Buying back Captain Skills ala carte??

[DigitalRebel]

Hi all,

 

   Wargaming:  I have a suggestion that maybe has been presented before and there's a good reason as to not do it. Now let me say I spend ALOT of money on this game and will be first in line tomorrow for the big E...  However, the housekeeping spending for minimal Captain skill tweaking bothers me. I do stock up on elite experience but now I'm presently trying to play a less used ship (The Okhotnik) and want to tweak one of my minor captains to skill him the way I want to.  I don't want to spend all the gold to redistribute his skills just to change ONE skill.  Please make it so we can buy back captain skills one at a time...  or even two at a time...    It would be less frustrating..  opinions?

 

   Mike/Digitalrebel

 

     

[m373x]

No, if you made a mistake in your build it is your fault and it should come at a high price.

[CLUCH_CARGO]

I am with you on this but WG will never release the strings upon your wallet.

 

[Tachnechdorus]

5 minutes ago, m373x said:

No, if you made a mistake in your build it is your fault and it should come at a high price.

why a high price ?  Don't you think we're paying enough as is ????

[m373x]

1 minute ago, Eric_Von_Hess said:

why a high price ?  Don't you think we're paying enough as is ????

What for are we paying enough exactly?

[CapnCappy]

Push yourself to get 19pt captains. You can use elite commander XP, which is free.

[Tachnechdorus]

Do I have to break it down for you Joey ! ! !

[Bril01]

There would have to be some very well thought out validation on the idea.  For example they would have to add in rules to ensure that if you unlearned your only tier one commander skill, all your other skills would automatically be disabled until you retrained a level one skill.  It wouldn't be too difficult to do, I am just not sure it is worth the effort instead of working upon other improvements.

[Tachnechdorus]

1 minute ago, CapnCappy said:

Push yourself to get 19pt captains. You can use elite commander XP, which is free.

That's what I've been dining with my five 19 point captains much cheaper.......

[RedSeaBear]

This isn't a bad idea and one I've been toying with. Let the player pay to redistribute a single skill rather than paying the cost of a complete skill redo. For instance a player has one skill on each level and is working on their secondary skills but doesn't think having Survival Expert is helping them as much as having Vigilance. And because they already have Superintendent at that level they could pay a small cost to undo the skill points in SE and than move those points into Vigilance. 

Any second skill at any level could be redone like this. However if you only have a skill at each level, say a 10 point captain, you would have to pay to undo Concealment Expert before you could pay to undo Superintendent. 

This would make adjusting captain skill builds easier while costing less. 

Notice that I said costing, I don't think redistributing captain skills should be free. We have elite captain xp for a reason and it should cost you something to redo a skill. I just don't like spending close to 200k of the stuff to redo all the skill just because one skill that isn't preforming like I think it should. 

[AspiringCodger]

It would definitely be nice, but I can't see WG making the change.

[Sovereigndawg]

Made a post on this myself, I can't seem to find it. I agree with you. They could make it that if you retrain on a certain tier that you must replace with one on that tier or lower as long as you still have a skill picked on that tier.

[WolfofWarship]

On 29/06/2017 at 7:54 PM, DigitalRebel said:

Please make it so we can buy back captain skills one at a time...  

 

Hello @DigitalRebel thanks for your great suggestion! I'll bring it to the attention of our team for you :) 

[MorbidGamer]

I think this was asked before in a Q&A and they decided not to do it. Would be nice. I like to change my build now and then. I prob spent close to 10-15k doubloons just on respecs. Heck right now I would like to change about 2 or 3 of my ships up with new specs. But I'm getting tired of spending close to 500 doubloons to do it. That's the punishment of having so many 19 point captains.

[RevolutionBlues]

6 minutes ago, WolfofWarship said:

 

Hello @DigitalRebel thanks for your great suggestion! I'll bring it to the attention of our team for you :) 

 

If we're making suggestions could you ask them to add some sort of skill remap token to the store so I don't have to buy odd amounts of gold that are just a waste of money.

[sbcptnitro]

2 minutes ago, MorbidGamer said:

But I'm getting tired of spending close to 500 doubloons to do it. That's the punishment of having so many 19 point captains.

 

Just a suggestion, but if you truly do have a lot of 19pt captains, why don't you just use Elite XP to cover the respecs?

[MorbidGamer]

Just now, sbcptnitro said:

 

Just a suggestion, but if you truly do have a lot of 19pt captains, why don't you just use Elite XP to cover the respecs?

Because it if you do the math it's cheaper to just spend the 475 doubloons then to spend the 180k XP.

[MrKilmister]

On 6/29/2017 at 0:04 PM, m373x said:

No, if you made a mistake in your build it is your fault and it should come at a high price.

 

I see a mistake in your supposition.  

[Murcc]

I don't like the cost of respecing, so I generally don't do it.  If I could buy back the 1 bad decision at a reduced cost for that 1 item, I probably would.  I think many of us think the same way.  That would probably result in many more small purchases, rather than very few large ones for captain respecs.  The volume of respecs would probably go up for increased profits.