HTFU

I agree with the NPE part. NPE in this game is rather ****. For starters when you try to spend your 500k SP at the beginning you actually can' reallyt, because the skillbooks are so expensive that you run out of isk before you could spend your SP wisely (If you informed youself beforhand and decided on a role). That's kinda stoopid.

And there's other stuff that I agree on.

But I disagree with the respec thing. Respec is bad. It promotes FOTM play. I'd rather they made militia gear for every item. Every suit, every weapon, every module and equipment (e.g. iirc the isn't a militia repair tool or a HMG). And then give you starter fits that are a bit more spread out and show possible roles. Like a scout shorty hacking fit, a real medic fit with a repair tool and a suit that actually has two equipment slots to show ppl that logis go that road, or have a heavy anti armor fit instead of just slapping a swarm launcher on an assault militia suit, and so on.

And tell ppl ingame that they should try different roles with these militia starter fits to find something that suits them before spending SP. And with the battle academy and hopefully the working matchmaking it should be viable to run those fits at the beginning to try out things and not get proto stomped to oblivion.

Even vets could use this. Just make a new disposable char, try out the new role you're interested in because you're now not thrown into matches where this "testing gear" would get you killed faster then you can say protobear.

No it doesn't. The only people being able to follow the current FOTMs are those vets that already have more SP on their chars then they know what to do with. Everyone else that wants to follow the FOTM has to grind it out and then risk it being not the FOTM when they actually have ground up all the SP.

Respec for AUR would give FOTM to everyone and not just those few individuals that don't have a life besides dust.

If CCP ever makes such a thing possible I really hope it costs like 200k AUR or something.



The thing is, you don't want to try out running around with scout suits and a nova knife just to see how it is. If you'd really want to you'd make yourself an alt and waste those 500k SP in basic minmatar scout suits and knova knifes and then play around with it in the academy or thanks to matchmaking against ppl your alts weight class.

What you want to do is getting all your current SP and put it into a protobear nova knife scout fitting and go waste ppl in pub matches for the lolz because you probably have a bajillion isk from playing since closed pre-dawn-alpha or something and don't care if you waste a few mil in proto suits for a weekend.

And that dear sir is the kind of playing I, and many others, don't want to see in this game.



I'm repeating myself. If you want to try out a new playstyle and see if it fits to you, make an alt! Tell that to your friends also if you'd be so kind.

But if you want to run around in the best fitting there is for that role you want to "try" then you bloody well grind those ******* SP like the rest of us.

Don't even understand what the fuss is all about. After you decked out your PC or whatever main fitting what do you intend to do with that SP you still accumulate? It's not like you're getting interests for SP not spent.

Edith: yeah... Argo here. Don't even know why it changed my forum character...