>This was one hour of doing nothing but spam and sleep with
>the same character, another skill (that I tried to use in pk
>but died because it kept failing. It failed six times in a row
>in PK and a retrieval attempt)

Which skill? I ask because some skills are intentionally harder to improve than others.

>Now that's just ONE skill that I use ALL THE FREAKING TIME.

What do you use it ON? Things 5 levels lower than you? Things 5 levels above you? It makes a difference (a big one).

>Using the above as a means to measure expected progress for my
>other spells I can anticipate 7-14 hours to get them to 90%.
>All in all, it's looking like the time sink that is CF is
>eating the fun I could be having elsewhere and I really don't
>forsee me playing CF after this summer. Right now I'm just
>trying to save money so I stay home a lot and CF's free, but
>later once my situation changes I'll have PS3 games to
>distract myself with and CF isn't going to be able to compete
>with that on it's current level.

Part of me blames you because you think you have to have 100%'s to compete, you don't. We have made a fair number of improvements to learning abilities over the years (most recently pulling up the learning rates for the lower end of intelligence).

>The fun ratio has to improve and making skills improve faster
>is the way that requires the least amount of effort from the
>Imms.

Enjoy your PS3.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!