Can someone remind me why we added such a grind to PlaneShift?

[verden]

Skills have a value. Skills don't have stats. Characters have stats.

[Prolix]

skill abilities are modified by the stats that are programmed to be relevant to them. Fighting is affected by strength for example.

[Gravemind]

I think the grinding is perfect as it is. It should be very difficult and time consuming to max skills, because that's the way it would be if the game were real (see my post in the RP Covenant thread)

There is no reason grinding should be considered OOC or non-RP friendly. If someone wants to RP their character who is so focused on gaining power to the point where they exclude themselves from all social interaction, that is perfectly suitable.

I'm not saying I'm for or against what you say, but if everyone did this then there will be no endgame.  Once you are done "gaining power" there's really nothing to do with it because then everyone else will be busy "gaining power".

I said it was plausible if some people do it, not that all people should do it

[zanzibar]

Skills have a value. Skills don't have stats. Characters have stats.

My red way stat is in the low 30's.

[verden]

Your Red Way magic skill is in the low 30s.

[zanzibar]

Your Red Way magic skill is in the low 30s.

statistic

n.

   1. A numerical datum.
   2. A numerical value, such as standard deviation or mean, that characterizes the sample or population from which it was derived.
   3. One viewed as a nameless item of statistical information: got laid off and became another statistic in the slumping economy.

[verden]

What concerns us here is the definition of it in PlaneShift. Enough posting on this, please read the game information.

http://www.planeshift.it/guide/en/guide-stats.html

[Prolix]

Stop squabbling.

Each Way has a color and a mental stat associated. The color gives an indication of which of the realms that Way is closer to. The mental stat will give bonuses to the casting of spells that pertain to that Way.

http://www.planeshift.it/guide/en/guide-magic.html THe other skills are affected by stats similarly so it is proper to talk about a skill's stats being those that are associated with it.

 

[zanzibar]

PlaneShift terminology isn't exempt from the reality of language.  When I use the term statistics to refer to the stats of my character, meaning all the statistics including those of skills, then that's the sense I am using statistics, and I am right in doing so.  When you use the term stats to refer to body and mental stats (except for body development and empathy, which you consider to be skills and not stats), then you are right in doing so - although you leave yourself open to being misunderstood unless you explain yourself.