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.

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

I second this sentiment. CCP Logibro or CCP Rattati, if you are reading this thread, a respec in the near future will lure players back into Dust and each one of them has the potential to buy AUR. In addition, existing players who never left will be pleased some of their old friends are returning and suddenly the game is made less stale for them. It will please a large percentage of your playerbase.

They better consider one since this game changed constantly. Can someone please tell me why they gave a full respec a year ago when we're fixing the game now for a final product? What they should of done was give a partial respec a year ago and a full respec after delta. Who agrees?

This argument is mostly why I thought giving people respecs before was a bad idea too. It gives people the mindset they should get them. o_o

Here we go again, the memories of 1.8

Players should get a respec.
Reasons: Back when I joined at the cusp of Uprising, I could not get a Respec. I had 500k SP, and I was getting slaughtered. No tutorial to help me.Then, I specced in the Assault Rifle, because the Scrambler seemed strange, and while everyone was slaying in it, I had no idea of the skill system, that I could just spec into something. I used the Assault Rilfe throughout play, and watched it be eclipsed again and again.

Then the Combat Rifle came out, and I learned about racial parity, and suits. I don't want points in the Assault Rifle. I want only my Combat Rifle and my Mass Driver, Flaylock, and Submachine Gun. Dust 514 is about being the soldier YOU want to be. The reasons we didn't get a respec in 1.8 boggles me. You are adding suits, people want to play their suit a certain way. Why the hell would a scout need points in HMGs?

Why would a Minmatar Logi want points into Cardiac Regulators if they use to run scouts?

"Players should branch out" Players should do whatever they want. You do not have the right to tell me that I should keep my sp because "I might need it." I want to use my sp at that moment, and it has been a year. There are mistakes, there have been changes. FOTM is a lie, made up because everyone hates getting stomped. If people were stomping you in the Minmatar Scout, would you call it OP, or would you say they're just good players? Oh no but the second you see an Amarr Scout, everyone thinks it's FOTM. Well of course it is, it is taking the bonus of the Cal Scout. That is not FOTM when people go into a suit that they have always wanted. That is bs to claim otherwise, and i will be damned if people are against a Respec after Delta, because you cannot blame a player for making mistakes when the game screwed up. You can change things, but something as radical as bonuses? Respec. You want to change Heavies, respec. People specced in the Gallente Sentnel because it had more Lows than the Amarr so they could Armor stack. Is it there fault CCP screwed up and gave the Gallente (Armor-Reppers), more Lows than Armor stackers?! If you're going to screw people over, then you sure as hell better teach them first.
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+1 for a Respec, and I don't care if I get banned, I will get one, and so will everyone who wants one.

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.

As as has been mentioned its best to wait till more infomation about Delta is known.

I will say this however. There have numerous times in Eve where a ships slot layout, PG, CPU and even role has been changed, tweaked and balanced. Eve players didn't get a respec and they pay a subscription.

Respecs shouldn't be the default posistion to take when presented with balance changes because it makes the choices you made in the skilling of your Merc meaningless.

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.

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.

As as has been mentioned its best to wait till more infomation about Delta is known.

I will say this however. There have numerous times in Eve where a ships slot layout, PG, CPU and even role has been changed, tweaked and balanced. Eve players didn't get a respec and they pay a subscription.

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.

Respecs shouldn't be the default posistion to take when presented with balance changes because it makes the choices you made in the skilling of your Merc meaningless.

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.

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.

This is something we will have to address pre-respec: balance.

If balancing has not been performed to every dropsuit then when a respec hits most players are going to gravitate towards whatever suits can boast the best stats.

Charlie is balancing scouts and assaults. I believe I read that Delta is slated to balance logistics and sentinels.

Armor and shield tanking modules have been balanced in Alpha and Bravo and I have confidence that CCP Rattati and Logibro would make further adjustments to them if they were over/under-performing.

Light weapon balance is the best it has been... pretty much ever. Sidearms are being reviewed in Charlie.

Perhaps after the balancing passes we will be ready for a respec.

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.

This isn't World of Warcraft. 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.

Dear CPM1,

Hotfix Charlie is shaping up to make assaults not suck quite so badly, scouts are being tweaked, and word has it logi/sentinels are on the agenda for Delta. Dozens of minor and major changes are taking place all over Dust 514. ****, I mean, we are about to have nova knives capable of destroying HAV's for chrissakes. Don't you think it is about time we sent a message to CCP that we need a respec? You are our advocates. You have CCP's ear.

I'm asking politely and I'm open to hear your arguments against it... though I have heard many MANY arguments against it and none of them have convinced me yet.

Sincerely,
Ripley

P.S. Judge Rhadamanthus, please sign my titty.

"NO MORE RESPECS" EVA!!!!!

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

I have 4 proto suits. 5 proto guns. Maxed core skills.

All set for any nerf/buff.

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..