Talent points after maxing out all 3 talent trees

[mapotofu]

So I have maxed out all 3 talent trees, and I just leveled up another time. It seems like there is no use for this talent point and it is just a little notification that bothers me a lot. I'd assume we cannot reset or even do anything after leveling out all the trees?

[Beanie Bandit]

It might be cool if once you max out your talent tree's you could use excess talent points to increase a skills lvl cap so like, increase mechs 100 skill cap to 110 but have reduced speed or sum so its not completely broken, tho youd still need to lvl the skill up the additional 10 times yourself

[mapotofu]

I would actually prefer to just use these points to try out talents that I didn't pick the first time around. After you max everything out it is just completely set and the only way to try any new talents is to make a new character. Which in my opinion is very lame.

[Buggy Boy]

I think maybe one way to go would to have the talents you didn't choose cost twice as much as before, so you would need two or more talent points to pick them, maybe depending on how far down they are in the tree.

Once you have picked all of the talents from a particular tree then you get an achievement or something, or an unique item that cannot be crafted (so you'd better look after it!)

[Greb]

It would be nice if the XP just stopped once you earned your 12th talent point, so you didn't get stuck with a notification yeah.

Like someone else suggested, there are talents that provide bonus XP but those talents become effectively worthless once you've gone down each tree, so there should just be a flat XP bar (I dunno, 5000 XP or something) that when you fill up grants you an item like a Commendation or something that can be sold for money or used for some kind of thing, dunno what. A small and useful bonus that isn't too reliable, but definitely appreciated. The XP bar can be filled up multiple times to make sure the XP gains are still being useful in a long campaign, of course.

Make it like a trophy shaped like the T in the Barotrauma logo and when you use it it's consumed, and you raise the natural skill cap of all your skills by +5 or something. Sounds good maybe?

Or they could be broken down into a unique material and used to craft something cool, I dunno. Or placed around the ship as decoration. Or put into rail gun shells and fired at Endworms to tame them, I don't know lol.

Or hell let it spawn a loot box, literally just a crate with a ribbon around it that contains a random item from a huge pool of items, as a laugh. It could be something as boring as a tool belt or a wrench, or it could be an alien power cell, or whatever. Maybe with some unique stuff like fancy rainbow glowsticks, or a special pet egg. Maybe make it a joke about crappy MTX practices with lootboxes in those games, I dunno. Maybe that's too whacky.

Of course, they could just add even more talents, a huge variety of them to spend points on, as well as letting them have levels from 1>2>3 or something to upgrade them, costing 1, 2, and 3 talent points to upgrade, which would act as a suitable sponge for sucking up excess talent points too, right?

[Volk]

I did have an idea for something you could do after maxing, or before maxing your talents trees; Specialization Points.

You'd have to burn 2 Talent points to earn a Spec Point, but that Spec Point could be used for a Talent that was locked off by a previous selection. To balance it out, you could only ever get 2 Specialization Points to spend back into yourself. Either that or just 1.

The idea is that, some Talent decisions are a bit tough to make (personally, at least) and Specialization lets you go back on that tough choice and get the other thing that you think would have been just as helpful as the other. It isn't perfect, though, a lot of balance shaking when it comes to getting something that should have stayed locked.