Love the HK-40 drone series, just saying.

I believe this is a big misconception. You are not playing a game in order to accumulate points, you are playing it because it's fun to play (if you're not I say you're doing it wrong). Not giving out more than x SP per week doesn't take away anything from the gameplay and hence from the fun of playing the game.
By earning points, people like to think they get 'rewarded' for playing a game, while in reality the game just dangles a carrot in front of their noses the whole time. Then when the game suddenly removes this carrot, people feel 'penalized' for playing. That thinking simply doesn't make sense to me.

Have you ever thought that for some people ranking up is fun? I like seeing how fast I can rank up etc and if I want to stop I can use an alt account etc. Taking away that choice from players is not a smart move. As for the guy saying about the fun of the game, lets be honest here as a FPS it's mediocre at best, the levelling system makes it interesting, take away that system or nerf the **** out of it, what do you have left? Just a average shooter if that. If people truly are playing for fun they shouldn't care how fast someone else has levelled up, besides isn't the whole matchmaking system supposed to stop a crappy player in militia gear playing against a good player in higher end gear? If so what's your guys problem?

Lol what? People play CoD because like it or not it's core FPS mechanics are very good. Those who play it just for fun don't usually prestige, those who play it for fun and to level up go to max prestige and even then they can work on gun challenges etc if they want to. People say SP cap won't make much of a difference but it will to those who actually want to level up their character as quick as they can, you may not understand this but many people like to see how fast they can max a character etc. If they reached the SP cap in a couple of days they have no incentive to play because they are not getting anywhere, most of those kind of players do not care about playing just to get ISK. Me personally if that was the case I wouldn't spend any money on this game as I'd have no need for boosters etc. You limit the levelling up then people will go elsewhere to get their challenges and just play this on the odd occasion (if at all).

I see a thread!

There's going to be a devblog on how the skill system changed, but here's the gist of it:

We noticed in the past few months that having the diminishing returns on a 24-hour cycle had some downsides to it. It forced players to log in every day in order to not lose out on skill gain and consequently made e.g. taking a break quite difficult. Simply put, we felt that things were a bit too intense. As a short-term measure to combat this, we made it so that the diminishing returns to reset every seven days instead of every 24 hours. This should allow players to choose when to play without feeling stressed out about jumping in every day (although you can do just that as well). A reasonable amount of game time each week should allow you to earn all the points you can and keep up with the more hardcore players. Overall pacing of the progression should remain somewhat intact, since we also rebalanced overall skill costs down a bit to match the new active skill gain speed.

As far as Boosters go, they will continue to work as they used to and will give you 50% more active SPs per week. They won't make you hit the cap faster.

Finally, the per-week skill caps are per character, so if you're hardcore, you can grind on your other characters if your main hits the cap.

I like this 7 day cycle, i took a break from this build for a couple of day and i lost nearly 2+ MIL SP, which is quite a bit. Good job CCP!

People in Eve Online ask the same question you have bolded and underlined (which I didn't miss, I just ignored) because it works the same way. Why? Because it doesn't affect them in any way what-so-ever. Guy has been playing two years longer than you and has all of his SP invested in Battleships. That's good, I have all of my SP invested in Heavy Assault Cruisers - which are an ingenius and almost perfect counter against Battleships.

It's not about time played - it's about what specialization you choose and how skilled you are in that specialization.

Honestly, I think it's going to weed out who's here for the rewards and who's here for the actual game.

SP or persistent consequences brought on by taking territories/working with certain people/etc etc.

Probably best that they leave now.

I feel like Custer, no Indians, just idiots.