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Request: Make skill respec's FREE
cryptiecop
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It is so awesome to have the reputation traits change on the fly now without the cost of dilithium or zen..thank you devs !
I feel the skill respect should be looked at as well now.
I'm fairly certain many players would like this option as well, especially those tweaking their builds several times over.
I don't know how many players even buy the 500 Zen skill repec tokens...
but it never hurts to ask right ?
Thanks
I feel the skill respect should be looked at as well now.
I'm fairly certain many players would like this option as well, especially those tweaking their builds several times over.
I don't know how many players even buy the 500 Zen skill repec tokens...
but it never hurts to ask right ?
Thanks
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At minimum, make the respec guy we pay a metric assload for at Starbase T5 free or for FC. I have specifically not bothered to construct that at all because I simply cannot justify paying 4 million minerals for the dubious "privilege" of paying 500 Zen a respec, something I can do anywhere.
But my take on it is a bit different. I'm not so opposed to paying to respec, I'm opposed to both the cost and currency.
Firstly, changing skills is an ingame action, and should cost an ingame currency. Respec should not be paid for with Zen, it should be paid for with Dilithium. Then the question is not if I am going to spend $5 to respec, the question is will I spend X days to respec. That matters, at least to me, and I'm fairly certain quite a number of people out there.
Once that change is made, then the question changes to, 'how many days should it take my admiral to take those refresher courses'
pardon the sudden lack of grammar... my shift keys died....
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Making the trait respec free, making the rep passives changeable any time, making it possible to switch the ship any time and the ships load outs any time serves ultimately one purpose: to be able to quickly adapt your game play to certain situations or even just change it because of being bored.
But the still fixed skill tree still is kind of in the way of it. It seems kind of obvious that this is the next logical step, but since cryptic is kind of in odds with logic that doesnt say its coming.
Also I want to stress: Respec tokens are way to expensive.
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At least to people who level their toons up while being a gold. You get one respec token per rank, for a total of 5 if you're a gold from toon's creation till he hits VA.
And the majority of content can be beaten with a "generalist" build, aka no skill over 6...
Therefore, not being condesending or anything, but if you "choose" to min-max for the current content, finding that later content exploits the holes in said build and removes your "easy mode OP-ness", it's nobody's fault but yours. Either adapt and play around those holes, or spend the money to respec to either a generalist build (and be the last respec you really "should" need), or be prepared to have holes in the next batch of content...
I mean, don't the die hard PvPers have dedicated PvP builds that they hate grinding rep with because it's a PvP oriented min-max build that has a ton of holes against PvE content?
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Not everybody min maxes every thing. some of us just win.
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I've seen so many new free players get trapped with bad skill placement because they don't yet understand the game. Sure they can go earn dil to turn into zen, but in the meantime they have to play with a jacked up character, which is no fun. It's time to make skill respecs free like traits.
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Yes, we can't expect new players to learn or ask questions. After all, a free repect after each promotion is clearly not enough.
Only subs get free respecs after each promotion. Free players do not.
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Ah! I didn't realize it was a sub perk.
Ok, how about this: Put a mission at the Academy akin to going back to school. After mission completion you can respec your toon. :P
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Remember, we are trying to reduce effort in general, that might be considered a grind by newer players.
[/SARCASM OFF] I like the idea of one maybe two missions top earn a respect. But then again, you can just earn dilithium/zen and pay for a respect like a grown up.
Well, if they can't spend 5 minutes on an Academy training exercise... :rolleyes:
Honestly, your SKILLS shouldn't be that easy to respec. If this emulated real life (and yes, I know this isn't real life, just a game, but go with me here), you'd have to train to improve or learn new skills. That takes EFFORT. Now, I can see changing TRAITs on the fly. Just because you have a certain trait doesn't necessarily mean that you'd use it in every given situation.
But I'm beginning to like the idea of "training" at the Academy to learn/improve Skills, maybe even get some new Traits out of the deal.
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You know, they need some money for running up servers.
New Players should begin to learn how to play from startup and not at level 50.
Most only play PvE anyway and you can play this even without spending Skillpoints and with white MK X Weapons
Yes but now whit the Undine thing has change. The enemy is gonna become more hard and you will need to have accurate skills to fight them Evan just for the mission ore foundry.
Will need to fight the Iconian after 2 expansion after all
You choose to fight species 8472, you do not HAVE to.
Geko's proposal to dumb the skillsystem down WILL NOT CHANGE THIS. The reason the system is inaccessible is because any decision you make is PERMANENT, and therefore, must be made with complete and total understanding of the game AND what you plan to do up to 6 months from now to avoid TRIBBLE it up. THAT, and not the occasionally esoteric skill names is, what makes the system inaccessible, and destroying all existing skillset synergies will make it even worse.
On a serious note they've given us free re-specs before when they really mess with things And I'm sure they'll continue to, in the meantime everyone gets 3 characters now and can destroy/create them at will so, is the time to roll a new L50 toon worth 5 dollars when you find your skills lacking? or what about using the dil exchange, we can pay for it with X days in game even if it's indirect it would take 9 days at the last rate I knew of to get a respect token.
I can beat them even with my first created Char and i specced him totally "wrong".
I didn't know anything about the game mechanics that time and just put points because everything sounded important
As long we don't get an AI, you don't really NEED a respec
A new Ship doesn't mean that you have to respecc just to use it.
Your Playstyle is crucial.
If I have 0 points in grav and particle gens, the gav well 3 isn't that great. Also, if I have no points in torps and I shoot them out the back cuz I'm running hi aux, the won't do much either.
Point being, if skill points are allocated to abilities that aren't being used, then you can fly like Tom Paris, but your ship is still gimped.
Again, free players do not get those free respecs. You get them because you have a LTS.
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