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As an advancing player in EVE online, I have often wondered why there is not an option to pay to have your skill points reset, allowing a player to respend already trained skill points.

This would allow one to change play styles and reduce the amount of time it takes to go from one style of game play to another.

Basicly for a fee of $30.00 to as much as $60.00 once every 30 days, a player could log into their account management website, and pay to have all their skill points reset. Except for the basic skill points a fresh character starts with, all current trained skill points would be removed from skills allowing the player to log in and re spend his or her points to the desired skills they wish to have benefits from.

As training skills is a matter of time, and money, starting out a player may want to try a bit of everything before they narrow down on a game style path. Being able to rest and re spend those skill points no longer going to be used will save them more time and allow them to move along quickly into their new choices.

I would gladly pay to have this done. As I have chosen to step away from mission running to go into industrial aspects of the game.

Would love to hear feedback from others and hope those who can make this happen see it's value.

This is a terrible idea for many reasons but the most simplest is that it makes skill choices inconsequential. Allowing a respec, even for a monetary cost, would remove any individuality from characters as any 60M SP character is exactly the same as any other.

If it were to happen it would have to be in a limited form (not a complete reset) and at a penalty like 2:1 or 3:1 SP exchange. Personally, I think the value of the individuality and history of each character is more important than some impatient player moving a few million SPs around. If you want a new skill focus, start a new account/character or just head to the character bazaar and pick one up.

I understand, the aspects of your disagreement.

But unlike most MMO's, a character going from one aspect of the game to a whole new aspect has little to no effect on the actual character itself. As the player still remains the same.
As far as Tech 3 ships go, if you don't hybrid then your just an idiot to begin with. As any good pilot in EVE knows Choices are key when it comes to Missions and to Pvp.
Limiting oneself to just one class of ships is kinda not worth it. When there are advantages to training and skilling all 4 classes.
By that I mean Amarr, Caldari, Gallente, and Minmatar class ships.

Can you exp;lain why you feel that choices made in a game that is all about the consequences of your actions should carry no consequences?

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