You mean unused from the cap added to the next days cap or unused atted to accumilated SP? The first I can get behind

Yeah, I proposed this exact idea a while back. SP rollover from each day until a defined day of the week, in which it will be reset. Rinse and repeat.

It's a pretty great idea and would appease both sides of the party.

Daily cap that is reset everyday, IF you play, rolls over if you don't play. Resets every Tuesday like weekly cap did. Job sorted. Everybody happy.

It does mean that someone who can only play at the beginning of the reset gets less sp than someone who plays later on. An all-time accumulating cap with diminishing returns seems the only viable option to me.

Not sure about the 'if you play' part. Cause what exactly does that mean for the SP that rolled over from say, 3 days worth? Is it all reset too even if you only play one match that night? Or does it only reset the ~27k from the daily allotment and the rest that rolled over, will continue to roll over?

IMO that is a bit too convoluted. I think whether you play or not, any unearned SP should rollover to the next day until the weekly reset.

If you don't play one day then that 27K is rolled over to the next, if you play one or two games on any given day, then you forfeit your roll over and restart at yr 27K base earning. Simples.

I think it would be a task and half to keep track of everybodys SP in that way. Filtering out non-players, finding out who played what and when. Good idea, but hard work for the Dev's. Then again what do I know... I just shoot people and die a lot....

That is simple - so simple it makes no sense. Where's the logic in doing this? Penalize someone for playing with what little time they have by taking away all possible earned SP from him?

If you don't play one day then that 27K is rolled over to the next, if you play one or two games on any given day, then you forfeit your roll over and restart at yr 27K base earning the next day. Simples.

I think you missed what I was talking about.

Here is an example. Lets say I do not play at all for 3 days (from the start of the week). Ok, so that now means on the 4th day, I will have all the past days SP rolled over plus the 4th days cap. Each day nets 27k, so 4 days worth would be 108k cap total on the 4th day.

Now lets say on that 4th day I only play a few matches and unexpectedly have to stop playing for whatever reason. With your system you are suggesting all the previous rollover, that wasn't earned, be forfeited during that days reset. Which would mean on the 5th day I would only have 27k in my SP 'pool'.

Sorry, but no. The very simple idea presented by the OP is flawless.

Still not enough SP imo, but we can get over that.

It wouldn't matter if somebody played from the beginning or got all the SP at the end, the numbers would be identical. Why would you think they would be different?

Think about it, lets say you played every day and reached the cap of 27k (rounded from 27.2k to make example easier).

Monday - 27k
Tuesday - 27k
Wednesday - 27k
Thursday - 27k
Friday - 27k
Saturday - 27k
Sunday 27k
----------------------Total = 189k

Now lets say you only play one day, and it's the last day before the reset, Sunday. So you grind all day long and at the end, reach the rolled over SP from 6 days plus the 7th days cap. Which would be 189k SP.

No difference.

And if you only play the day after the reset?

I think CCP considered this idea. If I remember this correctly, they told that "SP pool" was a solution they discussed.

So, they obviously didn't like it. Why? I think because 27k SP cap is quite small and they want everyone to play every day instead of playing just one day.
If you receive 10k SP every match, it's only 16 matches to get weekly cap. This is easily done in one day. Therefore if SP pool is implemented, there won't be enough reasons to play every day as you can easily reach the weekly cap in one day.

Also, if I understand this right, by getting passive SP booster you get about the same amount of SP by not playing at all as a player who grind every day, but without any boosters.

This is tough, yes, but get real, DUST is a business project which must provide some income.

Added this to my above post:

And for the argument of what about those players that come 6 moths later or 1 year later to game?

My opinion is though luck. And more to the point is this misconstruded opinion that one needs to 'catch up' in SP to the max levels to be competetive.

No they don't.

All you need is to have certain ammount of SP to level those critical skills that give +X% dmg, +XHP and weapon of choice proficiencie skill. These skills are 'core skills'.
After one has trained these up, it's all about ones versatility and adaptability to different situations in battlefield.

In other words, low SP charachters compete with spceialication. High SP charachters have versatility advantage in battle, but not advantage of superior gear. (Once one has leveled up those 'core skills')

So lets say you play dust for a year and someone else starts to play a year later, will that player start earning a years worth without getting capped, or is it once the week cap hits they've lost out, sorry if its a stupid question, trying to get my head around this roll over business...

Off topic but... Does anyone remember Cingular Wireless?

Yeah. That.

All of that would be negated if we just go back to the weekly cap but keep the same math for SP accumulation we have now. You get lower SP per match so you hit the cap slower than we did before, but at the same time you could reach the cap any time that week if you put in enough effort.

The whole issue would be resolved however if you have an overall global cap starting from the day you make your new character. If you miss a week or two due to some emergency, you will still be getting around 6k SP per match, but don't reach the cap until you reach the amount of SP you would have had if you hadn't missed that week or two. You'd never reach the level of people who have been around from the beginning, but you would always be able to make up for SP you missed.

Of course, this has all been said over and over, but I still see no CCP response.

Issue with this 'global cap' as suggested above is that, it leads to situation where if one wants to do things in optimal way then all 3 char slots need to be used, even tho one only uses 1 char.
Because if one didn't create those 2 others one would be missing out SP accrual to those chars. Those alts would be there for no other reason than to just-in-case.

New players coming in should be separated by the matchmaking system. Thus making them equal with their counterparts.