Experience 3.0

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Experience

Why

The GMs feel that too many skills are difficult to develop by themselves due to their specificity, and wish to combine them. For some other skills, notably Mechanical Lore and Primary Magic, they believe the skills do too much, and are unfair when compared to other skills.

For example, it is difficult and time consuming to try to place both climbing and swimming opportunities at all levels in all zones, and having to only do one of the other would free up development time. In addition, the proposed Athletics skill might also be applied to things such as jumping, riding, or other athletic activities that the uncombined skills would not allow.

General

• See Post:Updated Skill List - 12/11/2010 - 15:45:26 for list of combining skills. If it is not mentioned, it is not combining.
• Combined skills will be set to the highest of the two skills and the other skill will be placed into a bonus pool.
• Bonus pools are specific to the skillset which the skills were taken from.
• Bonus pools will bonus learning of their skillset at approximately double rate (i.e. 200 bits are taken from field experience, but 400 are placed into the skill), until the pool is empty.

• Guild requirements will be reevaluated once the system has been finalized.
• All characters are guaranteed to maintain their circle. If the skill combine would cause a character to lose a circle, skills sufficient to keep their circle will be grandfathered by removing experience from the bonus pools. Full grandfathering will occur even if the pools run out before the necessary skills are gained.

Specifics

• Stalking/Hiding may act differently. Due to complaints that HUNT has made stalking too easy to learn and it is unrelated to actual stealth, the new Stealth skill may solely be taken from the Hiding skill, with Stalking being placed in the bonus pool regardless of level.

TDPs

Please read the entire section.

Why

The GMs believe that the original system is a problem for several reasons. First, they believe that there is TDP inflation due to the easy at which they can be gained. Second, they believe that the skill combine will cause problems with TDPs if the system is left as it is.

Whether or not you agree with these reasons, they are the GM's stated reason.

The Process

• The TDP change will involve a complete TDP refund, with all stats reset to racial base.
• All TDPs due to not getting a perfect roll on character creation, not having the "bonus" TDPs from the first few levels, or memorizing spell scrolls will be refunded.

• The last proposed plan is to only give TDPs from the top 4 skills from the primary skillset, and top 3 in each of the secondary skillsets.
• The GMs have indicated they are currently reconsidering this, but have not indicated what parts.

• If the old method and the new method result in the new totals being less than the old ones, the character will keep the old totals, and be "loaned" TDPs.
• These would be paid off over time with half of all new TDPs until the "loan" is paid off.