[CF-Devel] skills bug

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On 24-Feb-04 ERACC wrote:
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      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).
     
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      As far as I am concerned this did not need to be "fixed". Now it is
     
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      broken. Placing exp in whatever skill *I* have selected when working
     
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      in party makes perfect sense to me. Placing it in something I cannot
     
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      use makes no sense whatsoever.
     
     
I'll agree that this is broken.. but not in the same way eracc states.  It
doesn't necc. make a whole lot of sense that if a warrior and a mage are a duo,
and the mage casts a fireball, that somehow, the warrior has gained experience
in magic.  He was just standing there.

I'm not completely sure there is a logical place to put that experience, but
putting it into magic doesn't make any sense either.  The funnelling made
slightly more sense.. but on a grander scale made a bigger mess.

Just an off the cuff idea, but what if when a party member uses a skill you
don't have, or you gain exp in that skill by some other means, such as a tamed
orc, it instead goes into a generic bucket, at a reduced rate, say, 50%.  Then,
the player can issue a command, to empty that bucket, into the skill of his
choice.

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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.
     
     
This makes me wonder how one is supposed to get EXP with oratory and singing,
if all the exp from tame monsters goes into melee and archery.

Is the same true for things like golems and avatars?  Do they now transfer exp
as melee?

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