I hope current %return and or how close to cap you are is displayed.

Or are we talking by the end of the 7 day period, even if I do insanely well in a match and cap every objective single handedly and go 200-0, I may only get 50 SP?

Meh, all these rules and quotas, just do a pure time system like Eve.

Seriously. ive been suggesting this in the feedback section the EVE sytem worked great. X skills Takes X amout of hours/minutes to train

I think you guys misunderstanding the change here.

I'm pretty sure it means that instead of burning out the SP gain in a single day - its stretched over an entire week. The way I read this, if you play the same amount of time every night of the week, you'll probably end up with the same amount of SP each week after the change.

But for someone like me, that might only play once or twice a week, on the one day I DO sit down to play, I still start running into a slow SP gain by the end of an evening's worth of play. This sounds like if you only play for one or two days, you'll be getting the maximum amount of SP for your matches, and only those that are grinding points every single day for several hours will see the decline after a couple days of play.

If I'm reading this right, its a HUGE benefit to the casual players who can only log in a day or two in a week, but that hardcore players grinding every day won't see much difference - it'll just take a week for them to bleed out their SP gain bonus and it'll be the last couple of days of the week you gain the least amount of LP in your matches.

I hope that made sense.

This kinda makes boosters pointless though doesnt it? Now instead of gaining more skills over your opponents, you just gain them faster and cap out at the same place as them.

Said something this post isn't talking about.

Love the HK-40 drone series, just saying.

So I'm guessing ccp's estimate of 7yrs has now gone to roughly 21yrs.
I have never seen a game where you get penalised for liking a game and wanting to play it.

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.

Exactly, think EVE. Online or offline you earn exactly the same XP per second/minute/hour etc. People play that game like they are crack addicts.
Its more about ISK for them than XP (as someone who played on and off from 2005-2012).