Helping newbros would be good, but that's an another question than GM Archdukes. As is removing the cap altogether (facepalm). As is rollover systems details.


He specifically asked for 'who wants cap increased'.

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.

Rollover SP.

This was never implemented.

For each record:
set cap = 196000

For each record:
set cap = 0.75 * cap + 196000

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.


EDIT: Yarrr, and bless your soul Archduke.

...and I'd imagine 100% of our SP won't transfer to Legion because it'd cause exactly the same vet stomping problem that Dust has had forever, so likely no issue there.

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.

SP cap has failed to serve useful purpose.

New player retention might be served better with its annihilation.

Because once you devote 15 mil SP into cores and your specialty vet players cease being more of a threat than you are.

The main difference between a 15mil new player and a 60 mil vet is the vet has more individual fits mastered.

Keep in mind that few people purchase Active Boosters due to how little the SP cap is, allowing them to cap out well before the week is over. If you raise the SP cap, it'll take more time and effort to cap out, which results in:

Increased play times
Increased incentive to spend AUR on Active Boosters
Improves NPE by allowing newer players to catch up faster

Basically, it's a way to increase revenue and improve gameplay mechanics. Anyone on your marketing staff who doesn't see this should be slapped with a trout.

The only backlash is people playing this game non stop if the SP Cap was completely removed thus increasing the gap between new and vet players alike. What are your thoughts?

1000 per match is way better then what it used to be, be happy.