I think you guys are miss understanding something here. Its not like every vet in the game is going to do 20% more damage.
The cert system is going to be gone, replaced by skills. Skills take time to develop. Skills do different things for your character. Example 20% damage buff (with an atachment I guess) to the cycler. Example 2 NO DAMAGE BUFF but you can spawn troops in a galaxy. It is unknown how much time it will take to get the uber buffs, but I imagine it won't be short.
Basicly you'll beable to specialise in something by devoting skill time to it for a long period of time. There won't be jack of all trade characters.
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