I mean i respect your opinion and i didnt know there was a cap on the total amount of sp taht can be spent.

The longevity of this game should be found in having meaningful battles in PC. Not in grinding out SP.

On a similar note: Will there be a limit as to how many of a certain dropsuit is on the battlefield? I'm not complaining but it can be frustrating for any level of player when they engage multiple heavies at a time. 3-4 is tolerable if you RUN, but seeing 8 of them on the field is just insane. Consider a limit of 6 per team in instant battles but no limit in faction or corporation battles. Just a suggestion to help new players or those with less than a month's experience.

One might become concerned if it is like Skirmish. As WP are not currently tracked once one gets to near the limit of New vs Vet simply switch to Skirmish and never get another WP, except in the odd Clone Depletion round.

SP will continue to build and this will allow greater weapons and gear. The lambs will be saved from the lions but will be bedding down with wolves in sheep's WP.

On the subject of matchmaking, I have 2 suggestions.

Match squads against other squads: sometimes you just want to just play by yourself and relax, in those cases being matched against squads provides too much of a challenge to be fun, and too little challenge for the squad. If I'm just playing by myself, don't match me against a full squad of some elite corp.

Match players based on ALLOCATED SP: 1 million (allocated) SP or below players get thrown in one battle, 2 million SP and below players get thrown in another battle, etc. Right now I'm saving my SP before specializing so I'm still using militia starter fits, and I keep getting matched with people with prototype weapons and prototype specialized dropsuits; not a pleasant experience at all. Playing against these highly specialized players is too much of a challenge for most, and not enough of a challenge to the proto wearers.

The instant battle academy is a good start, but I really think basing it off allocated SP would be a really good way to put new players against other new players, and work as a good system for everyone else.

I don't like this idea. I am a low SP player, gotcha, but locking out based on an arbitrary SP amount seems silly to me. It reinforces that SP is broken in this game. the gap between a 4m SP and 8m SP player is absolutely massive regardless of their actual skill.

Question, You have meta levels on equipment, why don't you limit the metal level of a suit instead? Make the max meta level of a suit less than 7-8, for newbies, and when fitting, add up the meta of the components of that fit. Make that number known to the player, so we can build low-level fits to play in those matches. Good players would even see it as a challenge to dumb down their kit and still be able to win based on skill.

CCP didn't say SP; they said WP. Read the OP. It's only players that have been suggesting SP and the dev already said why they chose WP instead of SP (because people get SP passively and haven't necessarily been playing the game much to earn SP).

so im going with LOL... CCP has no clue what they are doing, still.

What about averaging the Meta Level of the equipment that the player is using?

That way, even if you're using a proto suit, you might only be using low level weapons or equipment and your average will still be very low.

Also, separate idea. When you get put into the Academy Battles, you automatically get put into a squad and spawned with that squad in the same location together, thereby teaching new players that playing as a team will get you far better results.

Sound like a great idea but make it optional for players. Never force a player into anything you don't absolutely have to. Part of the point of playing games is freedom and I think nothing will irritate most gamers more than having a choice made for them.

The more variations the better but I think warpoints would be a bad metric at this point because there are matches where newbs are facing pros and sometimes you just have off matches. Skillpoints would probably be good with multiple tiers in the million point range. About a months worth of play with no skill boosters and maxing each week.

Gear tiered matches would also be fun I think maybe with reduced gains. Sometimes you just want to get on an fool around or test something out and that's hard do with a bunch of protos or tank/ dropships on the map.

Please though include anything as an option, I cant stress this point enough.