schools

[legbreaker]

i have seen schools and NPC guilds or somethin like that in other games.

Once u have joined the school for your class, they will provide you with quests suitable for you, they also will teach you some magic or skills. in a certin level, they would provide you with a item that would be helpful for you.

if we don\'t have schools, i have no idea how people can learn stuff

[Mehallie]

With practice and common sense, you can manage without using schools to train in or anything of the kind.

I\'m not overfond of the \"schools\" system as it makes people lazy.  Granted, there are particular \"jobs\" in this game, but honestly, most skills or schools are pretty common sense.  If you want to be a monk, you choose the quick creation in the start of the game and there you are; you can further challenge yourself and make a more interesting character with the custom creation and just pick through the stats to try and give yourself more \"monk-like\" qualities, and even pick some magic.    

 Now, in order to learn something, you have to look around, talk to every npc (not shout every five seconds \"I need to find so-and-so\" and \"where is such-and-such\").  With the introduction of guides in the Froglok outpost in EQ, I felt as if my intelligence was being insulted; no-one bothered to explore their world - people seemed to quite literally need an NPC to hold them by the hand.  Most people even shouted \"where do I find the guides\" every few seconds - failing to note that for all their shouting and whingeing, they could have found half the things they were needing to find.

There\'s nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

I doubt that this game will do away with schools or the like for people who want to do the quick-creation of a character.  But I still think you\'re going to have to seek out the school you want to learn from, and you\'ll probably not be limited to just one school alone.  No reason a monk can\'t learn a little magic.  

If the game does NOT have schools, it\'s very simple to learn things - you go out and you explore and use your skills.  I\'d be happy to find a game that didn\'t hand everything to you on a silver platter - that you actually had to hunt around to find things you were interested in, and rewarded the person who actually tried to go out of their way to learn skills without needing to resort of a bunch of cheat-books or shouting out questions every few minutes.

It\'s not impossible to get on without schools.  It\'s just a bit of a challenge, and that to me is more rewarding.

[legbreaker]

interesting

[kyp14]

Anyone remember Links school of grammar, LOL opps I mean laugh out loud.

[Kiern]

umm...in case no one noticed there is a job called \"teacher\" on the list, which I think indicates there will be schools...there is also some other posts on the same subject somewhere on this board if your interested

[legbreaker]

but i thought the teachers are gonna teach you how to read comics aren\'t they?

[Fanomatic2000]

but i thought the teachers are gonna teach you how to read comics aren\'t they?

Umm...yeah..
Just because there is a job called \"teacher\" on the list doesn\'t have to mean that there will be schools.
Teachers can be freelancers without a school you know
However, I think that it would be good to have schools where newbies could go and practice their skills up to a certain level.
It could be situated in the same building as the library where the newbie-students could read all sorts of info about the Planeshift-world.
It would be good if the newbies had to do an exam before they entered the world (there is another older thread about this). That way new players have to know some basic things about the world before they are allowed to enter.

[Aztec_Brave]

Teachers don\'t neccasarily (spelling!!!) have to train people up in disciplines. They can be type of scholar or something.

I too am a firm believer in getting off your ass in a MMORPG. IF you have NPCs to hold your hand, your just playing a single player game with a lot of people around you. Player guilds, that\'s something different of course. But having in-game schools/guilds that teach you everything. NO!!! Get a pick-axe, hit rocks, get ore, smelt ore style of life. In real-life, I learned to play guiatar by myself, nothing is stopping you from learning to wield a sword by yourself in a MMORPG.