No.

We all know more suits and gear are coming. We still shouldn't get a respec EVER. If Dust ever hit a point where new gear was not added or stats were not changed it would become stale and then die.

Dust is not a short life game like BF or COD. Dust has to evolve and change overtime or else's it won't have a long life.

EVE is an awesome game but the only reason it has survived a decade is because it is always changing. You always have to learn new **** and train new things. I own plenty of games that didn't change or evolve and that's why I don't ever play them anymore.

I don't want Dust to become another game I don't play and that means Dust Will always have to have changes. People who want to cry about respecs every time something changes can play one of the hundreds of other games that allow you to skill up to the max and never have to change anything ever.

Screw that, Dust is hard. Grinding SP is hard. So choosing what to skill into should be a hard decision. Respecs are a crutch and they are bad for the game. Deal with it.

Considering the addition of 2 new Rifles that consume the niches of my 3 favourite rifles, (and the only guns I have the skills to use comfortably without getting stomped) the Burst, Tactical and Laser Rifles, I'd say that 4 of 7 are being reworked in my case. Corporations doesn't count, so it's 4 of 6. However, all of the skill branches could be reworked and we should just "man up" and waste a hundred hours of our lives playing Dust 514 until we keel over to make the millions of wasted SP up. Is this somehow better because EVE was worse? "We aren't putting back your toe when we were supposed to remove your finger. You should just suck it up, man; that guy over there had his whole foot removed. In fact, he's telling YOU to suck it up because, hey, if he suffers, you should too."

Yes, constant respecs allows more players to instantly replicate the FotM builds. Other counters need to be created (you know, such as not making the game balance suck) to counter it. Maybe limit your respecs, so that when you get royally screwed over you can respec.

Rule 1 should cover skills as well. Probably should have put it there in black and white, but c'est la vie, to late now.

Also, as for the whole 'you get stomped if you hold back SP' thing, I've had 1.5 million SP banked since 1.4. I still come out ahead in every fight I'm in. So from personal experience, I'd say that that isn't true.

I only disagree with points 1 and 4.

AR sp should be refunded upon the release of all other rifles, even if the AR's stats were to remain the same. If you want to run a rifle character, you're given the option of wasting SP in order to be competitive up until then, or running inferior gear & not being able to compete whilst SP is saved up.
The same goes for suits. We can't realistically expect heavies to go for months without upgrading their suits just so that they won't be wasting SP. It's only fair to dish out a refund of Amarr heavy dropsuit skillpoints upon the release of any other race's equivalent.

On the issue of slight tweaks, I don't think there should be a partial respec unless the functional role of a weapon, suit or gear is changed. For example, the upcoming changes to vehicles will not change tanks from being tanks, and tankers will still be tankers. (The exception beong that many vehicle skills are expected to change).

No.

We all know more suits and gear are coming. We still shouldn't get a respec EVER. If Dust ever hit a point where new gear was not added or stats were not changed it would become stale and then die.

Dust is not a short life game like BF or COD. Dust has to evolve and change overtime or else's it won't have a long life.

EVE is an awesome game but the only reason it has survived a decade is because it is always changing. You always have to learn new **** and train new things. I own plenty of games that didn't change or evolve and that's why I don't ever play them anymore.

I don't want Dust to become another game I don't play and that means Dust Will always have to have changes. People who want to cry about respecs every time something changes can play one of the hundreds of other games that allow you to skill up to the max and never have to change anything ever.

Screw that, Dust is hard. Grinding SP is hard. So choosing what to skill into should be a hard decision. Respecs are a crutch and they are bad for the game. Deal with it.

I kind of disagree on the weapons/suits part.

Kind of...

If you mean new weapons/suits of the same race, then I can understand why there shouldn't be a respec for that.

However, if you mean new weapons/suits of different races when only one racial weapon previously existed, then I can understand why people support the idea of a respec. But this only brings about one-time respecs which is ok for me as long as it's not a constant feature. Racial symmetry of weapons/suits would be the only reason for me.

For example:

Heavies only have a Minmatar HMG but no Amarr, Caldari, or Gallente variants have been made available yet. Therefore, many heavies were forced into training into the Mimatar HMG. The same thing for the Forge Gun which is a Caldari weapon.

Scouts only have a Minmatar SMG but not Amarr, Caldari, or Gallente variants. The same thing for Nova Knives which only come from the Caldari but no Amarr, Minmatar, or Gallente variants so far.

Vehicles have the same problem. So far, only Gallente and Caldari LAVs, HAVs, and Dropships exist. No Amarr or Minmatar ones yet.

The suits are the same thing. Scouts lack Caldari and Amarr variants. Heavies lack any variant outside the Amarr. No pilot suits. etc.

Rumsfeld: "You go to war with the army you have---not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

I'm not sure of the significance of that quotation.