the cap for the academy should be 25,000 WP. after that you should have the OPTION of joining regular matches, up until you reach 50,000 WP. then you are out of the academy completely. back in the day, the cap was like 10,000 WP or something like that.

the problem is, people with alts complained that things were taking too long. i say that the true noobs need this high of a WP cap to exit the academy. by then, they should have at least some experience. to those who create alts, you created the alt knowing what needs to be done. reach your 25K and be done with it. it should be easier to hit that mark since you know what you are doing.

it's kind of funny though. i entered this game during closed beta, when there was no academy and everyone was getting 4X sp and isk. everywhere i looked, it was full of proto-gear (the sagaris and surya) and missle turrets were OP. i had like a 0.25 KDR for the first month... lol. didn't bother me, and after a couple of full respecs... i was doing ok.

This! I love this idea!

And I've never had a respec. Just the vehicle one.

my respec came because the new build was released. at that time everyone got a respec. then we were all on an even playing field, at least gear wise. back when i joined, you could only play on weekends (2 days a week). the server was down the other 5. we got 4x sp and isk. dropships would crush your head every time you spawned and we only had 1 suit type per frame (1 heavy, 1 scout, 1 assault, 1 logi). then we got A and B versions of some suits (the assault A&B ended up being the cal and gal versions.). i think i've been full respec'd like 4-5 times since i've joined. i did not take any of the optional repecs since the last full respec. i think that was chromosome, or one right after that, if i remember correctly.

What is the cap currently, 1200? 1500?

In my very first game, i went 1v1 with another new guy, with something like 2/4 and 300 wp. After 2 similar games i was kicked to PUB.
A month later i built an alt because i'd completely stuffed up my SP as i didn't know what i was doing....
First (and only) match: 15/5 1600wp, before being kicked back into PUB.

I'd gotten better obviously, but as a result i was looking at starting fresh slightly weaker stat-wise.

Pointless story, i scrapped the alt and went back to my original character, bad sp allocation and all.

I would kind of like the cap to be SP based personally, rather than WP.

the sp based system wouldn't work because of passive and augmentations. WP are only earned when you kill, hack, supply, spawn support, or heal. this requires in game play that gives you experience.

Yeah, it's too simple, like the cap is now. But then i started wondering how SP was calculated, and whether the stats used to calculate it could be bent to another purpose. :)

I was kind of thinking all players should get the option of a free respec at 2.5 or 5mil sp anyway... Eve players get a couple baked in at character creation and can earn/buy more. Lucky buggers.