New Skills code

[Chettaman]

Nice.

[evil_erdlu]

I should say I'm not that impressed this time. It seems to have a chance of failure in determining your skill, like, is my contact 'orgasmic' or 'awful'? I believe you get better in time to determine your skill level, but I have to spam 'skills' for that? Really..

- It must be made clear how you improve your skill in determining your skill levels.
- The skill for that shouldn't improve in the traditional way - failure. It would just lead to people typing up timers to type 'skills' once in X minutes. I already have set one up for myself because I hate to see how awful my character is, possibly because of low wisdom. Maybe age, or playing time should be the determining factor?
- Some of the terms used to describe skill levels should change indeed. Like, is "wtf" good or bad?

But with some changes, it's a good addition. Not necessarily needed, but a good addition nonetheless.

[RogueGunslinger]

I'm a bit confused, actually. To use your example, would we see something like... Goes to check in game.

Nevermind... lol


Edited to add: Erdlu what are you talking about?


Edited again: Rofl now I get what you're talking about. <facepalm>

[jmordetsky]

Oh. Wait.

No.....Is this an april fools joke?

Sadness.

I was really excited.

Edit: Though, BeeKnees and Sux0rs are great .

[Semper]

peachy keen 

[Qzzrbl]

When I first read this, I thought, "Oh boy! It's like Christmas!"

But then I logged on and saw Pikachu....

Now I'm off to talk people to death and climax with my "Obliterating Sirihish" and my "Orgasmic <redacted> accent"

[Synthesis]

The descriptors seem to be completely random, because I've got "you suck" for skills I know I've maxed, and "awesome" for skills I've never even used.  Also, they change every time you type > skills.

(Yes, I know it's a joke.)

[MarshallDFX]

Damn.  I was hoping I had super-demonic skill levels.

[Dar]

Wtf are you guys talking about? I checked it out, all I got are numbers in parenthesis and they seem to be the same each time. My sirihish is 100.

[Reiteration]

edit: I am disappoint. April fools.

[eska]

Last years joke was awesome.. Didn't like this one..

[jalden]

I'm somewhat surprised no one has ever asked for skill levels to be revealed. Has anyone ever asked for this before?  If not I think we get to pat ourselves on the back.

[spawnloser]

I'm somewhat surprised no one has ever asked for skill levels to be revealed. Has anyone ever asked for this before?  If not I think we get to pat ourselves on the back.

There are people that remember back to when skill levels WERE shown.  It has been asked to be brought back, in a system not unlike this joke... but with less ridiculous and random wackidoo than this joke used.

[BlackMagic0]

I'm somewhat surprised no one has ever asked for skill levels to be revealed. Has anyone ever asked for this before?  If not I think we get to pat ourselves on the back.

There are people that remember back to when skill levels WERE shown.  It has been asked to be brought back, in a system not unlike this joke... but with less ridiculous and random wackidoo than this joke used.

Honestly. I'd like a system like this (less wack) as anyone that been doing it for a while, would be able to gauge their skills roughly.
And the ranges could be wide. Though eh.

Still trying to get used to Arm again as is, at least this character isn't 5 minutes in and dead! Haha..

[Cutthroat]

I liked the joke, but a part of me wants to see it go in for real.

The skill levels shouldn't be too accurate. A scale of poor to AI is more accurate than, say, the (shamelessly stolen from RPI Engine MUDs) scale of Novice - Familiar - Adroit - Master.

I don't think it would foster overtraining if that is the concern. With an inaccurate scale, you will remain a Novice or Familiar for a long time. Additional training in the short term would only change things very slowly and behind the scenes. If you wanted to train just to get from one level to the next out of four levels, you would have to train a lot - and besides that, it's well known that - actually, no it isn't, nevermind.

Consider it in present terms - we really have three levels we can see as it is: New PC Skill, Branched, Mastered (for merchants with crafts). It is just unlabeled. What is the problem, really, with putting out skill levels in the vaguest way possible?

[Sephiroto]

I'll admit, I got excited until I logged in and saw the joke, but it would be a slippery slope to bring skill levels back in any form.

[Akoto]

So, it appears to not be a joke after all. I dig it.  

I think it'll be helpful to role-play. I've discovered that I'm presenting some skills as being greater than I have, and others as being less. Good for adjusting that.

[spawnloser]

Yup, apparently not completely a joke.  Novice - Apprentice - Journeyman - Advanced - Master?  Not bad.  I don't feel strongly about this change for or against, so nothing much else to add.

[jmordetsky]

IT'S REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!

[X-D]

Meh, it is not new anyway.

I preferred when it was turned off but not a big deal, tells me nothing I did not already know anyway.

[A Dry, Quiet War]

Novice - Apprentice - Journeyman - Advanced - Master?  Not bad.

I'm PKin' the first fool that uses these words in-game, though.  As in:

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The tall, muscular man says, in sirihish,
  "I'm advanced at peircing weapons but only journeyman at disarm."

But it's a toothsome change, otherwise.

[jhunter]

Yup, apparently not completely a joke.  Novice - Apprentice - Journeyman - Advanced - Master?  Not bad.  I don't feel strongly about this change for or against, so nothing much else to add.

Yeah, that's kinda how I feel about it. No big deal either way. It's interesting but pretty much confirms what I would have guessed about my approximate skill levels in comparision to each other. I don't really see any negatives coming about from this but about the only use I can see is for merchants and the rp of their crafts.

[jalden]

I don't like it. It's not the end of the world though. It puts a focus on skill levels that wasn't there before (at least for me). I would like to trade this for a list of the skills associated with each class/subclass.  While present to some extent, you can still end up with skills that don't mesh with the background you wrote. We'll see if I have the willpower to keep brief skills on.

[Spoon]

I'm guessing it's pretty vague.

[ianmartin]

lol @ a dry quiet war