Boosters already increase the cap. They going to increase the increased cap next. The current capgap is around a million a month. It was painfully obvious when we played Imperfects that they had better gear than me, (proto vs advanced) and I really struggled. To put things in perspective that 1-2 mil from 1-2 months is enough for a Proto suit and 12% more damage PASSIVE than I have. It's the equivalent of 4*small damage modules, AND having better suit/modules. That's quite an advantage.

If they want to raise the cap, they should make it cost ISK so at least everyone who is playing the game for free can do it too and make a separate AUR based item that increases accrual rate for those with less time to play.

Sorry I didn't specify EXACTLY which players had more SP... apparently that implies all Imperfects including those who didn't play had better gear. Apologies if you want to dwell on that specific battle, but it's just the best example I can give of KNOWING I had no chance. I honestly couldn't believe they already had Proto gear at that stage.

It's called prioritizing what you need and sticking with the plan. Not spec cling into everything thinking you are going to be good.

Last time I checked I died in one hit to a properly fit dropship missile turret with Proto during the tourney. Proto's barely gives an advantage, 3 more hits with an AR is such an advantage.

I love killing kids with straight up militia gear who are in high tier gear. SP doesn't make the player better, skill does. I love everybody that's in denial. SP is not the problem, it's your skill.

The gap in sp gets less noticeable with time.
In EvE, I made a second account after my first was about 9 months old. After my main was 2 years old and the second account was 15 months they were pretty close in ability. The main was more flexible, but in each's specialty they were about even.

The boosters will seem pay to win for the first months, then the gap won't matter as much. The main problem is scary off the to much of player base in those months. There will also be people joining the game a year or two after launch. It will take them a while to reach the sp of somebody that played from launch casually, even with full boosters hitting the cap every week.

If it follows eve, which it appears to, a new player will be at a disadvantage till around 3million sp when decent gear is available and they start grasping game quirks. At around 15million the good pvp groups can use them on their teams alongside people with 100million plus sp players.

The boosters will allow late comers to try to partially catch up as much as they let some get ahead, double edged sword.

I think the passive boosters would be good to train alts, and when taking a break to play another game. If ccp can get people to give them money to not play dust when they play somebody else's new game, it will help dust. If people spent money on a booster when they play another game, they will have incentive to come back to dust, and CCP will get a profit spike when competitors make releases.

The earlier comment about ar skills, if somebody has ar op 4 a booster would only get them 1/2 way to ar op5. Not into proficiency. Lv5 costs about as much as levels 1-4 combined. So somebody that trained mechanics and weaponry to 5 could have trained engineering, electronics, weaponry, and mechanics to lv4 for same sp.