Can only be done once per year. Why is this not implemented yet?

Because it gives no merit to any choice in skills you make when you know there is a easy way out button a few months down the line.

the respec thing boils down to a few factors

people get bored.. and they dont want to wait 3 months to try something new.

you have to spend millions of SP and months of waiting just to try something new and see if you like it, thats a huge risk and that why you see so many AR Assault/logis running around. it works and even if you get bored you have a pretty stable playstyle that will always be viable.

other playstyles like heavy are risky, if you go with a basic heavy with basic stuff your not going to be terribly effective and it doesnt give you a good view of how the class is going to perform over the long run.

a novaknife scout is a sidespec for most of us who occasionally run them, we never know update to update weather its still going to work so we use a half effective version of it for fun but not as a serious playstyle (there are a few who go die hard novaknife all the time, but they are rare)

basically not having respecs in a game with this SP system means that you will losemost of the variety in a game built for variety, people will be stable and predictable.

thats why the AR is king, not becuase its the best weapon, but because its the safest weapon to learn and use. its predictable and will always be viable.

a limited respec would alow people to try out new playstyles at their peak and would intropduce some variety to gameplay, and while its true that it would also produce FOTM chasers thats not actually a bad thing because its a good indication of whats overpowered rather then whats overused like we have now.

Some kind of practice mode would be more reasonable for that purpose.

You don't have to go full proto in order to "try something new." In fact--shocker!--you can try something new with the standard tier. ~200k sp (ONE WEEK) for Advanced. GTFO with nonsense arguments that you have to wait so long to try something new. It's an old and tired argument that nobody believes anymore.

The fact that there are FOTM chasers says something is off about the game in general. This is NOT a hardcore game, the tactical decisions are limited and the only true thing about this "game" is that it often time feels like work. Having the need for grinding does not make a game good, having decisions "matter" doesn't matter because it is a game. The FPS that this game is most like would be MAG and it seems to be dying just as fast. The FPS crowd does not want a grind game, and you do not gain new people by having a grind game. New guy comes in can now kill people with the change to AIM assist, but if he wants to try something new out he is looking at 2 weeks of grinding with the same set-up he wants to get away from....which is when you turn a game into a job.

We don't want scrubs like that anyway! This game isn't lacking numbers or anything....and I love how people call Aldin a scrub...Respecs allow people to experiment and increases the joy of the game. Dust differs from EVE a bit because the battles are here and now and you cannot do laundry....wait... I see, if we allow respecs we will diminish AFKers as well, but we don't really want to improve the game, we want to keep the idea that we are badass and this game makes decisions matter...