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Aisha Ctarl
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
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Posted - 2013.10.07 17:34:00 -
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CCP has noted before that the weekly cap is in place to prevent die hard players from reaching end game within a few months. When I think on this, I come to realize how little I care whether a player has reached "end game" or not. For example, I wouldn't quit CoD just because some players have already reached 15th prestige, also you don't see Treyarch or Activision, or whoever the hell makes CoD bashing players over the head for reaching end game too quickly - if that's their play style, so be it.
I don't really understand your fear CCP of there being large gaps of earned "skill" between new and old players. If you were truly worried about this, then shouldn't new players not have an SP cap at all until say they hit 3 million lifetime SP?
In a universe such as New Eden where the four races are distinctly different in not only beliefs, but fighting styles, why is there a weekly SP cap to try and make sure there are no runaway high SP characters? I thought the whole premise of New Eden was to fight your own war, to be different, to make a change in your own special way. How do you go about making a change and being different or having a better skillset when CCP has the SP cap to slap you in the face for playing I guess what the deem is "too much."
Another negative aspect of the cap is that it diminishes my desire to play once capped out. No offense CCP, but DUST is nowhere near fun enough to play once you're capped out. Why continue to play when you only earn 1500 SP (2000 SP with Omega Active Boosters) per match? It would take me five matches just to earn 10,000 SP which I can do when not capped out in just about one to one and a half matches. I'm sorry, but that is just downright infuriating.
SP rollover would be a godsend if this were ever implemented in the future. I could continue to play while "capped out" but say if I earn 30K SP while capped out, that 30K SP would be awarded to me on Wednesday when the cap is reset. If it were that way, it wouldn't feel as if I am playing for no reason while capped out because I'd know I will still be awarded those SP on Wednesday.
TL;DR - Yeah I was working towards Proto Amarr Logi when I reached 1.1 mil unallocated SP and then hit the SP cap Saturday - needless to say I was pretty livid. As I brooded in my room I began to think more in depth about the SP cap and yeah churned this thread out. This is probably a T_T thread but idk really...you be the judge, but hey at least I'm honest and admit that this thread is pretty much T_T - do I get honesty points or something? |
Aisha Ctarl
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
1432
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Posted - 2013.10.07 17:41:00 -
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GTA-V FTW wrote:Meh, you can have a sugar cookie.
Mission accomplished. |
Aisha Ctarl
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
1432
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Posted - 2013.10.07 17:47:00 -
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8213 wrote:SP cap only hinders new players. However, I see no point in removing it. That would hinder AURUM sales and make no differnce to a 10+million SP player.
Hmm, that was short.
Hmm, I forgot about the AURUM aspect.
CCP figures that players will get impatient trying to obtain a certain level item and therefore by the AUR equivalent. The chances of that actually happening increases if there is a SP cap in place preventing players from getting what they want as quickly as they want THEREFORE THE SP CAP IS A MONEY MAKING PROCESS CCP HAS IMPLEMENTED INTO THE GAME!
Yeah that's how conspiracy theories get started, but I had fun playing connect the dots just then.
(yeah I'm bored out of my mind at work right now) |
Aisha Ctarl
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
1432
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Posted - 2013.10.07 18:01:00 -
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Cody Sietz wrote:There's a difference between prestige and having 50 million so.
You would have all core skills+maxed out weapons+proto suits+vehicles.
Someone at 10 million so would be at a giant disavataged.
But the one who has 50 million SP will have put in the time and earned it, the lower SP person can earn it too if they put in the time.
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Aisha Ctarl
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
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Posted - 2013.10.07 19:46:00 -
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Blake Kingston wrote:It helps ensure that for people who don't play as much, that the other guy who does is brooding in his bedroom rather than simply winning because of having extra spare time.
"I have more spare time, therefore I deserve more than other players who are supposed to have an equal opportunity"
So in short you're saying it is a punishment imposed by CCP for liking and playing their game too much. |
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