Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
League of Infamy
407
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Posted - 2014.02.01 01:11:00 -
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DUST is not EVE anymore than World of Warcraft is Warcraft 3 or Hearthstone. They share the same universe but I don't think stating "EVE doesn't do respecs" is a little pointless. This game is far, far more Arcade like than EVE though still not nearly as much as most other FPS. Just the concept that the average player in DUST kills farrr more people in a single match than the average EVE player is involved in kills a week. The only refund that I know about in EVE is when Learning Skills went away. But that amounted to several million SP to EVERY single character. Just getting rid of it and saying "your time would have been better spent lighting your own farts" wouldn't have gone over well. So far, I have been involved in 2 full respecs and 1 partial refund.
First was May 14th when the game officially released. The next was about two weeks later because CCP made several mistakes in the tree. In order to get Vehicle Shield Modules, you needed to skill both into Dropsuit Shields and Vehicle Shield Modules. Even worse is that Vehicle Engineering flat-out lied what it was supposed to do and CCP didn't do a great job explaining to the community what was happening with it. It read that it gave 5% PG per level. Great, so people obviously are going to max it because PG was a massive problem. It wasn't doing anything, CCP responded that "it is not currently working as intended but it is meant to so don't worry." Great, so everyone drops points into it. Well, it turns out that the skill instead made it takes less CPU to fit PG modules. In other words, nearly useless. That was a voluntary respec; "send message here for to get a respec." Finally, Vehicle Skills were refunded last patch.
This shows that CCP is willing to give respecs and refunds when there are drastic changes. You add a Rail Rifle and a Combat Rifle, no change. You add 6 Heavy Suits, 2 Light Suits, tie Racial dropsuits and weapons together, and re-vamp what a logistics does (some would view to be more inline with what a support is meant to do), it seems to me that a refund for at least Dropsuit Commands and Weaponry is in order. Of course, if you walk that far, why not go one step further and refund all three Infantry Skill Trees.
What happens when all racial dropships are released, an Amarr/Gallente Heavy weapon, a Caldari Heavy weapon meant for Infantry killing, a Caldari/Minmatar/Amarr 'Shotgun', or Amarr/Gallente/Minmatar Sniper Rifle? It certainly needs to happen since Assault/Commando get bonuses for using their racial weapons, so the only game in town for being a Sniper is Caldari. Do you just refund the skills put in those weapons to all those that send a ticket?
Arguing that a respec shouldn't happen because of FOTM issues is like saying "the IRS shouldn't give tax refunds because people will spend the money on prostitutes and drugs." |
Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
League of Infamy
409
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Posted - 2014.02.01 01:44:00 -
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Damian Crisis wrote:i would like a respec for my original character but my original character is only like a week old but I already made crappy decisions. Mind you, as a newbie, I made and deleted a character like FIVE TIMES and by now I got the gist of it and happy with how I'm starting this character already. I'm no longer indecisive and know how to play my role, so I'm happy either or. I do hope for a respec though to make everyone happy.
Deleting a character is, generally, not the best way to go. The only reason I can think of to delete a character is if you have played less than a week and spent your 500,000 SP on things that are literally useless like Dropsuit Upgrades 5 or Dropsuit Command 4/5.
Even if you put your points into turrets when you are a ground pounder, you may want to use vehicles later so those points are not wasted. |