The reason the sense heading went up quickly after you trained in it is
because, Sense heading only has a chance to increase when you are
successful with it. so when your skill was 5 you failed alot and had
little chance of increas. whe you pumped it up to 15 you succeeded more
often and therefor got more checks for increase, and it increased more.

Most (all?) other skills have a chance to increase whenever you use
them, whether you are successful or not. Many times i have seen: You
failed to catch anything <you got better at fishing!> (10)

> Message: 11
> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:49:07 -1000
> From: "Reece, Tom CPT - 30th Signal Bn" <ReeceT@...>
> Subject: Re: Dragoon Dirk (off topic somewhat?)
>
> J.M.
>
> I have a question about one of your statements in your previous
> post:
>
> Dumping skill points into it won't make it level faster by
> use. 1 skill or
> 100, the chances of skilling are the same every swing, all
> else being equal.
>
> From my experience, I have not found this to be true in the case of
> non-combat skills. When I first created my character, I trained one point
> in sense-heading. I continually used that skill when moving around.
> However, it almost never went up. By the time I was 7th level, my sense
> heading was only 5. I got tired of getting lost so I put 5 more points in
> it to raise it to 10. Within the next hour or so, my skill in Sense Heading
> increased to 20. I'm now 15th level. I can now max out my skill in Sense
> Heading every time I level within five minutes. My experience with alcohol
> tolerance was very similar.