@Blacknova
Good advice versus the ground targets... So, the swarm is only really effective against armour, but lacks strength against shields?
Your load out seems pretty close to mine. Everything is the same except I run with the dual light damage buffs, instead of shield extension. I never start with this class, I only swap it in when I notice a lot of vehicles out.
How do you stop dropships? I can stand in a nano hive and drop 2 full mags at a dropship and watch my 30 missles slowly trail a dropship before fizzling out. I've even waited until the dropship was coming towards me, but the swarms did not go straight for it. They curved around so they could follow behind the dropship instead of heading directly at it...

just take away the sp cap and force hardcore players to fight hardcore players and casuals vs casuals

That idea is terrible.

That will make it EASIER for more active players to grind and outstrip everyone else.

What WOULD be good is if the diminishing returns effect was scaled based on the average player SP. If you're significantly below the average SP level, diminishing returns should kick in later, with less effect, or not at all. The diminishing returns should affect players more based on how high their SP count has built up, so new players will be penalised by the system LESS than someone who's been around a long time.

The only issue i have with the SP cap is that it creates a mismatch for players who come into the game at later point in time n the game cycle.

For instance no matter how much i play there is simply no way for me to catch players who have been playing for 6 months and what about players who come into this game a year or two down the road they just will never be able to catch up to the veteran players. So they will not be able to realistically touch them. In theory they maybe able to get enough SP to put up a fight a few years down the road but that is a big if and really wont happen until the vets reach the SP max and have skilled into everything therefore they stop moving forward.

I think they should adjust the log curve so it accounts for new players to progress a bit quicker and have a higher cap that diminishes over time as they begin to catch the limit which should be set to the weekly cap x the number of weeks since the game launched. If not this then some sort of SP rollover system that would retain SP for new players to tap into for a set period of time that would allow them to accelerate their initial progression without closing the gap too quickly or too unfairly to a player that has invested years into the game.

Im not sure how EVE players could abuse this system for their accts, if someone could explain that to me perhaps i can better understand that side of the argument.

Edit-- I think that maybe the gripe some of these players maybe having with the caps is that its not about the fact they are progressing slowly its that they are finding they cant catch up to the vets so they can start to compete against them.

Also there are players who will be casualcore who play at varied intervals but will have some days/weeks where they play a lot and it would suck for them to not be able to make the most of out that limited time.

For me personally i dont mind the grind but i grind not for progression or some sense of achievement i do it cause i want to catch the vets and start to compete against them. Fortunately when the wipe comes ill be on even footing with them but once the game fully lauches with every week that passes new players will find themselves at a disadvantage agaisnt veteran players which is nice because it gives them something to work for, but if someone wants to grind and get their a bit quicker let them, shouldnt have to invest potentially 2-3 years(assuming someone came to the game that late) to try and compete that model works well for PC MMO's because of the mentality of the PC player but console players are a different breed and they will not want to do it if they cant see themselves fighting competing with the big boys insides of 1-2 years(that is very long time in console land).

Just my .02 ISK

This is one of the BETTER suggestions ive read on the forums so thought id make a post and quote the person who came up with the idea



^ this is how it should be imo along with doubling or tripling the current weekly SP cap
new players will always have a chance to catch up and hardcore can even take a break and comeback knowing they really havent missed much because all their SP that they missed for weeks are still there to be had

props to HDTT for the suggestion.

thoughts CCP?