[CF-Devel] Suggestion for new skills

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Nicolas Weeger wrote:
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      Hello.
     
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      Been playing on Metalforge's test server, crossfire.metalforge.net
     
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      Pretty nice, new skill system seems to work fine.
     
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      Small suggestion: for skills that can't have experience, like meditation 
     
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      or levitation, don't show experience, since not applicable :)
     
     
  Well, doing that is a little bit of work to do.

  My personally thought is that all skills should have the potential to gain 
exp/levels in.  Whether this is special quest rewards or just each time you use 
the skill (eg, meditate and get 5 exp in meditation).

  In tha later case, that exp should not contribute to your overall level. 
Thus, someone could start a character and meditate for 3 days straight and be 
level 30 in meditation, but still only a level 1 character.

  Arguably, all skills that incur no risk should perhaps not contribute anything 
to your overall exp (skills I can think of in this category are search, 
literacy, item identification skills, climbing, etc).

  Now one may ask what is the purpose of having a level in meditation:  I could 
certainly see something that higher level means it takes less time or you get 
back more each time you meditate.

  Likewise, one could have something for levitation that you can only levitate 
for so long, before you need to rest.  Higher levitation skill means you can 
levitate for longer or need less rest between attempts.

  If a player decides to log in and have there character meditate for 3 days, 
that's up to them.  doesn't increase their overall exp, and is probalby no worse 
than some other abuses (set character up near a generator and have the character 
cast some spell periodically (eg, think of a level 10 character near an orc 
generate.  Every 5 seconds or something it casts burning hands centered on 
himself.  After a night of that, even at 10 exp/orc or whatever, you'd end up 
with a tidy amount of exp).




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