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!

Yep, far more flexible, +1 for CCP

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!

non players ^^^

^^^ Pretentious douche.

Yup. Those who use boosters from day 1 will always have 50% more skillpoints on their character than people without boosters.
And if that's not pay-to-win then I'm Santa Claus.

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.

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 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.

Then go beta test another game and give me your stuff before you leave.

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.

That sounds exactly like what i suggested in the feedback forum and i really do think that would fit the game perfectly.

Yes, but you're not taking into account all of the instant gratification, flashing lights and loud noises that the FPS community seemingly -cannot live without-.

I'm not entirely sure what the big deal is considering that these guys have never had an FPS that gave out skill points as a reward rather than another gun. When you reach a certain level in Call of Duty you just go into the "prestige" non-sense so that'll really go to show you just how ADD the players really are when they simply -can't stop earning something- even though it's mundane and doesn't provide any benefit in the game itself.

Maybe we should just come up with a system that gives silly trinkets or something to appeal to them so they're too busy earning Callsigns (<--- CoD) to notice the MMO balancing of the game.

Yes, but you're not taking into account all of the instant gratification, flashing lights and loud noises that the FPS community seemingly -cannot live without-.

I'm not entirely sure what the big deal is considering that these guys have never had an FPS that gave out skill points as a reward rather than another gun. When you reach a certain level in Call of Duty you just go into the "prestige" non-sense so that'll really go to show you just how ADD the players really are when they simply -can't stop earning something- even though it's mundane and doesn't provide any benefit in the game itself.

Maybe we should just come up with a system that gives silly trinkets or something to appeal to them so they're too busy earning Callsigns (<--- CoD) to notice the MMO balancing of the game.

omg you must live under a rock

Oh look boys and girls - yet another troll with nothing beneficial to say other than "we're being punished".

Why? Because you just happen to have more hours in the day to grind your way to an advantage than someone with a job/family/place in society? Excellent argument - while we're at it let's just throw out skill points entirely to appeal directly to the self-aggrandizing FPS players and their entitlement issues.

Give me a valid reason why this is a bad system in an -MMO- aspect and we can talk - otherwise you're just saying the same whining bull that everyone else is complaining about rather than.. I dunno... Offering a suggestion for a better system? Yanno, because that would make too much sense.

Have you ever played any kind of FPS before EVE boy.?

Go play one then you may have some idea of what you're taliking about.

This is NOT EVE for ps3.

Yes, but you're not taking into account all of the instant gratification, flashing lights and loud noises that the FPS community seemingly -cannot live without-.

I'm not entirely sure what the big deal is considering that these guys have never had an FPS that gave out skill points as a reward rather than another gun. When you reach a certain level in Call of Duty you just go into the "prestige" non-sense so that'll really go to show you just how ADD the players really are when they simply -can't stop earning something- even though it's mundane and doesn't provide any benefit in the game itself.

Maybe we should just come up with a system that gives silly trinkets or something to appeal to them so they're too busy earning Callsigns (<--- CoD) to notice the MMO balancing of the game.

It's not FPS that needs instant gratification, but F2P. Since there is no entry cost (like in retail or subscription), you need something else to make people play the game and care for their account. Thus instant gratification to make people addicted to the game (just like drugs).

Have you ever played any kind of FPS before EVE boy.?

Go play one then you may have some idea of what you're taliking about.

This is NOT EVE for ps3.

And neither is it a kind of FPS that you have played on PS3, so you are both wrong.

Honestly who the **** cares which area of gaming you came from, blah blah FPS, blah blah EVE nerd. If you enjoy the game play it.

Seriously stop all the whining give constructive criticism & offer ideas, preferably good ones. On saying that don't assume any of you know better than any one else because you are ' sooo awesome ' at whatever other games you play. . .

RANT OVER, have fun