afk faming, I feel this idea could now be viable.

Share your thoughts fellow mercs.

as long as they have to sacrifice a large portion of their sp for the respec..

As someone who isn't against the general idea of respecs, but thinks they undermine a crucial concept of the game, I'm very eager to find ways to make them work without exploitation.

I had the idea of "respec sp". This would be SP, earned just the same as regular SP, only used to remove spent skill points from skills, freeing it up to be spent elsewhere.

This kind of SP could be earned post-cap. Once you hit your cap for the week, you would be given the option of carrying on in the current system, earning the reduced 1000 max sp per match. Or you could choose to earn this "respec sp" at the pre-cap rate.


I had this idea weeks ago, but with afk farming so prolific, I decided this suggestion would only exacerbate that problem.
However, now that 1.4's patch notes express CCP's intention to finally combat afk faming, I feel this idea could now be viable.

Share your thoughts fellow mercs.

no respecs ever

as long as they have to sacrifice a large portion of their sp for the respec..

Is this spent on a full respec or is it purchase the skill with respec points to remove it and get sp back

re-specs are desired because of ccp's lack of ability to create a finished product before releasing it to the general gaming population.
If they are going to continue to release stuff and then drastically change it a month later there will always be a demand for res-ecs. Release a iteam and then leave it alone and then hold people to their descisions.

I'll support this.

I'm not really for respecs but this could work. I had another post (long buried now) that gave an idea for respecs. Perhaps a combo of these could work? After all there has to be a negative to it.

Simply put you could select a skill. That skill would have all SP removed from it. The SP would be stored separate minus 1/3 of its total. You would then have to earn back a total equaling that 1/3 in sp. Once that happens the stored SP (the 2/3) would be deposited into your unallocated SP total. So in the end you lose 1/3 of the SP but still have the exact total that was on the skill.

So think this could work with your idea?

Wow.

I was totally against respects, now I am all for it, as long as it is done with your proposed system.

Well done,