The reason why I'm not going to hold back in this post is because I want you guys to feel my seriousness here.

The conversion from the previous daily cap (which was much higher) to the weekly cap in Codex wasn't well liked but it really wasn't that bad. Sure, you'll earn heavy on the day after the reset and then you'll see significant diminished returns afterwards. But usually, on the following day, you're still earning in the thousands instead of tens of thousands or in the hundreds. I wasn't truly hitting the sp cap until Tues. Because on Mon, I may be hitting under 100 so when Tues came around, I was close to 0 or none. But that was ok because that's just one day.

Now, you play for 2 hours and you're hitting the cap!!! This is absolutely ridiculous and absurd. The grind for sp now feels like watching paint dry. I feel like I'm not doing anything or working towards anything. You're truly just playing for stat purposes at the moment. And most people don't really care about leaderboards.

The only way this current system may work is if you significantly increase the amount of skill points you earn after you reach the cap. And i'm thinking like 700 skill points and 1050 with the active booster. That way those of us who love the game can still feel like we are doing something.

You have these guys crying about guys who play more than they do and they should be held back for it. To cater to that mentality will only hurt the game. FPS shooters love the grind. That's why many people vet/prestige once they've hit the max level. You're removing that aspect of an fps with this current sp system because there's no sense in playing once you hit the daily cap. And you really hit the cap in 5 games or less. Players that play more should be able to earn more. It's not fair for guys who love the game that much. And on a monetary note...if I'm only playing for 2 hours a day that means that I am dying less throughout a week...That means that I will be retaining AUR longer......and that means that my AUR purchases will be few and far in between.

In Codex, I used to acquire most of my skill points after the reset and then spend the rest of the week, trying to figure out what to do with them. Now, you have to play for 2 days just to move up one level in one skill category.

The bottom line is this....this new skill cap system is horrible and needs to be removed or replaced in a hotfix. This is by far, the worst idea yet and I can't see myself growing accustomed to it. I've only stopped playing much earlier than I used to. And I can see players doing the same but with less tolerance than me and just take their gaming to another title.

The new SP cap enables us to get a life, a REAL ONE.
But I would prefer it to be 70,000 and 85,000 with a booster.

And i'm thinking like 700 skill points and 1050 with the active booster.

The new SP cap enables us to get a life, a REAL ONE.
But I would prefer it to be 70,000 and 85,000 with a booster.

There are Eve Online players who have broken the 100million SP record years ago and are still training new skills every day at a rate close to around 1 SP/sec. @ 31,536,000 sec/year assuming they properly focused their attributes on the proper traits of the skill books while training non-stop without forgetting to check their skill queue. That is effectively 31,536,000 SP / year. And since some of the Eve players have been around since 2003, that means those players, assuming they haven't all been biomassed, have 315,360,000 SP in total (at least one of them).

Now imagine a new player who just came in today and can only earn, at maximum, 1 SP/sec. They have to wait ten years to get to the level those veterans are today and even then those same veterans will have double that amount during those additional 10 years. It's like you were born today and want to be 18 years old like that guy you met who can drive a car now. But by the time you are 18, that guy is already 36 years old and own a house, two cars, and has a retirement fund while you are just getting started with paying your $28,000 debt for your first car. You will never catch up, therefore you learn to just continue progressing.

If you love the game so much, then play it for what it was meant to be ---- A large scale war in New Eden. Jacking up your SP seems like a linear measurement that would appeal to fans of CoD games, not a massive multi-layered MMO.

I disagree. if you only play on the weekend becuase you have a life it is now impossible to catch up.

if you play for 10 hours on the weekend you'll gain 50,000 sp

If someone else plays 10 hours a week, but plays every day they gain 125,000 sp

So you have to keep thinking "omg I have to log in and play for 2 hours today because I can't just wait and play on the weekend" How is that having a life?

If you're going, go, otherwise HTFU, Adapt or die.

I disagree. if you only play on the weekend becuase you have a life it is now impossible to catch up.

if you play for 10 hours on the weekend you'll gain 50,000 sp

If someone else plays 10 hours a week, but plays every day they gain 125,000 sp

So you have to keep thinking "omg I have to log in and play for 2 hours today because I can't just wait and play on the weekend" How is that having a life?

Why are you allowing an SP cap to DISABLE you from getting a "real" life?? If having a "real life" means that much to you, then go out and get it. Why would it matter if you don't have as many skill points as someone else....you have a "real" life

And I'm proud of it.
I enjoy playing dust but I have other things to care other than how much SP I have. I balance my playing time well with studies for it will determine whether I get in a good college.

Because playing for 2 hours is better than staring at the TV for 12 hours.
I don't really play on weekends because I want to spent time with my family. But that's my opinion it's ok to disagree with me.

Edit: I mostly play on weekdays, but that will change soon

Exactly my point....since you don't really care about how much SP you have, then why push for this current system? Because you can't or choose not to play as oten as others than you shouldn't cosign for "no lifers" to be penalized.

Because you have a real life, then you should be indifferent on this matter.

to be fair I meant 2, 6 hour gaming sessions

Yes.
You're right I should be indifferent.

my point is the daily cap is good but it be should higher.
That's what I think and you can't change that.

implement weekly cap
double the value from old weekly cap
implement pool system so pp who miss days/weeks can not lose all those SPs

theres ur fix.
this game NEEDS an SP cap just not the current one.
ppl playin for the WRONG reasons to just pub pub pub
what we need is a 2ndary grind which should come in the form of LP
grind LP to allow us to buy faction gear like in EVE

add PvE, add VR Training rooms for the hardcore corps, add in MORE and BETTER FW mechanics into DUST so corps would be more inclined to battle more, Some form of planetary sov in FW would be nice as well which would add meaning to the districts we take over, possible passive corp ISK gain from holding districts.

I like the idea of pooling any lost SP. How about daily cap with a pool limited to 3 days worth of SP. It doesn't really help Ydubbs problem but it would really help a guy like me who only gets to play 3-4 days a week.

I am not a fan of the current cap either. I preferred the weekly cap the way it was before the server switch. Players shouldn't feel that if we miss a day we have lost valuable resources we can't get back. As of right now the game feels like one big WoW daily quest grind, and daily quests suck. Feeling almost required to log on is not fun.