Training

[leach117]

Is there any plans on being able to have training points or npcs you can pay to train you in sword fighting or spell casting types? If not i believe it would be a very good idea. You could train as you lvl and also get exp in practice from what skill it is. Post your thoughts because i know i am being very vague on this subject.

[Xordan]

It could be a good idea, but I think it should only be useful to very low skilled characters.

[Wedge]

Training is pointless unless you made some sort of mini-game style implementation of it so you actually had to DO something to train.  Otherwise you\'re just buying experience, and that\'s dumb.

[elscouta]

In another thread, someone (sorry, i don\'t remember thread & requestor) had the idea of allowing peoples to read books to gain exps.

I really liked this idea.

Each book could have an exp prerequisite and and an exp value. I think that most of the book will be quickly acquired by guilds so newbies can join a guild to access their private library and so getting started. Most valuable books (like Mastering the Blue Way, pre-exp 100, given exp 25) can be price in tournaments (guild-tournament) or given to the first one who resolve a quest. Some others books can be very common (like How to Climb pre-exp 0, exp given 5) and can be found in many places, given from player to player.

i think this will be also more original than classical NPC-training

[Xordan]

yes, these would be good, as they would be very useful to newbies, but to a highly skilled person they wouldn\'t make much difference.

[Waylander]

Xordan always has to put his 2 cents in,  I like the book idea, maybe there could be authors who can write books they would need the material and all, im tired btw, authors could get really rich really fast by selling their books to the guild

[derwoodly]

I no need books to know how to kill!!!  Books are for evil wizzards.  My father gave me this sword with his blood soaked hand, and someday I will find his killer and avenge his death!!!!



The book idea makes sense for intelectual skills but for combat skills you will need a trainer.  I believe PS will have a skill system that lets you level your skills independently.  Meaning you will not have levels.  To gain skill in casting White way spells you will have to actually cast white way spells. Over and over and over over and over again.

[Sarios]

I agree with derwoodly! I believe that instead of going through having to run around finding, per say, a trainer that we should train independantly so that for every time we use an action we get stronger in that subject! More examples are:  you start off kind of a weak fighter so you fight weak monsters and for every monster faught your fighting skill gets stronger. SO, just keep fighting them until they are no competition for your fighting skill, then move on to the next level!!

[Fanomatic2000]

Sounds like the system morrowind uses.

[Waylander]

Maybe trainers could be nmes that get better as you do.  That way you would be fighting monsters without worry of another monster coming and killing you.

[Sifright]

How about if you have a gym where newbies who begged for a bit of money at the start can get in and train there str up slowly with weight training eg. bench pressing and a Punch bag to train  up the agressive martial arts slightly not sure what its called. there could a way to increase his dexterity by dodging a dummy that spins round with multi spining arms and legs :p
as for endurence getting hit up in the boxing ruing would eventualy increase this. this would also increase armour proficency in the armour you are wearing as you learn to allow the armour to take more of the armour for you.

[Skain]

Yup, with training u can get real good at attacking immobile bits of strawmen.

*prods Wedge\'s post* Makes sense that man.

[Sifright]

actuly how do you think they used to train in martial arts in the old times where kung fu was the best form of self defense against dummies it would teach how to execute the moves and how to take the pain that comes from being smacked around.

[Skain]

Originally posted by Sifright
...kung fu was the best form of self defense against dummies...

yeh, those dummies dont half pack a punch

[Sifright]

Allow me to reiterate that sentence how i meant it to come out....  IT was the best way of practising the the basics of the martial arts and ium not talking about straw dummies im talknig of strong solid wood..