Just an estimate for how much SP I'll have 12 months from now.

I have accrued ~34,000,000 SP in 15 months which means 2,266,667 SP/Months so this time next year 61,200,000 SP.

The skill tree needs to be expanded.

How about we put some variety into vehicle skillbooks?

More hulls. Racial skill tree for each. Specialized variants of each. I've always been in favor of expanding the vehicle tree so that SP investment puts a player at a huge advantage over those who did not.

Seems alright as long as investing SP doesn't become an "OMGWTFLOL iWIN" button and you still have to rely on actual skill.

Though we should first bring attention to the fact that most of the skills in the vehicle tree doesn't yeild a bonus of any kind, and are just SP sinks on top of even greater SP sinks.

Exactly. I want mlt tanks to be garbage, std tanks to suck, adv to be what we have no, and proto to be slightly better than current. Core skills need to be relevant like in Chrome. If that means Nerfing everything so max investment gets us to what we're used to then so be it.

Just an estimate for how much SP I'll have 12 months from now.

I have accrued ~34,000,000 SP in 15 months which means 2,266,667 SP/Months so this time next year 61,200,000 SP.

The skill tree needs to be expanded horizontally. How bout dem drones?

That's only for skills we have now. CCP already has more planned for the future. I can give some examples off the top of my head as to what else will come out.

1. Drones = Bonuses to various aspects of the drones such as speed, damage output and optimal range.
2. Leadership = Bonuses to the effectiveness of your squad and/or team such as hacking speed, scan profile, hacking speed, movement speed, etc. Might need bigger teams and open-world environments for this.
3. Production = Bonuses to various aspects of manufacturing such as production time, material efficiency, etc. This is probably irrelevant considering that it will be Eve Online players handling this for now.
4. Resource Processing = Bonuses to various aspects of resource gathering and processing as mining laser efficiency, mining range, reduction in cycle time, etc.
5. Rigging = Could impact various aspects of your suit or weapon.
6. Science = Bonuses to invention and blueprint copy research as well as booster production.
7. Trade = Bonuses to various aspects of the managing the market such as being able to handle more orders (buying/selling) at once, the range of your orders, how far you can remotely manage them, reduction in taxes and broker fees, etc.

That's just the categories I listed. The "Trade" category for example would have skill books like Accounting, Broker Relations, Contracting, DayTrading, Margin Trading, Marketing, Procurement, Retail, Tycoon, Wholesale, etc.

All of this will ensure a constant need to gain more SP and thus more boosters sold.

Now there is a skill I could get behind.

Lets say that there are two skills. Leadership, and Unity

Unity is a skill that affects all squad members. In short, if you have a squad with several members with a high Unity skill, you get some good passive bonuses for the squad. Nothing horrendously OP, but things like better Hack Speed, Movement, etc etc etc.

Leadership is a skill that has two branches. An Operations skill, and then a "Module" skill (will make more sense later)

The Op skill gives a multiplier bonus to the Unity skill. In short, if you have a squad with good unity, and a good leader, your passives from Unity gets multiplied by the leader.

The "Modules" skill are basically squad based buffs that have cooldown. All Buffs affect squad mates within a set distance from the leader, so you have to be running together for it to be effective.

Accessible from the squad menu, you can do buffs that provide a large boost to movement speed and hack speed for 15 seconds, with a large cooldown (Like 2 minutes). Or Buffs that give all squad members resistance boosts for a few seconds. By using these skills correctly, and coordinating with your squad, this should give you some decent buffs to either help take an objective or defend one when things hit the fan.

It could add another layer to the battlefield, and help encourage squad play.

Also, when we get a commander mode (or something similar), we could have a skill for that too. It would provide a boost to all Leadership skills to the squad leads, which would then increase the effectiveness of the ENTIRE TEAM. It would also provide skills for its own ordinance, such as the Warbarge strikes. Squads earn the strikes, which are passed to the commander. He would lay down the OB's for the squads, and could even use the Standard OB, or the EMP if need be. Throw in some skills that let you lay down a large scan on the field (a 28dB scan for the whole battlefield for like 10 seconds) or even ones that let you briefly put up a shield to protect the MCC from Null cannons, and things could get interesting pretty damn quick.

I love theory crafting

Now there is a skill I could get behind.

Lets say that there are two skills. Leadership, and Unity

Unity is a skill that affects all squad members. In short, if you have a squad with several members with a high Unity skill, you get some good passive bonuses for the squad. Nothing horrendously OP, but things like better Hack Speed, Movement, etc etc etc.

Leadership is a skill that has two branches. An Operations skill, and then a "Module" skill (will make more sense later)

The Op skill gives a multiplier bonus to the Unity skill. In short, if you have a squad with good unity, and a good leader, your passives from Unity gets multiplied by the leader.

The "Modules" skill are basically squad based buffs that have cooldown. All Buffs affect squad mates within a set distance from the leader, so you have to be running together for it to be effective.

Accessible from the squad menu, you can do buffs that provide a large boost to movement speed and hack speed for 15 seconds, with a large cooldown (Like 2 minutes). Or Buffs that give all squad members resistance boosts for a few seconds. By using these skills correctly, and coordinating with your squad, this should give you some decent buffs to either help take an objective or defend one when things hit the fan.

It could add another layer to the battlefield, and help encourage squad play.

Also, when we get a commander mode (or something similar), we could have a skill for that too. It would provide a boost to all Leadership skills to the squad leads, which would then increase the effectiveness of the ENTIRE TEAM. It would also provide skills for its own ordinance, such as the Warbarge strikes. Squads earn the strikes, which are passed to the commander. He would lay down the OB's for the squads, and could even use the Standard OB, or the EMP if need be. Throw in some skills that let you lay down a large scan on the field (a 28dB scan for the whole battlefield for like 10 seconds) or even ones that let you briefly put up a shield to protect the MCC from Null cannons, and things could get interesting pretty damn quick.

I love theory crafting

I can see Atiim in this thread chatting casually with tankers about how they should get more skills.

I know now that I am dreaming and nothing is real *runs under a bus*

More hulls. Racial skill tree for each. Specialized variants of each. I've always been in favor of expanding the vehicle tree so that SP investment puts a player at a huge advantage over those who did not.

I'm sorry for your loss

I'm guessing that is a way to address the OP mlt tanks...

I'm not sure I'll be here by that time, what with MGSV Phantom Pain and maybe No man's sky I'll be more compelled to come read some QQ and reserve all dust playing time to events like the upcoming sp event.

Do you think they'll refund SP after expanding this skill tree???

Unlikely that you will have that amount. You probably got 3 million from a single event, which is two months of play. But I digress:

Yes, new skills need to be added. My father is at about 32 million SP and has just about everything he wants. I actually think he is sitting on about 2 million SP because there is nothing else he wants to get. If you never use a vehicle, HALF the skills in this game will not be used by you. There most certainly needs to be more skills that are A) Easy to get into from the start and B) Are rewarding to put SP into.

Just an estimate for how much SP I'll have 12 months from now.

I have accrued ~34,000,000 SP in 15 months which means 2,266,667 SP/Months so this time next year 61,200,000 SP.

The skill tree needs to be expanded horizontally. How bout dem drones?

That's a great idea. Another thing to consider is that in Eve Online, the effectiveness of your fleet boosts is only as strong as your leadership skills and ship that you are in. This way, you can't just enable fleet boost in a command ship and then swap to an assault ship immediately after and expect those boosts to persist. The boost will diminish to only your skills as soon as you swap ships. The same should apply to suits.

Edit: Also lol at command ships not keeping boost bonus if they swap to assault... but you mean Logistic suits shouldn't keep their bonus when they switch suits?! That's BS!

Wow, you know your gonna be here in a year? I would be more worried about what will be messed up in next patch.

I'll be here. 15 months and still enjoying the game.