onasi wrote:
Some sort of respec/ a relearning of skills....a one time thing at like lvl 50 or something, so you can fix any misplaced points from when you were trying to figure out what is good or not so good.
I have my doubts about this. In theory a respec / relearning of skills does seem a helpful possibility, being able to fix mistakes and so on, but a few random thoughts:
* first, although a bad choice of skills can be an annoying inconvenience and can delay your progression, there are very few cases where one can "gimp" his character, for example, getting to level 50 in harvesting without getting quality extraction upgrades, where levelling can become extraordinarily slow, and even then, a couple of painful levels are needed to "fix things".
* at some point, there are lots of unused skill points (not at the beginning, but later on) without skills to learn.
* knowing that a "respec" is always possible, would it mean players being less careful when selecting the skills they want to learn?
* If the possibility of a skill respec is a "one time" only option, players may not be satisfied with the second choice, and the door is still open to mistakes even if your knowledge of the game has improved (oooops, dang, with all this fast clicking I truly forgot to get all focus upgrades!!!). If the respec is allowed "many times", it is still unclear wheter it could be exploited or not (e.g. learn to craft armors, get the patters, craft my armor, unlearn the patters, etc. whether this could be a gameplay feature or not, open to debate)
In summary, I don't think (only my humble opinion of course) it justifies the effort and the possible problems (wrong respecs, abuses, etc.) . A wrong choice only means a "gah I should have got the X, bleh I'll get it next level", and with Ryzom specializations and branches it seems possible to work a bit on a lower branch to get the needed extra sp in some cases. I would rther suggest new players to play around with skills with a new toon and to ask/read guides than rely on a "I can respec later".
Just my thoughts tho