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[IronTomato]

I turn it off because I dislike it.

Does anyone else thing that (a)pplying a towel should clean off boomer bile? Possibly making the towel unusable until cleaned with water?

+1

I also believe that drying off at all should make the towel wet, and will need time to dry off.

[Damiac]

How does int cap work? The skills only rust when they're above your int value? 

Yeah, you should be able to clean off boomer bile with a towel. Do goggles protect you from being blinded by it?

[Zireael]

How does int cap work? The skills only rust when they're above your int value?

I think so, yeah.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I don't currently use skill rust because I am against the current implementation of it. It feels wrong to just lose hard work because I don't religiously bandage myself and ironically capping by int feels like a bandage with it to. I think there is a system that could work but it would need testing and too many people don't want to even touch it to get it done in any good speed.

[scrdest]

How does int cap work? The skills only rust when they're above your int value?

I think so, yeah.

I actually think it's a combination of Cap and Int options, so it cannot drop more than, IIRC, two levels below your max reached level and the speed of rust is slowed down by your INT rust modifier (displayed at chargen). Not sure, though, devs would need to chime in.

[i2amroy]

ironically capping by int feels like a bandage with it to.

That's exactly what it is. Adding the int cap was just a way to bring the current system closer to being balanced until we eventually get around to reworking the actual system itself. It was never intended to be a final solution, just a semi short-term fix to the current system.

And yeah, int cap is just a combination of the cap and int systems, where it will never actually drop down a level but will just decay to 0% (cap) and decay rates are modified by your int values (int).

[Akura]

I also believe that drying off at all should make the towel wet, and will need time to dry off.

It does this, actually. At least in the experimental.

[Mookzen]

Skill rust was implemented in the first place to counter the accumulation of skills into a super-master-of-all-character trivializing the game, can't we just drop the inane idea that people can forget skills in a matter of days and come up with a different solution ?

[i2amroy]

Skill rust was implemented in the first place to counter the accumulation of skills into a super-master-of-all-character trivializing the game, can't we just drop the inane idea that people can forget skills in a matter of days and come up with a different solution ?

The problem you are stating right there isn't the fact that skill rust exists, it's the fact that it starts way too strong and scales way too quickly.

The eventual goals for the system (as I understand it) are:

• Compress skills into a 0-10 range a bit more. 0 is no skills at all, 4-6 is average joe level, 7-8 would be a "professional" level, 9-10 would be world class level.
• Greatly lower skill rust rates and scaling, but increase the work required to move up a level scaling. This means it will be fairly easy to accomplish getting to levels 5-8, but to reach 7-8 will take some effort and you will need occasional maintenance on the skill to maintain your level. Getting up to the 9-10 range will take much more time and effort, and will require fairly often maintenance to maintain. The end result should be that it's fairly easy for the player to maintain their normally used skills in the 7-8 range, with less used skills around 4-6 and maybe 1-2 skills up in the 9-10 range. It's not intended for the player to reach a 9-10 skill level on all of their skills, at least not without some outside help (such as a bionic).
• Continue the knowledge/skill split that we've already started to see with the book recipes. Eventually most things will require learning the recipe more than they will a set skill level. This could also possibly be used to increase the power of skills in char gen, if players start with all or a substantial portion of recipes below their skill level unlocked at char gen than that could be a large reduction in the need to hunt a library or other information source down for specific recipes.
• Allow the player to "practice" if they have the time and materials available. This would automate the craft/uncraft grind players get into. However this would be much less powerful than before due to the fact that most recipe access will be determined by knowledge, not by skill.
• Allow the player to "research" potential recipes with the right time and materials. This would work similar to practicing, but would trade most of its ability to increase your skill for the chance to potentially unlock recipes for future use.

[Grendus]

Where do you get Biollante/Tainted Veggie? I'm working on mutagens at the moment, and need plant mutagen to make elf-a.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Does leveling skills scale in cost at all right now? If they don't then try making it go up ala Fibonacci sequence. It could would help with keeping skills somewhat in check. The first few levels are still easy but the difficulty goes up in a nice progression.

[Steelmagic]

Where do you get Biollante/Tainted Veggie? I'm working on mutagens at the moment, and need plant mutagen to make elf-a.

I think you get tainted veggie from Fungaloids. Been too long since I've played Cataclysm.

[i2amroy]

   Does leveling skills scale in cost at all right now? If they don't then try making it go up ala Fibonacci sequence. It could would help with keeping skills somewhat in check. The first few levels are still easy but the difficulty goes up in a nice progression.

I think it does, but I'm not sure on that.

[Rez]

Where do you get Biollante/Tainted Veggie? I'm working on mutagens at the moment, and need plant mutagen to make elf-a.

You need to find some triffids.

[Grendus]

I figured as much. Couldn't remember if they were fungaloid or triffid.