Jadd Hatchen wrote:Maken Tosch wrote:No. No respecs outside of skill/suit/vehicle overhauls. That's final.
Ok, you are entitled to your opinion. Can you please enlighten me as to how you got to that opinion?
1. It reinforces the negative stigma that pay-to-win carries. CCP said that Dust 514 is not going to be pay-to-win mainly because they want to avoid that stigma. Flashing pay-to-win in a video game is like flashing a copy of Playboy Magazine in the middle of an evangelical church. The reaction will definitely not be positive.
2. Welcome to New Eden. We have only three rules here. These rules have been around for 10 years. Get use to it.
1) Adapt or Die.
2) Don't use what you can't afford to lose.
3) Accept the permanent consequences of your choices.
3. CCP has already been generous enough to hand out partial SP refunds for overhauling vehicles in this current build as you have seen. They will likely be kind enough to hand out another set of partial SP refunds for overhauling the dropsuits and finally bringing in racial parity for weapons and suits.
4. To reinforce point #3, this allows you to finally spec into that one racial suit you have been waiting for after getting tired of wearing that suit from that dreaded race you always hated. Not every heavy suit in the game is a fan of the Amarr, BTW. That said, not every scout likes the Gallente or Minmatar. But we didn't have much a choice back then, did we? No. We scouts were only given two races (Gallente or Minmatar) while the heavies practically had no choice at all (Amarr only). So once the remaining suits come in, we are likely going to get only a limited SP refund for suits so we can finally pick the race we were waiting for. That's the only exception I can make for respecs.
5. Beyond overhauls and racial parity, I'm going to reinforce the third rule stated in point #2. General respecs on demand (whether free or paid) will undermine the point of the game in which your choices matter. In order for your choices to have meaning, you need to have permanent consequences. If you can just undo those consequences, than your choices had no meaning.
6. Respecs on demand will negatively affect CCP's income source (Boosters) since anyone with 10 million SP or more will simply swap to another specialty without further investment into cross training. Eve Online subscriptions can only cover Dust development for so long. By the way, Eve players wouldn't like it at all to see their subscription money being used to fund a pay-to-win game when they themselves don't like pay-to-win.
7. To reinforce point #6, this will also cheapen the value of skill points. Having any more than 10 million SP will just become pointless since 10 million is usually all it takes to max out one specialty.