[MUD-Dev] Moving away from the level based system

[Travis Casey]

Tuesday, December 26, 2000, 11:53:52 PM, Ron Moore <humano at texas.net> wrote:

[snip lots]

> Spamming a specific skill floods the skill pool and you stop gaining
> kernels.  If you try to spam between several different skills, the
> global pool fills up and you can't add any future knowledge until
> the next drain.  The weakness in the DR system at the time was that
> the global pool, if they used one, was not restrictive enough so
> players just bounced around spamming different skills as each filled
> up.

> The real work is to weight the uncommonly used skills (coder) and
> assign task ratings (builder) responsibly.

There have been discussions here in the past on how this might be done
automatically.  The most recent one that I remember is the thread "The
Best Guy on the Mud Thing" from 1999.  3rd quarter, I think.

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