I don't think respecs are going to be likely for the same reason protostomping will not happen.

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.

That is the major appeal of this game and is also the reason its had a **** poor player retention past beta. Most the new guys that say, "Well I did okay," dodged the nerfhammers by pure chance. You don't hear a lot from the new guys that got slapped with the nerfhammers because they quit playing along with the other couple hundred thousand to a million that picked this game up found out what it was about and dropped it.

Highlighted the response from your type that I already knew was coming, lol.

Uprising to 1.6- AR was good
Uprising 1.7- 0sp investment Tanks were king. Anything else about 1.7 was completely overshadowed by the fact that all you needed was Tank control to win.
Uprising 1.8- Shotgun is good

I define dodging the nerfhammer as always being viable. We haven't even addressed the fact that I'm guessing you are Gallente and haven't undergone the dropsuit rollercoaster that shield based minmitar and Caldari have gone through since uprising. AR and Scramblers had shield affinity. Armor got buffed and shields got nerfed. Gallente is still good even now and hotfix charlie will improve them while Caldari is getting nerfed again in the heavy class, because Caldari heavies were so OP......

Like I said read what I highlighted.

Equip shotgun to a militia gallente or any other racial light frame... profit...

You thinking you were nerfed and you being actually nerfed aren't the same. You having a bad kd/r also doesn't mean you were nerfed. That can also mean that you are bad.

If you are new to this game and you try to climb one suit to proto ASAP you got bad advice. The guys doshing out that advice were not fighting players with 50mil sp when they were starting. You won't be able to fund it and You are too new and too late to spec specifically into one type of suit anyways. You are just going to get railroaded every match by the proto stompers who are specced in everything and can simply counter you. You will probably get railroaded anyways but that's what this game is about now. You are better off getting basic gear to be flexible at this point and learning to hard counter and outsmart them.

Brick tanks giving you problems, even a MLT forge will sort that out, they can't move out of the way. Speed tanks giving you guff, invest a small amount of SP into heavy machine guns and spam a minmitar militia heavy with a machine gun.

P.S. I use all rifles and AR has its place, which is close up. The LR and RR aren't going to do **** if you are any good at aiming in CQC. The CR will win against your armor focused suit for sure but that's the draw back. I don't whine that I can't beat ScRs when they pretty much insta gib my shields. AR is still amazing at mowing down Caldari and Minmitar it's just more popular to armor tank since it's easier and therefor makes the AR seem inferior.

What are you smoking? It has the least amount of kick of all the rifles aside from the Laser rifle... it has the lowest range as it was supposed to be the CQC rifle. It has the highest damage per shot of an automatic variant aside from the assault scrambler which is on par damage wise with a massive dispersion when hip fired to boot. It has lower RPM but it also has a larger magazine then the Combat Rifle and a different damage profile. The gun is fine as it is you just are trying to use it in roles it wasn't intended for if you think it's UP.

I'm done arguing though, you're just going to keep throwing bullshit out for me to refute and then backpedal and redirect as you keep doing.

Yeah I thought as much, ran out of bullshit.

What about when they rework the layout of suits? Is that something we were supposed to know was coming with our crystal balls? How is it selfish to be annoyed by them editing values altering the viability that you bought into?

Noted. What's terrible about it exactly? The assault bonus for them looks appropriate for their weapon list.

I've been rolling Caldari assault since launch day and I have enjoyed it a lot. I think our reload speed bonus is subpar, but it's a shitton better than Gallente assault (which I hear is bugged and/or next to useless with their weapon list).

As to your first point:

If we want to take the game specific complaint route. Protostomping is selfish, why don't we discourage that too?

2nd point:

The world as a whole doesn't care about what adversity you underwent in your fictional world. But, objectively from a game design perspective, this isn't a popular concept, hence as I point out the fact that Eve has always been irrelevant to the gaming world except for nerds to watch the super nerds chimp out in their space mmo and laugh at them for being so delusional and putting so much effort into nothing. People aren't wowed that one guy will rip off a corporation for what others would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for. They are wowed that Eve players would value it at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Punishing players for playing your game by changing the rules arbitrarily doesn't make it a good game. That makes it the opposite of a good game. Eve like I said, has survived by simply being a space MMO in a market where space MMOs don't exist. This is changing though as people have gotten sick of the cookie cutter fantasy MMO games and more exploration of mechanics and themes are coming with better technology. Hence why CCP is finally scrambling after a decade of milking Eve to branch out.

3rd point:

This is literally said by everyone who has ever played a mmo and is not a unique experience that only Eve brings. You just experienced it through Eve.

1.1. Now explain where you feel you needed to know when I said after uprising gallente has been fine?

Assuming you are probably going to be like YEAH ***** I WAS IN BETA! It still doesn't refute any of the facts I laid out or excuse any of your bullshit.

And as for mudslinging you said you had a bad kd/r not me. I only said you having a bad kd/r doesn't only mean you must be UP. It can also mean you're bad. I refute the notion that Gallente has been UP since uprising began. I explained thoroughly why while you tried to attack my age and make claims that I refuted like the AR being bad. Mudslinging is what you have been failing at. This whole gallente thing sprang from you claiming that you had been nerfed and you didn't mind. You hadn't been nerfed. Not like some of the other play styles like speed tanking and shield tanking. Brick tanking has been the most solid strategy across all of uprising.

They were bad in 1.7 I did mention that early on, but I believed that was irrelevant as everything infantry was overshadowed by tank supremacy then. They fixed it in 1.8.