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Skill Tree Growing Pains

How might the skill tree fare with the new skills our wonderful leader Stoot always says are coming 'soon' :)? 

As of now every emblem spent already unlocks a skill. What happens when, somewhere down the line, we have Construction III or some such. How will it be limited so we cannot get it right away? Spent TWO emblems of Alph?

Thoughts?

Posted 14 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Spend first icon of Alph?
    Posted 14 months ago by Ximenez Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Most of the skills require achievements. Most of the time, you get the achievements in normal play or completing the mission for skills before it, so you often wont notice. Still, some take a bit more effort, and if they wanted to make a significant barrier to learning a skill, the devs could easily make a really hard achievement required beforehand.

    In fact, during beta new skills appeared in the tree before they were ready, but they required "the impossible achievement".
    Posted 14 months ago by MrGlass Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wouldn't say most, MrGlass. The vast majority of the achievements that are required are the spent Emblem of whomever badges, which I pointed out. :P For example, the Kinship tree requires only that you spend an emblem of humbaba to learn the whole thing. So what are the plans for blocking off some higher level of kinship, or different branch of it, that might appear in the future?

    Any ideas :P? I like your thought of simply having achievments that are dissimilar to what there is now. Perhaps to learn the as yet unmade skill 'Fish Loyalty' which allows you to hug flying fish for salmon or some such, you must have earned the achievement Ham Hocker. So that you have to actually have experience with animals to learn the skill. :)
    Posted 14 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I suspect "spend first icon of Alph" as a pre-req might indeed be the way they go to lock off some higher level skills, along with some advanced achievements. Long way to go before we get there, though.
    Posted 14 months ago by Axe-a-lot-l Subscriber! | Permalink