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Knowing your skill ability question

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:34 pm
by Idriveayugo
Hey I have a character and I'm wondering if its mining skill improved. When I clicked my character description before, I was an efficient cooker, but on that list with all my skills , mining and farming were higher. Later, cooking moved up the list surpassing mining which was to be expected since my character is a cook and does nothing but cook. Now all of a sudden, mining has surpassed both farming and cooking, and I haven't mined once.

So my question is, does that skill list under character description rank in order your skills from best to worst? If so, how did my char increase in mining? Just a bug?

Appendix A:

Here's a little demonstration showing what I'm talking about of how the skill list change:

efficient Farming ---> efficient Farming -----> efficient Mining
efficient Mining ---> efficient Cooking -----> efficient Farming
efficient Cooking ---> efficient Mining ------> efficient Cooking

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:45 pm
by *Wiro
Mining

This skill affects (and is trained with) gathering of most metals and the crushing of them.

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:58 pm
by Idriveayugo
So my question is, does that skill list under character description rank in order your skills from best to worst?

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:07 pm
by *Wiro
I think it does, yes. But the mining increase might've been from crushing hematite or something.

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:14 pm
by Idriveayugo
*Wiro wrote:I think it does, yes. But the mining increase might've been from crushing hematite or something.


I don't really care about that, but thanks anyways. I just care if it lists your skills in order cuz these skills make crazy jumps sometimes.

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:37 pm
by Idriveayugo
Here's another question, if I drag someone who is much stronger than avg and I am strong than avg and I drag em 50%, am I close to being much stronger?

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:24 pm
by Dudel
Idriveayugo wrote:Here's another question, if I drag someone who is much stronger than avg and I am strong than avg and I drag em 50%, am I close to being much stronger?


Wouldn't that make your characters strength + combat = their strength + combat + total amount of stuff on them?

Depending how much stuff they've on their person... your character might already be "much stronger".

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:40 pm
by BZR
Idriveayugo wrote:Here's another question, if I drag someone who is much stronger than avg and I am strong than avg and I drag em 50%, am I close to being much stronger?

The answer is "it depends". Calculating dragging strength and weight of characters is more sophisticated.

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:46 pm
by Idriveayugo
So the dragging system is weight dependent? Let's say I am the same strength as three people, one has 0 grams of weigh on em, the second has 7500 of weight, and the other has 15,000. Would I drag one more than the other? If so, which one would I be dragging 50%?

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:11 pm
by SekoETC
One of my characters made an in-game study on it years back and the weight carried didn't seem to make much of a difference. If you think about it, a person weighs 60 kilos and if they're carrying 15 kilos, that's only a 25% increase. I think if you can drag someone 50%, that means you're about equal in terms of battle proficiency. If they're stronger than you but you can still drag the person 50%, it's likely that you're a better fighter than him. Woundedness and tiredness also affects it significantly.

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:42 pm
by Idriveayugo
Oh, I didn't know that combat skill played a role. I wasn't sure if the calculation Dudel said was the actual mechanics of the dragging or not.

So it is strength of character + combat skill like Dudel said?

I wonder why combat skill plays a role?

Anyways, that makes sense now. I think I'm a better fighter than the guy I was dragging. Thanks for the info.

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:52 pm
by EchoMan2
Dragging is part of combat. If you drag someone though you never fought anyone, your skill will be revealed to you.

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:25 pm
by SumBum
Maybe I shouldn't post this and risk being labeled a "powergamer" :P but.... As a newspawn you can drag yourself and look at your skills to check how well you fight without doing the lame "oops, I just punched myself" crap.

So, yeah... Dragging DOES use the fighting skill.

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:40 pm
by EchoMan2
OMG! A powergamer... :lol:

Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:50 pm
by SumBum
Shh! Don't tell everyone! :shock: