Gunner Visari
Crux Special Tasks Group
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.01.12 16:24:00 -
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While i agree with the premise of your post which is daily cap sucks i have to say that in the end a cap is a cap whether it is weekly or daily.
The reason why i hate daily is this from a different thread i posted in
Okay i understand this point but you understand how it is fundamentallly counterproductive to your end goal right?
First off the daily cap is counterproductive to the end goal as opposed to the weekly cap for this reason.
SP doesn't level your character, SPENDING SP levels your character..
So by switching to daily you extend the time you need to play on a day to day basis to level up any skill that costs more 51k-76K SP since those are the extremes of what you can earn in a day based on with/without active and passive booster.
The weekly allowed you to earn all the SP you will earn under this system in 7 days in 2-3 days allowing you to progress your character earlier in the week.
Now your suggestion would only extend that time even longer! Why would you want to do that all for the psychological illusion of seeing numbers on a screen that you mistakenly correlate as achievement as opposed to disposable currency you use to level up your character which is what it really is in the end?
You understand why i am against this now, because in the end it is counterproductive to the end purpose of what SP is used for and all it does is give the false impression that you are did well in the game because you correlate SP with doing well, in reality look at WP and where you are on the leaderboard that is the only measure of progress you need to focus on especially since WP earned is a trackable statistic and in reality the DUST equivalent of XP that would be used to rank players in other games.
But in the end there is only a finite number of skills and if CCP opens the floodgates players will grind and grind until they max so many skills there will no longer be anything to work for, some will accomplish this in months to within very likely the first year, and once that happens players will get bored again as their will be nothing left to work for and move on as they do in every other FPS. I think wanting to grind for the SP as quick as possible is myopic and though it will fulfill in you the short term it wont help this game in the long term.
Moreover, right now the only thing to do in this game is grind for SP thats why it feels like such a chore, but as FW opens up and we get other things to do there will be a larger meta game to enjoy. I think CCP is keeping us handcuffed so we dont have too big a lead before open beta and i dont think that they will take them off until we get these other things to do in game.
Unfortunately they are so tightlipped about their ideas that it is causing frustration, im hoping the CSM's will be able to take our concern to them and get a bit of nuggets outta them. We need to believe their is a grander design in mind, unfortunately all we have left right now is speculation and that is incredibly frustrating and that frustration is beginning to boil over. |