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Posted - 2014.02.19 12:36:00 -
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I wrote:Now lets put it in other terms. Lets say I bought a plane because I wanted to fly, but then you switch my plane and give me a boat. Both are vehicles but both vehicles have different purposes and that is what has happened with the suits. It's not that I bough a jet and you switched it for a cesna to make it fair because it's a cesna game. It's because I bought a plane to fly with and you gave me a boat that is used for a completely different purpose.
While I wouldn't necessarily have argued on the pro-respec side if it was just tweaks to the stats and numbers of Dropsuits, equipment and weapons, I have to agree that since the actual bonuses changed to entirely different things, a respec is at the least an option that should be considered by CCP.
Many people don't know this but eve has had a lot of changes to the ships in these last couple of cycles of ship re-balancing but those changes where numerical for the most part so where before you had a 5% bonus to shield resistance per level, now you have 4%. Where you had a 10% boost to webber range, now you have 40% to better fulfill it's role.
Now back to Dust. These changes that are being made are at the core of the suits themselves. CCP; you are not tweaking numbers, you are changing the whole concept of each dropsuit. Imagine for a moment that you trained your minmatar logi for the hacking bonus, which many did, then all of the sudden instead of being a hacking suit you have a repping suit that does not fit your playstyle. Now lets put it in other terms. Lets say I bought a plane because I wanted to fly, but then you switch my plane and give me a boat. Both are vehicles but both vehicles have different purposes and that is what has happened with the suits. It's not that I bough a jet and you switched it for a cesna to make it fair because it's a cesna game. It's because I bought a plane to fly with and you gave me a boat that is used for a completely different purpose.
Now, just because I am pro-respec at this moment doesn't mean I agree with respecs in general because I don't and I have made peace with the posibilty of not having one. But for this instance, I believe that suits where change in a fundamental way that will completely change the way they are used, not because they where tones down like the cal logi was when it was OP but because they changed the way they all function.
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