Whatever happened to the 'unlearn' skills? It used to be in the skills tree but were not activated in the beta. Will they be added at some later date? Is there any workaround or means to unlearn skills presently?
Well, if you go over your Better Learning skill allotment and suddenly skill learning takes forever. It would be advantageous to drop some skills to get below the limit, spend some time on Better Learning then go back and relearn the dropped skill at a later time.
I thought Unlearns were kinda silly for now, but they'll be a big deal when the skill table gets huge and especially if they ever decide to limit the number of skills you can have.
IIRC, the description for unlearning 1 stated that you could unlearn a skill in roughly half the time it took to learn it. For an investment of about 7 hours, you can shave around a day off the learning time of Teleportation 5 by unlearning Gasmogrification/Fruit Changing/Spice Milling/Bubble Tuning. Worth it? Not really.
The devs already stated that you'd be unable to unlearn skills if you know a skill that uses it as a pre-req (IE can't unlearn AK1 if you know AK2), so the value is reduced further. It's probably better just to plan your skills carefully.
Maybe it'd be better with U3? I think that was unlearn in 5% of learning time, but takes a total of 4 days to learn. And would add almost a day's worth of time onto Teleportation 5.
As someone who learned every learneable skill during the beta (almost learned em all more than once), and almost never sped up my learning, unlearning seems dumb
Negata, those pixies behind my pixels must have re-arranged them just for me. I could swear that you said the opposite. So much for eye-witness accounts.