Topic

Unlearn skills?

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?

Posted 15 months ago by Smackem Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I am not sure why one would ever want to unlearn a skill. Clue me in.
    Posted 15 months ago by Bebo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The number of skills you have learned impacts the learning time of other skills. The less you know, the faster you learn.
    Posted 15 months ago by Caesura Subscriber! | Permalink
  • But is it worth the time of unlearning to save time for learning something new? I'd like to see the math.
    Posted 15 months ago by Bebo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 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.
    Posted 15 months ago by Smackem Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 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.
    Posted 15 months ago by Tingly Claus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I DEFINITELY want to unlearn some skills I clicked on by mistake. Ugh.
    Posted 15 months ago by Bashere Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 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.
    Posted 15 months ago by Negata Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Negata, I think you meant to say "can't unlearn AK1 if you know AK 2", right?
    Posted 15 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ...and presumably the unlearning skills count towards your "learned skills" count... and so make the situation worse in the first place LOL
    Posted 15 months ago by Snazzlefrazz Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 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
    Posted 15 months ago by Btaylor Subscriber! | Permalink
  • -1 The time returned would not be worth the code used to create this feature.
    Posted 15 months ago by Githern Subscriber! | Permalink
  • But Windborn! That is what I said! I definitely didn't just edit my post or anything just now at all ;9
    Posted 15 months ago by Negata Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 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. 
    Posted 15 months ago by WindBorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The giants must have something else in mind for the Unlearning skills that is beyond our ken (or maybe not).
    Posted 15 months ago by BarryW Subscriber! | Permalink