Thanks Much appreciated.

First thing: Your work is wonderful. Count me as a fan.

Second thing: With regard to female klyros there are many options to indicate female gender other than breasts. Here are three semi-random possibilities. Wider hips to lay the large eggs of complex big-brained klyros. Longer, perhaps flowing, fins in brighter colors. Proportionally longer arms and legs and a more slender frame. I like breasts, but they just seem wrong on the intelligent pterodactyls that are klyros. This is an ongoing topic of discussion among some of the klyran players. Some of us hold strong opinions on the topic, others less so. The klyros you drew is beautiful in any case.

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Quote from: Cirerey on October 21, 2013, 08:51:28 am

Quote from: novacadian on October 20, 2013, 07:53:52 pm

My wish is simply that while running back and forth across the great expanse of the Dome that all that exercise ends up increasing my strength and endurance. Not to go to a trainer after getting PPs via other means but directly related to the exercise. My boots wear out; why not my muscles get stronger and my endurance increases? That was my wish, not to dis the current system or anything; but simply to add something to it. 

Would the accrual of exp points for the expenditure of physical and  / or mental stamina be an acceptable alternative to you? It would give noobs another way to gather PP beyond beating rats and kikiri. Even if it was only 20 exp points running from Hydlaa to Ojaveda it would at least symbolically add some training value to exercise. Just a thought...

Yeah, that would surely be an easier way to make it happen. The only drawback there is that you could then use those pps for other things. My feeling is that the exercise 'learn by doing' should only apply to certain stats.

After a little thought I realized that it might make more sense for the exertion to gain training points for stats that have already purchased training. Just like skills. It makes things more consistent.

This thread has evolved much better than ever expected. To be looking at the very mechanics of levelling is great. If everything could be tailored towards learn by doing that would go a long way to removing the grind. Things would just happen then with the only running around being the activity the player wanted to do.

As to tria for training... that only really affects noobs. When my character was going through a hard phase of that my alt that was training only in smelting would leave gold bricks as offerings on the alter where she would pick them up. The smitty character always had more than enough tria and pps to advance in his smitty skills. The tria part could be taken out of the equation to a great extent. She now always has more than enough tria for training.

It is finally dawning on me that to make PS enjoyable to a large number of players again the entire skill raising system needs to be not overhauled, but remade. This discussion is touching on points to that remaking which is great to see.

But that gets back to the problem of there being a very limited number of volunteers to do this sort of thing. There is no "rules department" with a staff of full time paid programmers. So what can realistically be done is limited. I do like the thread though. It is an interesting and thoughtful discussion.

PP are learning by doing. In a more generalized fungible form to allow cross training. What earns PP and how many can always be discussed.

There has been some discussion among The One Guild of a protest march in Hydlaa. Is there interest in participating or opposing? The tentative issues to protest are unequal access to justice and a lack of civil rights. The plan is that the march will begin, proceed rambunctiously and chaotically, and be dispersed by the guards. To be followed by drunken shouting at Kada's.

I offer LigH a cold beer, in a tavern full of hot women.