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.

At least all my characters will get a workout anyway. Probably work out quite well in the long run.

I really, really hope its per character and not per account.

I got laughed at for mentioning the playing for fun, didn't you know you play to win here or so I was told .

Fun has no part in games any more

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?

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?

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).

From Codex patch notes:

"Diminishing returns for skill points earned from battles are now on a 7-day cycle that resets at downtime every Tuesday (used to reset every day at downtime)"


I find that disappointing.
I used to think current system (reset every day) was ingenious,
it gave incentive to log on every day. Hell, I felt compelled to play the sweet games every day and of course some more...

Now it may be that there'll be several dust-free days. Not entirely bad as I'm likely to get some sleeping hours finally...

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?

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?

Guys guys guys! I really think everyone is jumping to conclusions here. I believe that the hard cap and the diminishing returns affect two very different aspects of gaining skills.

*Diminishing returns for skill points earned from battles are now on a 7-day cycle that resets at downtime every Tuesday (used to reset every day at downtime)
*Skill point accrual has been rebalanced and now has a hard cap per week that corresponds to EVE Online

Diminishing returns are for skills gained from battles.

Hard caps are for accrual meaning the passive sp increase even when we are not playing/fighting.


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Diminishing returns are for skills gained from battles.

Hard caps are for accrual meaning the passive sp increase even when we are not playing/fighting.

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.

Why should the hard cap on SP only affect passive income? That doesn't make any sense, because passive SP income has always been capped at a fixed amount per time, equal for everyone. If you're earning SP actively by playing a match, then you're still accruing them, don't you think ;)

Edit: what Tarn Adari said.

Hmmm ... Good points.

However, why would they have two different statements pertaining to the same thing.

^^^This. Thanks for saying all that, I couldn't be bothered.

and u my friend dont understand the console community very well.
ppl play these sorta games and keep coming back to them because they like unlocking stuff and continuously like gettin new gear etc.

why do u think ppl actually prestige in cod games?
when ppl hit the cap thats it for the week. some will still play but im sure with other games on the market they will go play something else especially since they wont feel obligated in any way to play DUST as its free and they spent actual money on another game.

if I reach the weekly cap will I stop getting SP until the reset? If that's the case then why keep playing?

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).

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 ...

I dont think a cap is a very good idea we wont have a say in this anyway but as meny people say there is no point having boosters if there is a cap I have a 30 day booster witch now makes me feal ive been coned out of -ú15 witch I got mainly for the booster so dont you think if there is going to be a cap that the gain shuld be reduced by say 50%. at its half way point then people useing a booster. Add say 25% increase to the reduced amount so ultimately you can gain all the time but its hard to reach the limit in the first place. This may sound stupid but ultimately may make everyone happy.

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