You are a terrible person...

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Active boosters simply multiply the number of skill points you receive at the end of each battle. As such, you are better off activating them when your pool of battle skill points is full (e.g. at the beginning of each weekly cycle). If you play a lot, you might be better off with a shorter (e.g. 3-day) active booster as it will allow you to earn bulk of the extra SP by playing a lot while it is active. If you prefer a more casual style of play, you might prefer to have the boost active throughout and have the freedom to spread your play over more days without worrying about it too much.

Now, in regard to the weekly skill cap and the implications of it:

We acknowledge that the current implementation of the skill cap still isn't quite there yet. It doesn't quite allow people to choose when to play as freely as we would like, and it also adds some unnecessary complexity when it comes to using active boosters. This is why we are working our way towards a rollover SP system: instead having your pool of bonus SP being reset according to a fixed weekly cycle, you will steadily accumulate bonus SP to a pool over time that you can then empty through fighting in battles. As a result, everyone should be able to better choose when to come in and claim the available SP. Moving to such a system would have the added benefit of allowing us to make active boosters to give out a constant value over time by having them influence the rate at which SP accumulates into the pool instead of just multiplying SP received at the end of each battle.

Here's the situation, CCP assigns 180k give or take weekly that you can get Bonus wise if you pay for the active booster, however you can easily get all 180k in 1-2 days. Leaving the rest of the week only giving you crap for SP from battles.

Basically while the 180k is available you get 5-9k SP a match. However once it Exhasts itself, you only get about 412 - 1k per match. Making the Active Booster nothing but a money scam and useless.

DO NOT buy them.

It is currently set up to where you are paying for nothing basically. It's called a racket. You pay for 7 days of extra SP boost but you only get 2 days maybe 3 worth at most if you play continuously for about 6 hours a day. The rest of the week you get nothing for your trouble.

And I really feel sorry for those that paid for 30 days of bonus SP. You all really got screwed.

This needs to be fixed ASAP.

* I am not saying they make you cap out faster.
* I am not saying you don;t get more then you would.
* I am not talking about PASSIVE BOOSTERS

I AM SAYING:
And I am talking about: ACTIVE BOOSTERS

You don;t get what you paid for. Which is a 7 or 30 day boost.

You mine as well ONLY BUY a 1 - 3 day boost, or 3 1 day boosts. Because after that your not going to be getting Jack for SP after the battles anyway.

All you get is an extra 180k per week (Active Boosting), Period. Whether you have a 1 day, a 3 day a 7 day or a 30 day boost 180 k extra SP per week is ALL you will ever get.

SO

Buying a 7 day or a 30 day Boost IS a WASTE of money because you can simply buy 3 1 day boosts (per week) for half the price and get the exact same amount of SP as you would if you had a 7 day boost or a 30 day boost. Making the 7 day and the 30 day Useless and pointless to buy.

Get it now?

Ok first off 180k is not an extra 50% SP per week. It's 50% extra SP per battle until the 180k runs out. then you get next to nothing until the weekly total resets.

If you can't understand that you are not recieving 50% extra SP all week, you can't do simple math.

50% of 9000 is not 412.

Going from 9000 per game to 412 per game, is not 50% extra SP.

My Booster is still active, yet I am not receiving the same SP I was 2 games ago.

This is wrong.

The question that you still havn't answered is:



It is a legitimate question.

Not sure if troll, or if he is just not mentally able enough to grasp the concept of "an extra 50% SP per week".

Edit: A link to a STICKY thread in this same sub forum
https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=74942&find=unread

Ok first off 180k is not an extra 50% SP per week. It's 50% extra SP per battle until the 180k runs out. then you get next to nothing until the weekly total resets.

If you can't understand that you are not recieving 50% extra SP all week, you can't do simple math.
50% of 9000 is not 412.
...
It is a legitimate question.

Here's the situation, CCP assigns 180k give or take weekly that you can get Bonus wise if you pay for the active booster, however you can easily get all 180k in 1-2 days. Leaving the rest of the week only giving you crap for SP from battles.

Basically while the 180k is available you get 5-9k SP a match. However once it Exhasts itself, you only get about 412 - 1k per match. Making the Active Booster nothing but a money scam and useless.

DO NOT buy them.

It is currently set up to where you are paying for nothing basically. It's called a racket. You pay for 7 days of extra SP boost but you only get 2 days maybe 3 worth at most if you play continuously for about 6 hours a day. The rest of the week you get nothing for your trouble.

And I really feel sorry for those that paid for 30 days of bonus SP. You all really got screwed.

This needs to be fixed ASAP.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=74943&find=unread

Added bold to quoted text for emphasis on the important information.
Also Active Boosters add +50% to all soft cap awards.

Cheers,
Cross

Active boosters simply multiply the number of skill points you receive at the end of each battle. As such, you are better off activating them when your pool of battle skill points is full (e.g. at the beginning of each weekly cycle). If you play a lot, you might be better off with a shorter (e.g. 3-day) active booster as it will allow you to earn bulk of the extra SP by playing a lot while it is active. If you prefer a more casual style of play, you might prefer to have the boost active throughout and have the freedom to spread your play over more days without worrying about it too much.

Now, in regard to the weekly skill cap and the implications of it:

We acknowledge that the current implementation of the skill cap still isn't quite there yet. It doesn't quite allow people to choose when to play as freely as we would like, and it also adds some unnecessary complexity when it comes to using active boosters. This is why we are working our way towards a rollover SP system: instead having your pool of bonus SP being reset according to a fixed weekly cycle, you will steadily accumulate bonus SP to a pool over time that you can then empty through fighting in battles. As a result, everyone should be able to better choose when to come in and claim the available SP. Moving to such a system would have the added benefit of allowing us to make active boosters to give out a constant value over time by having them influence the rate at which SP accumulates into the pool instead of just multiplying SP received at the end of each battle.

Active Boosters are such crap. I'd rather use the 180sp over the course of a week then burn through them in 2-3 days...then just not play for the rest of the week. Oh yeah, and I don't have to spend $$$ on it.

Active boosters simply multiply the number of skill points you receive at the end of each battle. As such, you are better off activating them when your pool of battle skill points is full (e.g. at the beginning of each weekly cycle). If you play a lot, you might be better off with a shorter (e.g. 3-day) active booster as it will allow you to earn bulk of the extra SP by playing a lot while it is active. If you prefer a more casual style of play, you might prefer to have the boost active throughout and have the freedom to spread your play over more days without worrying about it too much.

Now, in regard to the weekly skill cap and the implications of it:

We acknowledge that the current implementation of the skill cap still isn't quite there yet. It doesn't quite allow people to choose when to play as freely as we would like, and it also adds some unnecessary complexity when it comes to using active boosters. This is why we are working our way towards a rollover SP system: instead having your pool of bonus SP being reset according to a fixed weekly cycle, you will steadily accumulate bonus SP to a pool over time that you can then empty through fighting in battles. As a result, everyone should be able to better choose when to come in and claim the available SP. Moving to such a system would have the added benefit of allowing us to make active boosters to give out a constant value over time by having them influence the rate at which SP accumulates into the pool instead of just multiplying SP received at the end of each battle.

They still boost by 50% once you've capped. 1500 SP per match is still 50% more than 1000 per match. I grind way more when I have actives up.
Also no one is making you buy them.

Why does this thread keep getting necro'd like this? It's what, 10 months old?

Just in case anyone might not read the whole thing and get confused.

Cheers,
Cross

They should just repurpose active boosters to just increase the amount of bonus SP available, not cap out faster