4261, This might help:
Posted by Tsunami on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
'SKILL IMPROVEMENT' A number of factors go into determining the rate at which one of your character's skills improves. The main factors are:
- Your intelligence (INT). - The natural difficulty of learning the skill. - Your level. - Your age. Older characters learn more quickly. - Your current skill. It becomes harder to improve as you get closer to mastery (100%). - 'Hostile' skills (weapons, defenses, things that cause combat, etc.) take into account the relative power of your opponent. Fighting challenging battles sharply increases your chance of improvement. - Invokers only: Your affinity for the element you are manipulating.
Generally, the skill improvement system favors real use of a skill over cheesy methods. For example, you can't learn anything (even while not in combat) while wielding a weapon you don't know how to use or while fighting an opponent immune to your attacks.
See also: 'SKILL FOCUS', SKILLS, 'APT LEARNER'
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