Skill rate slow doan near max skill

[Shendare]

client.cpp - Client::CheckIncreaseSkill

Defensive skills get a chance to increase with every swing an enemy takes at you. Offensive skills get a chance to increase with every swing you take at an enemy.

If you have 2 enemies attacking, you, you'll get twice as many opportunities to skill up defensive skills as offensive skills.

I don't see anything in the skillup code that would affect chances of skillups as you get closer to max for a level. This is basically it:

// Make sure we're not already at skill cap
	if (skillval < maxskill)
	{
		// the higher your current skill level, the harder it is
		int32 Chance = 10 + chancemodi + ((252 - skillval) / 20);

		Chance = (Chance * RuleI(Character, SkillUpModifier) / 100);

		Chance = mod_increase_skill_chance(Chance, against_who);

		if(Chance < 1)
			Chance = 1; // Make it always possible

		if(zone->random.Real(0, 99) < Chance)
		{
			SetSkill(skillid, GetRawSkill(skillid) + 1);
			Log.Out(Logs::Detail, Logs::Skills, "Skill %d at value %d successfully gain with %d%%chance (mod %d)", skillid, skillval, Chance, chancemodi);
			return true;
		} else {
			Log.Out(Logs::Detail, Logs::Skills, "Skill %d at value %d failed to gain with %d%%chance (mod %d)", skillid, skillval, Chance, chancemodi);
		}
	} else {
		Log.Out(Logs::Detail, Logs::Skills, "Skill %d at value %d cannot increase due to maxmum %d", skillid, skillval, maxskill);
	}

[starblight]

So I quickly realized I had not done enough research on the exact problem I was having. I do want to thank people for the info they posted. The source code is definitely interesting.

So my goal was to make skills a lot less of a concern. So I set as I said above the Character::SkillUpModifier to 2400 and while testing it over the next few day I set it to a variety of setting ranging from 300-24000. After leveling a group to level 65 a lot of the skills level at the expected rate. but a few seem to not work as expected. here is a list of ones that level fast up to around 100 then slow down. It seem like a 1% chance is about how slow they get.

• All weapon skills like 1hs 2hb and so on
• Swimming
• Archery
• Disarm (Broken skill?)

Oddly throwing skill levels up fast.

Class specific skills have not been tested as well. There is a rouge and back stab and pick pocket has been reported as levels up fast.

For now what I am considering as a work around will be to modify the source to change the chance line from 1 to 20

		if(Chance < 1)
			Chance = 1; // Make it always possible

		if(Chance < 60)
			Chance = 60; // Make it always possible

(edit)
A quick test on archery and this change worked. You now gain a skill point about 60% of the time.