... skill point cap? REALLY?

[Mr D Grim]

♥♥♥♥ my life. i was saving skill/ability points because i couldn't decide on weapons yet. and i didn't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ realise there was a cap. i missed out on a whole bunch of em. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thanks for that...

[Hadoken]

Every time you hand in a mission whilst you are capped, it shows a warning on your screen.

However, don't worry; AP/SP is infinite.

[Oldbolt]

Originally posted by Hadoken:

Every time you hand in a mission whilst you are capped, it shows a warning on your screen.

However, don't worry; AP/SP is infinite.

Why the cap, though? At present, I see no reason for the cap. I could understand marks or Aurum caps not the SP/AP.

[Hadoken]

Originally posted by Oldbolt:

Why the cap, though?

Only The Dreamers know, I guess.

[Powermover]

The cap is there to inform you that you should spend them because you're not getting stronger fast enough. Afterall, if you manages to reach 50 without spending any AP and solely not from dalies. You're definitely not making a very good decision.

[Wolfdoggie]

I guess they don't want you to be a leech in dungeons because you gimped yourself to have no skills at the time. Only reason I could think of. Not as important to spend AP eventually though once you have the ones you need so that one being capped is a bit more unnesasary.

[Dongly Q Dongson]

Also in TSW they released later game AP/SP sinks- auxillary weapons (which might come back in some form)(ap and sp), augments (yay, not coming back) (ap and sp), aegis (coming back, in what form, who knows)(sp) etc.

By capping players at a point it ensures if/when something new is introduced you can't buy all of it in a second.

Further, there's no reason TO sit on ap/sp- passive +stat sp ones are always active, as are ap capstones, etc. Spend yo points, yo.

[☠ Asasin ☠]

In addition to what Dongly pointed out, some of those later mechanics raised the AP and SP caps incrementally, so that's something to look forward to.

[Shiro]

No, they do it because they want you to grind when new weapons come out. They don't want you stockpiling skill/ability points and immediately unlocking the whole weapon tree.

If you have a massive stockpile of skill/ability, then you spend that on the new weapons, then you won't need to play.

It's a player retention thing, by capping you, they up the odds of you continuing to play.

[Mr D Grim]

Originally posted by Shiro:

No, they do it because they want you to grind when new weapons come out. They don't want you stockpiling skill/ability points and immediately unlocking the whole weapon tree.

If you have a massive stockpile of skill/ability, then you spend that on the new weapons, then you won't need to play.

It's a player retention thing, by capping you, they up the odds of you continuing to play.

Die you filthy necromancer!

[Wolfdoggie]

Hi again, guys.