The aim of the skill cap is to ensure players progress through the skill tree at a steady pace, to dis-incentivize 24/7 grinding and to maintain a manageable gap between casual and hardcore players.

That's a good point. I had a friend start playing DUST a few days ago and we squadded up. He told me how he had ~700K SP and then asked how many I had which I then told him pushing 9mil, his reaction was - f***.

Again, it is not impossible for the current cap to change again in the future.

Once again, we would like to remind you that weekly skill point rollover system is being worked on and that this is just the temporary solution that we are implementing.

Then there is the P2W quote that comes up again. Skill points are nice, but they don't guarantee victory on the Battlefield. Believe me, I don't do any better in proto gear over militia one (Yes, yes, yes.... I might not be the best! ;) ).

You can't be serious right? Just unlock everything....no game does that, even in Halo, CoD, other generic multiplayer shooter here, you have to play the game to unlock things like new gear, weapons, custom looks etc..

If you don't like grinding for SP, then don't, you don't want to pay for boosters don't. I really love how you whine about CCP selling boosters to make money, but they aren't a non-profit charity, they need to make money, like any other business.

I'm not very happy with Dust at the moment or the promises CCP makes that it intends to fulfill 5 or 6 years down the road, but I'm not going to begrudge them trying to make some money to pay their bills and keep the devs paid, hell maybe if they sold more boosters they can get developers not based in China probably working for slave wages but can pay some Japanese or Western developers to get this game made properly.

90% why not 99.9%. If your going to use a made up number, at least do it properly.

100% of your posts so far in this thread are 99.9% bollox.

Honestly, the real issue is that it the value of ISK is somewhat null and void...skilling up should be something that takes a long time...but it shouldn't really be the end goal. The end goal needs to be the market, the isk, value that ebbs and flows with the player metagame of warfare and conquest...not SP.

This is truly the direction I believe needs more love. There is virtually nothing we can manipulate in the skill cap or SP numbers that will satisfy everyone. The current system is the result of player feedback and the same comments you're all making now. Nothing has changed gentlemen, the system itself is fine, it's the context of the game it exists in which is the problem...instead of SP gap, empower the new players with more things he can do to help his team...That, gentlemen, is how we grow a game.

I think the whole community is becoming a little timid. Don't give up on the numbers, but let's not lose sight of the game as a whole. The question is not how do we make things 'fair' for everyone, but how do we give everyone the ability to fulfill a role for a group or friends without the need of SP or vast game experience?

lol, wut?

CCP money grabbing? Really? You do realize that CCP can afford to make dust free to play and that they don't require anyone to spend a cent. Why? Eve Online costs $15 a month to play and they have how many active accounts including mine? And all they do is Eve Online and Dust 514. They're not trying to develop and support 6+ other games on top of that. That's why AUR gear provides very little, if any, advantage.

If you want to see what real money grabbing is like, play the social games on Facebook, or many of the games on Bigpoint, or Pirate Galaxy by Split Screen games. Those are truly pay to win.