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How does the time bonus from using shrine favor work?

Before the recent tests it was only able to cut the time needed to learn by 49%. Lately, there has been some oddity in it...

I tried to reduce a 2-day skill to 1 day, donated to all 3 giants (2000 favor x 3), but at the 3rd giant, and with 1 day and 14 hours left, it said that I was already learning as fast as I can.

Just wondering... how does it work now? Is it limited to a certain percentage or what? This is one part of the game that the mechanics I haven't really got to understand.

Posted 18 months ago by Serenadier Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • We posted at the same time :)

    But, no: it's not a bug. Spending favor doubles the normal rate. So, just like walking twice as fast gets you there in half the time, doubling the rate at which you learn means you learn it twice as fast (takes 50% as long).
    Posted 18 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Not trying to throw a monkey wrench in this discussion, but if you have BLV and it automatically deducts 20% off learning time then when you donate to cut learning in half is that half of the original time or half off the 80% time it takes to learn a new skill?  "Normal" time what time is normal in Glitch?
    Posted 18 months ago by xoxJulie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • xoxJulie: It's half of the time showing on your Skills page, which is 80%.

    Not to confuse everyone MORE or anything, but a change was made to the way we learn skills.  The more skills we already know, the more time is tacked onto the ones we haven't learned yet.  That's why everyone's skill learning time is different.  So there's a whole forum thread about times, Better Learning skills, etc., and what I took from it is that it's just going to take a really long time to learn things unless we donate a lot.  Your best option is always to begin to spend favor points as soon as you start to learn a new skill, and then to continue until you can't spend them anymore, so you've cut your skill learning time to 50%.
    Posted 18 months ago by glum pudding Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My teleportation 5 is marked to take 13 days and I was only able to donate and cut one day off of that time. All the shrine gods keep telling me I'm learning as fast as I can. :(
    Posted 18 months ago by 1padme Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 1padme, i find that I have to wait a game day to be able to get those shrines to learn for me again.  So, with a multi-day skill, donate and spend 999 at every shrine.  wait a game day.  repeat until the time is cut in half.
    Posted 18 months ago by zeeberk Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Does not work to wait a game day. It just keeps saying I'm learning as fast as I can. :(
    Posted 18 months ago by 1padme Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 1padme, if you pause a skill that has been sped up but not to the full 50%, and then you go back to it after learning something else, you lose the ability to speed it up anymore. Did you pause the skill at any time?
    Posted 18 months ago by MaryLiLamb Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I must have, because it's the only answer now. But it didn't work that way before, did it?
    Great, on the longest skill I can't speed it up anymore. :(
    Posted 18 months ago by 1padme Subscriber! | Permalink
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