Ahoy!

Can we please have people who want this to post in this thread saying "yarrrrrg" or something similar to "sign up" and express they are interested in raising the weekly bonus SP? I'll probably get this thread moved to "Features and Ideas Discussion" once I get in the office, notify people who have to be notified about such things, and see if I can swing something. No promises on the outcome, but I'll do my usual poking around.

Id say more like 10, thats a good place, 20 is alot. I have 60 but damn I can still remember 10....

It's not laziness or ignorance - the cap has very specific and logical reasons /I'll hit the bed in like 2 seconds, so I won't go into details/. I just happen to think that you guys might be right in assuming it could be slightly outdated. Again, no promises other than I will bring this up, and get discussion going on it, see what I can do.

Going to sleep when such important issues are at hand shame

Going to sleep when such important issues are at hand shame

Once upon a time, CCP looked at the SP system.

They said 'Hey, people are earning SP too fast, let's slow it down!'

Thus was the daily cap born.
Nobody liked it. It was painfully restrictive and poorly done.

So CCP looked at it again. Unwilling to get rid of it, they called for a vote. A daily cap, a weekly cap? Should there be rollover? How restrictive should it be?

Weekly with rollover, people cried out. Nobody wanted the draconian restrictions. They wanted a softer cap.
So CCP made the cap weekly, and said rollover would come Soon(TM).

It was still a paltry cap, but it was better than previously and people carried on hoping rollover would come soon. The cap became a little nicer as well - instead of cutting you back to 50 SP a match, it let you earn an entire thousand! But the rollover was slow in coming.

Months passed, and Uprising came. SP sinks increased literally fivefold. The pointless basic frame skillwall was introduced. Engineering and electronics had their skill multipliers skyrocketed. It used to cost 600k for a newbie to max them and start being able to fit properly. Suit skill multipliers shot through the roof so far they entered orbit, although this was later reverted.

But still we had that 180k weekly cap. Rollover had failed to materialise. There was silence on the subject for a few months until a dev eventually asked wtf we were talking about and said there were no plans for it.


And here we are now, years on, with that very same cap that was once called a temporary measure.

Going to sleep when such important issues are at hand shame

I'm at 15, not a single proto suit yet. Two proto weapons. Three complex modules. Core 5, Electronics 5, Engineering 3 and I look at the fact that it's going to take weeks to either A: Engineering 5, B: Proto suit, or C: Complex mods that I absolutely need to make my suit viable but won't be able to fit without the CPU/PG budget of a PRO suit and/or Engineering 5. Weeks of the game growing gradually less fun because I face nothing but protostomp teams or all-PRO squads in my corp's PC battles.

Yarrg. And remove cap altogether until one hits 20M.

Yarrrg

In all honesty, the cap needs to be removed for newbros. It's not a problem for me, sitting at almost 40 mil, but newbro's get hit hard.

Make the cap higher for those who don't have 15mil yet. 15 Mil is just about when you max out core skills and have a Proto Weapon Prof III and Proto Suit.