1 reset, each year, just like EvE's attribute remap. Free or AUR, who really cares...

Please continue to suggest ways to implement new and exciting pay-to-win content.
Please.

Not if it is free. How is this pay to win?

The respecs should be free and unrestricted. We should have an ingame mechanic for it so CCP would not have to deal with it at all. Upon respec SP would be refunded except corp related SP. No skill book refund would take place. Frequent respecers would go broke.

I believe this alone would resolve the problem. It would also add playability to the game by spicing things up. A merc could have 15 mil SP but with no ISK to buy books it would feel like leveling up. Every few battles they could purchase skills, weapons, and suits. This would make the sluglike player progression feel like you are getting somewhere.....everyday. Meanwhile they would be leveling up for real. Every one could try things and find out what they like. After spending weeks without all of their SP they would understand the skills and the value of said skills. Plus they may like what they spec into.

The initial respec should, however, include a full refund on skill books. The way people skilled into things was based on game play from Chromosome. Uprising was a slap in the face to anyone who thought non AR weapons were still viable. Weapons and vehicles used the day before were extremely different, as was game play. Tons of mercs felt cheated. I think everyone learned something.

This isn't pay to win, it's pay to element the concept that whatever choices you make, you have to live with them. Once the skill tree situation is taken care of, I hope we never, ever see another respec again for the sake of preserving that value.

So now its the players faut that imbalances in weapons create FOTMs? So what are you really upset about? That you dont want to respec into something "OP" but that others do? That those others are getting an edge over you because they payed real money to respec to a "broken imbalanced" weapon? Or is it really that you dont want to pay real money to respec? and if the respec were free what then? whats the issue now? There is no gaining of SP of any sorts that anyone has proposed. rather they are reassigning the SP. So whats the real issue hmm? Because there will be people that already specced into that weapon or vehicle, etc. So they get rewarded because of this? no gripes there? it seems like the bigger issue is the imbalance in weapons and game mechanics that allow people to get ahead of others.

and for people throwing this around...


where oh please WHERE does that ever say its for character creation? because its not. It has to do with our (the players) ability to shape the world of New Eden. Not that you should be punished or rewarded by your allocation of SP.

The Butterfly Effect

in a nutshell, you play a pub, do well, get accepted into a corp thats part of alliance thats doing PC. you take over planets and help out your eve allies to gain a stronger foothold or to help your faction militia conquer systems, and all of this because of the people you met in your pub games. Please stop using this phrase incorrectly.



EDIT:

I am not AGAINST the respec argument, but im not necessarily for it either. Im just trying to point out what a really complex and in depth skill points system does when weapons are imbalanced, which is the bigger issue. And it seems that others that have made good decisions want the rest of the community to suck it up because if they could do it why cant the rest of them. This is not a good attitude to have.