Skill Discussions

I want to make a proposal for a feature to remap skill points. I have cross trained alot of skills, mostly because of lack of knowledge in the beginning and it bugges the heck out of me.

We know you can do it if you want to, like in the reset of training skills to "unallocated skillpoints" so, please do it, I would love to be able to remap some of my useless skills into something worth while, call it "skill rewiring", with some cost and perhaps a slight SP loss when freeing up skills. That'd also give us yet another time/ISK sink. I'm sure some sort of restriction is needed, like once/twice a year or whatever, but that is up to CCP to iron out.

Completely removes the point of having attrbiutes, largely removes the point of having SP to begin with, and almost even removes the point of having skills.

Horrid idea.

No.

This has been brought up hundreds of times and is still a bad idea. There are other games that offer this.

Also, how many skillpoints could anyone really have wasted? Such mistakes are made at the beginning, when you are training to lvl 3 at max, with a very few lvl4 or lvl5 in the most important skills. This means we are talking about a few hours worth (or maybe a day or two) of skillpoints.

Hardly a reason for anyone getting worked up over it.

I think the drastic changes would defeat the point of having bloodlines however to be fair it became pointless (mind you I never played prior to these events I simply read up on Eve before playing it) when they removed unique attributes associated with each (correct me if I'm wrong as its been a while since I've read up on the changes leading to my '09 sign up). Now its purely cosmetic.

They could offer some bonuses to each or offer a form of 'specialisation' options available exclusively to each bloodline - understandably it would mean coming up with 12 of them to make each worthwhile but then you'll have arguments that it becomes too complex (then again wasn't Eve always meant to focus on depth?). Otherwise offer something tangible ingame to make these choices matter.

The most simple and less 'intrusive' option is to collectively associate the different looks as part of the Faction's Culture; so you'd still have unique looking Amarr, Gallente, Caladari and Minmatar but at least the trivial bloodline choices are removed.

"but I might not recognize the image on the forums." - is the worst argumentative point I have ever seen (shame on whoever argues that on the forum). Unless I personally chat to you within Eve I just see any forum post as an insight from a different perspective otherwise if I do chat to you within Eve I would obviously remember your name (and ill always be aware if your avatar changes). If I find your posts often and notice you have content worth reading in your post id probably also eventually remember your name anyway...

However I really hope they make it ISK based (if there is a post-surgery option) or give it for free.

you did read the part where she/he said 60 million points being swapped around? "So you propose that for 6 months of the year I trade my 60m skillpoints to pure industy"...it might not seem like an issue for a starting character to have a skill-reallocation feature at x-cost but it can be for anyone who has a relatively old character. Even a 1-2 year old character can already make the feature game-breaking (assuming they didn't have any downtime in their skill training).

That's why I said there should be some cost with it;

• For every SP you free up you get 0.7 back
• One SP cost 10K isk
• Once a year or something

There are plenty of things to do to stop exploiting and still provide a reasonable rare chance to change direction of your skills.

For the "why didn't you read up" guys, give me a break, most people don't go digging into optimization guides as their first task when starting a game. I'm not talking wild respecs like in some other games, but a somewhat rare chance to re-order some failed combos.

I think I know why:



Dominion changed a few skills.

I have a better idea.

Biomass your character(s).

Don't come back.

No.
You want a different skill set? Buy a character from the bazaar.