saying respecs are unbalanced because ccp releases unbalanced weapons is blaming the user for a manufacturing defect.

That's not so much the point I was trying to make. Do you really want to see everyone switching to the FOTM every time there is a shift due to a new weapon, a new balancing patch, or even someone simply finding out a counter to the old FOTM?

Swings like that kill diversity, seem like they would make the game pay to win, and would wreak absolute ******* havoc on the economy that will exist. The cons far outweigh the pros, IMO.

FOTM wouldn't be a problem if ccp would learn how to play test weapons. I stand by my original statement.

FOTM wouldn't be a problem if ccp would learn how to play test weapons. I stand by my original statement.

Respecs for AURUM will only serve to further undermine CCP's claim that Dust is not pay to win. Players who don't have money will be left at a serious disadvantage when faced against players who have fat stacks.

That is still a flawed argument. Yes, killing is fun. Yes, running with the FOTM makes killing easier. Yes, not having the FOTM sucks. If everyone who had money to burn could instantly switch to the FOTM this game would become a lot less fun for us all though. As it stands it takes most people a while to skill into those newly OP weapons which in theory gives CCP time to balance it. Not only would AUR respecs reduce the diversity of game play but it would give a massive advantage to players willing to pay to win.

While it is CCP's fault that there are imbalances it is the players who are responsible for manipulating those issues for the advantage the imbalance provides at the expense of others fun.

It is like the melee glitch. Arianna claims he will keep using it because it "is not a bug" even though CCP has clearly stated that it is. His actions reduce the fun of everyone else he plays against. That being said if people had AUR respecs there would be many more people using this bug, reducing the fun of everyone else in the game. Not only would people be crying and quitting in droves just because of the tactic but they would also be screaming that the game is pay-to-win, and none of us, including you, want that to be true.

The whole respecing whenever you want is stuipid if you are going to have a continuous character, however, people also realize at times they got screwed over especially after academy when they had no idea what in the heck they were doing and how in detail they have to read all the skills. So I am going to list what I think would be a great way for respecs to be like.

-free respec at 5m skill points (enough time for a player to get out of academy play around a little realize they f-ed up and respec)
-free respec at player 3 month play time (After 3 months you realize how many more mistakes you made and very thankfully for this)
-free respec when CCP decides they have switched enough things around to deserve one.

-Can pay for respec every 6 months, can only respec once during the six month period, excluding the free respects. (This would allow for people who just have to have the respec get what they wish for, however, they can't get it unless they wait long enough for it. This would make people hopefully be very careful with how they respec knowing that if they just do FOTM, they will be stuck that way even when the FOTM ends and they just paid for it.

I think this would be a fair and balanced system, where the newb is catered to for the mistakes they are going to make, so they don't feel they have to restart their char entirely. For the people willing to pay for the respec, this makes it so that they can not just choose the FOTM every new month, that this is a paid for second chance to get their skills right, where you could only do it 2 times per year max.

Respecs for noobs at X million SP: been proposed before, still a good idea.

Respecs when a whole crapton of changes get made (I.e., all the racial suits and weapons all come out at once): pretty reasonable

ANY variant of the P2W respec: Game breaking, hell to the f@cking no.

Respecs on some arbitrary rotating schedule - every year, every six months, every lunar eclipse, etc: No. Goes against the basic spirit of the game.

Almost any other respec proposal: Not feeling it. It would have to be VERY costly, losing 1/3 of your SP might be too little.

Respecs on some arbitrary rotating schedule - every year, every six months, every lunar eclipse, etc: No. Goes against the basic spirit of the game.

"fat stacks" is something i do not have, however, CCP should get a run for their respecs.
maybe every sunday 12 PM CST for american servers and 12 PM PST time for european servers there could be a contest where the *bottom* 100 players would get a respec, while the top 10 players would get an ISK reward?

The "spirit of the game" thus far, at least through my eyes, has been waiting arbitrary lengths of time for things to happen, or paying lots of money to halve it. Whether its waiting months for your passive SP + capped active SP (which takes only about an hour a day) to reach several hundred thousand to gain a single percentage in some stat, months for an update, or whatnot.

Not that that's a good thing.

The SP cap is weekly, not daily? More to your point, I'm also in favor of uncapping newer players as well, so they can advance faster and catch up to the rest of us.

The main issue with buying respecs is that as the balance of the game and certain items become OP or the metagame favors a certain fitting the players who have money will buy the respecs and be able to whup the butts of anyone who doesn't re-allocate their SP into the new flavor of the month.

permanent SP allocation makes people have to think for a second on if they really want the skill or if it's not worth it to follow the pack.

Problem with the proposed system is that people will keep switching to fit of the month causing any remaining diversity to die.

It might work if respec lost you a substantial percent of SP. Say 1/3 of SP is lost for respec?

So we all know that sp respecs will probably never come back. They're a pain in the butt for CCP and it takes up alot of time. However, what if CCP was given an incentive for respecs? For example, Spending aurum for a respec ticket. Now question is how much is something like this worth to us. I've asked around my corp and people replied that they would spend the money in a heartbeat if it meant getting that respec. Now I'm guessing something like 10 dollars is fair, or it could be scaled according to how much total life time sp you have. I know that once you go proto in something you eventually get bored and want to try something new. So tell me what you guys think, and please only post serious comments. N7 Operative Anthony out.

FOTM wouldn't be a problem if ccp would learn how to play test weapons. I stand by my original statement.