Forced Respec?

sophus84at

After todays patch and the i have to verify my files again stuff i logged onto my main toon and when seeing the Rep powers where offline it told me i had to respec otherwise i cannot view the rep powers... problem it doesnt work as the usual respec. where you have your skillset and can choose different points but you see the skillset you had before and just can add a few or delete a few.

no, it totally wipes your skills and you have an empty skilltree... great work cryptic.
now after i used varous re-specs in the past years to find the perfect set-up which works for me ... all points are deleted and f course i havent written them down as normally every re-spec lets you see your until now skilltree.

really great.. im way beyond than pissed and may have to spend another 1 or 2 re-specs now to find my old skilltree....


was this in the patch files??? i cant remember reading a mandatory re-spec is to come??? and why did ihave to re-spec anyways when i already maxed out all rep powers t T5 and were visible before the patch??

stf65

I logged in 2 characters without this happening. I didn't need to do a forced verify either. Seems like something went boom on your end.

sophus84at

just happened after the force verify thing so could also be with that. yesterday all went well.
today after the patch it wouldnt let me start. made a force verify and canceld on demand patching, all my maxed out toons now have to respec. only the ones who didnt hit T5 in rep yet didnt have to

crm14916

I had the forced respec a few weeks ago... Got it on two toons... Appreciated it on one, and on the other, had just paid for one a few weeks before, so that sucked... Haven't checked today...

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noroblad

This is an ongoing "issue". I am sure it is annoying to some, others get a freebie which can be good for them. But about once a month or so someone in my fleet will get hit with this bug. Been that way for almost 6 months?

sophus84at

thank god im not the only one.. thought i would go mad if this just happaned here.

rinkster

Actually, i had this happen a week or so back to one of my toons.

He had just hit 50, i was filling up the skill tree, and bam.


Most odd.

ghyudt

I'd be rather happy to have a free respec. Now that I've found a ship build that works for me, I need to work on setting up my skills to maximize its effectiveness.

jarfaru

After this update i see a message that i needed to respec my skills as they were not good. I have been flying and starting to love my new fleet X. So i did a respect for this ship as it will be my main ship ingame. And now its seems to work even better. Is this something new in the game? I don't remember ever seeing it before. It wasn't a popup. It was there on the bottom of my skills tab.

askray

I just logged in with my main and didn't have to respec at all.

sophus84at

you are mislead, im not complaining about the 2free" respec itself i am complaining about the fact that its not as the usual respecs are. normally when you hit respec your current skilltree stays and you can add or delete single points from the list with the arrows but in this case it deleted my whole skilltree everything empty so i have to try and error the full friggin built again. which cost me 5 respecs in the first place.

crypticfrost

This sort of forced respec happens when there's been some kind of data corruption affect your character, so we give you a free respec and wipe the corrupted data. That's why it's different than the standard respec, as I understand it.

I understand your frustration in having to rebuild a complex build, but the alternative would be for your character to become broken and unplayable.

It's an unfortunate side effect of the complexity of STO characters.

minmacdougal

I've had this happen before. I just take it in stride as a chance to try something different with a build I've been meaning to do.

admrenlarreck

Ive had this happen before too, about a month ago one of my 8 characters got hit with it. I was happy I didnt have to spend one of my respecs on him to get it so meeehh

generalmoco

crypticfrost wrote: »

This sort of forced respec happens when there's been some kind of data corruption affect your character, so we give you a free respec and wipe the corrupted data. That's why it's different than the standard respec, as I understand it.

I understand your frustration in having to rebuild a complex build, but the alternative would be for your character to become broken and unplayable.

It's an unfortunate side effect of the complexity of STO characters.

Psssst Frosty!!! Psssst Can you break my character files.. I don't want to pay for another Respec!!! LOL J'k j'k >.<

edgecrysger

Happened to me 3 times , last one 3 days ago. With 3 different toons. I would say, once or two in a week..:mad:

razar2380

That explains why myself, and a lot of my friends were getting a forced respec on all of our characters when they hit level 50. It stopped after season 8 arrived. We all thought that you get one free respec at level 50.

It wasn't till after season 8 that we were wondering if there was something wrong, or if they gave one free respec at level 50. Sadly, we now know that is not true. I hope when I sign in, my Klingon has one.

I was expecting one, so I did this build like all of my others. I had skills that helped at lower levels, but are useless at higher levels, like Driver Coil.

sophus84at

crypticfrost wrote: »

This sort of forced respec happens when there's been some kind of data corruption affect your character, so we give you a free respec and wipe the corrupted data. That's why it's different than the standard respec, as I understand it.

I understand your frustration in having to rebuild a complex build, but the alternative would be for your character to become broken and unplayable.

It's an unfortunate side effect of the complexity of STO characters.

thanks for the answer.
that would explain why it happened after the force verify.

can be closed,:)

dracounguis

Yesterday or the day before I noticed that I had to respec my Romulan's skills and rep powers. Not sure how long they were unassigned before I noticed.

Hmm, the thought that I should check my other toons just popped into my brain.

tigeraries

razar2380 wrote: »

That explains why myself, and a lot of my friends were getting a forced respec on all of our characters when they hit level 50. It stopped after season 8 arrived. We all thought that you get one free respec at level 50.

It wasn't till after season 8 that we were wondering if there was something wrong, or if they gave one free respec at level 50. Sadly, we now know that is not true. I hope when I sign in, my Klingon has one.

I was expecting one, so I did this build like all of my others. I had skills that helped at lower levels, but are useless at higher levels, like Driver Coil.

You hit L50 or L30 or L40 etc... while you were in a zone that had your level adjusted.

You probably were in one of those Borg Space Alerts... that will force your level to be 45ish or so... but if you hit L50 during that encounter, system will think your skills are invalid and wham, free repec.