Im going to put it in simple terms. This is a FREE to play MMO, the "hook" of the game is skilling into what you want to play and use. Its all about the long term investment. The best way to keep people playing is to keep releasing new stuff for you to have to skill into, or to purpously change the meta so you have to skill into something else.This causes FRUSTRATION and forces some players to spend MONEY on the game to expediate their SP gain. yes some players will leave, but they likely wernt payiong for the game anyway.

IF CCP gives a full respec, then there will be 100s of players who will get thei suit they want instantly and have very little reason to grind SP except to get proficincy 5 or something. That is a huge net loss of potetial income for CCP. This will cause quicker burn out and then they REALLY will quit, not because they didn't get a respec, but because the grind was over in an instant and they have nothing to shoot for other than a better KDR. Its the fundimental baisis of MMOs people.

I believe I presented a reason for a dropsuit skill refund (I'll use the more correct term). Twice. Your statement about how "People who skilled into proto" on the Amarr heavy "must have liked it" otherwise they could have just used the militia one demonstrates a lack of ability to understand it.

They liked *a* heavy suit. The only one. They like playing a heavy suit with heavy weapons. I'll repeat it, not the Amarr heavy, the only heavy, that was the suit they liked.

If they stuck with militia, well, it's still the Amarr heavy, and they would still have been waiting, gettting crushed every game in the gimped heavy suit for 1-2 years, no bonuses, no ability to spend SP on anything else because you can't fit better stuff on a militia suit.

So, they would have been playing this "MMO" with no ability to actually level up, for 2 years? No progression, no unlocking better items, just playing the basic mode over and over again. Sounds fun, please sign me up.

Do you actually believe that is a viable use of someones time? And, that it is the most appropriate way to approach a lack of basic content being included in a game that was billed as the "FPS in the EvE universe" with it's 4 competing factions that you could fight for on the ground and influence? (As opposed to say, well, I'll just use this placeholder for now until they release the racial suits and let me exchange it?)

If you really think that it is more reasonable for someone to use just the starter gear (in a game built around progression to better gear) and wait for over a year for what is baseline content - again, for the reading comprehension impaired, New Eden and the link between the 2 games is based on the premise of 4 warring factions - to be released, then no, you cannot be reasoned with. That's an idiotic basis for your argument.