are the diminishing returns for an account or for a player ?, whats stopping me from having 3 or more dust accounts and when i cant earm much sp on one of my accounts i just switch to one of my other account and continue farmig sp

are the diminishing returns for an account or for a player ?, whats stopping me from having 3 or more dust accounts and when i cant earm much sp on one of my accounts i just switch to one of my other account and continue farmig sp

And then just give the isk back to yourself.
I imagine corporations requiring you to have several accounts set up just for this.

Not sure how to fix this but seems like a game breaker.

Two teams find a server with not many people on it call in there tanks with shield reppers form a circle and no one dies game clock says 0.00 and still 60 to 60 in ambush now they get 100,000's of thousands of SP for this each.

Also along the same lines what's to stop a corp from hiring another corp to let them get farmed. Or a corp has a farm corp that all recruits go into and there instructed to die in militia gear crap load outs set up by the corp.

Yes it sounds like anything goes, and anyone could do it, but all that really means is that everyone will be maxed out at top level skills and isk for no real work.

Seems like a game breaker to me. Because if you don't do you won't be able to compete. And if you have to do it it feels cheap, and takes the whole reason to have a skill tree useless.

I'm perplexed at how to stop this though. Any suggestions

You will get all of that and that's the name of the game. It will take months of that to get anywhere.

If CCP wanted to stop abuse of their game mechanics in this way:

• Flag matches that show signs of abuse based on set criteria (we would never be allowed to know what those criteria are or people would work around that to exploit).
• Manual review in real time.
• Disconnect both teams in the event that abuse was found, invalidating the match & forcing a reconnect.
• Log the incident including the involved parties.

Alternatively they could add in new SP bottlenecks for diminishing returns on a match level:

• after 10 kills per match.
• after 10 vehicle or structure damages per match.
• after 5 structure destruction per match.
• after 5 vehicle kills per match.
• after 10 hacks.
• after 10 vehicle kill assists.
• after 15 resupplies.
• after 15 team spawns.
• after 15 repairs.
• unlimited kill/hack assists.

Cut the value of the actions in half after hitting the match limit, then half again after doubling the limit.

Additional automatic adjusted returns:

• Killed within 5 seconds of spawn. 1/2 current value.
• Kill assist for enemy killed within 5 seconds of spawn. 1/5th normal value.

If someone was sniping it'd cut their participation base score on a 30/0 game from 1500 to 875. While another player who received 15 kills w/ 2 vehicle kills would get closer to 925 (instead of around 1050). This kind of change should make it more difficult to farm on a more extreme scale as it would require more diversification. Additionally it provides better incentives for providing support.

Oh, and that same sniper, if they went 47/0 instead on a match where they had 5 kills before spawn camping the enemy for the remaining 42 kills he'd only receive ~800 points depending on if he had to chase after anyone for more than 5 seconds before killing them.

A more streamlined approach would probably involve writing a script that calculates the average cumulative of SP given to players in a match, as an example: 5,000,000 SP. Should a server exceed that amount by, let's say 100% or more (in this case that would be 10,000,000 SP) a warning would be issued to the players in that server that they're currently under review. CCP could then conduct their own investigation and should they find a clear evidence of farming, penalties could be administered to those players at CCP's discretion.

Of course, this is just a layman's approach. I'm sure CCP has access to plenty of metrics to determine a more accurate criteria for what would or would not warrant investigation.

As you indicated in your post, there should be a lot of red flags in cases such as this.

Another point worth mentioning is that EVE players could also play a role in being watchdogs for Dust matches and nuke us all from orbit. I don't think they would appreciate Dust players screwing with their bottom line.

Because CCP has nothing better to do than audit every match.

if they really wanna find bugs and exploits they need an open beta with all the cod players, they manage to find so many exploits . glitches XD

i did wonder about friendly corps farming sp , it happens in cod and battlefield.