It's called a rollover cap, CCP needs to implement the rollover system we voted on months ago...

They put that in the game and new players can grind to their hearts content to make up the SP.

Until this is in the game new players will shy away from staying unless they are gluttons for punishment.

That is not true. You can get into and Adv suit and an adv weapon for less than 700k skill points. Don't most players start with 500k? Advanced armor/weapons with militia modules in the right hands can easily go toe to toe with weak Proto fit.

What i always thought of was that as the game grows, they could change the initial amount of SP and maybe also ISK given to a new player.

So today a new player starts with 500k SP and 250k ISK to spend. And maybe sometime in the future they change that to 1 million SP and 500k ISK.

i disagree, they should just start with 2 million SP.

Prices went up a lot with the new tree, starting SP should as well.

Quite the opposite, it allows new players to catch up to vets if they put the extra time in.

They should just remove the cap altogether. What purpose does it actually serve? A few months down the line no matter how much you grind you are always going to be behind the 8ball against those that have been in game since open beta with the cap in place. So get rid of it. People are still going to buy boosters because more is more, and cap or no cap someone is still going to grind more than you do.

The idea of rollover SP we purpose is that it start counting since the START of the game for all character.

For example, If a veteran who play this game since day 1 (starting of open beta back in January) and hit a cap every week have 15mil SP. A new character created today will have 15mil cap to burn through. It may take him months, it may take him days to burn through all this cap. This way, new player have a chance to catch up with veteran.

Technically, I don't see a problem with it. We already have some sort SP cap in place. They just need to change from "if SP earned this week > 190k then you hit the cap" to "if total SP > 15mil(and increasing every week) then you hit the cap". I realize that it's more complicated than this but it's very doable.

Marketingly, very interesting, I never think of that. So If they need to rework active SP booster then so be it. Make it give bonus to set amount of SP or however you want. In my opinion, this will actually help layer burning through booster way faster. It should be good for CCP as well.

Except it won't do anything. That will get you to your basic role, but you won't be enjoying this game competitively until you hit 8 mill. Over 50% of the new players will be gone long before that happens.

Hm