Except that your actions DON'T have consequences, other than possibly RUINING any fun you can have with this game because you aren't a 1337 spreadsheet master and you screw up your build a little.

As much as you might want to believe that this game has any ties to EVE, they're minor and trivial at best. I used to be against respec's, but at least in EVE if you screw up your SP a bit, you still have a TON to do.

You know what you do in DUST if you screw up your SP?

You get bored, die, or both.

Great for the game, I know. I'm so happy that this is open for discussion and that we're hashing out ways to help new and old players alike properly spend their SP, or give them options to revert bad decisions made through a painful lack of information or guidance.

Stop it. Stop making these bad threads.
Go play something else if you want something like everything else.

This game is already becoming like every other FPS

So we should add fuel to fire? Dust is far from what many of us had expected but that doesn't mean we should give up on it.
As for everyone begging for respecs this is New Eden. If you want a forgiving game go play something else. There are a million titles that will give you what you want right now.

No, it helps keeping different chars and players different ( a bit).
If respecs are common /regular it can be anticipated most players will always change to the fashionable thing.

No, thank you.

Making respec's AUR only will only put us in a P2W scenario, and we're already walking a pretty fine line with that as is. Making it available for ISK is too easy to abuse.

Not allowing respec's only punishes new players and older players who aren't hyper aware of spreadsheets and skill planning or who don't know how weapons / suits / equipment that they've never used will ultimately perform.

Unlike in EVE, there is nothing else for you to do. You either run your build, or you run militia. Period. Don't give me any of your meta crap, we're just talking about raw game mechanics here.

Combine that with CCPs maddening habit of drastically altering playstyles on a whim, and I have issues seeing why we shouldn't be given anywhere between 1-4 optional respecs per year. It's fair for everyone. If someone made a horrible build their first time, then they will likely do it again, unless they actually seek help and make the best of their optional respec.

You don't lock players into a path and then change that path dramatically, that's an easy way to lose your audience.

No offense bro, your gaming life probably consists of COD, EVE and DUST.

They should just let players respec and get things balanced for PS4, if they are going to still follow through, this game will be dead in 5 months with PS4 releasing, I'd gladly play a next gen COD, KIllzone and Planetside 2 over DUST and barring a miracle I'll play them over a next gen DUST as well.


Players here are so short sighted and really clueless about gaming, their hasn't been one successful shooter that has FORCED players to use a certain gun or FORCED them to play a certain role, while that role/item/weapon receives major NERFS and change's on a monthly basis...

If you'd like to know more about gaming and online shooters check out PDIGGY22 on youtube, thanks!

FOTM?

Flavor of the month.

If CCP wants to use AUR to allow for respecs I would agree with it as long as it only allows us to respec a portion of our SP (30%, 20%, and10% packages maybe) with the price varying based on your total SP. Afterwards you can take sp out certain skills until you reach the limit of your percentage. To get the exact percentage allow players to take out a portion of sp out of the last skill giving them a discount to get it back. Also limit the purchase of SP respec to a max of 30% per month.

Make your bed and lie in it, flip-floppers. You're not getting your respec...you're going to have to live with whatever hasty choices you made.

Generally speaking, I'm against SP respecs; along as the game skill tree is generally complete and not changing drastically. But that ain't Dust at the moment.....

Given Dust's current state I'm all for 1 or 2 (max) respecs per year.

Seriously, with all the things that are not out yet (weapons, dropsuits, vehicles) and all the things that are still getting tweaked, it's just too much to ask of people to save their SP for a 'plan' based on so many assumptions on future items/stats.

"Welcome to new Eden" would be okay if this were really new Eden. But it's not... it's not even real life. It's a game. And if there aren't some consessions made to the player base the game could end up tanking.

So, "Welcome to the real world"

Make your bed and lie in it, flip-floppers. You're not getting your respec...you're going to have to live with whatever hasty choices you made.

Dust Fiend, you're a cool guy but I'm sorry... I am voting against you

Dust will be constantly updated with new balances, items, vehicles, dropsuits, etc. We would have to allow a respec 1 or 2 times a year every year until dust is no more..... I do not want that to happen because that instantly takes away a lot of depth and risk away which will make this game boring IMO. Your supposed to specialize not go and change to the next OP weapon every 6 months. If this happened it would make the game a lot less diverse since everyone will simply change to the most OP weapon there is.