Everyone seems to agree that a daily cap without some kind of roll over for people who can't play daily isn't good.

You also seem to agree, mostly, that CCP deserves to make some money off this game.

You might know where this is going by now ... and the little troll in your head is starting to grow !

So what would you all think if they introduced a new AUR item, some kind of 'sp bank' that once plugged in allows your clone to begin buffering some daily caps for say 3, 7, 14 or 30 days, allowing you to come back after a weeks holiday and grind back the caps you missed out on.

Casuals can stay competitive in the long run at a cost of real money and the jobless can play all day every day in a still F2P game ... it's not pay2win so thats not an issue.

I'm not sure I'd buy them myself, we'll have to see, but it's a solution if they're that keen on keeping the daily cap.

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Has this been mentioned or am I thinking about it backwards?

Keep the following:
*Linear returns to warpoints and time spent GÇô the better you play, the more you earn (until you hit the cap)
*Warpoints earned are converted into skillpoints (1 WP = 1 SP)
*Time spent in battle grants SP (1 second = 5 SP)
**Consolation prize of 50 SP per battle once the daily cap has been hit**

Having a global maximum SP. You wont cap out until you hit the global max cap, so if you get behind by a day, a week, a month, a year---you can still make up for it.

Week 1: 358,400
Week 2: 716,800
Week 3: 1,075,200
Week 4: 1,433,600
Week 10: 3,584,000
Week 26: 9,318,400
Week 52: 18,636,800

If you joined during week 10, you would not hit a cap or slow down until you reached 3,584,000 SP (or whatever the cap is for the correlating time frame) --- Linear returns to warpoints and time spent GÇô the better you play, the more you earn (until you hit the cap)

Boosters can be used to expedite how long it takes someone to reach that cap. If a person has some RL things to take care of (or joins late) and falls a million SP below the cap, they can use boosters to catch up faster.

**If a person is maxed out on the GÇÿregularGÇÖ SP they can go over the global cap @ 50 SP per battle with no effect to their GÇÿregularGÇÖ SPGǪthey can still get 358,400 the following week. So they could actually go beyond the 'regular' global max SP but only 50 SP per match at a time and thus not too far ahead **

Surely the easy solution to the worry about AFKers clogging up the MCC is to just remove the SP gain just for being in a match i.e. the 1sp per 1sec. Is that part of the daily cap needed?

Jesus Christ you people are simply -NEVER- happy. Honestly, how many times is the skill cap thing going to be changed before someone just gives up and realizes that this is an MMO before it is an FPS, hence the terminology: MMOFPS, not FPSMMO.

You're not -SUPPOSED- to be able to grind, that's what Halo/Battlefield/Call of Duty is for. Those games don't have persistent worlds that you can potentially **** up because you did absolutely nothing but grind since the game came out. Nothing ever happens outside of the battle, the victories don't matter (except stats which I doubt any of you are statisticians so those don't matter either) and further more THERE IS NO VIRTUAL ECONOMY.

You are going to have to accept the limitations and if you can't, find a different game. Skill caps are NECESSARY for games like these, there is no "level" system like World of Warcraft or Skyrim - there are specializations that you can choose. You're not MEANT to get all of them and the reward for playing CONSTANTLY is NOT in the form of skills, it's in the form of ISK and Assets.

The beneath quote is the best way I can honestly describe how things work and if you can't wrap your heads around it then you're playing the wrong game

they just need to make it to where. after you hit the cap, you only can get as many skill points as you get warpoints. So you still get rewarded for playing good after you hit the cap.

There should be no cap for the SP earned through WP. Only the SP earned for being in battle should be limited to 27000 without or 36000 with boosters. Without boosters you should get 5 SP/sec, with 6 SP/sec. Together with 24000 passive SP you get 51000 or 60000 SP a day + your actual SP earned through WP.

I mean why should those who fight much better get the same amount of SP as a guy who cant hit a tank with his AR.

In which sort of MMO a newbie can catch up a 2 years-old player ?

This is a non sense, as DUST is name as MMO/FPS.

Add to this that DUST need to be on the same SP gain than EVE...

Well, it's not perfect yet, but it sounds good to me. Just fix the instant battle, where proto suits 10M SP can't face beginner with milicia 1M SP. That's all, no matter the way SPs are earn.

I repeat : it's a MMO, you need to play everyday, doing special missions, dealing with diplomatie, industry etc ... to be the best (on SP side ;)). It is not just a FPS.

The only way newbie can catch up a vet : the vet doesn"t use boosters anymore, newbie does. Oups, sorry, it's a MMO/FPS F2P !!! Welcome to FPS players in the MMO world !!!

... Because of balancing..?