I assume this change is to test adjusting the ratio between SP gains via war points and SP gains via staying alive in the MCC?

If so, I can tell you that the majority of non-hardcore players will struggle to hit their cap that week.

I think if changes like this are going to be permanent, then being able to roll over the active SP cap between weeks is required.

Also they just need to make the progression faster in this game. Even with boosters the grind takes waaaaay too long to just specialize in one thing. Never mind speccing into new stuff.

Okay, I think I understand your confusion.

There are two sources of SP

Passive, which you accrue over time, at 1000 per hour, in combat, out of combat, logged in, logged out, whatever.

And active, which you recieve at the end of a battle.

For the ACTIVE portion, it is further divided into two parts.

Battle time, and Warpoints.

The battle time portion is what the OP is referring to by "passive" You simply earn 5 WP per second in battle (until you hit cap)

The warpoint portion is you get 1 SP per WP in battle. Even if you have reached weekly cap, you still recieve this, (up to 1000 per battle)



What the OP is saying, is the WP portion is doubled. Now, the WP portion is almost negligable compared to the battle time portion, so doubling it won't do much.

the TRUE passive SP is untouched.

Typical ordinary wp/h is probably 3000 (based on 1000 WP per skirmish or 750 WP per ambush). so the benefit to playing over AFKing is taking only x1.8 longer rather than x2. This is isn't all that much of an incentive to not AFK. At least not for me - I just don't have time for 17 hours of fun around chores, job, etc.

This would be awesome. They must eradicate AFKing. More SP from WP, less passive, enable rollover. Maybe make the passive kick in after earning a minimum amount of WP, like 200, or after dieing 4 times or so. Also they just need to make the progression faster in this game. Even with boosters the grind takes waaaaay too long to just specialize in one thing. Never mind speccing into new stuff.

Why not something simpler which doesn't spit new players in the face who can't get 200 WP. I guess the simplest possible method to fix AFKing would be: 1SP for each second in match and 5SP for every warpoint earned. Just switching the numbers.

Where are the Passive 60 and 90 day Omega Boosters to go along with this event?

I only bought 3 30 day ones because I figured within 3 months you guys would release the other two...

So this event will award SP at 5 SP per second + 2 SP per WP (rather than the current 5 SP per second + 1 SP per WP).

The effect is this:
Table: http://i.imgur.com/DRIczly.png?1
Graph: http://i.imgur.com/Uhevhax.png?1

Typical ordinary wp/h is probably 3000 (based on 1000 WP per skirmish or 750 WP per ambush). so the benefit to playing over AFKing is taking only x1.8 longer rather than x2. This is isn't all that much of an incentive to not AFK. At least not for me - I just don't have time for 17 hours of fun around chores, job, etc.

Now if you'd gone for a much more generous 5 SP per WP you'd get something like this:
Table: http://i.imgur.com/qIVjhjV.png?1
Graph: http://i.imgur.com/SzTbIb6.png?1

edit: added graphs

And to demonstrate in graph form the number of hours it will take to hit cap, you can clearly see that the 2x WP doesn't really reduce the grind very much from the 2x it is for merely AFKing.

Graph: http://i.imgur.com/SzTbIb6.png?1

Something much more substantial would be required.

So in order to combat afk farming they are making it only active WP SP, but keeping the cap?
So essentially those of use even those of us who can get 1000 WP a match will only get and extra 1000 SP a match, but still have a larger cap. This means I have practically twice as long to cap..... So I'm going to AFK farm at some point which I wouldn't do otherwise.

oh boy! and i just finished level 5 shield extenders >:3