So EP resets ... I have 5 accounts. One dedicated miner and a hybrid miner/production.

Secure a mining area, let's say a Gamma ....
Respec  all my characters to max miners
Strip mine in relative safety for a few weeks until minerals are in the billion
Respec into Scarab Mk2 bots, haul all the *** to production facilities
Respec into Production, mass produce enough mods to supply my combat needs for a year (and I lose a lot of bots) or enough mods to flood the fragile market and skew it
Respec into combat and  never have to mine again.

Alternatively, let's say a corp like -77- fields a great mix of Ewar and combats while my corp is heavies 24/7 ...
Respec into ewars, negate advantage other corp had.

FOTM doesn't have to mean a particular OP bot/fit. People put some thought into their skill paths and trained and trained and trained to get their character to do their thing ... Unlimited EP resets throw that all away.

Maybe 5 accounts switched to mining is no big deal, but what about 20, or on a corp level, 50.
50 EP resets brings in lots of cash for AC, but completely knock out of balance what those accounts could normally be used for. It be kinda like every time a defunct corp like CIR had corp mining ops they gave players maxxed mining accounts to mine minerals, getting maximum bang for their buck. Hypothetically of course.

Cassius wrote:

So EP resets ... I have 5 accounts. One dedicated miner and a hybrid miner/production.

Secure a mining area, let's say a Gamma ....
Respec  all my characters to max miners
Strip mine in relative safety for a few weeks until minerals are in the billion
Respec into Scarab Mk2 bots, haul all the *** to production facilities
Respec into Production, mass produce enough mods to supply my combat needs for a year (and I lose a lot of bots) or enough mods to flood the fragile market and skew it
Respec into combat and  never have to mine again.

Alternatively, let's say a corp like -77- fields a great mix of Ewar and combats while my corp is heavies 24/7 ...
Respec into ewars, negate advantage other corp had.

FOTM doesn't have to mean a particular OP bot/fit. People put some thought into their skill paths and trained and trained and trained to get their character to do their thing ... Unlimited EP resets throw that all away.

Maybe 5 accounts switched to mining is no big deal, but what about 20, or on a corp level, 50.
50 EP resets brings in lots of cash for AC, but completely knock out of balance what those accounts could normally be used for. It be kinda like every time a defunct corp like CIR had corp mining ops they gave players maxxed mining accounts to mine minerals, getting maximum bang for their buck. Hypothetically of course.

I'm cool with you spending $200 to do that.  At $10 a respect.

Based on your feedback and after some internal discussion, we have decided to not offer EP resets for now.

The cost of the extension downgrade feature is proportional to the refunded EP, so we'll see how people will use that. A separate EP reset may not even be needed besides that.

I am stumbled by the thought that we had EP resets and we´ve seen what damage it did to the game, accordingly it was abandoned by the DEV´s again. This isn´t debatable, as it is a fact. Openly known I am totally against it after a time of 2-3 month of character creation.

On the other sideI do agree with, that DEV´s need to find a source of income. To balance this, might be a hard bridge to build. Yet any free reset or "10€"  reset is equal to free and does not present a hurdle. At least for the working community, I would think.

Zoom´s approach I feel like is the best so far, with a reset cost of 30%. It will not hurt a new player EP wise that much, to compensate a wrong turn. A scalable approach is not practicable, as it only needs one free or cheap reset for a mass "color of the month" reset and the damage is done.

With a 30% cost, I definitely think twice,  about resetting, yet in return it allows me to turn my "minning" path to a damage path, which would if a desired choice, I will gladly spend 30% EP´s.

Problem still is, there is still not an income generated for the DEV´s, whereas the solution is practicable balance wise, it needs a € sink. A combination of both might be a solution, such as 30% EP Loss and a 5€. 

As with Grems argument, that other games have it as well and it didn´t do them any bad. I have to agree to disagree, on the term, that you a right, it is a good source of income in many games, yet, on other games you have a different basis. I might not have an overall picture of the whole game spectrum, but on all games I know of, you reset your skill points in a class path, but you do not change the entire class.

Secondly those games are theme parks and not persistent sand boxed ones. But like said, I might be missing games here, which I don´t know of, where in a persistent sandbox you can reset your complete class or even all skill points.  - Just a thought.