You deserve a respec because there is new free content? I don't get this mindset.

So you chose a logistics suit for a bonus that didn't make any sense in the face of its intended role, of which there was a general consensus among players that it shouldn't have been there in the first place and that people have been waiting to be removed for almost half a year now.*

Was the logistics part of the suit even a central part of your decision making? If yes, then you still have your relevant core and EQ skills so that your suit will still fill its intented role decently and you can switch to your now preferred racial variant with minor hiccups. A respec would ease the pain but is hardly necessary.

If not, then I have very little simpathy for the emotional argument you bring forth.

* I'm not entirely happy with the specific changes to my logi suit either but that has no bearing what so ever on the wholly unrelated subject of respecs. If you disagree with the changes to the extent that you'd rather switch your class than keep playing the class, then asking for a respec is just avoiding the underlying issue, not solving it.

Thanks for the level headed reply.

I personally think that the drama we currently have, for the most part, could have been avoided and falls mainly under CCP's responsibility.

Many players find themselves with the prospect of having millions of SP invested in gear they won't use, because the old bonuses often failed to define a clear niche for the play style they were supposed to encourage and there's little they could do about it besides using foresight in a rather volatile environment.

With that said. The changes, while not perfect, pose a great leap in the right direction to give every frame the role it was supposed to promote all along. The roles have not so much been changed but rather fleshed out and the overall approach to fitting and playing the different classes, according to their intended role, has not changed on a fundamental level.

While i wouldn't throw a fit if a partial respec happened, the extend of these changes alone doesn't seem to mandate one (let alone a full refund). Both because it would be a precedent for future cases of suit/vehicle+skill bonus changes which will inevitably happen and because there's no reason to refund whole trees that are not affected in any direct way.

The only full refund i feel would be unequivocally for the better of Dust would be with the release of all missing racial variants. Doing this would help getting a balanced and diverse composition of suits/vehicles on the battlefield which should enrich the gameplay overall. Even the player market and economy would profit profit from a clean slate.*

I dearly hope this will be the case with 1.8 so this ongoing discussion can finally end. i've been around for two full respecs now and i didn't feel either had improved the game in any meaningful way. Quite the opposite.

The funny thing is: At that time i was the very kind of new player these respecs are supposed to help.

*Note that i am not talking about any individual player but about Dust as its own ecosystem.

I think people need to stop worrying about what other people are rolling and just enjoy the ufckin game, and if you notice that somethings OP just call it out like you already do and let CCP do their thing.

Here is my opinion, and something everyone should think about. Of course I would like a respec, change some things and not spec into things that turned out to be bad or not fitting fir my play style, this problem however could be forever gotten rid of if there was a way to test out things before you bought them in some sort of training planet. As far as new things coming out or changing, or new variants of suits a respec shouldn't be given. New things come out all the time, take the last car you bought, when the new model comes out you don't get a full refund so you can go spend it on the newest and best model. You just have tosave up and then get the new shiny weapon or suit that you want. So keep playing and earn the new toys, stop looking for a free hand out.

Go ahead and troll me Dust Bunnies...

Respecs are like unlimited cake supply; it might taste good but you get fat and lazy.

hot dog! only 2 more pages till a full respect. the million clone event is supposed to be CCP's way of saying no respec, but here is enough SP to get any one new thing you want to proto.

I like the idea and event. but CCP your gonna have to give me at least 2 million SP to forget about a respec. lets barter