>>Who would lose if you make practicing easier?
>>I'm just wondering.

I think one of the things this question always reminds me of
is the whole concept of race and inherent learning.  If
everyone learned at the same rate, then it's a huge penalty to
elves(good and evil)/arials and human/half-elven who have
taken intelligence as their primary statistic.  These races
are SUPPOSED to learn better, they're supposed to have more
mind and less brawn than say, a giant.  This small issue is
meant to help balance them out against a giant or orc who, at
the same levels, can put on a good fight because the smarter
person should be more 'skilled' (i.e., land more skills, parry
better, dodge better) than the dumber stronger person who's
hitting less often for more damage.  If practicing were
easier, especially for those dumb races, that balance goes
right out the window and you have these insanely skilled
damage mongering orcs running around parrying everything in
sight at level 15.

In fact, that USED to be the way it was because of the amount
of time people would sit in the mists mastering parry with
their giants and orcs.  Thank god that's no longer the case. 
At least today if someone as a giant has their defenses
mastered at level 15, I can really feel sorry for them.

>
>The concept of having skill % would.  May as well just
give
>everyone 100% at that point and be done with it.  Or I
could
>just take away improvement messages, and stop showing
people
>what their skill % is then they don't have to worry that
their
>bash skill is only 87%.

Funny.  If you could do it for one day as a joke, I can
guarantee that this forum would light up like a christmas tree
with posts:  subjects: Please, please, please put back my
skill percentages!