At 03:14 PM 6/10/99 -0500, Mike Roach wrote:

>Shouldn't take more than a
>week to max out each one using this method, any other way would probably
>take a lot longer. As far as I know you must be fighting MOBs that con blue
>or higher to increase the skills.

Is there any clean way to tell if you have a skill maxed? Sometimes it's a
very long time between seeing the numbers on an improvement message, if you
see it at all in the flurry of battle, and sometimes they seem to pile on
one another.

Would it really be so intrusive as a game mechanism if the numbers for
present and maximum skill appeared on the Skills screen, especially since
the numbers show up on the improvement messages and since some skills, such
as trade skills, tell you when you're doing something trivial.

I won't use things like /loc, but I find Awful, Feeble, and such to lack
sufficient granularity or sense of progress or limits. I'd settle quite
happily for somthing graphical, similar to the experience or health bar
graphs. As it is the interface is an inconsistent jumble of graphics and
numbers with little to help relate them to one another.

Bob