CCP have decided that the upcoming vehicle changes are significant enough to justify a respec for current vehicle players. This is the right decision. Any time a large and unanticipated change to skills or gameplay occurs, players who invested in one direction under a certain set of rules should be able to reevaluate and adjust their fit to the new reality.

However, there are some who insist that only vehicle SP should be refunded. This is misguided. Here's why:

For every dropship or tank pilot who skilled into vehicles after Uprising, there may be one other person who chose not to because they didn't see the benefit under the vehicle system of the time. This was their choice, and in the absense of a major change they should live with it. But radical changes to the game alter the logic. How could that player have planned for changes that weren't announced or expected? And why is it okay for a vehicle player to skill into entirely unrelated branches (even within the vehicle trees - caldari to gallente for instance), but it's not okay for an infantryman to decided that, in light of the major changes, he'd like to skill into dropships? They both made decisions based on the information they had at the time, but an arbitrary line between infantry skills (unaffected and so no respec) and vehicles (affected and thus respec) means one gets to reevaluate his fit and the other does not.

The reality is that when major changes are made, everyone is affected - those who skilled into something and might not have, and also those who did not but might have.

Either a change is major enough to demand a respec, and is thus major enough to affect everyone, or is relatively minor and no one should be allowed to respec.

There are 2 kinds of Dust-players: People who understand the game - People who want respecs

Every time such a thread pops up I wonder one thing: What do you do with all the SP you got since you started qqing? Do you just leave them? Or do you deliberately spend them on stuff you don't need?