Absolutely not. Any skill training should be permanent, short of being podded in an insufficient clone. Skill respecs in any form would take away from that. Even with a hard limit of a few million SP per year, that's a substantial amount of reversible skill training.

-with untraining being based on time we wouldnt be able to respec to the new FOTM instantly

-with untraining limited to 2-3m SP per year we wouldnt be able to respec to new FOTM(s) at all

-we wouldnt be able to instantly respec our alts then flood character market with them

-we would be able to correct our mistakes and clean out our skill sheet a little

-enough penalties to satisfy every masochistic eve player!

You people don't know how to read..... seriously....go back to school...and learn to read.

#### No....for the millionth billionth time.

Stop being dense for once.

If you can't learn to live with your choices....then please quit the game and Biomass your toon because we don't care about your tearful whines anymore.

You got that OP? You are not allowed to have your own opinions or desire to make changes that don't fall directly in line with what everybody else wants because Drake and Tidurious said so!

There have been a few other threads on this already. All of which the same people have gone ape **** crazy in because they refuse to accept that other people want things they don't approve of.

Don't worry...they will be the ones eating crow when CCP eventually makes a change with SP refunds.

Maybe if you turned your brain on long enough to comprehend youd understand.

Your entitled to your opinion allright.

Your also entitled to get called out for your stupidity as well.

You knew that the moment you started spouting half the crap you post.

Start doing your research on these subjects and stop spitballing crap for once people...some of us have seen the same damn idea every damn week every bloody time and they are given the same damn answer every bloody time.

Maybe if you bothered to listen first and speak later you'd get it.

CCP can do what they want they want...but they will certainly not be listening to you thats for sure....or the OP....they listen to the majority of the people who paly this game.

And anyone who thinks they can make these stupid ideas based on threats of subscription base quitting maybe you should actually TALK to these said subscribers for once. Never assume everyone is just gonna die with glee and complete joy over your ideas....start acceptnig the fact that maybe 1 in 100...1 in a 1000 will work...and just maybe you'll get somewhere.

I have little mercy or paitence for reposted ideas...I expect the same treatment of myself if I did so..and already have recevied such treatment.

Tradiotionally, Eve has been a harsh world where "live with your mistakes" is the standard mantra. In such a world, perhaps retraining skills does not fit well. It also doesn't fit with the RP aspect -- you can't respec your training in the real world, after all.

On the other hand, if CCP see reskilling as an important way to up subscriptions, then this proposal seems a less unreasonable approach than many. You could even imagine a RP scenario to explain, for example, how neural wiping whilst you sleep creates space for new skills to be injected unusually rapidly.

I'm not sure CCP would be right to imagine that this will increase subs -- maybe people buy new subs to train extra toons the way they wanted them (as I did for an uber-salvage/reprocessing toon), whereas in the new world they would just respec their existing toon.

WOW, you're one of those folks, who completely lost connection with reality. You're so damn stuck in EVE world, that you see freedom of others' speech as your own right. What you say is sacred. If CCP will ever add respec, I'm sure you'll still be stuck in EVE anyway, or maybe a bit more on forums, trolling about it, but then others will not give a damn about it.
If people were not so insisting on ideas, reopening old topics, there would have been very little changes in EVE, as they would just disappear with pointless answers like yours. If you're against something state your opinion, and shut up, and don't try to shut up others.
Also get a life.

FFS, this topic shows up every other monday.
No respec ever, stop kicking a dead horse, we dont need and dont want respec.

Obviously, if it comes up every other Monday then there must be people that want a respec option. If CCP has proven anything, it is that you have to kick the dead horse for quite a while before it gets done.

So If I keep scraeming like a little 3 year old saying I should get paid 1 billion ISK a week for playing EVE online every other day then I'll get it?


Oh wat....

This topic yet again?
This is a fantastic idea. It will help me no end with rebalancing the 65mil SP I have so I can fly only the best ships and use all the best mods. I will become epic overnight when I get rid of all of my useless Industry, Trade and Science skills that I never use.

I will be able to fly all race's Dreads and Carriers with the SP I will get back. All of a sudden there will be tons of Cap capable pilots in my corp without having to train for the skills. WOOT! SIGN ME UP NOW!

And now you explain us how you will do all of this with just 3m SP?

Dont make yourself look any more ******** and go read the first post, not just topics title.

I'd use it if it were there, but don't care if it's never implemented. There's the obvious problem of potential abuse that would require it be very limited in scope if it existed at all, that's for certain.

I could probably free up 2-3 months of useless skills with a system such as this. The thing for bittervets to remember is that not everyone has the luxury of having all the basics down. It has taken me MONTHS of training to get into the Proteus that I'll be able to fly tonight (but still need another month's worth of skills to fly well)...and that's after flying a Legion for more than half a year.

Devil's advocate:

Let's say you started as Minmatar and have been training long enough to fly most T2 cruisers, T3s, and battleships with T2 guns. You decide you want to add Amarr ships to your hangar. It takes roughly 50 days to train from Small Energy Turret I to Large Pulse Laser Specialization I. An additional 7 days for T2 beam lasers of all sizes. 35 days for Frigate 5, Cruiser 5, and Battleship 3.

So it takes 90+ days to switch ships and guns to a new race, and that's not counting what it might take for you to train for a new kind of tank. It's quite easy for a player's first cross-training to require 4-6 months. For someone like myself, that represents 25% of total playtime in Eve.

It's for this reason that I wouldn't object to having some method for freeing up skill points, allowing rookie mistakes and aborted career paths to be repurposed so that players can get on to enjoying the game rather than regretting permanent mistakes. Losing a ship, getting podded, all those other mistakes are temporary: I can replace it all through grinding. Waste skill points? They're gone forever.

edit: this could also be made into a tremendous isk sink if it cost per SP, and the cost went up for every SP you had removed.