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    Lightbulb Refund single skill options

    Both the full refund (for gems) and partial refund are really expensive if you only want to make adjustments to a single skill. Maybe there should be 2 additional options along the lines of:

    1) Destroy a single book assigned to a skill.
    2) Refund a single book at ~60 gems per book.

    Currently it costs 50 gems per book to refund everything, so it would still be cheaper to do that if you wanted to make a lot of changes.
    Obviously the remaining skills would need to follow the skill tree rules, so if you decide to remove some skills from the middle of the skill tree then it would disable any skills higher up the tree until enough books have been re-invested.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kotugo View Post
    Both the full refund (for gems) and partial refund are really expensive if you only want to make adjustments to a single skill. Maybe there should be 2 additional options along the lines of:

    1) Destroy a single book assigned to a skill.
    2) Refund a single book at ~60 gems per book.

    Currently it costs 50 gems per book to refund everything, so it would still be cheaper to do that if you wanted to make a lot of changes.
    Obviously the remaining skills would need to follow the skill tree rules, so if you decide to remove some skills from the middle of the skill tree then it would disable any skills higher up the tree until enough books have been re-invested.

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    I saw an answer to this or a similar question somewhere at some point and one of the reasons was that they did not want to do it because players would switch single skills depending what they are doing, ie. with generals flip top row to star coins when collecting them. People did suggest cooldown, etc. but the key message was that it would not happen. Personally I assume that it would reduce the use of a full book refund to none and would be bad for business.

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    a while ago we got a free move for all buildings, because of new layouts. Now we have many specialised geo's and gens skills and more coming in the summer (ty bb).

    Surely a free book reclaim weekend is in order? my jolly geo skills are totally innapropriate now due to the new geo's.

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    If there is a free book reset week then BB will get stung badly! I spent over 10k gem reskilling 10 scouts, I'll be demanding a refund instantly!!

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    Introduction of new specialist doesn't justify a 'reskill for free' event as 'old specialists' have been working as wanted/intended.
    Some players have already reskilled paying the price in either gems or 50% of books invested.

    With this said there could be an option to replace single skills at a higher price (could be 20-25% higher) than the average price for a full reset.
    This way players who have already paid won't feel cheaten and single/few skills can be done at a cheaper price than with the current system.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kke2100 View Post
    Introduction of new specialist doesn't justify a 'reskill for free' event as 'old specialists' have been working as wanted/intended.
    Some players have already reskilled paying the price in either gems or 50% of books invested.
    my old buildings worked as required and i payed to move buildings b4 and since the free move event. I have also paid to re-skill geo's (and gens) more recently.

    i think my suggestion is still valid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vigabrand View Post
    i think my suggestion is still valid.
    Sorry - but I don't. The main point in my opinion is that you don't need to get the new geologists. Doing so is a choice. Therefore it's your choice to make certain other geologists redundant by doing so. Now there is more of a chance to have overlapping skills where it would be a benefit to do so and even more specialization of a geologist around certain tasks so I see it as an overall gain. Most importantly you can get back 1/2 of the books for free at any time.

    It's a different point whether or not the skill tree for geologists makes sense or not - it's very annoying to be forced to select skills that in almost negate each other in order to move up the tree - but that's not the issue in this case. I don't have any problem being asked to adapt to new optional features.
    Sorry, but I've slept since then...

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    We have no plans currently to implement a "free book weekend".

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    but what about dealing with "single" book adjustments?

    I would be much more interested in the research system getting more work than whatever time was spent on the recent health bars :P

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