Re: Okympia: New Subskills

From: srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)

Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1992 17:03:57 +0000

Why not eliminate the parent skills?  Or at least hide them "in the
background" as Rich likes to say, creating hidden complexity?  It's
not clear why you should have to learn, say, "Ride Horses in Combat"
in order to later learn "Tame Wild Beast".  Other examples are
similar.

Just have a big list of skills and let anyone learn whatever they want:

2157 Ride Horse in Combat
	2984 Use Sword in Combat
	3174 Bargain
	[.etc.]

If you want, put a complex series of skill trees behind this and let
it affect learning times, so that, for instance, if you already know
"Use Sword in Combat" then you can learn "Use Javelin in Combat" much
more quickly.

And while you're at it, why not eliminate skill levels in the skills
as well?  Or at least knock them down to something like 3 levels
(Novice, Veteran, Expert).  It seems to me that trying to accomodate
10 levels stretches Olympia in some undesirable ways.

Of course, if it were up to me, I'd also eliminate omniscient
learning.  You'd be able to learn some basic skills in any city, but
anything else you'd have to be taught by another unit, or RESEARCH it
at *considerably* more time and expense than being taught.  But this
practically begs for NPC teachers, which may be too much to implement
at this time.

-- Scott T.

References

Re: Okympia: New Subskills
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Wed, 08 Jul 1992 19:40:41 +0000
Re: Okympia: New Subskills
rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace)
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 05:54:20 +0000
Re: Okympia: New Subskills
Dave Horowitz <DSH109@psuvm.psu.edu>
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 11:34:12 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Okympia: New Subskills
skrenta@cbnewsg.att.com (Rich Skrenta)
Wed, 08 Jul 1992 19:40:41 +0000
Re: Okympia: New Subskills
rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace)
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 05:54:20 +0000
Re: Okympia: New Subskills
Dave Horowitz <DSH109@psuvm.psu.edu>
Thu, 09 Jul 1992 11:34:12 +0000