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Posted - 2013.03.15 04:57:00 -
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Gunnut88 wrote:KalOfTheRathi wrote:No.
This is New Eden. You live with your decisions. They have consequences. Think. Then Act. That is why I suggested it the way I did so that it is not spammable and requires some serious thinking before it could be used. The lack of information about specific skills and what they do as well as a lack of information on the core skills means alot of people don't have enough info on how to build a toon that will work for them long term. This would allow those people to repair some of the damage done.
I am so sick and tired of this whole 'we weren't well informed' excuse. All the tools are there. The forums, the community third-party bloggers, the local channel, etc. if you don't bother to ask first which skill to invest in and you go in blindly spending SP away, it's your damn fault. I live with my mistakes. Hell, I have invested SP into skills that many folks here see as useless but I don't complain nor make a thread asking for an undo button.
Choices must be meaningful and in order to do that you need permanent consequences regardless if you were informed or not. The only time CCP may allow a respec even once is if anything drastic was changed. What you are proposing is an option to respec
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Maken Tosch
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Posted - 2013.03.15 17:05:00 -
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RINON114 wrote:
The tools might be there but not everybody knows how to use them. The way a respec should work is like when somebody retrains for a job they haven't done in years or even just a few months. For example:
Three months ago I started learning how to use a 3D application called Sketchup. I went through a few days of making stuff and watching tutorials then I had to leave it for a while to do something else. I went back to Sketchup a week ago and found that only the basic knowledge remained, none of the more advanced stuff because I didn't stick with it or learn it for long enough.
The same is true in Dust, if you learn a skill and don't use it you should be able to forget it in some capacity.
I see a problem with your analogy there.
In real life, when you retrain for a new profession, you never really forget what you already trained from your previous profession. It is with you for the rest of your life and the time you wasted training the old profession is forever gone and you will never get it back.
Take me for example. I have spent a good 5 years after high school training and working in Medical Office Administration (medical billing, managing appointments, etc.) along with what I have trained from being a Pharmacy Technician. But the profession didn't suit me anymore. So I am no cross training to become an aircraft mechanic with an Airframe & Powerplant License. It's a 2-year course I am studying and so far it's making me wonder "Why didn't I think of this before?"
But oh well, I lost a handful of years and I will never see them again and I still have medical knowledge and my old degree. So I look at it this way. If my new profession doesn't turn out too well, at least I have my old profession to fall back on in case the medical industry improves. So you see, not all is lost and I just get to wear more hats. |