Level Up - Skill Point Assignment Improvement Needed

Tecknomage · Post by **Tecknomage** » December 6th, 2007, 9:37 am

There is one thing I do not like in Eschalon, the assignment of Skill Points when you Level Up.

Since point assignment is not the [+]/[-] method you can end up assigning Skill Points then find out you don't have enough points left for a skill you really want.

SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENT: Have the cost of each skill displayed in the right-hand list.

This would give players an better idea of what skills they can and want to assign Skill Points to.

Alternative, have a better description of skill costs in the manual.

Of course, this is moot if there is a way to know what each skill costs that I am not aware of.

Necromis · Post by **Necromis** » December 6th, 2007, 9:44 am

whats the issue? All the skills have the same cost to buy. 3 for the first level and 1 there after. Your suggestion is pretty meaningless and wasteful.

skinny · Post by **skinny** » December 6th, 2007, 9:46 am

im not following you

it seems that skill point assignment is as straightforward as can be

now what each point actually does is another thing

alpha · Post by **alpha** » December 6th, 2007, 10:08 am

AFAIK right-clicking on a skill decreases it's level, if you changed your mind. Works only during a single level-up session.

skinny · Post by **skinny** » December 6th, 2007, 10:18 am

what would be really nice is if you can reallocate your skill points after you, inevitably, regret them later on

like a sage guy npc you meet or some shit like that

dryden · Post by **dryden** » December 6th, 2007, 10:21 am

skinny wrote:now what each point actually does is another thing

I'm not sure either of what the problem is, it costs 3 points to "buy" a new skill or one point to raise an existing skill by one point, in either character creation or level up. You can take points back during a session, but once you exit the editor, they are locked in.

But, as skinny said, to know the effect of that additional point will have on the skill is a whole different thing. In Cartography, for instance, you can see immediate differences in the addition of points at lower levels, say up to level 7 or 8, but above that I was not able to tell with my first character, who I took to 10 in Cartography, what improved above level 7.

Tecknomage · Post by **Tecknomage** » December 6th, 2007, 4:50 pm

Necromis wrote:whats the issue? All the skills have the same cost to buy. 3 for the first level and 1 there after. Your suggestion is pretty meaningless and wasteful.

You have your opinion, but I did not see your info in the manual. May have missed it.

But thanks for the answer, it's what I was looking for

nonameform · Post by **nonameform** » December 6th, 2007, 6:04 pm

I believe that at the last level up while browsing skills I've seen a "Buy this skill for 3 points" message.