[CF-Devel] skill musings.

[Todd Mitchell]

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      Ok, sorry for being so damn long winded. After saying all of the above,
     
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      I'm afraid I've mostly just confused people that haven't seen a copy of
     
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      the base system we've been kicking around the past few days. I think
     
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      we're very close to a point where we have a workable system and some
     
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      rough base costs. No doubt many of the skill costs will need tweaking to
     
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      get rid of the 'super characters' currently wandering around crossfire
     
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      servers, but at least we'll have a place to start from.
     
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      I would like to have a draft proposal ready to present to the list in
     
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      the next day or two, at which point I'm sure there will be lots of
     
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      feedback and a few firebombings.
     
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     Ok - lets trot it out - sounds more interesting than some vague references
to skill gems


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      This may be a bit of a point. Our current model is looking at a separate
     
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      category for each current skill - somewhere around 25-30 skills. Some of
     
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      these aren't improvable and just bought at a base cost (mountaineer,
     
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      jumping, meditation, etc).
     
     
Some of these skills could be made improvable.  I would try to avoid
marginalizing skills if they could be fixed or incorporated into other
skills.  Hate to waste one of those funky gems if it was a one shot skill.