SP rollover might help a little for the new players.

Chinese holidays: 11
USA holidays: 11

I'm not sure who's lazy, but I sure do know who's ignorant.

We don't take weeks off them.
In fact America works m ore capita hours than any other country on Earth, so lazy countries can takes breaks like that.

Have you ever taken a week off for new years?

We don't take weeks off them.
In fact America works m ore capita hours than any other country on Earth, so lazy countries can takes breaks like that.

Have you ever taken a week off for new years?

No, SP rollover would cause more upheaval.
Imagine not playing for 2-3 weeks and seeing a giant amount of SP that you'll never get through.

New players don't have a chance, and they aren't sticking around the game longer than 48 hours. They are 10,000,000s of SP behind, and they are getting beat into the ground. This game is impossible for new players, and that's why they are leaving. They need full-blown protection.

Go ahead and make an alt. And try playing solo as a new player would. You wouldn't last longer than 100,000WP because nobody has the insanity to put up with that.

This argument is just so old. The "we care about the new players" seem to be rather cheap when if the community cares, then the community should stop entering pub matches with their ADV and PRO fits. Jump in the match with your basic MLT fits. How come that isn't being talked about? No, "its CCP stop me from murdering the new folks."

On the other side of the coin, if I didn't get my ass handed to me when I first arrived to NE, it wouldn't have made me the same merc I am today. I advocate this strongly here. It's tough but if they stick with it, they will become tougher.

Lastly, there's only one game I noticed that did the segregation thing and that was Crysis MP. Every other FPS title I've played, I've been thrown in with guys who are on their 3rd or 4th prestige or who has been playing BF for quite some time. This "rolling on the NP" just doesn't happen solely in Dust, but yea, we are not talking about that.

DUST 514 already has a little bit of segregation for the playerbase. A casual noob can't go waltzing into a Planetary Conquest match... and that's where it ends.

Now, I just hit a milestone in lifetime WP, and realized that it didn't reflect my SP. After reaching the cap for bonus SP, the most you can obtain for SP is 1000/match(1500/2000 w/ Boosters). That simply makes zero sense. If I earned 2000WP that translate into SP, than I want what I earned. This is why after caps are reached, weekly dropoff steepens, and why Tuesday is the deadest day of the week for DUST. If a player puts their time into something, they should be rewarded.

Now, many could argue that this keeps players from running wild in gaining SP. That could be correct, but once again, it is earned. You can't AFK WP. A lot of my SP has come from after cap play. Usually 100,000SP/wk is after cap, however, it can easily be said that I've earned 300,000+ WP during that time. I am being cheated out what I've worked for. Reward me what I have earned, if that allows me or some other guy to rack up a large amount of SP, then so be it. It was earned.

This is where segregation comes in. Yes, allow me to rack up SP that I've earned, make my character into a superhero. Reward me. But don't let me use my powers on new players that for whatever reason don't have my level of time and effort put into the game. Players in public contract matches need to be segregated by WP. As warpoints are the most accurate representation of someone's playtime, skill level, and meta level. You can't separate by gear, because core skills and proficiency skills would still trump new players greatly. You can't separate by SP, because it is passively gained. A player could in theory have never played a match in his life and be bumped up to advanced levels, because he let his SP build.

Warpoints show the player's in game progress.



...oh and f*ck the Rail rifle

Edit: Check out this thread on the subject as well

I actually support having some sort of cap for SP in Dust, otherwise people that are just casual players and maybe want to skip a week or two can't. It takes roughly 10 hours or so for one to be able to do the entire SP, now I would love roll over SP in case you don't want to play a week, but an unlimited I would hate and probably leave the game. Mainly because of how other games do it and the people who play more on a game then do actual work and living a life are damn near untouchable in the games. PC is a different issue all together and has tons of other problems so not going to address that right now.