I honestly support no cap.

There will always be people that are better then you. There will always be people that play more then you.
So why level the playing field? They will still be ahead nonetheless.

So you think that their SP should be worth less than yours?
I'm afraid I disagree entirely.
Even now, it's entirely possible to check what skills are like with other players who've already bought them, I mean, I've got an alt that I specifically use to try out skills before buying them for my main character.
Okay, so once the game goes live, there'll be no way to get back SP spent on skills you don't like, but as Beta testers, we'll have already played and tried things out, so when the game starts and we lose all our characters, we'll all be able to plan our characters, so why should a player who comes along later get penalised for doing the same thing?

If the player is "hardcore" he/she is playing this beta.

This SP cap situation only affects this Hardcore player.The non hardcore player will not either care or have the time to play so this issue is moot to them.

Now those that like the game but are busy can buy a passive which does not award 500k a week.(Ive done the math)And why should it?If this person cannot find time in 7 days to use there active to achieve the cap while others can.This person isnt actually playing the game so why should they?I am ok with this.But what about this game being f2p and it taking someone more than 2 days to achieve the cap?Or there Sp payouts are lower per match than ours?So what do we say?Fk that guy?Nah. Like I said before if you got time to burn CCP has given you more than 1 character slot.If you are board grind without boosters on.

That's not true in the slightest. I mean, eve online is 9 years old, assuming that the intention is for dust to last as long, then there will be a large number of new 'hardcore' gamers available to play it who aren't interested right now.also not true. What about a 'hardcore' gamer who started after the players who are already running proto gear?The boosters you appear to be fixated on are nothing to do with it.
As I understand it, once you reach your weekly SP cap, however you've earns the SP, your SP gain is reduced for the week.
A 'hardcore' player, who starts playing now because they got their PS3 for Christmas will never be able to catch up to someone like G-SLicK, even if they play more and use constant active and passive boosters because both the old and the new players have the same limits on how much SP they can earn per week.

Before being able to properly make suggestions to CCP as to how they can achieve heir aim, we need to know what their aim is.

I already addressed you question.G slick since you like using him as an example bought Monthly,weekly,daily,3 day passive skillboosters to achieve that Sp and assign it where he wanted too.What your telling me is.That a daily would help this new person achieve his rank and standing in half the time it took G slick.......That cheapens his achievement AND robs him of real world money he spent to achieve that.

So, if two players ( lets call them player A & player B) both start new characters at the same point and player A plays 500 games each earning him 1000 sp during a week, and player B played the exact same games, earning the exact same score, but with the boosters active, they'd both have earned 500k sp. the only difference is that player B would have done it sooner and would have played a number of games after the cap was hit without earning sp.

In this situation, both players have invested the same time and effort, and both have had the same rewards. No-ones efforts are cheapened, no-ones been robbed. Why does time scale make it any different?

First of all your logic is flawed and circular...omg.
In your example player B has an active on.....it wouldnt take him 500 games...........because the ACTIVE BOOSTER multiplies his WP to SP payout PER match.So player B gets 500k in 250 matches.But goes on to play another 250 he now has 1 million SP....Player A has to play 1000 games to keep up with player B.As this continues that margin becomes greater until it is physically impossible to play enough matches to keep with Player B, as player A literally runs out of time to play matches between downtimes.What dont YOU understand?

player B wouldn't earn 1 million sp because the cap is 500k a week.
He would hit the cap after 250 games, then the next 250 would only earn him ISK.

Wow nice troll.Thanks for restating the obvious.What is your point exactly?That you think the cap should not be in place yes?Am I Understanding that right?Im assuming that you are not in favor of a cap?Sooooooo
By your example both player A and player B play for the same amount of time per week.Who has more SP ay the end of the week.This game is supposed to be f2p.
A player with no cap and boosters on will always be ahead of that guy in YOUR scenario.Thats the need for the ******* cap.

My point is;
Before being able to properly make suggestions to CCP as to how they can achieve heir aim, we need to know what their aim is.
I have stated no preference as to if we have a cap or not. What I want doesn't matter. What I want to know is what CCP wants, if they want new players to be able to catch up with old ones or not. Then we can try to work out how to achieve that.

sorry if you people have RL **** but some us arent 30-40 years olds. If people want to play everyday then they should be able to get as much sp as they desire. The way the cap works now is a fail becuz us "GOOD" players reach 0 sp by day two and all desire to play fades as day 4 approaches. Also if one were to miss a week of sp for what ever reason, thats sp forever gone. There should be some sort of daily cap to keep us motivated while playing multiple days, or keep the weekly cap and add a base minimal gain to 1-2k sp. Allow the players who missed a week to catch up to the global sp cap, that way everyone in the world will have a way to catch up to the max sp cap.

last wed i made 300-400k in one day after the reset

This my friends is what a simple minded pubby looks like. remember it

I would suggest that those who play the game enough to get to their cap that quickly make another character. We do get 3 slots.

This way you can level up more than one character at a time, and then when you go into battles you have a pick of two specialized characters, each good for their own situation.
Say you know your corp is missing a vehicle guy, or sniper, and that is what your second character is specced for.

For those of us who dont have the time we can still level up one character just fine.

I heard numerous people in Local,Team,forums,IRC talking about a daily cap.Without insulting anyone and trying to be as nice as possible this thread is being directed at those individuals that think this would be a good idea.

Ill try to break this down in a method that explains how this is a very bad idea,and how moronic the pros are for this way of thinking.

1. CCP has never claimed that your combined weekly SP payout would ever exceed 500k.The week starts over every WED day so from there you play to the next weekly down time.(at your leisure)
2. 500k/7days=71,428.571 roughly 71,429 SP.That is what you would get on a daily basis.Thats it.
3. EXAMPLE: So WED you play get your daily(71,429)THUR day you have to go pick up the kids,dry cleaning,clean your house,work overtime because a co worker called in sick so you had to cover for them,you wanna watch the superbowl,wife wants you to take her out for dinner and a movie,a million other RL things.So you dont play on THUR......you will not be able to make up those points on FRI when you have more time to play.Now youve got time to play the game and it ordinarily takes you will say 2 hours to get 71,429 since you missed THUR you will or could play for 4 hours and make up for that and get FRI days out of the way.WEEKLY CAP
With a daily cap you would never be able to do that.FRI you would play hit 71,429 and the server would slow you down to 100 SP matches.THUR and its SP would never be able to be made up ever.

Some of us are busier than others the weekly payout is fine.The passive booster assures that if you gonna miss a day you wont totally get screwed.
Before you comment on this thread really read it and the example I ve given you if not dont bother posting.I could go on and on with example that might keep you from playing,your kids birthday,you and your wifes anniversary....a million other things.A daily cap would (in my opinion) only reward the mothers basement dwelling troll with no RL and the game junkie...the guy who hangs himself over a video game....
I and many others are neither of those 2.

This.

I support a weekly cap on SP (whether 500k or 1 mil...whatever is determined best). I support this for previous reasons stated in this thread, namely that not everyone can play 23/7 and it would help even the playing field in the long run.

I support the use of boosters. CCP needs to make money and boosters are a good avenue in my opinion. Whether the booster raises a players cap (ex: 500k weekly cap is raised to 750k) or is the cap is still 500k but the player can reach the cap twice as fast).

I support not having a grind. Let a player earn what they earn (10 war points = 100 skill points or whatever the math turns out to be) and when they reach the cap, zero out the SP gain for the rest of the week. No one likes playing those final 20 matches for 14 SP each.

I support having a global SP minimum. By this I mean that at the end of every month, if a player who is not at a minimum level of SP will be allowed to play "cap-free" until they reach that minimum SP level. Once the reach that minimum, the cap will go back into affect. An example would be 500k per week times 4 weeks per month is 2mil. After the first month at launch, going into month two, a player who has less that 2mil can play cap free until they reach 2 mill. Going into the third month, a player can play cap free until they reach 4 mil. (*** the numbers can be adjusted but you get the premise [hopefully]***)

There's no daily cap on EvE i can learn what i want when i want, even though the training on there is different and it works on RL time, On Dust you should be able to get as much sp as possible for the hardcore players, as for not been able to catch up to some one from day 1 you can't catch up to a 2002 player on EvE so why change that approach in Dust if your just playing for the FPS this shouldn't make a difference if your playing for a corp then you will play from day 1 anyways.