Cere Harkens
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Posted - 2013.06.23 03:34:00 -
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Good general guid, Shrapnels.
One small point of correction to the SP gains, though: the default passive skill gain is 1,000 per hour, not 900. (To test this, ff you time how long it takes to passively gain 10 SP without a booster it takes 36 seconds; or 3.6 seconds per SP. 60 seconds per minute/3.6 = 16.667 per minute. 16.667*60 minutes per hour = 1,000.)
This maps neatly onto CCP's active gain cap of 1,000 per battle (without boosters).
Passive SP gains per 30 days are:
Default = 720,000
Normal 1.5 booster: 1,080,000
Omega 2.0 booster: 1,440,000
Thus, a normal booster gives an additional 360,000 SP per month, and Omega gives an extra 720,000.
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Cere Harkens
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Posted - 2013.06.23 04:41:00 -
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Straum Arjn wrote:And this is the reason newberries will never catch up, because I seriously doubt any of them are capping out. I've been with DUST since the closed beta and I've only ever capped out ONCE. Sucks that I have a life with responsibilities that keep me from playing this game enough to cap out every week. Now I am significantly down in SP from my dust-buddies (see what I did there? :P) even though I pull in the same WP and arguable are just as skilled or better than them. (For the record this is mostly Pub matches I'm talking about and I almost always make the top 3 whether we win or lose (which sucks cause sometimes I come in first place with like 450ish WP XD) and if I'm not in the top 3 then I'm in the top 6, granted bad days aside or total ***whoopings aside XP).
I don't know what qualifies a person as a newberry, but I suspect that I'm one. I started 5/14 and quickly realized I wanted to play further, so I got some of the combo packs that included boosters and I got some Omega SP boosters in addition. I've capped every week and I have a spreadsheet planning my skill gains out into August.
While it's true that not all people who started at launch will catch up to everyone who played in Beta, over time that will even out. You, for example, have played longer than I have but can't play as much. So eventually I'll pass you, despite me being a newberry. Right now, a head-start of a few months is a big difference. In a year or two, it won't matter much at all.
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