learning skills
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 8:29 am
Hi. Is there something to know about how skills are learned that isn't in the help files, but people know it anyway? I'm not asking for any exact numerical values, but mechanisms. It's really frustrating to be unable to make any substantial progress and to have no idea why.
I'll just ask some questions and hope people will consider it OK to answer.
1. If I do something that can possibly give a +1 to some skill, is there always a chance that will actually happen?
2. Do my stat settings have anything do to with that chance?
3. How do my stats affect that chance?
4. If I do something over and over again without any progress, does the chance of progress grow with each failed attempt?
5. After a successful attempt, does the chance get smaller?
6. Does the bonus from books and training depend on both the trainer and the trainee or just the trainer?
7. Does the amount of skill already learned by a character lower the chance of learning stuff?
8. What else is it important to know in order not to get crazy when your character refuses to learn anything useful and only, rather rarely, picks up bits of skills you're not focusing on?
Marika has been trying to learn to read since she entered the game for the first time. She's made almost no progress since. I admit she didn't try extremely hard, but it's not a lot of fun to sit in front of the computer entering the same commands for hours with no effect. When she's read through all the books in the Bandama library for the fourth time, I let her go, even if she's made no progress in the process. And it does discourage me from making more attempts. It's simply boring to do that. If I could at least understand what the books say... Well, I can't so I just have to mindlessly type the same things over and over until I'm bored enough to go somewhere else or Marika's made a progress.
And that's just one frustrating skill.
I'll just ask some questions and hope people will consider it OK to answer.
1. If I do something that can possibly give a +1 to some skill, is there always a chance that will actually happen?
2. Do my stat settings have anything do to with that chance?
3. How do my stats affect that chance?
4. If I do something over and over again without any progress, does the chance of progress grow with each failed attempt?
5. After a successful attempt, does the chance get smaller?
6. Does the bonus from books and training depend on both the trainer and the trainee or just the trainer?
7. Does the amount of skill already learned by a character lower the chance of learning stuff?
8. What else is it important to know in order not to get crazy when your character refuses to learn anything useful and only, rather rarely, picks up bits of skills you're not focusing on?
Marika has been trying to learn to read since she entered the game for the first time. She's made almost no progress since. I admit she didn't try extremely hard, but it's not a lot of fun to sit in front of the computer entering the same commands for hours with no effect. When she's read through all the books in the Bandama library for the fourth time, I let her go, even if she's made no progress in the process. And it does discourage me from making more attempts. It's simply boring to do that. If I could at least understand what the books say... Well, I can't so I just have to mindlessly type the same things over and over until I'm bored enough to go somewhere else or Marika's made a progress.
And that's just one frustrating skill.