DUST Search - 30 Day Active Boosters are Officially Worthless now.

Gunner Visari wrote:

Okay the 30 day booster itself may be a waste, it may not given that the only way to get them is the merc pack and the cost of the merc pack is doubled in value by the 40K AUR you get plus all the other goodies.

But just to clarify the daily cap is 27,200/day and 40,800/day with active booster

Passive boost is 24,000/day and 36,000 with passive booster.

Proof
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=457688#post457688

and

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=458111#post458111

Its the same thread just figured ill save you the trouble of scrolling down 3 post since ppl are weird and will read only the first one and not look at the second one otherwise.

So having boosters does in fact increase the amount of SP you can earn in a day.

As to the cost of a 30 day booster well we dont know what it is in AURUM but look at this way.

A 1 day booster costs 2K AUR, 3 day costs 3,500 and 7 day cost 7K.

There isnt a hourly booster so given your options the most economical booster to purchase is the 7 day. Meaning a month will cost you 28K AUR= $12 US. For $19.99 US you get 40K AUR(5 7day booster and 5k AUR leftover btw) which is face value PLUS a 30 day booster and FUSED LOCUS NADEs and other stuff which you can probably sell on the secondary market when it hits. So in essence a single merc pack can net you 2months and 1 7day worth of boosters at a 25% discount and net you additional swag that you can later use or sell.

So even though you may feel they are worthless given the alternative choice of buying 1 day or 7 day boosters, they are not inherently worthless, oh also by the same logic a 30 day booster is also worhtless after 2-4 days if you hit the 0 mark when it was weekly cap, so really the argument doesnt hold much validity if that is your reference point for "worth."

Also given that SP gain only really matter for the first 4-5M SP im not saying that its P2W but it is pay to get ahead, if only for the short term but in the long term it is not P2W.

Edit- Before anyone say oh you trust CCP's numbers they lied to us about daily cap when chromosome hit, well tell you what prove to me that you have earned more than 51,200 SP in a day without any boosters and ill eat my words. But you will need to time that very carefully off the daily server maintainence, so it would be easier to prove that you earned more than 27,200 without active boost simpy create a new character spend as much of the SP you start with if you can, 0 it out if possible and then see what your final SP is when you first starting reaching 50 SP.


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Berserker007 Imperfects Negative-Feedback 206	Posted - 2013.01.11 02:29:00 - [1] - Quote here is the problem at the moment (just one of the MANY w/ the new SP system). That 30 day boosters (or any booster beyond 1), at the moment is money taken w/o anything given back For a 30 day booster, you get a total of 720hours of active boost. However with the cap being hit in 2-3hours, you are getting between 60-90hours of active booster from said booster. So essentially your 30 boosters is 88% wasted on either not playing, or already hitting the cap and get 75SP. As is, i'd personally like to see a legality issue brought up to CCP on the subject. But yes, as is your money is 100% wasted on boosters, yet to be competitive you need the boosters. It took 6 months to change my mind, but CCP truly crossed over the line into P2W mentality
Berserker007 Imperfects Negative-Feedback 206	Posted - 2013.01.11 02:57:00 - [2] - Quote Gunner Visari wrote: Okay the 30 day booster itself may be a waste, it may not given that the only way to get them is the merc pack and the cost of the merc pack is doubled in value by the 40K AUR you get plus all the other goodies. But just to clarify the daily cap is 27,200/day and 40,800/day with active booster Passive boost is 24,000/day and 36,000 with passive booster. Proof https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=457688#post457688 and https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=458111#post458111 Its the same thread just figured ill save you the trouble of scrolling down 3 post since ppl are weird and will read only the first one and not look at the second one otherwise. So having boosters does in fact increase the amount of SP you can earn in a day. As to the cost of a 30 day booster well we dont know what it is in AURUM but look at this way. A 1 day booster costs 2K AUR, 3 day costs 3,500 and 7 day cost 7K. There isnt a hourly booster so given your options the most economical booster to purchase is the 7 day. Meaning a month will cost you 28K AUR= $12 US. For $19.99 US you get 40K AUR(5 7day booster and 5k AUR leftover btw) which is face value PLUS a 30 day booster and FUSED LOCUS NADEs and other stuff which you can probably sell on the secondary market when it hits. So in essence a single merc pack can net you 2months and 1 7day worth of boosters at a 25% discount and net you additional swag that you can later use or sell. So even though you may feel they are worthless given the alternative choice of buying 1 day or 7 day boosters, they are not inherently worthless, oh also by the same logic a 30 day booster is also worhtless after 2-4 days if you hit the 0 mark when it was weekly cap, so really the argument doesnt hold much validity if that is your reference point for "worth." Also given that SP gain only really matter for the first 4-5M SP im not saying that its P2W but it is pay to get ahead, if only for the short term but in the long term it is not P2W. Edit- Before anyone say oh you trust CCP's numbers they lied to us about daily cap when chromosome hit, well tell you what prove to me that you have earned more than 51,200 SP in a day without any boosters and ill eat my words. But you will need to time that very carefully off the daily server maintainence, so it would be easier to prove that you earned more than 27,200 without active boost simpy create a new character spend as much of the SP you start with if you can, 0 it out if possible and then see what your final SP is when you first starting reaching 50 SP. i agree that 30day or even week is worthless after ~3days in old SP system; but in those 3 days you play more then 6 hours. So you still get more out of it. It is just hard to swallow that 88% of my 30 day booster is wasted; thus im actually loosing a bit of $$ for the booster