What if the Ambush sp cap was easy to hit and more players were forced over to play Skirmish? i.e. the real part of Dust 514 gameplay
That would also lessen the amount of pubstomping/sp farming in Ambush.

Hmm. I'm listening. But what about numbers? How would you set it up so that SP gains still don't go faster than the SP gains for the Eve player?

Actually you missed the fact that Corp battles do currently affect FW control.

Skirmish isn't the "real part" of DUST gameplay. It's a poormans version of Domination from COD or Conquest from battlefield. It falls under the basic strategy of hold a majority of the points and give your enemy one position to be farmed.

Ambush and Skirmish should have different SP caps so that people play more than just one game mode, and also so they can feel a greater sense of daily progression in terms of SP than they do now.

Does it really matter if SP gain is faster in Dust? I don't understand the logic behind making them similar at all.

They want people to be spending many years developing their characters. They don't want people to max out their skills. The whole point behind the cap is that they don't want the people to grind through the progression incredibly quickly and therefore eliminate the ongoing, ever-lasting progression that EVE also has.

It's unlikely anyone will play long enough to even get close to maxing everything, let alone the number of people CCP wants playing for this game to succeed.

And even if that is the reasoning, there are much better ways to go about making sure people don't "max" their character. The one that jumps readily to mind is adding more skills.

They need to find a balance between letting people feel like there's always more they want, and letting people feel like they can actually achieve it. Let's do some math. We'll assume no Passive or Active SP booster. We'll also round slightly just to make things a little easier, plus it won't matter in the end anyway.

50,000 SP per day if you hit the Active cap. (Active SP cap per day: 28,000. Passive SP cap per day: 22,000.)

350,000 SP a week if you hit the Active cap every day.

We'll take a pretty common goal for the purposes of the example: Proto Assault suit. The total cost for this is what, 2.5mil SP? I think that's about right.

2,500,000 divided by 350,000 = A little over 7. You'd have to hit the cap every day for nearly two months and put every skill point you had (other than the initial 250-300k you get when making a new character) into it--and then you'd have nothing to use in the suit itself. This isn't the same game market as when EVE launched ten years ago, it's more about instant gratification now. I'm not saying cater to the masses, I'm saying cater to success. People are going to feel like they're going no where.

The current cap is horribly low.

Most people play the same game mode all day whether that be ambush or skirmish. Among the issues with the daily SP cap one of the more obvious, is the feeling of a lack of progression. What if CCP was to introduce separate SP caps for both Ambush and Skirmish?

It's unlikely anyone will play long enough to even get close to maxing everything, let alone the number of people CCP wants playing for this game to succeed.

Their explicitly stated intent is for years of progression. Maybe you could lend them your crystal ball some day so that they can see the future as well as you can, and they can change their plans accordingly.

As for adding more skills, that implies adding more content. That takes a significant amount of time to do well, and feeling compelled to add content for the sake of adding more skills is a pretty bad thing to want hanging over their head. They will undoubtedly be adding skills to correspond to new vehicles etc, but you can't expect that to happen so frequently in an uncapped progression system that it'd keep people occupied in any real sense.