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Unlearning is useless!!

Why would you spend 12 hours learning Unlearning 1, just to get rid of other skills?

Posted 13 months ago by Sydems Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Because it takes off the time to learn other skills or something!

    Not sure on the stats... and it's a pretty long time to have learn the whole Better Learning skill path beforehand but whatever - it keeps my Rock occupied! 
    Posted 13 months ago by Hburger Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Brain feeling full? The power of Unlearning I means that any skill can be wiped from your memory in 100% of the time it would take to learn, leaving your neurons clean to soak up new information.

    Yeah I've run out of skills to learn :P , but i'm just saying it's pretty useless
    Posted 13 months ago by Sydems Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I could see dumping something like bubble tuning in 80 minutes, to save half a day on the potionmaking tree - at this point in the game I could afford to pay for converted bubbles and gases if I want to.  
    Posted 13 months ago by oscarette Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I find myself enjoying being able to do everything so much, that I think I'll just take the skill time penalties xP It's 4.5 days to the end of the potionmaking ladder for me (This with perfectly scheduled donations) and I'm okay with that, as long as I keep everything else I have :P
    Posted 13 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm not planning to do it either.  :)  But the OP couldn't see any point to the tree, and in fact it could save some people quite a lot of time, if they were finding they never actually want to go mining, or bother to plant crops....
    Posted 13 months ago by oscarette Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Holy moly, potionmaking 3 is gonna take forever.  I don't know how you can do it in 4.5 days; Skillifier's telling me it'll be a month without spending any favor.  Can't we only halve that?  I'm not sure that makes Unlearning worth it, but it starts to make the math interesting.  Do we know if you can be learning and unlearning at the same time?

    edit: Oh wait, PM3 isn't actually on the skills page, but skillifier sees it, with a base time of 4 days--and that at 471% penalty makes the majority of that month I was looking at.  The API must not be quite in sync, because skillifier's not showing unlearning either.  Disregard my 'how you can do it' question.
    Posted 13 months ago by Zauberberg Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't think Unlearning is worth it at all because in the long run (if you want all the skills) you would need them anyways. The time penalty is totally fine with me since *eventually* I would learn all the skills and there's no need to rush.
    Posted 13 months ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think I'm just philosophically opposed to unlearning anything, but temporarily, to get a faster end result, yeah -- why not?  I'll certainly learn the unlearning skills..after Potionmaking.
    Posted 13 months ago by Zauberberg Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, TomC, if you want to have all the skills, then you're going to have to learn Unlearning.  ;)  But yeah, you may as well leave it til the end.
    Posted 13 months ago by oscarette Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That's a good point, oscarette :p
    Posted 13 months ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What if there are 400 skills...? 

    But then I suppose if they take so long to unlearn...

    who knows?
    :)
    Posted 13 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If it's useless, it's pretty easy to ignore it without starting a thread about it.
    Posted 13 months ago by Parrow Gnolle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Every skill you have over your learning cap results in a 3% compounded learning penalty.  A graphed compounding function rises at a much greater-than-linear rate.  Unlearning is there so you can follow a skill tree that appeals to you at the expense of skill trees that may not, or may no longer appeal.   The learning cap is there so that people have to make choices, which is part of what makes it a game.
    Posted 13 months ago by WalruZ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've actually been waiting for Unlearning to get added to the game. I seem to be in the minority in that I don't want every skill in the game. A number of the skills I took early on I not only don't use, I don't want to use. Now I can shed them, and learn what I want faster!
    Posted 13 months ago by Zosimos Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Does anyone know if you can actually unlearn anything, or if you have to walk backwards down the prerequisite tree? If I could unlearn Tinkering I through IV but keep Tinkering V....
    Posted 13 months ago by Smlarg Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like to know ^^ this too. Who needs AK1-6 clogging up my mind once I've learned AK7. Something makes me think this will not be how it is implemented though.
    Posted 13 months ago by Cptbeej Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Back down the tree.
    www.glitch.com/forum/genera...
    Posted 13 months ago by oscarette Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I agree with Hburger.
    Posted 13 months ago by OMG BACON!! Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "If a skill you’ve learned is a requirement for another learned skill, the latter must be unlearned first"

    Explained here.
    Posted 13 months ago by Cptbeej Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'd have to learn Better Learning 4 and 5 before I can learn Unlearning 1. Which is almost 30 days at this stage. Bad planning on my part, true, but I might as well just give up and keep learning other skills. :P
    Posted 13 months ago by Nyx Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wonder if you can unlearn unlearning.  That would be cool, otherwise the 3 unlearning skills themselves add to your penalty.  Surely somebody has it already and can answer this.  (Sure we could just ask, but what's the fun in that?)

    edit: Clearly i'm late to the question: www.glitch.com/forum/genera...; Glad to know there are empirical minds out there.
    Posted 13 months ago by Zauberberg Subscriber! | Permalink