Alexander wrote:

I'm of the opinion all attributes should be very even with a minor increase in a single direction.
Some people would prefer more half and half characters where specialised accounts just get to do more stuff sooner rather than half and half characters getting to do things much much later.

Rodger Wilcoe wrote:

I'll admit I generally prefer an "all-rounder" character, but when alts are viable I'm happy to specialise. One combat and one industrial.

There's a problem with attributes and I'm a sad panda now that they are changing the respec mechanics without having addressed the real problem with attributes.

Atributes in Perpetuum do not obey the "diminishing returns" rule. In fact the opposite is true: each 1 point increase in an attribute gives you MORE advantage than the previous point gave you.

As a consequence the best "all rounder" is the character that have put all attribute points in whatever you'll train more. If you train 55% combat and 45% industry, you are still better off with a 100% military attribute setup than with any other combination.

I so hoped they changed this and then gave everybody some time to adapt with full respecs available, before removing them.