>Here's something that I heard and that Imms only would know
>and be able to take advantage of:
>
>Do your level gains and other improvement issues benefit from
>immediately choosing a sphere at level one? Meaning if you
>don't choose your sphere until level 9 or something, your
>hp/mana/mv gains from 1-8 will be less than what they would
>otherwise have been?

Nope! The only thing within your control that affects your gains are your int/con/wis scores.

>Indeed, as a general question, are there little things like
>that that nobody really could know of unless they were
>familiar with the code, and hence be staff-only information?
>This is the sort of thing I think people talk about, or
>surmise.

I can't think of anything offhand. Ask as you think of things.