[CF-Devel] skills bug

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On Tuesday 24 February 2004 00:16
Mark Wedel wrote:

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        One change with the new skill code is that anything that gives
     
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      exp records which skill the exp goes to.  There used to be problems
     
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      in the past, especially in party play, where players could funnel
     
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      exp to most any skill they wanted (player A kilsl something with
     
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      fireball, player b funnels it into praying).
     
     
As far as I am concerned this did not need to be "fixed". Now it is
broken. Placing exp in whatever skill *I* have selected when working
in party makes perfect sense to me. Placing it in something I cannot
use makes no sense whatsoever.

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        That should be next to impossible in the new code.  But it does
     
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      mean that if the orc pets kills something with missile weapons, you
     
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      get the exp in missile weapons.
     
     
Which makes working with a party pretty much useless for training
skills that are useful to my character. A dragon with level 23 in
two handed weapons is quite silly unless a dragon can now wield two
handed weapons. Further, I tried to help another player, Omoikane on
cf.mf.net, level up summoning, he DOES have that skill, and he never
got any exp in summoning although MY summoning skill was clicking
right up. Unless that is now fixed then why ever join a party, other
than just because it is there, when I can level up what I *need* on
my own?

One other thing. Dragons have *fingers* (for rings) but not *hands*
(for stealing)? You guys sure created some odd looking dragons. When
I was chatting with Katia about it the other night in CF I was
splitting my sides laughing at that picture in my head. :-) Seems
that stealing would be linked to having *fingers* (does the US term
"five finger discount" ring a bell? No? It is a term that refers to
shoplifting aka stealing). Classic paintings of dragons clearly show
hands. Though I suppose wielding weapons in CF is tied to hands and
we don't want dragons doing that. So, fingers for stealing anyone?

Gene (aka poof, aka eracc)
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