so yeah, i resided myself to "accepting my mistakes" and moving on, then a respec is talked about, now, have to wait 1 week cause I have a full account with little EP. No big deal, back to where I was, and I'll just wait it out and take the clean slate just to make SURE I do it right and hope for a small adjustment.

I do understand this might need to be the way. Some may have had only 1 character. Short of research and rep, might as well reset, only the night before you made the other 2 characters to get the light bots knowing you would delete and remake the next day. Obviously exploitable, and we all know how people get . .  .

I was hoping this would be more of a permanent in-game feature that cost nic. I even thought:

You pay nic based on the EP returned from the skill, and only 1 skill per account can be reset at a time. A skill can only be reset to 1, not 0. This EP you get from the skill goes into a bank that is returned to you 1 EP / min. just like normal. Effectively giving you 2 EP / min. while a skill is being reset. Still a price for your mistake, but not an overwhelming disaster that makes you feel like you might as well just come back next week.

Sometimes you just want to play the game.