Mostly because even after the heavy nerf goes live I don't want to have to re-distribute all those points? I'm happy with my choices and don't want to have to go redo everything.

Now if CCP offers an opt-out of respec, I care a lot less. but I don't want to spend an hour trying to remember what I had where.

Wut

You filthy swine!

They are NOT needed....... if u have 50,000,000+ sp.

Seriously? Y'all want respecs after every Hotfix.

So far I've only seen that peeps with a high amount of sp don't want respecs while people with around 10m-25m do. There is not really a reason to disagree with a respec other than you don't want other players to spec into something that might give you trouble or annoy you. It's lazy and selfish.

"You don't need one because I don't need one".

Respecs require some work client side, Which is not going to happen because legion ruined more peoples trust then just their players but also sony. Now that thats on CCPs record I doubt anybody else will support them after lying to sony. Dust may not ever get a client side fix (Respec) ever again.

I have publicly stated in the past, more than once, that I think respecs are horrible horrible things that should never ever happen ever ever. Skill points are always increasing, and it's easy to get new roles as your skill points expand. Respecs, in my opinion, just encourage Fit-Of-The-Month speccing. And contrary to popular belief, it will not kill you to use a standard or advanced suit for a while.

That being said, if you want one, you guys need to make a centralized and clear demand for it, not a spamfest that just gets removed, locked, or banned. Feedback/Requests would be the best place for such a thing.

The big thing is that respecs are very hard to do optionally, and are generally coupled with major releases. (My personal guess: If skill points transfer to Legion, you'll get to spend them again, for instance.) A lot of people actually find respecs very irritating, because they have to reset everything so they can play again. Optional respecs are very time consuming because they have to be done through the ticket system.

Sure, but in General Discussion, Logibro will o_o at you and lock your thread because it doesn't belong there.

My personal opinion is that you already invested it. Whether you invested it well or badly, you're kinda past that point once you've spent it.

...I'm not sure the Swarm Launcher deserves my precious SP anymore...

Though CCP will never come out and state this, they will not give a SP refund because it would discourage Aurum/Booster sales.

The very nature of the SP system is designed around not having respecs. Which is why they're never offered in EVE, unless the skill in question is actually removed from the game. (Which happens extremely rarely.)

Games have respecs because they have a cap on skill or talent points you can spend, so you occasionally need to redistribute them. But games with infinite SP like EVE and DUST it is intended for you to continue to play to unlock additional roles and abilities.

I can't trade my Bachelor's Degree in Game and Simulation Programming for one in Computer Science just because I work in IT instead of game development. If I want a different degree, I have to go back to school. Similarly, your clone learns new things over time, it can't just change what it already learned into something else.

I dont EVEN NEED A RESPEC, but every time I get one this game has some new air to it, me being able to use different stuff!

I say, "Yay," to respecs.

For me there are only two circumstances that respecs and partial respecs might be considered as possibly required. When an entire branch of the skill tree has had to be changed such as when the LLAV's had to be removed. Or when racial parity in a weapon or suit class is going to be achieved, for example if the other races sniper rifles should make an appearance.

If as a result of any upcoming changes I feel a respec is warranted, I'll of course support it but if I think it's going to lead to another FOTM situation that might lead to yet another scramble calls for respecs 6 months down the road, then I be more reluctant to do so.

because it makes the choices you made in the skilling of your Merc meaningless.

On that note I have to mention pistol parity. I invested well over 3 million SP in the Scrambler Pistol when it was the only pistol in early uprising. When do we get a sidearm tree repec?

Suddenly going from heavy logi and assault numbers to a sway in heavy and light frames. Plus saying it adds diversity is obviously a lie as everyone gravitated to the Cal and Gal scout based on the numbers.

I don't want the FOTM followers to swap into the next op build. then we will have 90% of the community running the same fit again..

Why can't you save up some SP for your new spec as well then?

But Ripley! That SP will always be there in case you ever want to use the assault rifle again!

Please don't put words in my mouth. My answer would be: You used that SP. It has been used. SP is a one-time use currency. Want more? Go earn more. Not complain about how you spent what you had before.

Because they do respecs one player at a time and even if had the full team it would take far too many man hours.

If anything I would propose paid respecs. Much rather do that than buy those boosters. Even thought now i have 80k aur I need to burn.

I just got my 4th assault proto.

I know.. They all suck, but amarr is fun to dink around with.. Stay away from minmatar it's terrible. I don't mean lore wise I mean the fitting is yeah it's something..

Beta players are assholes. Not all, but most seem to be. They do not care that, of those that didn't flat out quit, many of the newer players without stupid amounts of SP get wrecked through months of investments by these sudden changes per patch that completely change your choices. It's never been about living with choices or FOTM, that's just the excuse. It's always been about feeling like since you have been around longer you should be able to punish new players with your handicap.

Well then tell CCP to remove the CPM tag from your alt if that's the case. Because when you speak on the forums with the CPM tag you are first and foremost a council member.

Oh sure, make it even quicker for Gen Tso's, NF, and all those bastards to switch directly over to Amarr Scout with max scan precision and range. Plus any other jackass who wants to be FOTM.

Excuse me for trying to take the CPM role seriously (foolish me, I know). We can't judge them based on when they are addressing CCP because most of that is shrouded in a NDA so we rarely get to witness what they actually advocate to CCP. So it's best that whenever they speak with the CPM tag that what they say reflects what that tag represents. Just as it would in the real world.

I still want a skill point refund on the light weapon and sidearms skill trees, because they're all sorts of screwed up. If we're getting a pistol rework in delta, I definitely want it in that patch if not in charlie.

I disagree with you on that Ripley. I only want a refund for the rifles and pistols because they have reached racial parity and have not as of yet been refunded. I don't think we need a remote explosive or a grenade skill point refund, in the same way we don't need a heavy weapons refund.

They mentioned the sp penalty for Legion. You return a skill you get the SP back over a period of time with a possible penalty.