OK here is why a RESPEC needs to happen. First off Nanohives are now completely useless. you nerfed them so bad there is no point in using them or having the skills for them. You go to a proto nanohive and go to get ammo and you get like a full clip before it pops. Yeah thats so useful -_-. Drop uplinks they are completely useless. Even proto dropuplinks have a positive timer on them which basically is a sick joke if not a glitch so thanks for trolling us CCP on that now it time to give us our sp and isk back on skill for that. Oh dont forget the completely useless rep tools now with their nerfed range. also so many weapons were nerfed to a point that they might as well have removed those weapons from the game completely since they are no longer useful. For instance the duvolle tac rifle. All in all CCP you have royally screwed over so much of the game that your dwindling player base will continue to dwindle unless you either A start listening to us (which wont ever happen) or B give a FULL respec.

way i see it thats the problem they keep changing things but they arent making the game the way they want to not like you believe anyways. They are making the game the way they believe the player base wants based on QQers in the forums that spend more time in the forums than they do actually playing the damn game. Thats the problem i have with CCP and their nerf hammer. So way i see it so long as they plan continue to nerf things within the game based on information from people who dont play the game then they should continue to give full respecs because the REAL players of this seemingly dying game will continue to leave and play other games.

Its not just the weapons and suits, when CCP offer a respec they should also refund equipment, I had 80 Amar sentinel suits when 1.8 was deployed. I wanted to respec into Minmitar but as I had 80 Amar suits which cost 100 AUR a time, I ended up going Amar.

Throwing my hat in with the,

"Why aren't you giving a respec to the other >30 things you significantly altered and then the >40 things that have also been affected by the <10 things you did respec"

crowd.

I mean, how, by what logic, would you even, not? Though I'm OK with waiting for the dust of this patch to settle before all that.

Being an EVE player as well, they get a respec once a year.

This is very accurate. Even though grinding is encouraged by CCP there are many things that long time players switching classes will not easily be able to fit their suits appropriately. If the player was around in Closed Beta they may have accumulated enough SP to have almost all the appropriate tanking, supporting and DPS skills and assigned them...unfortunately for the CB players, they were reset to 0SP upon the launch of Open Beta.

To summarize, Full respec for everyone who wants it should be available, not for aurum, not for a please and thank you, make sp invested into skills an adjustable slider.