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Posted - 2013.10.31 20:05:00 -
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No, respecs should not be made available at all, the only, and i repeat only time that something like that should happen is when they overhaul the skill tree, if only certain skills are being changed then refund the sp in that skill if the change requires it, putting in a pay to respec scheme skips a little too close to the p2w line imo. sp investment is significant, you should not be able to just wipe it away whenever, if well timed it have serious repercussions in a pc battle, it will enable those who pay aur to respec into whatever is the current FOTM gear, effectively turning it into a p2w cycle. an eve saying comes to mind, no sp is wasted, a 100,000 you dump into a useless skill might end up saving you a lot of time if you later decide to switch to a role that gets usage out of that skill.
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Jadd Hatchen wrote:gbghg wrote:No, respecs should not be made available at all, the only, and i repeat only time that something like that should happen is when they overhaul the skill tree, if only certain skills are being changed then refund the sp in that skill if the change requires it, putting in a pay to respec scheme skips a little too close to the p2w line imo. sp investment is significant, you should not be able to just wipe it away whenever, if well timed it have serious repercussions in a pc battle, it will enable those who pay aur to respec into whatever is the current FOTM gear, effectively turning it into a p2w cycle. an eve saying comes to mind, no sp is wasted, a 100,000 you dump into a useless skill might end up saving you a lot of time if you later decide to switch to a role that gets usage out of that skill.
And being an EVE player I agree with you on this. In my mind, given enough time, my DUST toon will one day be able to use most proto gear taht I care about using while being able to use the advanced versions of almost everything in the game at some point (maybe years from now, but whatever). So while people complain about how one weapon or vehicle gets nerfed, I just point out that it all goes in cycles. Today it may be bad, but give it enough time and it will become useful again. But in a world of console gaming, is it reasonable to assume that players will stick with this game that long if they are unable to correct the mistakes that they made at the start?
depends on the player tbh, i know alot of people have gotten fed up with the skill system on this game, but then a lot of people like me like it how it is, its a very RPg system where your stats do matter so you better be sure you know what you're doing with them, apart from say 1 optional respec that all new characters get because they're learning the skill system (thats an idea i have some support for) there should be no sp respecs or refunds unless CCP themselves are changing skills radicially enough to warrant it. as a F2P title dust needs to walk a very fine line in regard to paid items and i fear that paid respecs have the potential to be abused and cross that line.
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