- Status Postponed
- Percent Complete
- Task Type Feature Request
- Category Engine
- Assigned To No-one
- Operating System
- Severity Very Low
- Priority
- Reported Version
- Due in Version Undecided
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Due Date
Undecided
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Votes
1
- Kenny (26.01.2014)
- Private
Opened by Erodare Lenizus - 22.11.2013
Last edited by Venalan - 24.11.2013
FS#6244 - Drop Skill Button
On Skill window, add a button to drop the selected skill, with a Yes / No confirmation.
This would execute the equivalent of “/setskill me <skill name> 0” (or something close to that) removing all training, practice, rank, etc.
Would do nothing on stats / factions tabs.
This would allow players to remove skills they’re no longer interested in, don’t fit the character they’re developing, deprecated skills, not-yet-implemented skills, or skills acquired from the character generator that the player considers extraneous or unnecessary.
No compensation should be given for the lost ranks, practice, etc. and that should be stated in the confirmation dialog, along with a clear advisory that the action is permanent and irreversible.
Unless we’ve sweet talked a GM into doing it for us, we often have extra skills with a rank of 1 or 2 that we may have inadvertently trained or practiced and they clutter up the list view of skills, as they’re not suppressed by the Filter feature.
A better filter function would be more practical.
I don't think either idea excludes the other :)
I vote for better filters - a persistent ones.
Setting skill to 0 is 1) dangerous and 2) not RP-style.
Just some thoughts:
Your character is not you.
You are not his/her/kra God, right?
We all do have some (or many) "useless" or just unused skills and knowledge in the real world.
I agree with bilbous' and Roman's arguments and add a technical one … Expect unintentionally dropped skills and the resulting (IMO still justified) whining. Too risky to have something as powerful in the GUI.
"that should be stated in the confirmation dialog, along with a clear advisory that the action is permanent and irreversible"
Doesn't matter…this is a FR and got marked Postponed, so it's effectively invisible and expect nothing along these lines will happen.
Even with confirmation dialog it could be dangerous, you can always expect communication errors or bugs (like reversed Yes/No or even random problems). And sometimes you can click it accidentally and click Yes blindly without thinking or during (mouse) lag. It would need more than simple yes/no, like a text typing (i.e. "I agree with zeroing this skill") and then clicking Yes or hitting Enter.
Perhaps skills could be dropped, for example, if they are below rank 10.