[CCP]nothin just said on IRC this change isnt making it in today. Hopefully it wont. ever.

I will make it sort:


Rollings SP cap > Weekly SP cap >>>Daily SP cap >>>>>>>>> No SP cap at all.



The reasons, have been stated by all the people above me a thousand times. So please, don't go out of your way to choose the worst option of all. (Hint: The worst option is no SP cap at all)

Removing the cap altogether sounds like a really bad idea and quite unfair to the casual gamers.

A rolling SP cap would be nice though.

Except with no cap, your late come will have a lot more way to go to catch up. When a SP system capped with a roll-over SP bank system would allow a guy to catch up with some people that all had kinda the same evolution.

And what you say about extra SP over say 10Mil being just a way to make your character more versatile, i agree. BUT, it's part of the game to choose your first specialization with care, and the second as well. For some people, it will just be a matter of a couple of week depending on how much they would lower the 1sec = 5 SP thing.

Thus it takes something off the game imo. Worrying about choosing your skill wisely is as much important as being self-sufficient with ISK. Worrying about making the good choices so your corp has a good balance in profile is another part of the game. That's gonna disappear soon if it's SP-a-Looza.

That's exactly what happend with the weekly cap. After 2 month, i was 10-15% Sp behind my most invested corp mates. And i wouldnt complain as they made the effort to get to the last SP of that weekly cap, every week ! They deserved that slight amount SP over me.

But without cap. Over the same period of time, it would have been something like 60% more SP.

It's all about freakin balance !

What you're forgetting is that the current skills, weapons etc.. arent final. The game will have extensions, new stuff to do etc.. And that open grind will come back to be a problem more than once. New stuff will be grinded away by the guys who grinded the most before etc.. etc... etc..

There has to be a middle ground between "every one on the same level" and "you there, get as much as you want'

I feel thats a fair middle ground. The rolling sp system was always the way to go.

Like I said with a No Cap system people will end up making bots and hiring Chinese farmers to build chars for them. And all those guys who put in massive hours of their own time will end up just as pissed of as everyone else. It will just take a little longer until they realize there mistake. Dust will become a haven for sp grinding bots and farmers from china playing other peoples accounts.

I personally make good money and I have friends who play this who make good money as well. Im certain under a no cap system my buddies will just hire a Chinese farmer to play for them send them a ps3 if they need it or give them money for start up and then just let them do the grind. The best part about this game is that its a low grind skill based mmo fps with a persistent world.
and at the end of the day that is money CCP would be giving to china instead of into its own pockets to work on the game!!

You have a point in that people will always get ahead. My concern is that a lot of people will get too far ahead too soon, when we still don't have a playerbase big enough to endure it. Dust needs a big playerbase to survive.

Open beta starts today, a lot of newbies are coming to Dust. When those newbies start leaving Dust in a month because they can't keep up with all the protogear and protovehicles thrown at them, we are not only losing those players. We are losing any other player they know through bad press and word of mouth.


If we had a system to separate new players implemented (like hisec, lowsec, nulsec); maybe I would not dislike the no sp cap idea so much. But as it is, I think it is a very bad idea.