Shorten time to unlearn a certification?

[Veteran]

I had an idea for changing the time for unlearning a certification, since changing your combination of certs can add fun to a play session. Here it is:

When you forget a cert, a one hour timer starts ticking down. If you log off, it stops ticking down. Simple as that. If you play for seven or eight hours, you could conceivably reform your entire character.

This probably won't happen, and I'm not trying to start a movement, I'm just curious as to how many people would like to get away from the punitively long recertification period. I find that if I pick a cert for fun, and it turns out to be lame, I'm not going to have the full amount of fun for at least a full day. I'm only gonna live so long, why should it be full of arbitrary waiting periods?

I'd even go so far as to say let people unlearn certs at will, provided you control a Bio Lab. I won't go that far though, or I'd be branded a heretic.

[Cease]

Heck I'd be happy to have it reduced to 12 hours. Or allow it so someone could forget a whole tree of certs. For example. Lets say I was Adv Hacking and didn't want it anymore. Well currently I have to unlearn Adv Hacking and then Hacking -- 2 days. It would be nice if I chould unlearn Hacking and Adv hacking goes along with it.

So along those same lines if I unlearned Med Assault then it would also unlearn Sniping, AV, Spec Assault, Heavy Assault if I had them.

[ZionsFire]

I'd say just cut the time in half down to 12 hours

damn cease beat me

[JetRaiden]

make a time once a month where you can redo all your certs.

[SandTrout]

Make you spend your personal outfit points for a full recert.

[321]

Yeah I think reducing the time would be a good idea but I don't think that making on penalty would be good either. It's like having every cert then just not at once.

[SandTrout]

Also, if you could recert everything without delay. why would you have another character on the same server?

[Flammey]

No, I think it's fine. I only ever change one skill at a time anyway. Usually vehicles. Go from a Mag to a Sunderer. That sort of thing.

[321]

Yeah same here.

[Happy lil Elf]

I'd like to see something less than 24 hours eben if it's still like 20 hours. I can't tell you how many times I've played late one night, dumped a cert at like 2:30 and wished I could dump the cert I picked up but end up waiting two days because I can't afford to stay up until 2:30 two nights in a row.

[CraZy]

reduce to 6 hours

[Doppler]

I honestly dont see why people get so worked up about having a cert timer, as it stands now the game requires *gasp* long range planing in the building of your character. If your changing certs anymore often I really strongly suggest you spend some quality time in VR>

[Nimbus]

The timer is fine, I just wish you could unlearn trees. Either that prerequisate certs more useful. I wish I could have taken hacking and adv hacking out at the same time. It's not like hacking itself is actually useful for much of anything.

[Jagd]

What are you talking about, hacking kicks ass! You can get gear and equipment from any powered base whether it's friendly or linked or captured or not, plus you have slowed down medical and engineer abilities available by hacking a terminal, switching armor types and grabbing new med kits. Not only that, but you avoid being a sitting duck while hacking doors and standing out in the open where anyone can pop you in the back.

[Flammey]

Forget about unlearning certs, why doesn't SOE fucking fix that Grief system, cause right now, it bloody blows. And I mean BLOODY BLOWS. I run in an outfit squad and 3 of my guys, who don't want to stop playing, because they LIKE this game, they keep getting weapons lock because people keep running in front of them, running them over, or their deployables hurt some unfortunate. It's annoying when 3 out of your 5 total members can't do a damn thing for 5 minutes.