It's in Beta. We are not playing the live game yet. So quit you whining and get into the spirit of playing a Beta.

I wouldn't mind a removal of the SP cap, or make it very high. Sure, some people will start to pull ahead, but this game isn't to dominated by gear as much as tactics and team play. I fear getting blueberries on my team far more than running into one or two geared out people.

So with this rolling cap, we talking at the end of say 7 days if you don't use whats rolled over then you lose the sp? or do you hang on to it forever?

I would like to explain the reasons on why we are testing the removal of the SP cap and keep you all better informed.

The development team has been listening intently to the tons of feedback from you guys on the skill system, in particular the current skill cap implementation.

Our original aims with the skill cap were to ensure players progressed through the skill tree at a steady pace, to dis-incentivize 24/7 grinding and to maintain a manageable gap between casual and hardcore players. After trying out a couple of different approaches, none of which were satisfactory, we have realized that the skill cap introduces too many other unacceptable compromises and we have decided to take a leaf out of AlexanderGÇÖs book and just cut the Gordian knot and remove the skill cap altogether. Removing the skill cap opens us up to the risk of not meeting the aims stated above, so we have tuned down reward levels a little to reduce that risk.

We believe that these changes will go a long way towards alleviating the problems that you guys have been drawing to our attention, but we will continue to listen to your feedback, monitor progression data and make further tweaks as necessary.

Finally, we are not removing the SP cap today, and will allow time for the community to speak their minds on this first.

We look forward to hearing from you!

You seem to be making a lot of mistakes today. First the $10 each Militia items; then the removal of SP caps so basement dwellers can cap their SP within 6 months to a year, instead of the 5 it's supposed to take.

Honestly, I'm not happy with the direction Dust is taking. I might have spent money to get things here and there before, but this change and that other mean I will likely consign it to the trash bin. You can make gameplay as good as you want; no amount of design is going to make it worth playing with this sort of design.

I know itGÇÖs not the attitude but I kinda give up on this. CCP will do as they see fit and I will just have to adapt to whatever comes out the evil lab in Iceland.

Sorry bro, but that's not true. I can play a lot of hours each day. Cazaderon and a lot of other players I see not wanting this change also play a lot.


So no SP cap would benefit us, actually. We would have an advantage over people that can't play as much. We don't want this change because we think it would be bad for the game, not because we think it would be bad for us.






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.

I for one personally welcome our new Chinese SP farming overlords. But without disrespecting or making any less of our new Bot-ing SP farming overlords.

Hope you guys know the can of worms your opening........

*Double Facepalm CCP

Btw thats money you wont be seeing... Farmers and bot-ers will be. Your money... their pockets CCP.

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You will still need to eat so a microwave right next to the sofa is a must.
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I have to say DUST514 are spoilt bunch.

I have only been playing for 1 week. But have been Playing EVEONLINE for 7 years. In EVE you dont get extra Skill Points after every battle that allows you to instantly learn a skill. You earn Skill Points by learing a Skill. To level up a skill in EVE can take from as lttle as 5 mins to over 30 days and thats just to learn 1 level of a particular skill. Thankfully you dont have to be online as you do learn the skill passivly while offline.

I understand that Dust is a completly different styte of game. Its the fast food equivilant to the fine dining that is EVE Online. So things have to work at a pace much quicker. But with the OPEN BETA it seems to me the removal of the CAP is designed to give those who have 0 skills to develope skills quicly and not be put off from a game already filled with far better trained players when they begin to get raped.

Remember its still BETA but if we want a successful complete game with lots of players, then an open beta is the time to encourage new players by allowing them to see full potential now so they will want to play on final release and not scare them off by making it too hard in BETA. The more players we have at final release the better chance of DUST surviving.

The problem is that this is a different crowd of people we're dealing with, an FPSer strives for progression constantly and by having active component accomplishes quite a bit of it until more content is brought in.