just change direction, a skill isnt wasted.

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This is the same reason why I don't understand training alts for specialized jobs. It's a pain in the butt to switch characters and even more painful to train core skills to be effective. Training a wide range of roles to standard level is also a good idea and super easy. Need to shoot a pesky LAV? Switch to your swarm fit. Sniper harassing your team? Switch to sniper and take him down.

When done switch back to your preferred fit.

I think the question is whether the million SP he has on his current character give more value for his preferred play style than the 500K (or whatever) he'd have to spend with a new one.

To the OP: do you currently have have at least 500K SP of "transferrable" skills? By that I mean things like shield/armor/PG/CPU skills.

As an extreme example, if *all* of your million SP are in sniper rifle and and repair tool operation, and you want to run HMG heavy instead, it is probably better to start a new character.

I suppose you guys are right. I believe the skill i dumped into is called vigor so i could use stamina modules but i never use them. I have some in the tranferrable skills that you were talking about, And there are others ive spaced out to try new things. I guess its a good thing because my play style seems to change with the seasons.

A stamina scout is nice to have for the initial push on skirmish. Just give him a drop uplink and any weapon you like then rush a far objective early and set up your spawn.

just change direction, a skill isnt wasted.

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The devs posted that it'll take something like 7 years to skill in to everything. If you don't want to wait 7 years to make a skill that you'd never use until then, make a new main. I'd actually just make a new PSN account. That way you can continue to earn passive SP on this guy and make your new main do whatever.

New account = passive SP for both characters.

I am going all vehicles on this guy. It makes sense for me, after I finish tanking, to go pilot too. I have another dude that's infantry.

If I were to combine both infantry and tanking/vehicles in this 1 guy, I'd suck at both instead of being really good at one or the other. Two + guys lets me do whatever I want. Another reason I like having a bunch of passive SP alts is that I can try out whatever I want on them and see if I like it. If I like it, I can do it on one of my main guys, and if not I haven't wasted points.

Anyways, many of the players are fine being bad now and (possibly) alright 7 years from now. I like being good now and good later, so alts ftw for me.

edit: I saw the new posts, and like warchild zek said, vigor is a fine skill for infantry.

if i were you i wouldn't start over with a new char. keep playing as ihatemyface and just TREAT him as starting over. if you change direction where you're investing skills, it's almost the same as creating a new character, only the skills you've already invested in provide some latteral upgrade. keep the same guy, but serisouly plan out what you want to upgrade in. this is one of the advantages of being a closed beta player. we've been through this sometimes three and four times over, and each time get better at what we invest in the skill tree.

+1

This is the same reason why I don't understand training alts for specialized jobs. It's a pain in the butt to switch characters and even more painful to train core skills to be effective. Training a wide range of roles to standard level is also a good idea and super easy. Need to shoot a pesky LAV? Switch to your swarm fit. Sniper harassing your team? Switch to sniper and take him down.

When done switch back to your preferred fit.

I started out putting all my skill points in vehicles, and then a little bit ago I realized there are militia vehicles. Really ticked me off, especially because they are not that much worse than the skill ones. But as everyone said, no skill is wasted. Nothing stopping you from working towards other skills with your current character.

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The devs posted that it'll take something like 7 years to skill in to everything. If you don't want to wait 7 years to make a skill that you'd never use until then, make a new main. I'd actually just make a new PSN account. That way you can continue to earn passive SP on this guy and make your new main do whatever.

New account = passive SP for both characters.

I am going all vehicles on this guy. It makes sense for me, after I finish tanking, to go pilot too. I have another dude that's infantry.

If I were to combine both infantry and tanking/vehicles in this 1 guy, I'd suck at both instead of being really good at one or the other. Two + guys lets me do whatever I want. Another reason I like having a bunch of passive SP alts is that I can try out whatever I want on them and see if I like it. If I like it, I can do it on one of my main guys, and if not I haven't wasted points.

Anyways, many of the players are fine being bad now and (possibly) alright 7 years from now. I like being good now and good later, so alts ftw for me.

edit: I saw the new posts, and like warchild zek said, vigor is a fine skill for infantry.