Quote from: hyzhenhok on June 29, 2012, 03:43:25 AM

Quote from: jstorrie on June 23, 2012, 03:19:15 AM

Quote from: A Large Bag on June 22, 2012, 03:10:15 PM
I doubt the Zalanthas Safety Commission is going to come down on fighters for sparring with the extra weight on them to improve their speed and strength.

Some clans have already started to prohibit this, and for good reason, I think.

The code was adjusted a while back so that this was no longer helpful for training the skills of the person stacking on the weight IIRC. But there may be other reasons (perhaps entirely non-skill max related!) why people might want to handicap themselves in the sparring arena.

In this way, I've always felt that having what SoI had with "seteffort" would be great. Some way to set a percentage (in some mysterious way so skillmaxers don't -know-) of your skills you want to put forth. Like, seteffort low would give you, say, 20% of all your skills.

Then you can pump up the volume (dance dance) when you feel you need to exert a little pressure.

It's been my experience that adjusting things secretly so that skillmaxers can't do X generally only hurts the average player, because the skillmaxers always figure it out, even if it sets them back a few weeks RL time.  Meanwhile, the average players continue to do things that seem within the realm of reasonable, but have been blacklisted for skillgain, and never really pay attention to the fact that it isn't doing anything to improve their skills.

I just think this is kinda silly.
Just pretend you don't see things.  Then you don't.

Just leave the room till you hear the beep. lol

Close your eyes, and monsters can't spray shit into your eyes!