People have lives, jobs, relationships...things of that nature. The system is fine as is. I need to feed my family too! Ramen noodles are expensive nowadays! Lol. In all seriousness though, people who have all day to play each week need not to gain any advantage tbh. Maybe find a job instead?

Where did you see that it will be free to download and play? AFAIK it would be like any other game ~50 or so when released but no charge for subscription free to play but not completely free. Would be great if I'm wrong but ccp/sony need to make money aside from people buying aurum

It will be FREE TO PLAY. Consider that an official statement from CCP. DUST 514 will be free to play. Would you like to chip in for some AUR? Go for it! It's totally up to you. You'll be able to play and enjoy DUST 514 without open you (real)wallet at all.

Funny I didn't know you could trademark SOON. So does this mean I have to pay up every time I use that in a sentence now? Everything about DUST's new beta is coming SOON(trademark) and I cannot wait to get my hands on it.

You don't sound like an ass you just sound like you really don't get Dust, and Eve even less. The closest thing to your Halo ranked servers is high/low/null sec and thats no comparison at all...it's like apples to volkswagons. These negative daily sp bonus threads are becoming the new tiresome topic.

To start with explain to me how if something aplies to everyone it caters to anyone. It's a helpful incentive to play daily which will hopefully aid in keeping servers fuller. MAG did the exact same thing. A by product of that is it will be a minor aid to players that don't have as much gaming time as others.

To blanket all of those players as casual is ignorant...there are plenty of hardcore players that are grown ups, have jobs, a wife, kids, a dog to walk, dinner to make and a time to get to bed because they have a life the next day.

You don't sound like an ass you just sound like you really don't get Dust, and Eve even less.

To start with explain to me how if something aplies to everyone it caters to anyone.
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A by product of that is it will be a minor aid to players that don't have as much gaming time as others.

To blanket all of those players as casual is ignorant...there are plenty of hardcore players that are grown ups, have jobs, a wife, kids, a dog to walk, dinner to make and a time to get to bed because they have a life the next day.

I'm not going to go on about your A B example not making sense, I'll assume you meant to say that A over 5 matches averages 60k and B over 10 matches averages 50k. But I'll say again it is a bonus that applies to everyone. Take it away and with your example we now have A averaging 50k and B averaging 40k.

As someone who played dust religiously with several weekends with 20hour+ for all four days on dust, I am comfortable with the rate of active SP decay that gets applied to your earnings. You get a rad boost at the beginning of the day (first few matches) and then it slowly removes the bonus until it becomes a penalty after like 8-10 hours. It doesn't really started to hurt your SP until the 15-20 hour mark, and by then gentle nudges to go eat/sleep are probably for the best.

But like I said. It is a pretty comfortable slope and even when the penalty seemed to be at its maximum (Seems to cap off after 20 hours or so) I never felt like saying 'omg this is pointless I get no SP'.

As someone who played dust religiously with several weekends with 20hour+ for all four days on dust, I am comfortable with the rate of active SP decay that gets applied to your earnings. You get a rad boost at the beginning of the day (first few matches) and then it slowly removes the bonus until it becomes a penalty after like 8-10 hours. It doesn't really started to hurt your SP until the 15-20 hour mark, and by then gentle nudges to go eat/sleep are probably for the best.

But like I said. It is a pretty comfortable slope and even when the penalty seemed to be at its maximum (Seems to cap off after 20 hours or so) I never felt like saying 'omg this is pointless I get no SP'.

Ok I'll simplify it more

Player A five matches


Match 1 (with boost):
K/D - 10/0
SP - 60k

Match 2 (with boost):
K/D - 10/0
SP - 60k

Match 3 (with boost):
K/D - 10/0
SP - 60k

Match 4 (with boost):
K/D - 10/0
SP - 60k

Match 5 (with boost):
K/D - 10/0
SP - 60k


Player B ten matches


Match 1 (with boost):
K/D - 10/0
SP - 60k

Match 2 (with boost):
K/D - 10/0
SP - 60k

Match 3 (with boost):
K/D - 10/0
SP - 60k

Match 4 (with boost):
K/D - 10/0
SP - 60k

Match 5 (with boost):
K/D - 10/0
SP - 60k

Match 6 (no boost):
K/D - 10/0
SP - 40k

Match 7 (no boost):
K/D - 10/0
SP - 40k

Match 8 (no boost):
K/D - 10/0
SP - 40k

Match 9 (no boost):
K/D - 10/0
SP - 40k

Match 10 (no boost):
K/D - 10/0
SP - 40k


Player A
( 60k + 60k + 60k + 60k + 60k ) / 5 = 60k per game average

Player B
( 60k + 60k + 60k + 60k + 60k + 40k + 40k + 40k + 40k + 40k ) / 10 = 50k per game average

Wow you seriously wrote all that out instead of just saying "Yes that's what I meant."

Correct, I seriously wrote all that out, because what you said was not what I meant. You said "Take [the boost] away and with your example we now have A averaging 50k and B averaging 40k". I wrote out the example to show that, without the boost, both A and B would average 40k SP per match, instead of A averaging more SP per match than B

What part of TEAM BASED GAME and NO ONE MAN WIM BE A TANK DON'T YOU GET it doesn't matter if one person has boosters they won't change the outcome of the match

all i am getting out of Rex Manhunter example is that Player A played 5 matches and got 300K XP while Player B played 10 and got 500K XP. That seems okay to me. Player B still got more XP for putting in more time.

I'm guessing you use HAV's a lot? That's the only time I manage to get decent ISK after 4-5 matches. I rarely use tanks, but riding as a passenger racks up kills.