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Brain capacity question

Shouldn't brain capacity increase shorten the time for learning the skill currently learned?

Posted 7 months ago by Electric Wizard Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I may be wrong,but I think brain capacity raises the cap of how many skills you can learn.
    Posted 7 months ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Not if you have more skills then your capacity is my understanding. so if your learning skill # 41 and have a capacity of 39 you get hit with the full slow down of 5% per skill learned. if you can get the capacity over your current skills level... well that should be a different story.
    Posted 7 months ago by Boaz Jachin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Brain Capacity increases the number of skills you can learn before time penalty is added for each successive skill after you reach the number of skills matching your brain capacity.
    Posted 7 months ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Muncey Mango there is no cap as to how many skills you can learn. There is however a limit on how many skills you can learn at base learning times.

    edit:
    [beaten to the punch by TomC]
    Posted 7 months ago by Boaz Jachin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh I see, thanks for the tip!
    Posted 7 months ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hmmm.... I bought a Level 3 upgrade and am on my last skill.  It cost 30,000 IMG, I have only one skill left that I am learning now, all others are learned.  I noticed it did not change my time left on that skill, so did I waste 30,000 IMG?  

    Sorry if I'm dense, I'm not quite sure how this works!
    Posted 7 months ago by Cabinwood Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cabinwood, right now it's either a bug or intentional, but upgrades do not take effect for skills already being learned. It would probably work if you have not yet started learning the skill, then it'd be less time compared to without the upgrade (prior to learning it).
    Posted 7 months ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • OK, thanks TomC.  So, if any other skills come along, which I'm sure they will, it'll come in handy so no waste of IMG.  :)
    Posted 7 months ago by Cabinwood Subscriber! | Permalink
  • "Brain Capacity increases the number of skills you can learn before time penalty is added for each successive skill after you reach the number of skills matching your brain capacity."
    And when this penalty is added, as far as I know, the 5% penalty applies for all the learning time including the 5% for each skill before the next. So, if I have 44 brain capacity the 45th skill comes with 5% penalty, the 46th comes with 5% penalty on already penalized time and so on, am I right? So, when number of penalized skills is smaller (brain capacity increased) the 5% for each brain capacity should be removed.

    It's quite possible that I've got it all wrong, I don't know.

    OK the question was already answered, it does not apply for skills which are currently learned.
    Posted 7 months ago by Electric Wizard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You're right, the penalties are compounding.
    Posted 7 months ago by dm Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So say brain is full at 30 skills.
    On skill 31 it adds 5% so becomes 105% of base learning time.
    On skill 32 it becomes 100% + 5% + 5% so 110.25%
    skill 33 it becomes 100% + 5% + 5% + 5% = 115.7625%
    skill 34 100 + 5% + 5% + 5% + 5% = 121.550635% of base learning time.

    If while we are learning skill 34 we then buy an upgrade which gives us 3 extra skills before our brain is full skill 34 learning time will be unaffected, but, when we go to learn skill 35 we'd be back at 100% + 5% + 5% = 110.25%

    Is this correct or have I mis-read what you're saying?
    Posted 7 months ago by Vialdana Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah that's it, it's just that I was hoping it would affect the skill I'm learning at the moment.
    Posted 7 months ago by Electric Wizard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Vialdana & Ama-gi: that is the way it will work "soon" (we're working on it … skill learning time is a bit complicated). But, in the future, purchasing brain capacity or faster learning upgrades will force a recalculation of the current skills learning time.
    Posted 7 months ago by stoot barfield Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for that confirmation Stoot.

    Ama-gi - me too! ;)
    Posted 7 months ago by Vialdana Subscriber! | Permalink
  • At the moment, for me, purchasing a total of 5 brain capacity has had no impact on the skill I have yet to learn (not currently learning) TR2 - it has remained at 13 days. It sounds like this is a bug?
    Posted 7 months ago by geekybird Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine also stayed the same, and I have bought more than 5 extra brain capacity (Today).
    I have not yet started learning it. I'm guessing it is a bug of some sort.
    Posted 7 months ago by Biohazard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It won't change a skill you are currently learning but does change times for skills not yet learnt.
    Posted 7 months ago by Bexatious Subscriber! | Permalink