[crossfire] RFC: Wild idea to make experience more interesting

[Anton Oussik]

On 7/5/05, Lalo Martins <
     
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      What I thought is, by mass-slaughter, you can, as reported in that
     
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      thread, get to level 90 quite fast.  This makes it more or less
     
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      mechanical for the level-seekers - and a mechanical game gets boring
     
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      quick.  It also makes it uninteresting for the game-explorer-types, who
     
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      will try each of those dungeons once then leave in disgust, back to
     
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      their alchemy labs.
     
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      So I thought... a very-very-high-level character should, supposedly,
     
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      have a wide range of skills, no?  It's weird that someone is level 90
     
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      and only have three or four skills with levels above 10.
     
     
I recall a while ago cavehippo proposed an interesting modification to
the skills system. Instead of contributing to a specific skill every cast
contributes to sevearl skills (by a positive or negative amount).

This will result in an overall more balanced characters IMO, but would
require a rewrite of most of the current skills and experience system.