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Skill learning is too easy. Let's make it more difficult.

Skill learning times should be expressed in hours of in-game gameplay, not in hours of real life clock time. 

Posted 7 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Maybe a combination of both; you would always be "learning faster" when logged in (added to the other learning accelerators).
    Posted 7 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've enjoyed being able to learn skills while sleeping or at work, but there's been this voice in the back of my head saying, "this is not challenge, this is actually taking away from playing the game."

    I kind of like Janitch's suggestion, too, as a way of tweaking it for balance.

    +1
    Posted 7 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Let's not make it more difficult; I can only play a few hours each day. You know, work & all.
    Posted 7 months ago by CrashTestPilot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • How to make casual players totally helpless within the game.  

    This idea would create a huge skills gap between players who could devote multiple hours every day to playing Glitch and those who could only play on weekends or when work/family/obligations could be set aside for a while.  

    Only people with few responsibilities IRL would be able to learn skills and use them in the game.

    No thanks.
    Posted 7 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Leave it the way it is. Players who have more time can come in-world and spend the hours. For example, if you have a 25 day learning time, you can do it in 25 days if you don't come in and work on lowering the time. But if you can make it in, you can lower that 25 days to about 13. So, there is a benefit already built in for players who have the time. I think that's good enough.
    Posted 7 months ago by Leelah Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Actually, TS has already implemented this idea.  While skills can be learned outside game time, the iMG needed to buy upgrade cards is a reflection of how much time you spend in-game earning those points.  
    Posted 7 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What Crash said.  Let's NOT make it more difficult.  I have all the skills but OH MY GOD I would have HATED it if I had had to have been on-line / in-world the entire time I was learning in order to learn the skills.  YUCK.

    Let's leave it like it is please for those who don't play 24/7.
    Posted 6 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If anything, being logged out should accelerate the learning process (much like earning rested experience in other MMOs while logged out). Spending all that time in-game would just tax our little glitchy brains, and slow down learning (just a little).
    Posted 6 months ago by Wrench Subscriber! | Permalink