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jenza aranda wrote:

Heya peeps,

Recently there has been some ranting and raving from various people and even some people have been taking things i have said out of context.

Thats why Id like to do something that probably hasnt been done on the forums for a while; Make an opinion, explain my opinion, have a mature and reasoned debate with anyone who perhaps dont share my view.

"SP Sink"
We had a reset when we where moved onto tranquility which was about late january, people started running full proto gear as much as a couple of months later. Its now May, only 3 or 4 moths later practically everyone is running around with full protogear be it vehicular or or infantry. when you have a game that is supposed to take years to get everything, I do think that it should at least take a little longer to get to full prototype.

When i saw the tree and skill multipliers, i did think they should perhaps be lowered a bit, but after thinking on it, i changed my mind.

If anyone else woul like to have a proper debate about things without descending to petty insults then go ahead :)


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Marston VC SVER True Blood Unclaimed. 208	Posted - 2013.05.05 17:34:00 - [1] - Quote jenza aranda wrote: Heya peeps, Recently there has been some ranting and raving from various people and even some people have been taking things i have said out of context. Thats why Id like to do something that probably hasnt been done on the forums for a while; Make an opinion, explain my opinion, have a mature and reasoned debate with anyone who perhaps dont share my view. "SP Sink" We had a reset when we where moved onto tranquility which was about late january, people started running full proto gear as much as a couple of months later. Its now May, only 3 or 4 moths later practically everyone is running around with full protogear be it vehicular or or infantry. when you have a game that is supposed to take years to get everything, I do think that it should at least take a little longer to get to full prototype. When i saw the tree and skill multipliers, i did think they should perhaps be lowered a bit, but after thinking on it, i changed my mind. If anyone else woul like to have a proper debate about things without descending to petty insults then go ahead :) It takes approximately 2.5 million SP to get into a Proto suit. If you include a proto weapon its 3.1 million, "core shield skills" add another 1.2 million adding up to 4.3 million SP. So lets round that up to 5 million SP (leaving 700,000 SP for deviations in Specialization, or for other odds and ends like sidearms ect.....). 5 million SP to run ONE specific suit/fitting. Sure some of the skills can be applied to other suits but for arguments sake it takes about 5 million SP until I would consider a person running full proto...... One week with Active AND passive boosters = 500k SP (roughly). That's a 7 day period. Now...... if its 5 million SP to get into your first "All proto suit" that would take approximately..... 10 weeks...... two and a half months. From then on will say it takes 3.1 million SP to fully proto into other suits (assuming you get another proto weapon to go with the new suit). It takes 10 Weeks to start from Zero and get to a "full proto" suit and from then on it goes into 6 week intervals for you to unlock new "full proto suits" The build they had now means that it would have taken approximately....... 25 weeks or..... about half a year to fully unlock every proto suit and have a "full proto fit" with it. This upcoming build is (in the words of IWS) adding another 40 something Drop Suits. Atleast 5 of which should be proto level. Using the same system we have now would add another 6 months to the progression....... adding up to a year. And that's saying that the person in question whos skilling for them NEVER skilled into 1.) vehicles, or 2.) anything that isn't a weapon or shield module....... Im almost positive CCP will be adding twice as many suits in the coming 6 months along with many many more items/weapons/vehicles. In short, I don't think a 800k SP requirement increase on All Proto level suits was really necessary as if CCP focused on putting more content out they wouldn't have to worry about people running out of things to skill into. This new "SP sink" they put in really just annoys me. I had been planning on putting my points into two proto suits and having a weapon to go into each, but now im going to have to put ALL of the 10 million SP I have into one suit because otherwise it wont work as well as the suit I have now which has maybe 6 million in it.