you dont know what your talking about Merkle

and soon you will be able change your name to this one

EP resets and downgrades are a "terrible ideas" to unleash on the server of people who over 3/4ths of whom have 1million + Ep ... Im not going to list all of the reasons that its the worst idea ever but I will say that It mainly benefits players like my self more than anyone new coming to this game.  New players will spend a a bunch of Ep right off and then say "crap I should re spec this way or that way" but with very low Ep levels below 300K its not going to make a huge difference in their game play.

Unless the Ep reset item is over 100 USD then its pretty cheap .. ... some people have paid for 5 to 10+ accounts for years on end @ 10 dollars each ... with everything going free does anyone really think that that same money cant be spent on the same thing (perpetuum).

^^ That being said I am glad that EP reset will be something that we can use due to the "fluid development" of the game. There are so many people that i talk to that would like to "fix" their skill trees because of one change or another that came from the devs. If the "core mechanics" of the game are set in stone then there would be no need for this but because of all the changes i see coming and that will need to be made i think it is only fair to allow players to change as the mechanics do.

noobs and weirdos just keep walkin when they see 30$

we want those guys to stop in and play, so we can shoot them

Let the Free-2-Play models generate cash with in game purchases instead of higher up front cost.

Like I said before, a quality game doesnt need to be high.   

Path of Exile   POE

Dota 2                   <- one of most popular games ever on Steam

Healty market includes, that new trader find their niche to sell their stuff. So better keep that market cap to have still a niche for new traders.

If we veterans flood all markets it is good for the new player who want to buy, but bad for player who want to sell.

Wow, 8 pages of opinions.  Here's mine:

I like the changes.
I like the EP reset and downgrade option.

After spending the last year mostly playing EVE and Guild Wars 2, I'm looking at this game again.  I even dropped three ICE to start my first-ever alt.

Well done, Devs.

Regards,

SPoT

I dont like the EP reset and downgrades.

Why, I know the time when there was the Bot of the Month problem. That was a bad time. Please DEV think about this again.

I think no ones going to do it and you lose a source of income.

Such a steep loss of already accumulated EP is not an attractive option to use (even for valid reasons). What can work is some other kind of penalty.

Like reduced speed of EP gathering for a period somewhat proportional to the amount of EP being re-purposed. This penalty should be stacking so that multiple resets in a row really slow down future development for a while.

Net effect over time is the same as a moderate EP haircut during the reset, without the frustrating experience of loosing already earned EP. Something to which people are very sensitive!

Now I am brainstorming anyway, i like to focus on re-purposing EP, which is essentially what one might want to use a reset for. Before and after use of EP will in most situations largely overlap, making fair pricing and the penalty's of the operation a hard thing to get right.

This is why I feel the 'reset' must be transaction in the sense you do not get a stash of EP you have to re-assign afterwards. You need to make an interface where people can make pending changes to extensions and then calculate a cost based on what really changes. This gives you far more control and makes the pricing fair.

Also have a reset, start a counter that prevents another reset for a specific time! Possibly increase this time every time this feature is used, thus eventually eliminating every possible form of abuse!

The difference between a reset and a downgrade is then that with a reset you do not gain non-purposed EP (some leftover must be allowed), whereas with a downgrade you do.

that sounds reasonable, as this should hurt enough as a barrier for a tactical resets, if we really need to have them at all. I still think, a reset within 2-3 Month after character creation, should be sufficient, to compensate any wrong turns taken in your favourite path, once you get accustomed to the game and preferred play style.

Not a bad idea.