They've refunded skills in certain areas after major changes plenty of times. Or at least reworked the skills.

But the major difference is that Dust doesn't have all the racial suits released yet. When they are all released they should give a respec.

So has mine. But you don't need a respec. You can play the game more, and earn more skill points, and unlock new and additional suits. The right thing, is for CCP to man up, and finally refuse to give in to these silly demands.

I really hope there is no respec whatsoever just to spite the whiners.

That's their 'free' to play business model: keep completely changing what you speced into so you have to infinitely buy boosters to spec into the type of class you want. I wanted to play an infiltrator logi and now I have to spend another 2-3 million sp to be able to play that role because they completely changed the purpose of my suit. I have put up with lots of skill tree changes and not demanded a respec, but this has gone too far for me.

That's their 'free' to play business model: keep completely changing what you speced into so you have to infinitely buy boosters to spec into the type of class you want.

Every time there's a new suit or new gear there should not be respecs.

This right here is called expectation management, Soraya. Follow along carefully. A player buys aurum and spends aurum on boosters. Those boosters give him SP which is used to purchase skills he finds valuable. CCP comes along and makes those skills less valuable or makes other skills more valuable.

Most people saying "no" to respecs are just scared that more players will be able to specialize into good prototype fits and give them a challenge in pub matches.

1) All the more reason CCP has to encourage people to get more SP rather than reallocating what they have. Somewhere along the way, we do need people to actually pay for this game.

Do you think this is a one time thing? This is an online game, as new suits are added, balance passes are made, these features will shift and change constantly. Get used to it. And you don't need a respec every time.

Then they need to change the business model to a monthly subscription. Right now the business model is dependent on them constantly changing the skill tree so everyone has to constantly buy boosters to get where they need to be.

So you're advocating a full respec every month? For every nerf, a respec? Because every nerf makes skill points in something less valuable. CCP definitely broke it's expectation management with you. :/

Disagree, all standard level infantry and vehicle racial variants need to exist first. Give that a final respec and move forward from there barring any large rework of skills.

This right here is called expectation management, Soraya. Follow along carefully. A player buys aurum and spends aurum on boosters. Those boosters give him SP which is used to purchase skills he finds valuable. CCP comes along and makes those skills less valuable or makes other skills more valuable.

Now that player feels cheated out of his money. You honestly believe he should just HTFU or do you believe he will keep spending anyways? Nope. That's not how this works. CCP tied money to SP and they now have an expectation to keep that SP valuable. They don't have to do anything, but their choice does effect future purchases.

Like mine. I quit spending money after BPO fuckery began. These potential changes aren't exactly making me crack open my wallet any time soon either.

Nope. A lot of people saying they want respecs are the protostompers, because they want to continue to dominant lower SP players, without having to actually gain any more SP themselves.

Most of the people crying for respecs already have 30+ mil SP, lol.

Core gameplay was basically done in the game when a heavy suit, an assault suit, a logi suit, and a scout suit existed. All the rest of them are just variations, more or less.

Sorry, they aren't just variations. The difference between racial logi suits for example is huge. Bonus to fitted equipment pg/cpu on gal logi vrs. bonus to hacking speed on min logi? Completely different game play style for the two suits.

This right here is called expectation management, Soraya. Follow along carefully. A player buys aurum and spends aurum on boosters. Those boosters give him SP which is used to purchase skills he finds valuable. CCP comes along and makes those skills less valuable or makes other skills more valuable.

Now that player feels cheated out of his money. You honestly believe he should just HTFU or do you believe he will keep spending anyways? Nope. That's not how this works. CCP tied money to SP and they now have an expectation to keep that SP valuable. They don't have to do anything, but their choice does effect future purchases.

Like mine. I quit spending money after BPO fuckery began. These potential changes aren't exactly making me crack open my wallet any time soon either.

Nothing larger than the differences made in any given ship rebalance pass in EVE. Think about general cargo hauler ships that suddenly became ammo-only haulers.

As pointed out already, this game is not eve online. Most importantly, eve online does not monetize it's SP so the comparison is apples to oranges.

Core gameplay was basically done in the game when a heavy suit, an assault suit, a logi suit, and a scout suit existed. All the rest of them are just variations, more or less.

Or they just refund the difference like they did last time.

No full respecs, just DS respecs if anything at all.

It was a FULL Respec for pilots

Yeah, no.

The last respec for vehicles was a FULL refund that refunded all skills under the Turret Operation, Vehicle Command, and Vehicle Upgrades tree.

It was a FULL Respec for pilots

So why are you so upset if people get to play the variation they prefer?

Why do you think that full racial representation isn't important in the EVE universe?

Racial representation doesn't have a large impact on gameplay relevance (given that your race or who you fight for has no bearing on what gear you use), these are simply different variants of the heavy, logi, assault, scout suit types we've already had.

It's not about people playing the variation they prefer, it's about people getting to change the variation they play frequently with no cost to doing so. It encourages the rampant spam of whatever the fit of the month is, and doesn't even require that one earn new SP to do it.