I wouldn't be surprised if the boosters also increase the maximum of the hard cap.

Boosters should go above the cap to give incentive to buy, if not they are useless they will just make you cap faster

I really don't get this BS with punishing the players who actually play the game and being all carebear about it.

In 6 months it'll be totally irrelevant when everyone's had 6 months advance on the new guys. What then CCP?, are you gonna remove SP from the loyal players every 6 months to keep them from being too far ahead of the new guys?

This system is the worst idea you could possibly do. The old one was bad, but this is just beyond stupid.

The idea is to make people play your game and not punish your loyal player base for actually playing, are you that blind to not see how stupid this idea is??

FPS players in general are far more fickle than I'd bet most EvE players are. Your dealing with short attention spans and the need for instant gratification on the whole. Removing the constant progression just doesn't make sense to keep people interested in the game.

Your basically saying "Times up this week guys, go play something else for a few days". That's not how you keep your player base playing tbh.

This was a change that was fairly easy to make and it makes things much more convenient for people who don't have time to jump in and exhaust their daily quota every day.

That said, we don't think the system is perfect as it is. As many of you point out, having a cap you can hit per week is not optimal, since you stop being rewarded from playing the game. We have been discussing better solutions, but they all require more development resources than we had available. A potential future solution would be system that features a pool of redeemable SP that fills up passively at a constant rate. You would earn points from that pool by fighting in battles. Once the pool is empty, you would have to wait for a while for it to fill up again (or earn just the tiny amount that you accrued into the pool while you were in battle).

What we put in now is by no means the final iteration on the system, so I encourage you to give feedback and keep posting. That's the way to get what you desire.

Oh and Cerebral Wolf, pull you head out of your arse please. If you've got nothing better to comment than troll posts, watch the door on your arse on the way out. Thank you.

I've played pretty much EVERY MMO out there and I wouldn't even dare compare this to CoD or EvE.....


One is Battleground Europe (WW2 Online). I've no idea how this works and from what I hear it's not that great a game anyway. I tried the trial and it just wasn't up to much.

Another is Planetside on PC, which again you obviously haven't played or else you'd see your comments are full of crap. They never had to cap XP, new players didn't feel left behind and the whole game was about controlling territory, (I put that in there because you like throwing that in as an argument for this and frankly it's a joke.) It's also the ONLY true MMOFPS out there, the only other is it's sequel that's in development.

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So you've played some ****** 360 FPS games?, I'm supposed to believe that makes you able to comment on a MMOFPS or rather an MMORPG that you play from a FPS perspective?. I've played pretty much EVERY MMO out there and I wouldn't even dare compare this to CoD or EvE.

As far as I'm concerned there are only 2-3 games in existance that do this kind of game and none of them are on the xbox.

One is Battleground Europe (WW2 Online). I've no idea how this works and from what I hear it's not that great a game anyway. I tried the trial and it just wasn't up to much.

Another is Mag on PS3 and the skill system there is pretty identical to this game. New player don't get their arse kicked and there's zero cap. No territory to capture as such, but you got bonuses if your team was winning a particular game mode.

Another is Planetside on PC, which again you obviously haven't played or else you'd see your comments are full of crap. They never had to cap XP, new players didn't feel left behind and the whole game was about controlling territory, (I put that in there because you like throwing that in as an argument for this and frankly it's a joke.) It's also the ONLY true MMOFPS out there, the only other is it's sequel that's in development.

We've not tested anything yet that involves territory control in EvE and you really think it'll be in release?. I think your kidding yourself frankly, what people will want to do is get on and kill stuff at launch. It's an FPS after all that happens to tap into EvE.

CCP aren't just gonna drop territory control on Dust then unleash it on TQ. They'd be insane. If it was actually coming at release we'd of been testing it for 6 months now at least.

What we have now is a mediocre FPS game with a half finished meta game and zero connections with EvE other than chatting and calling in OS. You really think if the game launched like this people would stick around?. The average gamer will need something to drive them to progress. All your EvE comparisons just don't work, it's a different kind of player completely in general and a totally different game.

Shut the hell up!

Put your boots on the ground, and go fight for your corp.

All this crying. I this, I that.

Its not about the individual. Its about the Corp., and the universe that Dust 514 is being put into...the long term.

Noone has even played a day under the new SP set up, let alone a week. To much BS not enough Mercs.

Nothing is set is stone.