Elaborarte this please, i want to see your thinking here.

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Im going to be nice for a change.

You misunderstand. New players never need catch up in SP. They only need to acquire enough to get thier first proto suit, proto weapon, core skills and whatever modules they need to get thier speciality filled out.


I could have a 100M SP it doesnt matter as long as new players can get thier first 20M or whatever quickly. Hell even if they added an acceleration curve and had no cap on accounts until they reach 20M SP and you would be okay. But if they cant do that then just uncap the SP.

Hey kiddies, i already have 12M SP and have my logi im not hurting at all. My getting into more proto suits doesnt break the game.

New players not being even able to touch me for 4 months DOES.

/debate.

You seem to be forgetting that the SP cost for levelling increases at higher levels. This means that higher level players will take longer to achieve their next level in a skill than it will for a newer player to reach theirs, moreso with the cap in place.

With the cap in place, a high level player might only advance a level or two in one or two skills before hitting the cap, while the newer player could advance several.

As the newer player begins to approach the level of the higher player, their progression gradually slows, until they eventually catch up and progression evens out.

Without a cap, there is nothing stopping any player with time to spend quickly becoming uncatchable.

Besides that, the cap ensures the longevity of the game. Look at games like COD, there are always certain players who binge-play, quickly achieve all the available accomplishments, and then complain that the game is stale and boring, because they've got nothing left to strive for.

The cap is in place for a good reason. It is a good thing.

Again is everyone here purposely dense or fail to simply understand the basics of competitive FPS play. When i say competitive i dont mean MLG i just mean the very nature of who FPS players generally are.

This isn't WoW with Guns people don't play FPS to toil around and develop and grow a character they play it to shoot people in the face and to do it at the highest levels whatever that may be in game. They generally want to do it in organized matches with their friends and they certainly don't want to be at a handicap due to a time factor.


Better matchmaking only works if you have a player count to support it, notice the increase in match instability last week or two. Because there arent enough players in the pool to find nearby connections to you so you have increasing ping rates.


Again you cannot max out a character and what does a max character even mean in this game, its certainly no more powerful then a character with 15M SP, its simply more versatile. Big difference.


You would want to restrict new players and think oh as long as they are safe from veterans they will continue to play at a leisurely pace and not worry about the difference between them and veteran players WRONG.

FPS players want to compete its the very nature of the genre to battle opponents in a game of guns and tactics. To do that they need SP if they want to fight where the vets live PC, FW and yes to a degree Pubs.


People don't get lost in the notion that matchmaking solves an issue of player imbalance that is a totally different argument, this is about removing the governor off of the accelerator so people can get to the most competitive parts of the game.

To deny this to players out of the ludicrous notion that it should take a long time to max a character is utter nonsense. Further more those that say that once a player reaches a max character they will no longer play, tacitly implies that the only content and reason for logging on is gaining SP to progress your character.

To say that this game shouldn't be about SP and by having more metagame and end game stuff that will allow people do something post cap and not feel the 24/7 need to grind implies that there should be more to this game then leveling (i agree) but to get to those arenas players need the requisite SP to compete.

This is not EVE where new players can after 2 weeks of training and skilling can get into massive fleet comps and begin to immediately wreck shop so that phiolosophy doesn't apply.

/checkmate. GG

Doesn't matter if I am in the minority the majority of people who are on the forums are clueless on this. Doesn't make a world of difference, also are you entirely so sure. The vote was made many months ago at a time when the player base was very close together in relative SP.

Guess what we are all the vets now. Any bets on how the new players might view this, any ideas on how many veteran players would see it my way?

So your position is now that the reason we should keep the SP cap is so CCP can make money by charging for boosters. Am I interpreting this correctly? You think we should keep the status quo so CCP can charge players who want to play this game and play it at the highest level should have to pay and even then still have to wait because they are capped, all they are getting is more bonus SP?


Your point is too vague so i'll let you slide and assume you mean that CCP needs to make money, well surely there are other ways to do it without taxing the one thing they need to keep player retention right?