I'm guessing you will be able to buy boosters for isk from ppl that paid for the boosters and put them on the market. Ppl will probably sell them at a pricey isk rate, but the option will be there.

As for a booster that just increases your sp cap without the sp bonus... I think i like that idea as another booster option for aur, which then can be bought and put on the market for isk.

While its true that not everyone would want to spend money on boosters, it is actually the best investment you can make. If you buy the merc pack which is $20 in the US market, you get an active 30 day booster along with 40000 AUR. With 28000 AUR you can buy 4 7 day passive boosters which will last you for a month. So for $20 you are pretty much getting the advantage all AUR buyers have.

And makin $20 bucks a month is easy. All you have do is flip burgers at Macs for 3 hours or mow your neighbors lawn for $20 bucks. Easy money. And it would be good for ya. Heck I pay the kids my community $20 bucks an hour to clean my pool .

Just my 0.02 Merc PackGäó

Making 20 bucks is easy, but having a family or working a minimum wage job and paying massive bills makes having 20 EXTRA dollars to spend on a fictional universe much more difficult. Everyone's financial situation is different, and this would help keep things even.

Agreed. My bad!

True, but until the secondhand market is fully functional and the game picks up properly, this will be very difficult to do. If the game goes live without a fully functioning market this can be an issue, not to mention very few are going to have the ISK right out of the gate for these, which means those without will be left out of the loop while those paying cash can fly ahead of the rest of the pack.

All I want out of this game is for it to be pay to win as little as possible, and doing what I laid out above would really help things go in that direction. At least until the second hand market is fully active.

So i gather that what your saying is that the Active Boosters would work as such?

-AUR Variant = Increased SP Cap + Boosted SP gain.

-ISK Variant = Same Increased SP Cap?

So in short it's about how much effort one has to put in? The AUR Variant buyers have an easier time getting to the raised SP cap since they get boosted SP while the ISK variants just have their Cap raised so that they can, through effort, achieve the same amount of SP as the AUR guys?

I think that might be slightly redundant if i'm understanding it right. As it really doesn't change much of anything and then forces those that want to be competitive to buy overpriced ISK Variants to stay on par with the AUR Variant users AND you would have to play more often than them just to hit the same Cap.

Honestly i think a better option would be to make the SP gained by the AUR boosters, suffer from the normal cap that everbody is under already. Now naturally i don't like the current 500,000 a week Cap and would like it to be raised, but some people who would like to play but don't have the time to might be glad the cap is low because it means they still have a chance to catch up during the week. I would like to see SP Boosters increase the rate at which you hit the Cap but not "raise" the cap.

I believe this would achieve the same result your looking for Overlord, minus having to spend ISK on a new item.

Keep the faith.

Not everyone who plays can afford boosters, which increase the SP cap and the SP accrual rate. The argument here for this is that it only gives a temporary advantage since things will even out in the end after everyone's played long enough. However "in the end" is supposed to be years down the road. Which means people will be disadvantaged for longer than they may ever plan to be playing this game.

You are off on your timeline.

It will take years to totally max out a character with every skill in the game, but only 2-3 months to max out one role. We are only a few weeks into the current build, yet many players are running proto in their chosen role.

New players will always be at a disadvantage until they get a few weeks into the game, and that will be true for the life of DUST. However once they get that far they will be competitive. After that its just a matter of becoming more flexible in your capabilities.

Boosters will be a real help for the first couple months, but even then they won't be absolutely necessary when the match making system has more players to work with.