I keep hearing rumors we moved to daily cap. Is this true

Also what is/was the weekly cap. And if we moved to daily whats the daily cap?

i was about to make a thread about this. Still feels like we're on a weekly cap. Or so i hope.
Cause if the daily cap is now around 300k sp, then hail to the grinders.....

And doom to those who actually have a life. And can't afford to play everyday. Oh, and that's the majority of players btw.

This is a pretty contentious issue. The problem with the weekly cap was that a lot of players would hit the cap by or during the weekend and come Monday and Tuesday the servers would be dead because there was little reward in playing. The daily cap fixes this problem but reintroduces the issue of the uber-grinders.

I've heard a few ideas about averaging it out over time or something along those lines but not sure I quite understood it all. It's definitely not a simple problem with a simple solution.

Updates : We're still on a weekly cap.

Just heard back from Bendtner92 who just got 5k SP for a 1300 WP first game today.

Yay, long live the weekly cap

I like Cazaderon's idea above ^ I think this is what I've seen before and agreed with.

But yeah, the daily cap definitely did not reset at DT today, so maybe it's not working properly yet...

Something is going on but it's not the old weekly cap. I think the most SP I've gotten from a match since the cap was "reset" was maybe 7k and that was with probably 1500 WP. Things had already started slowing way down by the time I hit 100k.

Weekly cap is possibly 300,000 to 400,000 SP
Daily cap is possibly 25,000 to 50,000 SP

So because not everyone can play all night or all day, others have to suffer and get lower sp? So basically instead of the person working out everyday getting stronger hes not allowed to gain muscle because hed be able to punch out all the nerds that are too lazy to go work out? Yea, thats fair. We went from survival of the fittest to "hold on wait for the others."

When the hell did war become welfare based? Thats irritating that my growth gets halted because you cant play as much as i do.

After playing a lot, it appears as though CCP lowered the old weekly cap and put in a daily cap.

I noticed that a dev/gm combined threads into this one, so I won't make a new thread for it, but it'd be nice if people could help in testing. If we get a bunch of peeps writing down the difference in totals between resets it will help pinpoint the cap.

3 day cycle.everyone angry

It doesn't seem like they've done anything with it. I played alot yesterday and only saw diminishing returns just like on the weekly cap.

These are definitely wrong estimates - at least with the daily cap. In fact yesterday alone I earned around 200k or maybe more at around 15k - 20k per match. Today however I was only earning around 5k per match with similar WP earnings.

This is also the first I have heard about both a weekly and daily cap being in place. Does anyone have any word from the devs to confirm that both are in place?

The SP Cap is currently working as intended in the Chromosome Build and as stated in the patch notes.

I cannot divulge exact details on how SP Rewards are calculated but the above is definitely in effect and should help clear all the speculations.

The SP Cap is currently working as intended in the Chromosome Build and as stated in the patch notes.

I cannot divulge exact details on how SP Rewards are calculated but the above is definitely in effect and should help clear all the speculations.

The SP Cap is currently working as intended in the Chromosome Build and as stated in the patch notes.

I cannot divulge exact details on how SP Rewards are calculated but the above is definitely in effect and should help clear all the speculations.

If this SP cap is working as intended then its BROKE.

Until this gets sorted out why would anyone invest in new SP boosters? Why Do you CCP need to make this some sorta secret?

I enjoy the SP chase as much as the game itself and I was hoping to want to buy some more skill boosters and merc pacs but honestly they are a waste of aurum. The cap is still weekly I see no change except it pays out in slower increments.

The simple answer to this problem is to have a floating Hard SP cap that increases each week so the game has a set SP pace.

Every one who gets in the game can grind till they hit the Hard SP cap, giving the new players an incintive to catch up, while allowing the hard core gamers to even take a week off here and there and grind back to the hard SP cap.

I think this would be an easy way to solve this crazy problem. I don't see to many drawbacks. The game can stay on your 7-10 year SP pace to Max skills, while allowing a carrot for new players that if they do well a chance to catch up.

At the current system you miss a week of SP you can never get it back seperating the have from the have nots even more.

We do plan to improve the SP cap system with future iterations that will be more sophisticated than the current daily SP cap. Thanks for all the suggestions and time spent in testing this system. The difference in opinon on whether a weekly or daily SP cap seems to be based on player preference and play style, and we will find a system that can best accomodate both and retain balance.

One of the biggest issues with Eve is that if you start now you can never catch up. This is a bar to many new players joining (I know this for a fact from the many gaming buddies I was unable to persuade to play Eve).

There is an opportunity in Dust to make sure this is not an issue.

If there is an SP cap which moves forward each day/week/month whatever which does not reset then new players could play with full SP until they reach the cap. This way there is always the chance for a player to dig in and grind their way to parity.

It also means you could level an alt quickly to be useful as well.

In addition it means if you don't play for a few days you can catch up.

It also accommodate those that play hard in short bursts and those that play steady.

I suspect this is not what we will see, but I really wish it was.

The above being posted a day or so ago in the below thread:
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=47831&p=6

The current system is not for definate and we are still looking at way to keep a fair balance between players as stated above.

One of the biggest issues with Eve is that if you start now you can never catch up. This is a bar to many new players joining (I know this for a fact from the many gaming buddies I was unable to persuade to play Eve).

There is an opportunity in Dust to make sure this is not an issue.

If there is an SP cap which moves forward each day/week/month whatever which does not reset then new players could play with full SP until they reach the cap. This way there is always the chance for a player to dig in and grind their way to parity.

It also means you could level an alt quickly to be useful as well.

In addition it means if you don't play for a few days you can catch up.

It also accommodate those that play hard in short bursts and those that play steady.

I suspect this is not what we will see, but I really wish it was.

Maybe in The full game release or Open Beta, but not during closed beta when we are supposed to be testing things. as of right now there should be no cap

Yes, because the SP cap isn't meant to be part of the game, and doesn't need to be balanced appropriately before the game's release.

Yes it does need to be balanced and tested, but not at this time. The 1st priority should be to test weapons, equipment, gameplay mechanics, and things of that nature for anything that should be buffed or nerfed or fixed. The SP system should be one of the last things tested, because that gets in the way of testing everything else.

Def not a daily reset CCP

Thanks ... from Thranx. That came out funnier then I thought it would.

Does that mean a daily (oops weekle!) SP cap? Because one char was getting 2-3K in similar matches and I restarted with Thranx1231 and he is getting 9-10K without a booster.

Does anybody publish or guess the daily/weekly SP cap? I have searched and there only seems to be something.

It is beyond frustration to waste a day's play while getting mostly nothing for it. Then switch characters and voila! SP once again. If I knew what the numbers were and when the reset was I would just quit wasting time. My pilot needs something on the order of 800k SP. But to survive until then I am having to burn down another 200K and then the match pays out 3K SP with a bonus.

The reason I quoted Raxsus1 is how can I even get near testing good ships when SP is dribbled out with no chance of reset. If I could reset then my 2.5M SP character could be a pilot. But that is not who I want to be the pilot.

/rant

If anyone knows please give me a clue. I'll even login to the clue server.

The SP cap is around 500,000-600,000 a week I belive.