Yet you ask to remove the skill cap?

Also even with lower skills if they are brought into a team they can still do very well against the higher lvl people. Also by that time the balancing of the game should be a lot better then it is now. Before you start complaining what might happen, think about the large changes that will be happening.

I will repeat myself, teamwork and strategy can over come most advantages of an individually stronger team. So if you are worried about learn the game and when new people join guide them and help them so they become better parts of the EVE and Dust Universe.

No. Your premise is flawed. Removal of the skill cap will just make players who SPfarm now that much further ahead later, but you knew that.

They will get proto before you that's how it goes..your arguement is invalid your just trying to make it harder for people who actually like to play this game on their free time...but either way those "no lifers" will have proto long before you but it will be harder for you to catch up because of the sp cap soo not my problem, good luck you will need it

I'm almost 98% sure that I've got 10 years on you. There isn't any QQ here. I play EVE and have for more than a few years, and I understand how the skill system there works, and how Dust should work in the sense that it follows EVE.

I also understand that some guy claiming to be thinking about people in years to come not being able to catch up, while asking for unlimited SP at all times, is really just in it for himself and couldn't care less about some player down the road.

Most likely, that individual also understands that players like him will accelerate well beyond other players who started at the same time as him, and that--no matter the skill cap--any player starting later will be so far behind that any amount of play will never allow them to catch up.

If I have 32 million SP after about a year, (feasible), and someone who starts then can earn 6K every ten minutes for s long as they play, while I myself earn 15K per match as long as I play, (lets assume regularly), how long will it take that new person to catch up?

No specific skill has anything to do with it. Also, I primarily run around in quasi militia gear, rather than proto stuff, and don't have more than level 1 in any dropsuit skill or 2 in any weapon skill. I imagine you are well ahead of me already, with the ~2m SP I currently have.

I'm old enough to understand as well that patience and the aggregation of skills over time is more rewarding than the instant gratification of "gimme now," which you are all spouting.

..and that's coming from someone who was respectfully referred to as the equivalent of a Journeyman Construction Electrician after only 3 month of apprenticeship in the trade. Transferable skills mostly, but I picked it up fast. I've thought about writing my CQ, but I think I'd rather complete my Apprenticeship as I believe it would be more valuable to me. I do likely have enough transferable hours as a Security installer to go the other route though, provided they allow it.

If they do that, then the new players will be able to get to (gun of choice) Ops V from the getgo.

Plus, even if someone has several years on someone else, there is always PERSONAL skill, and there is also the simple fact that only X number of skills can effect a specialty at all. You may have a 'year' advantage on that player, but after the first twom months you just stopped spending SP on your specialty. There just weren't any more skills for it. So the new player can tie up your fighting skills within a short window of time. Playing for a long time doesn't make you BETTER, it makes you MORE VERSATILE. For example: Goonswarm made a bunch of trial accounts to help win some war or other. Each one had 21 days at most to get skills, and they were still strong enough to beat the ever-loving ***** out of their opponents.