did you not read the post at all??? you can put forth "minimul effort" and still hit your 500k SP cap, its just that instead of the floor being 0 at the end of your deminishing returns, you make 1000SP from every match onward. Its like overtime at work, its not mandatory but its there in case you want to make a little extra.

I read the thread. A floor will still enable players to grind way above everyone else if they no-life it. While it sucks getting less than 1000 SP per match, having that as the floor will lead to people who can play 10+ hours a day getting 200k+ SP more per week than people who don't hit the floor.

I'd just prefer to run all my SP for the day down to zero in a matter of 3-5 games and then move onto other worthwhile things. We just need those things to exist first, though - corp battles, FW, nullsec, PvE. I don't want to pub stomp all day because there's still SP to be had, and that seems like the only way we might be getting SP. If we can get it elsewhere, fine, but I don't want to feel like I have to spend hours every day playing with and against randoms just to progress my character.

why would they make it so that you dont get SP from land grabs?? its just a corp match, only with a little bit more incentive behind it???

^^^^

This is spot on ... I wouls just replace first few hours for first few days and give us some ground to pound and conquer.

gtfo my thread if your not going to add anything aside from trolling to it you pc elitist

The way these style of games thrive is by allowing people to grind and play as much as they want to while getting somewhere, even slow progression is better then none, as it is a good player can hit the cap in the first day or 2 after the reset then might as well not play for the rest of the week.

Hey, I just posted an awesome way this could be implemented properly, for free, now go get some code monkey to implement it.

The implementations you've been jumping between have been rather full of suck.

To summarise:

1. A two-week's worth of total quota, 1000k SP.
2. Every day add 1000k/14 SP, up to max total quota.
3. A logarithmically decreasing function is used to get the multiplier for match SP: [1.0-0.0>.
4. Should be tuned so that a player playing... 15(or so?) good matches would end up with 500k left in quota.
5. A hardcore player would end up after a week with a constant 50-150k in quota.
6. Both get equal active SP as long as the casual doesn't let the quota get full by playing the 15 matches per week.
7. Payouts for the hardcore player will remain relatively stable, avoiding rage.
8. Make sure that exceptionally large base match SP is handled properly in the calculation in order to avoid draining the quota excessively.

Diminishing SP isn't going to be a concern when we're fighting over territory. I think an all time cap is the only way to grant hardcore players the advantage they fight for, without killing off any hope for late players of being competitive.