FOTM:
Perhaps CCP should get better at balancing, so we wouldn't have this probem? Also this comes back to my post about how this vehicle respec gives advantages to pilots, why should pilots be able to skill into FOTM, but not infantry as well? CCP should be treating all of their players fairly, and a vehicle respec won't do that.

Players getting to re-do mistakes:
Again, why should pilots get to spend their SP (in infantry skills) based on the current situation, while infantry can't? Again, this is an unfair advantage to pilots.

CCP HAS to do a full respec unless they're forcing the refunded SP to be used where it came from (I don't support this option).

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 I like how they haven't justified why they're only doing a vehicle respec. Although that is only because they can't justify it.

They're letting pilots skill out of vehicles, but not infantry into vehicles. Sounds really legit.

Changes are major enough for pilots to get a second chance to decide to skill into vehicles or not, that's fine, however since the changes are this major infantry should get the same chance. How could people know what vehicles would be like in 1.7 when they spent their SP?

If people say infantry shouldn't be able to skill into vehicles, then don't allow pilots to skill out of vehicles either. It's that simple.

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.

There is no plan to redo infantry, not for the foreseeable future at least, plus it took them what, 4 months to redo vehicles? I'm sure it would take more than that to redo infantry completely then.

Also then we'd just be back at the same issue as infantry then would get unfair advantages over pilots...

Ehm, I've never said anything about pilots shouldn't get a respec. I'm saying that unless everyone else get a respec as well, pilots will be getting unfair advantages.

It's not about infantry wanting a respec because they messed up their skills. It's about getting a respec so that infantry has a chance and a choice (not neccesarily taking it) to skill into vehicles, just as pilots have the chance and choice to skill out of vehicles.

Now it seems peculiar to not talk about such a subject, even though the CPM have asked you about this. If its not in the works already it won't be because 1.7 is too close, but it would be nice to know where we stand.

Also, remember when everyone could apply for a respec because of the minor infantry changes? Everyone seems to be keeping that one quiet.

Now it seems peculiar to not talk about such a subject, even though the CPM have asked you about this. If its not in the works already it won't be because 1.7 is too close, but it would be nice to know where we stand.

Also, remember when everyone could apply for a respec because of the minor infantry changes? Everyone seems to be keeping that one quiet.

You mean the "minor" infantry changes where several core skills had completely different passives from what the description said they gave, or had passive benefits in the description which weren't really there?

Pretty sure there was a legitimate reason to let people re-allocate their skills after blatantly lying about what their SP had poured into.