[Discuss] Dueling

[Tom]

On 10/31/2006 08:15 PM, Alex Davies wrote:
>> More advanced tutors are supposed to be better at estimating your skill.
>
> Waste of time, just use tournament showing off.

Tournament estimates are likewise estimates and not any more accurate 
than the tutors.
Besides - tournaments only allow you to get estimates on swordfighting 
and jousting, not on leadership, infiltration, beaurocracy, trading and 
preaching.



>> 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.
>
> Are you sure you're not confusing that with tournament training wher 
> you only increase 1 point per improvement?

The game handles skills on a % basis. So your skill can be 12%, but the 
estimates will be 10% or 15%. Academy training _can_ increase your skill 
by more than one point, just like any other training. If you spent many 
hours, it's more likely that you get more than one point of increase. 
But it is very, very unlikely that you'd get+5% in one training session, 
even if you train the max hours with an expert tutor.