EQEmulator Forums - Increasing Tradeskill Skillups

I didn't really know where to post this, but I was looking through the source to find a way to increase tradeskill skill up rate and I found this

Code:

 // Remember: skillup_modifier is (float). Lower is better

        switch(spec->tradeskill) {

        case FLETCHING:

        case ALCHEMY:

        case JEWELRY_MAKING:

        case POTTERY:

                skillup_modifier = 4;

                break;

        case BAKING:

        case BREWING:

                skillup_modifier = 3;

                break;

        case RESEARCH:

                skillup_modifier = 1;

                break;

        default:

                skillup_modifier = 2;

                break;

        }

Does this mean that if I change the skillup_modifier to 1, then they will go up faster? and also could this be turned into a rule by doing something like

Code:

skillup_modifier = RuleI(Character, TradeSkillUpModifier)

if I put in a rule called tradeskillupmodifier that defaulted to 2?