I only can play basically on Sunday, I work all week. It's bullshit that after a few games the SP drops, then drops some more, to the point where I'm getting about 40k/game with a booster.

I get how the whole diminishing returns is suppose to "even the playing field" or what not from people that grind all day and night. But who really cares. The current system is suppose to help players like me right? Well it isn't, it blows there is no point to play after a few games. especially when you're trying to get something in a mil+ SP range.

If they take out diminishing returns, I guarantee every weekend when you log back in you will get fewer and fewer kills until eventually you quit because your fed up.

maybe the diminishing return should be lessened then instead of removed?

No.

Yes.

pretty much every game I am most kills/best KD, doubt it

The gains are fine as-is. You're rewarded for playing more actively, but not so much so that you can pull a WoW-style one-week marathon and max everything out. This is behaving as intended. It's there to keep everyone relatively level, allowing new players to "catch up" (though this is a non-issue with proper specialization; the "whaa we can never compete with the vets" whinging in EVE is always hilarious due to the complete lack of understanding of how the skill system works), and prevent anyone from sprinting too far ahead.

The system works fine as-is. And guess what? You can use whatever you like to progress. If you think you need higher skills to effectively use something, go use something else you think you're more effective with to gain SP, and put those points into the other thing. This worked great in PlanetSide (have the newbies get into MAX units, to make it easy for them to learn and earn XP early on, put those points into other things that are harder to use until you've progressed further). This is also a major issue with BF and similar games, forcing you to use the gimped versions of something just to make them usable (flying aircraft in BF3 is a nightmare, since you have ZERO defenses until you level those vehicles up by getting kills using them; not fun when EVERYONE has heat-seekers, and you have no defense against them except to skim the ground in close proximity to obstacles, something that the guy first using the vehicle is not going to have the skill to do well).

There is no need or justification to change the diminishing returns. Pick a specialization and focus on it. The reason you feel like you need more SP is because you're trying to be a jack of all trades, and that simply doesn't work in a game like this. Pick a specialty, specialize, and once you're really good at that, then start branching out and worrying about versatility. This applies to Dust just as much as it does in EVE.

pretty much every game I am most kills/best KD, doubt it

I feel like I need more SP because I want more SP.

It's fine as is, I'm actually surprised at how fast I was upgrading all the skills this build and I don't play that often on the weekends.

I think for everyday you don't play the "happy hour" should be extended - but only up to a point to prevent people from banking a character slot and power leveling it later on.

My problem with dr is that it hits me immediately. I'll get 150k sp on my first then 100, 80, 60, 50, then start getting around 30 to 40 for the rest of the night. That all happens within a span of four hours. I only ever get 100k+ sp on my first two matches. It's practically impossible to do after that.

It would be better if the dr was time based rather than game based. It should also be like a stacking penalty applied every hour until it caps off. I understand trying to create a level playing field, but how much are you willing to punish the player who invests the time to grind up by rewarding the player who plays one day a week. Is it fair for the one day a week player to have the same sp as the one who plays everyday?

I'm cool with dr, but it still needs to be fair to everyone, including the ones who do play all the time. If they play a lot then they earn a lot of sp, period. I just don't see how catering to casuals by gimping the vets can actually be considered fair.

pretty much every game I am most kills/best KD, doubt it

My problem with dr is that it hits me immediately. I'll get 150k sp on my first then 100, 80, 60, 50, then start getting around 30 to 40 for the rest of the night. That all happens within a span of four hours. I only ever get 100k+ sp on my first two matches. It's practically impossible to do after that.

It would be better if the dr was time based rather than game based. It should also be like a stacking penalty applied every hour until it caps off. I understand trying to create a level playing field, but how much are you willing to punish the player who invests the time to grind up by rewarding the player who plays one day a week. Is it fair for the one day a week player to have the same sp as the one who plays everyday?

I'm cool with dr, but it still needs to be fair to everyone, including the ones who do play all the time. If they play a lot then they earn a lot of sp, period. I just don't see how catering to casuals by gimping the vets can actually be considered fair.

I think for everyday you don't play the "happy hour" should be extended - but only up to a point to prevent people from banking a character slot and power leveling it later on.