DUST Search - SP, how they could fix it PERFECTLY

Marston EV wrote:

The thing that would make the current system PERFECT in my opinion would be a "minimum SP gain Cap" so let me elaborate on what this means and why it would bring perfect balance to what things are like now.

Currently when you hit the SP cap, your SP gains steadily decrease from 10k to 5k, 1k, then 10...... per match. What they need to do is put a floor on the deminshing returns. or in another words they should make it so that you CANT make less then 1k - 2.5k SP per match (if your doing well obviously).

The reason this is a good idea is because it would slow down the hardcore players enough so that they can still make an extra 10 - 20k SP a day if they GRIND for it, but theres not way they could possibly make huge leaps ahead of there casual counterparts. Now the idea is simple, but its not perfect. To keep this from becoming an exploit CCP would have to make it so that you have to particapate in battle to some extent in order to get the full 1000-2500 SP, perhaps they could tie it down to how many WP you make in a match but that would be up for them to decide.

Another completely seperate idea would be to just give us as many SP as we make WP in a match as a minimum to earn. If i make 3000 WP in a match doesn't that mean i should deserve atleast that many SP??? I mean this idea is less ideal then the last one because it favors hardcore players more but its still a decent idea.

ultimately im not sure if CCP will use either of these ideas but really the whole point of them is to make it not seem like a WASTE OF TIME playing this game after you hit the cap...... so any thoughts on this guys???


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Th3rdSun L.O.T.I.S. Legacy Rising 323	Posted - 2012.12.25 17:52:00 - [1] - Quote Marston EV wrote: The thing that would make the current system PERFECT in my opinion would be a "minimum SP gain Cap" so let me elaborate on what this means and why it would bring perfect balance to what things are like now. Currently when you hit the SP cap, your SP gains steadily decrease from 10k to 5k, 1k, then 10...... per match. What they need to do is put a floor on the deminshing returns. or in another words they should make it so that you CANT make less then 1k - 2.5k SP per match (if your doing well obviously). The reason this is a good idea is because it would slow down the hardcore players enough so that they can still make an extra 10 - 20k SP a day if they GRIND for it, but theres not way they could possibly make huge leaps ahead of there casual counterparts. Now the idea is simple, but its not perfect. To keep this from becoming an exploit CCP would have to make it so that you have to particapate in battle to some extent in order to get the full 1000-2500 SP, perhaps they could tie it down to how many WP you make in a match but that would be up for them to decide. Another completely seperate idea would be to just give us as many SP as we make WP in a match as a minimum to earn. If i make 3000 WP in a match doesn't that mean i should deserve atleast that many SP??? I mean this idea is less ideal then the last one because it favors hardcore players more but its still a decent idea. ultimately im not sure if CCP will use either of these ideas but really the whole point of them is to make it not seem like a WASTE OF TIME playing this game after you hit the cap...... so any thoughts on this guys??? I've been saying that there should be a floor for SP gained not long after they implemented a cap.I guess the thing with having a floor though,is that then there will never be a true cap,so what you would need is a ceiling where you can gain only so much per match. Just spitballing,lets just say that the max SP that you could ever gain in any match is 200k,and not a point more,then maybe after a while,have the floor at about 2500 or so.I guess there could be some sort of system where your diminishing returns would work just like they do now,but instead of eventually getting to zero,you will still earn 2500 points max,just for completing a match.Now you could still get zero points for joining late,or just doing nothing in the match,but floor is actually a low point cap that would only yield you a max of 2500 or so. I guess the only good thing about the current system now is that come end of the week when the "no lifes" are getting zero points,then they usually stop playing and it gives some of the lesser skilled players a fighting chance,generally speaking.