im just expressing my opinion for crying out loud.

im just expressing my opinion for crying out loud.

Likewise.


oh wait you would rather BACKSTAB & SCAM the Community like your CURRENTLY doing instead of focusing on the "Overall Growth of the Game"

now I suggest you wake up and realize that as an appointed CPM from CCP, YOUR about to get VOTED OUT by the COMMUNITY PlayerBase. You clearly have No damm clue how to IMPROVE the Quality of Dust514 by your OWN gameplay actions throughout the whole Beta period until even today.

Your own actions and "opinions" show you need to be REMOVED from the CPM asap. so the COMMUNITY can find someone who will FOCUS on the GROWTH OF THE GAME.

that's just my opinion..... as it is whole bunch of others peoples opinion too

Likewise.


oh wait you would rather BACKSTAB & SCAM the Community like your CURRENTLY doing instead of focusing on the "Overall Growth of the Game"

now I suggest you wake up and realize that as an appointed CPM from CCP, YOUR about to get VOTED OUT by the COMMUNITY PlayerBase. You clearly have No damm clue how to IMPROVE the Quality of Dust514 by your OWN gameplay actions throughout the whole Beta period until even today.

Your own actions and "opinions" show you need to be REMOVED from the CPM asap. so the COMMUNITY can find someone who will FOCUS on the GROWTH OF THE GAME.

that's just my opinion..... as it is whole bunch of others peoples opinion too

OK, the previous respec was mentioned as a one time only deal. Do you know what happened? People cried for another respec and got it.

im sorry, but i have to disagree, i dont like anything that gets the playerbase used to the idea of a respec,its a bad in my opinion

You get out of the battle academy too fast for it to matter anyways.

Plus, if a new player doesn't know how to spend their SP in those first few days, what makes you think they'll do better afterwords? Without proper tutorials and new player training, it would be 100% useless.

I'm with Jenza on this, no more respecs

(even if it meant I was stuck in failships )

I like this idea . I would follow it with posibly an introduction video before they enter they accadamy explaining that this is the time to experament with wepons and suits as they wont get another chance to respec after graduating.

considering how cavernous the skill tree is, and how new players would like to try one of everything, doesn't it make sense to let them re-spend all their points once they get out of the battle academy queue?

don't get me wrong, the battle academy is an ABSOLUTELY fantastic idea, but having the capability of learning all these various things, and then getting to apply it after you move up to the real game just makes sense to me.

edit: this "graduation present" will also make the player seriously consider what they've been using so far, what worked and what didn't, it's actually a great way to teach carefully skill planning for the future.
However this could easily backfire and simply amplify the "flavor of the month" problem

-1

No, that is not a typo. That is a negative in front of the one.

New Eden, the very universe in which Dust 514 players are entering, is a very unforgiving place. It is so harsh that every mistake you make, whether it is informed or uninformed, is stuck with you until the day you delete your character or until the servers shutdown permanently (whichever comes first... usually the deleting part does).

New Eden is also home to some of the toughest players in the galaxy: Eve Online players who are otherwise known as Capsuleers. When a new Capsuleer is born, they are given only a miniscule amount of SP to start which is about 900,000 SP with only 50,000 ISK in their wallet alone with a single rookie ship fitted with a civilian turret and a civilian mining laser plus one unit of tritanium worth only about 5 ISK a piece depending on the current market. From there, the players are given a series of tutorials to help them decide what their future can be while still giving them the option to cross train into other skill sets. There are no respecs given for skill points. The only respec that player gets is for attributes which allows the player to decide which skills get trained faster and which skills take longer to train as a consequence and that option only comes once a year (again, SP is never reallocated). Only a part of their SP gets reimbursed back to them whenever CCP makes changes to the skill tree that is considered extensive and even then the amount refunded to them is minor at best compared to the 50 million SP the average Eve player has.

But still, overall the new players are never given a single respec. They are forced to live the mistakes of their choices in Eve Online. It has been like this for 10 years and so far there has only been one, I say again, ONE respec in its entire existence.

Dust 514 is operating under the rules of New Eden which are as follows:

1. Adapt or Die
2. Don't use what you cannot afford to lose.
3. Accept the permanent consequences of your choices and move on.

They're are also the core principles of New Eden. They are as relevant to Eve and Dust as the Holy Bible is to a devout Christian and Catholic. Messing with these core principles or basic rules is like trying to mess with the natural order of things. The outcome will not be pretty.

If you are not willing to accept the consequences of your choices, whether your decisions were ill-informed or well-informed, then you have only two choices. Harden up or get the hell out of New Eden.

Welcome to New Eden. The harshest and most brutal universe in the history of MMO and FPSs.

+1

Increase the graduation timer to 2 million SP or 100,000 WP, whichever comes first. Then make it clear it's a one-time thing.

Also give them the option of which game mode to play. I heard it was just random now.

Don't really give a damn what a harsh world EvE Online is. They are, after all, trying to expand their playerbase for a reason, and the two just might be related. Newbies are going to make mistakes, it's what most newbies do. Give them one chance to rectify those mistakes, and if they screw up again, too bad. They're still going to have a huge disadvantage against vets even after fixing their mistakes, no reason to exacerbate it.

No. My reasons are clear enough as it is.

EDIT:

Except for the 100,000 WP part. 10,000 WP is too little of a requirement to graduate.

@Bubba

It doesn't matter anymore whether or not Eve and Dust are different. They are still operating under the same rules as I mentioned above and those rules don't care if you are a PC MMO player or a console FPS player. You should have seen how Eve start in your case. Eve Online came into a market dominated by hand-holding, themepark-driven MMOs that cater to players of the lowest common denominator. When Eve first launched in 2003, people kept saying how the game will fail because it was too harsh and didn't give players any option to undo their mistakes and that the graphics were so bad that even EA games laughed at CCP for even trying to compete. 10 years later, Eve is now a direct competitor to most MMOs out there including World of Warcraft and Guild Wars while EA games has learned to shove its own foot into its stupid mouth after Earth and Beyond failed to live up to its hype. Even its own economy rivals that of all other games so much that Guild Wars 2 tried to copy it but failed miserably.

Where are the doomsayers now? Oh yeah! They're here complaining about how Dust will fail.

Im sorry but direct competitors? Do you live in a fantasy world? CCP filed a niche market that no one else cares to go for. Guess what, they have around 50k active subscribers. Now, lets count that to other MMO's who have 500k +. Yes, they are certianly direct compitition.
Please, pull your head out of your colon.

Eve Online: 500,000+ subscribers who created a universe so dynamic that they're stories are the envy of others.
WoW: About 5,000,000+ subscribers who never created their universe and don't really have anything epic going on.

Forbes.com has ranked Eve Online as the only MMO that has benefited from steady subscription growth since its birth in 2003 while WoW experiences so many ups and downs that it can't keep a steady climb of players.

Hard to say I'm living in a fantasy world when the facts are clear cut.

@Bubba

It doesn't matter anymore whether or not Eve and Dust are different. They are still operating under the same rules as I mentioned above and those rules don't care if you are a PC MMO player or a console FPS player.

Any more challengers?