Like Thundergroove said, This is one concept I could get behind. Since you are not doing a straight "respec" and you are NOT accruing passive SP at the same time, It makes it a much more difficult decision.

Also, I would love to "Forget" all my Sniper skills I'm maxed on since they nerfed the entire playstyle into oblivion (outside the Thales) and put them to actual use.

I would sacrifice 19 days of passive under this framework and get back 2.3M SP, less if passive boosters applied to it.

This would be enough time for me to accrue a paltry amount of SP; I like the concept but I think the speed is too great.

It seems "Re-spec's" will always be an issue of contention in a F2P game model.

What if you could "Un-train" Skill points, bare with me.

What if you could put on hold your passive skill point accumulation, to "Un-train" a skill at 5x the speed you would accumulate from your normal passive SP gain that adds to the total SP value of your character; thus recycling your SP instead of increasing the total value. And let's face it, forgetting something is at least 5x easier then learning it

this will at least give all players a hard choice at the beginning and a clear consequence, and then conception of players choice around the allocation in a persistent free to play game model.


Playing EVE online for over a decade now I get the idea of persistent locked in static skills, I still look back and remember the moment of getting certain skills, ships and achievements in EVE as connected parts of the experience and memory of that hobby.

But with DUST's atmosphere and the nature of this issue never ever going away even in Legion, there has to be some dialogue started on how to give players an option to deal with an unwanted skill or even skills that have been obsoleted to the players intent by on going game development.

What if, more simply, SP investments only lasted 12 months (for example) before timing out and returning to your SP pool? You would effectively 'forget' a skill every 12 months, without loosing the SP credit, and would just retrain that skill, if you wanted to keep it for another year, or train something different.

Because this completely misses the entire point of having a persistent skill system with choices and consequences to unresearched skillpoint allocation.

Not to mention the pain in the rump it would be for those of us who put actual thought and planning into our skill plans having to wast time and effort trying to rebuild our skill plan every 12 months when all our carful planning suddenly gets wiped!

It seems "Re-spec's" will always be an issue of contention in a F2P game model.

What if you could "Un-train" Skill points, bare with me.

What if you could put on hold your passive skill point accumulation, to "Un-train" a skill at 5x the speed you would accumulate from your normal passive SP gain that adds to the total SP value of your character; thus recycling your SP instead of increasing the total value. And let's face it, forgetting something is at least 5x easier then learning it

this will at least give all players a hard choice at the beginning and a clear consequence, and then conception of players choice around the allocation in a persistent free to play game model.


Playing EVE online for over a decade now I get the idea of persistent locked in static skills, I still look back and remember the moment of getting certain skills, ships and achievements in EVE as connected parts of the experience and memory of that hobby.

But with DUST's atmosphere and the nature of this issue never ever going away even in Legion, there has to be some dialogue started on how to give players an option to deal with an unwanted skill or even skills that have been obsoleted to the players intent by on going game development.

Ya... I think you all missed what I was suggesting. I said SP investments might only last 12 months (for example) before timing out. Meaning that SPs invested this June would go back into the pool next June, SPs invested this July would revert next July, etc. There would be no sudden wipe, there would be no need for future respecs and there would still be a semi-persistence to skill set training in that each decision would last at least 12 months (for example).

So instead of having to fix my suddenly wiped skill points once a year, you want to make relearning skills that suddenly disappear to be a constant chore every time I log in? That is even worse.

What makes you think that I wonGÇÖt still need the skill I train today 12 months from now?

So instead of having to fix my suddenly wiped skill points once a year, you want to make relearning skills that suddenly disappear to be a constant chore every time I log in? That is even worse.

What makes you think that I wonGÇÖt still need the skill I train today 12 months from now?

Or just simply raise the weekly SP cap. So easy.....