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Link fail.

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I think they might be admitting people in bursts. I signed up, but they just said they'll email me sometime in the future.

Edited, Sep 27th 2011 4:42pm by idiggory

Lol, that's why I said you failed. :P I debated a LMGTFY link, but I'm lazy.

Pretty much I described it as EVE's learning schedule with PG-rated Kingdom of Loathing humor and some Civilization gameplay aspects (as you get to build new zones and whatnot). Glad you're liking it so far!

Also, FYI, once you learn 20 skills, each subsequent skill you learn increases the learning time by a small percent. I would imagine it might be worth learning some higher tier skills before you hit the 20 limit; I'm at Animal Kinship VI, for example, and hope to learn the final tier before hitting the limit. Should shave a day or two off the time if I was to wait until I had 25-30 skills.

What I found from Beta is that, while the crating skills allow you to make good stuff (food that restores hundreds of energy, cocktails that give you nifty buffs), they also require a TON of ingredients on your person. They also have rather low time requirements (maybe 3-4 hours for the second and final tiers?), so I'd hold off on them if you can. Furthermore, every food and drink can be bought from specific vendors... or could in Beta at least. That kinda made it more efficient (in my mind) to forego them for a while.

But yes, all the crafting stuff at higher levels requires items from other crafting skills; neat little circle.

My goal is to get out of Groddle, haha. I spent almost all of my time there; need to look at some of the big continents, and the ancestral lands (which seem neat; great quoin rewards, but bandits who steal your items if you run into them, and a time limit of how long you can stay in the zone).

I'm like, not sure what to do in that game...

Really interesting game. I made a character named Missingn0. I'll probably be wasting a lot of time with it.

Did you try playing it or just watch the video? The video is pretty trippy; the game itself is pretty easy to pick up. It's mostly exploration and crafting. You kinda make your own goals; again, it's one of those games you will either love or hate.

Neither do I, really. I think that's because there isn't one.

I started playing a couple days ago to see how it is. Pretty fun... but I just bought my first house and started planting stuff in it. I wonder if they will die when I'm not online? And how long before they die. I'm hoping it's not all Farmville on me and only works if I spend every couple hours on the game. I need to be able to work/sleep.

Ya, I planted a few in the morning, and 11 hours later logged on to play after getting home from work and eating supper. Their water level was still around 25-30% and they were fully grown. It looks like even the fast growing crops last quite some time before drying up. My trees are fully grown and don't care if I miss 10-12 hours. My captured pig is just walking around happily.

I'm learning remote heardkeeping right now, and then going for Animal Kinship 7. Then going after the Gardening/Croppery skills. I haven't touched the mining or alchemy skill tree yet. I've donated all my Music Boxes for Favor, and am working on getting my Mab emblem for Gardening III. So far I got Humbaba and Grendaline.

My in game name is Tharon. I have a small tree house in Krifti Crown in Tamila.

Animal, Cooking, and Gardening for me so far. I really should learn Teleportation... probably this weekend after I get my Animal skills maxed.

Also, a bit of information about learning skills; man, did I have this wrong before...

It appears that there is actually a sliding scale on when learning skills slows down. I originally said "after 20 skills are learned, your learning time slows down" and that's true... but...

Better Learning Skills improve the player's brain capacity, delaying the 3% time penalty. The Better Learning Skills themselves do not add to brain capacity.

With Better Learning I, 21 Skills can be learned without slowing down (22 with Better Learning I included).
With Better Learning II, 24 Skills can be learned without slowing down (26 with Better Learning I & II included).
With Better Learning III, 28 Skills can be learned without slowing down (31 with Better Learning I thru III included).
With Better Learning IV, 32 Skills can be learned without slowing down (36 with Better Learning I thru IV included).
With Better Learning V, 37 Skills can be learned without slowing down (42 with Better Learning I thru V included).

This means that as soon as you hit that 20 skill limit (or right before), start learning Better Learning. It'll save you a TON of time. You also get the speed bonuses as well as the push-back, so with Better Learning V you'll get a limit of 42 (total) skills before you start seeing increasing times, but you also get 20% faster learning on everything.

*Edit: Stoot might be wrong, however, as people are saying that the 5 Better Learning skills do count toward the increased limit. So at Better Learning V you have 32 other skills you can learn before the time starts to increase. This is likely a bug and will hopefully be fixed.

Edited, Oct 7th 2011 11:20am by LockeColeMA

Are you speeding the time up any? I just saw on their Twitter feed that you can now spend emblems to speed up times; not sure how that works, but I think I'll be doing that for my next long skill (likely the next rank of better learning).

I just started Better Learning III and already brought the time down from over 9 hours to a bit over 7. I think I can get it down to maybe 5 or so...

Also, has anyone else tried to do this awful quest--Prove your Rock Fighting Mettle?

It's EVIL.