Just so you know, CCP designed the skill tree in a way that it is suppose to take 7-10 years to fully train. If you are not willing to put forth the dedication or time into it, then you are playing the wrong game. After all, DUST is operating under the same rules of New Eden which Eve players have established and nurtured for ten years.

On a similar note vehicle command and dropsuit (I think there are more) do nothing, even eve spaceship command gives a 1%I increase to agility per level. As they are now they are just let's make them waste sp. Seems dumb as there is no reason to get them to 5, so give them a bonus or get rid of them.

It's 13 now with double boosters capping every week. And at only 20% of the content promised when that 7 years number was quoted. Back when there was no cap to SP gains. It has gone beyond requiring dedication to pure tedium.

Just so you know, CCP designed the skill tree in a way that it is suppose to take 7-10 years to fully train. If you are not willing to put forth the dedication or time into it, then you are playing the wrong game. After all, DUST is operating under the same rules of New Eden which Eve players have established and nurtured for ten years.

On a similar note vehicle command and dropsuit (I think there are more) do nothing, even eve spaceship command gives a 1%I increase to agility per level. As they are now they are just let's make them waste sp. Seems dumb as there is no reason to get them to 5, so give them a bonus or get rid of them.

There's still a ton of blank skills. Nanocircuitry should give you bonuses to nanite clusters when using nanohives and/or bonuses to armor recovered when using an injector and as someone I just played with suggested, explosives should give you +1 active/carried RE and Proximity mine per level.

The other idea is to make it so that you are not equal to anyone else.

Sure Soldier X may be the best AR gunner in the world but Soldier Y is specialized in Anti-vehicle, maybe Solider Z isnt as good as soldier Y or soldier X but he can do both fairly well. Also in itself is a way of keeping veterans from absolutely stomping out noobs as well as a noob can train and focus up on something the vet cannot.

Whatever it takes one guy to maxi-skill something out it takes everyone the same amount of effort/time.

I just created an alt character a little under a month ago. That character now has 2.4 million SP and is starting to feel quite competitive to me.

The character I am writing this post with is also an alt. it has about 6.5 million SP in it, and with it, I have very good core skills, proto Amarr assault suits, proto scrambler rifle with proficiency 3, proto flaylock with proficiency 1. I run proto type shield extenders and basic armor plates with a basic repairer. Now, with this character I absolutely destroy people.

With my main character I have over 14 million SP.

In another month or so, that first alt I told you about will be very competitive. Now that is two months time. Are you seriously complaining about two months?

I am going to list some things you are probably doing wrong:

1. Get into a well organized corp that is willing to help you out with setting up good fittings and will help you out with advice on how to skill your character.

2. Spend some money on the game and buy the monthly skill booster augmentations. The best may to do this is to purchase a merc pack from the in game market. It comes with a 30 day active booster and 40,000 Aur. Use the Aur to purchase a 30 day passive booster (28,000 Aur). Do this every month.

3. Stop trying to be the best player on the battlefield with your under skilled character. Get in with a well organized corp and offer as much support as you can provide at this time. Stay close to clout squad members in battle. Don't go off trying to lone wolf it.

If you are not doing the stuff listed above you are not doing it right.

There are a ton of skill books within Eve Online that are often required before everything else and they don't have any passive bonuses whatsoever. Just take a look at the Eve market for plenty of examples. Dust is no different if you want to talk about SP sinks.

There are a ton of skill books within Eve Online that are often required before everything else and they don't have any passive bonuses whatsoever. Just take a look at the Eve market for plenty of examples. Dust is no different if you want to talk about SP sinks.

I've only been playing this game for a little over a month and I like it because it's something different than call of duty, but I am seriously annoyed with how hard it is to get better quality weapons, suits, vehicles, and upgrades. I hate playing in matches when everone else can kill me almost instantly because everything they have is superior to everything I have. How do you expect to keep players interested and coming back to play this game, when new players are always getting slaughtered by the experienced players who have months of game time on their profile? Why should I have to wait a year or two just so I can have enough skill points to unlock everything which will then give me a fighting chance in this game? I think you guys need to give out skill points like you do ISK, which is by the thousands; or dramatically lower the cost to raise skill! If those ideas don't appeal to you then here is an idea for the developers who are greedy; how about you sell skill points on the playstation store, just like you sell AUR there.
I hope you guys can come up with some solution to make this game better and more enjoyable. If not, then I guess I'll either stop playing or only play once a month becasue I'm not gonna be wasting my free time getting slaughtered in a game that is tailored to players who have the best of everything this game has to offer only because they have been playing this game the longest. I understand for every first person shooter game that you have to invest game time to get better quality items but the requirements for this game are ridiculous.

But EvE requires no effort in skilling. You just need isk to buy whatever book it is you need. Its just AFK'ing the game and logging in when the skills finish to que up some more.

I quit playing EvE. had a 3 month sub because they were doing a special. Played for a month and quit, didnt even bother relogging to check my skills. I dont like EvE for very specific reasons which i wont list because im sure i would catch a ban for a 'rant'.

Please post one, also if there's a ship that benefits from it (ie 3% faster hybrid turret tracking per level) it also doesn't count as our basic (t1) suits get no bonuses.