Giving a respec in 1.5 or at least 1.6 would save the game for a lot of players
Personally I'd only change a few things I'd still be the same class. It's just over time you changed a lot and I don't need some skills and I need new ones. Hell I'd take a free respec every 6 months or pay arum to ge One with a cool down

I've heard some stupid **** in my day, but never any stupid **** that was quite as self indulgent as this.

Seen this thread hundred of times on the eve forums. No Respec EVER!!!

so what your saying is your a spoiled brat with no patience....noted. No wonder your whole corp turns into a group of howler monkies when you proto stomp.

I just want to keep spreading this out there. A 30 day omega gives you an extra 720,000 SP.

6 months would give you 4.3 mil SP for $192

Sounds like a great deal.

You see, the problem here isn't the skill points. It's the quality of the content we currently have. Do you really think that having respecs would save the game even if we still only have 3 game modes and 9 maps? Sure, the new equipment and play style might make it more fun for a few months, but that isn't the answer. We need content that actually improves the game itself. Such as PVE, a player market, more rewards from PC and more viable weapons and armour than a medium suit and an AR.

well, I think it's been addressed, but here it goes:

respecs broaden the gap between the new and the old players. respecs make subtle balance issues glaringly obvious. when that happens the dev team wastes 3 months rebalancing it, often at the expense of new content and 'quality of life' updates. respecs begat more cries for respecs. they also take away the 'history' of your character. if you know a guy, then you know what he's got skilled, and you're surprised when he kills you with a new weapon. if you can buy a respec, or earn a respec, or receive one in any way, then your character has no history. you might as well be able to change your name.

it's unsatisfying, and turns the game into a 'title' not a 'service'.

when you're playing with a new guy in eve, he tells you that he just saw a ship. the first question you ask is 'what was his name?'. because a characters name matters in eve. he will always be that character, with those skills. he will always fly the ships that he's known to fly, and in the manner that he's known to fly.

lastly, respecs create issues with alts. a guy gets a respec, and all his 15mil sp alts are sitting with unspent sp waiting for the flavor of the month to show itself.

Whilst I agree it might give the game some life for a few months, it's still only a short term answer to a long term problem. This game needs to be interesting enough to hold peoples attention for years on end, but it's current iteration cannot achieve that.

If making the game more fun is what you're looking for then there are countless things other than respecs that can do that.

More unique maps and terrain.
PVE
Training rooms
A more meaningful and interactive connection between Eve and DUST.
More suits, weapons, vehicles, equipment and modules.
Secondary market that players can control.
Industry of some form involving districts.
Battles occurring inside Eve spaceships like titans and player-owned customs offices.
Better communication and coordination with faction warfare Eve pilots so that player-controlled orbitals can happen more often.
Loyalty points and faction gear earned for winning faction battles for any faction you like.
Pirate faction gear that requires at least two races trained up to use.
Ability to roam freely on the planets without needing a battle.

Poor argument considering most of us MUST spend Sp again in order to do anything and most of the players were rather a bit begrudged because they lost out in the end and was no where near as effective as they used to be.

No respecs,the only thing respsecs are going to save currently are the players with buyer's remorse for specing into past FoTM too deeply in the past.

No to respecs.

You made your choices, live with them. That is life. Tough.

Adjust. That is what I did. Rather than cry about skilling into the SCR, I adjusted my playstyle and now, I have to say, I am damn good with it.

More attention needs to be paid to expanding the game's content, not catering to crybabies that messed up on a couple of things and want the slate wiped clean because of it.

You messed up and skilled into something you didn't mean to? Not anyone else's fault but your own, whether you went for FOTM, your grandma accidentally skilled into Amarr heavy when you are a Gallente scout when you weren't looking or you JUST HAD to have that awesome plasma cannon because...well...it LOOKED cool.

I am not one to rant on here, but a constant call for Respecs irritates me. I know that they will never end, only partially subside, but people need to live with the errors they make. If life had a damn respec, I would be a cardiovascular surgeon. Alas...it doesn't work quite like that.

if I got a respec, I would do what I should've done in the first place, get cal assaults with gal ARs! (and ofc join the QQ army)

[EDIT] I specced into scouts nerfed since... ummmmm.... release!

Hey let's put it yet another different way.

CCP makes a mistake designing a suit to be clearly superior to all other suits. Power gaming players spec into it, thinking that CCP will never catch on, that they will have the advantage the suit provides forever. CCP catches on and balances out, not nerfs, balances out the suit to what it was supposed to be in the first place. Idiot players start crying for a respec, and the old guard are happy that justice finally prevailed.

I think that is way more accurate.

@KING CHECKMATE....aren't you in the Amarr FW chat channel? I would have expected better from you tbh.

Don't assume that you "know me", bro. You hinted at your reply that I have become good at using the SCR because I use AA? Tell you what....do me a favor and search my posts. As I have stated, I completely loathe AA. You'll find a couple of my posts about it unless they were deleted by the devs. Imo, all that AA does is give bad players a crutch and makes them feel overconfident in their abilities, which in fact IS being assisted and is...bad.

My opinion is my own and in your eyes, it is invalid. I fully support my opinion. A big NO to respecs. Just because it differs from yours doesn't make it wrong, smart guy.

Assuming is for idiots....bro.

Now I understand. With the advent of auto-aim, speed doesn't mean as much as raw HP. We should be talking about buffing scouts, not giving up on scouts to try other things. Given the weaknesses of stealth, why not give the scout more HP? My little brother plays a proto-scout, and it mostly isn't useful except in a few special cases (activities that don't involve brawls with lots of bullets flying around). Scouts as a class might make more sense if there were larger matches (32v32), but as it is, a winning team can't really afford more than one or two scouts. If they ever get their active camouflage, and it works well enough to enhance their surviveability in an auto-aim brawl, it might work, but right now, a winning team needs heavy hitters.

Jack makes a good point too - about vehicle changes - I would be upset if I was focused on assault dropships and they announced they would be removed for an unspecified period as part of some 'back-to-the-basics' design scheme. That's just sad. It clearly announces that the original plan has been scrapped, and instead of tweaking numbers, they're just going to start over and try again. In light of this, I would be OK with some type of respec-option, as long as it was clearly defined as an (apology)/(thank you) to the testers, and not a permanent element of the game design.

A better option than removing or changing active scanners would be to lower the scout's profile (not all light frames - just the scout suit.) to be able to beat most scanners.

I'd flip the **** out if active scanners got messed with too much, but running a stable active scanner shouldn't let me ping pretty much every scout out there.

With a respec I'll be maxing both scouts.

Gallente for sniping/recon, stealth ops.
Minnie for hit & run, kamikaze, smg r@pe fest, and uplink runner.

I feel dirty when I kill a scout in my assault suit.....

I do think CCP needs to do that game-wide respec the same as when Uprising first hit.

Run dual PLC