Display of Skills bug?

[Snickie]

This is just an observation I have found to be rather odd, and I am curious as to why it is.

I have a character who spawned in the forest and has never been anywhere else in the three Cantr-years she has been alive. The resources in said forest are wood, blueberries, and blackberries with the following skills respectively forestry, collecting, and collecting. Yet today, I noticed that in that character's list of skills I am knowledgeable of, farming is one of them. I have never worked her on a farming project, as far as I can remember, not that there is anything to farm there anyway. Is there a bug of some sort that caused this to show up?

I'm not necessarily complaining, especially since it is another (useful!) thing she's good at. It just strikes me as odd that I know this without having ever tried it.

I checked my six other characters, but they all were normal; no skills I wasn't previously knowledgeable of were in their lists.

[EchoMan]

This sounds very strange indeed. If you want me to investigate further, please PM me the name of the character.

[Piscator]

Did you work on any other projects (repair, cooking etc.)?

[Snickie]

PM sent.

Cooking she's novice at, a fact I know from cooking some meat for several days about a week ago, before the farming skill had ever shown up. And as for repairing, she's no good with tools but excellent with weapons. I'm not sure what that has to do with farming, though.

[Piscator]

It might be that some tool or a cooking project accidentally has the farming skill assigned.

[Snickie]

Well then why would it only show up now after she's been doing nothing but chopping away at trees and collecting blueberries for the past four or five days?

[Piscator]

I don't know that. That's what I'm trying to find out.

If the skill suddenly shows up without participating in any project that might have triggered it, it's likely nothing RD can help you with. If you did something else before the skill became visible, even if it has nothing to do with farming at all, I could check if the right skill is assigned.

[Snickie]

I will PM you the project updates since day 3070 or so as soon as I can get on my laptop, which has a wonderful feature I like to call "Copy & Paste," a feature I lack on my phone.

[SekoETC]

There are no objects in the game that would use farming skill to manufacture. The only machine projects that use the farming skill are logically harvesting potatoes, carrots or rice, with petrol or without. List of resources that use the farming skill to harvest:

potatoes
tomatos
pineapples
sugar
spinage
carrots
onions
asparagus
rice
wheat
corn
barley
rye
sorghum
grass
cotton
hemp
boerenkool
pumpkin
olives
cucumbers

[Piscator]

I guess we can rule a RD related bug out then.

[Snickie]

I can PM you anyway if you would still like the information.

[Piscator]

I doubt I could help you with the problem. The events page also doesn't show when you join a project so I guess it wouldn't have been very helpful at all anyway.

[Piscator]

Thank you for your PM. The only thing I can think of is that projects without an assigned skill, like automatic projects, reveal the farming skill (which has the identification number 1). That's nothing I can help with though. Someone in ProgD would have to look into it.

[Snickie]

The automatic projects brings me to another thing: I've dried berries and dung before with this character without the farming skill showing up. So if this is some sort of bug, I would think it's recent that it appeared.
[Disclaimer: The following speculation is made with no intent to put down any of the ProgD or anybody else who has access to the coding of the game. You are all awesome!]
Perhaps somebody messed with the code recently, or miscoded something? I mean, we're all human, mistakes happen, and I'm not going to bash you all for that. But now I'm getting slightly off topic, and I'm going to stop now before it gets worse.

[Snickie]

This just happened, and I thought it was somehow still relevant to this thread.

Edit: Just to clarify, this is top-to-bottom.

3203-7.19: You awkwardly hurt D using a waster, who loses 0 percent strength.
3203-7.19: You attack S using a waster, but you miss.
3203-7.19: Snick novicely hurts you using a waster. You lose 0 percent strength. You awkwardly saved 9 percent using your kite shield.
3203-7:19: You novicely hurt Snick using a waster, who loses 0 percent strength.

-checks skill page-
[Skill] — awkwardly
[Skill] — awkwardly
Fighting — awkwardly



Does this look weird to anybody?