sabre prime
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2014.11.05 18:01:00 -
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CCP Rattati wrote:Dear players,
When we first discussed the possibility of stacking boosters and raising the skill cap, with the CPM, I honestly thought that the skill cap was a fixed number that was achieved faster by equipping boosters. Yeah, I just never did the math on the EOM screen...
...but there was no way I wanted, 750+2250(3xOmegas) + 2250 (3x Instant for all battles) + Passive, a total of 6M SP per week. That just wasnGÇÿt our intent at any stage of this feature.
I'm really sorry, I don't want to be rude; but how could you not know that? The whole reason some of us were saying "WTF are you sure CCP?" is because of that very reason. How long have we all been playing this game? Boosters do not speed up the rate at which we cap. They add more SP to the cap.
If boosters sped up the rate at which we capped (get a bigger chunk of the SP pool at the EOM screen), then that would achieve one of your stated intentions: to make capping out more convenient for people who are busy and have things (IRL) to do during the week. Instead boosters increase the amount of SP, therefore we still have to play proportionally more hours of the game to hit the bigger cap, i.e grinding it out.
Anyway, I didn't mean to rant. Thanks for the response and the clarification. Appreciate it. I for one am glad sanity prevailed.
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sabre prime
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
734
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Posted - 2014.11.05 18:26:00 -
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Soraya Xel wrote:CCP Rattati wrote:I am obviously easily confused by illogical things, my only weakness. Like you say, a high cap, that boosters allow you to hit faster, seems to be a better system. Just what the CPM and I discussed tonight. Grind if you want, boost if you want. I strongly support the notion of the game working via this method in the future. It would allow people to pay to get to the same point faster in any given week, but not allow paying players to overall gain more SP than free players.
OK, so introduce more diverse booster products. Boosters that allow you to hit the fixed cap faster. And the current boosters that increase the fixed cap by a multiplier. Win win for you guys at the end of the day. Just make sure consumers clearly know the difference between these different boosters.
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