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#### Time penalty escalation during skill learning

I started a new skill earlier today. My time penalty was 376%. Now, after 6 hours, it is 400%. At this rate, by the time I finish learning the skill it will be somewhere around 550%. I don't recall seeing anything that talked about a steady increase while learning new skills. Did I miss something?
This is happening WHILE I am learning the new skill, not at the end, as it always has in the past.

Posted 6 months ago by Yousei | Permalink

### Replies

- Skill times do increase. The first skill in a tree is relatively short. Then each successive skill in that tree is longer than the preceding skill.
  Posted 6 months ago by Brib Annie | Permalink
- I'm pretty sure your penalty just increases by a given percent per individual skill learned (including the one you're currently learning), not per hour of skill learning, or anything like that.
  Posted 6 months ago by Aurora Dellaterra | Permalink
- Time increases 5% for each skill above your brain capacity.
  Posted 6 months ago by Kopek | Permalink
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  Posted 6 months ago by Yousei | Permalink
- Sounds like a bug to me. It shouldn't have jumped 25% during one skill.
  Posted 6 months ago by Addi Bee~♥ | Permalink
- If you have any skills paused, they add a time penalty too.
  Posted 6 months ago by Liridona | Permalink
- partially learned skills add to the time penalty, so perhaps the original time penalty was before starting to learn the current skill, and the new time penalty is a result of having started that skill
  Posted 6 months ago by >^.^< | Permalink
- The 5% compounds; it doesn't add. So, if you were exactly at 376% before you should have been at 394% after (that's 376*1.05)
  Posted 6 months ago by stoot barfield | Permalink
- Well, soot, you had it wrong!
  376% penalty means that it takes 476% time.
  476*1.05 = 499.8, rounded to 500, hence 400%.
  Posted 6 months ago by Ygasuasu | Permalink
- s'cool, i can't remember a time stoot ever got anything on this topic entirely right
  he tries though, he tries. and that's what counts!
  Posted 6 months ago by Negata | Permalink
- The penalty is added immediately upon choosing a new skill - and all remaining skill times are recalculated based on this. The skill you have just chosen will run according to the penalty as it was, Zeno has no hand in your learning.
  What is "different" now is that your penalty rate is reported through an official source, so you can see the point in the process at which it's always changed.
  Posted 6 months ago by Stuv | Permalink