[Discuss] Dueling

[Timothy Collett]

On Oct 31, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Alex Davies wrote:

>> From: Timothy Collett <danaris at mac.com>
>>
>> More advanced tutors are supposed to be better at estimating your  
>> skill.
>
> Waste of time, just use tournament showing off.

Why?  That wastes time that could be spent using your free training.   
Anyway, I never go to the academy just to estimate: I just remember  
what my skill was before, and when I go to the academy I always try  
for some skill gain (usually 6hrs with the expert tutor these days...)

>> However, also remember that each skill point gain is really *one   
>> point*, or 1%, not one level of estimation (5%).  So it *should*  
>> take  you 5 training sessions to go from 10% to 15%--though if you  
>> start  out at actually 10%, he may estimate your skill at 15%  
>> after 2-3  points due to the error margin.
>
> Huh? If that's the case then there's some longstanding bug because  
> none of my characters have only improved 1% per improvement at the  
> academy. Maybe 1% per hour spent.

Hmm, interesting.  I've never tried calculating it out myself,  
largely because of the inaccuracies involved, which make it too much  
trouble to bother with.  It's always seemed to be *around* 1% per  
gain for me.  However, the important thing is that it's very clearly  
*not* automatically 5% per "You improved your swordfighting skill!"  
message, as some people have assumed.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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