Skillback Booster (3 days) - Fits into Passive Booster slot. Returns ~300,000 sp and only one skill can have it on at a time, as long as there are no skills that depend on it. You can't use the skill and lose it's bonuses once its active. If the booster timer expires before the skill points are returned, you lose all remaining skill points for that skill. Passive SP gains are disabled while this booster is active.

[SUGGESTION] Skillback booster
Update: An intriguing idea that the dev team will discuss further.

Two things I noticed about those not supporting respecs

1. Played since at least beginning of open beta where they got the chance to make their mistakes and then were given two respecs upon release of Uprising to fix them.

2. All of the dropsuits, weapons, and vehicles they want are already in the game.

1. Though that may be, it doesn't reflect the countless others who were not effected by any changes in the skill tree and still were given the opportunity to take advantage of a respec and now wave the "anti-respec" flag.

2. Not trolling. What do you say happens for the people who want to use the Combat Rifle, Gallente Heavy, or Amarr Dropship and have no option to? Are they supposed to just sit on their SP until who knows when?

I am not taking anything out of hand, I am merely wishing to constructively argue. Your alternatives are not that great, however. The skill-back thing I never understood, why would anyone want to buy something to wait for a skill to partially respec while losing out on passive SP? The amount of wasted SP you are paying for with Aurum makes little sense.

As for your second point, I do not believe the majority of people asking for a respec feel that way. Sure there are some who want frequent respecs so they can keep trying out whatever they want, but they are in the minority. I am fairly confident that most people regardless of their position on respecs agree that your decisions should have long term consequences.

My counter suggestions would be to give all new players a one time offer for a respec that they can cash in whenever they want, and perhaps impose a limit whether it be a time frame from your character's creation date or an certain amount of lifetime SP in which you forfeit your one time offer. Also provide a respec for those who have skills into racial variants of newly released core content (core content being basic dropsuit frames, basic weapon archetypes, and vehicles).

Maken Tosch, I can't take much you say about respecs seriously considering you're dog in the hunt is you quitting both Dust and Eve Online and/or you trying to organize more Jita Riots.

What is your stance on allowing respecs after the racial scouts, heavies, and vehicles are released?

Why can't we question you about your stance in all this respec-thing?

Players have a right to know your stake in respecs.

Fair enough.

I also summed #3 why there should be another respec.

CCP's word isn't worth much for DUST514 lately isn't? AAA Shooter? lol .... it's only a fool that thinks they should keep their word on the respecs.

When you could be motivated in part by not wanting to confront the internal moral conflict that respecs being introduced to the would induce, there exists a reasonable prospect that you have a conflict of interest in regards to respecs. That's what I feel players have a right now along with your opinions on respecs.

On more then one occasion you cited you'll quit both games if respec are introduced. That's a clear potential for you to have a personal stake in there no being respecs, considering how by your own admission you've played Eve Online for 10 years, and therefore has a great deal to lose from quitting.

If that would be true then I hope they have learned a lesson from it...it makes sense with all the AUR-packages...aaaah we'll never know for sure.

There's a distinct possibility of me doing the same, should this happen eve side or in other ways than skillback boosters or strictly limited for racial symmetry purposes dust side (search for the term and my name to get what i mean).

The reason is not blind vengeance for CCP not doing as i wish but because the SP system is one of the most important reasons why i play both games and a hallmark of New Eden. If this is gone, i might be gone as well. Simple as that.

I'd say anything that gets a racial variant allows a relocation of already spent SP from one variant to another, one time per char and limited only to the specific skills and their prerequisites.

Future generations of players won't care about what we'd view as "core" today so i can't see how we can justify denying them something that we already got for the very same reasons.

I'm not sure Maken Tosch if I understand your option completely, I'm a EVE noob and I still think DUST is better off with some more thinkering and testing, but ooh well...I'm actually starting to not care anymore...seems you feel that way too? Doesn't sound good eh?






That's if you won't limit the respecs in any way of the other, noone said it doesn't have to have any consquences.

Eve is bad example the system they use is minutes,hours, days, weeks, and months. So its easy to skill into something in Eve not dust. We grind for SP with limited game modes with no PVE.

does that mean we'll get our Nova Knife SP refunded when the other variants are introduced?

Here's what I came up with a few days ago...
All skills in dropsuits, weapons, and modules, vehicles, ect should get a respec. Nothing more. Like core skills. But only when a new thing comes out for them and you would like to try them out.

Kind of dumb that it gets done without your choice, but it would well work in my case so I won't complain if that's how it goes down.
Still, not being sure how they plan to do this makes it hard to plan my skills. Really tempted to get those proto knives, but those kalamari knives are so smelly.