Bad timing. There has been an ongoing argument on the forums concerning Respecs for the last couple of months at least. The arguments got pretty heated last week.

At the moment you have 4 general groups.

1. Those who say no. No more Respecs ever.
2. Those who argue for Respecs during this period of rebalancing of gear.
3. Those who want periodic Respecs varying from every 3, 6, 12 months.
4. Those who want Respecs whenever they want but it costs something e.g. Aurum, Isk or SP

My preference is for options 2 and 3.

However your about to get slammed for re-raising this idea.

Good Luck.

A Mag Like system only worked because there was low ceiling cap to hit. Also 20 million or 30 million is hardly enough for some future specs such as MCC commander to lvl 5.

The other part of MAG that made that system work, was a skill ceiling. No matter how long you played, you only have 70 skill points to use. The more I think about, the more interesting such a system might be to test with DUST's tree. Maybe once you hit 10M SP you stop gaining more, but gain a respec token for every 1M additional? Perhaps that's too low and we should bump that up to 20M. Would be interesting at the very least.

Bad timing. There has been an ongoing argument on the forums concerning Respecs for the last couple of months at least. The arguments got pretty heated last week.

At the moment you have 4 general groups.

1. Those who say no. No more Respecs ever.
2. Those who argue for Respecs during this period of rebalancing of gear.
3. Those who want periodic Respecs varying from every 3, 6, 12 months.
4. Those who want Respecs whenever they want but it costs something e.g. Aurum, Isk or SP

My preference is for options 2 and 3.

However your about to get slammed for re-raising this idea.

Good Luck.

No respecs period, if you ask me.

No respecs period, if you ask me.

As 8f Dust hasn't already bled its players out of its servers all over the floor, do you have any idea how many fewer players Dust would have if you never got to respec? The amount of time it takes to build up SP vastly outshadows the different things you can actually do while actually playing the game in a match. The amount of crap you have to do over and over again is already tedious.

If new players just learning the game realized after a couple weeks or a month that they want a different playstyle and all that time was wasted and they will never get to respec - do you want this game to die? The more options a game gives you, the better. Look at how long WoW was on top. Look at The Elder Scrolls series. If yo7 want a game to succeed give the user a **** ton of options and don't force them down any path just because they ignorantly set foot on the trail.

Last i checked WoW is bleeding over 1m players a year already. Blizzard is even working on the next thing because WoW is slowly but certainly dying of old age.

There's that other game that's of about similar age, just a wee bit older wich still manages to grow but i cant think of a name right now. Starts with an E and shares the same universe and most of it's rules with Dust 514.

Bad timing. There has been an ongoing argument on the forums concerning Respecs for the last couple of months at least. The arguments got pretty heated last week.

At the moment you have 4 general groups.

1. Those who say no. No more Respecs ever.
2. Those who argue for Respecs during this period of rebalancing of gear.
3. Those who want periodic Respecs varying from every 3, 6, 12 months.
4. Those who want Respecs whenever they want but it costs something e.g. Aurum, Isk or SP

My preference is for options 2 and 3.

However your about to get slammed for re-raising this idea.

Good Luck.

I agree with that system, sacrifice a chunk of SP to respec.

My stance On respecs-
We SHOULD NOT have been given these optional respecs right now; everyone who asked for one just wants to use the OP stuff.

However, there should be a semi-respec whenever something new is released (maybe not new modules, but new suits, vehicles, and etc)
Say minmatar and amarr vehicles were introduced. Players would be offered an optional respec- HOWEVER, it would only respec SP from vehicle related skills. This keeps respecs honest, and not just some ******* asking for a respec whenever something new comes out, just to move to whatever is OP.

I agree with that system, sacrifice a chunk of SP to respec.

My stance On respecs-
We SHOULD NOT have been given these optional respecs right now; everyone who asked for one just wants to use the OP stuff.

However, there should be a semi-respec whenever something new is released (maybe not new modules, but new suits, vehicles, and etc)
Say minmatar and amarr vehicles were introduced. Players would be offered an optional respec- HOWEVER, it would only respec SP from vehicle related skills. This keeps respecs honest, and not just some ******* asking for a respec whenever something new comes out, just to move to whatever is OP.

A Mag Like system only worked because there was low ceiling cap to hit. Also 20 million or 30 million is hardly enough for some future specs such as MCC commander to lvl 5.

Just wondering, of all the people that think we should have optional respecs, are you familiar with MAG's respec system? I was fond of it while I played. In MAG, skills cost 1-3 points per skill in a similar skill tree system to DUST 514 and you are allowed infinite respecs but each respec costs you one of your earned SP. So how would you feel about the same system in DUST, paying a certain amount of SP to respec whenever needed/wanted? Not saying I'm in favour of it, just wondering what people think as I haven't seen it be mentioned yet (although I haven't seen every thread in existence).

We need some form of gradual skill refund system that allows you to take say, one point per week out of any given skill, and this just slowly pools up. It would allow you to slightly adjust and tweak your build, without giving anyone a full blown reset.

Um... if that's what you remember about MAG'S respec system, you probably haven't played in over 2 years.

Just wondering, of all the people that think we should have optional respecs, are you familiar with MAG's respec system? I was fond of it while I played. In MAG, skills cost 1-3 points per skill in a similar skill tree system to DUST 514 and you are allowed infinite respecs but each respec costs you one of your earned SP. So how would you feel about the same system in DUST, paying a certain amount of SP to respec whenever needed/wanted? Not saying I'm in favour of it, just wondering what people think as I haven't seen it be mentioned yet (although I haven't seen every thread in existence).

Respecs in Dust are over.