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Posted - 2013.05.31 00:18:00 -
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As a vet who knows that new equipment is coming down the pipeline, I am one of the many that believe optional respecs should be available. My personal preference is that as new gear is introduced or major changes to how the equipment is being "balanced" occurs that the option becomes available to do a respec.
Many people use the TAC ARs at this point in time because it allows them to be competitive with heavies, mcc snipers and the other medium suited mercs who are using the weapon and we all know that when the other rifles are introduced the TAC is going to be nerfed (as stated by ccp: range and damage). I would like to use one of the new weapons when they come out and hope that the respec option will be available again, unfortunately due to needing a weapon now, I used my SP as I saw fit and would do so again under the same situation.
If respecs were allowed once per year (like attribute changes in eve online) I believe it would be fair and would limit people from constantly changing their skills to the flavor of the month. Whether this is a paid service or not, I believe the option should be available. Personally I would rather just be able to select an option in the UI to respec character when I have a respec available rather than the need to contact customer support for this service.
In Eve the client software handles attribute adjustments, this would be the Dust equivalent. I realize this is more programming that would need to be done but I imagine that it would save devs and customer support staff a great deal of time were this feature to be offered through the game client itself rather than make it a customer support issue. Then, when a player has earned a respec, they could wait and save it until something new comes out or use it to correct a mistake they made when choosing a skill last week or a year ago.
If CCP were to make this a paid service, I believe that the cost of the respec should be no more than 5000-10000 aurum, and along with the respec, an asset liquidation should be performed. This last optional respec was costly to many players who stock up on gear. Their stockpiles of gear should have been purchased back by CCP other than the Aurum items. CCP knows that when a player has respeced into another class or racial suit that much of their old gear will now be defunct, yes you can still use the modules but the suits themselves are costly when purchased in hundred lots, especially if a person is running proto gear. It would be nice to have that isk back, but thank you CCP for the optional respec that we got.
In short, yes, optional yearly skill respec with asset buy back included. |
Draco Cerberus
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Posted - 2013.06.17 13:25:00 -
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RoundEy3 wrote:I hate to say it but I have come to believe this feature is needed for DUST. If this were EVE I'd say absolutely not, no way, never, but this is a very different game with a very different crowd.
I could talk a lot about the similarities and differences, but instead here's my basic suggestion on respec options.
First: There would be a respec limit. By that I mean 2-4 times a year or something like that.
Second: For the cost..... Simple, just make it cost like 20% of your current SP pool to respec.
That way the option is there pretty frequently, there is a penalty to doing it, so one wouldn't want to do it often, and there's no real money involved!
The infamous post #8 leaves alot to be desired. First, 2-4 respecs a year are way too many, choices must have meaning.
Second, this would make sense but having the option to respec the first time there was already a hidden cost that wasn't readily clear, CCP left us with all the stuff that we had speced into and were using before the respec. This, rather than helping us by converting the assets back to isk like was previously done has placed a large number of assets in my possession that I would rather not have. Removing SP from the character would be a penalty that would remove altogether the usefullness of a respec.
Third, there are things in life that you just can't change. Eve is a simulated future, with Dust being part of that simulated future, many of the rules that are already in place are things that carry over in Dust. We do not have the option to respec in Eve, I don't believe anymore (after the optional respec) that we should be given the option. The only reason that people want the respec is to make the game constantly mutable, like COD or BF4 and I am very happy to say that it is not either one of those games.
I work hard for my SP, I spend time playing so I can get the LV 5 whatever, to make that task easier to achieve by allowing a constant stream of respecs would devalue that LV5 skill. Already we've had the proto stomping complaints, are you absoloutely certain you want the complaints about proto this and proto that every time CCP adds a new item to the market? I know I don't, it would ruin the enjoyment I have every time I take the field and see my WP payouts blip my screen from well chosen skills. This is what Choice has Meaning is all about, rewards to those who choose well, not to the ones who decide they can play 20% longer each week to get the SP back after finding a new flavor to try. |