Originally Posted by SolarWind
The thing is, since leveling depends on length of time, doesn't that mean that the first person to play (considering that his skills were upgraded perfectly everytime it expires) will always be ahead of everyone else? and you can NEVER catch up?
Yes and no. It's true that you will always be behind an older player in skill points, but because each level of a skill has the same bonus, more skill points doesn't give a huge benefit.
For example:
Level 1 of a battleship skill takes about 2 hours.
Level 5 (max) of the same skill takes 30 days.
Both give the same benefit. So the older player is investing huge amounts of time for just a 2%-5% advantage over new players.