Knowing your skill ability question

[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

[*Wiro]

Mining

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

[Idriveayugo]

So my question is, does that skill list under character description rank in order your skills from best to worst?

[*Wiro]

I think it does, yes. But the mining increase might've been from crushing hematite or something.

[Idriveayugo]

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.

[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?

[Dudel]

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".

[BZR]

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.

[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%?

[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.

[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.

[EchoMan2]

Dragging is part of combat. If you drag someone though you never fought anyone, your skill will be revealed to you.

[SumBum]

Maybe I shouldn't post this and risk being labeled a "powergamer" 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.

[EchoMan2]

OMG! A powergamer...

[SumBum]

Shh! Don't tell everyone!