CCP gives players extra SP from their games (even though it's not really a lot), increases the weekly cap.

And yet there are various whines, in particular "OMG I'M NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO HIT MY CAP WTF CCP STUPID DECISION"

This event ONLY increases ACTIVE sp. You can't cap afking as the sp won't hit it, whether the cap is doubled or quadrupled.

Dear mercenaries,

The time has come to let loose the dogs of war again in New Eden during August and to make the lives of mercenaries more interesting, we are holding another 2x skill point event!

See below for details:

Time GÇô August 7-14 from downtime to downtime.

The double skill point gain applies to all matches played in DUST 514 for the duration of the event.

Weekly skill point cap is set to 380,800 (that is double the normal 190,400!).

Passive skill point gain from matches are NOT doubled, this is to discourage AFK farming.

Active skill point gain is doubled! Your warpoints earned during the match will be doubled when it is converted into skill points.

DonGÇÖt forget to take advantage of this event and maximize your skill point gains with active skill boosters, so stock up on those before the event starts!

We are also working on bringing you more variations of the skill point events in the coming months, so be sure to check our announcements regularly for more updates.

I still don't see how this event worries people about afk, since it only affects active sp. That was my point. Maybe folks will get a little more than the usual afk for wp time in battle, but that's not gonna compare to the benefits of active play with the bonus.
And whatever warpoints you get, 10000 active sp per battle will get you to 390000 active sp in 39 battles, which is easily doable in a week. I'm not mining for the numbers here, this is just doubling a skirmish round number (a mediocre match without boosters). But whew, you sure did flame me with your trollmath

I'm sorry but if you look at my post from earlier (page 2 I think) then you can easily see that your assumptions are wrong. AFK players have to plays for 2x as long. Players who are earning 3000 WP per hour have to play 1.8x as long. at 5000 WP per hour it's 1.6x as long to complete.

So yep. as you can see you can AFK very easily to reach the doubled cap.

So what you're saying is...the cap is doubled...and people can still AFK in the MCC...and if they do it long enough they'll reach the cap. Turns out basic reasoning works. Huzzah!

To be honest AFKing in the MCC is a game mechanic. It's one of the things you can do, like solo mining, mission running, or can flipping in EVE. The difference is it contributes nothing to the community. Even solo missioning has it's place in the EVE economy and social network. In both EVE and DUST players will discover every nook and cranny of what's possible for them in game and a percentage of players will do that thing, no matter what it is. Someone could claim MCC AFKing as their DUST "career" and no one could deny them. If it can be done, it's part of the game.

So the only answer is to remove it from the game. An simple solution would be to make the MCC auto drop someone who's been in there too long. If the fall doesn't kill them a sniper will shortly. (Make sure they show up on spawn map for all to see after standing under the MCC for 10 secs.) Or the offender could just be eviscerated in the MCC as penalty for shirking his duties.

OR

People could stop worrying so much about what other people are doing and worry about their own WPs. Fact is if you are sitting in the MCC then your game is lacking. Skillz will always beat SP.

Fark so I'm beginning to feel like, as a mediocre player with 7m SP main char, pub-stomping will make such a grand return that for the first time ever, the thought has popped into my head that I *need* to AFK to keep up.

That said, I am also grateful that I may have the chance to earn more SP than I might usually. We'll see.

So what you're saying is...the cap is doubled...and people can still AFK in the MCC...and if they do it long enough they'll reach the cap. Turns out basic reasoning works. Huzzah!

To be honest AFKing in the MCC is a game mechanic. It's one of the things you can do, like solo mining, mission running, or can flipping in EVE. The difference is it contributes nothing to the community. Even solo missioning has it's place in the EVE economy and social network. In both EVE and DUST players will discover every nook and cranny of what's possible for them in game and a percentage of players will do that thing, no matter what it is. Someone could claim MCC AFKing as their DUST "career" and no one could deny them. If it can be done, it's part of the game.

So the only answer is to remove it from the game. An simple solution would be to make the MCC auto drop someone who's been in there too long. If the fall doesn't kill them a sniper will shortly. (Make sure they show up on spawn map for all to see after standing under the MCC for 10 secs.) Or the offender could just be eviscerated in the MCC as penalty for shirking his duties.

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.

Someone on my team who is AFKing in the MCC is directly costing me ISK and fun, because it makes my team less competitive and me more likely to die. If they're on the other team it helps my ISK but equally gimps my fun, which is the more important of the two. So I'm thinking about #1 here. If CCP does nothing about this then they are neglecting all of us who are inconvenienced by this bummery.

Well I have been playing for some time now and have never heard it laid out like this, if this is true then that explains why as a sniper I get screwed on active sp since we never do battle we shoot and wait and only get credit for the kill. Thanks for enlightening me on how much more snipers are screwed in this game.

I would agree with you but what you stated is based on an assumption that blueberries can be helpful. Which is not my experience. Especially not the scrub blueberries who AFK on the reg. And also, CCP has a history of appeasing whiners so I am sure AFKing will be over soon enough. Then all the whiners can come up with something else that someone is doing that they don't like...

They at least provide a target that is not me. Does "whining" translate to "feedback" in troll?

So AFKers are gimping your fun and you feel neglected by CCP and this is just feedback, not whining? My mistake...