http://w.thebigwave.net/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Change_3238 2026-04-15T06:16:19Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.29.2 http://w.thebigwave.net/wiki/index.php?title=Change_3238&diff=12494&oldid=prev 2020-01-25T18:51:11Z

<p>Created page with &quot;Originally Posted : Fri Feb 01 17:32:05 2008&lt;br&gt;Posted by : Razan&lt;br&gt;Title : skill changes&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;OK this change should be interesting. These changes are all intended to&lt;br&gt;a...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Originally Posted : Fri Feb 01 17:32:05 2008&lt;br&gt;Posted by : Razan&lt;br&gt;Title : skill changes&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;OK this change should be interesting. These changes are all intended to&lt;br&gt;address specifically issues with new players but we'll see how they&lt;br&gt;effect higher levels as well. Here's what I did:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;First off, all of this is completely transparent and in the code behind&lt;br&gt;the scenes that handle it. If I say things like &quot;+5 to skill&quot; don't go&lt;br&gt;looking in &quot;skills&quot; or &quot;skills full&quot; to see it and think that since it's&lt;br&gt;not there, I'm wrong - this is hidden stuff.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Also, when I refer to a 'skill' here I'm referring to any ability -&lt;br&gt;skill, spell, prayer - they all go through the same piece of code to&lt;br&gt;ake a skill &quot;level&quot; and modify it based on the resistance of your&lt;br&gt;target, the room (recall terrain bonuses - see the 'mods' command),&lt;br&gt;things like that.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1: Level 1 players get +5 to all skills. This fades out by +1 point per&lt;br&gt; level so that by level 5 the bonus is entirely gone. This is &lt;br&gt;invisible,&lt;br&gt; again, but it should mostly stop skills from failing for new players&lt;br&gt; which I think is a very good thing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2: You know that message that prints out that says&lt;br&gt; &quot;You can't even seem to attempt it!&quot;&lt;br&gt; That happens when a skill's level is so abysmal due to modifications&lt;br&gt; to +- mods or the room magical resistances. I have left that in&lt;br&gt; since I don't think new players will see it that often but I took out&lt;br&gt; where it makes you type &quot;doh&quot;. Sorry, I didn't like that :).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;3: If after all the mods to the skill level are applied and you still&lt;br&gt; are going to fail, then what we now do is replace that failure with a&lt;br&gt; level 1 in the skil. However, this only applies to characters level&lt;br&gt; 5 or lower. Also this &quot;crutch&quot; fades out from level 1 to 5 and is&lt;br&gt; finally entirely gone by 6. Meaning, at level 1 you MIGHT still fail&lt;br&gt; here, which will help teach players hopefully. But by level 6 if&lt;br&gt; you're still not raising a skill you will certainly fail.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;4: This one is pretty tricky, but the short of it is that we used to&lt;br&gt; reduce the power of a skill based on how long it took to cast. I&lt;br&gt; think this is beyond stupid. Meaning, skills that took multiple&lt;br&gt; rounds to cast were reduced progressively more based on the number of&lt;br&gt; rounds. That is entirely gone now.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;All of the above are intended to help newbies with the intend being that&lt;br&gt;new players won't see skills failing nonstop until they raise their&lt;br&gt;skills since they probably are still trying to LEARN how to raise their&lt;br&gt;skills in the first place. #4 above might have effects on all levels of&lt;br&gt;players that use multiroud spells. Please please bug those that you&lt;br&gt;think are out of balance. It's likely that spells that take several&lt;br&gt;rounds to cast will be more powerful now. If you see anything too bs,&lt;br&gt;you need to report it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks and let's keep trying to fix things to encourage more players for&lt;br&gt;us all to interact with. Be it chatting, partying, cybering, or PKing!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; - Razan.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;[[Category:Changes_Board]]</div>

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