It seems to me that with the current system, players are largely forced to choose if they want to jump into to PvP or get a head start on crafting. Maxing out your crafting skills costs around 24 skill points. So if you're thinking, "Hmm, I will leveling my crafting while I level and do a little PvP on the side." It's going to be nearly impossible.

You're going to put all you skill points into combat skills if you want to PvP effectively, meaning your crafting skills are going to be abandoned. This makes your progress in learning new traits much, much slower.

Of course by the time you're 50 you will probably have more than enough skill points to put wherever, but if you want to have the ideal PvP build AND max your crafting skills, it's going to cost about 100 skill points.

I've never really played an MMO that makes you take a hit to leveling your crafting if you want to do other things as well. What are other's thoughts on this?

*blink* *blink* I don't really follow this train of thought. It's not like you even CAN max out all of your craft skills right off the bat, so even going heavy into crafting, maybe half that? And remember you can only actually use 6 skills at any one time. Call it 6 morphed skills plus maybe a dozen passive points for solid starting PvP. So 34 points to do both? I wasn't even trying to find skyshards or doing all quest lines and I think I had around 20 points at level 10. Figure if you actually go looking and do everything you can probably grab that 34 by like level 15. That's not exactly horrifically limiting there.

In fact, no. Skill points are not hard to obtain. In a session o Cyrodill I got like 3 in a roll. All you have to do quest, pvp and level up, if you follow that you'll recieve much skill points for all the skill trees.

And if I want to level up all my weapons and armors simultanously I can hardly level up my crafting at all. It's an outrage!
Seriously though, no I'm fine with it. I'm fine with having to make choices that will make me better than someone else at something, but they in return will be better at something else. In fact I'm not only fine with it, it's actually how I want things to be and wish for it to exist to an even greater extent.

What I'm saying is, people who want to PvP are probably going to put their first 70 or so points into combat skills in an effort to achieve their ideal PvP build.

Of course you can still craft, but without spending points in things like improving trait research and getting hireling to supply you with extra resources, its going to be much slower than players who ignore PvP and put everything into crafting improvements. These players will essentially get the monopoly on the crafting market.

if anybody can do everything right out of the box - what matter the whole point system then would have? yes you can not be perfect in the early beginning of the game in everything, but if you could - whats the point of playing on then? if somebody chooses to set his focus on pvp - why then he should be in crafting as good as a player how sets his focus in crafting?

I'm not saying its a bad thing... I'm just asking for other's thoughts on it.

In most MMOs I've played, you are only limited by how much time you can invest in the game. If you want to PvP, dungeon crawl, and level your crafting all at the same time, you can do that if you have the time for it. In ESO its seems you're going to have to choose.

I don't think so. You still needs to level up the skill tree before spending skill points on perk, and sometimes it can take a while. In beta I level 3 diferent skill tree (class, armor and class) and I had much points left, so I start to level craft and soul stone and I still got a lot of free skill points.