the devs have answered several times.

ccp doesn't do respecs. zipper does.

Message from Godin: Stop being such self-entitled pricks and be lucky they aren't resetting you for being dicks to them all the time........

Message from Godin: So a complete redo of the skill tree, not just a reduced skill level change, plus a complete overhaul of said vehicles, and you don't see the difference? Riiight

The problem I see with giving everyone a respec is that a lot of players would abuse it. Only those that deserve a respec are vehicle pilots that will remain vehicle pilots and infantry that want to become vehicle pilots. But of course, nobody can prove that they fall under either of these two categories. A lot of infantry players would use this respec to either skill into the new FOTM or further improve their skills because they made a mistake with a skill or two. In the first case, it's not healthy for players to spec into the FOTM and in the latter case, their decisions to skill up an unnecessary skill would not be consequential.

This respec for vehicle skills only is not perfect, but it won't be as disastrous as if everyone were given a respec. There's just no way to differentiate between those that need a respec and those that will abuse it to their own advantage. There's a lot more infantry than pilots, and pilots skilling out of vehicles into the new FOTM won't be as terrible as allowing everyone to skill into the new FOTM.

Well, most infantry didn't have to suffer for 6 months straight, and most infantry wouldn't want to be pilots in the first place. And if they did, they would've skilled into it. Plus, It's not like we have a choice; many of the skills inside of the vehicle skill trees are either getting removed, or getting completely changed, so We needed to get a respec, or lose SP due to said skills being removed, or skills completely changing due to said changes.

Like I said, stop being self-entitled pricks, and stop asking.

They do care what we think. But in case you didn't notice: Not everybody is in favor of a respec. There are at least as many people who are against it as there are people who want one. Then there are the ones who just don't care. And then there is the point that the last skill respec was because the game got officially released. And the point that you get SP all the time and instead of QQing you can just wait a few weeks.

Pilots can skill out of vehicles because the whole vehicle tree was changed. They didn't have another choice because some of the old skills don't even exist anymore. That wouldn't translate to 1.7 without a respec.

And well: Everybody still has the same options. You can, even as an infantrist, just wait a few weeks and spend your next SP into vehicles. Nothing is stopping you from doing this. Why do you think you should instantly be able to spec the whole vehicle tree to level 5 even though you only played as an infantrist so far?

Message from Godin: Look, it's already been decided. You're not getting one, nor is any other infantry player. It doesn't matter what you say, they're not giving you one. And seeing this, if you skilled mostly into medium frames (seeing how you're acting, I'm assuming so), then you're not getting one when they bring in the racial Light Frames and Heavy Frames. The only time you'll probably get one is when tiercide happens in the year 2020. Just stop asking........

Everyone had basic Proto suit's then because you had to. This wasn't an optional choice to go into a specific weapon or FOTM.

This wass a forced choice by CCP to make everyone spend over 1 million skill point's on a skill point sink for something no one could escape from leveling into. It was a respec for 99% of the people who where affected.

A respec now would cater to a very small percentage of people that would even "need" it.

This argument falls apart soon as you start talking about player mistakes. This isn't a case of pilots spending SP without forethought and then crying about it til they get a respec. If it was I'd just say HTFU. This respec is because CCP apparently created skills without forethought and is now trying to rectify that by removing some of the skills we've already invested in

Yeah, so maybe they plan to redo infantry and then offer them the same deal in 1.8 or 1.9? In that case, there'd be no issue.