4th edition rules, so you just use your death saving bonus -- dc was 10, so you'll live

Wait, where did tabletop RPGs come into this?

I'd expect LP gear to be better quality than Proto with lower skill requirements. Additionally I'd expect we'd find some faction gear that requires unusual skill combinations (like requiring two different suit operation skills at lvl 3 for a heavy-logistic suit or an assault-scout suit).

Dear CCP,

• Hard Cap of 832,000 SP/Weekly (and an awesome animation on our SP calculator like an overheat gauge w/ sound, etc.. instead of displaying SP gives a countdown of how long we have until our Hard Cap is reset, like the cooldown timers)
• Hard Cap of 40,000 SP/Match (and a different awesome animation on our SP calculator like an overheat gauge w/ sound, etc.. Also, the "total SP" should list for out of 40,000 points rather than just giving us the "potential" if we had a skill booster implant - it should all play into the theme that it's awesome to break the SP Gage)
• Soft Cap of 208,000 SP/Daily (Add animation & sounds indicating that you're stressing the SP Gague)
1/2 sp gain until Grind.

• Grind at 416,000 SP/Daily (Add animation & sounds indicating that you're severely stressing the SP Gague)
1/4 sp gain once grind is in effect/Daily

• Learning Overdrive Mode. (Add animation & sounds indicating that the SP Gague is "supercharged")
If it's been 3 or more days since the last time a character was signed in the soft cap removed for the next 48 hours.

What's this mean to us?

For everyone:

• It will take a minimum of 6 matches to hit the soft cap on SP in a given day.
• Awesome animations on our SP to help remind us when we hit thresholds & make them goals rather than something to be afraid of.

For a new player or a player who has trouble reaching the SP Cap:

• Join a corp. They'll find ways to help you keep up(but not Warriors or they'll get the ways we try to help removed from the game ).

For a daily casual player:

• If you play to the soft cap every day it'll take you 4 days to hardcap your sp for the week.
• It will take you twice as many matches to work through the soft cap for your SP as it would to play daily.
• It would take four times as many matches to work through the grind for your SP as it would to play daily.

For a weekend warrior:

• If you haven't been playing for a few days and you drop in you can play to the grind two days in a row and it'll take you 2 days to hardcap your sp for the week (and you won't ever see any dip in SP gains).
• If you play play through the grind it'll take you 1 day, but 3 times as many matches to hardcap your sp for the week.

For a hardcore player:

• You can hardcap 3+ characters a week without even feeling the grind if you play it right...or you can focus on one, knowing you're going to hit a hard cap for sp, then help out with training up the newbies in your corp, participating in faction warfare, etc...

Keep It Classy,
L.R.

I think when we talk about the amount of numbers tweaking that needs to be done to this game, we're talking about the wrong thing. This game is - or so I gather from their workshops at the EVE fan conference - meant to be balanced in a manner that is both dynamic and self-correcting. In place of putting artificial caps on how much ISK can be earned per whatever unit of time, let's consider the intrinsic issues at hand here - people are crashing vehicles into walls for the sole sake of repairing them, only to crash them again and repeat ad nauseam.

Perhaps instead of putting a cap on total experience, we should consider mechanisms which make this exploitation of the reward mechanism less viable. If we're tracking the types of damage a vehicle takes (or how much damage is dealt to that vehicle by other players) and the amount of damage an engineer repairs on each vehicle, we should therefore be able to derive what percentage of total damage repaired was by way of crashing. We could therefore say that engineers should not get experience for any non-hostile vehicle damage that exceeds n% of their total repairs, so long as they make a substantial amount of repairs (to prevent a player's experience in repairs being quartered if they only fixed their vehicle once).