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Subject: Drayab's treatise on carving

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Drayab

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Date Posted: 18:39:49 05/06/02 Mon
In reply to: Astrid 's message, "Carving Away" on 12:43:34 05/06/02 Mon

Yes, you can get improve in any skill in the game, no matter what your class, and no matter what your skill list says, with the possible exception of magick.

The main issue is: do you really want to put in the time to get good at that skill? If you are a warrior it will take a *very* long time to get good at forging. Sure, you can swing a hammer at a lump of brass, but it will take a long time to make anything of it. Also, you will most likely improve slower than all merchant class players unless you have a particulary smart warrior and you find a particularly dumb merchant, both of which are unlikely.

This is how I imagine carving to work:

Suppose that in order to finish making that fishing pole you have to put 100 points of work into it. Each time you send the command "carve a fishing pole" the game does a check on your score and then adds/subtracts to/from the current work points of the soon-to-become pole depending on 1) your skill at carving 2) the inherient difficulty of carving a fishing pole and probably 3) a random roll.

Using this model you can see that a bad carver will ruin the work of someone that has already put some work into it because they will subtract work points from it due to their low carving score. Also, mediocre carvers will find it takes a long time to finish their work, but the amount of time it takes to finish each successive job does not always decrease due to the random roll. And good carvers finish quickly with just a few swipes of the knife because when the carving score gets large it dominates the now relatively small random roll.

Of course, we don't get to see how far along the work is, our skill level, or anything like that. And I've never seen the code, so this is just my best guess from my experiences within the game. Take it or leave it. :-)

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Drayab's treatise on carving	Astrid	08:43:57 05/08/02 Wed

Re: Drayab's treatise on carving	Malik	23:32:48 05/08/02 Wed
Re: Drayab's treatise on carving -- Drayab, 07:52:51 05/09/02 Thu