Players who start in 2014 will permanently be a full year behind players who startedyup during the beta in terms of SP with no chance of ever catching up, forever to be inferior to the vets. Is this fair?

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.

Yet two teams with skill and teamwork are equal until one has prototype gear and the other has militia. No skill cap would only benefit no lifers. Those of us with jobs and families who we spend time with will be perpetually left behind.

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

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

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Do you realize how stupid your idea is? If CCP was to remove the cap the game would be unbearable for new players. Of course you wouldn't care since your with Imperfects. This is why we have a SP cap, or people like you would tank on others players. We have the SP cap for a reason, so people can all have an equal chance at catching up with the big league players. If you haven't realized how this would effect the community in Dust yet, well here's your "Special Stupid" sign.

The solution is to reduce the skillbook bonuses. 25% extra damage...25%+ extra health...these numbers are ridiculous. On top of the equipment bonuses newbies can't even touch you.

This is bad for both the new players and the vets. There's no way newbies are going to put up with players running around a 50% health+damage advantage repeatedly destroying them and the vets will have zero challenge in public lobbies due to how easy picking on the newbies will be due to the artificial skill gap and the game will quickly become boring and not worth playing.

I already see it now. The pub stomping is getting worse and worse everyday. I'm nearing the point where I can effortlessly kill new HMG users in a CQC 1 on 1 with my eyes closed. Everyone else is absolutely helpless, even when I'm outnumbered.

Games are not fun when you're not presented with a challenge.

The SP cap does not help with this at all. The reasoning behind implementing it was completely flawed. We're already seeing the skill gap and it's going to get bigger and bigger as the game progresses. The only thing the SP cap does is make it impossible for newbies to catch up...

Get rid of it. Work on reducing the artificial skill gap.

You think the skill cap is keeping the game bearable for new players? You think it gives people a chance to catch up with the big league players?

Seriously though, it doesn't.

Give me a LEGITIMATE reason why it wouldn't help. If we didn't have a SP cap it would be a lot worse for new players. Eventually Dust would lose players due to everyone in max gear. Not to mention squads of cocky corps like you guys running their mouths about how to benefit themselves.

Well first you should know you can buy all the important skills that effect your survivability and offensive capabilities with like 3-4 mill SP. At that point you can be pretty competitive with the vets and after that point you can really only just expand the amount of roles and equipment you can choose from, which doesn't really contribute to the skill gap too much.

Imagine it's 6 months in the future and the SP system was never changed. We'll say an assault player can be reasonably competitive after about 3 mill SP. A new player is interested in playing this game and starts grinding SP. If he maxes out his SP everyday it will take him 2 months of hell to reach this level. It's more than likely he lose interest in this game before that.

Without the skill cap, he could no life for a couple weeks and already be at that competitive level. He wouldn't have to spend so long getting crapped on by vets. He would also have more incentive to play as the game wouldn't stop rewarding him after less than 2 hours of playtime.

And anyways we should be avoiding the whole "getting crapped on by vets" part altogether by reducing the artificial skill gap.

Pure fail.

Ok. So what about everyone else thats close to maxing out skills. CCP said it would take seven years, with boosters, to reach a max character. By doing this you are shorting that immensely. It takes away all challenge away, and we will be back at the starting point. Vets will still crap on new players. After so much people will quit and the Dust community will shrink.

So the person who posted this says that playing for a year longer than someone will give you an advantage. And yes it will. But this game is based off EVE and that's how EVE is so that's how Dust will be. Keep the Skill Cap or just make it so its not a weekly cap but a cap at a certain amount of SP. That way everyone can catch up to each other and stop all at the same point.

Example: Highest player we will say has 4 mill SP right now. The cap for this week is 4.2mill SP. So a player at 3mill can grind all week and get a normal level of SP and catch up to the guy already at 4 mill. The guy at 4 mill can grind his 200k sp and that'll be his cap until next week.

CCP needs to quit balancing this game for the PVE players that are terrible at PVP anyways. SP for new players should be uncapped. Currently most veteran players have somewhere between 3-3.5 million SP. Players that just start should be able to grind up to anywhere between 1.5-1.7 million before they begin to get capped out.

I've noticed when someone proposes an idea that isn't exactly what y'all want you ignore it. Why don't you get off your one track mind and actually be constructive for once. As I said i like your want to help fix the SP game but so far all I see is you wanting more SP and for the ones why grind away constantly at this game. Think about other before yourself.

I'm fine with removal of the skill cap if you have a plan to help back up the casual gamers. If having no life for a few weeks is you answer on how to help the new players by removing the skill cap, it becomes very clear you didn't think this out. That only helps hard core gamers.

What other balancing are you going to do with the removal of the sp cap?