I completely agree. I'm honestly dieing (metaphorically, the metaphor meaning my want to play is diminishing) waiting for something outside of the fairly bland battlefield aspects we currently have. But being that I'm a fairly new player I don't even have a complete build, and I may have to start a new one. Most of the long term players I know just shrug as they have over double the SP I have and a minimum of 2 fully functioning builds.

If I had some PVE or even some administrative roles outside of the battlefield to keep me busy or give me an alternative way of earning isk and sp that would be fantastic but continuously spawning in with an incomplete build to feed the full protos constantly is pretty boring as far as gameplay goes.

I understand that New Eden is a unique and difficult place, but the FPS market is not unique and full of choices. Seeing as this is currently just another FPS and one that is lacking in mechanics versus the competition, making it easier for players who come from other games to bridge the gap might help out until there is some other viable content.

There should be a respec when new racial variants are added but not when new classes release.

I see the logic behind people hating respec in certain games, I however fail to see the reasoning in Dust. I know that people with 15 mil sp start to find it rather simple to move into other skill and diversify their character, and that is great. The way I see it is this game needs new blood though, and this game is changing frequently and can be confusing to a new player, why not allow that character to purchase a respec augmentation? hell make it cost aur. Will that new player suddenly dominate in PC at 3 mil sp cause he got a respec? Not a chance and we all know it, what may happen is that player will enjoy the game and stick around and reach PC ready and start progressing the game world.

You can stop returning isk spent on old spec, way of keeping players slightly more careful, they are going to have to buy most likely all new gear so that will add up and make respecs a do if needed thing, not an every 5 min luxury. This is a win win for CCP they can make money on something we know will sell, and players can have more freedom to make a character they enjoy to play. I would be happy to hear honest reasons why respecs would "break" the game, most of what i hear is just that once you have enough sp it does not matter or you should save up and essentially be restarting your character as you go. Face it, the game cannot survive without keeping the young guys playing and moving into PC ready SP areas, if respecs will help them do that I am all for it.

I am not meaning to attack either side of this debate I just really am confused on why so many people are against this being implemented.

My god, people seriously. CCP clearly stated long ago that there will be no more respecs. They are not giving it to you anymore unless something catastrophic happens with their server. Even Eve Online players, CCP's primary source of income, have only seen a single respec in their entire ten-year history. If CCP won't give respecs to them, then surely you can't expect Dust players to be any different.

And no, Eve's neural remaps don't count because SP is technically not being moved around.