>I don't understand this war you have with people who want
>to practice. You keep stating it makes no difference. Fine,
>then stop making such a big deal out of it.
>
>Uh. I'm not the one starting these threads. But if someone
>posts what I consider to be misinformation or only one side of
>an issue, it's part of the staff's responsibility to answer.
>Also:
>
>1) I helped design a system that lets you have much better
>skills without stopping to practice.
-- and incidentally makes stopping to practice, should one choose to, much more of a chore

>2) I came up with affinity so a hero invoker isn't a 200 hour
>ordeal.
-- thanks, that actually was nice

>3) I helped push for free points after most rankings, lowered
>prerequisites for things like shapeshift/warriorspecs/etc, and
>other things that make a zero-practice character a lot
>easier.
-- You also started giving more and more mobs spec skills and then forced us to practice on higher level mobs to get skills to go up.

>4) I've put a number of items in the game which boost either
>learning rates or current skill.
>
>No one "wants to practice". No one logs on and says "Wow! I
>can't wait to mash a skill repeatedly by myself for 2 hours
>today!" I think my record shows that I'm more than willing to
>try to spare people those days.
>
No one 'wants to practice'. Everyone 'wants to live'. Not all of PK prep is gathering flight/return/etc potions. Part of it is getting trip, bash, cranial, etc up to a level where they hit reasonably often. People may not want to practice, but I bet if they had the choice between a little solo practice and spamming trip on razor/hooded mobs while ranking, they'll pick a little solo practice.

>If you log on and feel like spamming, you're welcome to. No
>one comes down from the heavens and smites you. We're fine
>with that, but we don't want it to be the only way to
>efficiently increase skills, and we don't want it to be so
>effective that you're at a big disadvantage if you don't do
>it. I think the current system accomplishes these goals.
>

According to you (read: the immortal staff) you're not at a big advantage if you do practice, and conversely not at a big disadvantage if you don't. Just look at the posts in this thread alone. If it wasn't broken, stop fixing it?