I realize I learned everything the "wrong" way but I just added up the time remaining to learn all the other skills and excluding BL4 and BL5 that total comes to about 60days.
The time in and of itself doesn't bother me. I think 3 months to "max" is acceptable.
What bothers me is that learning BL4 and BL5 right now would take 12 days which is the exact bonus time I'd save. (I already know 38 skills so the BL5 ability to "hold 37 in my head" probably doesn't apply and I don't really know what it means.)
My question is: how much more will my unlearned skills increase in time cost? Obviously 12 days to learn BL4 and BL5 would pay off now if I can keep expecting the skill times to increase.
(In case you're wondering how I got here: I logged in soon after the reset, ran through the tutorial again got my beta achievement, logged out, and clicked skills on the web for over a week or so. When I hit the cap (some skills require being lvl 3 and 4) I ran around a bit, leveled up, logged out and returned to web learning. I don't remember the total but I think it was around 34 skills learned before I hit the favor/achievement-gated skills.
I know that's not how the game is supposed to be played but getting the email that I'd finished learning a skill with a link to learn another set up a feedback loop. Just seems like a pretty steep penalty for not having maxed my Lem favor.)