Agreed 100% trolls. Booster should not work for characters with 6 million + skillpoints. I don't like it either. And the 'Pay to advance faster is not pay to win' argument doesn't pass the smell test, so nobody, CCP devs included, needs to parrot that here.

Basically CCP is selling skillpoints. It doesn't give me a more powerful weapon or tougher armor, but it does make for a significantly stronger character.

It's sneakier and hard-to-quantify, but the vets all know the skillpoints make a real difference on the battlefeild.

Why dress it up as a booster? Why not just sell the $killpoints, CCP?

When i face an opponent on the battlefeild, i want to know we worked for our skillpoints equally hard. Maybe he was smarter about it, maybe he spent his points more wisely, but we had equal opportunity to do so.

Will i buy it? You bet your ass I will, because, I will capitalize on every unfair advantage that CCP let's me capitalize on. Can I afford it? TBH, i won't even notice that the money's been spent.

But it still makes me feel dirty.

When the player market is up and running you will be able to buy this thing for ISK (along with every other AUR item). So how is that pay 2 win? Seriously...I want someone to explain to me how something that can be purchased with either real money or ISK is pay 2 win? How is that in any way unfair? Sure, it'll be a lot of ISK compared to regular gear but so what?

These aren't "changes" in the "eventual future", they are "features" when the game is "finished". If someone's building me a house and I decided to start sleeping there before they've put the roof on it do I sue them because my stuff got wet in the rain?

And "how balanced it is right now" is irrelevant if they already have the features planned to address the issue. So everyone can stop whining or just go away until the game is released.

Yea, that's exactly what I'm saying. That's what you agreed to when you signed up for this, that you understood things would be broken. CCP has a plan in place (read: "major aspect of the game that isn't ready yet") that will balance it out so until they implement that you can deal with it or you can wait for the market to be implemented before playing again.

I honestly dont think the active boosters are P2W. fps gaming is equal parts skill and luck. I have 3.2mill sp's sometimes i can take a proto heavy down with my exile. other times i get taken down in my logi II by a guy with militia gear.
Yes skills help but gaming skill is the key part. you could have 10mill sps and a big a** heavy with 2000 armor and a balac rifle but if he doesnt know his a** from his elbow he'll die just as easily. its liek in eve. a noob can go out spend billions of isk or hundreds of dollars on a titan pilot, he can go out and buy a titan but chances are he wont know how to fit it and will die a horrible death to the first moros he comes across and it'll be on youtube before his clone gets reanimated.

Glad to see pubbies in Dust are just as dumb and quick to cry out as pubbies in World of Tanks. I'm sorry, but paying to grind less is not pay to win. You're getting to the same place, and in the mean time you're still effective as a player.

That is, as long as you're not some publord that needs SP to do a damned thing out there. I've got about 1m SP in skills, running in a Raven BPO suit with the first assault rifle and SMG. As long as I'm not fighting against a full corp squad (which is something CCP needs to work on; two squads vs. none results in a slaughter most of the time), I get plenty of WP, kills, and victories.

This booster does nothing but remove limitations on getting you where you want to go. Now you don't have to spend a million years grinding out SP to hop into a tank that's worth a damn, or getting your core fitting skills, or finally getting into the second tier weaponry skills.

The only reason why you'd be complaining right now is because you have this idea that somehow someone with a couple million more SP than you will be several times more broken as he gains more and more SP. Unfortunately, effectiveness on the battlefield doesn't scale linearly (or better) with your SP once you're past about a million. At best, the higher SP player will have either more options on the battlefield or be 2% more effective (since he got that skill to 5 instead of 4). These boosters help people like you and me with low SP more than they do those with high SP, so stop whining and ask your mom to buy them for you.

They are grinding less. Buying a booster doesn't magically unlock some mythic 6th level to get in a skill, nor does it give you some crazy bonus. Boosters literally do nothing more than increase your progression through skills; everything a character with Boosters can attain can be attained by a character without them in a reasonable amount of time and effort. That's not pay to win. That's pay to grind less.

I am not a savant, and I am performing rather well. The exceptions are, of course, the corp squads with four people coordinating together, but you'd have a hard time fighting two competent players in basic suits anyway, provided they're coordinating.

Note that I mentioned core skills. If you've been playing for a couple weeks, you've got all that trained. I don't even have them trained to 5 right now and, as I've said, I've been performing well. This isn't EVE; the player behind the dropsuit matters more than the exact multiplier.

Versatility is a much more difficult quality to quantify as being overpowering. At the end of the day, though, being versatile doesn't make you any more dangerous in a single spawn. You're in one configuration or the other, not both at the same time.

Corp matches will always contain the most competitive players tweaking the slightest benefits whenever possible. Ultimately, however, it's teamwork and coordination that will make or break the match; no one is going to be accepting battles against more serious corporations without being on their level. You select your opponents, and if they're more tryhard than you are, you just wait until your SP is the same. Then you get crushed anyway because SP can't make up for skill.

But hey, go ahead and fight against boosters; veterans would love to keep new characters from closing the holy SP gap they see as putting them ahead of everyone else.