Unless it's changed recently you can only activate passive SP for one character per account.

You need boosters to get passive on your alts.

You mention that all three of your characters have generated passive SP, but even if you had put passive onto each of your characters, the game has only been in open beta for about three months meaning that you couldn't even have got a million SP on each of those characters!

While I don't agree with OP, I have alts which were created part way into open beta who already have considerably more than a million SP.

Your argument and reasoning makes no sense and you have failed to otherwise provide a solid reason why it should be done away with, other than because you think so.

People constantly write that "New Eden iz brutalz lolololol"

There is nothing "brutal" about one account just magically getting millions of SP. Yah right, this game is so "brutal" that you do not even need to play it to get good gear!

This is true.

My argument is that I would have given CCP more $ had there been no free passive SP.

Well if you want New Eden to brutal then i have a better idea

Take away active SP and make it all passive skilling just like EVE

So if you want weaponary lvl5 instead of being able to get it in a day you will have to wait 4 days for it, if you want Caldari dropsuit lvl5 you will have to wait 23days instead, you want Caldari HAV 5 its a month

Cant get more brutal than that

When I first began this game, I was sad that there was this "active SP" crap. I was like, "this isn't the New Eden I'd signed up for!" When I thought more about it, I realized they'd lose players if they didn't have it because otherwise there's not much of a reason to play (aside from the fun factor).

True but OP is wanting it to be more brutal

The idea doesnt even make new eden harder or more brutal, its another way for CCP to get more money and make the SP gap bigger but thats about it

Take away active SP and make it all passive skilling just like EVE

Don't be stupid. You should play the game if you want to get better, and not be hand-held all the way.

Yes, passive SP only makes the game lolmoarE-Brutalz for new players, but ******* easy mode for vets. Why don't the vets want to have active SP only?

Because they're weak and actually do not like or play "brutal" games. I've seen EVE guys whine that they got spawn camped so they are going back to EVE. So EVE is less brutal than spawning in a couple of times in a free suit and dying because you were too stupid to use drop uplinks? EVE even lets people get money from not fighting each other. You can generate money in EVE. It's not like every time you make money, someone else loses it.

That is completely counter to what DUST is like. If I want to make ISK, I go into a game and take it from other people. If I want to make lots of corp battle ISK, I am taking it away from another corp.

That's it. The only way that goes against the play to win idea are AFK ISK and SP farming, and passive SP is just another way of AFK SP farming. It's seriously hurting the game.

Passive SP also gives people the misconception that they will get better by not playing the game. That is stupid. Passive SP is CCP encouraging people to play other games instead.

I'm curious. I want numbers. I want to see how much activity increased when CCP put in the 3x active SP with cap increase. How many boosters were bought. Which alts had not been played were played. Who started new accounts for it.

I bet that CCP saw an increase in activity. This will only continue if CCP gets rid of free passive SP.

and by this time the game ends and see that he receives 0 skill points and 0 isk because you decided to remove passive SP and Isk gains thus not allowing his character to grow at all even If it was just for 100 sp....... passive SP needs to be in because of the aforementioned case above

All I see is someone who is running protos (the Bunny) getting angry because some of his precious suits are getting blown by people managing their SP well even though they aren't running protos.

Can't make everyone happy, but I think keeping both will keep a larger audience engaged, from the 'hardcore' (lol) players to those who have jobs.

My argument is that I would have given CCP more $ had there been no free passive SP.

Some players have suggested that keeping passive SP in makes it so that there's less of a gap between people who no life it, and those who log on once or twice a month. That's terrible. Why should this game cater to players who do not even play?

This is not EVE. There is no subscription. If people are paying not to play, ie buying passive boosters, my request will allow them to continue to do so.

People cry every day about people AFK farming. Passive SP is AFK farming.

CCP would make more money if they sold active SP for cash as well. They could also sell ISK and districts but they add some things to the game because it's part of their player retention/attraction scheme, not because it directly translates into cash.

Every person who ever quits DUST knows that their character improves while they are gone, increasing the likelihood that they will eventually return and once again become a consumer.

HOME RUN!!!

aka - THIS.

CCP are clever and aren't thinking cash first, players later like most f2p or p2w games developers do. Personally I think it is precisely this reason that Dust will be a success.